Friggin’ heck! Fantastic night down at the Bath House on Saturday night – a big thank you to all of you who came down!
The photos are now up – you can get ’em here. Apologies for there not being too many – cock up on the battery front. Thanks to Manjula for takin’ ’em!
Bill
To celebrate the release of Control, the Ian Curtis biopic (it’s just out in the States now too, y’know!) Viva Radio (aided & abetted by the most excellent Dan Selzer of Acute Records) have put together a 7 part radio special for your listening pleasure.
Including large chunks of the Factory Records catalogue, lots of Joy Division & New Order, interviews with Jon Savage & Simon Reynolds, and a bunch of vintage post-punk from Joy Division’s peers & followers (including our own Chills!), this is well worth a listen. Streaming only AFAIK, but if someone loads it up for download I’ll let you know.
Go here: http://viva-radio.com/control
See y’all at Atomic on Saturday night!
Bill
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 to come so I’m told. Well worth keeping an eye on.
Oh, and if anyone, anywhere, has a decent audio copy of New Order‘s gig at the Logan Campbell Centre in Auckland in 1985, please drop me a line…
Bill
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 (FREE!) a whole CD from the LoveMusicHateRacism campaign. Here’s the tracklist:
1. Can’t Find The Door – Blood Red Shoes
2. Tristeza Maleza – Manu Chao
3. Who The Cap Fits – Mecca 2 Medina
4. Electro Livin’ – Akala
5. Burn Faster – Nine Black Alps
6. Love Has A Diameter – Biffy Clyro
7. Ice Cream (The Hooks Remix) – New Young Pony Club
8. The Big Lie (Featuring Ian Mclagan) – Billy Bragg
9. Nosebleed – Maximo Park
10. Summer Nights (Featuring Tom Paddington, Ears, Scorcher) – Statik
11. Campaign Button – Fionn Regan
12. Shame – Noisettes
13. Cold Bread (Engine Room Demo) – Johnny Flynn & The Sussex Wit
14. Chest Boxing – Skream
And, just before I finish being NME’s bitch, here’s news of NZ’s own (and very good) Cut Off Your Hands at CMJ in New York right this minute.
Have a great long weekend!
B
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.
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. ‘You want one?’
He looked pretty uneasy. ‘No, no thanks. I’m on the job,’ he said. ‘OK, right, that’s cool,’ I said. ‘I’ll do yours, then.’ ‘It’s not just that, it’s also eight o’clock in the morning,’ he said, smiling apologetically.
B
Kirsten Dunst to play Debbie Harry in upcoming Holywood biopic, says the NME
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 garage raunch of the Cramps to Donna Summer’s eternal “I Feel Love.” It’s all in French, which just lends it that extra air of sophistication/mystique of course, tho’ his comments on each track are in English. Worth a visit folks…
Bill
that you just downloaded – the wait is over. Here you go:
Bill
…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 checking out.
Bill
All shows at San Fran, 171 Cuba Street, Wellington
San Fran
29 August, 8 pm
$20, door sales only
San Fran
24 October, 8 pm
$20, door sales only
San Fran
28 November, 8 pm
$20, door sales only
New Year’s Eve, 8pm
San Fran
171 Cuba St, Wellington
$25, door sales only
Please note: Dates may be subject to change.
