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Posted this on another thread but Val suggested re-posting it elsewhere.....so here it is:-Matthew Lineham is a USA based painter and illustrator. His site sells stuff mainly on the theme of '80s "icons" - stained glass saint inspired prints, pin badges, Christmas decorations etc.
http://www.mlinehamart.com/
did i ever tell you about the time i met elvis costello in the toilets* of the grand hall in kilmarnock? mibbe, yes? never mind! good idea helen, carry on!*- could have been worse, might have been shakin' stevens!
Tech XXIII wrote: "did i ever tell you about the time i met elvis costello in the toilets* of the grand hall in kilmarnock? mibbe, yes? never mind! good idea helen, carry on!*- could have been worse, might have bee..."
…. shakin' Steven's what?
Brass Neck wrote: "Tech XXIII wrote: "did i ever tell you about the time i met elvis costello in the toilets* of the grand hall in kilmarnock? mibbe, yes? never mind! good idea helen, carry on!*- could have been wo..."
He was in the toilets, what do you think?
yeah, who wants splattered with lipstick, powder and peepee?
Many public school educated Tory ministers would pay good money for that …… if they can lay off the pig's head long enough!
'cept for ian duncan smith - he prefers the pig to be still alive.
Tech XXIII wrote: "did i ever tell you about the time i met elvis costello in the toilets* of the grand hall in kilmarnock? mibbe, yes? never mind! good idea helen, carry on!..."Forgot to put "anecdotes about working in a record store/being in a band" in the opening blurb. ;-)
Btw gents, don't forget there is a general "bo**ocks" thread down below -😁 no comments pls !!
ah, 'general bollocks', superior officer to 'major nobstand', 'corporal punishment' and 'private parts' - good man, carry on!
And of equal rank to the diminutive officer in charge of the weather forecast Little General Change. (Although obviously that remark also belongs in general bollocks, soz.)
Musical enough?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XI6C7...
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Amongst my notifications from Dark Entries records was this, something a bit different that I thought may be of interest to Tim and Lez (& anyone else): -Darkest Before Dawn by Dark Day
"Dark Day is the brainchild of Robin Crutchfield, a New York City based musician, performance artist, and writer. Robin’s musical path began in 1977 when he formed the no wave group DNA with Arto Lindsay and Ikue Mori. In 1979 Crutchfield left DNA to pursue his more synthesizer-based solo project. He released the ‘Hands In The Dark’ 7” followed by two albums, ‘Exterminating Angel’ in 1980 and ‘Window’ in 1982. In 1984 he re-launched Dark Day as an acoustic chamber ensemble performing ethereal soundscapes and self-released two cassette albums “Obsession” and “Beyond The Pale”.
‘Darkest Before Dawn' is a collection of 13 songs recorded between 1985-86, released on CD in 1989 that have never been pressed to vinyl before. The album is a lost medieval collection of pagan tunes for private ceremonies. Played on echoey pipe organ backed by saw-like rhythmic cello lines and melodic woodwind recorder, driven by the beats of rattles, bells, and drums. These simple, cyclical layered instrumental rounds owe much to the inspiration of Moondog as well as the efforts of the Penguin Cafe Orchestra and Dead Can Dance. The original press release stated, 'Serious gothic organ works which cross Captain Nemo's Nautilus pipe organ with the standing stones of Stonehenge and reminisce Babylonian battle hymns and Egyptian burial ceremonies.'
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Darkest-Befo...
https://darkdayrobincrutchfield.bandc...
Thanks, Helen. Right up my street! Cheap too.
On the Your Best of 2019 thread I wrote a paeon to local artist Mick Thomas (Weddings Parties Anything; The Sure Thing; Shackleton; The Roving Commission; etc). I follow Mick on Facebook and thought I'd pass on his thoughts about music (not a Spotify fan!) Mick Thomas
26 December 2019 at 23:53 ·
A Dickhead’s KPI
It was at our Spotted Mallard show on the Friday before Christmas. He was standing on the dance floor in prime spot and I was pretty sure he was a punter I hadn’t seen before. Possibly in his mid twenties but beyond that I’m not sure how to describe him - it was more of a ‘look’ than any one particular trait. He was a punter. He was enjoying the show and was totally responsive in his body language and facial expression.
I fully expected him to be the son, or the brother of a long time fan. Someone who has grown up with our music and one of the ones we hopefully, jokingly, (ironically, it must be said) refer to as ‘the emerging generation’ . There’s not enough of them coming along to constitute a serious groundswell but none the less they are there and coupled with the repeat offenders we are more than ever selling out rooms and so are we grateful for their presence? You bet we are.
At the Merch stand after the show he came up to get his vinyl record signed. It turns out it was his very first full show and he had come along on the strength of having seen us open for Margo Price at the Thornbury Theatre last year - which was a memorable show for all the wrong reasons. He said on that night he had thought we were fantastic and he had enjoyed us more than the main act. But more importantly he reckoned the show he had just witnessed at the Mallard was in his top three shows of all time. He was a convert. He was rapturous and ebullient in his praise, totally enthused and not troubled at all by his lateness to the party. And what were his other two significant performances I enquired? Leonard Cohen and Bruce Springsteen he answered. Fine company.
On Christmas Morning my wife and daughter gave me a print by local artist Kate Reid. It’s a song lyric from a Maurice Frawley song and it made me cry. In an instant it brought back memories of Stu Speed, of us bumping around the inner north for the past thirty years. Of Wally as a young boy, of my parents singing to me, parties at the house on Merri Creek. Of living upstairs at the Punters Club and wandering down to listen to Maurice play to to five drunks (me included) at Virgonas on Brunswick street at 2.00 am on a winter’s Wednesday night. (Spencer Jones, Charlie Owen , Jim White? Conway Savage? - a pretty decent band as I recall). It put me right back there.
And then all too quickly I found myself at family dinner on Christmas Day. The food was fantastic, all the cousins, in-laws, out-laws behaved themselves, nobody got drunk and the kids played and played and played and just sometimes you think maybe we have gotten better with age. Maybe we have read the warning signs. And music played inoffensively in the background. At one stage there was a strange placid cover of Wreckless Eric’s Whole Wide World. My wife asked me who it was - I said I didn’t know. I vaguely recall hearing Aldous Harding’s wonderful song The Barrel and then late in the afternoon my mother in law asked if I knew what song was playing - I didn’t. The music wasn’t a part of proceedings. It was Spotify, droning on and on. I don’t know what to make of this except that maybe music often matters less to the people listening than it does for the people who make it.
And then the next day we had another family dinner - this time at our house. I started off putting my old iPod Classic on shuffle but the tracks seemed uneven volume wise and nobody (including me) was taking much notice at all. A few times I had to check it was even still playing. Like the previous day’s Spotify it was a distant noise at best with not many tracks registering with anyone. And so after a while I chose to go in and begin playing various albums. Nobody said much when Teenage Fanclub’s Songs From Northern Britain came on. Ted Hawkins The Next Hundred Years got a few people smiling - especially the long note he holds at the beginning of There Stands the Glass. The Texas Tornadoes was a turning point as people tried to remember who had the hit with Who Were You Thinking Of When We Were Making Love. And then with a few young cousins playing on the floor and a couple of breast feeding women occupying the lounge room The Wainright Sisters brilliant set of twisted lullabies Songs in the Dark seemed really appropriate and well received. My nephew’s wife even admitted she ’Shezammed’ one of the songs when she had heard it while breast feeding. People noticing and engaging with the music - a breakthrough!
Recently I witnessed an online argument between two artists over the posting of one person’s yearly Spotify results. Streams/hours/listeners are all represented by seemingly impressive figures. And they post them there on Facebook for everyone to see, to marvel at. One person was saying we should stop looking at these figures as being representative of actual worth and I have to say this is the side of the argument I fall on totally. The same goes with Facebook, Youtube and Instagram. The figures are all there to impress but how does any of this translate into anything actually meaningful (financial or spiritual) for someone creating, or experiencing a particular piece of art. Because, unlike the young bloke at our gig at the Spotted Mallard, and unlike Kate Reid’s amazing print quoting from a long gone Maurice Frawley song these figures speak nothing of engagement. There’s no love in them. They are an index that makes fools of us all. A Dickhead’s KPI.
It’s late on Boxing Day as I write. Hope you had a good one. We did. I’ll be back with the band in 2020 and hopefully we can find a couple of new punters to stand up the front and see what Squeezebox Wally, Franz, Folley and Rusty Russell have been cooking up. It’s been a wonderful tour and a pretty decent year (in spite of a shaky start). So my message to all is forget the DKPI - buy a record and put it on, buy a book, stand up the back and sing along with your arm around your partner or your best buddy. Get drunk and request a song the band can’t possibly play. Tell us how great we are, get your photo taken at the Merch table (if you must - just make it quick). Keep coming back with your sons and daughters, your mates and your parents. See you next year.
Helen The Melon wrote: "Morrissey story re: new album - https://newsthump.com/2020/01/11/morr......"Working title - Hitler, My Part In His Ressurection?
Edit, sorry I didn't read the 'article' first.
'fuhrer in a coma'?anyhoo, i've been busy shoving my collection of music media onto discogs, a/to catalogue them in nice fashion, b/to make it easy to sell items, and, c/ i wanted to! if you're bored enough, you can find all 710 items (so far, as i'm doing it by memory) and you can look at them and gasp in awe, at,
discogs.com/user/techxxiii/collection
seriously, if you see any vinyl or cassette items you'd like to own and pay money for, i'll give you a reasonable price, guv. this is a special pre-sale showing. you will obv. pay any postages.
swithering about keeping certain items, but could be swayed for ridiculously high offers! for instance i would let t.g.'s 'we hate you little girls' (near mint) go for the highest price shown (£581.78 - a tenner off to you! :)
i've also submitted two releases i have that are not on discogs database (took me f***in' ages!),discogs.com/Jackie-Leven-Greek-Notebo...
discogs.com/Junkmans-Choir-Howlin-Hea...
My goodness! I'd quite forgotten about Snakefinger.And Johnny Moped.
The less said about Jilted John, the better.
is it because,'gordon is a moron'?
Tech XXIII wrote: "is it because,'gordon is a moron'?"
A chorus that rang in my ears from 1979 until the mid-late eighties.
Nobody ever sang the lines "just 'cos he's better looking than me, just 'cos he's cool and trendy" (because I wasn't).
Hee hee, finding this hilarious - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BHkhIjG...One of the comments under the vid is spot on - "it's like two drunk men making their way home from the pub..."
Helen The Melon wrote: "Hee hee, finding this hilarious - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BHkhIjG...One of the comments under the vid is spot on - "it's like two drunk men making their way home from the pub...""
Nice one! Thanks for sharing Helen!
There are a few more on YouTube but they're not as funny as that one: this one's pretty good tho' 😁 - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=faRDvZA...
Saw this on Facebook and it appealed to me.Woody Guthrie’s New Years Resolutions 1943
Helen The Melon wrote: "Hee hee, finding this hilarious - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BHkhIjG...One of the comments under the vid is spot on - "it's like two drunk men making their way home from the pub...""
Brilliant!
Probably of little interest to anyone else....."Seattle’s KEXP has just shared a nearly 40-minute live set by Ride that the shoegaze legends performed for the radio station during a visit last October ahead of their proper concert that night. The nine-song set is taken entirely from This Is Not a Safe Place, the band’s second post-reunion album, and sixth record overall, which was released last August."Full performance here - https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=y...
They sound pretty good to me but then I'm biased 😀.
Some people on here might be interested in this new release (Tim?) from Giallo Disco Records. It's a bit too ambient for me but thought it was worth a mention. It's a "Berlin School" style album created on a Eurorack modular synth, apparently.Here's the blurb - "Legendary producer, synthesist, Ex-(synthpop superheroes)Psyche and founding member of DKMD alongside Marie Davidson, it is our pleasure to introduce to you the sound of one-man-sound-machine David Kristian and his album ‘Relevance & Serendipity’. Four tracks of drifting soundscape, hell ambiences, and pulsating tripmusik perfectly recorded and transmitted through the air to your synapses. Gliding ships off the orbit of Arrakis, where new civilisations rebuild on the deserts of old. For fans of Schulze, Tangerine Dream, Harmonia, Eno."
Relevance and Serendipity by David Kristian - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Relevance-Se...
And on Bandcamp - https://giallodiscorecords.bandcamp.c...
Get your Nick Cave "Loverman" action figure/plastic toy thing here -https://plasticgod.com/products/nick-..., only £58 . On sale in time for Valentine's Day - just what you wanted, eh?
it if didn't say it was nick cave, it appears to be a big lego man! it's a bit keech! mind you he auctioned one of his suits and a signed copy of 'the sick bag song' book, making £10,000 for the australian bush fire fund.
Black Sabbath was released on 13th February 1970 and is 50 years old today!Happy Birthday!
Tech may or may not be interested in a local community radio station that will be featuring a program on King Tubby tonight.https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/progra...
This Thursday on Max Headroom I’ll be exploring the work and legacy of the dub originator King Tubby. From building his own sound system to becoming one of the first, and most musical, record producers to use the mixing desk as an instrument, to inventing the modern remix and influencing a myriad of dance music genres, Tubs was the gold standard in Jamaican dub music.
This Thursday at 7pm on Triple R - 3RRR 102.7FM 🤴🏿
The above info is from:
https://www.facebook.com/djwattslove/
World Clock says if it's 7.00pm in Melbourne it's 8.00am in Scotland (both Thursday March 5th). I thought it was 6.00am over there but what would I know?
The program may be available as a podcast once it has been aired. Last week's show is up as a podcast.
'course i'd be mighty innarested, if it's 6am i missed it, if it's 8am it should be on shortly. but i've been wrong before! if not i'll look for a podcast.
it was indeed 8am. nice piece, all the bullet points crammed into an hour, with many iconic and crucial tunes and mixes paraded (included a reminder to get myself a copy of jacob miller's 'tenement yard/king tubby meets jacob miller in a tenement yard) - ideal taster for the interested, cheers val.
I always knew buying CD's would pay off one day, £1,500.00 for a Grant Lee Phillips CD? Bargain! Think i'll nip over to amazon.com, buy it for $8 and upsell! Singing: #We're in the money! We're in the money!#
Sera69 wrote: "I always knew buying CD's would pay off one day, £1,500.00 for a Grant Lee Phillips CD? Bargain! Think i'll nip over to amazon.com, buy it for $8 and upsell! Singing: #We're in the money! We're in ..."Does make you wonder if that dealer sells anything. Not the first time I've seen them offering stuff for stupid money! 😂😂😂
Sera69 wrote: "I always knew buying CD's would pay off one day, £1,500.00 for a Grant Lee Phillips CD? Bargain! ..."Useless bit of info time that you probably already know...? GLP was the town troubadour in one of my fave series: Gilmore Girls - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fZRKTvp...
(Seb Bach was also in it.)
Cherry Red have a competition to win a box set of your choice, "Name The Dodo" - https://www.cherryred.co.uk/name-the-...
doned it.when i win, i wonder if i can pick any boxset i want, and not the dull ones pictured beside the feature?
"Tech, don't let Bob Zombie near Bob M"be alright. bob z's more into eek a mouse!.....and the abyssinians.......and king tabby........and lee 'scratch' perry......
Tech XXIII (Chadicle Fellowes Society) wrote: ""Tech, don't let Bob Zombie near Bob M"be alright. bob z's more into eek a mouse!.....and the abyssinians.......and king tabby........and lee 'scratch' perry......"
Wasn't he a founder member of The Stray Cats?
yup. rockin' bobby zee - best known for his rockabilly cover of the disco classic, 'you make me felix (bitey, bitey meal)'(very poor)
As posted by Mick Thomas on Facebook:Can people please stop panic buying my Bandcamp back catalogue. Calm down - there’s enough to go around. We’ll all get through this.
And the comments:
... Bucket lists..... listen to everyone of Mick's songs.
... Are we gonna be isolated for THAT long??
... Especially don’t panic buy on Friday when Bandcamp will give artists 100% of sales.
Let me know if you think this is pointless & I'll delete the thread.