“I guess if you insult 1.5 billion people chances are one or two of them will kill you,” wrote Mohamed Vall Salem, who reported for Al Jazeera’s Arab-language channel before joining its English wing in 2006. “And I guess if you encourage people to go on insulting 1.5 billion people about their most sacred icons then you just want more killings because as I said in 1.5 billion there will remain some fools who don’t abide by the laws or know about free speech"I Am Not Charlie
Tuesday 13 January 2015
Words of Wisdom
Monday 12 January 2015
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An 'expert' apologises
Steven Emerson on Birmingham row: 'I deserve what I got'
At least Steve Emerson who runs the Investigative Project on Terrorism didn't try and deflect the blame onto others. He might have to think about a new career though. Maybe not as here's another time he got it spectacularly wrong and then there is this
Black Cab - Live @John Curtin Hotel Melbourne (11/1/15)
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(An all covers set)
Tracklist:
The Living End (JAMC)
Frankie Teardrop (Suicide)
Dream Baby Dream (Suicide)
5-8-6 (New Order)
Ghost Rider (Suicide)
Robert Crumb on the Paris shootings
I showed it to her, and she said, “Oh, my God, we’re going to have to go into hiding.” [Laughs.] So, then Aline had this idea for another cartoon, which we also sent to Liberation, a collaboration, that’s showing her looking at the drawing saying, “Oh, my God, they’re going to come after us! This is terrible…I want to live to see my grandchildren!” And then she has me saying, “Well, it’s not that bad. And, besides, they’ve killed enough cartoonists, maybe they’ve gotten it out of their system.”
Sunday 11 January 2015
Brinsley Schwarz - Cruel To Be Kind
On a bit of a pub rock kick after just watching the Beeb's 70's rock shows. The BBC, however, said Cruel To Be Kind was a Brinsley's B side...
1 We Can Mess Around (Lowe) Nick Lowe - Lead Vox
2 Cruel To Be Kind (Lowe/Gomm) Nick Lowe - Lead Vox
3 As Lovers Do (Lowe) Nick Lowe - Lead Vox
4 I'll Take Good Care Of You (Berns/Ragavoy) Nick Lowe - Lead Vox
5 Hey Baby (There Playing Our Song) (Holvay & Beisber) Ian Gomm - Lead Vox
6 Do The Cod (The Thirty Pounder) (Lowe/Andrews/Gomm/Rankin/Schwarz) Instrumental
7 God Bless (Whoever Made You) (Lowe/Gomm) Ian Gomm - Lead Vox
8 Everybody (T.Rowe) Ian Gomm - Lead Vox
9 Private Number (T.Jones/W.Bell) Bob Andrews and Ian Gomm - Lead Vox
10 Give Me Back My Love (Lowe/Gomm) Nick Lowe - Lead Vox
11 It's All Over Now (B.Womack) Ian Gomm - Lead Vox
There does appear to be another version of Brinsley Schwarz doing Cruel on an album of live and studio sessions recorded for the BBC
Pete Frame's account of the disastrous Brinsley Schwarz American launch (Zigzag 1970)
...and the winner of the 2015 'Humblebrag o'the Year' goes to...
- Ben Frost...But you get into dangerous territory when you start thinking about your audience.
I don’t want Michael Gira thinking about me when he makes records. I don’t want Nick Cave wondering how I’m going to feel when he starts working on something. You’ll be cheating me. I just want it to be exactly what it is you want it to be. At least, that way it’s honest.
Saturday 10 January 2015
Gnidrolog: Check out this obscure 1970's UK prog group
...well actually don't! The reason some records are obscure is that they are unmitigated crap. Not even a 5.1 surroundsound version and smoking a ton of weed would make these sound any better. Gnidrolog's Goldring brothers then went on to form the second worst ever band 'The Pork Dukes' after complaining how inept punk musicians were.
'Proper' musicians eh?
See also Bo Hannson's 'Lord of The Rings'
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