bl@ckhead

a curiosity only…by deed of absurdist dissension, and conspicuously excluded from the 1984 Polydor release of Ian Dury & the Music Students’ “4,000 Weeks Holiday“, the executive decision to derail the project as the result of craven faint-heartedness prompted two years of bitter sparring between Dury and his financiers. Fearing legal action from the estate

for n-one

Kim Gordon: bass, vocals; Thurston Moore: guitar, vocals;Richard Edson: drums;Lee Renaldo: guitar. The 80’s may have begun blandly, and gotten progressively blander still, but there was still proof positive under the swab that not everyone hankered to collaborate with Trevor Horn’s bloated vision of a new era. A choreographed jackboot dance of all singing extras

sulk

26,000,000+ counting, eh ? That’s a lot of f@cking hits. Well. I don’t know about Susan Boyle. Or the c@nting Priory. Personally, I’d rather suspend my disbelief for Dundee’s Billy MacKenzie. Just as patently ridiculous, but a tad dashed more handsome. And charismatic. Pompous ? F@ck, yes; but unabashedly so. A bit like tartan f@cking

trigger

Lou Reed (vocals, guitar); Robert Quine (guitar); Fernando Saunders (bass, background vocals); Doane Perry (drums). Recorded at RCA Studios, New York, New York in October 1981. Produced by Lou Reed and Sean Fullan. A slow burn and a party for one, best savoured if you can provide your own brittle kindling. And a measure of

fiasco

halloween falls early this year. the alfred e. smith hammer memorial horror. Yesterday was not a good day for me. While some Americans appear to be confused or fearful that they are slipping into Socialism by slow degree, or that Barack Obama is perhaps a communist or the son of the mad arab, Jor-El of

smoking in the dark cinema

“road sign“. vietnam, 68-69. photograph by richard calmes. From the last album to feature Mick Jones and Topper Headon prior to their departure; consensual and otherwise. Piano by Tymon Dogg. The working title for this – the follow-up to the triple LP, “Sandinista!” – was allegedly the more colourful “Rat Patrol from Fort Bragg“. Recorded