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Santa's On His Way. . .

Merry Christmas from The Pipettes!

The above track can be downloaded free from Fortuna Pop! here.

The Pipettes will be DJing tonight from 7 til 11 at the Snooty Fox in North London….

Merry Christmas from Darren Hayman, Fika Recordings, and Me.

All this month, Fika Recordings have been giving away a track, or a few tracks, a day, in the form of a festive virtual advent calender in celebration of Darren Hayman’s new Christmas…

. . . have you hugged, kissed and respected your brown Venus today? Robyn Orlin reviewed. . .

“… The challenge for Robyn Orlin then becomes how to make a piece of theatre which re-tells the story of, and pays tribute to, Baartman, without in the process exacting the same…

The Atari Video Music and the Music Video

“… There is a kind of whig history of the music video in which early performance based clips, such as Jan & Dean’s ‘Surf City’ on the Pacific Coast Highway and the minimalist cool…

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Catherine Deneuve in opening titles for Repulsion (1965, dir. Roman Polanski) Title designer: Maurice Binder

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Pipettes in Manchester, December 14th.

"A symbolic clock is as nourishing to the intellect as a photograph of oxygen to a drowning man."

Theme: Cavalcade

The most preposterous thing about Zack Snyder’s bloated, flaccid big-screen adaptation of Alan Moore’s Watchmen comic is that it posits a world in which the doomsday clock is at a…

How Music Got Game (Or Game Got Music)

” … Badges must be worn at all times … “

Read more about music apps, gamification and exploitationware in my “Wreath Lecture” for The Quietus here.

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Rock and Roll Vs. The American Federation of Musicians

“… Listening to rock & roll, then, is to cross a kind of sonic picket line… “

Read more at The Quietus.

Monster Bobby! Live! in Brighton!

Just confirmed, I shall be playing a Monster Bobby gig in Brighton on Sunday December 4th at the Green Door Store, just by the station. I’m on at 7:30, playing for about half an…

Black Rain - Music for the End of Time

“Some three minutes of Shôhei Imamura’s Black Rain (1989) have elapsed before the first entrance of Toru Takemitsu’s original score. The credits have rolled, the principal characters…

Three sketches of Metropolis; from the current exhibition at the Cinémathèque Française

In 1924, Fritz Lang and his producer, Erich Pommer, traveled to America by boat. Whilst they were there they picked up two Mitchell cameras, both of which would later be used to film …