Tuesday 11 November 2014
Eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month
In Memory of
2766529, 6th Bn., Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
who died age 20
on 24 April 1944
Son of Robert Arthur and Catherine Haddock,
of Orrell, Bootle, Lancashire.
Remembered with honour
CASSINO WAR CEMETERY
[REPOST]
Monday 10 November 2014
Sunday 9 November 2014
Blixa Bargeld: Pandora's Music Box Rotterdam (October 1985)
Held in De Doelen, on entering the complex in 1985 you were greeted by a woman in a fish tank of blue liquid dispensing cups of the stuff...
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Funnily enough a year ago almost to the day I was being reminded of this fest as I was staying with Simon Fisher Turner's ex wife in Tasmania and she played keyboards with Simon at this. (They got to use the Butthole's strobe doncha'know...)
It was also nice to catch up with a few old friends from London who were playing like Rolo from The Woodentops and there was supposed to be two old band mates of mine playing with the Shockheaded Peters and when I saw Karl I asked about 'so-and-so' and was told that 'if I ever mentioned that khunt's name again...' I guess that particular line up didn't come to an end over musical differences.
There was about an hour to kill between the end of the night and the first train back to Amsterdam on the Sunday morning and I just remember people sitting absolutely gobsmacked at the great music and weird wonders that we had all been a party to.
Unfortunately the '84 event is mostly lost in my memory bank tho I still have somewhere my backstage laminated pass and while catching up with a friend of mine who was The Fall manager at the time I do remember MES being particularly volatile at the time.
Here are the lineups for
1983
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Saturday 8 November 2014
The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz
The film follows the story of programming prodigy and information activist Aaron Swartz. From Swartz's help in the development of the basic internet protocol RSS to his co-founding of Reddit, his fingerprints are all over the internet. But it was Swartz's groundbreaking work in social justice and political organizing combined with his aggressive approach to information access that ensnared him in a two-year legal nightmare. It was a battle that ended with the taking of his own life at the age of 26. Aaron's story touched a nerve with people far beyond the online communities in which he was a celebrity. This film is a personal story about what we lose when we are tone deaf about technology and its relationship to our civil liberties.
Film by Brian Knappenberger - Luminant Media
Friday 7 November 2014
Democracy
A democracy is allowing people to speak freely even if you disagree with every fugn word they are saying
It's the foundation stone that democracy is built on
...and allowing one man to have power of veto who does and doesn't come into this country down to his moral judgements, well man that's a dangerous and slippery slope to travel down
It's the foundation stone that democracy is built on
...and allowing one man to have power of veto who does and doesn't come into this country down to his moral judgements, well man that's a dangerous and slippery slope to travel down
Kurdish Mix
As a music fan, you occasionally chance across a resource on the web that makes your heart leap with joy because of the numerous new sonic pathways it opens up . That is exactly what happened when Spanish compiler Manuel Sánchez sent me a link to his awesome DJ K-Sets web page. This is one of the best sets of Middle Eastern tapes I’ve come across, and the names of the mixes are enough to tantalise alone: Canaanite Galaxy; Destroy Route; Tel Aviv Bus Station; Tehran Electro Tunes; Iberia Ancient Songs … I’ll certainly be revisiting this page until I’ve soaked up each and every mix. The first selection that Manuel flagged up to me was the one below, the Popular Kurdish Cassette mix. He said: “From 2005 to 2010 I was compiling Kurdish tapes sourced from around Istanbul, Berlin and Aleppo in Syria. I made this mixtape on video to illustrate the tracks with their covers. Not many people have heard this mixtape, and now, when the progressive Kurdish citadel of Kobani is being attacked by the international jihadis, it could be a good moment to show western audiences some aspects of the Kurdish people through their daily music.” I couldn’t agree more - John Doran
The Yardbirds - I'm Waiting For My Man
From the final U.S. tour in the spring and summer of 1968. Recorded at the Shrine Exposition Hall in L.A. Personnel are Keith Relf (vocals & harp), Chris Dreja (bass), Jim McCarty (vocals & drums) and Jimmy Page (guitar)
So The Rolling Stones gig at Hanging Rock is cancelled again
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