SOME SUNDAY SOUNDS.

No real surprises here, first up we’ve got that high priest of love, the sex god with a hard on, yes it’s ZODIAC MINDWARP and his LOVE REACTION, with his throbbing twelve inch beast of a single, Wild Child. Keeping the motor running it’s the JUNIOR MANSON SLAGS with their Plastic Smile EP, to round it all off there’s some sounds from the streets of 1981, with THE EXPLOITED and ANTI-PASTI and their rather ropey split single Don’t Let ‘Em Grind You Down, (2 live tracks from The Exploited and 2 Demos from Anit-Pasti) Neither bands finest hour, but an interesting item which spent Dec 1981 at the top of the industries Alternative Chart.

SOME NEWISH MUSIC FOR YER......

THE GASLIGHT ANTHEM from New Jersey U.S.A. They’re like Bruce Springsteen meeting The Clash with a touch of Rancid style Street Punk and Social Distortion Rock’n’Roll thrown in and that’s about the size of it, except there’s a thin and slight pop edge to it all that makes it, and could take it away from the underground. These guys Rock with their toe tapping foot stomping.. Err!... anthems. It aint Country, it’s the sound from a country about to get rid of the cunt whose been running it! Songs of hope amongst the despair. Take a listen. What you’ve got here is' Their first single, Senor and The Queen and first album, Sink Or Swim If you wanna hear their new album The 59 Sound , the one that’s gonna take em overground and overboard then yer gonna have to go and buy it, if you like what you’ve heard that is.

THIS BAND ARE THE BOLLOCKS!

IS YOUR WASHROOM BREEDING NAZI'S?

It would appear that there’s a BNP supporter working where I’m working; judging by the graffiti that was in one of the staff toilets. I say was, but it’s still there. The letters BNP and a swastika have been scrawled in pen on the walls, but hey I’ve got a pen …you SCUM and BLOODY NASTY PEOPLE. Also on the wall, in the same pen and handwriting as the BNP supporter someone’s written ..I SUCK COCKS, and left a phone number 0723.….nah, best not. Me and my pen couldn’t be bothered to respond to that one. No further graffiti has appeared, but more worryingly this lot hasn’t been removed yet. Some people just take the piss! and accept any old shit!

2 FROM 2000

A new millennium. There was talk of people suffering ‘millennium madness’ with the uncertainty of what would the future hold for them. So, how are we all doing then? 8 years into what has become just total madness, not so much a brave new world, more a brutal new one. Both these 2 albums were released in 2000 and appear to have been dumped in the musical dustbin of history , well it’s time to empty it, so here ya go The Closer You Get by SIX BY SEVEN is an aural assault of sonic guitars, laid back almost psychedelic rhythms and foot to the floor garage rock, that sucks you in and spits you out amongst the grease; powerful stuff. The Clash meet My Bloody Valentine, post prog punk rock anyone? Learning To Let Go by TERRIS is a cathartic trip, a breakdown of a record; rejection, drugs and mental illness are all expressed in sheer poetry. The anguish and passion of vocalist Gavin Goodwin is unbelievable, this is for real with emotions laid bare over a post grunge, rave Brit pop groove, like Nirvana meeting the Stone Roses. Awesome stuff . Were both these albums products of some sort of ‘millennium madness’ who knows. Why not try ’em for size here for Six By Seven and there for Terris, or was it the other way round? Enjoy!

IT'S ALL MUSHROOMED!

Just when people thought it couldn’t get any worse; thanks to Russia’s sabre rattling with Georgia and America getting the OK to station missiles in Poland, now there’s the threat of nuclear war. (only got 5/10 in National Risk register) It’s about time Russia stopped trying to compete with America, and it’s about time that America stopped trying to take over the world, and the sooner Bush fucks off, the better. I mean get this; without any trace of irony he has told the Russians that “Bullying and intimidation are not acceptable ways to conduct foreign policy in the 21st Century” yeah right, unless it’s done by America , and then it's perfectly acceptable.

IVAN MEETS G.I JOE

The Georgia and Russia dispute. Why now all of a sudden , things have been on the boil in the region for quite some time, then BANG! It’s there all over the media, images of nation fighting nation and all the human suffering that goes with it. Since the ceasefire Russian troops haven’t actually pulled out, they’ve gone deeper into Georgian territory, what the fucks that all about? They stand by while innocent people are dragged from their cars made to take their shirts and shoes off, before being driven away by the local pro Russian militias in reprisal attacks. I know this because it was shown on one of the news channels, what the fuck is that all about? Those peoples possible last look at the world is gonna not only be down the barrel of a gun, but into the lens of a TV camera, exactly the same as in Bosnia, when the West stood by as the ethnic cleansing began, powerless, or so they said to do anything. Is history about to repeat itself? Western leaders give the rhetoric, but do nothing else. Yet they were quick enough to go to war the first time against Iraq when they invaded Kuwait, and as for the present conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, well the Western rhetoric against Russia’s actions is just a case of double standards; we can do what we like, but you can’t. Russia and America are just like a couple of bullies picking on easy targets and trying to show each other who’s the toughest. Is it a coincidence that it has been announced that Poland has agreed to let the US station missiles there; that can’t have gone down to well with Ivan, so has Russia used the whole Georgia issue to show the Americans how hard they are, or have the Americans used Georgia and it’s pro West stance to show the Russians how hard they are, and don’t mess, because were right next door to you in Poland? I dunno, especially now Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez has spoken and said that it was covert American operations that ignited the whole conflict. What I do know is that almost a week ago when there were demonstrations in Georgia’s capital against what was going on I saw a news report and the camera scanned the crowd, and amongst the mass of national flags, there was a banner that said ‘Ivan Go Home’ (Ivan being a US nickname for the Russians during world war 2) and now the Americans are sending aid to the area, which appears to include flags as well as food, because the crowds are now waving the stars and stripes in the Russians faces. So just who is the aggressor? America for extending its influence around the globe, or Russia for showing the world what it can do when it feels threatened by this. If countries need to battle against each other to see who’s the best, why can’t they be content with sporting competitions like the Olympics, were innocent people don’t suffer; unless the games are held in China, where the denial of freedom of speech means deportation for those who speak out against the regime and its actions in Tibet, but that's a whole other rant.

THE DARK KNIFE

So the Governments National Risk Register is published, or as I like to call it the The Peoples Paranoia List, cos let’s face it, that’s what they want; a nation so scared that It’s people will do anything and believe anything that it’s Government tells them. Total control! How long before the ‘flu jab riots’, when the stock piles run out. It’s gonna happen; they’ve gone on about for too long, for it not to happen, isn’t that what AIDS was all about; to quote The Manic Street Preachers “…. Another Invented Disease” Think they wont do it, think again. What better way to reduce the demands for housing etc, people are already saying that we are too overcrowded. So there you have it the state can just let nature take its man made course and no one would be any the wiser. I’m not making you paranoid am I? It was just a thought!

THE WINNER TAKES IT OIL!

So one nation does battle with another, while the world watches. I aint talking the Olympic Games here, no it’s the Russia and Georgia conflict, and the gold at stake there is an oil pipeline, the only one that doesn’t pass through Russia or Iran on its way to the West. South Ossetia was the trigger; a small break away republic of Georgia, which is made up of ethnic Georgians and others who Russia has given passports to. Both sides say they are protecting their people, which is why they both ’invaded’ the area and neither wants to back down; so the bombs continue to fall all around. The fires of nationalism fuelled by the oil that passes through Georgia, on its way to European nations, which is why the area is of strategic value to countries like Britain, and why some claim the conflict is about Russia trying to take control of the area in order to increase our dependency on their fuel supplies. Western decadency and democracy equals death for not only the people of Georgia, but also those in the Niger Delta in West Africa were things are hotting up between Nigerian Government Forces, Oil Companies and the indigenous people, not that you hear much about that one in the media, probably something to do with the pro West values of Georgia and the fact that the West doesn’t give a shit about Africa anymore, not since the days of empire, that’s why they’re leaving it to the Chinese to invest in and exploit what resources are left there.

THE PADDINGTONS - First Comes First

These five ‘erberts from Hull, rode the crest of the gutter guitar gurus wave along with The Libertines a few years back, and then promptly disappeared off the radar for another few years. They resurfaced recently, playing several Love Music Hate Racism gigs, The Strummerville and Leftfield stages at this years Glastonbury, (they were introduced by Tony Benn on the Leftfield one), and they’ve just released a stonking new single Stand Down via Itunes looks like this great band are back and doing things on “their own terms” Anyway, here’s their debut album First Comes First. Released on Alan’Oasis’McGee’s Poptones label and produced by Owen’Oasis’Morris, it’s 30 minutes of “Punk pop tunes to die for” You know what to do if you wanna blast!

The Olympic Shames!

So the Olympic Games are almost here, and the Chinese regime is about to put on the biggest spectacle the world has seen; a relaxation in certain freedoms; which were part of the deal for hosting the games, along with cutting back on pollution. What happens when the games are over? Will any Chinese citizens who’ve spoken out against the regime to the worlds press face reprisals, will the games change the regimes attitude to human rights, freedoms and pollution, or will they carry on pumping shit into the air and treating the Tibetans like shit! While making money filling Western shelves with even more shit. Well if we didn’t buy it, then there’d be no need to make it, so there’d be less pollution, and if World leaders didn’t attend then they’d be sending a message to the regime that they still have a long way to go, before it’ll be truly accepted in the world as a ‘civilised ‘nation, but no! What happens is that we the British tax payer are gonna be footing the bill for a bunch of civil servants to go to the opening ceremony, as aids to people like Boris Johnson; who’s going along, cos yes that’s right in 2012, Britain (well London really) is gonna be hosting the games, and guess who’s gonna be paying?…. We fucking are! For what? To boost our standing in the world as a ’civilised’ nation?, one who’s government wants to lock people up for 42 days without trial, one that spies on it’s citizens while they drive about in their gas guzzling cars throwing rubbish out of the window, supporting the status quo, cos they’re to scared to lose the freedom that allows them to buy cheap Chinese goods. Then our government along with many other countries are too scared to speak out against the Chinese regime, in case they lose out on financial investment from Chinas emerging market force. Now that really is the fucking spectacle!

SCARS - The, Live, Demo and Peel EP

The Scars, from Edinburgh, one of Scotland’s first punk bands, formed in 1977 and split around 1982 by then they were just Scars. The fact that their first single the classic Adultery/Horrorshow wasn’t released until 1979 saw them labelled ‘post punk’ by the music media, they sounded like a poppier Gang of Four, yet on the cover of their only album Author, Author they looked like a punk Spandau Ballet, and on some numbers, they even sounded like one, check out Turn Me On from their second Peel session in 1981, it’s one of the 4 songs you can get if you click here, you also get Romance By Mail from a 1978 demo and 2 versions of Remember Me, a live one from Groningen in Holland and a Peel Session one. All great stuff. Franz Ferdinand Fuck Off!

WHAT A LOAD OF COCK 'N' BULL!

So The Northern Rock Bank announces hugh losses, then the government announces that some of the loan that they lent to Northern Rock is gonna be written off, not that they call it that, what they’ve done is change £3bn of ’the loan’ into equity to bolster the banks balance sheet. What a load of bollocks!!! From what I remember, the tax payer was gonna be footing the bill for ‘the loan’ So now let me get this right……taxpayers are gonna be paying the government back for a loan that they have given to the bank as equity, apparently it’s what shareholders at other banks have done during this economic/credit crisis, well good for them, but are they getting someone else to pick up the bill for the cost of their shares? and surely this means that if taxpayers are paying for ‘the loan‘, they are now shareholders in Northern Rock, and entitled to any profit that is made? It makes sense to me, but then what the fuck do I know!

They're all the same!

It’s been a while since I’ve posted any music, so rather than go on about the state of things; increased prices for us, increased profits for them etc, etc, etc, blah, blah, blah, I’d stick up some music to take yer minds off the shit we have to live in. Here ya go……………………………….....

THE “Totally legendary” according to Henry Rollins, and who can argue with that. GUN CLUB took the Punk template and turned it into an altogether different beast, one that came from the swamp and played the blues. Their 1981 debut album Fire Of Love is a must have, but you can’t have that today, instead here's a live recording from Lyon, France in 1990. Six years later band leader Jeffery Lee Pierce died from a blood clot on the brain, another loss to the music world.

MERCENARY SKANK - The Best Band You've Never Heard

The 80’s. Thatcher’s free market economics seemed to unleash a free market of music. From yer anarcho punk, Oi, New Romantics, Goths, Rockabilly, Glam Rock, Post Punk and Power Ballads. You name it and everything was up for sale. How did Mercenary Skank fit into the picture? Well unfortunately they didn’t really, which was/is a real fucking shame and travesty, cos they were/are one of the great lost bands of that era/error. From Rhyl in North Wales to London, they came marching with a mission to blow the city away with their fire brand Rock’n’Roll. The mainstays of the band were Vocalist Scratch, and Guitarist Andrew Tunnicliffe, and they meant business with every song they wrote; Andrews music being inspired by Scratch’s poetry, if there was any justice their partnership would have been recognised as the Strummer/Jones of the 80’s. The band only released two 12” singles No More Dancing and Work Of Giants, both brilliant pieces of work, that defied any genres. I saw ’em live a couple of times, once with anarcho upstarts The Assassins and another time with Rock’n’Roll Glamsters The Dogs D’Amour, other bands like Sigue Sigue Sputnik and The Stone Roses found themselves opening for the skank and their live experimental chaos. The band recorded a couple of BBC Radio Sessions and a TV appearance for HTV’S Rock Solid, one of the radio sessions didn’t go down well with the producers, who were expecting a performance of the bands new, but never released single Ghosts; a slick, haunting , and brooding love song, but instead they got a track called Gulliver’s Thunder Machine; an uncompromising lyrical attack on state power , musically it’s a guitar wall of sound, (similar to some of Primal Screams Xterminator album, but 20 years earlier) Their TV appearance wasn’t without controversy either, with the band only being allowed to play one song due to Scratch causing a security alert by waving a replica 3.8 revolver on stage and the band being wasted on speed and whiskey. That was then and this is now, and just recently a shoe box of old Mercenary Skank recordings and memories surfaced on the South coast of England. A myspace page was set up and the past has now become the present. The songs are all there for you to download and enjoy, but just for a sample here’s four of the radio session tracks, including the afor mentioned Gulliver’s Thunder Machine, a beast of a song, which like the rest of ’em hasn’t dated one bit, they’re the most positive songs of hope and despair you’re gonna hear for a long time, they still sound fresh and relevant 20 years later. If Mercenary Skank were up for sale they could have been the skuzziest stadium rock band ever, but alas we got U2 instead, I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again “It’s a funny old fucked up world” and it always has been! Will it continue to be? Well that’s up to us! In the mean time do yerself a favour click here for the Radio Sessions and take a trip to the Mercenary Skank myspace page for the singles and more unearthed, unreleased recordings. You wont regret it!

Gulliver’s Thunder Machine

Man on the news with petroleum eyes /Grins like a maniac whilst all around him fries / Down through the ages-tell you what I’ve seen /Total control with the Thunder Machine / Used it in Belfast, used it in Iran /Send thanks to the government man / Call out the riot squads to vent their spleen / And don’t forget to bring your Thunder Machines /We do it fast, we do it clean / Everybody runs from Gulliver’s Thunder Machine /New methods for the LAPD / Heard about them on the BBC /Imagine Dirty Harry in Soho Square /Blasting away without a care / We do it fast and a little bit obscene / Everybody runs from Gulliver’s Thunder Machine / Daily Mirrors keep reflecting The Sun / Telling people go and have some fun / White regimes keep the newsreels clean / No time to lose fetch the Thunder Machines / Last pit in the valley is closing down / Better cordon-off the whole damn town / Put all the trouble-makers behind a screen / And give them a blast of the Thunder Machine / Protect your home and the neighbouring hills / Cures all ailments, it cures all ills / Clears the air like nothing you’ve seen / No time to lose bring the Thunder Machines / We do it fast, we do it clean / Everybody runs from Gulliver’s Thunder Machine / We do it fast and a little bit obscene / Everybody runs from Gulliver’s Thunder Machine//

Sadman Insane lives again!

The West became his friend, and played oil with him. When he took his oil back, they fell out and went to war with him. When they captured him, he was hung for everyone to see what happens when you don’t share your oil with the West…. Then a TV drama is made about the ’evil tyrants’ life. It's a funny oil’d world!

"I DON'T UNDERSTAND THIS BLOG?"

What is there to understand? Question everything!

Making people work for their dole money, now what do we think about that then? Well I believe that people should put something in to society, in order to get things back, but I’m not to sure that forcing them to work is the best way, but then again if people don’t or can’t see that it aint just a one way street you drive or walk down taking and expecting everything for nothing, what do you do? Also, what do people get back? Images in the media of footballers claiming they are slaves because they can’t break their contract with one club to move to another, because the moneys better. These fuckers earn millions. Then there’s TV show hosts who think their getting shafted because they’ve been told to take a pay cut off their £1 million a year salary. Slaves! Shafted! Christine Ronaldo and Carol Vorderman can fuck right off. Both of em are getting extortionate amounts of money for doing jobs they love, and contributing not a lot in my opinion to benefit society. The real slaves, who are getting shafted are cleaning the streets, working in factories and dead end jobs in order to pay for the capitalist lie they’ve been sold. It’s no wonder some people don’t wanna work doing something they don’t wanna do when they can claim state benefits and live of credit in order to attain that celebrity lifestyle. It’s also no wonder some people working in crap jobs not only get resentful to those ’living off the state’ ,but those earning more than they are, but when they call for strikes, they’re told that they’re being greedy. Aaah! the beauty of capitalism and it’s inherent contradictions.

THE VIVIANS - A Human Angle (single)

Described in NME as Scotland’s answer to the New York Dolls, listening to A Human Angle, their single I’m not to sure about that description. But, there is a definite Punk Rawk Glam Rawk stomp to their sound. If you liked The Skuzzies download, I reckon this might be right up your street., who believes what the NME says anyway, mind you I did like their “Glam Rock Terrorists” description of The Vivians. Go on give it a blast, unlike a suicide bomber.....you have nothing to lose.

PRIMAL SCREAM'S vision of a BEAUTIFUL FUTURE

Take a ride around your city / Tell me what do you see
Empty houses / Burning cars / naked bodies hanging from the tree /
Don’t say what you’re thinking / Think before you say
If you say the wrong thing the man is gonna come and take you away /
Oh you’ve got a beautiful Future
You tell me baby it’s good to be free / Can’t you see you’ll never be free
You live by the sword / You die by the sword
You’re only free to buy the things you can’t afford /
A flash car / The house in the country / a sexy wife beautiful children
Congratulations you live in a dream / With a dead heart at the control of the machine
Oh you’ve got a beautiful future
Are you heading for the gas chamber / Do you wanna sit in the electric chair?
We’ve got a noose if you wanna hang around / Maybe a little torture to tousle up your hair
Oh you’ve got a beautiful future
Take a ride around your city / tell me what do you see?
Pretty houses expensive cars / golden apples hanging from the trees
Oh you’ve got a beautiful future

A POST WIV NO........

Since starting this new job of mine, I seem to have become a bit brain dead. The job aint mind numbing, in fact as jobs go, it’s quite interesting and loads less stress than the previous employment. It’s also loads less money, but hey as that old cliché goes “Money aint everything.” too right, and if people believe what the media tells them; they’re gonna be unemployed and skint because they’ve only got enough savings to last 40 days if things carry on the way they are going. The fear factor, works every time; keeps us chained to the machine, some tighter than others though. Any way I’ve digressed, where was I……fuck it!……….I’ve lost my train of thought, too many bottles of lager, and getting sucked in by the Manic Street Preachers The Holy Bible, what an album, it says things in a way I never could, and musically it just rocks. Every home should have a copy, if you haven’t got a copy I’d like to know why, but here; have one on me. Shit! Done it again…digressed and lost my train of thought……….”Compton / Harlem / a pimp fucked a priest / the white man has found a new moral saviour” That’s it Barack Obamas trip to Europe, maan! that must have pissed off those New World Order Right Wing Conservative assholes. He’s going around like he’s won the election, with his educated and articulate talk of change, trust and co-operation , and lets face it; after that bumbling, lying idiot Bush, the world needs something different, and! just to rub their White Anglo Saxon Protestant noses in it a bit more.. he’s black! like those that they left to drown in New Orleans. What else was I gonna say? That it’s gonna take more than a young black man becoming the US President to free the world, when people across the globe have become slaves to the American Dream. Probably!

THE SKUZZIES - Dissatisfied (EP)

If I tell you that these guys are one of Pete Doherty’s favourite bands, I’m sure a few of you are going to run to the hills, well…. STOP! RIGHT THERE!…This aint about Pete Doherty’s musical taste, it’s about The Skuzzies; a 3 piece rebels with a cause beat combo from London’s Lower Eastside, who sound like the bastard sons of The New York Dolls and The Clash. One of the best bands I’ve heard for ages; this is thrill seeking, top grade amphetamine frantic rawk’n’roll, played like there’s no tomorrow, well worth a click of your mouse, right here, right now! But be quick, cos it’s only available for one week!

Why are organisations called organisations? When they can’t seem to organise anything! Why is work called work when things don’t work? When you work for an organisation, you just know that nothing’s going to be working coos it’s not been organised. For example where I’m working at the moment, if they’d been organised and working properly as an organisation then they’d have had no need to employ extra workers in order to get the job done, still mustn’t complain though; a wolf’s got to keep the wolves from the door.

SOME NEWS !

I say quit, but I don't mean really quit, it's just there will be a few changes to how this here blog's gonna function over the coming weeks/months. Unfortunately I have had to be looking for a new job recently, even more unfortunately I've found one, the real bad news is I start tomorrow, but hey such is life. Anyway, there will be posts, but probably not on a daily basis, same shit, just not as much of it. What i've done with this post is put up some unfinished scribblings that I've been working on, before they become too dated and there's some music that I was also gonna post, rather than leave it all on the hard drive I thought I'd chuck it all your way. CATCH!

MANIC STREET PREACHERS - Live in St Gallen, Switzerland 27/6/08
CARBON/SILICON - Western Front (Re-Up)
THE WATERBOYS - Rock In A Weary Land

Man, I’m getting sick of hearing about the R word; Recession! and the general doom and gloom about economic hard times, what do you expect from a flawed system, that in the long tern destroys more than it creates. Global Warming, a myth or a reality depending on yer view point, either way there’s been a big push for farmers to grow crops for bio fuels, great idea, cut back on pollution and our dependency on oil, well it has become apparent that the process for converting these crops into bio fuel is itself damaging the environment, plus the land used for growing these crops could be used to grow crops for food production, after all we are being told about food shortages due to increase in global population. New emerging economies such as China and India have increased the demand for raw materials and also the price, coincidently in Britain scrap metal theft has risen dramatically, not only are these economies exerting pressure on natural resources, but they are also increasing global pollution, and for what? Cheap consumer goods for us to buy on instant credit. But now pay later, well later is now and oh boy are we gonna be made to pay, yes that’s right it’s all our fault. The media have packaged the whole parcel up: We are living in a sick society (Knife and Gun crime) people are scared to walk the streets, we are heading for a bleak future (food crisis, climate change, terrorism) So what are we gonna do about it?

Individuals are responsible for their lives, but why should they take responsibility for their lives why should they cut back on their spending, when the government doesn’t, why should they worry about being in debt, New Labour are up to their eyeballs, and whets their solution? To increase taxes, even this latest Car Tax one is a scam, yeah fair enough price gas guzzlers out of the market, but why in retrospect? Could it be to raise revenue! What can we do? Well I suppose there’s the lead from the church roof. When you look at the way our leaders conduct themselves (political sleaze, expenses) it’s no wonder no one seems to give a shit about right and wrong, and that’s what things boil down to; What the values and morals of a decent society are? and not wanting to sound like some right wing Tory, but as a society we are morally bankrupt, and it aint all our fault. True some have been duped by the capitalist consumer credit celebrity culture that’s been fostered in the media. True I to may have been duped by the media and things aren’t that bad on the streets, it’s just a climate they are creating to keep us under CCTV surveillance control. No things are fucked up! It’s all un-balanced. I believe in the rights of the individual, but I also believe in the responsibilities of the individual, I believe in taking a liberal libertarian approach to solutions, but I also believe that if this doesn’t work, then unfortunately maybe it’s time to get a bit tougher! It’s about a balance.

FUCK! Busy day today. Gig to play (Hitchin, Rhythms Of World Festival) Gig to go to: Pete Doherty - (London, Albert Hall) Full reports on both will no doubt follow. Best start getting my shit together, before I start crawling up my own arse with this post.

IGGY POP - Live @ The Ritz, NYC, 20/7/88

It’s been a while since there’s been any music, and it’s been a long while since I posted any Iggy Pop, so killing the proverbial bird with one stone sorta thang here’s a live recording of the mighty popster in New York City at The Ritz on the 1988 Instinct Tour. It’s not the full gig, just seven songs, dunno what happened to the rest, perhaps who ever recorded it was under the same influence that guitarist Andy McCoy was under. Who’d gone awol from the venue, turning up five minutes before show time, having been smoking some angel dust with a female admirer, not that you’d notice it too much by his playing. There’s a nice account of this event in the book Neighbourhood Threat, Iggy’s bass player at the time and former UK Sub Alvin Gibbs' on the road account of touring with Iggy Pop. That’s were you need to go if you wanna read about it. If you wanna hear all about it, click here! In August of the same year he played the Reading Festival and tore the field apart. I've got a full recording of that, which I'll post at some point in the future.

THE NEW BOGEY MAN? SNOT IN MY NAME!

An extract from GULLIVERS TRAVELS by JONATHAN SWIFT

“There was a most Ingenious Doctor who seemed to be perfectly versed in the whole Nature and System of Government. This illustrious Person had very usefully employed his Studies in finding out effectual Remedies for all Diseases and Corruptions, to which the several kinds of public Administration are subject by the Vices or Infirmities of those who govern, as well as by the Licentiousness of those who are to obey. For instance; Whereas all Writers and Reasoners have agreed, that there is a strict universal Resemblance between the Natural and the Political Body; can there be anything more evident, than that the health of both must be preserved, and the Diseases cured by the same Prescriptions? It is allowed, that Senates and great Councils are often troubled with redundant, ebullient, and other peccant Humours, with many Diseases of the Head, and more of the Heart; with strong Convulsions, with grievous Contractions of the Nerves and Sinews in both Hands, but especially the Right: With Spleen, Flatus, Vertigoes and Deleriums; with Scrofulous Tumours full of fetid purulent Matter; with sour frothy Ructations, with Canine Appetites and crudeness of Digestion, besides many others needless to mention.”

Humours: The different kinds of moisture in man’s body, reckoned by the old physicians to be phlegm, blood, choler, and melancholy, which, as they pre-dominated, were supposed to determine the temper of mind.
Flatus: Wind gathered in any cavities of the body, caused by indigestion and a gross internal perspiration.
Scrofulous: Pertaining to scrofula, a depravation of the humours of the body, which breaks out in sores, commonly called the king’s evil’; a form of tuberculosis.
Ructations: a belching arising from wind and indigestion.
Canine Appetites: canine hunger, in medicine, is an appetite which cannot be satisfied.

I sometimes think that too much thinking about things can effect your thinking about things! Take today for instance. I was working on some rantings/writings for future posts, my brain exploded and all I was left with was a bunch of words thrown up on the page.

Blood stained streets Victorian values for Victorian times Tory fuckers ineffective politicians Gordon Brown wanker USA Israel Iraq another war threat terror No respect No responsibility Absurd Political Correctness Health and Safety Laws Global Warming Floods Panic Fear Factor Credit Crisis Recession Unemployment Consumer Confidence Political sleaze Media Images Surveillance Society CCTV Video Games Science Technology Bureaucracy progress What’s wrong morals none values pounds shillings and pence Tax car US dollars oil prices dead troops Iraq Afghanistan crisis conflict capitalism creates destroys Anarchy chaos order No rules whose rules divided world Africa Mugabe China Olympics Tibet London 2012 The future? The past the present those that ignore How much longer? Our children’s world Fucked up Do something nothing apathy powerless scream shout riot or rot. Same shit old different day.

So that’s today’s post, make of it what you will. Have a think about it.

If someone believes that society should have moral standards with wrongs as well as rights, does that make them a Tory ? (Discuss)

WHAT I'M GONNA DO THIS SATURDAY.

I’m playing a gig. I say gig, but it’s more of a festival. Rhythms Of The World, in Hitchin, Herts on Sat 12th June at 4.15pm, I shall be taking to the Arcadeclectic stage along with regular blog comment maker and Peasant poet Chris Ripple, he’s gonna be providing the words, while yours truly will be supplying some stripped down and dirty guitar noise, and to complement this, there’s the dulcet vocal harmonies from Grant Meaby and Joy T.Chance All this is packaged up as THE N.P.W / CHRIS RIPPLE X-PERIENCE and it ‘s gonna be like it says on the tin an experience, because …When two minds crack and two attitudes collide you are left with one chord and the scream. What’s it gonna sound like? Who knows, cos anything could happen, and it most probably will. Like I said Hitchin, Sat, 4.15pm, be there or be somewhere else, but please be somewhere rather than nowhere!

The G ate summit.

So World leaders at the G8 summit stuff their faces while discussing the world food crisis and global poverty. Don't think that much needs to be said about this, except..I hope they all choke on their fucking pate, while they reflect on their past indifference and present inability to act and do something over Zimbabwe, which after all was once referred to as the Garden Of Africa, before Mugabe was allowed and enabled to turn it into a piece of wasteland where nothing grows except fear, terror and resentment, which isn't a healthy diet to live on.

So Gordon Brown thinks we should all cut down on our food waste, but why the fuck should anybody take him or any of his ‘right (dis)honourable’ cohorts seriously and listen to a word they say with the amount of our money that they waste. Food waste…. feed it to the greedy pigs who’s heads are always in the trough after anything they can get from the people. Here yer go have some of the peoples left overs, cos that’s all they give the people; crumbs from the table and as much shit as they can feed us. It’s enough to make you sick, lectured to by hypocrites, who need to get their own house in order, and that don’t mean making sure the windows are clean.

WHAT I DID LAST SATURDAY

I went to a gig, but judging by the rather meagre turnout, looks like most people had quarantined themselves indoors. Shame, their loss. Four bands for Four quid; bargain. Support bands were OK, but nothing much to write home about, all seemed to be lacking in something, wasn’t sure what it was until QUARANTINE fell onto the stage, then it became apparent; stage presence is just as important as the music, Quarantine are the full package, the real deal; from the born to be a front man Rob’s shouts ’n’screams and Guitarist Rhys’s frantic fret chasing chords to the rock solid rhythm section of former Scum Of Toytown bassist Toad and the man from many bands Neil on Drums. Short, sharp and in yer face Punk Rock stylee, with a slight tinge of nu-metal on opening song Assemble Me, but from then on in imagine Rancid meeting say Chron Gen over a few beers and what ever else, but hey don’t take my word for it, check out Version 0.1, their latest collection of recordings here!

KARMAKAZI !

THE JEREMY GLUCK BAND - Live

This is a real and rare treat for all you good folks, some of you may not initially think so, but believe me IT IS! Erstwhile former front man of surf garage punks The Barracudas, and main driving force behind the I Know Buffalo Bill collaboration with Nikki Sudden, Epic Soundtracks, Roland S Howard and Jeffrey Lee Pierce, it’s JEREMY GLUCK and his BAND, recorded live in June 2008, and what a glorious rough and raw row it is, from a man old enough not to know better. ‘History never sounded so young’ This is wild, feral, passionate and loud. Unpredictable and inspired; as rock’n’roll should be! On this recording Jeremy re-works some Nikki Sudden numbers Road Of Broken Dreams, Silver Street a couple from I Knew Buffalo Bill; Looking For A Place To Fall and Gallery Warf, there’s also a John Fogerty number and a truly awesome jam of Suicides Cheree, to wrap it all up. This posting comes with the blessing from the man himself, who has to admit that his new band rock. If you’re aware of his work you wont give it a second thought before hitting the click button, if yer not, become aware, after all what have you got to lose? 93.1 MB’s of hard drive space, before you burn it to CD! Go on, you know it makes sense to give it a click!

AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE / BRITISH DEPENDENCE + DEFERENCE !

ARE YOU READY TO TESTIFY?

What can I say about two of the greatest Rock’n’Roll bands ever that hasn’t been said a thousand times before? Nothing! Apart from maybe… “Here’s a recording of them both coming together as one and playing the riot city blues at Massive Attacks Meltdown 2008.” Thanks to Brother moggieboy over at the wonderful Webadelica Forum for his efforts in making it available. Are you ready to kick out the jams mutha fuckers with the PRML5 ?

eCONomics!

The head of Marks and Spencer’s was interviewed on the news yesterday and he was saying that the companies share prices had fallen, and that this was an indicator to a coming recession. Right, let me see if I‘ve got this right….So the company hasn’t actually lost any money, it’s just not making as much as it has in the past, and this indicates what? That the share prices of other companies may well fall, so, maybe this is a bit of a simplistic view of the science of economics; why don’t the companies lower their fucking prices and stop being such greedy bastards. I dunno it’s just an idea, but like I said it’s a lot more complicated than that, cos that’s the way people like Mr Marks’n’Spencer have maintained their wealth. Knowledge is power!

FOR FROGS SAKE!

Great! Not only has my USB record deck been playing up recently, but now, just when there’s loads of stuff to rant and rage about, music to post and comments to reply to, the PC starts to rebel by freezing, going slow and doing strange things. Fucking typical! I feel like John Cleese in Faulty Towers, when his car wont start and he starts hitting it with a stick. Me, I’m gonna either be putting on my size 9 Dr Martens and give the Piece of Crap the biggest re-booting it’s ever had (That’d make me feel a whole lot better, but I doubt it would fix the problem) or alternatively I could sit in the garden for a while and watch the frogs jump around in the pond. I say pond, it’s more like a large puddle, and jumping, well most of the time they just sit there all relaxed with their heads sticking out of the water looking daft; but hey they seem happy and it’ll get me chilled out while I opt for a more rational approach to the problem and run a few scans on the PC to see what the issues are.

But...........

lets not forget about China, Tibet and The Olympic Games!