Sunday 27 June 2010

Lust For Laughs

Iggy Pop's concert rider funniest in rock history?

As if you need another reason to love Iggy Pop, the veteran rocker (and his band The Stooges) have the single most entertaining concert rider TSG has ever obtained. The document--all 18 pages of which you'll find below--describes Iggy's requirements in terms of amplifiers, security, lighting, stage set up, and dressing rooms. But unlike most similar documents, Iggy's rider is written in a rollicking, stream-of-consciousness fashion that delivers multiple laughs per page. Apparently written by roadie Jos Grain, the Iggy rider is peppered with witty gems, tasteless asides, and typos. For example, in describing how Iggy's dressing room should be made to "look less like a typical rock & roll dressing room," the rider suggests that promoters "just let someone loose with a little bit of artistic flair...Er, do you know any homosexuals?" Explaining the need for two heavy duty fans, Grain notes, "So that I can wear a scarf and pretend to be in a Bon Jovi video." Also, don't miss the backstage requirements of a Bob Hope impersonator and "a copy of USA Today that's got a story about morbidly obese people in it. Most amusing!" (18 pages)

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The Secret Life Of Toys...


via Mister Honk

"Arrogant" English anger world's media

The world's media were left stunned on Saturday after England's news briefing for Sunday's World Cup clash with Germany lasted barely five minutes and featured only questions taken from British TV reporters.
More than 250 journalists from around the world plus around 30 TV crews packed into the media tent at the Free State Stadium for the briefing with England coach Fabio Capello and captain Steven Gerrard.
Reporters, many of whom had travelled long distances to be at the briefing, left in anger after the FA's Head of Media Adrian Bevington took only eight questions from hand-picked reporters.
Giancarlo Galavotti, soccer correspondent of Italy's Gazzetta dello Sport who has reported on English soccer from London for more than 25 years, told Reuters: "That was typical. They do not seem to appreciate this is the World Cup, with the emphasis on the word 'World'.
"The idea that the English set-up is not the friendliest among the top teams is reinforced by this sort of arrogance.
"And this, despite the coach being able to answer in three languages: Italian, English and Spanish. The FA do not seem to think the rest of the world is important."
Jorge Luiz Rodrigues of Brazil's O Globo newspaper was stunned by what he saw.
"That was bad. This is the World Cup. This guy doesn't know what the World Cup is. He only asks for questions from his friends. This is not professional.
"If you go to Brazil you will have questions in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian.
"All the journalists have the same opportunity. And Brazil is five times champions, not once."

Bevington told Reuters afterwards: "We complied fully with FIFA's regulations by bringing the coach and a player, our captain, to the conference.
"Furthermore, and as agreed with FIFA, we had a further five minutes with English newspapers and a further five minutes with FIFA.com."
In the five minutes access allowed to the wider world, journalists learnt that manager Fabio Capello knew his team -- which he did not reveal -- and that skipper Gerrard was confident of victory.
Platitudes delivered, Bevington declared after five minutes and 12 seconds: "OK, everybody, thank you very much. I would like to invite the English Sunday newspapers to join us in a separate room."
One reporter sarcastically clapped and with that the England delegation swept out of the room.
Although German coach Joachim Loew failed to appear before the media on Saturday, he did speak to them for 45 minutes on Friday and the German FA, at least, gave reporters the chance to quiz goalkeeping coach Andreas Koepke for 30 minutes on their preparations for the game.

(Mike Collett - Reuters
Additional reporting by Angus MacSwan; Editing by Ossian Shine)

via The Guardian

DJ Akalepse - Props Vol.1


Rich Medina and DJ Akalepse, staples of the New York DJ community known worldwide for consistently bringing you a full spectrum of soul music, are taking their legendary Little Ricky's Rib Shack party from APT and bringing it to Le Poisson Rouge in 2010. Expect a party that is as much what is this song?, as it is I love this song, a party that is simultaneously classic, and brand new. DJ Akalepse is also running things for the neo-classic Truth & Soul Records label. Come find out for yourself why these guys have had one of the most highly consistent and successful weeknight parties NYC has ever seen, with this funky and highly soulful introductory mix called Props Vol.1...

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Why music blogs are closing...


thans to hh for the pic!

Saturday 26 June 2010

Chris Carter Mix

01. The Genetic Terrorists - Deactivated
02. Adrian Sherwood - Hari Up Hari
03. Amon Duul II - Archangel Thunderbird
04. The White Noise - Love Without Sound
05. Abba - Lay All Your Love On Me (HiLoSloMo Mix)
06. Delia Derbyshire - Ziwzih Ziwzih OO OO OO
07. Ambrose & His Orchestra - My Baby Said Yes
08. Delia Derbyshire - Restless Relays
09. Joy Electric - Monosynth
10. Basil Kirchin - Communication
11. April March - Flashback Part II
12. Delia Derbyshire - Untitled (1969)
13. Aleksi Virta - Whirlwind Pistols Dub
14. Delia Derbyshire - Psychedelian Waltz
15. Laurie Johnson - Happy Go Lively
16. Can - Spoon
17. Basil Kirchin - Heavy Machinery
18. Barry Gray - UFO Theme (Kraggs Mix)
19. Jah Wobble - Get Carter
20. Kraftwerk - Endlos Endlos

Patti Smith by Joseph O'Connor

Patti Smith
 
Patti Smith. Photograph: © Lynn Goldsmith/Corbis
On my 14th birthday, I bought a record that changed my life. I had never heard of the artist. It was the album sleeve that captivated me. It showed a woman of mournfully beautiful gauntness, jacket draped over her shoulder. It was like a still from a French movie too cool to be made. The record was Horses by Patti Smith.
I had never seen anyone who looked quite like her. A lovesick Yeats wrote that Maude Gonne had "beauty like a tightened bow", and the old priest who taught us English (and who had once seen Gonne on a Dublin street) would spend eternities explaining the simile. But when I saw that photograph, I knew what it meant.
The first time I heard Smith singing is one of the defining moments of my life. It was East Village garage meets the sulphur of the blues. And that voice like a whip-crack: impish, transgressive, swooping from a mutter to a scream. She'd snarl like an angry Dylan or croon with tenderness, punctuating Lenny Kaye's guitar work with murmured incantations.
The rebels of culture haunted her work. Rimbaud, Jimi Hendrix, Virginia Woolf and The Who, Kerouac, Ginsberg, Baudelaire, John Lennon: they loomed behind her vision. Maddening, gorgeous, insolent, unique, she has been a poet, an acclaimed photographer, a memoirist, a mother, perhaps the last truly uncompromised artist in rock music. At 63, she's still making work of importance and beauty. She's been my hero for three decades. I don't know what I'd have done without her.

Free LSD included....


via thisisnthappiness

Rasta Rock - 2009 roots & digital stylee


01) Courtney John - Lucky Man (Peckings - Lucky Man)
02) Lady Lex - Don't Know Why (Peckings - Lucky Man)
03) Jah Faith - No Bother Grumble (Jan-Disc)
04) Black Emeralds - Humble Dub (Jan-Disc)
05) Mykal Rose - Hypocrites Warning (Heartical - Tonight)
06) General Levy - Life Hard (Heartical - Tonight)
07) Basque Dub Foundation - Midnight Organ (Heartical - Tonight)
08) Don Carlos & Million Stylez - World Crisis (Ink A Link)
09) Prezident Brown - Rasta Rock (African Beat - Bubbler)
10) Perfect - Can't Touch Me (African Beat - Bubbler)
11) Burro Banton - Too Dutty (African Beat - Bubbler)
12) Bubbler Riddim Version (African Beat - Bubbler)
13) Lukie D - Send Dem Come (Maximum Sound - Praise Jahovia)
14) Fantan Mojah feat Zareb - Good Meditation (Maximum Sound - Praise Jahovia)
15) Mr Vegas & Konshens - Help Me Praise Jahovia (Maximum Sound - Praise Jahovia)
16) Busy Signal - Uniform Bad Bwoy (Maximum Sound - Praise Jahovia)
17) Million Stylez & Joey Fever - Young Gunz (Necessary Mayhem - Come Down)
18) Tippa Irie - Tippa On Da Mic (Necessary Mayhem - Come Down)
19) Papa Levi - Speed Rappin' (Necessary Mayhem - Come Down)
20) Pinchers - Bandelero (Necessary Mayhem - Come Down)
21) Mr Williamz - Real General (Necessary Mayhem - Come Down)
22) Joey Fever - Back With A Blast (Fast Forward - Love My)
23) Everton Chambers - Walk In Peace (Fast Forward - Love My)
24) Samuel Lancine - They Don't Know (Fast Forward - Love My)
25) Love My Riddim Version (Fast Forward - Love My)
26) General Levy - Jah Jah Bless (SouLove - Jah Jah Bless)
27) ASK - Burnin Babylon (SouLove - Jah Jah Bless)
28) Jah Melodie - Seek King Ras Tafari (Roots Tribe)
29) Slimmah Sound - Dub Version (Roots Tribe)
30) Luciano - Protect I Jah (Silly Walks Discotheque - Aspire)
31) Lutan Fyah - Wreckage (Silly Walks Discotheque - Aspire)
32) Million Stylez - Born In The System (Bassrunner - Prison Break)
33) Fantan Mojah - Hot (Bassrunner - Prison Break)
34) Mykal Rose - Fight I Down (Bassrunner - Prison Break)
35) Chezidek - Vampire (Massive B - Declaration Of Rights)
36) Burro Banton - What U Fightin For (Massive B - Declaration Of Rights)
37) Kyle Sicarius - Tribulation (Roots Tribe)
38) Slimmah Sound - Tribulation Dub (Roots Tribe)
39) Barry Issac - Swell Headed (Reggae On Top)
40) Reggae On Top All Stars - Swell Headed Dub (Reggae On Top)

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England v Germany: Time for a new chapter to be written

Argie will 'take it up the arse' for WC win


Carlos Bilardo, the 71-year-old general manager of Argentina (pictured left), has made an unusual promise to whoever brings World Cup glory to his country.
Guardian reporter Sid Lowe has quoted the former international as saying, "If Argentina win the World Cup I'll let whoever scores the winning goal do me up the arse."
Bilardo was manager of Argentina when they won the trophy in 1986 thanks in part to a sparkling performance from current manager Diego Maradona.
It is not clear if Maradona was rewarded in any way by Bilardo for his display.
Meanwhile, Argentina star Lionel Messi has said he is ‘sure’ his county can go all the way at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
The Fifa World Player of the Year told Fifa’s official website, “My dream is to win it, come what may.”
He continued, “I imagine myself reaching the final, winning it and lifting the cup. How we will reach there, I have not even thought about it, but I am sure we will win it.”
Argentina struggled in the qualifiers and have not been heavily backed to win the tournament. However, Messi believes it would be a mistake to write-off his national side.
The forward added, “The qualifiers are behind us, for one reason or another we had to make a big effort, but this is totally distinct.
“I think it is normal that Argentina are a title contender, we have great players and we are a big national team that are always fighting for titles."
Messi was quick to praise manager Diego Maradona saying his experience of World Cups would prove invaluable.
The Barca player continued, “We have a lot of faith and hope, and obviously Diego's experience will be essential.”

from joe.ie

Like Father like son!

Statue honoring 'Carlos "el pibe" Valderrama' in Santa Marta, Colombia