Unoffishal July 05

TONIGHT: Weird Attractors, The Ruffness and someone else at the Liquid Rooms, Edinburgh, early gig starts 7:15pm

Guest-listed for the above.. at the same time we've been invited to an afternoon 'barbecue'. An excuse to sit in someone's garden and drink. Will have to juggle like f*ck to navigate these shoals.

Great Day yesterday with Andy G (Mr Dead Earnest). We discuss everything that's happening in the business and he gave me a piece of information I was not aware of. Amazon are driving all the independent music sellers out of business. They undercut all prices have digital access to so many distributors, catalogues and individual sellers and the point is.. if you buy something from Amazon for a quid or a dollar or a euro cheaper than from an independent retailer, you are contributing to the loss of music. If the independents go under so will access to so many new and as yet unknown artists. They're the guys who do the leg-work to find the new artists and promote sales of their work. Amazon just creams off what already exists. Please note how important these issues are and use your buying power to promote music in the real sense.

We also discussed the serious and chronic 'devaluation' of music, "GET 10,000 DOWNLOADS FREE" currently goin' on. .. Music, it appears, is supposed to be bought (well, maybe.. just) very cheaply or downloaded or copied for FREE.. Try telling that to your cellphone provider or anyone else giving you a service, food, clothes, any goods or entertainment. So why do people think a musician who slaves to write the stuff, struggles to produce it and then takes on the expense of gigging it, should be compensated in no way for it???

LAST NIGHT: The FREE TIBET mini Fest at The Bongo Club, Edinburgh 10pm where SANS TRAUMA delivered a STUNNING set

Cocktails at Fifi J's house.. (well.. lotsa lager and lemonade) and chicken and chat.. followed by a fly-by drop in visit to check out FREEVIEW at the Backpackers. They'd just come onto the stage when I got there and I'm sorry to say, I simply did not have the time to appreciate their entire set or almost any of it before I was off again.... to meet Jim and Robbie and a guy called 'Les' (used to be a footballer) at Bannermans'. A surprise revelation, Delta Mainline who just sent me a CD (and a very very excellent CD it is too) were on the bill. I checked out as much of the music in 'the pit' as the five minutes before we headed for the Bongo Club would allow. At the Bongo we met up with Paul, a band manager and ex-colleague of Jim's we'd invited to the gig. Paul used to be a major record label dude in London, did PR and tour management for Bjork and last time I saw him at the ALABAMA 3 gig at the Liquid Rooms about 2 years ago, he'd just come off the road with Jamiroquirai and was heading off on another tour with someone else. We had a great conversation about what's happening to 'music' and the business. He tells me the majors are now signing a maximum 3 or 4 bands a year and that's it. They expect everything up to the point of distribution to be done (paid for) by the band and the band's management. It's a grim story and we found ourselves on very much the same page of understanding. Then the band we'd all come to see hit the stage: SANS TRAUMA. That 'keyboard sound' that moves me deeply every time I hear it swirled through the intro to the first and my favourite track: 'Give In To Win'. Throughout the entire set Dave Maxwell exceeded all expectations. Sticks blazing (that word again but it's true) he dished out the groove.. Chris-the-frontman (ex-Arab Strap bass) mashed up a neo-psychaedelico melee with his guitar. I wish I knew the name of the rocksteady bass-player. The crowd loved it. And, more importantly, so did Paul. I think they will be talking. [Notes from 2 months down the line: they're doing more than talking, they're recording on someone else's dime...]

[Playing 'Spot The Review'?']: The groove had been cool and steady all night.. then the 'next band' - who shall remain nameless to protect the innocent - came on. This was a bit of a shock and something you'd never expect at a pipped as 'groovy' and 'socially conscious' activist induced Bongo Club ' FREE TIBET!' fete. I mean, come on... TIBET is a HOT P-O-L-I-T-I-C-A-L issue and has been for decades. I've got a feeling these boys don't even know what or 'where' Tibet is. The band took the stage like they were playing to an audience of McFly fans or 12-year olds...i.e. launching into cheesy formulaic 'pop-rock' which did not suit the tone of the event, or MY expectations. We've seen it so many million times. The posturing frontman wants it so bad, WE can taste it. Paul, the manager, left after one and one-quarter numbers. Someone else (generously) likened them to 'a bad Ocean Colour Scene'. Jim and Robbie had to restrain Lawrence who, now quite drunk and a fan of the late great Bill 'when- did- mediocrity- and- banality- become- a- good- thing?' Hicks, kept running to the front of the stage and giving the squealing frontman the one finger rating. I spoke briefly to another acquaintance I saw in the crowd, but simply had to get outta there. As an agent in Hollywood once told me, 'I don't have time to watch bad movies'. Life's too short. Or you need a paramedic with plenty of morphine to get you through it. Best done comatose. Try it at home. Practice giving lousy bands the ONE FINGER rating.

So that was yesterday and last night. Today I'm meeting Mr Dead Earnest for lunch somewhere and a few beers to chase the dog-hair induced aches from ma head.

Fri 29 July: FREE TIBET mini Fest (all proceeds, I hope, go to FREEING TIBET!) at The Bongo Club, Edinburgh 10pm and FREEVIEW, @ Caledonian Backpackers, Edinburgh 8:30pm

TRANSAUDIO delivered a BLAZING set. My only comments to the sound engineer: 'go back to pulling pints upstairs'.. He gave them no soundcheck and kept Scot Prentice's vocals down in the mix. But so what? They played a killer set.. So tight (what a drummer!) you'd need a nano-tech to map the join. My new-found companion (George!) an instant just-add-water fan, agreed, 'tighter than a gnat's bum'. Well done. SANS TRAUMA, up next, came to the stage with less urgency but total confidence and 'ease'. They're comfortable with all of this now. Every gig I see, they're glowing with confidence. But more important: they've got a unique sound. Thank you to Dave Maxwell for dedicating the first song with 'that keyboard sound I love', to me. Couldn't stay for headliners 'The Matchstick Men'. Had a train to catch.. was offered a 'kip' on George's sofa. Is that what they're calling it these days? Saw the guitarist from Fuckoff Machete at the back and seemed to recognise one or two others I couldn't place last night or this morning. Good club.. heaving.. had fun upstairs pre-gig.. two non-gig-goers trying to speak to me at the same time.. '''Scuse me pal... Are you her man???? well then, would ye move while I'm speakin' to her!'" pool cues at the ready...no bloodshed. On the way home from Waverley stopped into the Q Bar to use the facilities, i.e. le toillette.. saw Big T for one of those nano-seconds.. he was in conference with a girl I seem to recall is or was a flat-mate. I let them get on with it. Bar was closed.. had a glass of water.. watched the Open Mic regulars bleat out their painfully familiar covers to a handful of drunken leaners, dancers, listeners...so opposite to the excitement of where I'd just been. Walked all the way home down Leith Walk.. nice night.. no rain... lots of young Russians out in the streets... Stravstvuiche! and Dosvedanya..

27 July: SANS TRAUMA & TRANSAUDIO, 2 of my favourite bands will be playing tonight at Nice N Sleazy, Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow

Not the club.. the literal sky-held phenomenon (Full moon in Capricorn, for astrophiles). Been such a busy week, no time to take notes or make updates. But Tonight.. MYELECTRICLOVEAFFAIR at Cafe Royal in Edinburgh 8:30pm. I will attempt to be there to see if they won the Turner Prize yet again. Not sure what I mean? Visit last month's weblog: June 04 (Notes from 23 July Thursday night's gig: They actually played! and it was great! Nice room at the Cafe Royal.. very authentic kind of vibe. I could see Velvet Underground playing there.. Nico up on the stage.. nice night. Also.. Mercury turns retrograde in Leo today for the next 3 weeks.)

16 July 2005 Sat MGCK Music

Pirhana Poets and Saturn enters Leo to stay for the next 2 years and grind us into shape!!

Gaz Death has sent me the list of all those who participated in the Pirhana Poetry Slam the other night. They are as follows:

"fiona lindsay, brendan moohan, fritz, audrey witherspoon, gary death, amadeus, kris cantwell, sean mcbride, fraser fruity blue, robin cairns, bram gieben, tickle, stephen barnaby, craig duffy, bruce raffiek and tommy doyle

Pirhana Poetry Slam: What a GR8 night!!! and some very talented wordsmiths throwin' 'round some incredibly thought-provocative and often hilarious ideas. I wish I knew all the names of the 'Slammers'.. but those that come to mind and stay with me is one guy with the surname Rafique? Fantastic poetry.. vivid images of our world gone mad and bad. Our comforts slaved off the backs of the dead millions in other cultures. Chris Cantwell, whom I do know well, Brendan Mohan? is that his name? Stephen Barnaby (THE WINNER!) with the animal stories...Robin Cairns with his 'Scots Wa Hae Scots Wa Hasnae'. I just wish I remembered or knew every Slammer's name and had a copy of their poetry.. Fiona Lindsay? The only female fighting it out. They were all so good and the place was packed; standing room only. Fritz was there as well in the first round. I didn't have the bottle to compete, but someone mentioned my Bader Meinhoff piece. Gave me hope for my poetic career. Jonathan Muirhead and Gaz Death were the best hosts as per always.

The Last (ever) Full moon Club Last Night was sublime. Lots of people, lots of players, lots of great vibes. The night was stolen pretty much by the ever irascible and hysterically funny William Mysterious, the Z28's, who played a SCORCHING set without their bass player who was 'taking his tea in the park', Norman Lamont's last two tracks "This Horse" and "Ballad to Bob Dylan" and a guy who used to play with The Lurkers called Big Arfur. (Electra wasnae bad neither. Ackshully, if I say so myself, she was pretty fuckin amazing!) Fritz was in fine form and when pressed about the future of the Full Moon, i.e. 'you can't tell me this is the last one ever?' said, 'maybe it's just a pause.'.. Let's hope so.

Jonathan Muirhead wrote a great piece dedicated to Fritz and the Full Moon and what it actually represents: freedom of expression. When I get a copy of it tonight at The Pirhana Poetry Slam at Cafe Royale I'll print it here. [photos courtesy of Malcolm McLean © 2005 - Andy 'Mad Dog' MacFarlane has his hands full: an un-named female on his right and Susan 'Wench-Babe' Squires on his left.]}

Other Great News: Despite the globally warmed up early season (it's getting earlier each year) hurricane activity in the Caribbean and The Gulf of Mexico, i.e. Florida... our very own Fifi J (Friend Fifi) should be returning to these shores any time soon. Can't wait to have her back!

first 16 slammers to sign up, 1st come 1st served, list opens Saturday June 11th

slammers free entry, Door Admission £2.00, Slam starts 9pm - 11.30pm

all proceeds will be going to Cancer Research, (this is being organised by Jonathan Muirhead)

Article from the LA Times this morning: "Some Africa Experts Shrug at G-8 Largess"

GLENEAGLES, Scotland — Leaders of the world's richest nations toasted their own beneficence. Africa advocates praised the leaders' commitment to provide more aid. Live 8 impresarios Bono and Bob Geldof proclaimed it a remarkable moment in history.

Yet to African-born economist George Ayittey, the hearty endorsements of the just-concluded Group of 8 summit in Gleneagles had a familiar ring.

We've seen all these things before," said Ayittey, an American University professor who participated in a "Shadow G-8" conference in Edinburgh, the Scottish capital. "It is noble to see the rich countries wanting to help. But the solutions to Africa's problems lie in Africa itself, and Africa's salvation should not depend on whether Westerners attend rock concerts."

You can spend £60 a ticket at T in the Park reaching saturation point with many of the same pop/rock acts you saw all this last week making themselves richer while 'making poverty history'... or... you can take a refreshing break from commercialism and come to the Last Full Moon Club @ Bannermans, Niddry Street in Edinburgh. The event is being dubbed, 'The Full Moon Eclipse'. Running order is as follows. Hope to see you there Sunday night.---------------------------

6.00 Tamlin
6.30 Rosie Bell
7.00 Electra
7.30 William Mysterious
8.00 Etrangere
8.30 Norman Lamont & The Innocents
9.00 Lee Patterson
9.30 Z/28
10.00 Paul Research
10.30 Zen Transmission
11.00 The City
11.30 Shock & Awe
12.00 Big Arfur

Also on the bill are performance poets Audrey Witherspoon (the only glaswegian dominatrix in Amsterdam), Gary Death, and Just Frank, with a couple of other surprise guests popping in. See y'all on Sunday!
Cheers,
Fritz

All eyes were on the G8 Summit and the 'anarchists' up in Scotland while down south the real professionals were carrying out their handiwork. Nothing prepares you for instant hideous violence and the death of someone close to you. I had the experience of a 'loved one' being on the Piper Alpha oil rig when it blew up, turned into a ball of flame and sank to the bottom of the North Sea on 6 July 1988. As you watch the event on the news it's still just 'TV' and you make a cup of coffee and go on in your normal life in your normal sleep, until you get the phone call telling you someone you know was 'there'. The effects of that wake-up call are irreversible and change you for life. The nightmares go on for a long time after. For those closest to the dead, the nightmares may never stop.

Someone emailed me to let me know the link www.clearchannelsucks.org was not leading to any page. After a bit of investigation and scurrying around the web I realise ClearChannel has probably nuked this anti-ClearChannel site til their asses glowed in the dark. On the BBC News last night they had 2 journalists from the States discussing the Bush administrations policy of repeatedly discrediting previously lauded news sources, i.e. The New York Times and CBS (amongst others) they are relentlessly attacking the credibility of. This tactic skews the public towards the news outlets approved by the Bush administration which will give you only the viewpoint that supports the administration's policies, i.e. Fox News and possibly CNN. This could lead to ONE news channel. In the UK, newspapers are reducing their journalism staffs in a bid to retain larger share profit for investors. This reduces the money and time spent on investigative reportage.

My only message to everyone: please become 'aware'. Seek out information. Be curious. Look for the truth and don't be complacent.

Links to information: "Who Owns What: ClearChannel Corporation" - a list of all the radio stations, news outlets, media companies and international companies owned by the monopoly seeking monster. They even own Steven Gerrard of Liverpool FC via SFX Sports Group: http://www.cjr.org/tools/owners/clearchannel.asp

5 July 2005 Tues MGCK Music

Saw a great hand-painted billboard today: "Make Civilisation History!"

"How I spent the 4th of July": Wearing The Paranoid Monkeys' t-shirt and dancing with the anarchists at the foot of The Mound in Edinburgh. Sorry.. no photos. The police have taken enough photos of everyone involved. Al Capone never saw so many police cameras.

Earlier yesterday I got an email from TRANSAUDIO.. Their CD Launch party is tomorrow night and they asked if I was doing the gig with them. We spoke about it a month ago when Scot came over for the Full Moon Club, but then I didn't hear from them again. Now I'm thinking... a million people are going to be blocking traffic and public transportation is going to be a loaded issue and I really enjoy dancing with the Anarchists.. but I would still do the gig if they wanted. Scot Prentice got back to me today and said.. hmmm.. yeah.. you're right.. G8 stuff.... would you do a gig with us in August? Yes.. that would probably be better, but I wish them all the best if they're going through with the CD Launch. It will be at Bar Bloc, 177 Bath Street, in Glasgow, probably kicking off around 8PM.. They're one of the few bands in Scotland I recommend seeing live if you can get over there. Sorry I will not be there, but there's a whole world of things going on between the 2 cities and Gleneagles tomorrow.

2 July 2005 Sat MGCK Music

From Edinburgh: A letter to a friend via the Pentagon

""The Pre-G8 Summit weekend kicks off in Edinburgh. No fireworks.. not yet.. but

thought provoking all the way.

I had my full-in-yer-face photograph taken by the police yesterday.. for no reason other than I walked into a shop on Leith Walk supplying G8 Info, i.e. how to peaceably protest, where to camp if you are from out of town and piles of leaflets of all the events and websites you can visit in this 'Make Poverty History' anti-G8 campaign.

I would never have noticed the shop, it was that small, if there weren't a dozen police standing outside trying to intimidate people from entering. That irked me and so, I walked right in. Found lots of interesting information.. so many horrible things I did and didn't know were going on in this world in the name of 'governing'.. Anyway... the long and the short of it, I walked out the door into a policeman holding a camera up to my face and snapping my photograph. Now.. you're a lawyer.. is that legal? I am not committing a crime by walking into a shop on Leith Walk. I probably should have gone to the police department (wouldn't that be a funny twist) and raised a complaint! But was in a hurry to get somewhere else. Is it too late to complain?

I was so angry.. I wanted to tell him I'd never called a policeman a pig, as a matter of fact, I have a great love affair with ALL New York cops, but I was seriously thinking about it for the first time. He turned me into an 'anarchist' on the spot.

Then I went up to the gym which is on the other side of Arthur's Seat and another wonderful walk through the park on my way home then squeezing between Holyrood Palace and the new Scottish Parliament, only to find they must be expecting the Hezbollah or some other guys driving trucks filled with TNT or plastic. The palace is barricaded with riot fencing and 2600KG road barriers. The Scottish Parliament is less barricaded (probably because the architect is Catalan and Camilla hates it). We were allowed to walk more or less single file through a small gate in the fencing around a guided path and out a small gate on the other side with dozens of policemen along the path watching us and dozens more in a big yellow school bus waiting for one of the on-lookers and passers-by to trigger a one-man riot.

The other night my partner video'd BBC's Question Time, the great Tony Benn was describing his fears that we were headed for a global police state, totalitarianism, that these reductions of personal freedoms were the beginning.. He stated that the government acts as if they've 'given' you your freedoms or are licensing them to you and can revoke them at any time. He said it's patently not true and if you don't stand up where you see them disappearing and don't protest and don't act, we are headed down that long dark slippery slope to that horrible place complacency will inevitably lead us.

Sorry for the long email, but we missed our 10 o'clock call and really.. yesterday was a terrifically politically thoughtful day for me. I understand the politics of liberty, rebellion and 'just cause'. I don't like what I see happening.. not in the sky, not on the ground, not in the water, not in the air, not in the thought pollution and dumbing down of huge portions of the population with the satiation of consumerism. Give everyone a credit-card and they're happy monkeys and you can take anything else away from them, they won't notice as long as they can buy stuff. Just put a stupid roof over their heads and 156 channels and they won't even notice the razor

wire fencing springing up around them..

Anyway... that's it from Anarchic Central. I'm going now.. it's the day of the Edinburgh Make Poverty History march.. I'm not sure I believe in the nuts and bolts of these efforts.. marching against poverty when at the end of the march a bunch of people are going to hop in their Range Rovers to drive home... the ironies and blatant blind-eyeing of real issues is overwhelming.. but sometimes a good idea starts with a very small effort.. so my small effort will be added to the greater all today and tomorrow and the days after.

Enjoy your trip back to the States.. back to DC.. the 'eye' of the storm. I'm sure my photograph will end up in some rogues gallery of 'bad' people to be watched out for. (You may even see me there!) Such is the dubious nature of human life on earth. Speak later.

Of course, after the march and gathering in the Meadows, we did several things that starving and displaced persons around the world would not be able to do, which all made me feel guilty: FIRST We went to the pub and had a few beers. I sat next to a swollen-faced chubby Glaswegian who bitched about people caring about Africa when old folks here are dying of hypothermia. I agreed that there are issues everywhere but sitting back drinking your many pints and complaining about it while being complacent was not going to help any cause. This man who looked like he might be a hundred turned out to be only 54 years old. It's not poverty that's made him look like that, it's access to alcohol. NEXT we went to an Italian restaurant across from the Festival Theatre.. Jim had a pizza and I had a Tuna Nicoise salad and sparkling water amongst a dainty crowd of people not dressed in white (marchers) or black (anarchists) and bitching about the upset to their day the march had caused. (oh I tell a lie.. at the table next to us was an elderly English couple in white who had marched.. and they were talking to one of the waiters.. he'd been in Genoa for the Summit when that city got trashed). NEXT we went to Fritz's birthday party at Bannerman's where Fritz didn't show up until after we'd gone, but we did have some valid political discussions with a number of people who were also watching LIVE8. (I have a gripe with LIVE8.. a little known fact is that the concerts are being put on with the help of CLEARCHANNEL. Anyone who knows this page or knows anything about CLEARCHANNEL (and if you don't you should) knows our 'rights of access to information' are being skewed, levered, stolen and blatantly re-defined by corporations like ClearChannel and here's Bob Geldof making deals with this devil. The real truth is every artist involved - including Mr Geldof - will make a fortune off of their appearances at LIVE8 and where are the Africans???!!???) ANYWAY.. NEXT we went to WhistleBinkies and danced to a band of old guys (and I mean OLD guys.. Great OLD guys; white hair all around and could they PLAY!) playing classic 70's rock hits. The lead axe-man had a guitar in the shape of AFRICA which had been donated to him by a man dressed in white who had been at The Meadows gathering earlier. NEXT we stopped for a last beer at the CanonGate on the way home and sat watching the LIVE8 thing again (it's everywhere) on a wide screen TV next to a table filled with a bunch of guys from some local band who thought they were all 'too kool for skool' but were such complete dickheads.. I was dressed in white with my 'MAKE HISTORY SHUT DOWN THE G8' message glued across my breastbone and they sat there bitching "I wouldnae go on that stoopid march". When I come across complacent complaining dickheads like this sometimes I wish for 1) Climate Change to fry them and/or 2) the increasingly fascist boot to come down, just so I can say, 'I told ya so.' These complacent assholes need such a kick up life's backside. Anyway.. I met a number of complacent assholes in my journey through this day amongst the many people who in their own way are going in the righter direction.. but after our beer at the CanonGate and Jim accidentally spitting onto the 'lads' table as we left (you just can't control a real boy from the wrong side of the tracks) we then walked home past the riot fortress around Holyrood Palace and Parliament. [all photographs on this page courtesy of James Miller © 2005]

Fri 8 July: The Paranoid Monkeys (and others) @ The Q Bar, Leith Street, Edinburgh

Sun 10 July: Last Full Moon CLUB EVER 6pm-1am Bannermans, Niddry Street, Edinburgh

Sat 16 July DAS CONTRAS & The Partisan Ensemble' Virgin Megastore- Argyle Street, Glasgow 2PM Free

Wed? 27 July: SANS TRAUMA & TRANSAUDIO, 2 of my favourite bands will be playing together at Nice N Sleazy Glasgow

Also In July: 6-8 July: the Gleneagles G8 hoe-down. I must concur with the 'Question Time' statements of George Galloway and Alex Salmond: Get yourself to Gleneagles, protest and be heard. The greatest criminals in the world will be inside that compound, carving up what's left of the planet, it's resources, our psyches and souls. If there is a Satan, he'll be the 9th man.

The G8 Summit of the world's wealthiest nation has triggered A REMINISCENCE from CHILDHOOD: An idiot woman I know in an office somewhere, keeps talking about "Captain's of Industry" (no.. not a band) in hallowed sycophantic tones. In some corners they're also referred to as 'Robber Barons'. The classic historic examples being Vanderbilt, Astor, Rockefeller, Ford and Carnegie. Carnegie, the exception to the title, was an alright guy and gave back to the community possibly more than he took out of it. Ford, as well.. a simple man who had no need to torture people to get rich. But the rest.. hmmm.... My best friend at school was Nelson Rockefeller's grand-daughter (name shall remain unmentioned) and she lived on the Rockefellers' Pocantico Hills Estate also called Kykuit or something like.. we just called it Pocantico Hills... We used to swim in both the indoor and outdoor pools, play tennis on one of the many indoor and outdoor courts.. fool around on the Trampoline and listen to the jukebox upstairs in 'The PLAYHOUSE' a separate building on the estate used for what it was named and the size of a Roman Abramovich mansion. We would ride Laurence's (Nelson's brother's) horses (all 20 of them). I remember one particular autumn very well.. it was a very happy time spent with her there almost every day after school and often on the weekends. We were fast friends.. But.. I'll say right here... if the name Rockefeller was such a great name, implying such great industrial achievement that everyone should aspire to, why did my friend choose to change her name (both first and last) when she turned 18 and distance herself from her family forever. Maybe she thought she wouldn't find 'true' love. Hard to do when you're a very very very rich girl.

'DAS CONTRAS & The Partisan Ensemble'
   Saturday August 6th   Greenside Church- Royal Terrace, Edinburgh 8PM £5 (+ special guests)
Saturday August 13th Neilstonbury Festival- The Killoch, Neilston TBA (w/ Pop-Up)
Friday August 19th     Greenside Church- Royal Terrace, Edinburgh 7PM £5(+ afterparty)
Friday August 26th     The Outhouse, Broughton Lane, Edinburgh 9PM Free

BE THERE...... or BE SOMEWHERE ELSE! If you don't know how.. take lessons on COUNTERCULTURE.

*****Want to do a good thing?! Send an email to letters@radiosix.com with the subject line VOTE and in the body of the text just write: Song: Jonny Cash, Artist: Electra, then your name and address and press SEND.

If you're looking for LeithFM playlists, Sans Trauma, The Paranoid Monkeys, My Electric Love Affair, Ocean Beach, reviews of films viewed in california before they came out in the UK and a whole shit-load of sunshine go to Last month's blog: End May - June 05

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