Saturday 23 May 2009
Friday 22 May 2009
The Drones (Off The Record) @ 'Aquarium Drunkard'
Over at 'Aquarium Drunkard' The Drones reflect on their city of residence (Melbourne in this case) and choose a handful of places they could not live without — be them bookstores, bars, restaurants or vistas."The Weather :: Though the summers get pretty warm, the other three seasons are more or less on the mild to freezing side, which means I get to rug up. I hate wearing shorts...
Joe’s Shoe Store :: This is my local bar. Everyone needs to have a local. Life is not complete without one. I can go into that place, not even open my mouth and still be served exactly what I was feeling like at the time. Also, the folks that run the place are as unruly as the unruliest of customers, so the mood is always right. One minute you’re talking to them about the middle-east crisis, the next you’re trying to talk them down off the bar and to put their clothes back on. How I miss it, when I’m away."
(One of my locals!)
Full story here.
The Drones - Minotaur
REPOST - The Kid With The Replaceable Head
Photograph by David Shankbone
Here are 'The Kid With The Replaceable Head' and 'I'm your Man' by Richard Hell & the Voidoids as produced by Nick Lowe and released on Radar Records in 1979.
If anyone has a copy of the piece Richard Hell wrote on David Johansen for Lisa Robinson's 'Hit Parader' back in 1975/6 could they please get in touch with me.
It is almost Hell's manifesto about giving not 100 or 200% to rock'n'roll but 400%!
It was not reprinted in 'Hot & Cold'.
Cabaret Voltaire/New Order collaboration (Western Works Sheffield 07-09-80) FLAC
'Are You Ready Are You Ready Are You Ready For This?'Peter Hook - Bass
Bernard Sumner - Guitar (and "whooping" in the background)
Stephen Morris - Simmons Drums, and the same Dr Rhythm drum machine used on Truth
Rob Gretton - Vocals
Various Cabs - sonic alterations
01 Dreams Never End (mix 1, quieter guitars)
02 Dreams Never End (mix 2, louder guitars)
03 Homage
04 Ceremony
05 Truth
06 Are You Ready Are You Ready Are You Ready For This?
"Kind souls, who wish to remain anonymous rescued this material from a 1/4" reel of tape that was up for auction on eBay, advertised as something else, and it was only in the reel transfer that it was discovered what it actually contained. It's been theorized that if this is not the master reel itself from the studio mixdown sessions, it's at the very least a direct, professional copy of it. The band could release this today, as-is. So I am honored to present it here..."
Full story and download at:
The Power of Independent Trucking
with more details here.
(Via 'Everything starts with an A')
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.
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.
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