Thursday 27 October 2016

Megan Seres's 'subtle, ambiguous' painting 'Scarlett as Colonial Girl' wins The Doug Moran National Portrait Prize

Wednesday 26 October 2016

Pussy Riot - Straight Outta Vagina (feat. Desi Mo & Leikeli47)

Tuesday 25 October 2016

Jack Chick R.I.P.

The hidden danger that comes after Donald Trump loses to Hillary Clinton

The Forgotten Children: Four Corners visits Nauru

Richard Hell’s Journals 1969–1979

Who? Eeee. Em. Aye

OTD in 1964 - EMI turn down The High Numbers.

Two months later they changed their name to The Who and released I Can't Explain pic.twitter.com/knJ4p5ADVP
— RamAlbumClub (@RamAlbumClub) October 22, 2016

Pete Burns & Morrissey (Smash Hits October 1985)

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From the Smash Hits archive 'Like Punk Never Happened'
Pete Burns R.I.P.

Never had much interest in his music but I too had the misfortune of being served by him at Probe Records in Liverpool back in the day

@RamAlbumClub we dared a mate to go in and ask for Long Haired Lover From Liverpool. He nearly got stabbed.
It was great fun. #RIP
— Tony Schumacher (@tonyshoey) October 24, 2016

Monday 24 October 2016

A delicious slow cooker classic you say?

AI's do have a sense of humour don't they?

Still have my original iPod. 15 years old today

This Is the Kind of Idiot That Congress Puts in Charge of Technology

Almost as good as Brandis on Metadata

OGWT (1984)

Wild Blue Yonder

All Shook Down

Jesus Chrysler Drives A Dodge

Wild Blue Yonder/Four Engines Burning

Twin Cadillac Valentine

I Want To Be A Flintstone

Someone To Talk To (Live)

Live @University of Maryland (29/9/86)

SBM

Between Ballard's Ears

J.G.Ballard's early fiction is full of sonorous surrealism. In this special edition of Between the Ears we go Between Ballard's Ears. Two new, specially commissioned, binaural adaptations of his work reveal the soundscape of one of Britain's greatest imaginations. In Track 12, adapted by Brian Sibley, two men listen in to the fantastically amplified results of microsonics but a different, deadlier game is under way. Anton Lesser and Elliot Levey star. In Venus Smiles, adapted by Frank Cottrell Boyce, an enigmatic artist's sonic sculpture brings chaos and transformation to the luxury resort of Vermilion Sands. Christine Bottomley, Carl Prekopp, Keziah Joseph and David Sterne star in a story of death and transfiguration.
Sitar performed by Sheema Mukherjee. Sonic realization Mark Burman and Donald MacDonald
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The Deuce

The Deuce season completes filming. The actor who plays the role of Frankie Martino, or maybe Vince Martino, at wrap with his word valet: pic.twitter.com/1iHeq2Tj0j
— David Simon (@AoDespair) October 23, 2016

A very young Mark Stewart (& Gareth Sager) outside The Roxy Club (1977)

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The Pop Group - Zipperface (Hanz 'Reducer Dub' Remix)

Sunday 23 October 2016

Bob Weir - Lay My Lily Down

Kilburn & The High Roads - Vidiot

Iron Sky 3?

Secret Nazi military base discovered by Russian scientists in the Arctic

Leslie Nassar R.I.P.

Bloody drunken drivers!

Q&A tech innovator Leslie Nassar killed in Idaho crash

Vale Leslie Nassar, engineering genius and champion shit-stirrer

‘The failure of so many urban utopias’

Imaginary Cities: An Interview with Darran Anderson

WTF Podcast: David Crosby

David Crosby readily admits that he probably shouldn't be alive. Drug addiction, alcoholism and health issues have taken their toll but have not knocked David out. He's still making music and going out on tour, but he had a little time to talk with Marc about The Byrds, CSN, Neil Young, Jerry Garcia, Jimi Hendrix, Woodstock, Altamont, Melissa Etheridge, and much more
Thanks Stan

Kami on words

Private Eyes

What’s in a Word? Inventing The ‘Drugs’ Problem

Trump VS Trump

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The secret life of aircraft

'A Honeypot For Assholes': Inside Twitter’s 10-Year Failure To Stop Harassment

America 2016

The Price I’ve Paid for Opposing Donald Trump

The lost genius of Judee Sill

Steve Dillon R.I.P.

Just woke up to this sad news.
Thirty years ago just as I was moving from Amsterdan to Melbourne my friend Scurvy Bastard (who as well as being best man at my wedding would go on to be immortalised as Si the Serial Killer in Preacher) put me in touch with Steve as he was looking for someone to letter his comics. Up until this point his dad had been doing it until he was stopped by a stroke. Unfortunately in those pre internet days logistically it was just impossible to organise.
Rest easy Steve

Steve Dillon, Greatest Living Englishman, Dies Aged 54

James Chance & The Contortions - Melt Yourself Down

New album The Flesh Is Weak out on Nov 11
Tracklist:
01. Melt Yourself Down
02. The Flesh Is Weak
03. Home Is Where the Hatred Is
04. The Splurge
05. Disciplinary Action
06. That’s Life
07. I (Who Have Nothing)
08. Snap It Back, Strip It Down
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James Chance & Les Contortions Live in Milan at Lofi, May 22, 2016

01. Designed To Kill
02. Home Is Where the Hatred Is (Gil Scot Heron)
03. Do the Splurge
04. Street With No Name
05. Jaded
06. Melt Yourself Down
07. Disposable You
08. Put Me Back In My Cage
09. No Pity In the Naked City (Jackie Wilson/Alonzo Tucker)
10. Contort Yourself
11. I Can't Stand Myself (James Brown

Oh So Pretty – Punk in Print 1976-80

Saturday 22 October 2016

The Damned - New Rose

Released forty years ago today. I got my sis to send off to Stiff HQ in Alexander Street and get me a copy for xmas. A copy stamped 'plug copy' arrived back