John Foxx - The Quiet Man (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
CONNECTIONS AND DNA: Here is the first of a few pieces of writing on the development of electronic music - or, at least, my version of it. Some of these may seem tangential, but I think the interplay between them created a sort of ecology that made other things possible. I’ve always been at least as interested in the connections [...]
sOmEThiNg foR thE wEEkenD, SIR? (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Sad to learn that Chas and Dave have split up. I think Dave Peacock has retired but Chas Hodges still goes out on the road with his own band. (or is it the other way around') Anyway, a great rockney band who made some great music in the 80's but success spoiled them and they churned out loads of party records full of singalong hits which is a shame as they were fantastic early on. Wrote some catchy...
sOmEThiNg foR thE wEEkenD, SIR? (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Screaming Lord Sutch singing Dracula's Daughter. A Joe Meek Production from the 60's. I must admit I have a soft spot for rock stars that dress up as Count Dracula and have a coffin and a skull on stage as a prop. In fact I think he used to emerge from the coffin at the start of his act! Great sound effects too. One of the very first records I ever bought was "Jack The Ripper" accompanied...
Popdose (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
John Cale – The Streets of Laredo from Honi Soit … (1981, out of print) Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Hoedown from Trilogy (1972) Robbie Robertson with Leah Hicks-Manning – The Sound Is Fading from Contact From the Underworld of Redboy (1998) Adam & the Ants – Five Guns West from Prince Charming (1981) Babe Ruth – The Mexican [...]
OUPblog (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
A tricky riddle from Gordon Thompson.
Hongkie Town (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
Anyone surprised I'm still up at 7 AM? Busy all night. Finished scanning all 3,000 photos for my mom and burning a couple of DVDs to bring to her. And have been prepping my PC for the Win7 upgrade - exporting iTunes to a different drive, making a copy of my documents & settings folders and using DriveImage XML to image my current drive in case I need to revert back to where I am now. I've also...
Word Magazine blogs (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
Stuck in the house on a Friday evening stocked up with Veno's and Ibuprofen I thought it was time to dust off the old chestnut (ooh missus!) that is The Fantasy Dinner Party . You can have four guests from the history of popular music, not letting a minor setback like death limit your choice. Who would you choose and why? I'll kick off (and it probably would) with : Phil Spector Lee Perry Joe Meek...
Diddy Wah (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
mp3: The Moontrekkers - Night Of The Vampire With Halloween approaching, and on a Saturday this year too, I can't be the only one mulling over what tunes would be appropriately spooky for the evening's listening. Here's a piece of sinister sounding treasure that was recorded by flawed genius, Joe Meek, no more than an hour's lurch from where I sit tap-tap-tapping on my compute-or.
MBV (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
Ryan Trevor – “Blue Mornings” Ryan Trevor is a mysterious musician from New Zealand who, back in 1977, privately pressed an LP of homespun bedroom titled, appropriately enough, Introducing: Ryan Trevor. One would think a record like this would be lost to the ages, but one would be wrong. Because Galactic Zoo Disk/Drag [...]
gmtPlus9 (-15) (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
Gene Pitney... Lips Were Redder On You (1964, Musicor 1039 .mp3 audio 02:18). Written by Joe Meek.
ESTHETICS (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
40% Shrill and unmodulated movie about an innovator which itself lacks storytelling innovation. The recreation of a past era is anodyne since this movie is more interested in namedropping the pop icons of the early sixties shamelessly without offering any sense of why the social changes these stars heralded were happening. Pop music is presented in a political vacuum as if this were enough for dramaturgical...
Toxic Web Blog (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
...the "Telstar" Clavioline. Bill Ruppert's Effectology recreates the sound of The Tornados number 1 hit single from 1962 written and produced by the legendary Joe Meek.
Times Online (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
Matt Lucas will not return to his starring role in a West End production of Prick Up Your Ears, after the suspected suicide of his former civil partner.
Digital Spy (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
Con O'Neil replaces Matt Lucas as Kenneth Halliwell in Prick Up Your Ears.
Whatsonstage.com (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
Matt Lucas has now permanently withdrawn from the London run of Prick Up Your Ears following the suicide last week of his former civil partner Kevin McGee (See News::E8831254822976, 6 Oct 2009). From 22 October, he will be replaced at the West End's ...
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