the art of letters will come to an end before a.d. 2000 - i shall survive as a curiosity
today i rehearsed for the show - we'll play 25 songs from 11 albums - or is it 12 - it gets confusing - not as confusing as jupe longue though - luckily i only play tambourine on that one. my conclusion is there are a lot of chords and a lot of words - several tunings necessitating a shed of guitars and not much time to dilly dally - i'm suggesting men an tol will entertain you from 7 30 until 8.00 & then we'll play until 9.00 - at which point you can spend 30 minutes in the bar discussing the finer points of chords words & sheds - then we will return and play until they throw us out. there is swag - pictures of t shirts are in photos - after the show we will sell what's left in our shop at this our interweb home. and on we go - the mini album happy birthday peace will be out in february and the film now called memory & desire should be ready for the summer. it seems to be getting dark now x
08 Nov 2007 03:20 pm by sd


remember remember the 2nd of november
so the lilac time by the lilac time came out twenty years ago yesterday on swordfish records birmingham england - yesterday i wrote a song that starts out describing st pauls in the blitz - so life goes on. twenty years of the lilac time and next year thirty since we started the durans - and alarmingly i'm only twenty nine.

fireworks all over parliament hill fields and rehearsing for the show at the queen elizabeth hall on the 15th - which songs to play from all of the fifteen or sixteen albums - and how many more shows can we afford to play as a six piece with four friendly helpers? the picture of david blue by wim wenders always looked like my future.

now albums don't exists - and nobody ever bought ours anyway - is creating mp3's for a few people to stumble over on our website the only way - when we released 2000 vinyl albums on swordfish twenty years ago did we think we'd still be playing together - enjoying playing the same songs? any questions?

don't know what i'm trying to say - the film goes well - if anyone's seen our rabid cult audience could you remind them to be rabid? - look after your pets in the the firework maelstrom - mind you guy fawkes rules from october to december these days - and happy birthday the lilac time x
03 Nov 2007 08:48 pm by sd


o generation of the thoroughly smug
i was going to give up and then i read this over at pattismith. . .

EZRA POUND
Poet, critic and translator

October 30, 1885 - November 1, 1972

SALUTATION
O generation of the thoroughly smug
and thoroughly uncomfortable,
I have seen fishermen picnicking in the sun,
I have seen them with untidy families,
I have seen their smiles full of teeth
and heard ungainly laughter.
And I am happier than you are,
And they were happier than I am;
And the fish swim in the lake
and do not even own clothing.

--Ezra Pound

x
01 Nov 2007 09:07 pm by sd


Radio 2 Tonight
yes we are on the jools holland radio show tonight (monday) and the sunday times gave us a lustful 4 stars here x
29 Oct 2007 02:55 pm by sd


iTunes EXPLICIT runout groove
iTunes at last - ask mom and dad first x
23 Oct 2007 02:55 pm by sd


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