US lifts 18 year ban on war dead photos

Story from the 'BBC' here.

The girl effect

With thanx to 'Ultra 151'

Girlz With Gunz # 23

'Panther Girl of the Kongo'

From 'coisas do arco da velha' here.

Thought for the day

There is no thought for the day today as I had too much to think last night!

"There ain't no cure for love"

Too true.
(Thank god!)

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Thought for the day

"Some people never go crazy.
What truly horrible lives they must live."

Charles Bukowski

"Magnificent - and at last there's something to cheer about." *

Real Madrid 0 VS Liverpool 1

Full report from the 'BBC' here.

*Tackhead -'The Game'

Capped - back to 'normal' tomorrow

Til then...

Thought for the day

"You say you like my shirt, you say you like my hat,
You never say that you like me or something nice like that."

Kevin Ayers

REPOST - Dudu Pukwana - Flute Music

Dudu Pukwana & Spear
'Flute Music'
Here.

As already mentioned here I was lucky enough to live in London when Dudu was playing around town.
In fact I saw him in London, Glasgow, Liverpool & Amsterdam.
I also worked at a jazz club in London for a while (100 Club) and when he would play there we would have a few ales...
At the end of the night we often found ourselves catching the same bus and Dudu would play his sax to me and whoever else was there at the bus stop.
Wish that I had thought to record those impromptu sessions on my walkman.

This music is just perfect as the weather starts warming up.

There is a Dudu Pukwana discography to be found here
and a wonderful site dedicated to all things 'Brotherhood of Breath/Blue Notes' here.

Nada-nothing-zero-zilch!

REPOST - Always wear your helmet

Remember kids that if you are going to do drugs, just make sure that you do them safely.
(As demonstrated here by Mr. P. Doherty.)

REPOST - Ken Hyder's Talisker - Land of Stone (ECM 1977)

You can get 'Land of Stone' here.

Talisker
Ken Hyder: drums

Marcio Mattos and John Lawrence: basses
Davie Webster: alto saxophone
John Rangecroft: tenor saxophone, clarinet
Ricardo Mattos: soprano and tenor saxophones, flute
Maggie Nicols, Frankie Armstrong, Brian Eley, and Phil Minton: vocals


Ken Hyder has two web sites here and here.
There you will find tracks from the past and the present to download.
Here is an interview with him from 'The Wire'.
The vocalists, substituting Julie Tippetts (nee Driscoll) for Frankie Armstrong had worked together as 'Voice'.


"...it sounds for all the world like an Albert Ayler album released post-New Grass when the tenor alchemist was experimenting with a woodwind contraption called the chanter—the blown portion of Scottish highland bagpipes. The twin sax / twin bass lineup of Hyder's quintet creates a droning, cantatorial spiritsound one can imagine as the sound of Ayler's dreams."
(From a review of the first Talisker album)

This is my 'desert island disc' and it has never been reissued on CD!

Finally for those of you who were in the Feral Choir when Phil Minton came out here to Melbourne, you can watch (and hear) yourself here and you may recognise one of the vocal motifs from the above album.

Thought for the day

"A carrot is as close as a rabbit gets to a diamond."

Captain Beefheart

Back in a couple of days...

Vintage gas masks

Japanese gas attack posters (1938)

"Toxic area! Run! Flee!
Better to seek soap and water nearby than to travel to an aid center far away."

"Military use
- Full protection
- Rubber face mask
- Body suit (rubber)
- Filter
- Gloves (rubber)
- Boots (rubber)

Civilian use
- (Right) For any gas except blister gas and tear gas
- (Center) For various types of gas
- (Left) Transparent visor"

"Do not allow victims to walk. Carry them gently.

Head to a nearby shelter.
Move to a safe location upwind."

From 'Pink Tentacle' here.

Nurse - the medication!

Leonard Cohen North American tour dates announced

(Photo by TimN)

04-02 Austin, TX - Michael and Susan Dell Hall at Long Center
04-03 Grand Prarie, TX - Nokia Theatre at Grand Prarie
04-05 Phoenix, AZ - Dodge Theatre
04-07 San Diego, CA - Copley Symphony Hall
04-10 Los Angeles, CA - Nokia Theatre L.A. Live
04-13 Oakland, CA - Paramount Theatre of the Arts
04-17 Indio, CA - Coachella Festival
04-19 Vancouver, British Columbia - General Motors Place
04-21 Victoria, British Columbia - Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre
04-23 Seattle, WA - WaMu Theater at Qwest FieldEvents Center
04-25 Edmonton, Alberta - Rexall Place
04-26 Calgary, Alberta - EPCOR Centre's Jack Singer Hall
04-28 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan - Credit Union Centre
04-30 Winnipeg, Manitoba - MTS Centre
05-03 Minneapolis, MN - Orpheum Theatre
05-05 Chicago, IL - The Chicago Theatre
05-09 Detroit, MI - Fox Theatre
05-11 Columbia, MD - Merriweather Post Pavilion
05-12 Philadelphia, PA - Academy of Music
05-14 Waterbury, CT - Palace Theater
05-16 New York, NY - Radio City Music Hall
05-19 Hamilton, Ontario - Copps Coliseum
05-21 Quebec City, Quebec - Pavillon de la Jeunesse
05-22 Kingston, Ontario - K-Rock Centre
05-24 London, Ontario - John Labatt Centre
05-25 Ottowa, Ontario - National Arts Centre, Southam Hall
05-29 Boston, MA - Wang Theatre
06-02 Morrison, CO - Red Rocks Amphitheatre

The editorial team here at 'Exile' hard at work on the next post...

Brion Gysin at work

A damn good year

Brion Gysin - Untitled paintings (1960)

More info and paintings can be found here and here.

Cults & Inspirations

Richard Hell

Bio

I first became aware of Richard Hell through a couple of articles in the English music papers NME and Melody Maker back in 1975

Phil Minton & Dylan Nyoukis - Battersea Arts Centre 3 February 2009

Mhoraig Coull - APB

It was just such a shock seeing you.
Get in touch through blog if you see this.
A song for you.

Review - Leonard Cohen's first gig in the USA for fifteen years

(Photos by Kathryn Yu)

From 'Pitchfork' here.
More reviews here & here.

The Waterboys - The Whole Of The Moon (Perfect Version)

Hazel Dooney press release (AKA Girlz With Gunz # 22)

'MODERN STRATEGIES OF SURVIVAL, LAKE EYRE ON ACID'

2003 High gloss enamel and reflective vinyl on board, 100cm x 150cm

Three more Hazel Dooney paintings under the hammer at Menzies Art Brands, 25th March
Menzies Art Brands http://www.menziesartbrands.com has announced that three more of Hazel Dooney's enamel paintings – a large work from the now hard-to-find Lake Eyre On Acid series and two smaller Sports Babes, Resized For Easy Consumption – have been submitted for Menzies' major auction of Australian art scheduled for 25th March, in Sydney. Last December, Dooney's large enamel on board painting, Dangerous Career Babe: The Aviatrix, painted in 2008, was sold for $A32,701 at Christie's auction Modern And Contemporary Australian And South African Art in London. This exceeded the low-end of Christie's pre-sale estimate and represented a new record for Dooney's work at auction – an extraordinary achievement during a global economic downturn, especially for a young artist who has yet to exhibit in Europe. Just a week before, one of Dooney's earliest works, a ten-year-old enamel painting, Drowned Ophelia, was sold in Sydney, at Deutscher-Menzies' high profile auction of contemporary art, for over $A13,000. With buyers premium and taxes added, this exceeded the very ambitious pre-sale estimate of $A10,000 to $A14,000. The painting was first sold for around $A1,200.

For further information, please visit http://www.hazeldooney.com and Hazel's popular blog, Self Vs. Self, at http://hazeldooney.blogspot.com

For an interview or further comment, please contact Evie at Hazel Dooney's studio, dooneystudio@gol.com.

Too kind - but what a turn of phrase...

'Permanent Transience'

"For a blast of highly literate neo-psychedelia, Mona will take care of you..."

See here.

Pills, thrills & heartbreaks (all while extremely well dressed)!

Gram Parsons

(Photo by Jim McCrary)

Nudie & GP

GP's Nudie suit in Nashville's country music museum.

(Photo by Ted Rheingold)

GP by Jim McCrary


'Gram Parsons - Fallen Angel' - Trailer


Bonus:
Gram Parsons & Emmylou Harris rehearsing a couple of songs: 'The New Soft Shoe' & 'Still Feeling Blue'.
Recorded in 1972 (perhaps in a motel room).

'The Gashlycrumb Tinies' by Edward Gorey

A is for Amy who fell down the stairs.

B is for Basil assaulted by bears.

C is for Clara who wasted away.

D is for Desmond thrown out of a sleigh.

You can read the whole book by Edward Gorey here.
Thanx to Trevor Brown's 'baby art blog' for bringing back some childhood memories.

Didn't work for you Casper did it?

From 'thisisn'thappiness'

(Backstory: Jade (the most beautiful cat in the world) a couple of years ago presented me with one surviving kitten on my birthday. Casper (the friendly white kitten) is now the BIGGEST
cat known to mankind and will not move for anything, least of all something as pathetic as a laser-pointer!)

Dimming the lights

In support of fellow bloggers in New Zealand.

Go here for details.


Thanx to 'Ultra' for bringing this to my attention.

New U2 album leaks

'No Line On The Horizon' the new album from U2 leaked out into the blogsphere today.
Most links were very quickly removed but it is still available in a torrent of places, if you know where to look!

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Ed Kuepper joins The Bad Seeds

Ed Kuepper-ATP Mt Buller
(Photo by TimN)

Press Release:
NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS announce the first of a string of summer festival appearances.
The band, featuring Ed Kuepper on guitar, will headline at German festivals Southside (Neuhausen Ob Eck) and Hurricane (Scheesel) in June, and at Oxegen Festival in Ireland on 11th July 2009.
Kuepper, formerly of Australian bands The Saints and Laughing Clowns, completes the current Bad Seeds live line up of Warren Ellis, Martyn Casey, Thomas Wydler, Jim Sclavunos and Conway Savage.
Kuepper has been, and continues to be, a significant influence on contemporary Australian music. He formed the original version of the proto punk band The Saints in 1973 whilst in high school and when the original Saints split he formed what, in the eyes of many, was an even bolder enterprise - Laughing Clowns.
The Clowns broke up in 1984 and Kuepper launched a prolific solo career which has seen the release of more than 20 albums and several film and soundtrack projects. His latest studio recording was 'Jean Lee and the Yellow Dog' in 2007
This full schedule of festival dates promises to include some of the best and most exciting festivals that Europe and the British Isles have to offer. More very soon.

More from 'That Striped Sunlight Sound' here.

Leonard Cohen 'Live In London' O2 Arena: July 17, 2008 CD/DVD

Photograph: Domenech Castello/EPA

Live in London:

Disc one:

01 Dance Me to the End of Love
02 The Future
03 Ain't No Cure for Love
04 Bird on the Wire
05 Everybody Knows
06 In My Secret Life
07 Who By Fire
08 Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye
09 Anthem
10 Introduction
11 Tower Of Song
12 Suzanne
13 The Gypsy's Wife

Disc two:

01 Boogie Street
02 Hallelujah
03 Democracy
04 I'm Your Man
05 Recitation w/ N.L.
06 Take This Waltz
07 So Long, Marianne
08 First We Take Manhattan
09 Sisters of Mercy
10 If It Be Your Will
11 Closing Time
12 I Tried to Leave You
13 Wither Thou Goest

Details from 'Pitchfork' here.
'Uncut' review of the gig here.
'Suzanne' - 'Amazon' exclusive video here.

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'Lullaby Bear'

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...and a subliminal skull smoke afterwards!

Not so subliminal sex

Subliminal 'Silence of the Lambs'

Dali skulls

My/our Wilco 'T' shirt(s) - a skull segue

Available here.
(So good that all members of my clan have one.
Though son # 1 bought his over in Scotland when Wilco and him found themselves in Glasgow at the same time. The rest of us had to wait until Wilco played in Melbourne last year)