Freakin Shit... MES in underpants ...

To state that Mark E Smith is currently on blistering form would be a total understatement ..... mid-way through writing a post covering the past 12 months re-for-mation of the mighty FALL - listening to the gig from last week at the Oxford Zodiac as we speak with perhaps the most mind-slashing version of Blindness yet put to task - and whats this - yes-oh-yes - they even drag out a version of Big Prinz - what next a garage version of Rowche Rumble would not ine the least suprise ... anyhows ... that post is on-hold to make way for this babe instead ... to qoute the press-release ..

"Von Sudenfed are Mark E. Smith and Mouse on Mars, and this is the First single to be taken from album 'Tromatic Reflexxions', out May / June 2007."

and very nice it all sounds too ...

Yeovil City Rollers .....

Well bugger me - 600 mid-aged-gals/grannies storm top Yeovil night-spot to see - Bay City Rollers - nope - not a headline from 1973 - but just to prove we have not lost the capability down here in the South West to lead the way in modern-gig-promotion - we have roller-mania hitting Yeovil again - in 2007 - friggin eck - anyone would think Punk never happened !



Whilst the rest of you lot out here think rollers - refer to those bubbling dnb bass-lines and fret about the mainstreaming of dubstep - us down here in the sticks have more important things to worry about - like what is better - My Shangalang or how to keep the tartan flares nice and gleaming ... or as Nick Lowe would put it .... "Derick, Alan and Eric we love you .... Lez and Woodie do you feel the same way too - BAY CITY ROLLER WE LOVE YOU..." - fuck man - got me rockin now - SHANGALANG SHANGALANG SHANGALANG .... YEAHHHH



God - takes me right back baby - way down memory lane - woosh - here we are Johnson Hall (as twas) - April 2nd, 1975 - the fog clears - to reveal me - knee hight to a grass hopper - a hopp-bopp-a-loo-poop a-lang-alanga - down the front - head-down no-noncense-boogy to none other than MUD - my first ever gig - and man - did they rock (Tell me - did they - I actually have no idea) - but I do still have the program - and here it is ....



Crist the junk people keep hey - apparantly they were supported by some lot called 'Together' - who again - apparantly won New Faces - and were once praised by ... Mickie Most - howz that for name dropping ... anyhows - Mud most likely sounded something like this - the absolute slamming .... TIGER FEET - thats right - thats right - thats right ... !!

The Hawk Lords - we salute you ..

Bleedin heck - what a cool hour or so of BBC4 excellence last night - makes me almost rush out and buy a license ... let me just say it hear and now for all to witness - I BLEEDIN WELL LOVE HAWKWIND !!!! phew - got that off me chest - loved the vintage clips of the Stonehenge gigs - sort of took me right back there - apart from the fact I was so out of me-bleedin-gord during the festivala - I am not really sure if that is a good idea ..

Anyhows - hot on the tails of that supa-hippy-bio-drama - comes news of another bunch of long-hairs on the gig-trail - yep none other than ... HERE AND NOW ...



The first gig with new drummer MERV, of Eat Static & Ozric Tentacles fame, who joins forces with JOIE HINTON (also Eat Static/Ozric Tentacles), STEFFE SHARPSTRINGS and KEITH "LE MISSILE" BASS, to complete the line-up. With DJ sets from STEFFE and MERV. Advance tickets available from Glastonbury Assembly Rooms - book early to avoid disappointment!

Fri 20 Apr - UK, Glastonbury, Assembly Rooms - HERE & NOW

You up for this Mr. Shirt ?

Too much time ..

Damn - it had to happen - so here I am Saturday morning in the DubStep room - Secondlife stylee - man I need to gt out more !! Come down and join me sometime ...

About bloody time I say ...

If like me you are sick to the gills with yet another exhibition of navel-gazing pseudo-intellectual-tosh - full of the same-old-same-old pre-show faces - attending under the pretext of networking - but more likely than not to snag the free booze and cheesey-pineapple-stick treats ... poor old art-sorts - never enough money to buy a round - or run a hot bath - if only the ACE would cough up more etc etc etc - ad nauseum ... well here ya go - a show for you all to exhibit at ... no funding needed - almost nothing rejected - and you even get a hefty percentage if the stuff sells ... all sounds good to me ....



More info as always here ..

Vibration Institutue - Volume 1

Shameless self-promotion - if you happen to be in Miami then pop on down and check John von spinning a well spaced out set of ambient drones and assorted broken and fucked up artifacts, I would of course be there myself - but I am too busy milking cows, chewing grass and talking crap ! ....

more on the release and label details here - Vibration Institute

Degeneration Punk...

Kindly uploaded to Youtube - thanks Negrau .... a rather cool retro look at all things now terned punk - with a nice selection of all the usual suspects - jolly good to see and hear Mark Perry back in the day - and a nice load of vintage New York types - including some classic Richard Hell and the Voidoids - esp for St. Anthony ..

Enjoy ...

Parts 1 and 2


Parts 3 and 4


Parts 5 and 6


Parts 7 and 8

Call for Elephant or Maker of an Elephant

This just in from the always classic Arts Jobs list-server ... well being someone who works with sound - anyone got anything out there that sounds like a 'specific turquise colored elephant ?' - wonder if the Das Boat from the new Fall platter might suffice ?

Anyhows - call out .....

"This is a very urgent call out. we are looking for a very big carnival type elephant, we are going to be comissioning an artist to make one unless anyone out there already has one. The elephant needs to be operated by 2 people and will only be used once so won't need to last for years and years! it needs to be in a fairly cartoonish style and
will need to be coloured in a specific turquoise coulour (we are happy to do this, however it needs to be done). Please if you are interested get in touch by the end of Wednesday 28th."

Singapore Babe Cyber Enemies ...

Having spent a significant time in the land of 'Ok Lah..' - the place still never ceases to surprise me - at times totally infuriating - others a complete gem of a place - and as anyone will tell ya - the food and night life certainly are pretty damn hard to beat throughout the rest of South East Asia ..... once the laughing stock of the planet though nanny-government banning-tactics - it now is a pretty damn funky town ..

So funky in fact that they have manage to throw up a bundle of cyber-babe-bloggers - all out for the prime - numero-uno-singa-blogger-party-crown - only one will manage to grab the title - any one bothered ??

If so - I give ya ......:

• in the Hello Kitty' corner - all in pink with fake lashes - and oh-so-bitchy-bitch-lah - XueXue
  
  
• in the moral high-ground corner Mia Tan
  
  
• and finally - in the leather, venus-n-furs - bondage and whips and perhaps much much more corner - Ms Izzy (aka Singapore Party Girl)
  

As they say in 'We Love Katamari' - FIGHT FIGHT ...

Let the cider-guzzling freak-out resume ..

That time of the year again - where we all descend to some beer-sodden dive and face the barrage of disjointed riddims and barked grunts all mixed with total abandon into a totally pleasing always somewhat unexpected throbbing mesh ... yes THE MIGHTY FALL yet again roll into town - this time Exeter Phoenix on the 27th March - sure to see the rest of ya west-country saddos in the mosh-pit !

So on that note I have here beside me a very recent recording of said band - thrashing out material from the long-awaited new slab-of-vinyl - live from 'Malaga AndalucÌa Spain 21.01.2007'

- and boy - are they a well-greased set of psych-out-well-oiled-coggs - so much so that it could almost be early 70's and here we are down the front listening to Space-Ritual era Hawkwind



man - there is stuff this band is doing that once upon-a-time would have seen them all fined/sacked and no doubt verbally and physically abused, giving reason to proceed with legal retribution against he that is MES....

It's all in there - squealing fuzzed out guitar-solos, white-noise acid-induced synth-lines - god - even key-changes ... now don't get me wrong - this is all damn bleedin fine in this household - ya see I am an old saddo who used to wade through muddy fields - stand in puring rain - at festivals tripping me gord out to the Hawk-fellows and associated mushroom-eaters ... Still have a massive soft-spot for Nik Turners Inner City Unit - a lovely merging of psychedelic-punk-rockabilly mashing ---- so here ya go - the new Fall sound - as usual - completely different - but somehow exactly the same - lovely stuff or what !!

The Fall - Fall Sound (live 21/01/2007 Malaga Spain)


So there I was grooving out to the above - when it leads to a sudden urge to hear - the real-stuff - ya know the 1970s tripped-out-flying-teapot-gnome-out-experience ... so I dig deep into me box of mouldy-old-bootlegs for some GONG ... now there were a bunch who knew how to trip out - yes for sure - and what better place to go than a 1974 performance from Rotterdam - featuring the drumming talents of none-other than Bill Bruford - man that should satisfy my need to seriously wiggout - shake me locks - and basically LET-IT-ALL-OUT .. so I slap the tape into the player - fast-forward to the track that is Flying Teapot and hit PLAY - but man-oh-man - what the fuck is this - another quantum-leap - for Gong seem to have somehow been lifted into outerspace on the Mothership and via Bootsy Collins and the boyz - have morphed into somekind of pre-Studio 54 disco-sluts - OK it has been years since I listened to this stuff - but frig - did they always have the funk ? now I know I have on the shelf here a vinyl original of 'Camembert Electruque' and last time I checked it was all elfish-folk-acid-doodlings - so what gives ... makes me damned scared to grab some old Funkadelic album should they suddenly have morphed into the Bay City Rollers ! Anyhows - judge the funk-nuggets for your self - and geddon-down to a blistering knee-trembling blast ::

Gong - Flying Teapot (Rotterdam 1974)

Some free DCL from CHAW CHAW..

Not too sure how she has managed it - but from Manila - Philippines all the way to you via blog land - Ms. Chaw Chaw provides instant downloads to a bunch of our music from a few years back - now this stuff has never been stuck out on a commercial release before (most of it having only appeared via some licensing etc ... - so hats off for managing to find all this stuff - shame half the tracks have the wrong names - but whatever ..!!

Feel free to click on the picture below of Villa Escudero (where Philippine culture and history comes to life) - for some free Digital Cutup Lounge tunez ....



Or for more immediate streaming of the whole playlist via iTunez or some-other device - simply click on the photo of the 'SHARP ES-6515TS 6.5 Kg. Babad Magic' washing machine - complete with 1 Box free of Ariel powder soap and Iron (Micromatic) that she recently bought -

NICE .....

Sound of a 1200 year old Tang Dynasty guqin.

Damn man - very very nice indeed ! The one instrument I wish I had started learning 10 years agao when I had the chance and teacher - stupidly I stuck with the bloody guitar and computer tech ....

click the pic for a jolly nice performance ...

godda get my candi free....

"sugar me my baby .. sugar me ...."

and why not we all say here in the glitch outback ..

Artist - get a bleedin job will yah - and stop yer goddam moaning ...

Patti Smith tells it exactly as it is in yesterdays Guardian ...

"You get people who say, 'The government won't give me a grant and I can't do my art.' I say, 'Fuck you, it's your own fault, you expect the government to give you a hand? The government is corrupt. Do what it takes. You do babysitting jobs, you work in the factory, you work in the bookstore or become a pickpocket, y'know? But whatever. Get a job.' Work is really good for an artist."

Now I know it might sound like asking you starving/needy artists to walk on a bed of nails or stick your head though a plate-glass window, but please - stop winging about the lack of funding from the Arts Council - stop all that intellectualizing twaddle - put down your pens - stop sitting around moaning about how hard the application forms are - and either get a job, rob a band - or STOP-NOW - thanks !

phew - glad I got that off me chest this morning - now where did I put the remote control and that bag of weed ?

Only After Dark ...

All this Spizz Oil talk over at the Kids found me this recommendation from none other than Spizz himself - man - Japanese Mick Ronson tribute band - what the hell more can you ask for this freezing Friday morning - and Only After Dark to boot - so a return video offering for yah Kek - enjoy:

Minehead Butlins - Stumbling Drunk Underpants and Noise.

Full review on a blow by blow basis in the pipeline - but for a taster of what at ATP 2006 at Butlins Minehead pipped my cotton socks clean-off ... one of the certain highlights for sure ... here ya go : Mats Gustaffson & EYE Yamataka - making a damn fine glorious racket - love this stuff !!



If only the Haters had managed the same !

$500 bottle of wine....

A $500 dollar bottle of wine
That's all I get man most of the time.

We been through the desert
Went through their last shirts
And all the lightning and crime
A half-filled bottle of wine.

They're all fat gits and they get on our tits
They're all fat gits and they get on our tits

That's all you get most of the time
For all the life in crime
The 500 bottle of wine

What is the man on about now - look mate don't ask me - I'm just the messenger - and today I bring you news of a real bargain-basement piece of 12-inch plastic - currently up for bids on that global car-boot of a place - which for brevity shall we simply call ebay ? OK ... Yes - it would seem that this bargain basement disk has finally made it to the sale-room ...



Bought for 70 cents in a Chelsea New York boot-sale only to find it being the long-lost forgotten, somewhat moth-eaten, sounding exactly how the

Andy Warhol Wig-Out-Exlploding Cod-Piece

apparently meant it to sound (yeah right) - somewhat scratched - very hissy - yep - the very first Velvet Underground LP - but with different recordings and mixes of all songs - on 40 year-old Acetate vinyl (which basically means - you play the thing - the thing will fall to bits) ... woop - yep get ready to place those bids .. this morning when I found it for sale it was still reasonably cheap at a mere 25,000 bucks - but man - with 6 days still to go and the price now already at 36,000 bucks - I suggest a reserve upper bid closer to the 100K mark to secure it ...

For those of you not quite sitting there with those sort of readies - then as it is nearly crimbo time - here ya go - 3 of the tracks from the Farmer - from the acetate - straight down the supa-higwhay-infobahn to YOU ... your welcome ... for the rest of you with a neat-100K to blow - go and bid here.

Velvet Underground - Heroin (1966 acetate)
Completely different take than released version. Guitar line is different. Vocal inflections different, and a few different lyrics. Drumming is more primitive & off kilter. There is a tambourine dragging throughout the song.

Velvet Underground - Waiting for the man (acetate)
Different take than released version. Guitar line is completely different. Vocal inflections different, and a few different lyrics. No drums, just tambourine. Bluesy guitar solo.

Velvet Underground - Venus in Furs (acetate)
Different take than released version. Vocal inflections completely different. Instrumentation more based around Cales' violin than the guitar as in the released version.

1969 OK .....

Well as me Tha Kid, Flinty and Bren are in preparation state for the All Tomorrows Parties 3 day bender in Butlins Minehead (would you believe it) - and as the closing act for the thang will be a stonking Iggy and the Stooges set - why not remember that glorious year of 1969 ... me, ma-n-pop and Debs Glitch were living in sunny Georgia US of A (bless them all I tell yah) - and we drove around in a bright shiny red (with jet-black roof brand-new and certainly spanking 1969 Dodge Charger - bought for a cool 3500 bucks according to the extremly crisp memory-cells of Pa-Glitch .. the following photo is a scan from the actual user-manual - damn shame he never kept the vehicle....



Man were we a cool sun in our hair cruising the highway bunch of expats - I actually have a pic of me posing in US Scouts uniform standing by the tail-fender (god look at me talking all 'merican maaan) - but I am just to damn shy to post it ..

This post is linked directly to recent talks of all things 4-wheel-drive and gaz-guzzling as presented by Niowulf whilst cyber-squatting Doms blog ...

Glitched on the slow train to Plymouth ..

Have Mac - will knock out Ultraman Glitch (great grand-son of Dyna and godfather of Tiga) to while away the 1.20 minutes (before the battery on these crap Powerbooks give up ..



Next - Godzilla vs Hammy Hamster in the Great Death Match under the River Parrot ...

Happy B-day ..

.... to you J-glitch - one today and supa-cute with it ... from the Farmer and Ultra-O_and_Z-glitch ...

Moshpit Donkey ..

Band looking for :::: ????

Tell us what you have - and you are in ....

Gigs / studio / groupies / international jet-set / bags of nose-candy ... in the bag ..

Musical styles - minimalglitchneofolkpschsteppedupdubshit..... the only beat that matters is the one that is missing !

please - no 4-on-da-floor abusers need apply ..

I WEAR A Zoot (and quite like a toot) !!

The Hong Kong muzak scene has been in decline for years (DISCUSS) - nah - no need to do that for it is saved - now we all know that accountants have always dictated what labels released and promoted - but they are no longer content with simply controlling the cash - now they too want the rewards that being the STAR gives yah (you know the stuff - unlimited piles of coke - disturbing amounts of bizarre sexual activities - well at least thats what the esteemed members of DCL get up to!) - so here ya go - Hong Kong Accountants - they dance, they rap - they be tha boyz !! Now did I ever post anything on that other HK Rap lot - Lazy Mutha Fuckas - maybe next time ..

Square Head John

This is my friend John - in homage to his dub-bass-vibes here is Java Browser Crasher number 2 - Square Head John .. again move-ya-kursa around inside the thang - click and see what appens to his mr.cubic....



Another in a continuing series of "Farmer Glith - watch as he learns more tricks and licks in the murky world of interactive Java (or FG a sad and sorry pasty-faced-programming-oik - YOU DECIDE..."