Art by Clementine Melois
The Jam: Live At Rockpalast 1980
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Tuesday 27 October 2015
Peter Christopherson - Time Machines II (Albumstream)
THE PRESENT- Sleazy
...was my suggestion to Jimmy Page for the title of the album Led Zeppelin later called Presence (an infinitely less interesting variation, without the multiple meanings, in my view).
However, as I get older, it becomes clear that the old adage "Be Here Now" is a wise one. The present moment, though only a single fold-in-time away from what has gone before and is yet to come, is the only moment that really matters.
Time Machines remains one of the Coil album's about which I get the most mail. Despite its lack of melody or lyrics, its Power lies in the way it Changes the State of the listener.
Usually our elected authorities try to discourage, tax beyond reason, or even forbid outright, the average citizen from having control of his own State.
Pictures, moving or otherwise, that Change the State of the viewer are tightly controlled, not to mention the ingestion of unprescribed or unlicensed substances, even if you picked, grew or synthesised them yourself.
Even unregulated religious or physical practices, straying too far from the safety of the middle of "the bell-curve" of what's currently considered acceptable, are frowned upon, and often illegal.
So far, few have identified the potential of sound as a possible Changer of State (other than chanting Holy Men of all creeds across the aeons), and of course the Military (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_weapon) if you need more.)
The last few years have seen me becoming more interested in changing state (legally obviously) not as a route to intoxication, leading to loss of Awareness of the Present Moment, but as way of opening doors to new visions, capabilities and knowledge.
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Coil - Colour Sound Oblivion (16 DVD Boxset Free Download)
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DVD 15 & 16
DVD1
Air Gallery, London, 1983-08-24 (CSO 1)
Performer – Jhonn Balance, John Gosling
Performer [Spoken Words] – Marc
Recorded by – Cerith Wyn Evans
DVD2
Sonar, Barcelona, 2000-06-17 (CSO 2)
Performer – Jhonn Balance, Ossian Brown, Peter Christopherson, Thighpaulsandra, Bill Breeze
Recorded by – Fabijan Rainer, Jon Whitney
DVD3
Convergence, New York, 2001-08-18 (CSO 3)
Performer – Danny McKernan, Jhonn Balance, Martin Schellard, Matthew Gibson, Ossian Brown, Peter Christopherson, Thighpaulsandra, Tom Edwards
Recorded by – Don Poe
DVD4
DK Gorbunova, Moscow, 2001-09-15 (CSO 4)
Cameraman – Игорь Якимов, Сергей Дышук
Coordinator – Митя Самойлов
Directed By, Film Editor – Дмитрий Великанов
Executive Producer – Игорь Тонких
Mixed By [Audiomix] – Russell Polden
Performer – John Balance, Peter Christopherson, Thighpaulsandra, Tom Edwards
Teatro Delle Celebrazioni, Bologna, 2002-04-06 (CSO 5)
Performer – Cliff Stapleton, John Balance, Mike York, Ossian Brown, Peter Christopherson
Recorded by – Angelo Visone
DVD6
New Forms, Den Haag, 2002-06-07 (CSO 6)
Performer – Cliff Stapleton, John Balance, Ossian Brown, Peter Christopherson, Thighpaulsandra
Performer [Black Sun Productions] – Massimo, Pierce
DVD7
Flex, Vienna (+ Prague), 2002-10-29 (CSO 7)
Performer – John Balance, Ossian Brown, Peter Christopherson, Thighpaulsandra
Performer [Black Sun Productions] – Massimo, Pierce
DVD8
Vagonka, Konigsberg, 2002-09-29 (CSO 8)
Performer – John Balance, Ossian Brown, Peter Christopherson, Thighpaulsandra
DVD9
Ydrogeios, Thessaloniki, 2002-10-05 (CSO 9)
Performer – John Balance, Ossian Brown, Peter Christopherson, Thighpaulsandra
Performer [Black Sun Productions] – Massimo, Pierce
Mutek, Montreal, 2003-05-29 (CSO 10)
Performer – Peter Christopherson, Thighpaulsandra
Recorded by – Don Poe, Jon Whitney
DVD11
La Loco, Paris, 2004-05-23 (CSO 11)
Mastered by – Yann Dub
Performer – Cliff Stapleton, John Balance, Mike York, Peter Christopherson, Thighpaulsandra, Tom Edwards
DVD12
Melkweg, Amsterdam, 2004-06-03 (CSO 12)
Performer – Jhonn Balance, Peter Christopherson, Thighpaulsandra, Tom Edwards
Recorded by – Claus Laufenberg, Jeffrey Cornille
DVD13
(Selvagina), Jesi, 2004-06-11 (CSO 13)
Filmed by – Colonel XS
Performer – Cliff Stapleton, John Balance, Peter Christopherson, Thighpaulsandra
DVD14
City Hall, Dublin, 2004-10-23 (CSO 14)
Countertenor Vocals – Francois Testory
Hurdy Gurdy – Cliff Stapleton
Performer – Jhonn Balance, Peter Christopherson, Thighpaulsandra
Recorded by – Royce Harper
DVD15
The Coil Reconstruction Kit Disc One (CSO 15)
DVD16
The Coil Reconstruction Kit Disc Two (CSO 16)
CDS ARE BORING! ;-)
In the early 90s Geff commissioned a wooden fireplace from a handsome gay carpenter friend of of ours called Spud, and he chose to inlay the words Colour Sound Oblivion into it.- Sleazy
Within a few months of its completion, Geff and I were standing in the Chelsea funeral directors, looking down at Spud's dried out corpse, unrecognisable compared with the charismatic ruffian we had so recently known and loved. Once Spud knew he was sick, and the treatments were making no difference, he had deliberately OD'd, but he was already nothing but walking bones.
The Colour Sound Oblivion Coil Live Video box is named by and dedicated to him. I wish I'd thought about it before...
Vols 1-14 Download
Vols 15 & 16 Download
NB: There are many more Coil albums, live gigs and videos to be downloaded for free at the Archive
Keith Richards' Desert Island Discs
Keith Richards, member of the Rolling Stones, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs.
Keith was born in Dartford and grew up as an only child. He and Mick Jagger went to the same primary school, but then lost touch until meeting again at Dartford train station in 1961 and discovering they shared a taste in blues music. Keith picked up his love of the guitar from his grandfather and honed his skills whilst at art college.
If one single, living person could be said to personify rock n' roll then it is surely him. He's been making music and causing havoc for over half a century and counting. His song writing, singing and guitar playing have helped to make The Rolling Stones a stratospherically successful group and his early and single minded dedication to the triumvirate pursuits of sex and drugs and rock and roll made him a counter-culture icon.
No surprise then that as a boy he would go to sleep at night with his arm around his first guitar.
Producer: Sarah Taylor
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...and for those who don't know who Matt Sweeney is
Monday 26 October 2015
Sleaford Mods - Silly Me
Silly Me is about the long tunnel, the one that has no light. Another week spent walking up and down the street. The quiet tension of your living room with its shit sofa. The unconfirmed nature of 'doing' instead of 'trying'.
It’s that realisation that all you have to work with is your own failure, it's the only starting point you have and to ignore it, to dismiss the reasons why unhappiness is still haunting you is a mistake. It's your ticket out of misery if you keep trying to confront it because eventually persistence rules. Not all the time though.
This isn't one of those fucking smug acid jazz positivity yawns. Large numbers of people have fuck all and that won't change. That's horrible. ‘Silly Me’ is just one experience over Andrew’s solid, hard funk loop
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Sunday 25 October 2015
Friday 23 October 2015
The Drones - Taman Shud
TAMAN SHUD
Thud thud my heart pumps blood
When ever someone talks about my Taman Shud
Who ditched that fox-gloved snitch?
Loaded him with poison like a puffer fish
Why don’t anybody feel like crying
For the Somerton somebody with the hazel eyes?
Why don’t anybody feel like crying
For the Somerton nobody with the hazel eyes?
Thud thud my heart pumping blood
When ever someone talks about my Taman Shud
He’s gone and no one even cares at all
The earth won’t answer and the sea don’t mourn
I don’t give a fuck about no Anzacery
I don’t care you got it interest free
I ain’t gonna fret about Lest We Forget
Fuck the Murdoch press
I don’t get hung up on any carbon tax
Or Ned getting strung up for being a psychopath
I ain’t really there with any class warfare
The only thing i care about’s the
Thud thud my heart pumping blood
When ever someone talks about my taman shud
He’s gone and no one even cares at all
The earth won’t answer and the sea don’t mourn
For all of the probing into whether he exists
The question’s still as open like a radar dish
Late 1948
Is sending a transmission but its inchoate
Don’t hate me for not caring ‘bout you losing your job
I think you’re gonna suit being a welfare slob
I don’t give a toss about no southern cross
Or the gulag union jack
I don’t give a fuck if you can’t stop the boats
I ain’t at a loss if Simpson’s donkey votes
I don’t care about no Andrew Bolt
It’s clear as mud
My taman shud
Everybody mouths off
While they’re chewin’ cud
Thud thud my heart pumps blood
When ever someone talks about my Taman Shud
Why did anybody feel the need to lie
‘less that’s Warsaw on the seashore
On the day he died?
Don’t nobody wonder where he’s been?
No tags no wallet
And his brains dry-cleaned
I don’t give a fuck about fuck off we’re full
I ain’t gonna send my kids to private school
I ain’t gonna grieve about no BHP
No silver spoons or mining booms
I don’t give a fuck about your brick and tile
I don’t really care if you’re a paedophile
I don’t care about no Master Chef
It’s as appetising as a whistle blower’s doom
Or any French cartoon
Nothing like a prune to make the death cults bloom
Why you think the whole world’s gotta be like you?
Fuck western supremacy
I ain’t sitting around being Gallipolized
One man’s BBQ’s another’s hunger strike
Why’d i give a rat’s about your tribal tatts?
You came here in a boat you fucking cunt
My Taman Shud
Everybody mouths off
While they’re chewin’ cud
Thud thud my heart pumps blood
When ever someone talks about my Taman Shud
Gareth Liddiard of the Drones: 'It’s time leftwingers grew some balls'
Thursday 22 October 2015
The The - Infected (Videos)
(1987) Directed by Mark Romanek Peter Christopherson Alastair McIlwain and Tim Pope
The Golden-Eagle Hunters of Mongolia
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Bob Dylan - Subterranean Homesick Blues (Alternate composite version with previously unseen video)
From The Cutting Edge 1965–1966: The Bootleg Series Vol. 12
'My muse is not a horse' Kylie Minogue reads Nick Cave letter to MTV
The letter is read by Kylie Minogue for LETTERS LIVE: http://letterslive.com/
Letter taken from Letters Of Note, compiled by Shaun Usher (Canongate):
When released in 1996, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds’ ninth album, the beautifully haunting, sometimes terrifying Murder Ballads, attracted critical praise from far and wide and went on to reach a larger audience than any of their previous records. This heightened popularity also resulted in Nick Cave being nominated for an MTV Award in the category of Best Male Artist - a situation that left Cave feeling distinctly uncomfortable and which, in October of that year, provoked this wonderful rejection letter from the musician to the event’s bemused organisers
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Kenneth Anger: Lucifer Rising (1972)
'Lucifer Rising' is a short film by director Kenneth Anger. The film was completed in 1972 but was only widely distributed in 1980. Anger began filming around 1966, hiring a young musician named Bobby Beausoleil to act and compose the soundtrack. The film was abandoned in 1967 because Anger claimed the film footage had been stolen by Beausoleil. (Beausoleil and others said that Anger had simply spent all the money for the film). Anger then used some of the existing footage in another short film, Invocation of My Demon Brother. Beausoleil was convicted of killing Gary Hinman under the orders of Charles Manson in 1970. Anger began filming again several years later, with British singer Marianne Faithfull appearing in the film. Jimmy Page was brought in to record the soundtrack, but after he had a falling out with Anger, he was replaced by Beausoleil, who wrote and recorded the music in prison.
* Kenneth Anger - The Magus
* Bobby Beausoleil - Himself
* Donald Cammell - Osiris
* Marianne Faithfull - Lilith
* Myriam Gibril - Isis
* Chris Jagger - Man in Yellow Tunic
* Jimmy Page - Man Holding Stella of Revelation
Thanks to M.G.
Gerard Malanga and Andy Warhol: Screen Tests / A Diary
The Bug - Skag Teng / Opi Teng
The Bug Vs Sleng Teng sees the bass explorer apply his own foundation-shaking sensibilities to Prince Jammy’s evergreen ‘Under Me Sleng Teng’ riddim, using his Elektron Octatrack and Analog Rytm machines.
“Truly future ragga for alien thinkers,” as he explained on Facebook earlier this year. “Most people will find the link to Jammy’s original hard to locate, but it makes sense in my twisted mind…lol..Variations on a deadly riff theme, where nothing survives from the original..Steppin off into oblivion.”
Mastered by Stefan Betke aka Pole, the EP marks the second release on Elektron Grammofon, the label arm of the gear maker. The limited one-off pressing of 300 copies will be available in November via Elektron, with all profits from the record’s sales going to charity
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Rodigan Vs Barry G (Sleng Teng Soundclash 1985)
Wednesday 21 October 2015
Martyn Bennett DJ Set (Brighton 24/11/03)
On the 24 November 2003, Martyn Bennett supported Peter Gabriel at a one-off concert at the Brighton Centre. His eclectic, innovative and powerful DJ set that night was sadly Martyn's final live performance before his untimely death in 2005
Tuesday 20 October 2015
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