Embalming The Dead

'Taping, trading and collecting the aura of the Grateful Dead'
A thesis submitted by
Katie A. Harvey

Joe Strummer watching The Sex Pistols (Notre Dame Hall November 1976)

Via

♪♫ 3kStatic + Stephen Mallinder - Nag Nag Nag

Arguably a classic of early-period Cabaret Voltaire - and a defining moment in the emergence of Industrial music - 'Nag Nag Nag' merged Cabs' sense of punk angst with new and distorted sounds.
The 2013 version by 3kStatic + Stephen Mallinder stays true to form, while taking a sinister approach in its own right.
After nearly a year in the works, the final version was recorded, arranged and finalized in record time, with Mallinder's fresh new vocal take in the fore.
EP also includes the 41 minute-plus ambient track 'Retrogressive'

♪♫ Kev Carmody and the Pigram Brothers - Eulogy For A Black Man

R.I.P. Mr Y
(Thanx Craig!)

You couldn't make this up...

The Raincoats (Live @Acklam Hall, London 10th May 1979)

Here's an extraordinary early Raincoats live recording, taped beneath the Westway at Ladbroke Grove's Acklam Hall during their first British tour, shortly before the release of their eponymous debut Rough Trade LP. They were playing as support to Switzerland's ever-vibrant Kleenex, & Cabaret Voltaire were on the bill too, I believe?
HERE
(Mona's faux-pas #1: I had just been given a whole heap pf promo postcards for Odyshape and was at a gig by either Paul Rogers or Paul playing with Talisker and I saw my friend Kent, so I handed him one of the cards not knowing that Gina and him had split up a couple of days before...if looks could kill!)
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In Gezi Park

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Paul White: Time-lapse of a drawing

A time lapse showing the progression of a pencil drawing over 30 hours by artist Paul White.
Film production by Johnny Blank.
More from the artist Paul White here:
paulwhiteart.com
facebook.com/paulwhiteart
More from the filmmaker Johnny Blank here:
johnnyblank.com

Hunter S. Thompson just sitting around

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One more thing...

While normally I wouldn't celebrate anyone's death, for Thatcher I made an exception. A number of glasses of milk were drank the night I heard!

Good night. Go to sleep. May your dreams be beautiful XXX

whispers

This is the last of Exile (at least for the conceivable future.) It's been a blast. Met some great people thru it. (You know who you are.) The 'unreal' world was starting to interfere with the 'real' one and when the two met...well the results were 'interesting'. Time for the flesh and the blood.

- Mona