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The latest bit of AI weird weirdness - we've not tried this yet, but the idea is you put your own singing into the algorythm and your vocals come out sounding like Holly. There's some auction thing involved, which we don't understand yet ... maybe we'll wait until they bring out a Johnny Cash or Nick Blinko version ... we thought it was bad enough when self-service checkouts started nagging you to collect your shopping and bugger off out of the shop.
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SUBURBAN LAWNS
Like the 'New Wave Theatre' show, from LA, Suburban Lawns existed between '79 - '83. Music reviewers described lead singer Su Tissue as 'unengaging and off-putting' - which makes her a star in our book ... her refusal to adopt a new wave haircut and do the "Look at me, aint I crazy" posing so fashionable at the time, just makes us like her more. Her complete disappearance from the limelight in '83, has prompted a hipster online obsession, of course ... but we just like the inventiveness of those times ... Britain had punk - America had new-wave. Watching New Wave Theatre makes us realise how massively influential Devo were back then ... we're pretty fond of the format, ourselves ...
Trivia: Jonathon Demme, director of 'Silence of the Lambs', etc. made their first video Gidget goes to Hell
Download the single 'Janitor' below
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ANARCHIST INTERVIEWS If, like us, you're sick to death of all media drama depicting working class life as one long misery fest and cautionary tale - ("stay in college, kids, or you'll end up in a crack den with a sex-murderer !") then maybe you'll like this. Mr 'Class War', himself, Ian Bone, talking to a couple of rollicking raconteurs from the days when we ran our lives through tatty address books and phone boxes ... We could talk about the dozen or so friends who bought motorbikes and went en mass to Europe, the friends who became crewmen on ships out of Liverpool, the punk musicians who plugged in anywhere that had a plug socket, the hippy friend who went farming in South America ... and then, there was the crazy friend who joined the Foreign Legion at 18, but that's a whole other story ...
Ian Bone and Ray Hulm
Ian Bone and Rick Nugent
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ZIEGFELD FOLLIES
Photographs by Alfred Chaney Johnson
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FRANKIE BOYLE IN CONVERSATION
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MANSON THE LOST FILM
While Manson and his disciples were still on trial, two young film makers gained access to 'the family' at Spahn ranch. The result is one of the most disturbing films ever made.
As 'Generation X-ers', we always ignored the whole Manson thing as a stupid, scummy waste of lives and potential. Straight society and resentful old hippies used to wet themselves over this stuff. This film, though, with our interest in underground film making and sociology, was a must-see (it was banned for many years) In our post-truth present, svengalis and nihilist extremism has suddenly become relevant again.
In an increasingly atomized society, we are always reminded of the truism that 'People have to be taught to be human' ... the most telling thing in the film is when Lynette 'Squeeky' Frome declares "Every girl deserves a daddy like Charlie" ... Manson was just a scumbag pimp - ie : get people while they are still young, fill them full of drugs and brainwash them into embracing their own slavery ... now, why does that sound familiar ...
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BENJAMIN ZEPHANIAH
ON WINDRUSH AND ANARCHY
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WHEN RADIO WASN'T SHIT
The John Peel Show
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