...is some sort of Fat Boy Slim project and Ig is a guest. That's about all I know. Someone out there can join the dots after they see this clip from YouTube.
Saturday, March 07, 2009
Friday, March 06, 2009
Angry Young Man
I'm in debt to Ken Shimamoto for the heads-up on Neil Young attacking his record label for pulling all YouTube material promoting, sorry infringing, his and their copyright. Go get 'em Youngy!
More at his official website where (surprise, surprise) his archival box set looks to be delayed (again.) The other bad news is that it appears to now be coming out on BlueRay only. Fuck that for a joke. Although I did say that about CDs back in the '80s.
More at his official website where (surprise, surprise) his archival box set looks to be delayed (again.) The other bad news is that it appears to now be coming out on BlueRay only. Fuck that for a joke. Although I did say that about CDs back in the '80s.
Thursday, March 05, 2009
New Saints live album hits the spot
Just in from Sydney retailer Mojo Music is news of a live Saints reformation album. I'd heard whispers about this but it's slipped out almost unannounced. I wasn't at the Pig City show in Brisbane but I've heard it and it's a damn fine gig.
On July 14th 2007, 6,000 people celebrated the band and their legacy in a concert called “Pig City – Brisbane’s Historic Soundtrack”. The show came about after author Andrew Stafford was approached to transform his book on the history of Brisbane music, Pig City, into a festival. Stafford says the set lived up to lofty expectations. "They ripped into" Swing for the Crime", and like most of the people in the place, I just couldn't believe it was happening," he said. "When they hit the horn solo, I died. And went to heaven."
Chris Bailey, Ed Kuepper and Ivor Hay walked on stage to thunderous applause as a thank you and the band repaid the faith with a set that nailed your head to the back wall. This was not a nostalgia show, this was a band playing at the peak of their powers and showing what made them so relevant and so inspiring to a world of bands from The Go-betweens to Birthday Party to The Hives.
From the first strains of “Swing For The Crime”, through “I’m Stranded”, “Know Your Product””Messing With The Kid” and finishing off with their unique version of “River Deep Mountain High", this was the Saints fulfilling their promise in front of an adoring crowd. As Ivor Hay said “We had unfinished business and Pig City was the way to do it”. Originally only available for sale at The Stranded and All Tomorrow's Parties shows, it's now been repressed as a one off retail version of only 1600 copies. Buy now or miss out.
Click here to hit up Mojo Music for a copy.
Wednesday, March 04, 2009
R.I.P. James Darroch
On the anniversary of the passing of James Darroch in 1986 (thanks Bill for the heads-up) here's some footage from November 1985 at Caringbah Inn:
Tuesday, March 03, 2009
Drool over some new TSOOL
The Soundtrack Of Our Lives have a new album, "Communion", out this week and their website has been re-vamped. Hope it gets some major push around the place. The parts I've heard sound up to the usual TSOOL standard. Here's a taste - "Second Life Relay":
Monday, March 02, 2009
Sunday, March 01, 2009
Return of the I-94 Bar Podcast
It has a new hosting service so re-direct your Podcatcher or go here. Includes The Kits, Simon Chainsaw, Mazinga, the Booby Traps, the Lipstick Killers and Kevin K.
Warning, Will Robinson: Lost In Space content ahead
Will Robinson - sorry, Billy Mumy - has an album out. "Circular" is said to be melodic country rock with at least one tune a politically-loaded rant of the recent Dubbya era. Maybe that song should have been called "This Does Not Compute".
Judging by his discography, this is the 10th album for Billy and you can buy some of them or obtain more info here. Post-"Lost in Space", he's carved out a successful acting career and his two children have done similarly well in the same business.
On a slightly related child-star/trash TV note, Eddie Munster (Butch Patrick) owns a Grateful Dead tour bus.
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