Archive for October, 2007

If you (like me) couldn’t make it to the Cure in Auckland in August…

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

Here’s the next best thing (kinda)! Download the entire gig (all 35 tracks) here from Kiwi Concerts, a newish blog ‘celebrating great concerts that took place in New Zealand’.
There’s some other good stuff there too, such as this Wellington gig from the Mozfather himself in 1991, the Zep from 1972 (!!), and plenty more […]

New Bloc Party Video, NME album download & more!

Friday, October 19th, 2007

You can see the video for the new Bloc Party single Flux (due out in the UK on November 14) right here.
An intriguing tale of love and robots (plus giant monsters) set to a pounding Moroder-esque Eurobeat with a slightly vocoder-ed Kele. Fantastic! And well worth a look.
Also from the NME, you can download […]

Last Atomic of 2007

Thursday, October 18th, 2007

Yep, on Saturday 10 November at the Bath House, but fear not, all being well it’ll be back in 2008! I’d love to see y’all there. Poster is available here.

Slash Story

Tuesday, October 16th, 2007

In what could quite possibly be a better book than the Crue’s The Dirt, Guns N’ Roses own Slash has a story to tell. Guns! Drugs! Porn Stars! Axl! Drugs! More Drugs!! Even More Drugs!!!
‘Yeah, yeah, cool, man,’ I said. I slapped down the toilet-seat cover and cut out four thick lines of coke. […]

Debbie Does Hollywood?

Tuesday, October 16th, 2007

Kirsten Dunst to play Debbie Harry in upcoming Holywood biopic, says the NME

Andrew Weatherall news

Friday, October 12th, 2007

General all-round top geezer, genius and (kind of) Mick Jones lookalike Andrew Weatherall has a blog. Read it here.
And while we’re on the subject of the man himself, here’s a personal playlist he put together for a map of how he got from teenage glam fiend to Lone Swordsman. Includes everything from the buzzing […]

If you’re looking for the cover art for the new Radiohead album

Friday, October 12th, 2007

that you just downloaded - the wait is over. Here you go:

Bill

If you only have one hour of your life to listen to the Beatles…

Wednesday, October 10th, 2007

…your prayers have been answered! The complete Beatles catalogue sped up 800% to fit an hour long mp3.
Details here: http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2007/10/the-complete-be.html

Surprisingly enough, it’s pretty tough to listen to, but, things get more interesting/better when these sped up tracks are slowed back down again. Here’s Revolution & there’s a couple of other links at the site worth […]

Updates, photos etc

Monday, October 8th, 2007

OK, thanks to all those who came down to the Bath House on Saturday night for another classic installment of 24 Hour.
Photos are now up (thanks to regular nothingelseon unofficial official photographer Cam) - get ‘em here.
Setlist is here if you’re interested
Details of the giveaway CD are here.
Cheers,
Bill

Bloc Party, Monkeys announce new singles

Thursday, October 4th, 2007

According to the NME, a new Bloc Party single called Flux will be out on November 12. Details here.
And everyone’s favourite Sheffield scallywags the Arctic Monkeys are to release Teddy Picker as the next single from Favourite Worst Nightmare on December 3.
And don’t forget - it’s all on this Saturday night down at The San […]