Monday, 13 September 2021
Low - White Horses / Days Like These
HEY WHAT - a magnificent redefinition of rock music
Low’s Thrillingly Noisy ‘HEY WHAT’ Is An Instant Classic
A Guide to Low’s Haunting Discography
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Things We Lost In The Fire
20th Anniversary Visual Album
Wednesday, 8 September 2021
Fat White Family - Live in Hell (Glastonbury 2015)
Tracklist: Touch The Leather / Heaven on Earth / Whitest Boy on the Beach / Cream of the Young / Wild American Prairie / Goodbye Goebbels / Bomb Disneyland
I Went Up I Went Down Mix
Tracklist:
1
I Went Up I Went Down - Pink Faries
2
Song From The Bottom of A Well - Kevin Ayers
3
No Version - Zonal
4
The Motor City's Burning - Hugo Race & Michelangelo Russo
5
Don't Wake Me Up - Jesu
6
River of No Shame - Alan Vega
7
East Easy Rider - Julian Cope
8
Feet
Fat White - Family
Tuesday, 7 September 2021
Ken Thomas R.I.P.
Ken after working on recordings by the likes of Queen, Bowie and PIL as engineer went on to produce some of my very favourite bands from back in the day including 23 Skidoo, PsychicTV, The Au Pairs, Wire, Test Dept and Clock DVA and then producing amongst others Sigur Rós, Gavin Friday and M83 later
I remember going up to Manchester to see PTV's second gig and the first with a full band: Genesis P'Orridge, Peter Christopherson, Paula P'Orridge, Alex Ferguson, Jonh Balance (Coil) and Jon Gosling (Mekon)
Originally it was supposed to have been held at Prestwich Mental Hospital but council complaints meant it was transferred to The Ritz
The debut line up had been just GPO and Sleazy as part of the Burroughs' Final Academy in Brixton just over a year before
At the Manchester gig Sleazy's set up malfunctioned and to be honest if it wasn't for Ken's mixing that night I think it would have been a complete shambles.
At the end of the night I was chatting to some girl and it turned out she reviewed the gig for Sounds (I think it was). Now if anyone should have a clipping of that...
You can watch the film of the performance below
'Don't forget Ken, make it hurt'
I'm ready. ZÖJ badge on and counting down to their online show tonight (8PM AEST)
Tonight from 8:00 PM (Australian Eastern Standard Time)
Melbourne's Make It Up Club presents:
+ No Man's Land: Pippa Bainbridge (vocals, guitar, loop, effects)/ Swiss van Kalken (bass guitar, found percussion, loop, effects)
+ Gillian Howell (clarinet +)/Tony Hicks (clarinets + saxophones)/Alice Bennett (electronics/sound manipulations and flute)/Miranda Hill (bass + violine)
+ ZÖJ: Gelareh Pour (Qeychak & Voice)/ Brian O’Dwyer (Drum kit). Video: Saeed Sourati
Stream
The Make It Up Club has been presenting weekly curated experimental, improvised, and avant-garde music and sound happenings in Melbourne since 1998
Monday, 6 September 2021
The Clash - Police & Thieves / Complete Control / (White Man) In Hammersmith Palais
For a band of punks that 'real' musos said couldn't play their instruments they certainly made that song their own.
While Clapton's racism had certainly spurred me on to help out with organising RAR in Glasgow I knew that Clapton had NOT shot the sherrif but we certainly knew ALL about police and thieves
Then the band brought Mr Perry himself on board for production duties on Complete Control and here we are what 45 years later and I really am still not sure what was added by him apart from a splash of delay when Joe intones that he does't trust you. That you shouldn't trust him and that Mick is his guitar hero... The JA/London connection brought cachet though and from that led to them getting namechecked in a Bob Marley song.
Last track, no involvement from Scratch here. Included in the mix because White Man is the greatest Clash song of them all, and was written about the gig that this poster below was advertising
There is no doubt that perhaps the younger members of the nascent spiky haired brigade were getting their first introduction to reggae rhythms and The Clash would no doubt go on to turn a lot of people onto other styles of music especially through London Calling and of course when they toured they were always bringing out superb support acts.
In Britain alone after the White Riot tour that brought The Jam, The Buzzcocks, The Slits and Subway Sect to Edinburgh as 'punk' was banned in Glasgow by the city councillors. Then when the ban was rescinded we had Hell and The Voidoids at The Apollo. Then further tours brought Suicide, Joe Ely, Mickey Dread, Prince Hammer even Futura painting a backdrop on stage while the band played.
In the US they took Bo Diddley, Grandmaster Flash, Lee Dorsey, The Undertones, The Chamber Brothers and The Cramps to name just some of the support acts
See you knew that they were fans of music of all varieties.
I mean do you actually think that Clapton listens to any music these days...oh and er Eric this is the way that song is done
Sunday, 5 September 2021
Nico - Live in Tokyo (1986)
There was a time in early eighties London when you could not escape seeing Nico live.
She was probably often still billed as Nico from the Velvet Underground on the posters but truth be told by now she was the legendary Narco from the London Underground. (That's stolen unashamedly from 'Nico: Songs They Never Play on the Radio' by James Edward Young which is one of the funniest books you will ever read.)
Nico would be on this bill and that one and there are esimates that she played live in the region of 1200 times between 1980 & 88.
Sometimes you had no idea that she would be taking part that night as when Rip Rig & Panic had a gig at the Wag Club on a very sultry summer night and yeah Nico joined them for a couple of VU tunes (thinking Sunday Morning and Heroin) and that WAS something special.
Anyway I decided to move to Amsterdam in 84 and look there is Nico playing The Paradiso again. And again...
My friend Laurie's abiding memory of a visit to Amsterdam in the early seventies was having his acidtrip totally turned into a freak out by witnessing her performing Janitors of Lunacy live at the...you guessed The Paradiso.
My ex- wife even had a flying visit to her home town here in Melbourne when we were living in London and yep...there was Nico performing at The Prince of Wales in St. Kilda. That was with Dr John Cooper Clarke in tow and the tales of their life in their Brixton flat in Young's book are fugn hilarious. Highly recommended
I also had Dick Witts' biography of her but I just realised that didn't make the move to Exile Towers. With the stolen book list also including Vivien Goldman & David Corio's Black Chord it is really easy for me to know who took them. (Nico fan and a photographer you say and only steals hardback copies. Hmmm)
Not only is she a khunt she is also a very rich khunt too
People eh
Leslie Winer’s Music Was a Mystery in 1990. She Still Likes It That Way
'I’m like a crazy lady at the edge of the village,' Winer said of her willingness to pioneer what became a new sound. 'Never thought of any of it like that. Just the fun of making new tracks'
Video by John Maybury...and here's a mix of her work I put together the other day
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