When Paul McCartney releases a new album, you close your eyes and pray that he tried to do something worthy of his talent. In the last eight years he has released Chaos And Creation In The Backyard 2005, where he tried, Memory Almost Full 2007, where he didn’t and Electric Arguments 2008, under the name […]
CBGB the movie is released this week and sees Alan Rickman playing owner Hilly Crystal. The commercialisation of the brand is complete. CBGB’s as a tourist attraction, CBGB”s as a T-shirt, CBGB’s as a movie with proper actors. It seems along way from the glory days of The Ramones, Patti Smith, Blondie, […]
Art as Therapy Here is a short overview of the book from Amazon: There is widespread agreement that art is ‘very important’ – but it can be remarkably hard to say quite why. Yet if art is to enjoy its privileges, it has to be able to demonstrate its relevance in understandable ways to […]
As a Robert Wyatt aficionado this is a delightful piece of news. If you do not know about Robert Wyatt then you can investigate many different stages of his career as a drummer, innovator, singer and a political voice. As part of the Canterbury scene (I recently picked up The Wilde Flowers vinyl release) along […]
Niels Bohr, Physicist, Philosopher (1885-1962) Niels Bohr was a Danish physicist and philosopher who famously saved 8,000 Jews from the Nazis by convincing the Swedish king, Gustav V to grant them asylum. “No, no, you’re not thinking, you’re just being logical”. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niels_Bohr
Ian Mcnabb will play a series of British Dates October – December 2013 in support of his Eclectic Warrior Album released earlier in the year. This will be the occasional Icicle Works singer’s tenth solo album. His second solo album Head Like A Rock was recorded in LA with Neils Young’s legendary band Crazy Horse. […]