Bad Dreams

Forgive the indulgence but I'm just playing around with calligraphy

Not My Son. How to raise boys who will not become perpetrators

What Became of Lee Mavers

Don't lie to me that you haven't always wanted a portrait of Michel Houellebecq painted on a jam jar lid...

Form an orderly line 

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Richard Hell Knew The 70's Was The Time For More 'Psychotic' Music

The Many Lives of Judee Sill

The Hollow Men - The Promise & Shades of Blue (Rockarena ABC)

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I used to try and see The Hollow Men as much as I could live when I first came out here to Melbourne in 1986, such a great band getting ever more forgotten as the years go by it seems. I remember one of their final gigs which was all just covers like this one. Somewhere I still have a cassette with them playing Blasphemous Rumours at a session and it was brilliant. Remember also when Paul Kelly wanted to be just like Billy Baxter?

Keef'n'Neil

The Ghost Recedes

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A Reminder

This historian is preserving North African Jewish music from a bygone era

Neville Brody on Navigating Graphic Design’s Shifting Identity

Peter Hammill - The Lie - Forsaken Gardens - A Louse Is Not A Home (Swiss TV 1974)

Beating Myself Up

 

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Monty Alexander - King Tubby Meets The Rockers Uptown (Baloise Live, 2014)

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Montreux

FIRE HOSE

Over a Decade of Recording Black Cab Live

Photographs of me recording and Andrew and James playing at Cherry back in 2013 by Gennady Revzin

From the Doesn't Time Fly Dept

I first started recording Black Cab gigs when they did three or four Sunday arvo shows at the old Cherry Bar here in Melbourne back in 2011

The first thing to note is that these gigs were free entry and from memory were not very well attended at all, so much so that I seem to recall that the last Sunday gig was cancelled But this was the start of the band becoming a radically different beast than previously or as BC's Andrew said the other day to me: 

Those Cherry shows were tough but we hacked a new sound there. The Shabeen gigs were also super formative. We miss that place...

I'd been catching Black Cab as much as I could since first coming across their debut album Altamont Diary. Really not sure if it was just the concept of the album that caught my attention, their cover of the GOGD's New Speedway Boogie or Channel 10 using this as their station promo for a while. I haven't watched TV for over a decade now but what on earth made someone think that a suitable jingle for the upcoming summer TV fare of one of Australia's three commercial networks should be a track from an album about Altamont, which let's face it was one of the final nails in the coffin containing the carcass of the sixties dream. Personally I think the sixties dream ended on the 6th October 1966

Combat Boots (Cherry Bar Melbourne 10/11) Combat Boots (Corner Hotel Melbourne 1/21)

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Here's some other BC shows I recorded over the years in Melbourne 

Full set from The Tote (July 2014)  My War @Shebeen (Jan 2015) Full set fom The Corner (July 17 2015)  Three tracks from 170 Russell (Dec 6 2015) Full set from Howler (May 6 2016) And finally four tracks from Nighthawks (Jan 2020) 

Race Hearts On Fire Bad Robot & Untitled All of the above recordings have been tweaked by Andrew from the band. There were other full sets that I posted straight from the Tascam but they are no longer hosted on the original servers sadly

The NJE Experience - Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)

The NJE captured live at The Indo, Whitechapel, London E1 

A film by Liv Bedford 

The Near Jazz Experience are Mark Bedford (formerly of Madness), Simon Charterton (The Higsons) & Terry Edwards (Everyone)

Adrian Sherwood did a mini album of remixes including their version of Voodoo Chile back in 2019

Naomi Klein: 'We shouldn’t be surprised that kids are radicalised'

Adrian Sherwood - Live @ The John Curtin Hotel Melbourne (14-3-18)

My recording on a handheld Tascam. Click the downward arrow where it says .mp3 in the player and you can download @320

Black Cab - Live at Corner Hotel Melbourne (Jan 2021)

Hearts On Fire 

Bad Robot 

Hanna (Parts 1 & 2) 

Closing Ceremony 

Recorded on my handheld Tascam Tweaked by Andrew Coates

Talking Heads - Live @ the KItchen NY (13/3/76)

Photo by Kathy Landman 

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Video by Carlota Schoolman is about half way down this page

Gang of Four changed the way punk sounded and what it could say. A new box set reveals the peak of their power

Kathy Acker At The ICA (1986)

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Kathy Acker: South Bank Show (1984)

XCOPY

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NFTs: crypto grifters try to scam artists, again

Wire Mix: Lamin Fofana

New work by Berlin based artist Lamin Fofana, titled The West Is An Insane Asylum, A Conscious And Premeditated Receptacle Of Black Magic

We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen

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Sleng Teng Sound Clash

 

Tracklist:

Wayne Smith - Under Mi Sleng Teng 

John Wayne - Call The Police 

Echo Minott - Hand Pon The Key 

Tenor Saw - Pumpkin Belly 

Super Morris - Under Me Peter Green 

Singie Singie - Tell Them What You Know 

Hugh Griffiths - Medley Ride 

Sugar Minott - Jam In The Street 

Johnny Osbourne - Budy Bye 

Shelly Thunder - Sting Me Ah Sting 

Burro Banton - Attention 

Johnny Osbourne - Salute 

The Don Ninjaman - Murder Dem 

Ninjaman - Write Your Will 

Terry Ganzie - Mi Gun Talk 

Josey Wales - Cowboy Style 

Blackout JA - When Di Big Sound String Up 

Gideon Feat. Najay - Raggamuffin 

Kid606 - Catstep/My Kitten/Catnap (Hrvatski Vatstep DSP Remix)

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The Story behind ‘Sympathy For The Devil’

Kevin Ayers - Heaven On Earth (A Mixtape)

Heaven on Earth, a 4-hour(!) Kevin Ayers mixtape by David Mittleman 

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Karen Dalton - Casino de Montreux Golden Rose Pop Festival (1/05/71)

The Rolling Stones - Exile On Main St. Blues (Flexi-Disc NME 1972)

 

7“ Flexi-Disc. given away with the New Musical Express in the29th April 1972 edition.  Jagger introduces  excerpts from the forthcoming albumExile on Main St which was released a couple of weeks later The following tracks are played "All Down The Line", "Tumbling Dice". "Shine A Light" and "Happy". The song Jagger is singing alludes to the Exile tracks excepted. I think that may be Nicky Hopkins accompanying Jagger as opposed to Ian Stewart but I could be very well wrong there 

Really thought that this would have turned up on the deluxe(?) version of Exile when it was released back in 2010

Bow Wood Blues

Interesting that Cocksucker Blues still hasn't been officially released  

 I'll throw some Dice down too

Live Rehearsal Rialto Theatre Montreux 1972

IR 58: Rising Up For The Dub World Within

remember

when you light a candle

the darkness automatically disappears

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Here's a mix of some tunes from the IR back catalogue I made three years ago

Robert Quine - Staring In Her Eyes (Isolated Guitar Track)

Here's the full track by Richard Hell and The Voidoids and here's a Quine mix I made a while back with some unreleased tracks on it