Aloha Dead - Dead Lake - just so good live

https://www.instagram.com/aloha_dead/

 

from South London -- play Dry Cleaning - Scratchcard Lanyard in Seattle

 

song of the year - gig of the year -- ROUNDHOUSE. Snapped Ankles I WANT MY MINUTES BACK

 

Mick Rock - beyond the Velvet Rope RIP

"You want to shock people with a bit of mystery and beauty. That’s my favorite kind of shocking." - Mick Rock

Mick Rock said "A soul is a little more difficult to get out. People’s souls are very mysterious — but the aura is not. I want that certain kind of mystical energy." 

My punk rock generation might have thought he changed his name and got lucky but actually that was his real name and rock by name, rock by nature. He did say he didnt want to be an academic cos that's what his parents wanted him to be, but nevertheless he was in fact educated at Emanuel School and London and then Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. Yes, that Cambridge University! He graduated with a degree in Medieval and Modern Languages.  

While at Cambridge he developed an interest in 19th Century Romantic poetry - principally the works of Rimbaud, Baudelaire, Shelley and Byron. 

Is it any wonder then that he left college and saw the romantics and poets amongst the rock stars?

 

Every record I love has a photograph he took on it. Transformer is one example. 

 

I remember lining up to get in to a private view on the Bowery in November. We were lucky it was a warm night but I dont think I've ever been to a more fun opening (Tim Broun took me, that has a lot to do with it of course) but I recall everyone happy and laughing on the pavement outside afterwards, CBGBs steps away, and I remember the photograph of Bowie and Ronson in the windows vividly. And the music does seem to play ... wait ... Since he was a Transformer, let's go there ... 

the style it takes

 

Patti Smith crowns it at the Royal Albert Hall -- 5/10/2021

 THANK YOU MARKOxxx What a great night xxxx 

Opening with Dancing Barefoot, then She dedicated Redondo Beach to Lee Scratch Perry. She told us she was Grateful that we had hung on to our tickets for two years, and dedicated Grateful to us. She gave us a talk about Bunhill Cemetary and the Dissenters and the paths that crossed William Blake and Thomas Paine. She mentioned seeing the Queen when she was a young girl and how that was 70 (60) years ago and I got a flashback to the Rainbow when I was 17 when I had been in front of her and she'd jumped off the stage and bumped into my shoulder as she ran down the aisle and back. (Blakean Years)

And then, man, she went up in to some fantastic ceiling fresco painting for Birdland complete with angels and billowing clouds and skeleton pirate ships. She floated us down singing Blame it on the Sun (Stevie Wonder) with her son and daughter.

During one song someone threw something on the stage and she was outraged.

She finished the song and lectured, "This is MY territory. I dont care if you have emeralds from Cortez or handfuls of diamonds. You dont throw them on my stage. All i want is your love. And that's negotiable."

Her anger was a fleeting cloud. She changed the channel. She told us she loved ITV3 and that she watched Vera and White Cliff (if she can't sleep), George Gently, Endeavour, Grantchester, Cracker. She sang, "ITV3 I love you, come down like an angel and annoint me with your detective shows." She asked for the lights to be lowered. "This is like being a god but saying Let there not be light and there wasn't." LOL.

By the end of the evening pretty much everyone was on their feet (except the man behind me in a Rezillos t-shirt. He was watching it on my neighbour's rather good cell phone.)

Maybe the people who were mostly standing were under 40. There were a lot of young ones there.

By the end of My Generation she'd snapped all the guitar strings on an electric guitar bought out especially. Cheesy? Whatever.

I heard her tell me to embrace my fear and to look up what happened to Thomas Paine. Nature wanted to dance with the young generation she told them.

Job done.

I saw people come out on stage and Jay-Dee Daugherty taking photos. 

\The stage hands were giving out quite a few copies of the set list. I took a photo to see if I had it right. Had a lovely chat with Paul from Missorri who had flown in especially. He had made his t-shirt. Patti Smith had seen it and signed it. A gig-mate had snagged one for his friend. 'We're not married,' she told me. I told her I only took a photo of the set list.

And in the corridor I happened to see a very tall man standing by the Ladies room I came to understand, and I mentioned how so many people had flown in.

He told me he had come from Netherlands.

His wife came out of the bathroom and he gave me an electric shock by handing me his second set list. Rolled up. Just like that.

I couldnt believe it.

Paul had joined me and was a witness.

That was very nice of the Dutch man who nodded and smiled and left.

Paul and I exited by the Stage Door, him telling me the rest of the tour dates and noting there were no cars here and they had probably gone.

I went to get the bus cos I've got a Freedom Pass. Sat upstairs, like you do, and noticed stars on Oxford Street. Sort of like an early Christmas present.

Patti Smith is at Royal Albert Hall, London tonight - this is from yesterday

 

something for your Wednesday -- When Pere Ubu played on David Sanborn's Show with Debbie Harry

The opening song -- Breathe -- with the legendary Jim Jones on guitar and Tony Maimone on bass. Scott Krauss plays drums and David Thomas (vocals) 

The finale included Debbie Harry on backing vocals 

The Final song of the show was Pere Ubu with Debbie Harry on backing vocals. 

Patti Smith -- Central Park 19 September -2021 (thanks to Alan Ruben and Rainer)

Something for your Thursday -- Ruts DC - first acoustic set - from 12 Bar Denmark Street 10 Feb 2014

 Mirror Smashed

Something for your Monday -- Wreckless Eric

 

Some Sophistication for your Monday

 

from the Borderline September 2016. Soon afterwards the club was closed which is a shame as it had steps at the back so a lot of people could get a  good view. LOVE PAUL COOK 

 said hello and thank you to Chris Spedding afterwards  

Who Gets To Call It Art? my friend Jed Parker had a hand in this groovy movie

 

It is a rare thing when an old art documentary gets a second life! But a film Jed Parker edited (and did the music direction for) some years back, is having an online streaming revival. 

The film Who Gets To Call It Art?, follows the career of the art dealer Henry Geldzahler, a champion of pop art in the 60s. It features an amazing soundtrack, including music from The Monks, Can,The Velvet Underground and more. produced and directed by Peter Rosen 

Now available to stream on the following links:

info here on the ‘watch page"

https://www.wgtca.com/watch

The following links will bring any viewer in North America to the virtual cinema sites for the film:

https://showcasenow.showcasecinemas.com/.../who-gets-to.../

https://watch.laemmle.com/.../60ba9b67c3f432000180eeeb

http://larktheater.net/.../special-events/virtualcinema/...%

https://thepicturehouse.org/virtual/who-gets-to-call-it-art/

https://www.cia.edu/.../2021/06/who-gets-to-call-it-art

On the Chaise longue all day long .... Excuse me, what?

 

Snapped Ankles are shifting basslines

 

Bart Plantenga - our man in Amsterdam - produced this interesting video..

 His book LISTFULL will be available soon.

June 5th 8pm GMT. John Cooper Clarke

John Cooper Clarke will be appearing on the Todd-o-Phonic radio Show on WFMU

8pm GMT 3pm NYC time.  

WFMU Todd's show

SOMETHING FOR THE WEEKEND - PIL

I A N D U R Y/s birthday (He would have been 79 today)

 

Here is a link to 51 minutes of a film about Ian Dury ... 

https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-ian-dury-1983-online?fbclid=IwAR2FzmnqaEbAr3N95crrysHe-fe9QVnQoqvK21utRsxVfXnIhqL1RSOVqm0

 

this photo is by Chalkie Davies, shot in New York 

There is an Exhibition to mark last March's 20th anniversary of Ian Dury's passing.

"ALL KINDS OF NAUGHTY" at the Beecroft Art Gallery, Southend on Sea, Essex. May 19th 2021. Tour to follow.

Includes work by Peter Blake, Humphrey Ocean and Ian's wife Sophy Dury.

 

ROBERTA BAYLEY photographs - included in this auction tomorrow March 30

Two Roberta Bayley photographs are included in the God's Love We Deliver Benefit tomorrow beginning at 10 a.m EST. They are 11 x 14 inch silver gelatin prints, numbered and signed from an edition of 25. They would sell currently for $1200. Lots of great photographs from many wonderful photographers, so check it out.

a very worthy cause -- 

GOOD LUCK

 

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

 

The world is a beautiful place

to be born into

if you don't mind happiness

not always being

so very much fun

if you don't mind a touch of hell

now and then

just when everything is fine

because even in heaven

they don't sing

all the time

The world is a beautiful place

to be born into

if you don't mind some people dying

all the time

or maybe only starving

some of the time

which isn't half bad

if it isn't you

Oh the world is a beautiful place

to be born into

if you don't much mind

a few dead minds

in the higher places

or a bomb or two

now and then

in your upturned faces

or such other improprieties

as our Name Brand society

is prey to

with its men of distinction

and its men of extinction

and its priests

and other patrolmen

and its various segregations

and congressional investigations

and other constipations

that our fool flesh

is heir to

Yes the world is the best place of all

for a lot of such things as

making the fun scene

and making the love scene

and making the sad scene

and singing low songs and having inspirations

and walking around

looking at everything

and smelling flowers

and goosing statues

and even thinking

and kissing people and

making babies and wearing pants

and waving hats and

dancing

and going swimming in rivers

on picnics

in the middle of the summer

and just generally

'living it up'

Yes

but then right in the middle of it

comes the smiling

mortician

--Lawrence Ferlinghetti

B e a u t i f u l ambient get together with Bart Plantenga

 

Here's the link ... 

enjoy 

https://www.mixcloud.com/wreckthismess/

In the Charts this week -- only a fiver