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Post by maarts on Apr 26, 2008 20:07:15 GMT -5
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Post by maarts on May 6, 2008 6:33:52 GMT -5
Shocking, shocking, shocking: Cliff Richard in La, La La land: robbed by a bribe Wrong finger! Cliff Richard
May 6, 2008 - 10:46AMCliff Richard was robbed of victory in the 1968 Eurovision Song Contest because of vote rigging by Spain's fascist regime, a documentary has claimed. A filmmaker says the British singer's tune Congratulations was narrowly beaten by the Spanish entrant Massiel as part of a bid by General Franco to boost his country's international image, the Press Association reports. Richard's song was a favourite with the judges during the 1968 contest held in London, but lost by just one point to Massiel's song La La La following a late rally in votes for Spain. In a documentary screened on Spanish TV on Sunday, director Montse Fernandez Vila claimed Spain's win was "bought" by corrupt executives working for state-run television. Fernandez Vila said Spanish TV executives pledged to buy series from other nations to help influence the voting, and there was evidence Franco thought a win would help his regime's international standing. Congratulations was still a hit for Richard and topped the charts in several countries. AAP |
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Post by JACkory on May 8, 2008 19:20:37 GMT -5
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JACkory
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Post by JACkory on May 8, 2008 19:23:41 GMT -5
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Post by Ayinger on May 8, 2008 20:46:57 GMT -5
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Post by phil on May 10, 2008 8:50:29 GMT -5
If Mary still comes around here ...
If she's still hooked on Mister Cave ...
This one's for her.
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Hammersmith Apollo, London
Alexis Petridis
Saturday May 10, 2008
The Guardian
There can be no doubt that Nick Cave is navigating the choppy waters of middle-aged rock stardom in an entirely unprecedented way. Not for the 50-year-old Cave the muted designer suit and dignified demeanour of the elder statesman. Tonight, he appears conservatively dressed for a provincial nightclub in the immediate aftermath of Saturday Night Fever: moustache, flared trousers, black shirt split to the navel, selection of medallions. Dyed black and arranged somewhere between a mullet and a comb-over, his hairstyle doggedly refuses to go gentle into that good night of male pattern baldness. Thus attired, he dances in a manner that makes you wonder what he pulls out to embarrass his kids at wedding discos. He punctuates his 1985 single Deanna with a series of lascivious pelvic thrusts, useful clarification for anyone in the audience who thought the relationship between the song's protagonist and its titular heroine might be based on a shared interest in gardening.
He has developed a style of keyboard-playing that Little Richard would have rejected as slightly florid: legs splayed, knees bent, head back, one arm skyward and, at particularly dramatic moments, fist shaking at God. The overall effect is at once viscerally powerful and coolly ironic, both hilarious and utterly gripping. You watch him slack-jawed, trying to think of another artist who could pull this off, but there isn't anyone.
It helps that Cave has spent the past few years making the best music of his career, a fact of which he seems abundantly aware - the set is confidently peppered with tracks from the recent Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!! - and that the Bad Seeds remain as unique as their frontman, one minute impossibly aggressive and decorated with Warren Ellis's feedback-laden electric mandolin, the next bringing out the subtleties in the delicate Jesus of the Moon. Red Right Hand surges belligerently, Get Ready for Love roars into life, but the highpoint is a furious We Call Upon the Author: Cave's litany of modern-day ills set to chaotic garage rock. As it crashes thrillingly on, you once again search for a comparison, and once again, draw a blank.
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Post by maarts on May 10, 2008 19:43:30 GMT -5
He's going bald.  |
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Post by strat-0 on May 10, 2008 21:03:16 GMT -5
He's going bald. (Tut, tut.) Heh... |
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Post by maarts on May 14, 2008 17:24:33 GMT -5
Anyone seen this critter about?  |
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Post by phil on Jun 5, 2008 10:30:22 GMT -5
Peter Gabriel Launches The Filter Websiteon 03 June 2008, 13:18 by mark selfe Peter Gabriel, the former legendary Genesis frontman and Real World Music founder has launched a new site called The Filter that helps users sift through new and old music and films to suggest recommendations for other artists, or movies that might be of interest. Users who visit the sight fill out a questionnaire about tastes and genres of music and film so that the data base can then forward other suggestions. Ideal for those that don't have the time, or a too lazy to do their own research but want to keep in touch with what is going on. Gabriel lists folk guitar singer songwriter Nick Drake and avant guard Radiohead on his Filter page. This is Gabriel's third online venture, he previously set up Real World Music and he co-founded the British music distributor OnDemand Distribution (OD2) which was sold to a Seattle company for millions in 2004. The 58-year old prog-rocker has also been working on a site called TheMemory.com which is the "first social networking site for the dead," I kid you not, it is a digital gathering place to remember loved ones that have passed on to greener pastures, and not a Dead-head fan site. www.thefilter.com/
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Post by aphexziqpusher on Jun 12, 2008 19:48:39 GMT -5
Holy shit, this place still exists! Hi everyone!!! Was just digging through some ancient emails and found an invite to here from weeping_guitar. Great to see some familiar names!
Lou
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Post by maarts on Jun 13, 2008 3:47:10 GMT -5
Duuuuuuuude!
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Post by ScottsyII on Jun 30, 2008 16:46:15 GMT -5
welcome back aphex! This place does in deed still exist, but old farts (well relatively anyway) such as me who have three kids onlyget back here occasionally - but nonetheless, I come back (occasionally)
And what's this about Nick Cave going bald?? Haven't really kept up with his music in recent years, I must admit...
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Post by maarts on Aug 6, 2008 5:53:45 GMT -5
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Post by maarts on Aug 10, 2008 15:57:35 GMT -5
RIP Isaac Hayes.
Black Moses...meet God.
Damn.
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