Wednesday, 28 October 2015
All 48 issues of OZ now available to download
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The earlier Australian version of Oz that was published between 1963 and 1969 can be downloaded HERE
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Jim Anderson & Oz magazine
4 Hour John Murphy Special (PBSFM 28/10/15)
A special edition of Club It To Death, where we pay tribute to John Murphy.
John left a staggering legacy with a career spanning 30 odd years. The sheer breadth of artists he worked with is truly remarkable. Few people have covered so much ground. Everything from first wave punk (News) - first wave industrial (Whitehouse, SPK) - groundbreaking post punk (Whirlywirld) - to a top 10 album (Max Q). And so much more, including: Hugo Klang, The Associates, Orchestra Of Skin And Bone, Lustmord, Browning Mummery, Nurse With Wound, Monroe's Fur, Bushpig, Slub, Jamie Fielding, Death In June, Scorpion Wind, Consumer Electronics, Zone Void, Foresta Di Ferro
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John left a staggering legacy with a career spanning 30 odd years. The sheer breadth of artists he worked with is truly remarkable. Few people have covered so much ground. Everything from first wave punk (News) - first wave industrial (Whitehouse, SPK) - groundbreaking post punk (Whirlywirld) - to a top 10 album (Max Q). And so much more, including: Hugo Klang, The Associates, Orchestra Of Skin And Bone, Lustmord, Browning Mummery, Nurse With Wound, Monroe's Fur, Bushpig, Slub, Jamie Fielding, Death In June, Scorpion Wind, Consumer Electronics, Zone Void, Foresta Di Ferro
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Ghost On The Highway: A Portrait of Jeffrey Lee Pierce & The Gun Club
Directed by Kurt Voss
There’s never been a proper documentary about the Gun Club, the apocalyptic punk-blues death party started in late-70s Los Angeles by Jeffrey Lee Pierce, who suffered a fatal brain haemorrhage in 1996 at the age of 37. Ghost On The Highway holds no pretensions to be the ultimate record. Director and long-time fan Kurt Voss, converted after witnessing Pierce get a kicking while supporting the Cramps in 1981, unashamedly believes that the group, particularly their doomed leader, are, ‘still in much need of more myth-making…My goal is to proselytize and leave the autopsy report stuff for later’.
This he achieves as band members and friends relate the often harrowing story of the phenomenal talent who exploded into the world with 1981’s seminal Fire Of Love album before embarking on a lifelong drugs ‘n’ booze-fuelled career kamikaze, though still managing to create incandescent masterworks like Miami, The Las Vegas Story and Mother Juno.
Pierce’s savagely-haunting confessionals and narcotic love songs explored America’s dark underbelly hotwired to the eternal artery of the blues. A hopeless romantic, when sober he was an endearingly-passionate sweetheart obsessed with William Burroughs, Blondie and free jazz. Drunk he became a belligerent nightmare, prompting the wrong Jim Morrison comparisons.
Former collaborators Kid Congo Powers, Ward Dotson, Terry Graham, Jim Duckworth and Dee Pop tell their leader’s story with rueful humour, exasperated anger or sometimes tears. Their disparate characters engage throughout the 98 minutes, particularly lifelong friend and Gun Club mainstay Powers, who Pierce taught to play guitar, and long-suffering drummer Graham, who confesses, ‘There were many years I had this recurring dream of hitting him in the face with a golf club’. Over a quarter-century later they smile grimly, even disbelievingly, through tales of wilfully antagonistic gigs, cowardly dismissals and missing money, incredulous that Pierce managed to demolish three Gun Club lineups which could have gone on to much greater things, although still remembering other nights when magic happened.
Light relief occasionally pokes through the foot-shooting: Pierce’s Debbie Harry obsession, marked by his peroxide tresses, was consumated after he hid himself in a shopping trolley to sneak into Blondie’s L.A. hotel in early 1977, earning his appointment as their fan club president. He found solace living in London in the mid-to-late 80s with new partner Romi Mori, adopting her native Japan as his spiritual home [his ashes scattered in Kyoto in 2006]. But it didn’t last and the home stretch of Pierce’s final disintegration is shockingly sad, especially for Kid Congo.
True to the infernal spirit of the Gun Club, Voss’s self-financed ‘love letter’ ran into trouble. After lengthy negotiations with Pierce’s estate to use the first two albums, it emerged he’d sold the rights in 1982 to a company that had just been taken over. By now, Voss had drained his resources, completing the film with benevolent editor Andrew Powell co-producing and nothing left for music. Surprisingly, once accepted this doesn’t seem to matter, the movie telling the story compulsively enough to develop its own engrossing flow [although puzzlingly interrupted midway by Lemmy growling about the music business!].
Henry Rollins, who published Pierce’s autobiography, hails him as ‘totally legendary now’. That the movie can explain why with such limited means is testimony to its success
Kris Needs (Mojo)
Tuesday, 27 October 2015
Peter Christopherson - Time Machines II (Albumstream)
THE PRESENT- Sleazy
...was my suggestion to Jimmy Page for the title of the album Led Zeppelin later called Presence (an infinitely less interesting variation, without the multiple meanings, in my view).
However, as I get older, it becomes clear that the old adage "Be Here Now" is a wise one. The present moment, though only a single fold-in-time away from what has gone before and is yet to come, is the only moment that really matters.
Time Machines remains one of the Coil album's about which I get the most mail. Despite its lack of melody or lyrics, its Power lies in the way it Changes the State of the listener.
Usually our elected authorities try to discourage, tax beyond reason, or even forbid outright, the average citizen from having control of his own State.
Pictures, moving or otherwise, that Change the State of the viewer are tightly controlled, not to mention the ingestion of unprescribed or unlicensed substances, even if you picked, grew or synthesised them yourself.
Even unregulated religious or physical practices, straying too far from the safety of the middle of "the bell-curve" of what's currently considered acceptable, are frowned upon, and often illegal.
So far, few have identified the potential of sound as a possible Changer of State (other than chanting Holy Men of all creeds across the aeons), and of course the Military (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_weapon) if you need more.)
The last few years have seen me becoming more interested in changing state (legally obviously) not as a route to intoxication, leading to loss of Awareness of the Present Moment, but as way of opening doors to new visions, capabilities and knowledge.
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Coil - Colour Sound Oblivion (16 DVD Boxset Free Download)
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DVD 15 & 16
DVD1
Air Gallery, London, 1983-08-24 (CSO 1)
Performer – Jhonn Balance, John Gosling
Performer [Spoken Words] – Marc
Recorded by – Cerith Wyn Evans
DVD2
Sonar, Barcelona, 2000-06-17 (CSO 2)
Performer – Jhonn Balance, Ossian Brown, Peter Christopherson, Thighpaulsandra, Bill Breeze
Recorded by – Fabijan Rainer, Jon Whitney
DVD3
Convergence, New York, 2001-08-18 (CSO 3)
Performer – Danny McKernan, Jhonn Balance, Martin Schellard, Matthew Gibson, Ossian Brown, Peter Christopherson, Thighpaulsandra, Tom Edwards
Recorded by – Don Poe
DVD4
DK Gorbunova, Moscow, 2001-09-15 (CSO 4)
Cameraman – Игорь Якимов, Сергей Дышук
Coordinator – Митя Самойлов
Directed By, Film Editor – Дмитрий Великанов
Executive Producer – Игорь Тонких
Mixed By [Audiomix] – Russell Polden
Performer – John Balance, Peter Christopherson, Thighpaulsandra, Tom Edwards
Teatro Delle Celebrazioni, Bologna, 2002-04-06 (CSO 5)
Performer – Cliff Stapleton, John Balance, Mike York, Ossian Brown, Peter Christopherson
Recorded by – Angelo Visone
DVD6
New Forms, Den Haag, 2002-06-07 (CSO 6)
Performer – Cliff Stapleton, John Balance, Ossian Brown, Peter Christopherson, Thighpaulsandra
Performer [Black Sun Productions] – Massimo, Pierce
DVD7
Flex, Vienna (+ Prague), 2002-10-29 (CSO 7)
Performer – John Balance, Ossian Brown, Peter Christopherson, Thighpaulsandra
Performer [Black Sun Productions] – Massimo, Pierce
DVD8
Vagonka, Konigsberg, 2002-09-29 (CSO 8)
Performer – John Balance, Ossian Brown, Peter Christopherson, Thighpaulsandra
DVD9
Ydrogeios, Thessaloniki, 2002-10-05 (CSO 9)
Performer – John Balance, Ossian Brown, Peter Christopherson, Thighpaulsandra
Performer [Black Sun Productions] – Massimo, Pierce
Mutek, Montreal, 2003-05-29 (CSO 10)
Performer – Peter Christopherson, Thighpaulsandra
Recorded by – Don Poe, Jon Whitney
DVD11
La Loco, Paris, 2004-05-23 (CSO 11)
Mastered by – Yann Dub
Performer – Cliff Stapleton, John Balance, Mike York, Peter Christopherson, Thighpaulsandra, Tom Edwards
DVD12
Melkweg, Amsterdam, 2004-06-03 (CSO 12)
Performer – Jhonn Balance, Peter Christopherson, Thighpaulsandra, Tom Edwards
Recorded by – Claus Laufenberg, Jeffrey Cornille
DVD13
(Selvagina), Jesi, 2004-06-11 (CSO 13)
Filmed by – Colonel XS
Performer – Cliff Stapleton, John Balance, Peter Christopherson, Thighpaulsandra
DVD14
City Hall, Dublin, 2004-10-23 (CSO 14)
Countertenor Vocals – Francois Testory
Hurdy Gurdy – Cliff Stapleton
Performer – Jhonn Balance, Peter Christopherson, Thighpaulsandra
Recorded by – Royce Harper
DVD15
The Coil Reconstruction Kit Disc One (CSO 15)
DVD16
The Coil Reconstruction Kit Disc Two (CSO 16)
CDS ARE BORING! ;-)
In the early 90s Geff commissioned a wooden fireplace from a handsome gay carpenter friend of of ours called Spud, and he chose to inlay the words Colour Sound Oblivion into it.- Sleazy
Within a few months of its completion, Geff and I were standing in the Chelsea funeral directors, looking down at Spud's dried out corpse, unrecognisable compared with the charismatic ruffian we had so recently known and loved. Once Spud knew he was sick, and the treatments were making no difference, he had deliberately OD'd, but he was already nothing but walking bones.
The Colour Sound Oblivion Coil Live Video box is named by and dedicated to him. I wish I'd thought about it before...
Vols 1-14 Download
Vols 15 & 16 Download
NB: There are many more Coil albums, live gigs and videos to be downloaded for free at the Archive
Keith Richards' Desert Island Discs
Keith Richards, member of the Rolling Stones, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs.
Keith was born in Dartford and grew up as an only child. He and Mick Jagger went to the same primary school, but then lost touch until meeting again at Dartford train station in 1961 and discovering they shared a taste in blues music. Keith picked up his love of the guitar from his grandfather and honed his skills whilst at art college.
If one single, living person could be said to personify rock n' roll then it is surely him. He's been making music and causing havoc for over half a century and counting. His song writing, singing and guitar playing have helped to make The Rolling Stones a stratospherically successful group and his early and single minded dedication to the triumvirate pursuits of sex and drugs and rock and roll made him a counter-culture icon.
No surprise then that as a boy he would go to sleep at night with his arm around his first guitar.
Producer: Sarah Taylor
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...and for those who don't know who Matt Sweeney is
Monday, 26 October 2015
Sleaford Mods - Silly Me
Silly Me is about the long tunnel, the one that has no light. Another week spent walking up and down the street. The quiet tension of your living room with its shit sofa. The unconfirmed nature of 'doing' instead of 'trying'.
It’s that realisation that all you have to work with is your own failure, it's the only starting point you have and to ignore it, to dismiss the reasons why unhappiness is still haunting you is a mistake. It's your ticket out of misery if you keep trying to confront it because eventually persistence rules. Not all the time though.
This isn't one of those fucking smug acid jazz positivity yawns. Large numbers of people have fuck all and that won't change. That's horrible. ‘Silly Me’ is just one experience over Andrew’s solid, hard funk loop
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