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/