Wednesday 23 May 2012

The Who live at the Isle of Wight Festival (1970)


Bonus:
Live 1974

Personally I blame my tinnitus on standing in front of the HUGE PA at The Who live at Parkhead back in 1976...

Ad Break (Swag Snowboarding Apparel blu r magazine 1994)

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Lithogragh by Mark Sgarbossa

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Tuesday 22 May 2012

Where I was 35 years ago tonight

Mentioned this once or twice before...
My old age haze did make me think that the Ramones/Talking Heads gig was on the Friday instead of the Saturday though. My old friend Allan recently revisited this spectacular weekend once again and who can blame him?
I guess you had to have been there.

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♪♫ Jesca Hoop - Born To

OHM Dedication Series #2: JD Twitch presents Adrian Sherwood

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In my late teens and early 20s, Adrian Sherwood's work impacted on me more than anything I had previously heard and made me think about sonic possibilities in a completely new way. I would buy any record he had been involved with unheard and got into a lot of other artists purely because he had been involved with making their records. Indeed, my nom de plume "Twitch" came from a record he produced and our Optimo slogan "We Love Your Ears" came from the sleeve of a record he remixed. I hadn't listened to a lot of these records for many, many years and fell in love with them all over again while putting this together. It was a complete labour of love to do and a revelation to hear how fresh and wild this music still sounds."
This mix is the first half of a three hour mix by JD Twitch. This half "focuses on his more electronic wild side (Tackhead, Fats Comet, Keith LeBlanc etc.)" while the second half is dedicated to his dub work with the likes of Creation Rebel. Find that here: Optimo Podcast 12 - Adrian Sherwood On U Sound mix part 2 (dub) by JD Twitch

JD Twitch Meets Adrian Sherwood (Part 2)

'Blame these 4 men for the Beatnik horror - Their cult of despair is driving the teenagers to violence'

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The Sunday People, 7 August 1960, reprinted in The Kerouac Connection 2 (1984), pp. 6-7
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Monday 21 May 2012



As soldiers guard them, Israeli settlers attack Palestinian village, shooting one

Postcard From Chicago

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New James Bond - Skyfall (Teaser Trailer)

Bob Dylan: 'Johnny was and is the North Star, you could guide your ship by him'

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The Faces - Live (1972)


Didn't like much by The Bee Gees but they knew the craft inside out, big respect. Goodbye Robin, we love this one

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