Fifty one years ago...

...now that's a double bill

Documentary on 'Dr. Gonzo' captures Oscar Zeta Acosta's wild ride

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So I only just found out about this programme that was shown in the US four years ago. I remember reading Acosta's book a LONG time ago (late seventies I'm guessing) and tho I did find out more about the man and his work and disappearance, every time I went looking for a second hand copy of 'The Autobiography Of A Brown Buffalo' the prices were higher each time... 

Skintologists - Db 105

 

Released March 3 2021

Skintologists are Fritz Catlin from 23 Skidoo, Last Few Days & Laibach and Mike Joseph, bassist and co founder of Welfare Heroine with the late Dele Fadele

 

A FB post from Fritz caught my eye with part of the periodic table pictured and the comment "Who thought Db 105 was a listening volume suggestion?" 

Got to say very clever and made me delve into this particular element more..."an artificially produced radioactive transuranium element in Group Vb of the periodic table, atomic number 105"...  sorry. You can induge yourself here if you so desire. Now I have to come clean and say I actually have an O Level in chemistry. God alone knows how as the only things I remember now are test tube, bunsen burner, the view out of my class window and the size of my teacher's tits. (Let me just say that it's the little things that stay with you)

Oh and I also found this from 2009...

Got to make room for more vinyl

If there was a Snooker Museum then maybe this table would be in it? A little bit of history is now looking for a new home.
So many happy memories of our dad's room and best for me and my brother to have those in our head than any type of shrine https://t.co/0ktyLq6vXv pic.twitter.com/GINYgYm9Mm

— Steve Davis (@SteveSnooker) April 3, 2021

Phil Puleo - Bugs

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As well as being a mighty fine drummer with amongst others Cop Shoot Cop, The Angels of Light, Swans and Human Impact, Phil is also a very gifted artist

The Duke of Deadinburgh by Russell MacEwan

Russell actually called him the 'Chookie Embra'. It was NeilK who supplied the post title. A pun I suspect he may have had up his sleeve for a while

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Russell's anatomy of a portrait ...and portrait experiments  

Landphil

DMX

“If I was to drop dead right now, my last thought would be: I’ve lived a good life.” - DMX, February 2021 pic.twitter.com/aB3hqXbbHx

— love yourself. (@MichellCClark) April 9, 2021

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James King & The Lone Wolves - Studio One in Concert (BorderTV 1985)

 

1 Happy Home 2 Ready To Fall 3 The Angels Know 4 Fly Away 5 I Don't Care If You Live or Die 6 Fun Patrol 7 Step Away 

"One of the most powerful groups in the North of England - Jim King and the Lone Wolves"!!! 

Recorded in Border TV's, Durranhill Studios, Carlisle February 1985

How an online ‘Lego’ gamer infiltrated the White House press corps

Soundmurderer VS The Bug - (Peel Session 12/11/03)

 

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Episode 15 of 'From Inner Room to Outer Space' by AndyN  Tracklist: 

1. The Bug ft Dig - Blue to Black (From In Blue) 

2. The Bug - Run Red Version (From Pressure Versions) 

3. Kevin Richard Martin - The Surgeon (From Sirens) 

4. The Bug V Earth - Broke (From Concrete Desert) 

5. King Midas Sound - Waves (From Edition 1) 

6. Techno Animal - Megaton (From Split with Dalek) 

7. King Midas Sound - Countdown to Elimination (From Split with Porter Ricks - Symbiotics) 

8. The Bug - Countdown to Elimination (From Counting the Conversation) 

9. Kevin Richard Martin - Blizzard (From 'Hazy') 

10. Kevin Richard Martin - Feedback Cycle 2 - Adrift (From 'Frequencies for leaving Earth Vol 2') 

11. King Midas Sound - Miles and Miles (From 'Waiting for you') 

12. The Bug ft Dis Fig - End in Blue (From 'In Blue') 

13. Zonal - Cage Version (From Cage Version / No Version)

Selecta J-Cut - Tackhead: Kings of the Beat Mix

+ Mind At The End of Tether Ticking Time Bomb And remember there is something wrong with Human Nature...

Thirty years later, where is the justice?

The Orb - A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules From The Centre Of The Ultraworld (Peel Session)

King Tubby's Hometown Hi-Fi with U-Roy (April 1975)

Smith & Mighty - Colston 150 Mix (7/10/17 SWU.FM X)

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DJ KICKS 

Three Stripes Mixes

Life Has A Way: The Smith & Mighty story

Discography 

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BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix Smith & Mighty (24/11/96)

Nick Drake Smiling

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River Man (John Peel Session Version) 

Recorded at Maida Vale Studios on the 5th August 1969 and first broadcast the following night

Fourty four years ago...

I feel old

Poster for Bowie's first Japanese tour 48 years ago

Via

What exactly is Trump doing at Mar-a-Lago all day?

St. Vincent: Guitar Moves

Billy Nomates (w/ Jehnny Beth) - Echoes ARTE session (7/10/21)

Prince - Welcome To America

David Keenan on Peter Laughner

Patti Smith Launches Substack Newsletter Featuring Her First Serial

'In my Substack world, I hope that you, dear reader, will be my notebook'

A quarantine-free trans-Tasman bubble opens on April 19, but ‘flyer beware’ remains the reality of pandemic travel

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He really is missed

Irmin Schmidt of CAN in the hands of master interrogator, Andrew Weatherall. Not only a fabulous DJ, wit, artist and remixer, but also the best I’ve seen in this role as a participant in the literary guff game: funny, respectful, ridiculously well prepared and (ir)reverential ... pic.twitter.com/w86YyEEdat

— Lee Brackstone (@leebrackstone) April 6, 2021

Spring Cannot Be Cancelled by David Hockney and Martin Gayford

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David Carson: The Rules of Graphic Design

 

David Carson posted that book cover on his Instagram feed yesterday. As it says in the blurb to the video above (posted in 2012)

With a new book on the horizon (although not yet finished as he explains during the seminar), David Carson held two seminars in London and Zurich and provided a great evening of entertainment and insight into his work

Hopefully it will be a case of soon come...

Andrew Weatherall guest programs RAGE (1 March 2008)

A lot of love has been put into this recreation of The Guvnor hosting ABC Australia's RAGE show back in 2008 by a couple of guys at The Flightpath Estate and they posted it today on what would have been Andrew's 58th birthday + 

Staying here in Australia this is the unedited video of a conversation between Andrew and Ben Marshall (Sydney Opera House’s Head of Contemporary Music) Weatherall is in full raconteur mode, talking about the ritual of clubbing, the joy of music discovery and the importance of dressing for the occasion

Daphne Camf R.I.P.

Sad news for the Melbourne music community It was Black Cab main man Andrew Coates that introduced me to Daphne when she sang with Black Cab at the Espy quite a number of years ago. Again it was as they were playing around with versions of songs that would be featured on their Games of the XXI Olympiad album. I have it in my head that she sang on a long version of Supermädchen. I'm pretty certain I recorded that show but the audio will be sadly on a PC that still needs to be got up and running

Nowadays Live And Direct 002 - Underground Resistance

No introductions necessary for installment number two in our series of recordings from the booth. Enclosed is just under three hours of hard music from two members of UR that we were lucky enough to have come through at the end of March 2020. The recording is split into two parts. The high-octane, acidic, psycho stuff in this section comes courtesy of Dex Nomadico, who played during the first half of the party. And the raw, thumping, soulful sounds in the other section are taken from the last hour or so of Mark Flash's set – just as daylight broke through. Big respect and praise due to the whole UR family for letting us air these out and to all the dancers who gave this one their energy

Andrea Passenger - 30 Years Of Underground Resistance (1990-2020) Mix

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The Wild Bunch - St Paul's Carnival Session Bristol (1986)

+ Sounds Of The West - Straight Outa Bristol (Wild Bunch/Massive Attack/Tricky/Postishead) TV documentary series originally aired in 1996, entitled "Sounds Of The West", which examined the music being produced in the West of England. This particular episode named "Straight Outa Bristol" focused on the eponymous "Bristol Sound" and features interviews with DJ Milo (formally of The Wild Bunch), Massive Attack, Tricky and Portishead. Music journailist, Phil Johnson, who would go on to write a book on this same subject, also weighs in on his feelings regarding the impact that Bristol had on the rest of dance music at the time 

 + What Is The Wild Bunch?

Bobby Gillespie & Jehnny Beth - Remember We Were Lovers

Released July 2 on Third Man Records 

Utopian Ashes tracklist: 1. Chase It Down 2. English Town 3. Remember We Were Lovers 4. Your Heart Will Aways Be Broken 5. Stones of Silence 6. You Don’t Know What Love Is 7. Self-Crowned King of Nothingness 8. You Can Trust Me Now 9. Living A Lie 10. Sunk In Reverie

The Pioneering Feminism of Niki de Saint Phalle

The Band - The Weight

The Weight by Peter Viney