[E.O.M.S.]

Thursday, 21 May 2009

We await the Vatican's response

"It documents a shameful catalogue of cruelty: neglect, physical, sexual and emotional abuse, perpetrated against children"

Cardinal Sean Brady
Leader of the Catholic Church in Ireland
On Ireland's 'Child Abuse Report'
(Yip - it sure does.)

Story at the 'BBC' here.
You can read the report here.

"The Christian Brothers, which ran several boys' institutions deemed to have harbored serial child molesters and sadists on their staff, insisted it had cooperated fully with the probe. The order successfully sued the commission in 2004 to keep the identities of all of its members, dead or alive, unnamed in the report. No real names, whether of victims or perpetrators, appear in the final document."
From 'Yahoo' here.

Girlz With Gunz # 43

Sheet!

More 'Dangerhorse' drama with EMI

EMI now remove Youtube video of 'Dark Night of the Soul'

This despite it having no music from the album!
You can still watch it here.
(Via 'Pitchfork' here.)

This is really starting to make even less sense than before!

Fireball XL5 - Intro & credits

(Thanx to 'coisas do arco da velha')

A Sad Story:
When I was about 5 I got from Santa a Fireball XL5 rocket that you shot up into the air with a catapult and it would separate in two and float down to earth on parachutes.
At least that was what should have happened!
Xmas morning and I went up to the hills behind where I lived with my Dad and shot my rocket up into the air only to see one half of it parachute down a couple of hundred feet into the quarry, where of course we were not allowed to go.
One launch that was all I got (bugger!)

NB: Trivia fans - the closing song is performed by Don Spencer who is Russell Crowe's father-in-law!
('Feathers, Furs & Fins' eh kids?)
TV21

HIV's spread around Europe mapped

Full story at the 'BBC' here.

REPOST - Killer Luka's amazing dolls

Killer Luka has five of her incredible creations over at Dennis Cooper's blog today.
Please check them out.
They are truly amazing.

The doll above is 'Edie as The Broken Girl'.

Flickr here.
'Habitat' blog here.
(Do check it out there is some amazing work there, a couple of examples of which are below.)

Infernosaurous

GSW to the face, 1918

Killer Luka

Wednesday, 20 May 2009

Acid

LSD Blotter Art signed by The Merry Pranksters.
Available here.

Smith & Mighty - Essential Mix

Smith & Mighty Essential Mix (24-11-96)
at 'It's Coming Out Of Your Speaker'
here.
Tracklist:
Massive Attack - Any Love (Massive Attack)
Smith & Mighty - Walk On (Three Stripe)
McKelz Smith & Mighty - Mix Me Down Maestro (Three Stripe)
The General - The Time To Rhyme (FFRR)
Fresh 4 - Wishing On A Star (Ten)
Smith & Mighty - Anyone (Three Stripe)
Receiver - Irrational (Swarf Finger)
The Wild Bunch - The Look Of Love (4th & Broadway)
Smith & Mighty with McKelz & Tammy Payne - Seeds (White Label)
Wilks - A & R Man (White Label)
Dub Ghecko - Love To The Power Of Each (Duh Head)
Dub Ghecko - Love To The Power Of Each (Diih Head)
Smith & Mighty - Killa (FFRR)
Blue & Red/ Freddie - Blessed (Acetate Pressing)
Blue & Red - Unity (Acetate Pressing)
Blue & Red/ K.Oil - Don Anything (Acetate Pressing)
Tamlins - Baltimore Remix 2 (Acetate Pressing)
Tamlins - Baltimore Remix 3 (Acetate Pressing)
Smith & Mighty - Heavens In (Acetate Pressing)
Bally Sagoo - Ghuraliya (Columbia)
Virginity - Rainbows (More Rockers)
Flyn & Flora - New World (White Label)
Jazklash - Off The Edge (White Label)
Jazklash - BQE (White Label)
Smith & Mighty - Same (More Rockers)
Smith & Mighty - Higher (More Rockers)
More Rockers - Another Day (More Rockers)
More Rockers - Sound Boy (More Rockers)
More Rockers - Show Love (Acetate)
More Rockers - 162 (Acetate)
More Rockers- Nightfall (More Rockers)
More Rockers - First Time (More Rockers)
More Rockers - Frush (Acetate)
More Rockers - Das Ya One (More Rockers)
More Rockers - 1 2 3 Break (More Rockers)
Silent Poets - Talk Is Toy (Acetate)
Jazklash - Than The Haze (Acetate)
More Rockers - Bibo (Acetate)
More Rockers - Cure (Acetate)
Smith & Mighty - Down In Rwanda (More Rockers)
Flyn & Flora - Bass Speaker (White Label)

Girlz With Gunz # 42

Infidel

Naked Lunch handbills

'Naked Lunch' book & film

Smoking # 14

(Photo by Richard Kern)

Stephen O'Malley (KTL) The Toff in Town Melbourne 18-09-07

(Photo by Casey Rice)
Warning! If you look at this photograph for too long there is a chance that a suitcase will come flying out of the smoke and hit you right in the face!

Smith & Mighty - Brain Scan

Smith & Mighty - Anyone (featuring Jackie Jackson)

Tuesday, 19 May 2009

Smoking # 13

(Photo by Richard Kern)

A right pair...

Hitler & Franco - one more thing in common.

Story from the 'BBC' here.
However...

Girlz With Gunz # 41 (Fifi in DC!)

For Chook over in NZ

Art Music Food

Yer man on the telly

Shane MacGowan VS Danny Baker

Shane MacGowan VS Frank Skinner

Shane MacGowan VS Henry Rollins

Shane MacGowan VS Jack Doherty
(and why he ate a Beach Boys album!!!)

Shane MacGowan VS Shane MacGowan

Shane's new teeth

Nice to see Mr. MacGowan with a new set of teeth and nice to see that they are already yellow! Pearly white just really wouldn't have looked right.
I remember a pre Pogue Shane in 1978 or so getting a new set of caps to go over his already tombstone like teeth then and they must have lasted a couple of months if that! And with his birthday being on Xmas day maybe this was the wish come true.
(Thanx to the 'hangover-helper' for pointing me in this direction)

Sinead O'Connor & Shane MacGowan - Haunted

Make The Girl Dance - Baby, Baby, Baby

Monday, 18 May 2009

Words by Tom McGrath (RIP)

Growing old
My jaws unfold
My face is wrinkled
Starting to crinkle
But we'll be bold
Before we're old
we'll show them what we're made of.

(From 'Laurel & hardy' 1976)

Chorus

Come walk beside me
Come take my hand and walk beside me
walk beside me till the gurgling stream
comes easing through the stones
rolling the pebbles all around and taking us down
into the further depths where coldness
laps in around our toes
splashes our ankles
but we have no regrets
we have no regrets
even though our feet are wet

(A homage to the aria of Bach's Goldberg variations 1999)

My sister in Glasgow attended Tom McGrath's funeral a couple of Fridays ago and very kindly sent me a copy of the Order of Service pamphlet.
The words above were printed on the back page.
Thanx WJN (with loveXXX)

WOW!

I have just discovered a couple of blogs both done by someone calling themself 'quantum retrocausality':

Identical Men From Parallel Universes
&
Circumambient Peripherisation

They are really something else indeed.

We obviously share an interest in some of the same subjects (Brion Gysin, On-U Sound and WSB immediately come to mind and I even have a post on Marshall McLuhan here) but believe me if these two blogs are at the top of the Premier League then mine is in the League One playoff final in comparison.

Check them out!

Bomb The Bass - Black River (featuring Mark Lanegan)

Updated information & help needed

Recently I put this album 'Russian Chants (Ambient Mix)' by Boris Feokistov & Bill Laswell up as my first post at my new(ish) blog and also put up some info that I found at 'Discogs'. However yesterday there was a comment left at the post from 'Anon':
"Info bout Feoktistov is not true. There are 2 diferent guys - one Russian folk player. Another, Russian orthodox composer and church regent Boris Feoktistov.
http://www.eipuser.ru/index.php?option=com_artistdirectory&task=singleArtist&id=2.
and this is link to original album
http://www.bogoslovy.ru/audio/feokt.htm."
So I am asking for help by someone who can speak Russian & English and who can perhaps help me out with a rough translation of the details at the above links as to be honest 'Babelfish' is not really helping.
NB: The second link will lead here and you can download what appear to be some of the original tracks from the album above before they have been remixed by Bill Laswell.

Sunday, 17 May 2009

American family c.1910's

Via 'Vintage Photo' here.

Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five - The Message (Live on 'The Tube' 1983)

"If you're fucking groovy, watch this!" - Jools Holland

Lee Perry & Adrian Sherwood (Live in Italy 2009)

The Stones at Altamont

(Photo by Robert Altman)

Previously unseen film footage by Eamonn McCabe at 'The Guardian' here.

Isis - Holy Tears

Isis

Sex theme park to open in China

"Visitors try to get a glimpse of 'Love Land', billed as China's first-ever sex theme park, in southwest China's Chongqing municipality on May 15, 2009. The sex theme park is slated to open in October, but detractors hope the project will never see the light of day, as the exhibits of naked human sculptures, giant genitals and boasts a sex technique workshop is stirring up howls of protest. "
More at 'The Guardian' here.
(Via 'Foreign Policy' here.)

The Libertines reunite yesterday in London

Story at the 'NME' here.
And footage of almost the whole set here.

Danger Mouse to release blank CD-R in protest

Full story at the 'BBC' here.
Of course you can do what you want with the blank CD.
I would suggest you enter the words 'Danger Mouse Dark Night Of The Soul' in to the Captain Crawl search engine to the right and take it from there.
(What doesn't make sense is that Sparklehorse are on EMI and Danger Mouse has produced records by Damon Albarn's Gorillaz and The Good, The Bad & The Queen all of whom are on yep you guessed it EMI!)

Notice

To the girl on the Eltham train into the city tonight
- sorry
BUT
I have to tell you
that you are
absolutely
fucking
GORGEOUS!

Saturday, 16 May 2009

German autobahn strewn with Euros

A German guy almost loses all the money he had to buy the car he was test driving, when the wind took the envelope containing 23,000 Euros out of the car...
Full story at the 'BBC' here.

FUNK MY SOUL! Motown's top 100 tracks

If you like soul music (and to be honest if you don't then you are obviously dead!)
then if you haven't already done so please take this chance to discover this wonderful blog:
'Funk My Soul'

It has been up and running for exactly a year now and to celebrate they have given ALL of us a magnificent present.
Back in February, MOJO Magazine in the UK put together a list of the top 100 Tamla Motown songs of all time as voted by the likes of Berry Gordy Jr, Lamont Dozier, Jerry Dammers, Iggy Pop, Mavis Staples, Wayne Kramer, Alan Vega, Cee-Lo Green, Johnny Marr, Mary Wilson and well the list goes on (and on!)
As The Popster said in his introduction:
"...Motown's legacy is that it was good, tough, optimistic, American 50's and 60's craftsmanship. It was close to being the peak art-form of post-war America..."

-Iggy Pop

If you go here you can download all of the hundred songs going from Rockwell's 'Somebody's Watching Me' (featuring surreptitious backing vocals by one Michael Jackson) at number 100 to'Dancing In The Streets' by Martha and the Vandellas at pole position.

Shit, I started dancing just as the download started!
Please visit the blog and remember it is common courtesy to say 'thank-you' and maybe you could wish them a 'happy birthday' while you are there too.

LYRICS: Sex Pistols - 'EMI' (Some things never change!)

There's unlimited supply
And there is no reason why
I tell you it was all a frame
They only did it 'cos of fame
Who?

E.M.I. E.M.I. E.M.I.

Too many people had the suss
Too many people support us
Un unlimited amount
Too many outlets in and out
Who?

E.M.I E.M.I E.M.I

And sir and friends are crucified
A day they wished that we had died
We are an addition
We are ruled by none
Never ever never

And you thought that we were faking
That we were all just money making
You do not believe we're for real
Or you would lose your cheap appeal?

Don't judge a book just by the cover
Unless you cover just another
And blind acceptance is a sign
Of stupid fools who stand in line
Like

E.M.I E.M.I E.M.I

Unlimted edition
With an unlimited supply
That was the only reason
We all had to say goodbye

Unlimited supply (E.M.I)
There is no reason why (E.M.I)
I tell you it was all a frame (E.M.I)
They only did it 'cos of fame (E.M.I)
I do not need the pressure (E.M.I)
I can't stand those useless fools (E.M.I)
Unlimited supply (E.M.I)
Hello E.M.I
Goodbye A & M

Sex Pistols - 'E.M.I.'

EMI refuses to release Danger Mouse/Sparklehorse collaboration! Anything to do with 'The Grey Album' perhaps?

Thanks to "an ongoing dispute with EMI," it turns out the Danger Mouse/Sparklehorse album part of the Dark Night of the Soul package-- which also includes a book of photographs by David Lynch-- will not get an official release, a spokesperson for Danger Mouse told the Tripwire. "Danger Mouse is unable to release the recorded music for Dark Night of The Soul without fear of being sued by EMI."

(Via 'Pitchfork' here.)
Dangerhorse
The Grey Album

The Kelly Family (HELPMABOAB!)

The Kelly Family
This is a video of the Kelly Family crying during the song 'Amazing Grace' at a tv show in 1989. They are crying because this was the favourite song of their mother Barbara, who died in 1982.
Father Dan died in 2002.

Deutsch 'Schlager' wiederbelebung beginnt hier

Die Flippers

Ghengis Khan

Michael Holm

Gitti & Erika

Following the resounding success of the Svenska dans band revival as seen here.
Is the world ready for the German schlager revival?
(My thanx to fellow 'smeggers' E.H. & R.V.)

Any thoughts HerrB?