Thursday music link on Sunday didn’t happen because I was out of the country and offline for 2.5 whole days. So here goes, and thanks for contributions so far. They said they wanted to make the girls dance, but that was widely considered unsuccessful. This suggests there’s been some progress.
Read More Thursday music link…on MondayHow about some music? The aim of this feature is to make D^2’s thursday music links look silly, and the only rule is that everything has to be performed by someone other than the original. Call it an agonising reappraisal. Here’s the Clash with Janie Jones, doing “(Get Up I Feel Like Being A) Sex…
Read More I’ll show you thursday music link…(on Sunday)As relief from that 1,210 word wall o’text, this: Things to Make and Do was an oddly foreshadowing title for 1999.
Read More the tape recorder, for special musicOK, something other than a relentless focus on politics for a moment. I mentioned on my facebook profile – which is showing worrying signs of developing into a permanent fixture, at least for elections-related stuff – that my boss’s band was supporting the former singer of this lot at what turned out to be her…
Read More the tape recorder, for special musicSo how did I spend the election night? As it happens, I decided to go to bed about 1am, noting that I was beginning to get as drunk as most of the people on the BBC visibly were and there was still a while to go before any really substantive data came through. Did anyone…
Read More a great time to be a crazy backbencherI was needling Spencer Ackerman about this but didn’t get a rise. It’s applicable to Noel Maurer too. No-One Knows About Persian Cats is a cracking little film; it’s a pseudo-documentary about Iran’s music underground, by the Kurdish director Bahman Ghobadi and a small who’s who of Iranian music. As a result, it could almost…
Read More actual Iranian music newsOh yes, blog theme tune. Auto-suggestion psychology. Elimination policy. The military-industrial pollution of democracy. It’s what we stand for. Oh yes, and bifurcation. In order to honour the essentially dualistic nature of the blog, here’s another version – how David Holmes saw it.
Read More memetic post you can safely ignoreWe saw Rachid Taha and Vieux Farka Toure on Friday night, one of the few occasions when something held in the Royal Festival Hall actually felt like a proper gig. Taha’s shtick is somewhere between a Clash-influenced dub/punk mix and North African things like rai (it sez here – I wouldn’t really know to be…
Read More we love dancing and…As you can probably guess, I’m back; and if anyone can identify any of the songs here, I’d be grateful. Do we have a fado expert in the readership? (Actually, don’t answer that. I encountered a British wannabe expert at this gig and within five minutes I wanted to chuck him in the harbour.) As…
Read More the tape recorder, for special musicDanny Rampling: Since I’ve become a property developer my life has changed for the better I suppose this was always on the cards. Kasimir Malevich: We are in a desert …. Before us is nothing but a black square on a white background! Meanwhile, look who’s got a new album out; others agree. Northern Stomp…
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