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BO DIDDLEY MISSES GLASGOW 1970
Summer is stadium concert season at Hampden Park. Bo Diddley was booked to co-headline 'Scene '70' at Hampden with Chuck Berry in June 1970 but the show was cancelled; the promoter blamed 'spiralling...
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THE MASKED MARVEL - MONK RECORDS
A new label Monk Records has just released a number of nice vinyl pressings of old blues, folk and jazz artists including Charley Patton, Blind Willie McTell, Blind Willie Johnson, Dock Boggs and...
View ArticleIT CAME FROM DETROIT
After a lot of trailer-teasing, ICFD had its hollywood debut last week. It can't be long until it hits these here islands. There's a review and interview with director James R.Petix at thedetroiter.com
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SACRED HARP - AWAKE MY SOUL
I knew about Sacred Harp from the 1920s recordings on the Harry Smith Anthology and the Alan Lomax folkways recordings made in 1959 and recently re-issued on Rounder records'"Southern Journey"...
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IMMERSION BAPTISM
The awesome Dust To Digital label, has just released a collection of Jim Linderman's photographs of Protestant 'immersion baptism' from 1850s onwards and an accompanying CD of 25 rare gospel recordings...
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CHET WEISE
Chetley Weise onetime of The Quadrajets and punk-blues legends The Immortal Lee County Killers (and Professor of Political Economics at Auburn University) has a new group - Silver Lion's 20/20. They...
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J.B.Lenoir
Some rare footage of Mississippi blues guitarist J.B.Lenoir. This was recorded for Swedish TV by two Swedish 'acrobat poets'Steve and Ronnog Seaberg on 16mm film in 1965. Lenoir loved to wear zebra...
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'Eruption'
Rasef from the Volcanic Radio Show started putting on 'Eruption', a monthly night in Glasgow, in August 2008. In the last year it has hosted some great shows by Rob K and Uncle Butcher from Bermuda and...
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CHILDISH MANIFESTO
Billy Childish's is a dyslexic musician, painter and poet from Chatham, Kent. He also writes manifestos for painting and writing. This is one from 2003 called 'Crimes Against Music'. Crimes Against...
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B.B.KING IN THE JUNGLE 1974
The B.B.King 'Live in Africa '74' is good. DVD These were the concerts B.B. played in the run up to the Foreman/Ali 'Rumble in the Jungle' boxing match in Zaire.
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KING KHAN ON THE SATURDAY SHAKEDOWN 10/10/09
The Saturday Shakedown is a weekly radio show on Glasgow University's 'Subcity Radio'. Hosts Ben and Matt did an interview with King Khan when he passed through town with his band. The MP3 of the show...
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UPDIKE REVIEWS
John Updike's six rules for reviewing books. My rules, shaped intaglio-fashion by youthful traumas at the receiving end of critical opinion, were and are: 1. Try to understand what the author wished to...
View ArticleAARON BROWN & GIRLS
Aaron Brown did some nice videos for Girls's 'Lust for Life' and 'Hellhole Ratrace' singles. The Hellhole Ratrace slo-mo video also has real-footage of the band and their friends stealing stuff out of...
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