'I write a song called 'Heroin', you would have thought that I murdered the Pope or something'

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Booking hell!

The Pop Group - Citizen Zombie

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Frankie Boyle: Offence and Free Speech

The show is coming/It's gonna be so different

Voice: Emperor Rosko Music: Dub Syndicate

STiNK: pop art print on wood of William S. Burroughs

Edition of 50

Doll By Doll

I've mentioned before how much I liked Doll By Doll. Buying their first single unheard purely for their use of Artaud on the sleeve.
An astonishing live act whether it was the second line up on the left or the latter version which at times saw Jackie dressed as a very imposing Samurai warrior (and was that Claire from Amazulu on bass one time?)
It was a sad day for music when Mr Leven died

An Elegy For Jackie Leven

Jackie Leven interviewed during the interval of his performance at the Fife Acoustic Music Club + Elegy For Johnny Cash live (Polish Club 22/10/09)

Courtney Pine on 'A Love Supreme' 50 years on (BBC)

Often cited as one of the greatest albums ever made, John Coltrane's A Love Supreme is revered not just by jazz aficionados but music fans the world over. Fifty years after its release, British saxophonist Courtney Pine explores what makes it such a unique and important record.
John Coltrane intended A Love Supreme to be a spiritual record - a declaration of his religious beliefs and personal spiritual quest. However the album also had a wider cultural significance. It was released in February 1965, just days after black rights activist Malcolm X was assassinated and weeks before Martin Luther King led the March on Alabama, and for many the sound and feel of the music captures perfectly the sadness, confusion and anger of America's growing black consciousness movement.
Courtney visits Gaumont State Theatre in Kilburn, North London, where Coltrane performed on a tour in 1961. He is joined by a trio of leading British jazz saxophonists - Nat Birchall, Finn Peters and Jason Yarde - whose lives have been inspired and shaped by A Love Supreme and the music and spirit of John Coltrane.
Our quartet of musicians explore why the album touches so many and continues to do so with each new generation
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A Love Supreme live in Antibes, France (26/7/65)
John Coltrane, McCoy Tyner, Elvin Jones and Jimmy Garrison
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Although I have to say that my favourite jazz album of all time is Ayler's 'Spiritual Unity' every time I listen to 'A Love Supreme' it always brings to mind the late, great Sean Oliver from Rip, Rig & Panic whose fave jazz album it was and how often we good-naturedly tried to convert each other to our cause

Naval Reservist John Coltrane aged 18 (1945)

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Tomorrow - My White Bicycle

Tomorrow's pioneering paean to the joys of communal public transport has proved to be a classic of the British psychedelic underground

Mogwai Interview

Mogwai will be playing Melbourne's Hamer Hall on 1/3/15 and the Sydney Opera House on 2/3/15
Gotta admit that I wish I had the money to go to this gig but never mind...

Tindersticks - Live @The Philharmonie Paris (10/2/15)

1. Keep You Beautiful, 2. Second Chance Man, 3. Medicine, 4. Dying Slowly, 5. Johnny Guitar, 6. Into the Night, 7. Boobar, 8. Come Feel The Sun, 9. A Night So Still, 10. The Otherside, 11. Drunk Tank, 12. Piano Song, 13. Factory Girl
Encore1 1. Hushabye Mountain, 2. She's Gone, 3. Sometimes It Hurts, 4. My Oblivion, 5. Trouble Everyday
Encore2 1. Another Night In, 2. All The Love/This Fire Of Autumn

Freedom Sounds Mix (Toby Whelan)

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