Monday, 21 September 2015

Andrew Weatherall - The Dapper Gentleman Mix


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Thanks Adam

Good Company

For someone who has been described as a 'rudimentary' bass player (though I have to say that I love the Television demos he played on) boy has Richard Hell consistently had great guitarists around him. From Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd in Television and Bob Quine and Ivan Julian in the original Voidoids through to Marc Ribot and Bill Frisell on the re-recorded Destiny Street
Staring In Her Eyes (Original version with Bob Quine & Naux)

Staring In Her Eyes (Re-recorded version with Marc Ribot & Bill Frisell)
Julian Cope on Celts: my wild romance

The Bug on the songs that shaped him

Saturday, 19 September 2015

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

Thursday, 17 September 2015

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

Wednesday, 16 September 2015

When clocks are outlawed, only outlaws will have clocks


America: You Have Lost Your Mind

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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