The journey last week to find the graves of Jaki Liebezeit, Holger Czukay and his wife U-She might have piqued your interest in the German post-war experimental music scene of the seventies. By watching this very well put together documentary first aired on BBC 4 in 2009 you will have a much better understanding of […]
Somehow lost in the 1500 word epic Frankfurt trip post, floundering at the bottom of the page, stuck in the honey, drowned in the coffee, scratched by the stone, the alien metallic disc, indestructible, stretches out beyond immortality, surviving the human race, rising from the ashes long, long, long after you are gone. If you […]
Nine hours on a bus from Berlin to Cologne/Bonn airport where Olivia’s Dad Gerd is picking us up. On the bus, a driver that told us we couldn’t eat and only use the loo in an emergency. “No crumbling food” he said in German, “kein krümeliges Essen”. So I provocatively pulled out my cadbury’s flake […]
On a misty, drizzly day, Olivia and I went to Truro with Dare as he had an appointment there and we went along for the ride. On the way he said “Have you discovered the record shop in Truro yet?”. Pete and Hannah run Music Nostalgia inside the Truro indoor market, stocked with both new […]
Today I left Poland. I took the plane from Chopin airport in Warsaw to Malpensa airport in Milan where I am playing at a festival with Anekdoten a few miles north in Veruno. What a beautiful country Poland is, wonderful cities, Krakow, Gdansk, Warsaw, whoever would think of going to Poland for a holiday but […]
Don’t worry, I’m not finished yet and thanks to some helpful suggestions, the tragedy of classic No.2 songs being held off the No.1 spot by unworthy chart toppers continues. The Jean Genie was released by David Bowie in November 1972 as the first single from the forthcoming album Aladdin Sane released in April 1973. The song […]