Saturday, 18 June 2016

Rapid Eye Movement #1 PDF (1979)

Includes a great interview with Scritti Politti from back in their Carol Street days and a review of a Scritti/Fall gig that I was at. Ian penman wasn't (to my ears at least) as bad as the review suggests. Penman would go on to add some saxskronk at future Scritti gigs under the name of Pee wee pascall (if my memory serves me well). This issue also features Mark Perry, Parsons & Burchill, Patrick Fitzgerald and more...
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REM #3 PDF
PS: Would anyone have a scan of  #2 to share or indeed any other of Simon Dwyer's writings. I do already have a hard copy of the Rapid Eye Movement book

Peter Gabriel on Jo Cox

I was devastated to learn of the horrific murder of Jo Cox yesterday.
Two years ago when she was thinking of trying to become an MP, she and I were amongst a small group of people invited by Ricken Patel and Avaaz to take part in an intense week’s leadership training led by Robert Gass.
I was by far the oldest person there and I found all the other participants really inspiring, they were all young passionate optimists and had all made making the world a better place their life’s work.
I had quite a few far-ranging conversations with Jo, played with her kids and was amazed at how she was able to be an attentive and loving mum and at the same time take the deep dive the course was taking us on.
She had lots of dreams of creating a more just world in which human rights were respected, poverty could be eradicated and in which opportunity was not determined by where you were born or who your parents were.
She was determined, passionate, open, always ready to listen, humble, generous with a mischievous sense of humour.
In that week she was testing herself out with us, to get some feel of just how far she might go. It was exciting to see her begin to trust her own capabilities and get a real sense of what she might be able to achieve. You knew she was always motivated to serve others, not herself, and it felt that in that time on the course, she decided not to limit herself or listen to the voice of doubt, but to trust her heart. None of us were surprised to see her elected.
We have been robbed of a potential leader, a wonderful mum and a soul that could both listen to and inspire those with whom she came into contact.
I can’t bear to think of her family and the terrible loss they now have to face.
This is what Brendan, her husband, wrote: "Today is the beginning of a new chapter in our lives. More difficult, more painful, less joyful, less full of love. I and Jo’s friends and family are going to work every moment of our lives to love and nurture our kids and to fight against the hate that killed Jo.
Jo believed in a better world and she fought for it every day of her life with an energy, and a zest for life that would exhaust most people. She would have wanted two things above all else to happen now, one that our precious children are bathed in love and two, that we all unite to fight against the hatred that killed her. Hate doesn’t have a creed, race or religion, it is poisionous. Jo would have no regrets about her life, she lived every day of it to the full."
We can choose a world that is based on hate, fear, isolation and separation or a world based on hope, trust and coming together. There is absolutely no doubt which side Jo was on - or which world I would want to see for my own kids and grandchildren.
Please remember her and what she stood for.
- pg

Friday, 17 June 2016


YouTube Sessions: Adrian Sherwood

John Cale and Guests: The Velvet Underground & Nico (Philharmonie de Paris 3/4/16)


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Kristof Hahn - Sex Beat (Live @Brooklyn, Moscow 29/5/16)


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Dying On The Vine

Heartbreak Hotel

For Kaggsy XXX

Meanwhile over at the NRA

They really just don't get it at all

Black Cab - Combat Boots / Isolation (Newtown Social Club Sydney 14/5/16)


Review of the night HERE
The full show will be broadcast on FBI radio this Sunday @ 2PM (AEST)
There's a live video from a recent gig at The Gasometer HERE

The Ballads Of My Lai



The records featured here all deal with Lt. William Calley Jr., the U.S. Army officer who ordered, and was one of the many soldiers who took part in, the horrible event that has become known as the My Lai Massacre. The massacre took place in March 1968 in the South Vietnamese village of My Lai and resulted in the deaths of 300 - 500 unarmed civilians, many of them women, children and the elderly.
The widespread atrocities were initially covered-up, but news about the savage events that took place that day eventually leaked out and Calley was formally court-martialed and charged with murder.
His primary defense rested on his belief that he was following the orders of his superiors, but that's always seemed like something of a non sequitir to me. While it's not unimagineable that Calley was in fact ordered to make sure the entire village was wiped out, the slaughter of unarmed and defenseless people has pretty much always been illegal and indefensible, at least for as long as warfare laws have been around.
Calley was the only soldier convicted of war crimes for the incidents that took place in My Lai. On March 29, 1971, he was sentenced to life imprisonment and hard labor at Fort Leavenworth.
Upon announcement of the verdict many Americans were appalled, including most of those whose records are included below. President Nixon immediately ordered Calley transferred from prison to house arrest arrest at Fort Benning while his appeal was heard. State legislatures in New Jersey, Arkansas, Kansas, Texas, and South Carolina passed motions officially requesting clemency for Calley. Alabama Governor George Wallace quickly named Calley an honorary Lieutenant Colonel in the Alabama National Guard. Here in Georgia, Governor Jimmy Carter proclaimed an "American Fighting Man's Day" and asked the state's residents to drive with their headlights on during daylight hours in a week-long protest
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Groovebox Vol 1 - Funky Reggae Selection


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From Motown to Studio 1, from North Carolina to Kingston, from James Brown to Toots & The Maytals. Sting like a bee launches the Groovebox vintage series with the stunning Funky Reggae edition, Selector Steven's illustartion of the strong ties between Funk and Reggae. Originals, reggae interpretations of funk classics, homages: Groovebox Vol. 1 covers it all, giving you a full length mix of Funky Reggae that will shake up your stereo. With the phenomenal artwork, once again provided by Height, and the smooth mixing routine Groovebox is the funky dose of reggae for your eyes & ears and a tribute to the Funk & Soul lover Muhammad Ali - the greatest of all times

The DEA's acid blotter index

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The Drug Enforcement Administration's Microgram Bulletin & Microgram Journal Archives

Six ways of parting with 59p


‘History Will Be So Cruel to You’: Rick Wilson Lights Up Trump Backers in Tweetstorm

Automatic verbal diarrhea


Thursday, 16 June 2016

Tell it Stephen

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