Friday 1 January 2016
Happy new year from all of us at Exile Towers
გილოცავ ახალ წელს
buon anno
šťastný nový rok
godt nytår
幸せ新しい年
幸せ新しい年
gelukkig nieuwjaar
manigong bagong taon
hyvää uuttavuotta
新年快樂
新年快樂
godt nytt år
szczęśliwego nowego roku
с новым годом
feliz año nuevo
chúc mừng năm mới
bonne année
Frohes neues Jahr
ευτυχισμένο το νέο έτος
שנה טובה
नया साल मुबारक हो
selamat tahun baru
laimīgu Jauno gadu
laimingų Naujųjų metų
كل عام وأنتم بخير
새해 복 많이 받으세요
Ghetto Priest - Auld Lang Syne/The Slave's Lament Live mix by Adrian Sherwood
Have fun and cause trouble XXX
Wednesday 30 December 2015
Lemmy
OK I have a few Lemmy stories but my fave is yet another night when I
was working in Dingwalls back in early eighties London and Lemmy was (as per) there and playing the machines and come closing
time, (technically 2 but 3AM by the time all was finished) his trick
usually was to borrow one of the BIG bottles of vodka that went up on
the optic and the next day about 5PM - just as I was bottling from the
night before - a replacement would arrive by taxi but this night he
asked me what I was doing and I said I was just going back to my
girlfriend's place up in Tufnell Park. now at this point I should say
that Deb E who he knew was a young blonde rock chick who prob fitted in
with his preferred demographic of women but whatever...anyway we had to
walk I don't know half hour or 40 mins up the road and he suddenly
stopped half way and offered me a couple of these black six sided large
pills which I had never seen before. Fuck me! It was how I imagine
adrenalin would feel injected straight into your heart with the added
'bonus' of immediate lockjaw! I couldn't speak my teeth were that
clenched. But I prob walked a bit faster up the road *ahem.
Anyway getting up to Deb's place I'd forgotten that Roddy from the Specials was crashing up at our place that night. Now I'd always loved Roddy's company especially when I found out he was called Roddy Radiation because his face turned red when he drank beer!!! I also really liked his post Specials band The Tearjerkers and I still have my old denim jacket with that logo on the back, prob doesn't fit me anymore but hey ho...
Anyway on the walk we'd chatted at my instigation about hippies (as one thing I cannot stand...) and it was interesting as Hawkwind were never hippies in my book (and the amount of times I fell asleep to Space Ritual with those big mid 70's 'cans' stuck to my head. Boy did my head hurt the next day...) and there was some other stuff after asking about his dad etc...anyway get to Deb's place oh and fuck me Roddy is in tears...he'll never get back to the USA again to get great clothes again etc etc. A bit of speed in Roddy's blood and a wee bit of the vodka that suddenly appeared and oh man...one of the best nights ever. Rock'n'roll tales, talking about this and that with all of us with the biggest smiles. I at that time had a particularly good relationship with a (some would say well dodgy but I wouldn't)) kebab place around the corner and they are STILL there come 8AM or so...and so it went on until about midday. One of my fave nights for sure...as he left Lemmy gave me the address of his flat in Notting Hill/Ladbroke Grove (wherever) and said come round anytime but it was not my stomping ground at all and besides he was nearly always round at my workplace.
He was a fugn gentleman.
Anyway getting up to Deb's place I'd forgotten that Roddy from the Specials was crashing up at our place that night. Now I'd always loved Roddy's company especially when I found out he was called Roddy Radiation because his face turned red when he drank beer!!! I also really liked his post Specials band The Tearjerkers and I still have my old denim jacket with that logo on the back, prob doesn't fit me anymore but hey ho...
Anyway on the walk we'd chatted at my instigation about hippies (as one thing I cannot stand...) and it was interesting as Hawkwind were never hippies in my book (and the amount of times I fell asleep to Space Ritual with those big mid 70's 'cans' stuck to my head. Boy did my head hurt the next day...) and there was some other stuff after asking about his dad etc...anyway get to Deb's place oh and fuck me Roddy is in tears...he'll never get back to the USA again to get great clothes again etc etc. A bit of speed in Roddy's blood and a wee bit of the vodka that suddenly appeared and oh man...one of the best nights ever. Rock'n'roll tales, talking about this and that with all of us with the biggest smiles. I at that time had a particularly good relationship with a (some would say well dodgy but I wouldn't)) kebab place around the corner and they are STILL there come 8AM or so...and so it went on until about midday. One of my fave nights for sure...as he left Lemmy gave me the address of his flat in Notting Hill/Ladbroke Grove (wherever) and said come round anytime but it was not my stomping ground at all and besides he was nearly always round at my workplace.
He was a fugn gentleman.
Tuesday 29 December 2015
Monday 28 December 2015
It is time for Australia to set the refugees free
Not since the Second World War has there been displacement of people on the scale that occurred in 2015; nor it seems, since that dark nadir of the 20th century, has there been such ugly division over how millions of people fleeing war and persecution might be helped.The Age (Editorial 27/12/15)
They sailed in tiny rubber boats or wooden fishing vessels. They tramped through fields and along railway tracks, with children slung over their shoulders and old people leaning on canes. Some nations built wire fences and walls to keep them out. Some deployed armed forces, water cannon and dogs to deter them at border crossings.
Terrorism and civil wars have destabilised the governments of their nations, and always the wickedness of persecution rolls on. But instead of demonstrating compassion and care for the disadvantaged and dispossessed, political opportunists and fear-mongers have fomented wicked cynicism, racism and malice.
In Australia, our government continues to use the most despicable tactics to deter asylum seekers. For the past two years, this nation has turned back boats at sea, directing them to other countries. It has detained asylum seekers on naval vessels and handed them back to nations that persecute them for fleeing. Have we shown these people that this is a nation governed by wise and kindly people, or by political grandstanders pursuing their own interests?
The Age believes strongly, and we will say this until the policy ends, that the strategy of turning back boats carrying asylum seekers is ignoble. It demonstrates a paucity of imagination. It has been ruthlessly executed, without proper regard for the asylum claims of those people intercepted. And it has brought this nation into disrepute around the world.
The asylum seekers who arrive here have not broken the law. We will say it again: they are not "illegals". They have used the avenues allowed to anyone under international law – under the United Nations covenants to which Australia subscribes – to seek refuge from all forms of persecution.
It is time to call an amnesty, to end the imprisonment of people who came here seeking help and a better life. It is time to recognise that jailing people in detention facilities for years on end, denying them hope or any alternative, and treating them without compassion, is the most inhumane thing that we could do – short of shipping them back to the situation that they fear in their own countries.
No good can possibly be served by detaining people a day longer in camps in Third World nations. No good is served by denying refugees who are living in Australia the right to work. No good comes from demonising refugees, by ostracising them from the mainstream community.
Good will come by dissolving the oppressive, offshore prisons, by allowing the 827 people who have been detained for more than a year (436 for more than two years) to be let free and to be given a chance to make their way in this country.
The policy of locking up those who did arrive on Australian shores before late 2013, and detaining them on Nauru or Manus Island – where their options, if resettled, are extremely limited – defies common sense. It is costly, and it is a corruption of our vows to pursue humanitarian principles.
We call on the Turnbull government to allow all asylum seekers who are found to be refugees to join our community, on Australian soil. Give them the freedom to be productive members of our democracy, and show the world that we are made stronger by doing so, that we are a compassionate and free people, a resolute and confident nation that properly respects the full range of human rights.
How to end our nation’s shame
Sunday 27 December 2015
George Galloway meets Brian Eno (RT 26/12/15)
Gawd help us eh? Starts at 12:45 after Quentin Letts. If that's not enough Eno for you then here's another 11 hours and 45 minutes from 1988
Saturday 26 December 2015
John Murry - Holocaust
Featuring Grum Gallagher, Cait O'Riordan, Alan Dawson, John Hegarty and myself. Recorded quickly and filthily in Kilkenny, Ireland
John Peel Carol Concert (Boxing Day 1970)
Here are the wonderful voices of "The Top Gear Carol Singers" featuring
Marc Bolan, John Peel and wife Sheila, Robert Wyatt, Mike Ratledge, Rod
Stewart, Kenny Jones, Pete Buckland, Romie Young, Sonja Kristina, Ian
McLagan, Ronnie Lane, Ronnie Wood, Ivor Cutler and David Bedford
(piano)
Thanks JA
Thanks JA
Radiohead - Spectre (Free Download)
Last year we were asked to write a theme tune for the Bond movie Spectre.
Yes we were. It didn’t work out, but became something of our own, which we love very much.
As the year closes we thought you might like to hear it.
Merry Christmas. May the force be with you
Download
Yes we were. It didn’t work out, but became something of our own, which we love very much.
As the year closes we thought you might like to hear it.
Merry Christmas. May the force be with you
Download
Friday 25 December 2015
Thursday 24 December 2015
Wednesday 23 December 2015
Monday 21 December 2015
Sunday 20 December 2015
Exile's best of 2015
Album of the year:
King Midas Sound & Fennesz - Edition 1
&
Mbongwana Star - From Kinshasa NB: Very close runner up was Oneohtrix Point Never's Garden of Delete and my pop album of the year is Miley Cyrus and Her Dead Petz
Song of the year:
Jason Isbell - 24 Frames
Single of the year:
The Bug - Meth Teng
Reissue of the year:
Francis The Great – Ravissante Baby
Book of the year:
Michel Houellebecq - Submission
Film of the year:
Hard To Be A God
TV series of the year:
Mr Robot
Narcos
Show Me A Hero
Gigs of the year included Swans, The Pop Group (and I never thought that I would see them live again) Black Cab at The Corner. Automat, The Bug (seeing a theme yet?) and Lucinda Williams
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