Month: June 2010
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Police detain young NUJ photojournalist for working taking pictures of Army cadets
This is pitiful – young NUJ photojournalist Jules Mattsson takes pictures of an army cadet parade and gets aggro from the police for doing so – maybe they should bone up on the law and the recent cases they’ve lost re: photography in public places. Nice that the NUJ and BJP are behind this photographer…
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Doctor Who Goes to Glastonbury
Well Glastonbury didn’t make an appearance in the final episode of Doctor Who as I thought – BUT the Doctor DID make an appearance at Glastonbury. Check out this brilliant final song from Orbital with Matt Smith. Delia would’ve loved this, I’m sure. This is the Orbital’s version of the theme song – rumours have…
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Summer Booty
As the St George flags magically melt away as they were never there in the first place, just like the hopes of the England fans, we can get back to drinking Pimms, Cricket, moaning about being crap at Wimbedon, killer urban crack foxes and random violent knife crime. Oh and listening to the monster 3-disc…
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Don’t Tase Me Bro! The return of DEVO
Really digging the DEVO album ‘Something for Everybody’ the first proper DEVO album (The Wipeouters and Jerry Jihad don’t really count, but are good too). They’ve not lost their acerbic wit on songs such as Sumthin’, Fresh, What We Do, and Watch Us Work It – and of course they sound achingly current, because De-Evolution…
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New Videotones videos shown at Glastonbury inc a premiere from me: Kleptones – Brightness and Contrast
Yup you read correctly – Videotones videos including the premiere of this one (Brightness and Contrast) shown at Glastonbury part of Kleptones AV set – they are playing tonight (Sunday at 11pm – Rabbit Hole Stage, The Park). ‘Tell me now how does it feel’ – Music has become branding and branding has become music;…
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Seasick Steve
I actually saw the Jools Holland Hootenanny where he first played, can’t remember where but I was definitely ‘WTF was that’ in a good way…that was 2006, now he’s a festival regular and has his 4th album out this year…wow. Heard him today talking on the radio to Auntie LaLa and his accent is swoonsome…all…