Tag: Concert
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Pet Shop Boys vs Soft Cell – Purple Zone
No not a mashup – it’s only taken 4 decades but Soft Cell and Pet Shop Boys collaborate with a track called Purple Zone. I’m guessing from the lyrics Marc Almond took more of a lead, but then again the backing sounds like classic Pet Shop Boys/Chris Lowe (keeping a ‘Lowe’ profile in this video,…
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RIP Daniel Johnston
Sad to hear about the death of ‘outsider’ musician Daniel Johnston at 58. He came out from the cold and became quite mainstream in later decades, much beloved by Kurt Cobain, Flaming Lips and many others in the indie scene. I only saw him once at an Everett True (Meltdown?) arranged gig all with many…
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Prince finally on YouTube
One of the sad things is that when Prince died, a lot of his best work wasn’t on the Internet let alone YouTube as he famously hated the Internet (mostly, apart from his own site and fan club) and tried to get everything pulled. Great to finally see the full First Avenue concert that Purple…
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Instamatic – As Seen On Tour!
Phew this touring lark in this hot weather is a bind, lugging those stacks around and…WAIT A MINUTE YOU HAVEN’T BEEN ON TOUR. Well *I* haven’t but my naughty videos have and will be – not only were my videos for the Videotones project just shown last week at Glastonbury (did I mention it? LOL…)…