Flies and Bikes

I caught some of this when it was broadcast live yesterday (at 5am!). Here’s the video…

Here’s a digest of recent music added to my collection. Black Pus – This came across my radar via the music site The Quietus which featured a track (1000 Years) from an upcoming album. There area  few Black Pus albums… Continue reading →

Pere Ubu – Lady from Shanghai. (Bought as flac download) David Thomas and Co are still at it, with another good album. From the website, it would seem that an accompanying paperback book is available outlining the way the album was… Continue reading →

Here’s a nice video of John Cale performing Venus in Furs – it’s a TV broadcast from 10th January this year. h/t Here Comes The Flood

Well, this album was really a little out of the ordinary for me. The only other record I have featuring Scott Walker is a Walker Brothers collection of some of their 60s output. I bought this as a flac download … Continue reading →

Apparently recording a cover album of Nico’s classic 1970 album Desertshore was something of an obsession of Peter Christopherson (Throbbing Gristle, Coil, X-TG). Sadly this project was incomplete at the time he died. It was however resurrected by his X-TG colleagues… Continue reading →

I bought my first copy of The Velvet Underground & Nico way back in the 1970s, when it was a relatively young thing of around a decade in age. Sadly, though it had the benefits of a gatefold sleeve, it lacked the… Continue reading →