Tuesday 2 June 2015

Kama Sutra Screw Up Nails Qatar Editor

Monday 1 June 2015

The Battle of the Beanfield: The violent new-age traveller clash with police at Stonehenge remembered 30 years on

Giant Sand - Live @Primavera Sound 2015

Don't blame for Courtney Love: Lydia Lunch on No Wave, Eno, rent strikes & legacy

Psychic TV short film directed by Genesis P'Orridge in Beck Road in 1984


With Paula P'Orridge & John Gosling

LoneLady - VPRO Session

Fury Road



A graphic tale: the visual effects of Mad Max: Fury Road

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The Editing of MAD MAX: Fury Road

...and finally here's nine and a half minutes I won't get back again

Joni Mitchell on Illusions

The Thurston Moore Band - Live @Primavera Sound (2015)

Woman donates Apple I computer to recycling center-but doesn't realize it's worth $200,000

Algiers - Live Deezer Session


Black Eunuch
Remains
Blood

Crass interview at Dial House in 1984

There is a twenty three second interruption to this Crass interview. Footage of the M11 motorway. This interruption in the footage comes in at 3.17 and lasts until 3.40

Saturday 30 May 2015

What If ‘The Wire’ Were Set in Ramallah?

Richard Treece R.I.P.

Founding member of Help Yourself Richard Treece, who also played with The Tyla Gang, The Neutrons and Green Ray has been found dead after failing to show up for a gig

The Untold Story of Silk Road

Part 1

Part 2

Ross Ulbricht sentenced to life in prison

Miley Cyrus & Melanie - Look What They've Done To My Song Ma


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Founded by Miley Cyrus, The Happy Hippie Foundation is a nonprofit organization that rallies young people to fight injustice facing homeless youth, LGBT youth, and other vulnerable populations.
Click here to find out more: http://happyhippies.org
You just know this is not going to end well

Mark Fisher: The Political Aesthetics of Postcapitalism / Methodologies of Valorization

Shane MacGowan is now a 'mature' role model

'A healthy & positive lifestyle'
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Wiley: The Eski Boy

HERE

Sepp Blatter defends FIFA at the Oxford Union in 2013


Full video HERE

Friday 29 May 2015

F.I.F.A. Corruption



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23 Skidoo - Amfunkamine (Rehearsal 1981)


Fritz has just uploaded this excerpt from a rehearsal in the shed behind Honky Tonk Records in Kentish Town, London in 1981. Skidoo were Fritz, Sam, Thom, Alex & Johnny 
I could well have been working in the shop at front at the very same time

A very powerful anti rape message from 2003

The ad is a double page with the pages partially stuck together. if you pull them apart it reveals the line “if you have to use force, it’s rape”.
The pro bono ad was done by Lowe Bull Calvert Pace in 2003 for South Africa for POWA (People Opposing Women Abuse) and recieved a Cannes Lion Press Silver award
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In Memorium


Rocco Acerra (29)
Bruno Balli (50)
Alfons Bos
Giancarlo Bruschera (21)
Andrea Casula (11)
Giovanni Casula (44)
Nino Cerrullo (24)
Willy Chielens
Giuseppina Conto (17)
Dirk Daenicky
Dionisio Fabbro (51)
Jaques Francois
Eugenio Gagliano (35)
Francesco Galli (25)
Giancarlo Gonnelli (20)
Alberto Guarini (21)
Giavacchino Landinni (50)
Roberto Lorenzini (31)
Barbara in Margiotta Lusci (58)
Franco Martelli (46)
Loris Massore (28)
Gianni Mastroiaca (20)
Sergio Bastino Mazzino (38)
Luciano Rocco Papaluca (38)
Bento Pistalato (50)
Patrick Radcliffe
Demenico Ragazzi (44)
Antonio Ragnanese (29)
Claude Robert
Mario Ronchi (43)
Domencio Russo (28)
Tarcisio Salvi (49)
Gianfranco Sarto (47)
Mario Spanu (41)
Amedeo Giuseppe Spolaore (55)
Tarcisio Venturin (23)
Jean Michel Walla
Claudio Zavaroni (28)
Luigi Pidone (31)



I was born in Liverpool and am a lifelong Liverpool supporter. Thirty years ago I spent the day travelling from Amsterdam to Liverpool via Belgium and then watched the Huysel tragedy unfold on my Nan's TV. 
My love for the 'beautiful game' has never been the same since

Thursday 28 May 2015

The end of Odd Future?


Court of Public Opinion: The Trial of Bill Cosby (Inside Amy Schumer)


Genius!

Dub on Air with Dennis Bovell (Soho Radio 17/05/15)


Tracklist

Future Sound of Mzansi (Part 2)


Part two of Spoek Mathambo and Lebogang Rasethaba's 'Future Sound of Mzansi' explores questions of race and authenticity in South African electronic music. Featuring a colorful cast of producers, singers, and dancers, this episode looks at the long shadow that apartheid has cast on South African music and social politics
Part 1 HERE

Wednesday 27 May 2015

SoulCircuit - Rolling With Me (I Got Love)

The Electric Knife Orchestra Presents 'Stayin' Alive'


Sixteen knives and one meat cleaver brought to life to perform the Bee Gee’s hit Stayin’ Alive
neilmendoza.com
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Stanley Donwood

Carriageworks Sydney
Thanks Stan

ROUND TWO: Ramzan Kadyrov VS 'The Family'

Soon on the screens of your television sets and movie theaters you will see a film 'WHO DOES NOT UNDERSTAND WILL GET IT.'This is an extremely topical picture, in which after extended negotiations, I agreed to play the role of the main hero. Some scenes have already been filmed. The director is the author of famous Hollywood films. Also appearing in the film are world-famous first-class stars. The authors are confident that the film will have enormous success.
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Tuesday 26 May 2015

John Lydon and Miranda Sawyer QandA (100 Club April 26 2015)


The 100 Club has changed somewhat since I worked there

Boris - Pink / Statement



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Damn! I wish I'd had the money to get a ticket to see them at The Corner this coming Saturday

Rocko: Bushwick Brooklyn New York

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Algiers - Algiers (Albumstream)

Info
Tracklist:
Remains
Claudette
And When You Fall
Blood
Old Girl
Irony, Utility, Pretext
But She Was Not Flying
Black Eunuch
Games
In Parallax
Untitled
(Released June 2 on Matador)
LISTEN
By far and away my most eagerly awaited release of the year. Absolutely superb. The fourth member is drummer Matt Tong (of Bloc Party)

INDECLINE: This Land Is Your Land

Ad Break: Australia 1973