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Keep going. You've got the Taiwan fixture to pencil in too.

This is one of Adam Curtis' recent points about how liberal democracy is failing...it's all about management (in both senses of the word) rather than actual accountability. One would hope that Trumporrism has gone so far that the law will be able to deal with it. But Johnson and his ilk have a...

Been looking at a few videos in downtime, Jan Stixonspeed and Matt Garstka and stuff. Totally amazing but a bit like watching someone juggle six balls....doesn't even feel like music to me. The drum kit as we would recognise is is originally a circus instrument, meant to reproduce the sound of a...

Antônio Carlos Jobim, One Npte Samba This is just a little samba Built upon a single note Other notes are bound to follow But the root is still that note Now this new one is the consequence Of the one we've just been through As I'm bound to be the unavoidable Consequence of you There's so many...

It's the most devastating moment in a young mans life, when he quite reasonably says to himself, "I shall never play Lack Of Comprehension!" It is at that moment that all ambition ceases to exist.

I remember that!! I can't quite accurately untangle my memories of him, but I THINK he was pretty funny ultimately. IIRC you had to impress him, just like a record shop dude. Hilarious. I was gutted when the record shop closed down, what a spot that was. If I'd a had the taste in music that I...

Thanks for the very kind words dudes, I think Graham did a brilliant job. Terry Riley reference is spot on. Yeah, I can imagine the 1 is tricky enough for the first few listens. I can't hear it that way at all now, I just hear the pattern as it is. I'd really like to be hearing it for the first...

Fuck it, why not. Graham Montgomery late of these parts and of the incredible Rollers / Sparkers made this, with me on drums

That's a great comparison. Talking of Wire covers, this is mostly brilliant. A lot of love for the songs.

Well ACTUALLY https://www.waterstones.com/book/an-hobad-no-anonn-agus-ar-ais-aris/j-r-r-tolkien/nicholas-williams/9781782010333

(y) I really don't know...my German is weak, and the other thing about Zeltinger Band is that Jürgen Zeltinger sings in Kölsch, a challenging enough dialect with loads of familiar words spelled and pronounced differently, and lots of completely different words for familiar things. Ha, that's...

As it happens, I know that Mau Mau stuff very well, the drummer from Can plays trumpet on a couple of tunes. Spellmans had another project who only released 1 12", but it's great dark synthpop. You may know it already, but just in case, The only other punky stuff i know from Köln / Düsseldorf...

I used to love the Saturday and Sunday afternoon thing at the picnic, wandering around the main stage, bumping in to little circles of my friends on the grass, quietly pacing themselves into oblivion. I worked at a good few of them, mostly doing backline on the main stage, and it was always...

I saw a few theatre and dance shows, all great. Sometimes the restriction of no audience and all that has made people very creative and resourceful

Just packing my gear for rehearsals for a theatre show in the Fringe, starting next week in The Beckett. We had a chunk of rehearsals during the summer, Covid test every day, very strict distancing, masks all the time except for the last run of it. It didn't blunt the brilliance of being able to...

My god, they're so gifted

You sure are! Great post. I'm listening to the Mittagspause one now, worth the recommendation. I know very little NDW stuff apart from Joachim Witt and a few others, and similarly little good German punk apart from Die Ärtzte, your stuff on this recently has been really informative.

Last time I got that off a pop song was Chandelier by Sia

I'm very very fond of the 2 ambient ones with Holger Czukay. There's often something about those frontman types which I find a turnoff though...at a certain point they often get this kind of religious preciousness about themselves and their work, I see him like that. I don't know much Japan...