Nico, Lou Reed and John Cale in the Bataclan Club, Paris 1972.
Nico, Lou Reed and John Cale in the Bataclan Club, Paris 1972.
Legendary reformed 60s/70s Doctor Strangely Strange play the Sugar Club this Saturday apparently still a few tickets left if you move fast. More info here
Via rbally Radiohead bootleg of 22 songs recorded at SFB Sendesaal, Berlin, Germany, July 4, 2000, very good sound quality.
If you're in London Radiohead are playing a free gig at Rough Trade East shop in Brick Lane today, first come first served doors open 7pm.
Back from the days when quiet/loud ruled the world.
Got my tickets for Radiohead in Malahide Castle in June - yes the June that's six months away. I'm one of those people who downloaded In Rainbows for free that all the music journos were whinging about and have now shelled out €154.10 for tickets and am going to buy the CD in the shops as well. That's how the new music economy works.
Radiohead cover Joy Division's Ceremony.
I saw PJ Harvey at the Olympia in Dublin last night where she performed without a band, I've seen her play many times but last night was really one of those quite extraordinary evenings where everything comes together just right. I don't always get everything she does but last night it all made perfect sense, there really is nothing extraneous in her work she has pared it down to just the essential which for any artist is something to aspire to, it's very inspiring to see it in action.
Ah it's that time of the year again when all the searches for Christmas Sucks start, so here it is again Tom Waits & Peter Murphy Christmas Sucks ( direct MP3 link)
Note: The song is actually by Porn Orchard and the Opal Foxx Quartet for a 1993 compilation by the Athens, GA magazine, Flagpole's "The Mother of All Flagpole Christmas Albums". With Curtiss Pernice as Tom Waits and Ted Hafer as Peter Murphy (of Bauhaus) but hey sounds like Tom Waits and that's good enough for me.
Dan Deacon at the Model Arts in Sligo, I was there, one of the best gigs ever.
DATA (Dublin Art and Technology Association) meeting tonight at 7pm upstairs in the Stags Head map here. Tonight's meeting is a DEAF (Dublin Electronic Arts Festival) electronic music special featuring presentations by Enda Bates (The Spatial Guitar), Pussy Krew (Hardware visuals), Colm Rooney (musical painting), Rob Casey (noise composition) and more...
Radiohead's new album In Rainbows is coming out on October 10th and Radiohead are leaving it up to fans to decide how much they should pay to preorder the download version.
Moby via the mobygratis.com site has made 65 pieces of film music available for free to independent and non-profit filmmakers, film students, and anyone in need of free music for their independent, non-profit film, video, or short. A nice gesture at a time when it's practically impossible for low budget and student film makers to license any music for their films.
Nice promo for a Dylan greatest hits compilation, add your words of wisdom to the video for Subterranean homesick blues.
The 7th Dun Laoghaire festival of World Cultures is on this weekend. This year with over 800 artists an additional 650 participants and contributors and a staggering 350 volunteers 150 events and performances representing over 80 countries will take place in 40 venues throughout Dun Laoghaire over the weekend and the promise of good weather it's pretty unmissable. Full lineup here
A nice video of Lu with Nico and John Cale in the Bataclan Club in Paris in 73 after the demise of the Velvets. I saw a program about his live performances of the album Berlin which he's doing at the moment and listening to him murder his own songs was unbearable this is a reminder that he used to have it once.
John Cage performing Water Walk on TV game show I've got a secret in 1960, while being set up as something of a freakshow the presenter still goes to great lengths to convince the audience that Cage is 'serious'. Cage handles the occasion with a light touch and a good sense of humour, when the presenter warns Cage that while the audience are nice people ... some of them are going to laugh, is that alright he replies with a winning smile of course I consider laughter preferable to tears.
via WFMU
Brel sings Ne Me Quitte Pas, love the tears. Should be compulsory viewing for all the lame Brel imitators.
On the great videos for great songs theme another oldie Palace Brothers (aka Will Oldham / Bonnie Prince Billy)Come in.
Mouse on Mars featuring Stereolab's Laetita Sadier. For my money possibly the greatest music video ever made.
Rare silent 8mm home movie footage of Iggy and the Stooges in 1969 (sound has been added) and from the Observer an account of the myth of the Stooges in 1973 including the wonderful Elton John gorilla suit story.
Teddybears featuring Iggy Pop doing that thing he does
Cat power goes mainstream, sobers up, is the new face of Chanel jewelry (no really!) and becomes a Miami socialite.
For sale on ebay (current bid $25,100) one of only two surviving copies (the other copy said to be owned by David Bowie) of the acetate of the first velvet Underground recording (with alternate versions of what was later to be released as The Velvet Undergroung & Nico) The auction listing has a good history of the recording which was bought for 75cents in 2002
Download a Radiohead cover version of the cheesy Nobody does it better Bond song from the golden age of Roger Moore.
via Superb Live
From 1982 a radioplay interview album for the release of Lou Reed's Blue Mask album complete with scripted intros for the DJs including this gem
via WFMU
Some classic live music downloads to remind you all that the interweb's still all about bootlegging - in a good, victimless kind of way of course.
Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream release party, Tower records Chicago July 26, 1993. From a time when the Pumpkins were on top of their game and Billy still had hair, it's easy to forget how good they were.
Jane's Addiction, King County Fairgrounds, Washington, August 28, 1991.
From 1983 the Smiths' legendry lost Troy Tate sessions, recorded for their first Rough Trade record and rejected.
A beautiful Cat Power performance from Western Washington University, May 14, 1999. This has everything that makes her great, a real favourite of mine.
all from the incomparable rbally
As part of his Anti Tour 2 - the Nineties for DEAF06 festival musician/artist Denis McNulty is touring apartments (preferably built in the 90's) in Dublin city centre (i.e. the part of the city between the North and South circular roads). Interested in hosting a performance check out the details here.
I saw a back-on-form Sparklehorse last night at Whelans, a great crowd, great venue and a quite emotional Mark Linkous glad to be back.
More at my Flickr
After a five year gap Sparklehorse are back with a new album Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain and they're touring with dates in Dublin on the 14th & 15th of October. It's great to see to him back and healthy the last time I saw him in 2002 I wondered if I'd ever see him again.
Never heard of Sparklehorse? Download the live Radio France Black Session from September 25th 2006
via Kwaya Na Kisser
Another great find from WFMU with Als die Partisanen kamen a compilation album of Berlin underground music which had appeared on the Zensor, Monogam, and Marat labels between 1979 and 1983 and the even more obscure compilation Kassettentäter, 35 MP3s for your downloading pleasure.
via WFMU
In the 1950s in eastern Europe nightclubs made pirate copies of western records which were cut onto recycled x-ray films, digibodies has a gallery of them.
via Kevin Kelly
MP3s of a rare live performance by Stina Nordenstam in Fasching, Stockholm - January 1991.
via desire avenue
Some downloadz for y'all; classic Radiohead and REM at Milton Keynes, July 30th 1995 via Rbally and a two-parter Cat Power & The Memphis Rhythm Band at the Bonnaroo Music Festival, Tennessee. Via Kwaya Na Kisser
Apparently this represents the new sober Chan, the one who actually performs unlike her last 'performance' in Dublin. If it holds I might even go see her again.
I saw dEUS not once but twice while in Paris, first at the Solidays festival where the picture was taken (there's more if you're interested on my flickr page)I saw them last November in Dublin when this tour kicked off and they rocked then but have since turned it up a few more notches and that in front of a French audience determined to confirm the national stereotype that they can't rock. I also caught another inspired performance on the opening night of the Paris Plage where they where joined by Stef Kamil Carlens (co-founder now in Zita Swoon)which just added to my belief that they're the best live band on the road today. They'll be at the Electric Picnic in September, don't miss them.
Pitchfork's staff top 100 awesome videos on youtube, from the good to the deeply dodgy epitomised by Pat Benatars's Love is a Battlefield possibly the best and the worst video of the 80s. Should be made compulsory viewing for every director considering a story video.
My Bloody Valentine live in Vancouver, 1992. I discovered recently the Kevin Shields grew up just down the road from me. I don't remember him at all. Let that be your bit of fame-by-celebrity-association for the day.
via rbally
How Bowie made it out of the Great British Book of Smiles. Fascinating as this is it also helps explain his fall from greatness. Obviously the quality of his music is inversely proportional to the quality of his teeth which leads me to believe that his talent was in his teeth. However, my wife believes that his ex wife Angie is the catalyst for all his good music - his early albums sucked, he married Angie around Hunky Dory his first good album and split with her around scary monsters his last good album - another pretty convincing theory but one weakened I think by the strong teeth evidence and don't even get me started on the hair... Yes, the collapse in Bowie's talent is a not infrequent topic of conversation in our home.
Finnish magazine Seiska is in big trouble after they unmasked Lordi lead singer Mr Lordi, the backlash was so great that they were forced to apologise and to promise that they wouldn't do it again. Eurovision, the spectacle that just keeps on giving.
via linkbunnies
The funniest thing I've seen all year, what a star!
via the eurotastic TCAL
An afterword on Lordi's win in the Eurovision -check out TCAL(my favourite Irish blog) with their new Lordi masthead for all the details. I watched the Eurovision (semis not the final) for the first time in years because of Finland, Lithuania and Iceland's realising that the Eurovision is a joke and treating it accordingly. Meanwhile Ireland keeps trying to win it with total crap that brings shame on the nation, why? Dave Fanning has a great rant on crap Irish eurovision entries and the people who promote them on Marian Finucanes's radio show here (real audio link skip to 1.49) and comes up with the great idea that RTE fund the alternative eurovision people to come up with an appropriate eurovision entry. Either that or the Warlords of Pez as suggested on TCAL sounds good to me
Talking Heads perform Psycho Killer on the Old Grey Whistle Test in 1978. Worth watching for David Byrnes's clothes alone.
Here's a bit of Irish music history the Virgin Prunes on the the Late Late Show in 1979, a curiosity piece. Check out this if you want to see the legend in action.
The Only Ones perform Another Girl, Another Planet. This used to be the theme tune to Dave Fanning's rock show way back in the days when he used to be cool.
via Bedazzled
Thanks to Darren for pointing me to Silvia Night, Iceland's Eurovision entry, now that's Eurotastic!
More YouTube of Lordi,so bad it's good and Brian Kennedy so bad it's embarrassing.
Here's an interesting call for submissions for art content to be sold via art vending machines during the Dublin Fringe festival, how can you resist?
DUBLIN FRINGE FESTIVAL 2006 VISUAL ART EVENT
'THE VENDING MACHINE PROJECT' (curated by Alan Butler and Lola Rayne Booth) are seeking submissions from artists/designers/musicians to create small works to be sold in vending machines around Dublin for the duration of the Dublin Fringe Festival 2006. As part of the Dublin
Fringe Festival, The Vending Machine Project will offer an alternative space for artists to exhibit, engage with the public and promote their work. Selected artists will be required to make 10 small works under the dimensions of 15cm x 15cm. Proposed artworks can be multiples, editions, originals, photos, CD, DVD, etc.
E-mail submissions:
thevendingmachine -at- gmail.com .
- 3-6 images of previous work (.jpg only)
- current C.V .
- short proposal (no more than 300 words)3-6 images of previous work (on CD or prints – NO SLIDES & DO NOT
SEND ORIGINAL WORKS AS SUBMISSIONS WILL BE KEPT ON FILE FOR FUTURE
REFERENCE)
- current C.V.
- short proposal (no more than 300 words) THE VENDING MACHINE PROJECT c/o Studio 5, Temple Bar Galleries & Studios, 5-9 Temple Bar, Dublin 2, Ireland.
DEADLINE: 31st May 2006.
Live NPR sessions from Martha Wainwright & Neko Case (The New Pornographers)to download.
via MOKB
From Rbally some great live bootlegs to download; Janes Addiction at Irvine Meadows Amphitheater, California from lollapalozza '91? and Beck live at E-Werk in 1999.
It's been a while since we've had a Flaming Lips post but their new album At War with the Mystics is out Monday (and being supported by a TV ad) and they're streaming it from their site (click the audio link). The new video is on youtube along with lots more Lips goodness of which I've picked the above which is The Lips with Cat Power singing Sabbath's War Pigs, and Chan even looks likes she's having a good time, wouldn't it be nice if the Lips' enthusiasm for live performance rubbed off on her.
Download an excellent cover version of Radiohead's Just by Mark Ronson featuring Alex Greenwald taken from Exit Music Songs from Radio Heads a new album of Radiohead cover versions. Incidentally Mark Ronson is son of Mick Ronson of the Spiders.
Via Scenestars
Four tracks from a session at KVRX, Austin Texas in 1998, classic Cat Power - her best live performances seem to be in radio studios certainly not at concerts.
Download Jose Gonzalez's cover of Heartbeats (from that ad with the bouncy balls) from Copy, Right, My old Kentucky Blog has Talking Heads Road to Nowhere and And she was to mark the re-issue of Little Creatures - their last good album and You ain't no Picasso have Yo La tengo covers of manby songs including Stiff Little Finger's Suspect Device
From a forthcoming Serge Gainsbourg tribute album I give you Cat Power & Karen Elson (jack white's missus) singing je t'aime bizarrely translated into english, a curiosity.
via Filles Sourires
The Sex Pistols officially decline the Rock n Roll hall of Fame.
A video of The Fall performing Smile on the Tube in 1983 with guest presenter John Peel. I used to know a guy in college who only listened to the Fall and Pere Ubu, I can see a logic to that.
Some MP3s from Sophia Coppola movies to download including Kevin Shields, My Bloody Valentine, Air and The Jesus and Mary Chain.
via aquarium drunk
A video of Kurt making a mockery of the revered institution of Top of the Pops, from 1991.
Is there nothing the London Tube map can't be used for? Now they're charting the interconnections of 100 years of music using it.
A fantastic sigur rós (legal) live performance bittorrent tracker sent to to me by Darren who co-runs the sigur-rós.co.uk site (which I've mentioned before for it's enlightened attitude to sharing live music), has a cool blog and is possibly the only Irish person who can speak Finnish (even as I write that I know it's going to come back and bite me).