Kathy Acker and Peter Wollen in discussion (ICA London 8/5/86)

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Kathy Acker - Redoing Childhood (1999)

Tracklist:
1 President Bush
2 Miss Savage's School For Girls
3 The Temple Of Eros
4 A Country That I've Never Seen
5 I Will Stay With You Tonight
6 Hotel Etoile Rouge
7 Outside The Law, Which Is Language
8 The Female Doctor
9 Hotel Of Lilac Eyes
10 Face To Face With Death
Producer: Hal Wilner
Musicians: David Cunningham (keyboards), Ralph Carney (reeds), Joe Gore (guitar),
Steve Bernstein (trumpet), Kenny Wollesen (drums), Tribe 8 (backingband)
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Robert Creeley interviews Kathy Acker in 1979

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The Flaming Lips - Cloud Taste Metallic (First Avenue Minneapolis 24/2/15)

The Teardrop Explodes - When I Dream

The Teardrop Explodes: How we made Reward

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Ikue Mori on life after No Wave

The Teardrop Explodes - Tiny Children (parjo01 re-edit)

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Kim Gordon: By the Book

Mbongwana Star - Malukayi

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Baba Commandant & The Mandingo Band - Juguya

Truth

Why racism is not backed by science

Star Wars Desert Rave in Tunisia

The Dunes Electroniques dance festival opens to the mellow beats of one of Tunisia’s biggest up-and-coming DJs on a stage planted in the middle of the Sahara. It is a surreal sight. The festival setting is cocooned by sand dunes, and the backstage area is the film set for the town of Mos Espa on the fictional planet of Tatooine.The “Star Wars” films used southern Tunisia as their dusty backdrop, borrowing heavily from traditional Berber fashion and architecture. Of course, Mos Espa is a made-up name. Tunisians call the place where the festival is being held Ong Jemal (“neck of the camel”), near the villages of Nefta and Tozeur, which lie on the edge of the vast Chott el-Gharsa salt lake.But some in the local crowd embrace the “Star Wars” theme, donning Darth Vader masks or sporting Princess Leia hair. Some dancers opt for selfie sticks to wave in the air; others brandish lightsabers.At first glance, it could be a dance festival anywhere in the world, but it’s distinctively Tunisian. Hipsters from the capital dance alongside locals wearing traditional burnooses, the long brown wool cloaks well known to “Star Wars” fans, over their jeans. The clash of modern with the old at the unusual event strikes a chord with some of the cultural shifts, economic issues and political transitions that Tunisia is facing in tumultuous times...

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Heroin

Heroin has rightly earned a sulphurous reputation for destroying the lives of thousands upon thousands of people, killing many - including scores of important artists, writers and musicians. There is, though, another story to heroin. In this programme, Professor Andrew Hussey sets out to explore the extent to which it's possible to say that the drug has a particular effect on the creative output of those who have been heavily involved in using heroin, and before it, opium. He argues that while heroin won't make somebody creative who wouldn't otherwise have been, its impact on an individual's perception of time and space can be seen to modify the work of addicts and former addicts. He'll talk with, among others, author Will Self and Christiane F., whose book about her own heroin use in Berlin became a cult classic in the 1970s and 1980s, and hear from pianist James Young about the way heroin's influence can be witnessed across the works of such disparate figures as Berlioz, Bill Evans and Nico. The programme in no way seeks to glamorise heroin use, it simply addresses the question of how artists who've used the drug have been influenced as a result
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Heroin: art and culture's last taboo

No one could see the colour blue until modern times

Karl Ove Knausgaard: Travels Through North America

Joy Division - The Documentary (Grant Gee 2007)

Black Cab - Supermadchen (Live At PBS 2/15)

Ad Break: Leonard Nimoy for Magnavision Laserdisc (1981)

John Martyn - Solid Air (Mojo Filter Fluid Earth Reprise)

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Roger Ballen: Platteland (South Bank Show 1995)

Vin Gordon

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Kojo Hoy / Kojo Dub

Frank Sinatra's 78RPM Seeburg Home Jukebox For Sale

$200,000

What ISIS Really Wants

Banksy in Gaza

Philip K. Dick On Fine-Tuning Your Bullshit Meter To Spot 'Pseudo-Realities'

Gregory Stephenson: Talking With The Man Who Let The Mice In - Two Visits With Brion Gysin

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Parliament-Funkadelic - Live @Capitol Theatre Passaic NJ (6/11/78)

0:00:00 - James Wesley Jackson's opening monologue & band intros
0:06:58 - Uncle Jam
0:12:03 - Cholly (Funk Gettin' Ready To Roll) / I Got A Thing, You Got A Thing, Everybody's Got A Thing
0:33:27 - Cosmic Slop
0:41:06 - Give Up The Funk / Night Of The Thumpasorus Peoples
1:00:24 - Red Hot Mama
1:10:04 - Into You
1:17:14 - Standing On The Verge Of Getting It On / Tyrone Lampkin drum solo / Standing On The Verge Of Getting It On (reprise)
1:34:19 - Maggot Brain
1:47:04 - One Nation Under A Groove
2:12:54 - Mothership Connection / Swing Down, Sweet Chariot
2:33:02 - Flash Light
3:01:24 - One Nation Under A Groove (Reprise)
Personnel:
George Clinton - vocals
Michael Hampton - guitar
Garry Shider - guitar, vocals
Cordell "Boogie" Mosson Jr. - bass
William "Billy Bass" Nelson Jr. - bass
Bernie Worrell - keyboards
Walter "Junie" Morrison - keyboards
Tyrone Lampkin - drums
James Wesley Jackson - vocals
Grady Thomas - vocals
Calvin "Thang" Simon - vocals
Dawn Silva - vocals
Lynn Mabry - vocals
On the twelfth of December 1978 I caught this show at the Hammersmith Odeon in London. My life has never been the same since

Tales of Dr. Funkenstein

Directed by Don Letts
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Genesis P'Orridge & Marc Almond

...and early eighties swastika

Abbottsolutely Hopeless

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Say it with flowers

Vegetable Man

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Jah Shaka ft Mafia and Fluxy mixed by Adrian Sherwood - Live @Garance Reggae Festival France (7/14)

Jah Shaka - Live @Arklow Rd Deptford (2/7/86)

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youANDme - DJ Sets

Keith Hudson - The Dub Dentist Mix

1.Darkest Night On A Wet Looking Road - Keith Hudson
2.Rhodesia - Alton Ellis
3.Barrabas Dub - Keith Hudson
4.In the Burning Sun (Jah Ho) - Bunny Gale
5.Troubles - Keith Hudson And The Soul Syndicate
6.Entering the Dragon (Blackbelt Jones Version) - Soul Syndicate
7.Turn the Heater On - Keith Hudson
8.Big Bad Boy - Alton Ellis
9.Peter & Judas - Earl Flute & Horace Andy
10.Satan Side (aka Theme From Satan Side) - Keith Hudson / The Chuckles
11.War war - Soul Syndicate
12.Don't Think About Dub - King Tubbys & The Mafia All Stars
13.Jean You Change Everything - Keith Hudson
14.Shades Of Hudson - Dennis Alcapone
15.My Eyes Are Red Dub - Keith Hudson
16.Class & Subject - Keith Hudson
17.My Nocturne - Keith Hudson
18.Civilisation - Keith Hudson
19.Nah Skin Up - Keith Hudson
20.Riot - Dizzy & The Soul Syndicate
21.The Exile Song (Adisababa) - Skiddy & Detroit
22.Michael Talbot Affair - Keith Hudson