Friday 23 July 2021

Let's talk about 'discrimination' Crapton shall we?

Maybe we wll start with this...

Remember that? Onstage in Birmingham 1976? This racist tirade coming from a man who 'was inspired by' nah let's say 'ripped off' black music. We shall call a spade a spade eh Eric.

I could be wrong here Eric but it certainly wasn't fucking green people who came up with the blues was it? Nor indeed that reggae beat that had just given you a big hit single wth your cover of Marley's 'I Shot The Sheriff'. (Maybe you'd convinced yourself that it was Robert Nesta Marley's white half that had written the song eh?)

It was that outburst that caused this letter to appear in the NME.

I remember it well and as a sixteen year old in Glasgow I started getting involved in the setting up of the RAR chapter there.

I, myself had a long, long battle with drugs and alcohol. Forty odd years actually and some of them very odd indeed but you know what? Not once did I come out with some racist crap. Crazy eh?

And now this vax crap you are coming out with where you actually manage to get the word 'discrimination' in... You should get together with Van Morrison and Ian Brown and Richard Ashcroft and the other numpties and get a super (stupid) group together. Here's a song for you to cover. Written by a black guy but hey that's never stopped you before has it?

The year rock found the power to unite

John Grant - Boy from Michigan (6 Music Live Session)

Mary Anne Hobbs from BBC Radio 6 Music invited John Grant to the Radio Theatre for a very special live session. You can watch the full session on the BBC iPlayer HERE He performs 3 tracks from his new album Boy from Michigan plus tracks form his 2018 album Love Is Magic.

Dennis Cooper, Gisèle Vienne & KTL (Stephen O’Malley and Peter Rehberg)

KTL (Stephen O'Malley and Peter Rehberg) produced a number of works soundtracking Dennis Cooper and Gisèle Vienne's KINDERTOTENLIEDER which sadly has so far never made it to Australia

Peter Rehberg R.I.P.

Peter Rehberg (1968-2021) pic.twitter.com/rqZP3wDTAw
— INA grm (@Ina_GRM) July 23, 2021

Man...that is one hell of a shock to take in...

'Y' In Dub (Released October 29)

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I've been waiting 40 and a bit years for this...

Exiled Global Mix One (2008)

Originally made and posted in the (very) early months of EXILE ON MOAN STREET back in 2008

A mix of musical styles though predominantly North African. After opening aptly on this Sunday morning (sic) with Baaba Maal's 'Call to Prayer' we find ourselves 'tranceported' by music from both the mountains and medinas of Maroc, by the psychedelic sounds coming from the Congo in the mid seventies and by the present-time desert blues of Tinariwen and Group Inerane. From Algeria by way of Paris, London and New York to the Ju-Ju lands of Nigeria

Tracklist:

1. Baaba Maal - Call To Prayer

2. African Head Charge - God Is Great

3. Okay Temiz - East Breeze

4. Material (with William Burroughs) - Ineffect

5. The Invaders of The Heart - Bomba

6. Rachid Taha - Barra Barra

7. Group Inerane - Kuni Majagani

8. Tinariwen - Cler Achel

9. Joujouka with Ornette Coleman - Snippet #1

10. Maleem Mahmoud Ghania w/ Pharaoh Sanders - Mahraba

11. Gnawa Music of Marrakesh - Toura Toura Tour Kelilah No. 2

12. Joujouka with Ornette Coleman - Snippet #2

13. Udokotela Shange Namajah - Sobabamba (We Will Get Them)

14. Le Super Borgou de Parakou - Congolaise Benin Ye

15. King Sunny Ade - Ja Funmi

16. Basokin ft. Mi Amor - Malume https://gfycat.com/ordinarycooperativeiberianemeraldlizard

If this mix doesn't want to make you dance barefoot under the sky then you are already dead

Thursday 22 July 2021

Rickie Lee Jones remembers Chuck E. Weiss: ‘He was a Svengali to Tom Waits and everyone who knew him’

Don't forget to SWIPE

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Bob Monkhouse and the 'subversive' peni (1949)

So I learnt from Joe the other day that when Bob Monkhouse worked as a comics artist early in his career; on one title, his superiors complained that he had made the lead female character a little too buxom. So in the next issue, the hero fought killer penises, entirely without editorial objection.