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"Wire contributor, semi-mythical pop svengali, erstwhile thespian, sampler troubadour and untidy kitchen user" - Owen Hatherley of Sit Down Man, You're a Bloody Tragedy

"Your songs are pretty little paths - take us somewhere nice." - Elodie Amandine Roy, Applejack Zine
Rock and Roll Vs. The American Federation of Musicians
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“… Listening to rock & roll, then, is to cross a kind of sonic picket line… ”

Read more at The Quietus.
7 years ago
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Monster Bobby! Live! in Brighton!
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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…
7 years ago
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Black Rain - Music for the End of Time
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“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…
7 years ago
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Three sketches of Metropolis; from the current exhibition at the Cinémathèque Française
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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
7 years ago
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The Goons - A Russian Love Song

“That’s right comrade Elvis … Go on, shake your hips while we listen to the blips of our glorious Russian satellite moon”

Listen to this 1957 tribute to Sputnik from Spike Milligan and Peter Sellers - with a delightfully prescient guitar solo from a certain Mr. Derek Bailey at the end. (via @marcellocarlin, @pawboy2 on Twitter)

7 years ago
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wildcat2030:
“ “If popular culture has taught us anything, it is that someday mankind must face and destroy the growing robot menace.” Author and robotic engineer Daniel H Wilson’s description of How to Survive a Robot Uprising seems like it is...

wildcat2030:

“If popular culture has taught us anything, it is that someday mankind must face and destroy the growing robot menace.” Author and robotic engineer Daniel H Wilson’s description of How to Survive a Robot Uprising seems like it is straight out of a robot disaster movie. From Terminator and Blade Runner to Transformers and Star Trek, robots are coming and the impending apocalypse is almost upon us. (via BBC News - Fast Track - Why are humans scared of robots?)

Rise of the Machines….

(via wildcat2030)

7 years ago
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One more of my (probably never actually utilised) Dandelion Radio jingles.

7 years ago
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. . . have you hugged, kissed and respected your brown Venus today? Robyn Orlin reviewed. . .
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“… 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…
7 years ago
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The Atari Video Music and the Music Video
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“… 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…
7 years ago
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oldhollywood:

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

(via ecufilmfestival)

7 years ago
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Pipettes in Manchester, December 14th.

Pipettes in Manchester, December 14th.

7 years ago
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“We are on track to develop, test and make available to the public- within the next few years — a safe, reliable, noninvasive brain computer interface that can bring life-changing technology to millions of people whose ability to move has been diminished due to paralysis, stroke or other injury or illness,” said Associate Professor of Kinesiology Jose Contreras-Vidal of the university’s School of Public Health.
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Final Dandelion Radio jingle (I’m sure there were four originally but I seem to have lost one).

7 years ago
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