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Dear Bob Ellis, Brig Jim Wallace et al, I've created this helpful venn diagram for you. Should clear things up Via
Wednesday 13 April 2011
Baines Football Cards: the Victorian Panini
Football fans tend to be hoarders. Paul Brown uncovers the origins of this most pervasive of characteristics.
Read more @ In Bed With Maradona
(btw, what a fantastic blog name!!!)
Tack>>Head (Live London April 9 2011)
Stealing In The Name Of The Lord
Black Cinderella
Fire
For DJPigg and me!!!
"I Pay, You Pay, Why Doesn't B of A?": Are We Seeing the Birth of a Totally New Protest Movement?
It’s April 5, the end of the financial year, and 100 people – mostly strangers – have their arms linked in a massive circle, occupying the heart of Canary Wharf, the hyper-real maze of steel and plate glass that is the home of Britain’s financial services industries, banks and corporate law firms: the firms that caused the recession, yet lived to tell the tale. Besuited commuters look on in amusement as they sashay their way to the rush hour subway station. “It’s tax year’s eve!” cries someone from the circle, in mock celebration, then they begin to sing: first falteringly, then full-throatedly, over and over, to the tune of Auld Lang Syne:
“Should tax avoidance be forgot/And never brought to mind/Should tax avoidance be forgot/Unfairness you will find/For schools and hospitals, my dear/For pensions and home care/For EMA and libraries/Just pay your bloody share.”
This could only be the work of UK Uncut. From the country that brought you the Suffragettes, the Chartists, the Levellers, and the peasants’ revolt of 1381, UK Uncut is the zeitgeist’s protest movement, a web 2.0-enabled incarnation of the aforementioned.
UK Uncut doesn’t have leaders, a hierarchy, a PR firm or funders; it’s not violent, it’s not party-affiliated or backed, and yet in six months it’s changed the face of British politics: on the left and in the protest movement, across the mainstream media, into parliament itself, and beyond the shores of the UK, to US Uncut, Canada Uncut and even, astonishingly, Sudan Uncut...
Continue reading
Dan Hancox @'Alternet'
Tuesday 12 April 2011
Patti Smith: Dream of Life Discussion
Eleven years in the making, the documentary, which gives nary a biographical detail, is a roving dreamscape--from New York to Tokyo to Rome--of punk's great poet. It's a fitting and appropriately impressionistic celebration of Patti Smith, who has been called "the only major surviving link from the beat era to the '70s Manhattan art scene to the birth of punk to the present." After she moved from underground punk rocker to rock star--all the while maintaining a relationship with Robert Mapplethorpe that is inadequately described as a friendship and artistic collaboration--she left it all behind to raise a family in Michigan; after her husband's death, she has returned to the spotlight, as fierce a punk poet and advocate as ever. Patti Smith and Steven Sebring will participate in a conversation with Jim DeRogatis, pop music critic for the Chicago Sun-Times and co-host of Sound Opinions, after the screening.
...to join the recent Patti related posts here.
Words ARE Weapons!
Just seen Joe Mott in the sunday Star. Deeply offensive. http://twitpic.com/4jqkwn
bengoldacre ben goldacre
@jamesrbuk hang on, you just said a columnist was deeply offensive, and linked to something calling him a "c*nt" http://bit.ly/eGUhT7
Wingless Angels: The Podcasts - No.2 (Justin Hinds)
This one is all about Justin Hinds, a foundation singer in Jamaican music and a member of Wingless Angels. We focus on the brilliance of the man’s music and tell some of the story of Wingless Angels from the standpoint of Justin’s career in the 1960s.
Download/listen to episode two of Wingless Angels
HERE
Syd Barrett Painting Stolen from Shoreditch Gallery
Syd Barrett painting was stolen from a gallery on Sat. There’s a reward…
Via
REpost: 'Grutzi Elvis'
James Chance by Bazooka
James Chance and the late Anya Phillips.
James Chance & The Pill Factory with 'That's When Your Heartaches Begin' (EP)
You can get it
HERE
Crimestoppers - A message from BRMC
STOLEN GUITARS - GREAT NEWS:
Back in January of 2010 we reported that there was a break in at one of BRMC's storage lockers and all of Michel Been's vintage guitars and keep-sakes were stolen. We are thrilled to report that over a year later, almost all the stolen items have been recovered!
A fan of BRMC and The Call noticed one of the guitars for sale on eBay that turned out to be Michael's signature Ampeg Fretless Bass and through that information and with the aid of the LAPD and some other helpful sources, all the stolen instruments have been returned and the prime suspect apprehended.
The band would like to thank everyone out there that helped scour the internet and spread the word of this theft and are so appreciative that these items have made it home.
If it hadn't been for all of you, these instruments would've probably been lost forever.
AAAH! - A happy ending, just what this blog needs...
♪♫ Patti Smith - Horses/Hey Joe (OGWT 1976)
In my head I remember watching this on a cold Autumn Glasgow night w/ my old man back in the day...He fugn HATED this. "Whywouldahwimmenwannabeahman?" etcfugnetc.
As a very insecure 16 year old my world was NEVER the same again...
the power of rock'n'roll eh?
Of course the truth of the matter was that HE was much more scared of Ms Smith than I was!
As a very insecure 16 year old my world was NEVER the same again...
the power of rock'n'roll eh?
Of course the truth of the matter was that HE was much more scared of Ms Smith than I was!
Home Is Where the Hatred Is
A junkie walking through the twilight
I'm on my way home
I left three days ago, but no one seems to know i'm gone
Home is where the hatred is
Home is filled with pain and it,
Might not be such a bad idea if i never, never went home again
Stand as far away from me as you can and ask me why
Hang on to your rosary beads
Close your eyes to watch me die
You keep saying, kick it, quit it, kick it, quit it
God, but did you ever try
To turn your sick soul inside out
So that the world, so that the world
Can watch you die
Home is where I live inside my white powder dreams
Home was once an empty vacuum that's filled now with my silent screams
Home is where the needle marks
Try to heal my broken heart
And it might not be such a bad idea if I never, if I never went home again
Home again
Home again
Home again
Kick it, quit it
Kick it, quit it
Kick it, quit it
Kick it, can't go home again
HERE
(Contains versions by Gil Scott-Heron, Esther Phillips and Anita Lane)
I'm on my way home
I left three days ago, but no one seems to know i'm gone
Home is where the hatred is
Home is filled with pain and it,
Might not be such a bad idea if i never, never went home again
Stand as far away from me as you can and ask me why
Hang on to your rosary beads
Close your eyes to watch me die
You keep saying, kick it, quit it, kick it, quit it
God, but did you ever try
To turn your sick soul inside out
So that the world, so that the world
Can watch you die
Home is where I live inside my white powder dreams
Home was once an empty vacuum that's filled now with my silent screams
Home is where the needle marks
Try to heal my broken heart
And it might not be such a bad idea if I never, if I never went home again
Home again
Home again
Home again
Kick it, quit it
Kick it, quit it
Kick it, quit it
Kick it, can't go home again
HERE
(Contains versions by Gil Scott-Heron, Esther Phillips and Anita Lane)
'If Iggy can wear a shirt that means I can give haircuts to bald people...YAY!'
(Youtoob comment LOL!)
Monday 11 April 2011
♪♫ Deaf Wish - Deaf News
(Thanx Michael!)
Said it before and I will say it again: Melbourne is ONE of the greatest music cities of the world!!!
Said it before and I will say it again: Melbourne is ONE of the greatest music cities of the world!!!
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