@'Test Pressing'
Monday, 11 July 2011
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ExNOTWjourno2 Marie X
The News of the World closed and Rebekah Brooks still has her job. So two Red Tops to have gone down on Rupert Murdoch in last few days. M
The News of the World closed and Rebekah Brooks still has her job. So two Red Tops to have gone down on Rupert Murdoch in last few days. M
The News Of The World Scandal Could Cost Rupert Murdoch His FCC Licenses
Ex-Murdoch editor Andrew Neil: everybody knew the NOTW newsroom was out of control
Phone hacking: 9/11 victims 'may have had mobiles tapped by News of the World reporters'
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp could face $100m bill for US investigation into 'police payments'
Over more than three decades, no one dared question the perversion of politics by and for Rupert Murdoch
New Dexys Album In 2012
Dexys Midnight Runners – or Dexys, as the band now prefer to be known – have started work on their new album, which is expected to be released in 2012. Singer Kevin Rowland, who is due to play a rare DJ set at indie club How Does It Feel To Be Loved? in London on July 16, revealed on twitter that Dexys are currently rehearsing songs for the group’s first album since their 1985 masterpiece, Don’t Stand Me Down.
The new Dexys twitter account, opened in June this year, lists the bands members as Rowland, ex-Style Council keyboardist Mick Talbot (who was briefly in Dexys Midnight Runners in 1980, and featured in the short-lived 2003 live incarnation), original Dexys bassist Pete Williams and guitarist Neil Hubbard. Talking about the inclusion of Talbot in the line-up, Rowland said on twitter: “Mick Talbot is a huge part of this, not just his playing, he's influential in the whole of this process. Commitment beyond the call of duty.”
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For sale: futurologist JG Ballard's old home. In need of modernisation
Now, Mr Ballard's former partner, Claire Walsh, has told friends the house is finally on the property market following the writer's death in 2009. Estate agent Haart is carrying an advertisement for the property, a "spacious three-bedroom semi-detached house situated just moments from Shepperton High Street" which is "in need of refurbishment". Ballard did little work on it, according to his neighbours. The asking price for this piece of literary history is just under £320,000.
Such a modest sum does not do justice to the life which played out behind its clipped privet hedge. Mr Ballard moved to Old Charlton Road, Shepperton, in 1960, and wrote his first novel, The Wind From Nowhere, two years later, before becoming a full-time writer. His wife died in 1964, leaving him to raise his three children, James, Fay and Bea, on his own.
In the house, he would write longhand between 10am and 1pm in his sitting room, producing around 1,000 words a day. He produced 18 novels in his career. In his later years, visitors to Mr Ballard's house often remarked on how different it was to the apocalyptic scenes seen in his books. In a piece on Ballard in the The Atlantic in December 2009, Christopher Hitchens described Shepperton as "almost laughably tranquil".
Of meeting Ballard at his home, Martin Amis wrote in 2009: "He told me that 'Crash freaks', from, say, the Sorbonne, would visit expecting to find a miasma of lysergic-acid and child abuse. In fact, what they found was a robustly rounded and amazingly cheerful suburbanite."
Also in 2009, the writer Iain Sinclair made a "pilgrimage" to the house. He described a "silver Ford Granada tilted at a drunken angle, like a sinking cabin-cruiser, in the vestigial driveway". Many of the features Sinclair describes can be seen in Haart's advertisement: "a napkin of lawn... the Crittall window of the front room".
There is no "for sale" sign outside the house, which a neighbour said had been empty since Mr Ballard's death. Asked whether she felt the property would attract more interest because of its famous occupant, the neighbour rather pessimistically replied: "I doubt many people will know who he is."
Rob Sharp @'The Independent'
John Lennon: The Rolling Stone Interview Complete Audio Tapes
AUDIO
Rolling Stone issues # 74 & 75
(21 Jan & 4 Feb, 1971)
John Lennon: The Rolling Stone Interview, Complete Audio Tapes
Interviewed by founding editor Jann S. Wenner
This interview took place in New York City on December 8th 1970, shortly after John and Yoko finished their ‘Plastic Ono Band’ albums in England.
They came to New York to attend to the details of the release of the album, to make some films, and for a private visit.
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Sunday, 10 July 2011
Murdoch's malign influence must die with the News of the World
Suddenly, Rupert Murdoch seems much less a global mogul, much more a diminished man of glass. He flies into London this weekend from Sun Valley, Idaho, in time for the last rites of the most successful Sunday newspaper in Britain, the News of the World. One hundred and sixty-eight years ago, it pledged: "Our motto is the truth, our practice is fearless advocacy of the truth." After today, the tabloid will appear no more, felled not by one royal rogue reporter but by the arrogance, ambition and apparent tolerance of systemic criminal behaviour by members of the senior News International management.
The loss of a newspaper, especially one with a proud history of award-winning investigative journalism, is a cause for sadness. The News of the World was the biggest-selling Sunday tabloid in the English-speaking world. The death of a paper in such rude health is unprecedented and unwanted in the media. The individuals who are to blame are, as yet, unwilling fully to admit culpability. Rebekah Brooks, the chief executive, still in post, has warned that worse revelations are to come. The shameful saga stretches back over five years. Arguably, it would not have come to light but for the sterling and stoic persistence of the Guardian, some diligent lawyers and a handful of MPs such as Tom Watson and Chris Bryant.
The News of the World's termination is the price Murdoch is willing to pay to halt the accelerating erosion of the British wing of his international empire and to secure full ownership of "the cash machine", the satellite broadcaster BSkyB, the leading provider of pay TV. However, over the past few days, BSkyB shares have lost more than £1bn in value. A decision on its sale has been postponed until the autumn by Jeremy Hunt, minister for media. Against sound advice, he had previously been minded to approve Murdoch and a £10bn deal which would give him an alarmingly large slice of British media. Now, City experts are warning that the deal could collapse.
On Thursday, Murdoch's son, James, deputy chief operating officer of News Corp, the ultimate owner of News International, which also owns the Times, the Sunday Times and the Sun, possibly opened himself up to criminal charges on both sides of the Atlantic. He admitted he had misled Parliament, although he stated that he did not have the complete picture at the time. He went on to give an extraordinary admission of negligence, describing what he called "repeated wrongdoing that [had] occurred without conscience or legitimate purpose" on his watch. He admitted that, without apparently much questioning, he had signed cheques for £1.7m for two individuals among dozens more celebrities, whose phones have been hacked. Why did the young Murdoch authorise the payments? They paid out £700,000 to the chief executive of the Professional Footballers' Association, Gordon Taylor. One of the conditions was that Taylor didn't speak about the case. News Corp also persuaded the court to seal the file on Taylor's case to prevent all public access, even though, as the Guardian revealed, "it contained prima facie evidence of criminal activity". Did alarm bells not sound for him, that he was having to spend such vast sums of money to keep his company's victims quiet?
One would have expected the company to leave no stone unturned to get to the root of the cancer that had spread across its paper. Instead, it convinced almost everyone, including a toothless Press Complaints Commission (PCC), that it was the work of a "rogue reporter". It was anything but – it was industrial scale hacking of phones.
The senior management at News International were abject in their failure – through lack of insight or enthusiasm – to get to the root of the problem. They failed their victims, they failed their journalists and they failed the News of the World. They may yet be proved to have failed their shareholders.
It is a long road from this to James Murdoch's McTaggart lecture in 2009 at the Edinburgh international television festival. The lecture was titled "The Absence of Trust". He argued: "There is an inescapable conclusion that we must reach if we are to have a better society. The only reliable, durable and perpetual guarantor of independence is profit."
James Murdoch would do well to reflect again on The Absence of Trust. Only closer to home this time. He and other senior management at News International should desist from lecturing the rest of the British media in light of their baleful performance over the phone-hacking affair.
It is therefore only right that Ofcom says that once the current police inquiries are complete, it will consider whether News Corporation, as an organisation, would make a "fit and proper" owner of BSkyB .
As a result, Murdoch may be about to reach an unexpected milestone. Possibly for the first time, his powers have proved no shield against the force of public anger. Thanks to new social media, more than 150,000 people have lodged objections to control of BSkyB passing to Murdoch. In addition, dozens of major advertisers withdrew their contracts from the News of the World. The verdict of many appears to be that News Corp is not fit and proper.
On Friday, David Cameron was heavily criticised for his lack of judgment in giving Andy Coulson a second chance when he appointed him as his director of communications. Cameron opted for a polished mea culpa: "The buck stops here," he said. He indicated that Rebekah Brooks should resign. He also said that the PCC should be axed and reforms to the regulation of the fourth estate initiated. In addition, an investigation into the laxity of the original police and News International inquiry will be conducted. A third inquiry will ask: "How did we – press, politicians and police – get here?"
Undoubtedly, good and honourable journalists exist in abundance, many employed on News International's remaining titles. However, the scale of the News of the World's telephone hacking operation has triggered international disapproval. What appears to be the routine invasion of the privacy of ordinary people already blighted by tragedy is a particularly ruthless and cold-hearted method of harvesting copy.
So what kind of an organisation provides a home for such a culture? Over 40 years, Murdoch convinced the establishment that he can make or break political reputations and grant or take away electoral success. In doing so, he has come close to gelding parliament, damaging the rights of citizens and undermining democracy. It is legitimate to ask how a naturalised American, domiciled in New York, born in Australia, and who pays next to no UK tax, holds so much sway. What right exactly did this man have to exert such influence over our political life? Freedom of information requests reveal that he spoke to prime minister Tony Blair three times in the 10 days that led up to the Iraq invasion in 2003. This was a perversion of our politics, orchestrated by a man whose power the establishment failed to check. Then they had to live with the demeaning consequences.
And what did Britain get in return for gifting this man the back keys to political power? (Literally in Murdoch's case, as he swept into Downing Street days after last year's election and then left by the back door). In return, a swaggering, bullying, crassly ineffective News International treated British citizens with contempt by hacking their phones and treated the media, police and politicians investigating the affair with wilful disdain and barely concealed threats. Let this never happen again on our watch.
Prime ministers have danced fast and furiously to Murdoch's tune. In 2001, for instance, Murdoch's newspapers supported Blair in the general election. Blair in turn backed a communications bill that loosened restrictions on foreign media ownership. More recently, News International bosses are reported to have told Ed Miliband that there would be "repercussions" if he continued to call for Rebekah Brooks's resignation. Miliband, belatedly, has broken out of the cocoon of fear that is Murdoch's speciality. He is on the offensive against the power of Murdoch and that's to his credit. It's hard to conceive that there's any going back.
Abuses of power have certainly occurred around News International. For several years, police failed to notify potential victims of hacking and follow up leads. The police in Surrey appear to have known about the Dowler hacking but did little. Since January, however, the Met's deputy assistant commissioner, Sue Akers, head of Operation Weeting, has been in charge. More arrests are expected. Clearly, the police have much to explain and much to reform. We need a full account of the failure of earlier investigations to unearth the widespread evidence of wrongdoing that is now coming to light.
There are huge challenges ahead, too, for Britain's newspapers. In the 1960s, Hugh Cudlipp of the Daily Mirror dismissed the Press Council as "an exercise in futility". The current PCC has more powers but, ill-equipped as it has proved to be, its bite still seems gummy. It published a woefully poor report into hacking that it subsequently had to withdraw. But before we embrace statutory regulation, with all the danger of political interference that threatens, we must urgently consider radical reforms of the existing regulatory framework: reducing the power of serving editors to stand in judgment of their own work; enhancing the investigative powers of the new body which is properly staffed and funded; and providing sanctions, including the power to levy substantial fines and insist upon prominent retractions of false claims. How this new organisation deals with publishing on the internet is perhaps its first challenge.
It is rumoured that Murdoch intends to launch the Sun on Sunday, possibly in the autumn. That makes it all the more urgent that the lessons of what has happened at the News of the World and on other newspapers are rapidly established.
In the spirit of media plurality, it is essential that Murdoch's control of BSkyB is rejected, as we have argued consistently in these pages. The spectre of the old Murdoch, whose demise was signalled last week – voracious and threatening – must not rise again from the ashes of the News of the World. To comment on this story or any other about phone hacking, please visit our open thread
@'The Guardian'
The loss of a newspaper, especially one with a proud history of award-winning investigative journalism, is a cause for sadness. The News of the World was the biggest-selling Sunday tabloid in the English-speaking world. The death of a paper in such rude health is unprecedented and unwanted in the media. The individuals who are to blame are, as yet, unwilling fully to admit culpability. Rebekah Brooks, the chief executive, still in post, has warned that worse revelations are to come. The shameful saga stretches back over five years. Arguably, it would not have come to light but for the sterling and stoic persistence of the Guardian, some diligent lawyers and a handful of MPs such as Tom Watson and Chris Bryant.
The News of the World's termination is the price Murdoch is willing to pay to halt the accelerating erosion of the British wing of his international empire and to secure full ownership of "the cash machine", the satellite broadcaster BSkyB, the leading provider of pay TV. However, over the past few days, BSkyB shares have lost more than £1bn in value. A decision on its sale has been postponed until the autumn by Jeremy Hunt, minister for media. Against sound advice, he had previously been minded to approve Murdoch and a £10bn deal which would give him an alarmingly large slice of British media. Now, City experts are warning that the deal could collapse.
On Thursday, Murdoch's son, James, deputy chief operating officer of News Corp, the ultimate owner of News International, which also owns the Times, the Sunday Times and the Sun, possibly opened himself up to criminal charges on both sides of the Atlantic. He admitted he had misled Parliament, although he stated that he did not have the complete picture at the time. He went on to give an extraordinary admission of negligence, describing what he called "repeated wrongdoing that [had] occurred without conscience or legitimate purpose" on his watch. He admitted that, without apparently much questioning, he had signed cheques for £1.7m for two individuals among dozens more celebrities, whose phones have been hacked. Why did the young Murdoch authorise the payments? They paid out £700,000 to the chief executive of the Professional Footballers' Association, Gordon Taylor. One of the conditions was that Taylor didn't speak about the case. News Corp also persuaded the court to seal the file on Taylor's case to prevent all public access, even though, as the Guardian revealed, "it contained prima facie evidence of criminal activity". Did alarm bells not sound for him, that he was having to spend such vast sums of money to keep his company's victims quiet?
One would have expected the company to leave no stone unturned to get to the root of the cancer that had spread across its paper. Instead, it convinced almost everyone, including a toothless Press Complaints Commission (PCC), that it was the work of a "rogue reporter". It was anything but – it was industrial scale hacking of phones.
The senior management at News International were abject in their failure – through lack of insight or enthusiasm – to get to the root of the problem. They failed their victims, they failed their journalists and they failed the News of the World. They may yet be proved to have failed their shareholders.
It is a long road from this to James Murdoch's McTaggart lecture in 2009 at the Edinburgh international television festival. The lecture was titled "The Absence of Trust". He argued: "There is an inescapable conclusion that we must reach if we are to have a better society. The only reliable, durable and perpetual guarantor of independence is profit."
James Murdoch would do well to reflect again on The Absence of Trust. Only closer to home this time. He and other senior management at News International should desist from lecturing the rest of the British media in light of their baleful performance over the phone-hacking affair.
It is therefore only right that Ofcom says that once the current police inquiries are complete, it will consider whether News Corporation, as an organisation, would make a "fit and proper" owner of BSkyB .
As a result, Murdoch may be about to reach an unexpected milestone. Possibly for the first time, his powers have proved no shield against the force of public anger. Thanks to new social media, more than 150,000 people have lodged objections to control of BSkyB passing to Murdoch. In addition, dozens of major advertisers withdrew their contracts from the News of the World. The verdict of many appears to be that News Corp is not fit and proper.
On Friday, David Cameron was heavily criticised for his lack of judgment in giving Andy Coulson a second chance when he appointed him as his director of communications. Cameron opted for a polished mea culpa: "The buck stops here," he said. He indicated that Rebekah Brooks should resign. He also said that the PCC should be axed and reforms to the regulation of the fourth estate initiated. In addition, an investigation into the laxity of the original police and News International inquiry will be conducted. A third inquiry will ask: "How did we – press, politicians and police – get here?"
Undoubtedly, good and honourable journalists exist in abundance, many employed on News International's remaining titles. However, the scale of the News of the World's telephone hacking operation has triggered international disapproval. What appears to be the routine invasion of the privacy of ordinary people already blighted by tragedy is a particularly ruthless and cold-hearted method of harvesting copy.
So what kind of an organisation provides a home for such a culture? Over 40 years, Murdoch convinced the establishment that he can make or break political reputations and grant or take away electoral success. In doing so, he has come close to gelding parliament, damaging the rights of citizens and undermining democracy. It is legitimate to ask how a naturalised American, domiciled in New York, born in Australia, and who pays next to no UK tax, holds so much sway. What right exactly did this man have to exert such influence over our political life? Freedom of information requests reveal that he spoke to prime minister Tony Blair three times in the 10 days that led up to the Iraq invasion in 2003. This was a perversion of our politics, orchestrated by a man whose power the establishment failed to check. Then they had to live with the demeaning consequences.
And what did Britain get in return for gifting this man the back keys to political power? (Literally in Murdoch's case, as he swept into Downing Street days after last year's election and then left by the back door). In return, a swaggering, bullying, crassly ineffective News International treated British citizens with contempt by hacking their phones and treated the media, police and politicians investigating the affair with wilful disdain and barely concealed threats. Let this never happen again on our watch.
Prime ministers have danced fast and furiously to Murdoch's tune. In 2001, for instance, Murdoch's newspapers supported Blair in the general election. Blair in turn backed a communications bill that loosened restrictions on foreign media ownership. More recently, News International bosses are reported to have told Ed Miliband that there would be "repercussions" if he continued to call for Rebekah Brooks's resignation. Miliband, belatedly, has broken out of the cocoon of fear that is Murdoch's speciality. He is on the offensive against the power of Murdoch and that's to his credit. It's hard to conceive that there's any going back.
Abuses of power have certainly occurred around News International. For several years, police failed to notify potential victims of hacking and follow up leads. The police in Surrey appear to have known about the Dowler hacking but did little. Since January, however, the Met's deputy assistant commissioner, Sue Akers, head of Operation Weeting, has been in charge. More arrests are expected. Clearly, the police have much to explain and much to reform. We need a full account of the failure of earlier investigations to unearth the widespread evidence of wrongdoing that is now coming to light.
There are huge challenges ahead, too, for Britain's newspapers. In the 1960s, Hugh Cudlipp of the Daily Mirror dismissed the Press Council as "an exercise in futility". The current PCC has more powers but, ill-equipped as it has proved to be, its bite still seems gummy. It published a woefully poor report into hacking that it subsequently had to withdraw. But before we embrace statutory regulation, with all the danger of political interference that threatens, we must urgently consider radical reforms of the existing regulatory framework: reducing the power of serving editors to stand in judgment of their own work; enhancing the investigative powers of the new body which is properly staffed and funded; and providing sanctions, including the power to levy substantial fines and insist upon prominent retractions of false claims. How this new organisation deals with publishing on the internet is perhaps its first challenge.
It is rumoured that Murdoch intends to launch the Sun on Sunday, possibly in the autumn. That makes it all the more urgent that the lessons of what has happened at the News of the World and on other newspapers are rapidly established.
In the spirit of media plurality, it is essential that Murdoch's control of BSkyB is rejected, as we have argued consistently in these pages. The spectre of the old Murdoch, whose demise was signalled last week – voracious and threatening – must not rise again from the ashes of the News of the World. To comment on this story or any other about phone hacking, please visit our open thread
Editorial
The Observer, Sunday 10 July 2011 @'The Guardian'
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Up to 20 #notw journalists could face jail. That's appalling. Thank God they don't work for me. #DeleteAllYouMongrels
The haunting power of old photographs
More than just forgotten light ... Confederate soldiers as they fell near the Burnside bridge, Maryland, in 1862. Photograph: Matthew Brady/Alexander Gardner
Old photographs have a compelling power. I am talking about really old photographs, from the early days of the medium in the 19th century. Here is light from more than a hundred years ago caught by a camera; here are the faces of the long dead as they really were: the face of Charles Baudelaire, the face of Oscar Wilde.
But how much meaning can a photograph hold? How much depth is there in these flat renderings of silver and black that happened to be caught on ancient chemically prepared plates and preserved? Inexhaustible meaning and daunting depth, it turns out, when you know how to look and how to show these historic pictures.
I recently saw, for the first time, Ken Burns's documentary series The American Civil War. It is well known that the American civil war was one of the first wars to be recorded by photographers. Matthew Brady and other photographers followed the armies in wagons that contained their hefty equipment. They photographed the aftermath of slaughter, the twisted bodies lying in fields.
But it takes Burns's extraordinary eye and technical mastery to reveal all that photography can show of the horrific war that ended slavery in America. For one thing, the sheer range of photographs that Burns discovered in the archives defies belief. Thousands of images have been lost, yet he seems to find records of every place, skirmish and character. It is eerie to watch what comes to feel like a contemporary film of the war, a live newsreel of events from long ago. But the reason it is so haunting is that Burns does not just passively film the images, he digs into them, excavates their secrets.
In one visual coup, the film tells us that future general Ulysses S Grant worked in the family store before the war. Impressively, we are shown a photograph of the Grant family business at the time. But then Burns closes in on a detail: a man standing outside, the image enlarged to reveal that we are seeing Grant himself, hanging about in the days when he was a nobody.
The civil war is full of jaw-dropping images. It becomes hallucinatory, a deathly journey into the heart of the battle: you are there. Photographs, this film revealed to me, are not cold relics of forgotten light; they are landscapes that you can explore as if they were three-dimensional spaces. The civil war is still happening, and will continue to happen for as long as these shadowy imprints survive. This is also true of the pictures of our own time. A photograph is a world frozen, that imagination can warm into life.
Jonathan Jones @'The Guardian'
But how much meaning can a photograph hold? How much depth is there in these flat renderings of silver and black that happened to be caught on ancient chemically prepared plates and preserved? Inexhaustible meaning and daunting depth, it turns out, when you know how to look and how to show these historic pictures.
I recently saw, for the first time, Ken Burns's documentary series The American Civil War. It is well known that the American civil war was one of the first wars to be recorded by photographers. Matthew Brady and other photographers followed the armies in wagons that contained their hefty equipment. They photographed the aftermath of slaughter, the twisted bodies lying in fields.
But it takes Burns's extraordinary eye and technical mastery to reveal all that photography can show of the horrific war that ended slavery in America. For one thing, the sheer range of photographs that Burns discovered in the archives defies belief. Thousands of images have been lost, yet he seems to find records of every place, skirmish and character. It is eerie to watch what comes to feel like a contemporary film of the war, a live newsreel of events from long ago. But the reason it is so haunting is that Burns does not just passively film the images, he digs into them, excavates their secrets.
In one visual coup, the film tells us that future general Ulysses S Grant worked in the family store before the war. Impressively, we are shown a photograph of the Grant family business at the time. But then Burns closes in on a detail: a man standing outside, the image enlarged to reveal that we are seeing Grant himself, hanging about in the days when he was a nobody.
The civil war is full of jaw-dropping images. It becomes hallucinatory, a deathly journey into the heart of the battle: you are there. Photographs, this film revealed to me, are not cold relics of forgotten light; they are landscapes that you can explore as if they were three-dimensional spaces. The civil war is still happening, and will continue to happen for as long as these shadowy imprints survive. This is also true of the pictures of our own time. A photograph is a world frozen, that imagination can warm into life.
Jonathan Jones @'The Guardian'
James Murdoch: Why I shut down the News of the World
'...quality of journalism that we (News Corp.) believe in'!!!
What planet does this man live on?
The Sun, The Herald Sun, The NY Daily Post, Fox News etc. I rest my case...
The Sun, The Herald Sun, The NY Daily Post, Fox News etc. I rest my case...
James Murdoch could face criminal charges on both sides of the Atlantic
Eh???
Please ignore last tweet from this account re NotW - not authorised, and not the paper or its political team's opinion. Has been deleted.
And here's the deleted tweet in question...
Sun_Politics Sun Politics
NotW - RIP. A loss to 1st class journalism. Ed Miliband, Guardian & BBC; how proud you must be of your work > Discuss
Spaceboy's classic film re-enactments #1 - Scarface
NB: No bread rolls were harmed in this remake...
Steve Mason & Dennis Bovell - Yesterday Dub
Former Beta Band man Steve Mason has joined forces with reggae musician and producer Dennis Bovell. The pair have announced the release of an album on 25 July, a radical ‘dub’ reinterpretation of Steve Mason’s Boys Outside‘ LP, which was released last year. A collaborative effort, Ghosts Outside was recorded in early 2011 at Livingston Studios in North London with Dennis Bovell. Using the original tracks as a basis, with Steve’s guidance Dennis added additional instrumentation; the tracks were later given the classic ‘Bovell production’ treatment. Steve met Dennis at a Black History month in Hackney. Dennis is a renowned and much respected artist-producer, central in the development of British reggae from the 1970s onwards. He gained renown with his own group, Matumbi and also worked with the likes of Linton Kwesi Johnson, I-Roy and Janet Kay. He also produced a wide diversity of bands including The Pop Group, Orange Juice and The Slits. He recently featured heavily in the BBC4 Reggae Britannia documentary
(Photo:Mona Street)
♪♫ Ash - Walking Barefoot
Gawdamn - bring on global warming is what I say...brrr!
More examples after the jump...
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