Wednesday 29 February 2012

Liar. Liar. Pants on fire...

Psychic TV - Black (Live at the Subterrania Club, London March 1991)

Dangerous Minds have just put up a much earlier 1983 gig by Psychic TV...contrast and compare (I certainly know which I prefer). Was lucky enough to catch quite a few gigs including the debut at The Final Academy in 1982 thru to Amsterdam in 85 or 86...

I enjoy some of the Acid House type vibe releases they put out but I do think that Genesis really had become a total caricature of a caricature by this time (and as for now? Well I shall be polite and say nothing...)
(Thanx to Fred G for the logo!)

The Slits Live at The Vortex (1977)

Bonus:

Man Next Door - Berlin 1981
(This was the line up that had Bruce Smith on drums. Neneh Cherry on backing vocals and Steve Beresford on keyboards)

Viv Albertine interviewed by Richard Skinner while promoting the album Cut (Rock On 15/9/79)

♥

Republicans invite torture architect to testify in favor of indefinite detention

(Thanx GKB!)

Coping with Cupid - extract (1991)

Viv Albertine of punk legends The Slits made this agreeably loopy short for the BFI in 1991. Three blonde extra-terrestrial investigators have just 48 hours to find love on Earth whilst trying to avoid the deadly "loneliness virus". They are aided on their quest by a number of talking heads, including filmmaker/musician Don Letts, feminist Shere Hite, journalist Ros Coward and members of the public.
Fancy seeing you here Fifi!!!
If Love

♪♫ Gotye - Easy Way Out

Bonus:

Somebody That I Used To Know (Dr. Eargasm Remix)

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Ain't that the truth #7...

Via
(Thanx David!)

Wholly Communion (Peter Whitehead 1965)

Wholly Communion is a short documentary film made in 1965 by British film-maker Peter Whitehead. It was filmed at the Royal Albert Hall, London, and documents a poetry event held on 11 June 1965 called the International Poetry Incarnation. It features poetry readings by Beat poets from the UK and U.S., including Allen Ginsberg, Michael Horovitz and Adrian Mitchell. The event was hosted by everyone's favourite sixties Scottish sometime-situationist beat junkie, Alexander Trocchi. Peter Whitehead's first independently produced film, won the Gold Medal at the prestigious Mannheim Documentary Film Festival 1966, and was shown at Film Festivals round the world. It was England's first cinema-verite documentary film - filmed with a silent Eclair camera - 'one of the audience' - at the legendary, spontaneous International Poetry Incarnation at the Albert Hall, London, 11th June 1965 - 7000 people unexpectedly filled the hall to listen to Beat poets from America - making the event into the first major "Happening".