The show must go on

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Playing with my toy cars

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Laurie Anderson’s Wall-to-Wall Summer

♪♫ Monterey Pop Festival 1967 (Bonus Performances)

Performances from the Monterey Pop Festival not released on the original documentary by D.A. Pennebaker. Nearly two hours of bonus footage from the Criterion Collection release of Monterey. The Festival that marked the beginning of the summer of love and spurred one of musics most creative and influential era's. This includes performances by:
The Association- "Along Comes Mary"
Simon and Garfunkel- "Homeward Bound""Sound of Silence"
Country Joe and the Fish- "Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine"
Al Kooper- "Wake Me, Shake Me"
The Butterfield Blues Band- "Driftin' Blues"
Quicksilver Messenger Service- "Dino's Song"
The Electric Flag- "Wine"
The Byrds- "Chimes of Freedom""He Was A Friend of Mine""Hey Joe"
Laura Nyro- "Wedding Bell Blues"
Jefferson Airplane- "Somebody To Love" 
The Blues Project- "Flute Thing"
Big Brother and the Holding Co. w/ Janis Joplin "Combination of the Two"
The Buffalo Springfield- "For What It's Worth"
The Who- "Substitute""Summertime Blues""A Quick One"
The Mamas and The Papas- "Straight Shooter""Somebody Groovy""I Call Your Name""Monday, Monday"
Scott McKenzie- "San Francisco"
The Mamas and The Papas and Scott McKenzie- "Dancin' in the Street"

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Well he would, wouldn't he?

♪♫ Deborah Conway & Willy Zygier - G-d (Live Rockwiz 15/6/13

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Exile's command centre looking very funky thanx to Be Free

♪♫ Tunng - So Far From Here

Gate 228

Your correspondent vibing with Be Free's little (?) girl
Big thanx to all the artists involved as that was a beautiful way to start the weekend. More photos from the expo on my farcebook page HERE

Lobna Allamii R.I.P.

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Rare live footage of Rip Rig & Panic

Personally I'm still waiting for the change. Damn they were such a great live band. Footage of my old nemesis Jez on sax (knew him when he played in The Method in what...78/9). Also HOW many times did I climb up those LMC stairs in Camden? Especially difficult after copious pints in The Engineers opposite and I won't even mention lugging the PA up and down after my band played their first gig there back in 81...
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♪♫ PTV3 VS Hawkwind

Oh how thee mighty have fallen...and if you are truly masochistic here's a fugn awful cover of Can's 'Mother Sky'. One word: Lawdamercy!

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No words...

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The Grateful Dead: spot the difference (16 magazine 10/67)

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Oh the fun to have been had back in the day being a fly on the wall in a crash pad full of hippies all tripping out of their gourds after I spiked their chai tea...
Wonder how many differences they would have come up with then...
(Thanx Stan!)

Niels Shoe Meulman: Calligraffiti (undon't)

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Gate 228 - an unauthorised exhibition in an abandoned house (Carlton/Melbourne 9AM 15/6/13)

Six Melbourne artists invite you to a run down, forgotten but beautiful house in Carlton. Artists involved have used aerosol, stencils, print making, illustration and installation based techniques...come and see from 9am this weekend how they've evolved the space.
Warning: Broken floor boards and general decay. Be mindful where you step.
Tom Civil - tomcivil.com/
Ryan McGennisken - facebook.com/ryanmcgennisken?fref=ts
Doctor - facebook.com/thedoctor.melbournestreetartist?fref=ts
Be Free - facebook.com/be.free.908
Suki - facebook.com/suki.art?fref=ts
Bon - bonbonbackwardsisnobnob.tumblr.com/
Info (address to be released this afternoon)

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COMING SOON: Alan Partridge - Alpha Papa

When Alan’s radio station, North Norfolk Digital, is taken over by a new media conglomerate, it sets in motion a hilarious chain of events which see Alan having to work with the police to defuse a potentially violent siege. In cinemas August 7th.

♪♫ Rip Rig & Panic - You're My Kind of Climate (7" Version)

Neneh & Andrea in London last week
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One of the greatest live bands. So many memories...solo Springer performance in York Cathedral, bunny hopping in a van being driven by Neneh around a Manchester car park, the night of the souped up speedy brain cells at the Primatarium in Kings X. The late and very lamented Sean Oliver (and our endless conversation about which jazz album was the best: he went for 'A Love Supreme' while I could never get past 'Spiritual Unity'...just wish that I still had all those live recordings I made of them. Oh well!
If you don't know them go out and buy the remastered and expanded editions of their three albums out now.

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