Julian Cope on Celts: my wild romance

The Bug on the songs that shaped him

A Drink with Shane MacGowan

A Drink with Shane MacGowan was a new form of chat show hosted by the Pogues frontman and commissioned in the 1990s by Channel 4 arts supremo Waldemar Januszczak. However, they never broadcast this anarchic debut featuring live music, lively discussion between actors, writers, and musicians, pizza and a fair few drinks...
Featuring in this episode: Johnny Depp, Traci Lords, Joe Gores, Chris Penn, Sy Richardson, Del Zamora and music from Los Lobos, Jimmy Witherspoon and The Homewreckers

Tony Abbott out, Malcolm Turnbull in as Australia's fifth Prime Minister in five years (Taiwan Animators)

Benga - Uptown Future Funk

BIG respect to Benga for opening up about his mental health issues last night on twitter

Mark Fisher: Kill the Malcolm Tucker in your head

Endlessly checking tweets, micro-stagemanaging every public appearance, generalising the bizarre obsessions of the Westminster village: we don't have to do this any more. Lose the fantasy that most of the population is sitting there earnestly watching PMQs and judiciously scoring the combatants' performances. We don't have to impress the corporate elite anymore, overconforming like poor kids with a scholarship to private school.
Patience, fortitude, steady purposiveness are the key virtues now. Let them run around in a frenzy while we start the slow but immediately rewarding work of resocialising the UK's boring dystopia

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Fraudband - Keyed In

After a tour of Europe they will be playing The Tote in Melbourne on Sun 15th Nov

Can anyone help me out?

I don't know if anyone can help me but I'm searching for two tracks. Both versions of these songs were only released on these two records. They were not included when they released different versions of tracks on the 'Blank Generation' CD than was released on the vinyl. 
Richard Hell and The Voidoids' 'You Gotta Lose' from 'The Sire Machine Turns You Up' and Hell's version of 'Love Comes In Spurts' from the Vertigo sampler 'New Wave'.
Needless to say I used to have both until the great record collection heist of 82 (*sigh)
Thanking you in advance

When clocks are outlawed, only outlaws will have clocks

America: You Have Lost Your Mind

Unbelievable. Any way to get in touch with this kid? We’ve some dangerous-looking electronics we’d like to give him. http://t.co/L5L7q9l29B

— Raspberry Pi (@Raspberry_Pi) September 16, 2015

Pete Doherty - Flags Of The Old Regime

Patti Smith: 'Fuck The Word' (Palladium NY 31/12/76)

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Fun-Da-Mental - Ja Sha Taan/Mr Bubbleman (Recovery 1997)

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For Muslims living in the West the future lies not in the tinkering of theology but in the production of culture. But how is this process of cultural relevancy to take place? Is it taking place? What are its discernible forms? What are the challenges that need to be surmounted before a genuine cultural expression takes root? And what and who is to define what is 'genuine'? To that extent is cultural output in Islamic civilisation a utilitarian exercise? In the global village of specialised economies and shared global tastes where does the process of being consumers stop and that of being producers of culture begin? What needs to be done to convert Western society to associate Islam with the beauty of the Taj Mahal and the Majesty of the Dome of the Rock rather than with the blasted Twin Towers of New York or the shattered Buddhist statues in Afghanistan? Can we develop an agenda of cultural do's that would harness the energy of our young people -- to teach them that singing, creating, beautifying and being joyous are all part of the Islamic agenda?

The Badgermin

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Oneohtrix Point Never - I Bite Through It

Richard Hell & Johnny Thunders

The Heartbreakers

SBS Studios, Yonkers. New York, 

Johnny Thunders: guitar & vocals

Richard Hell: bass & vocals

Walter Lure: guitar & vocals

Jerry Nolan: drums

01 Love Comes In Spurts

02 I Wanna Be Loved

03 Blank Generation

04 Chinese Rocks

05 Pirate Love

06 Can't Keep My Eyes On You

07 Flight

08 Hurt Me

09 You Gotta Lose

10 Goin' Steady

(Richard Hell's R.I.P. album gives the recording date of these tracks as 1975. 'Love Comes In Spurts', 'Can't Keep My Eyes On You' and 'Hurt Me' all appear on R.I.P.
There is also a possible recording date given of January 23, 1976)

Chinese Rocks/Pirate Love (NYC 1975)

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Richard Hell & Johnny Thunders

01 Ignore That Door

02 Lowest Common Denominator

(Studio recording date/location unknown but it has to surely be after 1982 when 'Destiny Street', where these songs originated from, was recorded and released)

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HERE