Tag: top hats
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the system might fail you but don’t fail yourself – Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip – Getting Better
Credit – no idea where this is from, uncredited sadly. Yup already I haz my favourite song of 2010 – it’s the first single ‘Getting Better’ from Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip’s forthcoming album ‘The Logic of Chance’ released in March. Here’s the album version (Link removed at request of the band’s manager –…
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Victorian Values
Last night I was at the Victorian Values event at the British Library run by the Ministry of Burlesque with Victorian Values and others which I think Gryphons-Hole would have not only liked but fit right in if he wasn’t state-side; I alas didn’t go in my top hat but if I had I would’ve…
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Victorian Technics
More wikki wikki wikk-ahh with your Strauss, Sir? No it’s actually isn’t some Victorian wheels of steel for laying down some crinoline skills on the (bees) wax, but the Gaumont Chronophone System of 1910 for continuous playback for films. Still, nice idea thinking of b-boys with bowlers and turntablists with top hats, isn’t it? Or…