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It Might Get Loud

Fri, 8 Jan 2010 17:59:06 +0000

Yeah baby, guitar galore and amps that go up to 11!!

Discussing the Divine Comedy with Dante

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:12:14 +0000

This extraordinary painting by little known artists Dai Dudu, Li Tiezi and Zhang An has become an internet hit, with people fascinated by the challenge of trying to identify all 103 figures. Click here to get and image map with titles and wikipedia links.

Telstar the Movie

Sun, 1 Nov 2009 14:07:58 +0000

A music-infused drama about Joe Meek, the pioneering record producer and songwriter behind the '60s hits "Have I the Right," "Just Like Eddie," "Johnny, Remember Me" and "Telstar." Recommended viewing for any budding music producer. Click here for more details.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Meek
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZw8zjBUODg
The Joe Meek Society

Kicking Up a Racket - Book Launch 26th September 2009 Marrs Bar, Worcester.

Sat, 22 Aug 2009 09:37:36 +0100

As one of Belfast's most important and influential bands a biography on Stiff Little Fingers' early career was long overdue. Kicking Up A Racket fills that gap admirably.
Combining a wealth of contemporaneous source material with over eighty all new, in-depth interviews with the band members and managers from the time period, friends, fans, musical contemporaries and music journalists Kicking Up A Racket sets out to chart the high-octane story of Stiff Little Fingers initial incarnation.
From their beginnings as a blisteringly ferocious, late Seventies Belfast punk rock combo right through to the granite hard guitar pop/rock offerings of the early Eighties: it's all here. Combined with a plethora of photographs, most previously unseen, Kicking Up A Racket is the last word on Stiff Little Fingers' early time together.
From punk rock to biting guitar pop this first period of the band's existence provided a fine body of work, which continues to inspire, enthuse and motivate to this day. Kicking Up A Racket is a must for all Stiff Little Fingers devotees and fans of punk rock and guitar music in general.

'Kicking Up A Racket - The Story Of Stiff Little Fingers 1977-1983' (ISBN-13: 978 1 84758 145 7) By Roland Link

Creativity at it's best

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 08:25:33 +0100

This music video was shot for Sour's 'Hibi no Neiro' (Tone of everyday) from their first mini album 'Water Flavor EP'. The cast were selected from the actual Sour fan base, from many countries around the world. Each person and scene was filmed purely via webcam.

Director: Masashi Kawamura + Hal Kirkland + Magico Nakamura + Masayoshi Nakamura

SOUR official site: http://sour-web.com

2009 Zealot Co.,ltd / Neutral Nine Records

LYRICS ---------------------------------------- ------------------

Your heart that gently reflects in the puddle
is your tone, as you pass through the maze of everyday

Footsteps of spring
the city starts adding color
The melody flowsLE LU LA LI
Through the colored lenses

ReggaeDubHiphopTechnoLatin
Between the waves of all the different values
JazzRockPops Category no more
Whats the most important thing?

Spinning and turning on the overpass
as we overtake that season
this and that, which color is your melody?
Sometimes you could get confused

ReggaeDubHiphopTechnoLatin
Between the waves of all different values
JazzRockPops Category no more
What are you thinking of now?

If we can embrace all the differences
It will shine the sky in rainbow colors
Your heart that gently reflects in the puddle
is your tone, as you pass through the maze of everyday

You can see it in any color, because of your clear feeling
Dont worry about it, lets just go as we are.
If we can embrace all the differences
The rain will stop, and the sky will shines in rainbow colors

Your heart that gently reflects in the puddle
is your tone, as you pass through the maze of everyday
You can see it in any color, because of your clear feeling
Let your tone shine like the rainbow

Pass through the maze of everyday
And start playing your tone

Postcards from Berlin 2009

Sat, 4 Jul 2009 17:46:36 +0100

I saw these postcards on a shopping trip during a recent visit to Berlin. I can’t remember the name of the shop I bought them from, but its somewhere off Simone Dach Strasse in Friedrichshain which is without doubt one of the liveliest places in East Berlin. To give you an idea of what it’s like, there are endless bars, restaurants and pubs which, at weekends, spill over with people. During the summer months, benches outside these establishments form what seems like one huge bar. I’d like to see them try that where I live!