What are you listening to?

[ddohnggo]

skyscraper, nice. need sound and fury back to stock that sort of thing.

i was also reading an 11 year old muddle magazine at home too.

[ddohnggo]

that muddle magazine had an interview with the locust before gabe became the drummer and reviewed their first lp.

[coup de grace]

inevitable

[hamletpowpowpow]

Christ. Just when you think people can't dig up anymore dirt on you...

And I genuinely used to love sound and fury - peter was aces.

Re: Garden Variety - that second LP isn't so bad - it came up on my itunes mix the other day, and I was pleasantly surprised by it.

Going back to lovelife, i just re-read a lovelife interview in issue nine of skyscraper from 2001 and saw that hamlet conducted the interview.

[todestrieb]

Bloody bummed out about this news.
X'mas lives up to its billing.

Vic Chesnutt, R.I.P.

Two lovely moments on youtube featuring the man.
One with Guy P on a rooftop in Vienna, and the other might just be his starkest on the interwebbing omniverse.

[hamletpowpowpow]

Fuck. One of my personal heros and style icons gone, today.

Rest in peace, Rowland.

[todestrieb]

^ Toooo bloody soon. Just when most people (including himself) were thinking the new album, released in October, was a start of many many more to come...

[coup de grace]

And I genuinely used to love sound and fury - peter was aces.

do you know what he's doing these days?

[hamletpowpowpow]

I haven't seen him in about four, five years - but at that time he was working at Matador/Beggars - but I think they downsized a few years ago, I don't know if he's in NYC anymore.

Fuck. Just so broken up about Rowland S Howard...haven't been this bummed at someone's passing since John Fahey.

do you know what he's doing these days?

[doldrums]

I haven't seen him in about four, five years - but at that time he was working at Matador/Beggars - but I think they downsized a few years ago, I don't know if he's in NYC anymore.

Fuck. Just so broken up about Rowland S Howard...haven't been this bummed at someone's passing since John Fahey.

ditto

[kollaps]

Oh, fuck

Well ofcourse i'm listening to shivers now.

[BBYY]

Listened a lot of Ryoji Ikeda recently.

[klangspiel]

gutted to hear about rsh. kinda not unexpected though. he was seriously ill for the last month or so and had to cancel a number of scheduled gigs. caught one of his last shows early this october. he can be hit and miss, but mind you the misses are almost always brilliantly shambolic. however that night he was on fire. in fact there's a brief footage here. the discordant lumbering dirge of auto-luminiscent always strikes a good mellowing chord in me.

it's an awful shame this had to happen. just seems that there was some kind of increased interest in his work lately, which was further accentuated by the release of his 2nd solo album only a couple of months ago. crowds at his gigs have certainly got a whole lot ampler and younger.

Well ofcourse i'm listening to shivers now.

one of my favourite rsh moments comes in the form of an interview for a documentary profiling melbourne's post-punk scene circa 70s/80s. he was asked about the now iconic "boys next door - shivers" video and with tongue firmly in cheek, he smirkly described nick cave's rendition of his (rsh's) song as "hammy".
he had a knock at the primitive calculators as well.

[hamletpowpowpow]

Fuck. it's really been bugging me all day.

Just remembered one of *my* favorite Rowland moments:



And I know I'm weird, but I might be the only die-hard Birthday Party fan who *doesn't* like Shivers. For me - Rowland's genius could be heard on cuts like "Jennifer's veil" and "Nick the Stripper". Geez. I wouldn't be who I am, were it not for him. So bummed.

gutted to hear about rsh. kinda not unexpected though. he was seriously ill for the last month or so and had to cancel a number of scheduled gigs. caught one of his last shows early this october. he can be hit and miss, but mind you the misses are almost always brilliantly shambolic. however that night he was on fire. in fact there's a brief footage here. the discordant lumbering dirge of auto-luminiscent always strikes a good mellowing chord in me.

it's an awful shame this had to happen. just seems that there was some kind of increased interest in his work lately, which was further accentuated by the release of his 2nd solo album only a couple of months ago. crowds at his gigs have certainly got a whole lot ampler and younger.



one of my favourite rsh moments comes in the form of an interview for a documentary profiling melbourne's post-punk scene circa 70s/80s. he was asked about the now iconic "boys next door - shivers" video and with tongue firmly in cheek, he smirkly described nick cave's rendition of his (rsh's) song as "hammy".
he had a knock at the primitive calculators as well.

[mrbeuys]

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