Peaches - Forever Dark Takeover
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Sunday, 10 May 2009
Saturday, 9 May 2009
The human (Voice)
Voice (Julie Tippetts, Maggie Nichols, Phil Minton, Brian Eley)Recorded live at The Phoenix, Cavendish Square, London W1, on 13th Oct 1976
Go here.
Veryan Weston (piano) and Phil Minton (voice) improvise at Mopomoso at the Vortex Jazz club in London. 21st September 2008. Filmed by Helen Petts.
An interesting blog 'John's House' here concerned with John Osborne's house/a mirror & Phil Minton amongst other things.
An interesting blog 'John's House' here concerned with John Osborne's house/a mirror & Phil Minton amongst other things.
Nick Cave scores the movie of Cormac McCarthy's 'The Road'
(Photo by TimN)The ever wonderful Heather over at 'I Am Fuel You Are Friends' has all the details here.
There is also a 'BBC' arts segment about it to download.
Too kind!
"...been about a 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
decade since we last crawled the net/kerb cos what you really need is one site where someone seems to*ve done all the searching for you, today we found that site and good thing too (it,us, you, fukkit EVERYONE), blog with lots about e.g. Billy Burroughs and Patricia Smith and not a lot about Prefab Sprout, but never mind, we all mean well - www.exileonmoanstreet.blogspot.com "
!!!
Found here.
Check it out/and the back pages...
Luddism/laughs/love & life (through the lens of a cider bottle!)
decade since we last crawled the net/kerb cos what you really need is one site where someone seems to*ve done all the searching for you, today we found that site and good thing too (it,us, you, fukkit EVERYONE), blog with lots about e.g. Billy Burroughs and Patricia Smith and not a lot about Prefab Sprout, but never mind, we all mean well - www.exileonmoanstreet.blogspot.com "
!!!
Found here.
Check it out/and the back pages...
Luddism/laughs/love & life (through the lens of a cider bottle!)
The Art of Memory
I really can't find the words to adequately describe this blog...It describes itself as...
"adventures in minimalism including film, music, literature, poetry, architecture, and art"
Check it out for yourself here.
Spirit of Ecstasy
This comic, written by Mairead Case
, is now appearing in a promo zine made by Light in the Attic Records. It celebrates their re-release of Serge Gainsbourg's classic "Melody Nelson" album.(Click here to read page two of the comic.
)(Via dlasky@lj here.)
Friday, 8 May 2009
Jenny Saville - "Passage"
Jenny Saville: With the transvestite I was searching for a body that was between genders. I had explored that idea a little in Matrix. The idea of floating gender that is not fixed. The transvestite I worked with has a natural penis and false silicone breasts. Thirty or forty years ago this body couldn’t have existed and I was looking for a kind of contemporary architecture of the body. I wanted to paint a visual passage through gender – a sort of gender landscape. To scale from the penis, across a stomach to the breasts, and finally the head. I tried to make the lips and eyes be very seductive and use directional mark-making to move your eye around the flesh.Simon Schama: So you really do manipulate what’s in front of you through the mark-making. It’s very striking – I’m looking at a photograph of your transvestite painting Passage and that passage that moves from the penis and balls to the belly is really about the anatomy of paint as it constructs the body.
Jenny Saville: I have to really work at the tension between getting the paint to have the sensory quality that I want and be constructive in terms of building the form of a stomach, for example, or creating the inner crevice of a thigh. The more I do it, the more the space between abstraction and figuration becomes interesting. I want a painting realism. I try to consider the pace of a painting, of active and quiet areas. Listening to music helps a lot, especially music where there’s a hard sound and then soft breathable passages. In my earlier work my marks were less varied. I think of each mark or area as having the possibility of carrying a sensation. (Extract from ‘Interview with Jenny Saville by Simon Schama)
Saatchi Gallery here.
Superb site with lots of images here.
Glynn Griffiths, 'Jenny Saville in front of Plan', The Independent, Tuesday March 1, 1994
LYRICS: Manic Street Preachers - '4st 7lbs'
I eat too much to die
And not enough to stay alive
I'm sitting in the middle waiting
Days since I last pissed
Cheeks sunken and despaired
So gorgeous sunk to six stone
Lose my only remaining home
See my third rib appear
A week later all my flesh disappears
Stretching taut, cling-film on bone
I'm getting better
Karen says I've reached my target weight
Kate and Emma and Kristin know it's fake
Problem is diet's not a big enough word
I wanna be so skinny that I rot from view
I want to walk in the snow
And not leave a footprint
I want to walk in the snow
And not soil its purity
Stomach collapsed at five
Lift up my skirt my sex is gone
Naked and lovely and 5st. 2
May I bud and never flower
My vision's getting blurred
But I can see my ribs and I feel fine
My hands are trembling stalks
And I can feel my breasts are sinking
Mother tries to choke me with roast beef
And sits savouring her sole Ryvita
That's the way you're built my father said
But I can change, my cocoon shedding
I want to walk in the snow
And not leave a footprint
I want to walk in the snow
And not soil its purity
Kate and Kristin and Kit Kat
All things I like looking at
Too weak to fuss, too weak to die
Choice is skeletal in everybody's life
I choose my choice, I starve to frenzy
Hunger soon passes and sickness soon tires
Legs bend, stockinged I am Twiggy
And I don't mind the horror that surrounds me
Self-worth scatters, self-esteem's a bore
I long since moved to a higher plateau
This discipline's so rare so please applaud
Just look at the fat scum who pamper me so
Yeh 4st. 7, an epilogue of youth
Such beautiful dignity in self-abuse
I've finally come to understand life
Through staring blankly at my navel
From 'The Holy Bible' by the Manic Street Preachers.
"You know so little about me. What if I turned into a werewolf or something?"
Christian Bale in 'The Machinist'.The headline quote is also the first thing we hear on the new Manic Street Preachers album 'Journal For Plague Lovers'.
The Stone Roses' debut to get deluxe treatment
The Stone Roses' 1989 self-titled album, a record that's often heralded as one of the greatest debut albums of all time, is set for a major resurrection this summer. On August 11, Silvertone/Legacy will deliver a deluxe 20th anniversary reissue of The Stone Roses in three different packages.
First, there's a single CD "Special Edition" containing the original album, remastered by Stone Roses frontman Ian Brown and producer John Leckie. It contains the original album as well as with the full-length version of "Fools Gold". Then there's a 2xCD plus DVD "Legacy Edition" containing the original album plus a bonus disc of demos plus the Live in Blackpool concert film, shot in 1989.
Finally, there's the mammoth "Collectors Edition", containing everything in the "Legacy Edition" as well as three LPs containing the original album and 13 non-album tracks. Oh, and a 2 GB USB drive shaped like a lemon (you know, like the album cover) containing "all the audio, promo videos, ringtones, wallpapers, plus previously unseen John Leckie home video footage of the recording of "Fool's Gold'," according to a press release. Not to mention a book featuring photos and musings from the band and their cohort as well as people like Noel Gallagher and Mark Ronson. AND six art prints painted by guitarist John Squire for the covers of the album's singles.
Whew. That's a lot of Stone Roses.
Tracklists for each disc listed below:
Finally, there's the mammoth "Collectors Edition", containing everything in the "Legacy Edition" as well as three LPs containing the original album and 13 non-album tracks. Oh, and a 2 GB USB drive shaped like a lemon (you know, like the album cover) containing "all the audio, promo videos, ringtones, wallpapers, plus previously unseen John Leckie home video footage of the recording of "Fool's Gold'," according to a press release. Not to mention a book featuring photos and musings from the band and their cohort as well as people like Noel Gallagher and Mark Ronson. AND six art prints painted by guitarist John Squire for the covers of the album's singles.
Whew. That's a lot of Stone Roses.
Tracklists for each disc listed below:
The Stone Roses:
01 I Wanna Be Adored
02 She Bangs the Drums
03 Waterfall
04 Don't Stop
05 Bye Bye Bad Man
06 Elizabeth My Dear
07 (Song for My) Sugar Spun Sister
08 Made of Stone
09 Shoot You Down
10 This Is the One
11 I Am the Resurrection
12 Fools Gold
The Lost Demos:
01 I Wanna Be Adored
02 She Bangs the Drums
03 Waterfall
04 Bye Bye Badman
05 Sugar Spun Sister
06 Shoot You Down (1 version)
07 This Is the One
08 I Am Resurrection
09 Elephant Stone
10 Going Down
11 Mersey Paradise
12 Where Angels Play
13 Something's Burning
14 One Love
15 Pearl Bastard
The B-Sides & Non Album Singles:
01 Elephant Stone
02 Full Fathom Five
03 The Hardest Thing
04 Going Down
05 Guernica
06 Mersey Paradise
07 Standing Here
08 Simone
09 Fools Gold
10 What the World Is Waiting For
11 One Love (Full Length)
12 Something's Burning (Full Length)
13 Where Angels Play
From 'Pitchfork' here.
01 I Wanna Be Adored
02 She Bangs the Drums
03 Waterfall
04 Don't Stop
05 Bye Bye Bad Man
06 Elizabeth My Dear
07 (Song for My) Sugar Spun Sister
08 Made of Stone
09 Shoot You Down
10 This Is the One
11 I Am the Resurrection
12 Fools Gold
The Lost Demos:
01 I Wanna Be Adored
02 She Bangs the Drums
03 Waterfall
04 Bye Bye Badman
05 Sugar Spun Sister
06 Shoot You Down (1 version)
07 This Is the One
08 I Am Resurrection
09 Elephant Stone
10 Going Down
11 Mersey Paradise
12 Where Angels Play
13 Something's Burning
14 One Love
15 Pearl Bastard
The B-Sides & Non Album Singles:
01 Elephant Stone
02 Full Fathom Five
03 The Hardest Thing
04 Going Down
05 Guernica
06 Mersey Paradise
07 Standing Here
08 Simone
09 Fools Gold
10 What the World Is Waiting For
11 One Love (Full Length)
12 Something's Burning (Full Length)
13 Where Angels Play
From 'Pitchfork' here.
Cosey Fanni Tutti
The press release bill and the original poster (above) for the Coum Transmission's show 'Prostitution' at the ICA in 1976.Cosey's thoughts on the show here and an interview here.
Cosey's 'action' at the Hayward Gallery 1979 (below) in which I was in the audience.
Thursday, 7 May 2009
Mark Lanegan Band poster by Rhys Cooper (Melbourne 2004)
A great poster for what was a great gig back in '04!Mark Lanegan & Greg Dulli play The Athenaeum on July 24.
Throbbing Gristle @ 'boingboing'
Chris Carter's setup.I recently found this self-portrait of me and my gear at the Industrial Records studios (Martello St.) in 1980.
The gear is...
(Left side - top down): Boss PH-1 phaser pedal, Simmons ClapTrap, Roland SRE-555 Chorus Echo, Roland SH-7 Synth, Boss DR-55 Dr.Rhythm, Roland CSQ 100 sequencer, Roland CR-78 CompuRhythm.
(Centre - top down): Self-built digital delay, Accesit Noise Gate & Compressor, Roland System 100M (M-191J): incl. Gristleizer, BBD Module, VCO, VCF, ADSR etc., Roland System 100M (M-191J) rack containing self-built modules: incl. VCO, VCF, ADSR etc.. Boss KM-4 mixer, Self-built effects unit (Gristelizer), Boss CE-2 Chorus, Boss BF-2 Flanger, Roland 100M M-181 Keyboard.
(Right side - top down): Auratone 5C speakers, JVC amplifier, TEAC cassette deck, Seck 6-2 audio mixer, Casio M10 keyboard.
From Chris Carter's Flickr page here.
Go here.
Video interview available to download.
Wednesday, 6 May 2009
Please welcome AlaskaRon to the blogosphere
Ice volcanoRecently I have been accused of showing an anti-American bias here @ 'Exile'.
(That would be you Greg!)
So to remedy this situation there are is now a living breathing American who will contribute to this blog whenever time permits.
AlaskaRon is a father, a biologist and an icecarver so I think we could be in for some interesting posts and I for one am looking forward to them!
(That would be you Greg!)
So to remedy this situation there are is now a living breathing American who will contribute to this blog whenever time permits.
AlaskaRon is a father, a biologist and an icecarver so I think we could be in for some interesting posts and I for one am looking forward to them!
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