Saturday, 4 September 2021

Rip Rig and Panic - 18 mins of Commonwealth Institute gig (1983?)

 
Oh man I have never seen this footage before. 
Taking me back to London in the early-mid eighties when I caught this band SO many times live. 
From their first gig billed as The Ex Pop Group at The Planetarium in Kings X to the last one wherever it was. I honestly can't remember. Hardly surprising but I did record a LOT of their shows on my Walkman. Every London gig they played plus others outside the city including an amazing improvisation by Springer on the organ at York Cathedral when they were strolling around town before playing at The Territorial Army Hall, where they had been double booked with Wall of Voodoo. WoV got a wee bit stroppy so RRP played first and then fucked off. 
I hope the person who nicked all those tapes knew exactly what they were getting tho I suspect not 
*Sigh 
Neneh's dad joins them in Tokyo in 83

(Play full album) Fuck The Shit That Was It to paraphrase their first poster. 
They really were just the most amazing band and so many good times was had though I did nearly get arrested while working for them in Manchester. 
Neneh had been driving the tour van around a car park in the city centre and as Neneh couldn't drive the van basically bunny-hopped around it. Driving off to the venue at some student place I seem to remember they went upstairs and I started to get their instruments together to take into the venue too, when suddenly there was quite an angry knock on the back door and there was one of James Anderton's finest wanting to have a word. 
Now while there was really only one member of the band who smoked grass boy did he smoke a fuck of a lot and I knew that the van stank of grass. Really strongly stank. Anyway I opened the door and watched this  cop's face as he probably got very high just from the waft. 
Yes it was all about Neneh's er 'erratic' driving and was put down as just giving her a driving lesson. 
I have to say I'm surprised they didn't have me arrested for being the world's worst roadie to be honest!
And I still fugn miss Sean
Not that long ago Tessa from The Slits posted that her and Sean's daughter having her own kid meant that Sean would have been a Grandad and that is happening to me in November despite my protestations that I am far too young
Thinking of Sean quite often leads to thinking about this night when Gareth and him invaded the stage at a Birthday Party gig at North London Poly. Photographic evidence turned up in the last year or so...
 
Now why this happened I think was because Mr Cave had expressed his admiration for The Pop Group when first arriving in London but I do seem to remember he didn't think much of How Much Longer...when that album was released. 
Probably and I'm being honest here, it was all a bit agit-prop and at the time I think Cave had other things on his mind than enjoying the underlying heavy funk rhythms of the Pop Group live.  
Anyway that may be where the animosity, and it was very mutual, came from. 
So after this two man invasion (and it was a very polite one, just jumping onto the stage and then sitting on the drum riser and having a wee chat amongst themselves) it got even funnier (tho perhaps Cave remembers this differently)
After the gig it suddenly came to me that I had never seen him so flustered and impotent onstage before. 
Now as fate transpired we all found ourselves in the same underground carriage heading to wherever we were all going on the last train of the night. 
At this point in the story you have to understand that there was a reason why Steve Beresford (anonymously) described Gareth to the NME as someone you sometimes just wanted to put across your knee and give a good slapping to
So being the last train on a Friday night the carriage is jam packed and lo and behold Cave is spotted behind a newspaper trying to ignore the Rip Rig contingent when Gareth creeps up and sets fire to the bottom of the broadsheet newspaper in Cave's hands. 
Oh man I actually still think it was absolutely hilarious but that is probably my inner twenty two year old self smiling. 
My sixty one year old self wonders why didn't Tracy Pew intervene that night onstage or was this during the time of his incarceration back in Australia dating this gig to between February and August 1982?

Feel Like Making Dub (Mark Stewart's Essential Dubs) Mix

Tracklist: 
Jahovia Dub - The Twinkle Brothers 
Judge I Dub - Tappa Zukie
Feel Like Making Love (Version) - Elizabeth Archer & The Equators 
Psalms of David / Version - Prince Far I 
Diverse Doctrine(Version) - Ras Ibuna 
Ire Feelings - Rupie Edwards 
Sons of Dub - Junior Delgado 
Baltimore / Version - The Tamlins 
Ketch A Dub - Devon Irons 
Moulding Dub - Ijahman Levi 
Brooklyn Vegan asked Mark Stewart to make a playlist of his favorite dub tracks, and he happily obliged with 10 essentials, including plates from Prince Far I, Rupie Edwards, The Tamlins, The Twinkle Brothers, Elizabeth Archer & The Equators, and more. This list also includes Devon Irons' "Ketch Vampire [Ketch a Dub]" which Mark calls "the best production from the late great Lee 'High Priest' Perry, the duke of dub." Mark dedicates the entire list to Lee "Scratch" Perry 
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The Pop Group - Words Disobey Me (Dennis Bovell Dub Version)

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Mark Stewart's Essential Dubs

Stinky Grooves Guest Archive #003: Adrian Sherwood & On-U Sound Crew 1995

In Adrian's own words this was an anarchic show on an anarchic tour. Technically it's not a Stinky Grooves as we didit on a differnet night to fit them arriving in from the UK and parts unknown. In the studio are Adrian Sherwood, Audio Active, Tackhead/The Maffia minus Mark Stewart who wasn't up for it after 40 odd hours of flying & sundry other folk, studio was cloudy and I think the most crowded I can remember. The sub suffered. Whole crew were shattered and did an amazing job, lovely vibes

Mark Stewart: Secret Thirteen Mix (290)

'Pull up! This is the new style. Flip the script. This one's for the inmates. The process, the process, the process church of the final judgement. Like my life these tunes are crunked, chopped & screwed. A deep listening reflection on this processed world we live in. No sleep till Bristol. As Prince Jazzbo said ‘one step forward, two step backward.’ Let the drums of defiance ring across this land.' 

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Live at Dolce Vita, Lausanne, Switzerland 25/5/85 Passivecation Program / Hypnotised / Liberty City / The Resistance of The Cell / As The Veneer Of Democracy Starts To Fade / We Are All Prostitutes  / Jerusalem / Blessed Are Those Who Struggle / encore... 
Skip McDonald replaced by Steve Beresford on keyboards joining usual Maffia rhythm section of Doug Wimbish and Keith LeBlanc. Adrian Sherwood at the mixing desk. 
I actually caught this tour at The Paradiso in Amsterdam. So good. The time I had caught Mark & The Maffia previously it had been the first album's Creation Rebel line up at their first or second gig at Kingston Uni in London.Tackhead having been formed after I left London  
...and then I found this. Mark & Maffia playing in Den Haag back in 2009. I actually managed to get my son who was studying in Utrecht at the time onto the guest list for this gig. he dutifuly made it down there and when I asked him how he enjoyed it he replied that it was 'old man music dad'! Kids eh? Finally there is a new album coming from Tackhead and Mark is in the mix and people who have heard some of the sessions are saying good things. Yet another reinvention of sound for them You can hear some of the new tracks on David Asher's On-U Sound Sunday Roast shows
Finally one of the nights that Tackhead destroyed The Old Greek Theatre here in Melbourne on their first Australian tour back in 1989

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Don Letts' Culture Clash Radio: The Black Power Playlist

Pluto - Anna / Anna2

 
Pluto is the moniker of British born producer Rolo McGinty, a name you might not be familiar with. In the early 1990s Rolo was responsible for some of the most forward thinking and exciting records to be released on labels such as Mr. C’s Plink Plonk, Irdial, Octopus and ITP. His albums ‘Rising’ and ‘Demolition Plates’ are unsung examples of some of the finest House and Techno and speak to the creativity and originality of the producer. For WRECKS035, Klasse Wrecks are very proud to present a repress of two of Pluto’s most sought after tracks’. Originally released in 1994 on Rare Grooves (a sub label of USA Import Records) the EP Pluto’s Retreat compromised of two versions of ‘Anna’ both of which are presented here remastered for modern times. ‘Anna’ and ‘Anna Two’ are great examples of House music of the highest quality; brash, groovy and unrelenting both tracks are destined for dancefloor destruction worldwide. Also included in the package is a previously unreleased version of ‘Point Blank’, the original of which appeared on the ‘Demolition Plates’ album in 1997. https://klassewrecks.bandcamp.com/album/anna-ep

Pluto Rising

NYCHOS: Dissection of Lemmy (2016)

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Friday, 3 September 2021

Thursday, 2 September 2021

NFSA Presents Head On (1998) Online Screening Fri 3/9 (2PM) to Sun 5/9 (2PM)

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Based on Christos Tsoilkas's novel Loaded and one of my favourite Australian films


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The Bug: Anger Is Holy

‘I’m worshipping anger as a holy force’: dub, dancehall and destruction with the Bug

John Doran's piece on Kevin above as well as this one from Louder Than War articulate EVERYTHING I NEED, WANT and even sometimes GET  from music. I knew that the Bug Man would deliver.  No album is going to come as close to the soundtrack of the current times as FIRE does

Wednesday, 1 September 2021

Spiked Mix

Tracklist:
1 Elixer of Life Lee Perry / Adrian Sherwood 
2 He Was Leslie Winer 
3 Fallen One Dove 
4 Mescalito Zen Paradox 
5 De Testimony Fini Tribe 
6 The Donkey Tropical Fuck Storm 
7 The Individual Spiritualized 
8 Tolls Thalia Zedek Band 
9 Move Martyn Bennett 
10 Jibaro Electra