Sunday, 29 March 2009

Kitlers






More cats that look like Hitler here.

Saturday, 28 March 2009

In search of Sid

Sid dead!

Jah Wobble put this documentary together (broadcast on January 20th 2009) on the life and times of a certain Simon/John Ritchie/Beverley, better known to us all as Sid Vicious for BBC Radio 4.
Interviewing amongst others Viv Albertine & Marco Pirroni, it tells the story of a truly mixed up kid who was destined to leave this world too early.

There were originally four Johns: Lydon (aka Rotten), Wardle (aka Wobble), Ritchie (aka Vicious) and John Grey.
John Grey was someone I knew back in those old days in London and I would love to get back in touch with again.
So if anyone knows who I am talking about and can get the message to him then please either get in touch with this blog or tell John to contact me or Richard Thomas, the old Fall manager (who knows who I am).

If you are reading this yourself John then as I say if you get in touch with Richard ALL shall be revealed or if you have a good memory then think back to the fact that I used to work in Honky Tonk in Kentish Town & against the grain we shared a love for KB's 'The Dreaming' & Trouble Funk or the night that your brother accompanied us to a Rip, Rig gig just off Tottenham Court Rd. and his behaviour didn't really mesh with my head full of acid, especially not helped when Deb (Woolf- my partner of the time, who went on to direct those vids for Wobble) seemed to take your brother's side on the tube home...or was that all just my imagination?
At one point just before I was leaving to go to Amsterdam I did ring and speak to your Mum to see if she could pass on a message if you were interested to go & see the Brotherhood of Breath at the Roundhouse but you were feeling a bit poorly at the time.
As I say if you or anyone who knows John sees this plese get in touch. it would be really nice to catch up after all this time.

Bonus:
Radio 4 Documentary 'In Search of Sid'
&
'The Making of Metal Box' from Pirate Cat radio LA/SF (features interviews with Wobble/Martin Atkins & Richard Dudanski)

Cabaret Voltaire - Just Fascination

Cabaret Voltaire - Nag, Nag, Nag

Signed Jah Wobble 'Elephant' thong on ebay now!

As part of the celebrity undies charity auction.
Details here.
Current bid is at 25 pounds with 4 days left!
More celeb undies here.

Friday, 27 March 2009

Jah Wobble's Chinese Dub Orchestra - No, No, No (Live)


(Photos above by Tony Zimnoch)



Duet of 'No No No' by Clea Rose and Gu Yinji.
Go here & here to see the extraordinary mask changing.
Got to be seen to be believed!

Reviews here.
I suspect that this will be in my top 3 CD's of the year come December.
Always been a Wobble fan but this is just superb.

Happy Birthday Mum

The worst thing is that I have absolutely no idea how old my Mum would have been.
Going to have to get in touch with Births, Deaths & Marriages in the UK I think.

REPOST - Wilco (New Songs)



Snazzy Nudie suit Jeff!

This will get you 5 new Wilco songs.
2 untitled songs from Neil Young's Bridge School Benefit last month.
'One Wing' (Live at Lollapalooza in Chicago in August) and 'Sunny Feeling' from last March.
Also included is 'Wilco - The Song' as performed on 'The Colbert Report' on the 30th of October.
Bets on Wilco and Bruce Springsteen to perform at Obama's inauguration?



Wilco perform 'Wilco - The Song' at a benefit for Obama at Madison WI on November 1.


Wilco perform 'One Wing' at Lollapalooza

UPDATE:
More details about the new album from Pitchfork here.

Jah Wobble's Invaders of the Heart - Visions of You

Thursday, 26 March 2009

The Pop Group - She Is Beyond Good & Evil



Video directed by Don Letts.
One of the greatest debut singles of all time.
Don't bother arguing - you're wrong!

Wednesday, 25 March 2009

REPOST - Rosa Yemen (AKA Lizzy Mercier Descloux)



(Photo by Lisa Genet.)


The late Lizzy Mercier Descloux pictured here with Richard Hell and at top with Patti Smith.
You can get the 'Rosa Yemen' (L.M.D. - vocals & guitar and JD Barnes - guitar) EP which came out on ZE Records in 1979 here.
This was one of my favourite releases in the first wave of ZE 12" which included James Chance, Mars and DNA.
Bonus track of 'Morning High' (a bi-lingual reading of Arthur Rimbaud's poem 'matinee d'ivresse') by L.M.D. & Patti Smith here.

REPOST - 'Horses' Live @ Brooklyn Academy of Music 01/12/05


Here is a live recording of Patti Smith and her band performing the album 'Horses' from 2005.
Tom Verlaine on guitar as well.

Tuesday, 24 March 2009

REPOST - Paris July 2009

Would love to be in Yirrip for this.

Interrupted Transmission (bloody bandwidth - back in a couple of days!)

Husker Du - 8 Miles High (Live)

Monday, 23 March 2009

Low End Frequencies For Peace


Some of the world’s premier jazz/Improv bass players, including Mark Dresser, Trevor Dunn, Henry Grimes, William Parker and Barre Phillips, are taking part in an online concert of low end frequencies for peace in the Middle East. Performed live in public and broadcast from the twin locations of Jerusalem and New York City, the Deep Tones For Peace webcast is part of an ongoing series of webcasts by low end freqs. Jerusalem Hama'abada The Jerusalem Performing Arts Lab
Hebron St. 28 Old Train Station/Abu Tor, 26 April, 7PM - 1AM local time. New York City CUE Art Foundation, 511 West 25th Street, 26 April, 12PM - 6PM local time. Click here for more info.

Info from 'The Wire'.

Detroit Cobras - Cha Cha Twist

For son # 1 - Jacques Tati in 'School for Postmen'


Part 1

Part 2

Son # 1 used to love Jacques Tati as a wee feller.
Twice in my life people have said that my general (mis)demeanor reminded them of Tati.
The first time was in London in the 70's and the person who said this to me has since been knighted for services to the British Theatre. (He is a playwright.)
The second time was here in Melbourne by a then co worker, who is now the musical director of 'Circus Oz'.
So you would imagine they both know what they are talking about.
I should be worried!
I am worried!
I am a klutz!

Thanx to the 'TWILIGHTZONE' for reminding me of these gems!

Google DMCA

http://mylaw.usc.edu/documents/512Rep-ExecSum_out.pdf,

Sunday, 22 March 2009

The most 'moral' army in the world?

Dead Palestinian babies and bombed mosques - IDF fashion 2009

"...Dead babies, mothers weeping on their children's graves, a gun aimed at a child and bombed-out mosques - these are a few examples of the images Israel Defense Forces soldiers design these days to print on shirts they order to mark the end of training, or of field duty. The slogans accompanying the drawings are not exactly anemic either: A T-shirt for infantry snipers bears the inscription "Better use Durex," next to a picture of a dead Palestinian baby, with his weeping mother and a teddy bear beside him. A sharpshooter's T-shirt from the Givati Brigade's Shaked battalion shows a pregnant Palestinian woman with a bull's-eye superimposed on her belly, with the slogan, in English, "1 shot, 2 kills." A "graduation" shirt for those who have completed another snipers course depicts a Palestinian baby, who grows into a combative boy and then an armed adult, with the inscription, "No matter how it begins, we'll put an end to it..."


A very disturbing story from today's online edition of the Israeli daily newspaper 'Haaretz' here.

Another story here alleges that IDF soldiers were given orders to fire upon the rescuers of injured Gazan civilians!

Following the damning testimony the other day from IDF soldiers involved in the January assault on Gaza that unarmed civilians were deliberately killed, do you still think that you have the most 'moral' army in the world, Mr. Barak?
More soldier's stories here.

(Thanx to 'Renegade Futurist' for pointing me in this direction.)

What is Spanish for "eh"?*

The stat counter attached to this blog shows me where all you wonderful people who visit this blog come from and what you do while visiting (so to speak). A recent visitor from Ancash in Peru led me to this thread (that mentions my blog).
However this has me stumped and
Babelfish isn't really helping me either.
This original question:

"¿es verdad lo del organo masculino erecto en el castillo de la sirenita y la palabra sex en el rey leon?"

gets translated as:

"Is truth the one of the turgid masculine body in the castle of the sirenita and the word sex in the king lion?"

So if you speak Spanish & English maybe you could explain it all for me.
Regards/

* Problem solved thanx to Nachete from the 'Commercial Zone' blog - see comments.

William Burroughs advertises Nike Air Max

Sunn O)))


With a new ('Monoliths/Dimensions') album on it's way as well as having their music featured in the new Jim Jarmusch film 'The Limits of Control' alongside 'Earth' & 'Boris' it's looking like this is possibly the year that 'Sunn O)))' will break out from the 'doom/drone metal' minority box that they are presently in. To my ears (as the soundtrack to my unraveling world) there is something very cathartic about this band, especially when played at maximum volume.



Bonus:
Sunn O))) live at Corsica Studio London 22/02/09.
Just Stephen O'Malley and Greg Anderson playing live to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the 'Grimmrobe Demos' release.
PLAY LOUD!!!
More live pics (and review) by John Marshall here.

Saturday, 21 March 2009

Richard Kern - X is Y

Richard Kern - The Right Side Of My Brain (featuring Lydia Lunch)



Swans - Love Will Tear Us Apart

Suicide - Dream Baby Dream

Friday, 20 March 2009

Bruce Springsteen - Dream Baby Dream

Thursday, 19 March 2009

Flying 'FUCK' helicopter


If you always wondered where the expression “flying fuck” came from, here is one distinct possibility.

Via 'Boingboing' here.

Ruthless & Toothless

Tattoo inspired baby wear here.

Natasha Richardson RIP

Story from the 'BBC' here.

Wednesday, 18 March 2009

Girlz With Gunz # 27

The Swedish dance band revival starts here

Simply irrestible

Just discovered 'Picture Is Unrelated' here.

Perfect!


From 'Failblog'.

Wilco - 'Ashes of American Flags' DVD trailer

Font made from stacked books

By Amandine Alessandra at 'Fubiz'.
Via 'boingboing'.

Tuesday, 17 March 2009

Happy St. Patrick's Day by the way! (Back to normal tomorrow?)

Declan Shelvey @ 'Eclectic Micks'.

Exile's Canberra correspondent sees Labor's Minister for Environment, Heritage & the Arts rock Canberra but not take drugs*

Last Friday night I saw the mighty Oils in Canberra who were performing two full shows as a rehearsal for the charity concerts yesterday at Melbourne and Sydney. They were incredible. Astonishing really given they had not played in many years. It was like they had never stopped. There was the odd wrong chord or incorrect/ mistimed lyric but for the most part it was flawless. Peter Garrett was in fine voice and was as energetic as ever with his trademark dance moves on full display.

It was a great setlist containing many of there classic live songs. In fact if I was to choose the setlist it would have contained about 90% of what they played. Unlike the Thursday show, this one included many of there old classics - Lucky Country, Armistice Day, No Time for Games and Don’t Wanna Be the One. So I think I chose the right night. The encore also included US Forces which was not played the previous night. There had been a lot of debate leading up to the concerts whether he would play it given his position. But in the final encore he basically said bugger it, it might not please some of those in my party, but lets just play it.

It was a pretty subdued Peter Garrett on stage. There was a bit of friendly banter between songs but none of the rage or lengthy political statements we are used to. I guess that is to be expected. He certainly didn’t compromise himself.

The atmosphere was the best I have ever seen at a concert. I’ve never seen a crowd so hyped. They were at fever pitch. Audience participation was fantastic.

I have seen the Oils a few times and this was as good as any of those performances. They have still got it. Lets just hope this is not the last time they ever play together.

From memory, here are some of the songs they played in no particular order. There are quite a few songs missing so it is not complete.

Lucky Country

No Times for Games

Short Memory

Progress

Armistice Day

Dreamworld

Redneck Wonderland
Dreamworld
Blue Sky Mine
Read About It
Power And The Passion
One Country
Stars of Warbuton
King Of The Mountain
The Dead Heart
Beds Are Burning
Best Of Both Worlds
Truganini
Forgotten Years

Luritja Way
Sometimes

US Forces

Don’t Wanna Be the One

Regards

David - J)
15/03/09
*
Thanx to David from 'OPH' for that first hand review.
Fair play to everyone involved.
The Australian Red Cross Bushfire Appeal has now raised 250 million dollars!
Having said that I was not brought up in Australia and a lot if not most of the bands that played really did not interest me in the slightest.
(As for the 'international' bands Coldplay & Kings of Leon...sorry my Mum said if you have nothing nice to say then say ...)
So kudos to Midnight Oil (& especially Peter Garrett) for playing 'US Forces'!
(Even if I think it is a really bad song with plodding, leaden & uninspired lyrics!)
You can hear for yourself what they sounded like in Melbourne last Saturday here.


'U.S. Forces' (1983)

Mona says "Hi Alli & Em - see I wasn't lying" (enjoy)!

Qawwali Flamenco


Allah Hoo

The shoes that Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan left behind will probably never be filled.
Having witnessed THAT voice in action live and listened (listening) to countless recordings, perhaps it is an insurmountable task.
Though recently there is a name being mentioned that perhaps can fill that void.
Faiz Ali Faiz has stepped into the shoes before. His uncle Rehmat Ali Khan ­ who plays harmonium in his qawwali party ­ used to do the same for Nusrat, and when the great master fell ill, it was Faiz Ali Faiz that he called on to take his place at a qawwali, even though he was not a member of his family.
You be the judge now.

Allah Hoo - Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Allah Hoo - Faiz Ali Faiz
& lastly a version of the same song (known to Qawwali since who knows when) as performed in June 2005, the Faiz Ali Faiz ensemble were joined by Spanish flamenco artists Miguel Poveda, Duquende and Chicuelo for a groundbreaking collaboration at the Fes Festival of World Sacred Music. Their performance underlined the common roots of flamenco and qawwali in the subcontinent.

Ustad Fateh Ali Khan & Ustad Mubarek Ali Khan - Oh Disdi Kulli Yaar Di


(Part 1)

(Part 2)

'Oh Disdi Kulli Yaar Di'
This is a recording by Fateh Ali Khan, Mubarak Ali Khan & Party, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's Father & Uncle probably from the 1950's.
You can listen to the Qawwali performance in two parts above.

(If anyone can supply any more information please leave a comment.)

Monday, 16 March 2009

CAN DVD's Reposted from 'Filmuzika'/'Fan - Pit'

Can (By Peter Przygodda) 2003
Subtitles included: English subtitles when German language
Can.[Documentary.1999].DVDRip.[k].ogm
DVD 4:3 | 700 MB | 620 x 456 | DivX 5.02 | 192 kBps ogg surround | 86 mimutes
Can.[Free.Concert.Cologne.Sporthalle.1972].DVDRip.[k].ogm
DVD 4:3 | 703 MB | 620 x 452 | DivX 5.02 | 288 kBps ogg surround | 51 minutes
Can.Notes.[Peter.Przygodda].DVDRip.[k].ogm
DVD 4:3 | 703 MB | 620 x 464 | DivX 5.02 | 208 kBps ogg surround | 81 minutes

Notes:
June 2003 marked the 35th anniversary of the founding of Can when Holger Czukay (bass), David Johnson (flute), jazz drummer Jaki Liebezeit and beat guitar player Michael Karoli met in classical conductor and piano player Irmin Schmidt's Cologne apartment in 1968. Their first gig, a collage of rock music and tape samples, took place at Schloss Nörvenich (Castle Nörvenich, near Cologne).The show is documented on the audio cassette Prehistoric Future.

The nameless collective had established its first studio, Inner Space, at the castle when American sculptor Malcolm Mooney, visiting Irmin and Hildegard Schmidt, joined the band. His intuitive drive led the musicians toward a unique take on rock music and the track Father Cannot Yell originated from one of these early sessions. David Johnson, who by then had become the band's sound engineer, left at the end of 1968. Around this period, the lack of a name was solved by Mooney and Liebezeit who came up with The Can.

The first Can album, Monster Movie (1969), defined Can music. Played and recorded spontaneously and driven by repetitive rhythms, the album was recorded directly on to a 2-track machine and then extensively edited. Soundtracks featuring film scores from 1969 and 1970, was the next album. Just after the record was released, Malcolm Mooney left the band and returned to the U.S. following a psychological breakdown. The Mooney era is extensively documented on Can - Delay, released in 1982.

In May 1970, Japanese singer Kenji "Damo" Suzuki joined Can after being spotted by Holger Czukay and Jaki Liebezeit busking in Munich. The very same evening he performed with the band at the Blow Up club.

In December 1971, Can founded the Can Studio - known as Inner Space until 1978 when Can soundman René Tinner took over running the operation - in a former cinema in Weilerswist, close to Cologne. All subsequent Can albums were produced there except Rite Time. The studio has now been painstakingly disassembled and is being reconstructed to scale as a working exhibit at the German Rock'n'Pop Museum in Gronau, near the Dutch border.

The period 1970-2 was a breakthrough time for the band with Tago Mago (1971) impressing critics in England and France as well as Germany. Ege Bamyasi, released in 1972, featured the track Spoon, the theme tune for the crime thriller Das Messer and also the band's first chart success in Germany. The track, which was the first time that Can used an early version of a drum machine, led to a Goldene Europa TV award in recognition of Can's soundtrack work. Ege Bamyasi also included the music from another TV crime series in the form of Vitamin C.

The success of Spoon inspired the band to try to reach a wider audience which led to the Can Free Concert. The event was filmed by Martin Schäfer, Robbie Müller and Egon Mann for director Peter Przygodda at the Cologne Sporthalle on February 3rd, 1972. British music weekly Melody Maker wrote: "Can are without doubt the most talented and most consistent experimental rock band in Europe, England included." French magazine Rock & Folk portrayed Can's music as "one of the most impressive musical experiments offered by contemporary bands."

Future Days (1973) was the last Can album with Damo Suzuki. First Michael Karoli took over the vocal duties, followed by short interludes with a succession of singers, among them Tim Hardin. The recording of Soon Over Babaluma that same year marked the end of the era of recording straight onto 2-track. Landed (1975), was the first Can LP to be produced using multi-track technology. The album led Melody Maker to call them "the most advanced rock unit on the planet."

Double album Unlimited Edition (1976) was an extended version of a release that had quickly sold out as Limited Edition two years earlier. Among the tracks were the multi-facetted experiments known as the Ethnological Forgery Series (EFS). Flow Motion, also released in 1976, featured the disco hit I Want More and saw the band performing on UK primetime hitshow Top Of The Pops. The following year Can was augmented by ex-Traffic rhythm duo Rosko Gee (bass) and Reebop Kwaku Baah on percussion.

Holger Czukay had retired as a bass player and on Saw Delight was in charge of "special sounds". His new instrument was a shortwave radio receiver; while his idea to create new impulses for the musical process via radio signals didn't fit within the new Can structure, it became the basis for his first solo album, Movies (1979). The next Can album, Out of Reach (1978), was recorded without Czukay, who had left the band in May 1977, during the final Can tour. On the last show of the tour, in Lisbon at the end of May, Can performed in front of 10,000 fans. The double album Cannibalism (1978) was not just a "Best of ...." compilation, it was in fact, an early indication that Can's reputation would continue to grow.

The British avant-garde and several punk acts were deeply inspired by Can. Speaking for many, Pete Shelley (Buzzcocks) is quoted on the Cannibalism cover: "I never would have played guitar if not for Marc Bolan and Michael Karoli of Can". At the end of 1978 the band released Can. Meanwhile Michael Karoli built the Outer Space Studio studio in France, close to Nice. It was there in November 1986 that the original Monster Movie line-up got together again, with vocalist Malcolm Mooney to record Rite Time. The album was released in 1988. The band assembled again at the Can Studio with the same line-up minus Holger to record the track Last Night Sleep for Wim Wenders' film Until the End of the World.

In May 1997, the remix CD Sacrilege provided further evidence of the durability of Can's music. For this tribute, prominent representatives of the techno, dance and ambient scene reworked 15 classic Can tracks. Ironically, the importance of Can's contribution to the wider musical pantheon was summed up by Andrew Weatherall who refused an offer to remix a Can track for Sacrilege: "I love to remix other people's work. But Can? No way. You don't touch music that perfect. There is nothing to add or take away."

The band's chosen means of celebrating its 30th anniversary in 1999 was characteristically original. Eschewing a reunion tour as too obvious, and, more importantly, as being against the spirit of the group, the Can Box and the Can-Solo-Projects tour were the ways in which the group marked the occasion.Can Box includes recordings from the period 1971-77, a tri-lingual book featuring a comprehensive group history, interviews, reviews and photos by Hildegard Schmidt and Wolf Kampmann plus a video with both the Can Free Concert film by Peter Przygodda, and the Can Documentary by DoRo-film.

The Can-Solo-Projects tour, which featured Holger Czukay & U-She, Jaki Liebezeit's Club Off Chaos, Irmin Schmidt & Kumo plus Michael Karoli's Sofortkontakt!, started on March 19th 1999 in Berlin at the Columbia Halle. The tour was so well received that a second leg was organised for September 1999. This went ahead without Holger Czukay who was obliged to pull out at the last minute due to unforeseen circumstances.

Can worked together for the last time in August 1999 at Irmin's studio in Provence with Jono Podmore, to record a cover-version of The Third Man theme (from the film of the same name) for the Pop 2000 compilation released on Herbert Grönemeyer's label Grönland/EMI.

On November 17th, 2001, Michael Karoli died after a long fight against cancer.

In March 2003 Can received the most prestigious prize that the German music industry can offer: the Echo award for lifetime achievement was presented at an awards ceremony in Berlin. Herbert Grönemeyer, one of Germany's most famous artists, made the official speech while Brian Eno sent in a short, witty film about the group. The prize was handed over by the Red Hot Chili Peppers whose guitarist John Frusciante also spoke of his appreciation and respect for Can's music.
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Go here or here.

Varg


Sunn O)))


Bow to the FM3 Buddah machine


The Buddha Machine is a small musical loop player. The name and idea derived from a popular Chinese music player similar to the FM3 that intones repeating loops of Buddhist chanting. It continuously plays one of 9 ambient sound loops (drones) that range in length from 5 to 40 seconds.
The second edition has 9 new loops and a wheel to bend the pitch.
An interesting article from 'The Far Eastern Audio Review' here icluding secular machines from Tibet and Taiwan which includes a semi-transparent image of the bodhisattva Guanyin sitting on a lotus flower. Behind her, a swirling, kaleidoscope of rainbow light beams emerges in a mesmerizing 3-D effect.
There are also videos of these machines playing against each other!
Interview with FM3’s Christiaan Viant here.
You can play the machines over the web at Zendesk here.
Finally a review of the 'Jukebox Buddah' album featuring exclusive contributions by Adrian Sherwood + Doug Wimbish, Blixa Bargeld, sunnO))), Thomas Fehlmann, Sun City Girls, Gudrun Gut, Kammerflimmer Kollektief, Jan Jelinek/Andrew Ekler/Hanno Leichtmann, Mapstation, Aki Onda, Robert Henke, Es, Alog, Minit and Wang Fan all of whom used these machines here.




Tracks from 'Jukebox Buddah'

SFA play new album live tomorrow on net


Super Furry Animals will play their new album 'Dark Days/Light Years' live on the net here tomorrow morning (8:00 AM Melbourne time).

Never mind the bollocks!

Sunday, 15 March 2009

ExileGuy's handy hints for surviving the recession - # 1



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