 Some of my favourite soundz If music be the food of love, play on, give me excess of it... |
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Some of my favourite soundz If music be the food of love, play on, give me excess of it... |
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The Triffids Inspirational Australian band |
I knew I'd have to visit the Australian
outback after hearing this band. |
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TISM
meets Steve Ballmer I saw him in convulsive throes... Greg the STP sign |
My first (and, so far,
last) attempt at video editing.
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The Birthday Party Tracy Pew (R.I.P.) on bass.. |
Accidentally stumbled across these
guys at a D>A>F gig at the Moonlight Club, 1980.
Things were never quite the same again. I'm sure Nick
nicked my Guinness at the next gig (Rock Garden, Covent
Garden). Then saw The BP dozens of time over the next
few years. Subsequentyhe Bad Seeds had another
brilliant bassist; Barry Adamson from Magazine: |
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Barry Adamson The Man with the Golden Arm |
One
of
favourites is Mitch and
Andy from The
Murky World of Barry Adamson. |
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These Immortal Souls Rowland S. Howard R.I.P. Marry me (Lie! Lie!) |
I hadn't seen RSH since 1984, then he
played the Spiegel Tent, Sydney Opera House in Nov
2008. We sat near the front -right in front of his
portable amp. We had ringing in our ears for two day
after, it was a night to remember nevertheless... |
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Sigur Ros Glósóli |
Crescendos to make even icebergs weep. Iceland was a highlight of our visit to Europe in June 2008 - moments before the crash. And an all time favourite collection (thank to the Redeye CD labeller for the weeping quote). |
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Joy Division great gig |
Saw
them
support
The Cure at Canterbury Odeon, June 1979. They
reminded me of the Doors at first (but never again).
Over the next six months I saw them all over London.
Unknown Pleasures still sounds as dark and pure and digital
as the day I first heard it, and Shadowplay is its purest
peak. Pedro (Upton) calls them Dirge Battalion... |
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Doctors of Madness |
You
either
love them or hate them. Went to see their last gig at the Music Machine in Camdem, London. This photo was taken in my solarization period... http://www.doorag.f9.co.uk/doctorsofmadness/gallery_1977_78.html |
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Suerealist Sics |
Well
this
was really a band formed by Turts and Malcolm in Agony,
Kent (formerly known as Ashford).
But here we have a few of the latterday protagonists at the
infamous Stranglers gig in Battersea Park, circa 1978.
Peter ain't looking too happy - he's just had his jacket
sleeve ripped by a security alsation (latterly known as a
Germerman shepherd). Half of the half dozen |
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Shriekback |
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Barry
Andrews |
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The Very Things |
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Hoodlum Priest Almost everything plus the wild remixes available as audio streams |
Heart of Darkness |
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CHAIRLIFT
Evident Utensil |
Datamoshing at it's very
best?
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St Che Be My... Powerstation |
Sometimes something just clicks and short circuits my critical thing (only sometimes?) Listen to Swelter, my jar of curdled cat's bile... |
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Doug Wimbish (& Fats Comet) Don't forget that beat |
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Here Come the Warm
Jets |
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For Trainspotters |
And the best film soundtrack
ever...(oh, what about Requiem for a Dream?) |
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SMACK Edward Fox |
"Anarchy should be a joyous
thing: it should take place in the heart and mind, and
speak to the heart and mind", "I think vandalism is
poetic, as it's an expression of one human being's otherness",
"I think human beings are incredibly tolerant; if they
really sat down and thought about how they are mistreated,
then there really would be a revolution..." #45 in the NME's "Best Singles of 1980 |
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Captain
Beefheat |
The
man leading the planet by the nose |
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Redeye Records |
My favourite record store, in Sydney. |
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Martin "Zero" Hannett |
The genius behind the ultra pure and brittle sound of Unknown Pleasures |
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Mark Zed alias Mark Newman We're still looking for the master tapes of Situation Normal |
Somehow lost touch with Mark Zed ... 1979-1980 was a haze of great bands and music. Spent many hours listening to this being made in a recording studio in Soho. Gave my copy to an acquaintance in 1980 and it wasn't until 2012 that I found this disc on Ebay. Here it is digitized for your delectation, surface noise and clicks uniquely fingerprinting this 7" My Calculator's Right / Give Me A Kick 7" Gun AIM-002 06/80 Situation Normal / Give Me A Kick 7" B&C BCS-24 02/81 |
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NME
New Musical
Express
1976-1984 Some time in the late eighties IPC started censoring it...and I lost interest. |
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Great
Guitar Breaks |
57 guitar thingies selected on the occasion of X's 57th birthday... |
