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JUNE
2005 - Here's to the Open Road
End MAY... almost Moon Spoon JUNE 2005
SAN
FRANCISCO - Open your Golden Gate
Take me back to Ocean Beach...
and don't spare the horses
last week May...sometime near
June 2005 Fri MGCK
Music
Whatever
happened to..... the open road?
The surfer knows.
April ended with a trip to the beach to ponder the curve of the world across the blue Pacific horizon. Wet-suited surf-dudes plying their trade up and down the waves. The AquaSurf shop played the best tunes. "If you're going to San Francisco.. be sure to wear some flowers in your hair.."
And so.. I'm back.. from outer space.. from the land of sun, fun, hyper-consumerism, super-pollution, teenage billionaires, and nano-technology. The land where anything and everything is possible from the very worst to the very best. Just ask George Lucas and Michael Jackson.
Anyway... back to the here and now...a couple of nights ago (we're still in May by the way) I found myself at Cabaret Voltaire.. eyeing up a heck of a drummer who plays for Last Great Wilderness and, also noticed, that yes, Sans Trauma have shaped up their set. They look and sound like contenders or at least tour support to a bigger name. But, the surprise of the evening was a little threesome called 'Fuck-oFf Machete!'. I guess that's what you'd be saying if one was zinging in your direction. They played convivial little sexed-up-but-deep tunes with a cute little sexed up front-woman who I liked. What more can I say? She has sass and panache and looks good in a dress. She can also carry her bass. The best part of the night was dancing wildly to the fucked-off machete's music with my buddy Alex, who I suspect was a bit E'd up, or simply G'd up. Other than that it's been a drizzly few days lead into June.
But man oh
man, the month of May shall stand in my memory like a flame. Maybe the
last time in my life I get to do whatever I want.. whenever I want to.
Such is the human condition.
[photo
courtesy of Alavala..me and my 10-year old niece Sara going to the San Francisco Zoo under
my shirt-
April 2005!]
still...sometime near
1
June 2005 Fri MGCK
Music
"Oh
my god I can't believe it, I've never been this far away from home."
The Kaiser Chiefs
I have been neglecting my post ("it's lonely out in space"): In the last few days received CD's from FuckOff Machete and The Paranoid Monkeys. The Paranoid Monkeys CD is a gem.. a true surprise from Cupar, Fife. F-Off Machete sent me 'My First Machete' and an extra CD with only 2 tracks which, for me, crystallizes their performance: 'Copper & Lead Fight' and 'Panda' which is a truly beautiful song. I remember it from the Cabaret Voltaire gig.
To other things. LEITHFM meeting tomorrow at The Village to finalise schedules. No particular movement on any other fronts. I've been lazy.. savouring as much of the non-do-nothing zen of the moment as I can. Was at Chamber Studios on Wednesday, banging on the same drum, the old Dead Easy tracks; looking for a new way to produce them. Ideas are coming... slowly. I liked the sound of my voice. They've got the best mics. Stephen Watkins gave me his band's CD: THE ACUTE and also an X-TIGERS CD, good tracks on each.
Have not followed up on the ailing health of Ian Jones down in Leicester or looked for the stars in Orion's belt. Been listening pretty compulsively to TOOL's 'Aenema' album since I left sunny Cal and particularly stuck on the first track 'Stinkfist', which I can't get out of my head. Something I've noticed about 'real world' (i.e. seriously signed acts particularly in the USA), the first track on the album IS always a killer, or why put out the album? Pete Clerkin @ the Gym also gave me MARS VOLTA's newest CD 'Frances The Mute'. Boy oh boy.. does Omar sound like Robert Plant. He has almost cloned that great voice on 3 or 4 tracks. Very different from their first 'Deloused in the Comatorium' CD.
Watched the end of Jool's Holland's 'LATER' last night (I always have a psychological problem watching 'Later' as my ex-manager and paramour now manages Jools..) but missed most of it watching Jonathan Ross interview Micky Rourke. The Micky-man is an homage to self-destruction, yet there he stands.. in my reckoning, more substantial and thus, more attractive, if not prettier, than ever. I saw 'SIN CITY' in the States and Micky Rourke's character - 'Marv' - was the most stunningly compelling. A must see seriously 'noir' film, if it's just for that perfectly California beautiful-cute little girl who dances in the stetson, chaps and lariat and Micky Rourke as an almost Grecian Vulcanesque archetype. But back to 'LATER'.. I had just finished reading an article in the Sound Control product magazine about THE KAISER CHIEFS and bang.. there they were playing the last set on 'Later'.. that's the set you want to play, believe me.. the power out-tro. The track they played was actually.. great. The hook.. 'oh my god I can't believe it, I've never been this far away from home!'.... I know the feeling.
Took my sister to see Richard Jobson's "16 Years of Alcohol" in San Fran. A very strange place to watch Scottish angst and she couldn't quite believe that people live like that. I explained to her it was a pretty accurate assessment of the psychology of northern climes, i.e. Depressed.
Also saw 'House of Wax'. Yeah.. like everyone else, I'm in love with Paris Hilton. She can't act, but she's got 'presence'.. a bit like 'charisma'.. It beats talent out hands down. 'House of Wax' was great fun. B-to-A-movie teen-horror filled stuff.
And possible the best of all the new films I saw: 'CRASH'. Absolutely brilliant.
So that's it for June.. and as we wander into JULY we have the excitement of the G8 Summit to look forward to. They've already fenced off Holyrood Palace (so much riot-fencing and 2600 KG road barriers, they must be expecting quite an assault !!!) and the Scottish Parliament (less fencing.. go figure). My dearest friend Brad should already be back in New York, leaving the Moscow shop for the meantime while he re-sets up shop in my hometown and I look forward to an invite to the Hamptons in August! Are you listening to me Brad???!!! Which brings me to the last announcement... the LAST FULL MOON CLUB ever is happening on Sunday 10 July at Bannermans: 6pm to 1am. Very sad.. but Fritz says he wants to 'reinvent' himself.. so the FULL MOON, both the club and the Fanzine are seeing their last issues next month. I will be there.
1 June 2005 Wed MGCK
Music
PLAYLIST
FROM LEITH FM 'UNSIGNED HOUR' LAST NIGHT:
FREEVIEW
- "Pass It On"
SANS
TRAUMA - "Give In To Win"
THE
PARANOID MONKEYS - "All Going Wrong"
NINE
INCH NAILS - "Every Day is Exactly The Same" (from 'With Teeth')
FUCKOFF
MACHETE - "Copper & Lead Fight"
THE
ACUTE - "Wonderful Mind"
LIQUID
CONSCIENCE - "Blackened Heart"
INCUBUS
- "Idiot Box" (from 'Science')
PRIVATE
JACKSON - "Chaos & Confusion"
AZZURRI
- "Nighty Night"
TOOL
- "Stinkfist" (from 'Aenema')
The
next show is Sunday night from 9-11 pm.. (I reserve the right to play tracks
by bands I like over and over again on every show - Actually..
I reserve the right to do whatever I want!
)
I've invited 'the man on the street' to join me for my Sunday night 6 June LeithFM "CD Review Hour" 9-10pm, followed by the regular 'Unsigned Hour' 10-11pm. I don't want to do a nasty 'Pop-Idol-Simon-says-you're-shit' thing on anyone, but want to do an 'audition' hour where I get another perspective on the unsigned acts I play. There's a lot of music I've received that I can't honestly judge as it doesn't show up anywhere on my personal radar. Not the style of music I would listen to and/or, possibly, even notice in any given situation. So, the man on the street can translate mood and irony for me. All the things I might otherwise not have appreciated.
3 June 2005 Fri MGCK
Music
FULL
MOON CLUB LAST NIGHT
Good fun. Mad-Dog MacFarlane and 'Wench-Babe' have morphed into 'ETRANGERE'. They're developing nicely, might play a track from their CD on my show. TRANSAUDIO cancelled due to guitarist flu, but Scott Prentice, the front-man showed up to do an acoustic set on his own and offer me a gig! I'm pleased to say I'll be supporting TRANSAUDIO at their 6 July CD Launch Party at BAR BLOC, 177 Bath Street, Glasgow. I should get out more often. More things might happen! And something more did! I was stalked by some kind of ned lesbian chick during the gig, who finally came up to me with a pint o' cider and two straws. She offered me a sip from one straw while she sipped the other winking at me. I was parched and thought.. eff-it.. what do I care if she's alternative.. it's a free drink. We sipped to the bottom of the glass and she winked and walked away. I turned to Jim who shook his head and said, 'not very street smart are you?" It hit me.. I'd just sipped from the same cup as an E'd up little cheerleader from the Schemes. And yup, then it really hit me. Not much.. but it was there and I had to drive home later. A couple hours later.. after BUZZBOMB stormed the stage and tore off their shirts to an appreciative audience (moi au particular) and the Z-28's crashed through the final set, I was wishing I had more. Drove home OK, then stayed up working through music for the next show. Yeah.. wish she'd made that cocktail jes a l'il beet stronger.. but it was good.
6 June 2005 Mon MGCK
Music
PLAYLIST
FROM LEITH FM SHOW LAST NIGHT:
LeithFM
87.7 Sunday 5 June Playlist
“CD
Review Hour” 9-10pm
THE
JANES: “All I
Want is Everything”, WEIRD: “Sodium”, THE RUSHES:
“Falter”, ETRANGERE: “Tear Stained Letter”, A PERFECT CIRCLE:
“Pet” (from “Thirteenth Step”), HONKY MOFO (from North Carolina):
“White Cracker Trash”, AMPLIFICO: “Combing My Soul For More”, INSANE
CLOWN POSSE: “Another Love Song” (from ‘The Amazing Jeckel
Brothers’), SHOCK & AWE: “X-rated Eyes”, “Kiss Me Deadly”
and “I’m On E!!”, FIGURE 5: “Frustration”
The
‘New Music Hour’ 10-11pm
X-TIGERS:
Trk 1 on EP – (sorry but CD’s are unmarked) – gig dates announced to
compensate
RIESER:
“trk 3 on EP – (sorry but CD’s are unmarked)
THE
SENGEN:
“Gravity”
AUDIOSLAVE:
“What You Are” (Self-Titled)
LEE
GRAHAM:
“Indecision”
TRANSAUDIO:
“Frequencies”
SANS
TRAUMA:
“Stare At The Floor”
RU36
(from San Fran Bay Area): “Petifile”
**The
G8 Summit Sponsored last 15 minutes of the show**
NINE
INCH NAILS: “The
Hand That Feeds” (from “With Teeth”)
LAST
GREAT WILDERNESS:
“American Pornography”
ELECTRA:
“Save You”
8 June 2005 Wed MGCK
Music
PLAYLIST
FROM LEITH FM 'UNSIGNED HOUR' LAST NIGHT:
Last night's playlist for the 'CD Review Hour' 10-11pm on LeithFm 87.7 with special guest Stephen of Chamber Studios / The Acute
THE PARANOID MONKEYS: "Toys in The Attic", THE COMMERCIALS: (no information on CD, played Track 3) JESUS ENTERPRISE: "Full of Holes" THE ABDOMINAL SHOWMAN: (no track listing on CD - played track 1) ROOM TWO (Michigan, USA): (no track listing on CD - played track 1) UNDERBELLY: "Come In To Land" ALTRES: "Empty Stares in Packed Elevators" THE LEAGUE: "Hard Night's Work" TRANSAUDIO: "Another Time" THE JANES: "There Is No Them Only Us"
(my apologies to UNDERBELLY, the track was skipping and stopping and I lost my patience with it. I will play another track of theirs on Sunday nights' show to compensate.) Next and last of my 'CD Review' and 'UNSIGNED' shows on LeithFM will be Sunday night 9-11pm. My special guest on that occasion 'should be' (he has not confirmed it yet) Taylor of Taylormade. If he doesn't make it, we may have Stephen in the hot seat once again.
9 June 2005 Thurs MGCK
Music
HAILING FROM SOMEWHERE OVER THERE
Saw The Paranoid Monkeys at Whistle Binkies last night. What a weird name for a pub.. but an even weirder name for a band who are sincerely intense, compelling and original soundsmith's of THOUGHTFUL sonically grooving material, i.e. material that makes you THINK AND GROOVE! (Rare as rocking horse sh*t.) Politically astute, universally aware, socially super-conscious and ultimately spellbinding. If all you want is three chords and dumb entertainment, then they probably aren't for you. But if you actually love 'listening' to music, they probably are. I've played two of their tracks on LeithFM and, hand on heart, they are the only band people have called in to praise.
TONIGHT: MY ELECTRIC LOVE AFFAIR at The Lighthouse, The Shore, Leith... as part of the "LeithFM Sessions/Leith Festival" program
10 June 2005 Fri MGCK
Music
Last night at The Lighthouse
Seeing My
Electric Love Affair is sometimes like viewing the Turner Prize
winner. Some nights they play. Some nights they don't. Some
nights the lights are on and the bed is unmade. Some nights it's dark.
Some nights they fight. Some nights they pick up instruments and beer
glasses and put them down again.. strum a few notes while the drummer bashes his
minimalist kit. It's something Fassbinder would have filmed and it's
something I simply love: No rules rock n' roll. No corporate 'we
must please the audience' . Often it seems.. no.. actually.. often
they ARE oblivious of the audience and might even prefer they weren't
there. It's music for the open road, the open life..
Meandering, not caring which way we go. Every time it's different
and yet they remain.
They call themselves
'beat poets' and although not the
sum of their parts or their effect.. it's reasonably accurate.. Jack Kerouac
would have hailed their spirit. On this occasion they were a little
subdued, didn't play more than one song and only chucked one drum (bass drum)
across the stage. Photo of 'MELA
Steve' by James Miller, haircut courtesy of Henry V at Agincourt.
On the other side of
things.. I met Taylor, by accident, in the stairwell, outside the toilets
at The Lighthouse, where the Turner Prize winning mayhem was about to
ensue. He fits his description, as given me by Rosie Bell: Tall, dark,
good-looking, South African... well almost fits his description... He's
from Edinburgh! not South Africa.. but the rest is true. He says he'll show up for my Sunday night
CD Review spot 9-10pm.
The weather in Leith has been beautiful the last few days.. perfect drying weather.
13 June 2005 Mon MGCK
Music
PLAYLIST
FROM LEITH FM SHOW LAST NIGHT:
Last night, my guest on the 'Unsigned Hour' was Scot Taylor who promotes the acoustic Open Mic Nights at the Q Bar and he brought a lot of CD's with him to play. We got through the following in the 2 hours available:
9-10pm: STOCIOUS: "Short Black Dress", SHELBY: "Lawrence", TINROKIT: "1904", DIRTY KICKS: "Kick Start", POOR OLD BEN: "Another Day", TENESEE KAIT: "Vaseline Smile", INCUBUS: "Privilege" (from 'Make Yourself), THE CELLERS: "Morning All", REPLICA: Trk 3 on un-named CD, THE SET UPS: "Marching Powder", ELECTRA: "Kitty Kitty",
10-11pm: AIR FIX: "Lover's Fall", UNDERBELLY: "Come In To Land", JULIE DAWID: "Did You See The Mist", KUNT: "Ferroten", THE ACUTE: "Abandon Forever", THE EPISODICS: "Six Years", SANS TRAUMA: "Give In To Win", ALSO (from LA): "I Would Care", SINDOLOR (from Salt Lake City, Utah): "Frustration's Agony", GRAYSTAR: "Satellites", FUCKOFF MACHETE: "Panda", A PERFECT CIRCLE: "Pet" (from 'Thirteenth Step')
16 June 2005 Thurs MGCK
Music
TONIGHT: MALCOLM MIDDLETON (Arab Strap) & SANS
TRAUMA at CABARET VOLTAIRE: 7-11pm. I will be there.
Last
night: Went along but did not perform at the Q Bar Open Mic.
Although the space is comfortably cozy, it was pretty clear from step one that
it's set up for singer/songwriters.. those folk who strap on an acoustic-y
guitar and get up and sing covers and occasionally something of their own.
The kind of night that normally would see me reaching for a rope or a bottle of
Secanol. But I sat through this one,
a "Battle-Of-The-Solo-Artists" (i.e.Singer/Songwriters) Semi-Final to win a Stratocaster
guitar and it had some bearable moments.... hmmmm.. I'm thinking...trying to
remember what they were... Ah!.. one
song by Mike Breen, where his guitar break was the best thing about it. He
stopped singing and played a few bars of rhythm and caught my attention....
hmmmm... the 'Naked Guy'.. with the words 'JUDGE THIS' inked across his
ass. The first song, which the crowd belted out along with
him (he must do this one alot), was an ode to puerile boyhood, "she held my
cock-erspaniel..
I grabbed her Ass-shewalkedoutthedoor"... and a song about why won't she
swallow when I cum.. etc.. " I shouted up that his material 'sucked'
and he asked back if I swallowed.. I said, 'always.' So that was the content
of his first two songs and our interaction.. then he completely surprised
me with an incredibly soft and beautiful and serious last song. so.. there
ya go. I just wish he'd chucked on some kecks and sung the last number
with his full heart rather than his full nudity. Possibly also, because
there is nothing less sexy than a man covering himself up with a guitar... I
want to get the general outline of things and a guitar firmly (and I mean
FIRMLY) planted in front blocks my appraisal. Sometime after some ear-chilling
mewling from three or four faceless and relatively talentless types, Hannah
Reily or whatever her name is, (I've heard it before) put my teeth on edge with
her vocal style.. and there is little else to remember. OH.. the last
guy.. wearing a New York City shirt. My kind of guy for the first song..
after that.. I was desperate to get outta there.
The surprise of the night was Taylor himself. He plays the guitar and sings while people are drifting in. His heartfelt style and natural musicianship almost convince you he wrote some of the great songs he covers. He actually was the most talented of the bunch on that stage last night. A complete turnaround from the image he gives when you meet him elsewhere as 'the promoter and band manager'.
18 June 2005 Sat MGCK
Music
"I regret all the regrets.." Malcolm
Middleton
Thursday night: SANS TRAUMA supported Malcolm Middleton at Cabaret Voltaire. SANS TRAUMA have gelled musically to the point where I gleefully anticipate all of their tunes and bathe in their unique sound. Headliner Malcolm Middleton (Arab Strap) was an unknown quantity (for me) and a pleasant surprise .. His musicians (their musicianship!) were exceptional and his meticulously crafted songs and lyrics remarkably cool and poignant. Don't really have much more to say, except I love Cabaret Voltaire.
Friday (yesterday) was a day full of mixed events and surprises; the most pleasant of which was a trip west of Edinburgh to the home of our one and only Friend Fifi (see "ADVICE" page). We sat around in the garden drinking beer, shooting the breeze, eating fajitas and basically chilling sweetly out. Enjoyed it very very much. Needed that kind of a change.. That kind of a break. Fifi is uplifting, funny, true and a great little observer of the 'human' condition. A very wise lassie indeed.
This morning, skimming through the 1,500 emails I still have in my in-box spanning the last 5 years of interchanges (yes.. I pay a tariff to my mail provider for my 20gig storage space).. I came across one that I wrote pretty recently to my friend, mentor and heated discusser of many things musical: the ex-Warners Int'l Marketing Director who now works alongside my ex-manager in London. He was trying to sell me on the merits of his newest band-box-blonde-and-pretty squeaky voiced little female 'artist' he's pushing. My subject line was 'You're missing one tiny point.....:
"Somebody
might like it somewhere - that's what I tell myself when I'm listening to all
these CD's.. but I understand you. You are a marketing/managerial person and you need
to sell it to put bread on your table. I just wonder if you are trying to
sell these things because they are so like everything that's gone before that
you think it'll be a dead cert on Top of the Pops or if you feel you're breaking new
ground with a musical genius. Which is it Andy.. truly..???
And I'm sure she's a nice girl who gets up early and is malleable and would sing
in a SUPERMARKET if you asked her to and doesn't drink and doesn't take drugs
and has what my mother calls a 'band-box pretty' look and is kind and sweet to
everyone she meets (but her voice is horrible beyond listening to so she
tortured me! Can I get compensation?) and of course she can get up at 2 in
the morning, she doesn't have to work nights in a bar, or days digging graves,
or as a janitor or in an office... I went to see a band the other night whose
lead singer wasn't there as he had a janitorial job that night. And I met
a lead singer of a band in Dundee who had been a grave digger, not because she
loves Rod Stewart, but because she had a horticultural degree and Dundee Council
employed her in the cemetery tending and digging graves.
I just don't know what to say about mainstream music.. it's scary. .. it's saturation with pap and the videos are so formulaic..
you just flick flick flick to get away.
And I can't say
good-luck with full conviction as I think you guys are just desperately trying
to make a living out of any old sh*te as long as it matches the profile by
stuffing that sh*te on our plates and trying to make us eat it. I'm
completely ANTI-sh*te-pop to the point where I could start a political party
that banned it. But you know what would happen..?? they would be scurrying
around in haylofts and sewers (the real hard core) desperate to make their music
and probably some of the best most political pop since the 60's would emerge.
Whatever happened to politics in Pop???.. the world never needed it more.
Bring back Sadaam Hussain. That's what I say. (Do you think
the Shee-ites were originally a Pop Band that Sadaam banned and thus became a
religious faction???? makes you wonder.) I'm going now.. have a great day."
22 June 2005 Wed MGCK
Music
"I regret all the things I haven't done.."
Invited to visit my friend Giles in his farm in South Africa. He grows (raises? rears? gestates?) pecans and says his only battles are with baboons. Sounds like my last job.
Yesterday evening, drove over the Forth Road Bridge and down Memory Lane. I love Scotland in the long summer golden evening light. What a beautiful place. Friend Fifi is leaving for Orlando at the weekend, but I think, why go there(? ok ok... sun.. beaches.. american fun... Florida is a paradise.. ok) when you have all this beauty here, right on your doorstep. Anyway.. last night I embraced the open road...
29 June 2005 Wed MGCK
Music
"Everyone will have their 15 minutes of
fame" Andy Warhol
Blurb courtesy of Taylor: "This Wednesday night FINAL of the BATTLE OF THE SOLO ARTIST!! at The Q Bar.. Leith Street, Edinburgh - "Its been six weeks of battling it out with 30 other musicians to win the ultimate prize, a FENDER STRATOCASTER." So the Final is here and taking part is as follows;
11:00 Hannah O'Reilly
11:20 Mike Breen
11:40 Lazy Hand (Chris Wilson) (aka 'the Naked Guy')
Q-Bar, Rhythm Rooms WEDNESDAY, 9pm till 1am - DRINKS ARE STILL £1.50 All Night."
[I will be there in my capacity as a 'judge'.)
30 June 2005 Thurs MGCK
Music
"Everyone had their 15 minutes of
fame" (and didn't get paid for it)
I have deep reservations about the proliferation of 'Open Mic' nights in Edinburgh. I attended the Q Bar Open Mic ' Solo Artist' Final on Wednesday night.. and yeah.. the Solo Artist Final (where I was one of the judges), was fun and the Naked Guy won the Stratocaster, which he didn't seem appropriately grateful about, but there ya go... people.
But the actual 'open mic' was an endless pool of relatively dull and untalented individuals prior to and after the contest, getting up to play cover versions and a very occasional unmemorable original song on the guitar provided by the 'open mic'. I don't know what the entertainment value is in that.. but I was told by the promoter that the cheesy covers bring the 'punters from upstairs, downstairs'. And I realised 2 things, this is actually the death of music, not the great encouragement of it. This is 'free' entertainment being provided in a bar that's making money. The players are getting up and practicing their stage craft or hoping to impress someone in the audience or whatever it is they're doing.. the fact is, they're doing it for nuthin' but the chance of applause. Not that they would be paid by anyone for their services and not that any of them are Musician's Union members, but really, they provide a constant background music for the club and they are simply not paid for it. I believe the Musician's Union frowns on this kind of use of musicians and the PRS most certainly frowns on the use of other songwriters' material. Then again.. where else is a rank beginner going to learn any stage-craft??? Possibly these open mics are perfectly adequate places for beginners to improve their technique and possibly understand the effect their songwriting (if they actually write and play any of their own songs) has on the audience. But I did notice many players there who are regulars on the Edinburgh circuit.. just going round and round and round in these 'pay-less' situations.
It's all something about the chronic 'devaluation' of music going on in our culture. Everyone wants to have it, listen to it, download it, for free. They don't mind spending a monthly tariff to the providers of the service, i.e. cable, cellphone, broadband, but they balk at actually paying for the thing itself. They want it cheap or free.
Anyway./. that was June.
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Always an eyeful: The Universe Today
Monday 30 May: LeithFM 87.7 broadcast begins.
Thursday 2 June: FULL MOON CLUB @ Bannerman's. I will be spectating on that occasion. Continuing the zen-non-involvement-involvement thing.
9 June: My Electric Love Affair @ The Lighthouse, The Shore, Leith
Thurs 16 June: Sans Trauma & Malcolm Middleton (Arab Strap) @ Cabaret Voltaire.
IN 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.
ALSO IN JULY:
BE THERE...... or BE SOMEWHERE ELSE! If you don't know how.. take lessons on COUNTERCULTURE.
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