Tag: bootleggers
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We don’t have any real friends: Money vs Art
I’ve been trying for the last decade to explain the problem of money vs art, or audience vs product and that bastard Aaron Funk as well as creating some amazing music during that time nails it in ONE interview:. Fuck that whole game of what music is supposed to be right now. It’s so fucked…
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Steve Albini faces up to the music industry (again)
Great if long video / transcript of Steve Albini’s speech at Face The Music in Melbourne which echoes his classic ‘The Problem With Music’ from 21 years ago. Although I’d not describe Prince’s music as ‘poison’ I do think the purple dwarf’s attitude to the internet is poisonous, and all the people who try and…
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RIP Grant Essexboy
Sadly learned today that Grant Martin aka Essexboy / Apricot Cyanide / Ebro had died this morning. One of the old skool bootleggers, part of Bastard and GYBO’s formation, I met him at Bastard nearly 10 years ago, a lovely bloke usually accompanied by his other half Lisa who was equally as lovely and always…
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Radio Clash 128: GYBOAT Down T’Mills
Bootleg buggers on a boat for a GaYBO 5th birthday party, and down t’Turnmills with Bastard at Together, I play loads of the sort of electro goodness I didn’t hear from the likes of Simian, Hot Chip et al – but did from the bootleggers – once again they show the way! And some twisted…
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Radio Clash 99: San Francisco Pt 1 – These Guys Are From England…
ORLY? YARLY? NOWAI!!!! (Eric Kleptone from the International SF Bootlegger’s Dinner) First podcast in ages back from the Bastard USA British invasion @ Bootie in San Francisco with the first part of an interview with Eric Kleptone of The Kleptones at Web 2.0 (which I also crashed, boarded and liberated red wine and nibble booty!),…