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| saw notre music the day before berlin & the night of the US election. notre music seems to be an amalgam of old goddard late sixties radicalism and the video work of the mid eighties. i liked it. then the next morning - tired - i take my acoustic guitar to germany to talk about keep going. as the first interview starts i realise i have forgotten everything. keep going seems to be part of a trilogy now - looking for a day in the night - 6 - & keep going. i come to understand that my new songs are not cut from the same cloth and this exciting - i look forward to recording them. but mostly they wanted to know the secrets of radio & misunderstood - the repetition of we are artists who get together and jam and thus write songs wasn't what they were after. people get annoyed when you don't give them what they want. the other constant was the idea that i am the unluckiest man in all of rock and roll - which is so obviously not the case - but still some laboured to make this idea work - even with me insisting that i am the luckiest - i got to make all those records and sing my songs and i didn't have to be a bus driver too. anyway it's over now. strange sitting with people going over the last 25 years of life with them pointing out the worst bits and you having to say "well it might have been a little tricky but i became a better person - eventually - because of it". i sang on the radio for which i am grateful - only in berlin. people asked me why i blog and i suppose because it's a way of being here with you & communicating with you without journalistic interpretation or the music business fog and i'm lucky enough to have your interest & time. thank you xxx | ||
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read all the peel rips. my memories in no particular order are listening to him playing stones albums all the way through. then punk when we had an early music centre. subway sect siouxsie sioux and the banshees and the slits never sounded as good as those cassettes of peel sessions - better even than their first proper records. recently we went to the bbc maida vale (see photos) and i was reminded of a prefects or was it a nightingales session i went to in 1979, in the same studio. later peel came to the red star club in birmingham where my band obviously five believers played in support of the the nightingales. we gave him our single and the next week he played it. we had been turned down by mayo thompson at rough trade so this gave us hope. i used to record everything he played. when i signed to wea i found that they too recorded the whole show on reel to reel. in 80 something i did a peel session as dr calculus mdma.it was a thrill to hear that voice introducing your work. earlier when we went on holiday to llangranog we had tyrannosaurus rex on the grundig with john peel reading the hippy epistle. just when you think you've come close to expressing ones stuff you get an e-mail that says "devastated by the john peel news, he gave me a ride back from lincoln pop festival in his jeep with richard neville, we stopped & slept in the bunks & then i went straight to school when i got back to london. when we did t.o.t.p. he was the d.j. it somehow made it special." thank you nick laird-clowes. when do all these unexpected deaths become expected? love to the family. saw the hank biopic at the film festival. also “l.a. plays itself” very fine both. jean luc next week. good to see the new rock and roll circus dvd thank you cecile for the slits 2nd album on cd (and in japanese). i have a huge pile of cd's i have been sent and i will listen to but the leonard cohen and the malkmus/crooked pavement double cd keep getting in the way (and beard of stars) but thank you. off to berlin next week. taking my new martin that mark has sent me down from glasgow. from nazareth via glasgow. beautiful guitars thank you. i've played one since the lilac time 87 and always will. xxx |
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| Duran Duran Duran | ||
| Thrilled to hear of Irritant recording artistes Duran Duran Duran and their 12" waxing "Drunk On Cock". In other news the zips on my Chelsea boots broke so I got some biker boots to stand in whilst they are being fixed. Watch out Oslo. Recorded a wonderful b-side with Rob this week. It'll be on the next single that comes out December 2nd. It's quite a thing. The winds blow - but seem quite warm. Too many coats and scarves and hair in flight. Enjoying the Crooked Rain reissue. Got some fantastic organic butter from Borough Market. Absorbing Hemmingways Genders by Comely & Scholes in quiet moments. Luckily only 800 people came here as a result of The Guardian so I feel I can carry on as if nothing has happened. Quite why I'd want to co-present German Top Of The Pops I don't know xxx | ||
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| Welcome to my cultish disquisition. perhaps you have come from here. If not maybe you'd like to have a look. It's a Guardian article in which I tell jokes and fail to mention the re release of Music in Colors on Harvest or to indicate that record shops probably have one or two dusty copies of Keep Going knocking about. It also occurs to me that other artists other than Rob perhaps play on their own records. It's a hip thing to do. For a morose singer songwriter I appear very cheery xxx | ||
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| reviews | ||
| good evening and a good review in uncut for music in colors. an album so badly recieved on release that i ran as far as i could. well it only took everyone 18 years to catch up with the lilac time so 11 years for music in colors is getting better. people will get radio in about 5 years at this rate xxx | ||
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