Saturday, February 21, 2004

Las Vegas Rockaround 2004: Tom Ingram & No Hit Records Present a weekend of desperate rock 'n roll, sixties beats and other cool sounds! Stomp, shout and work it out with an international cavalcade of the wildest bands and DJs around. With the Downliners Sect; Monks, Sky Saxon, Hasil Adkins; Chesterfield Kings, Swinging Neckbreakers; Greenhornes; Deadbolt; Bobbyteens; Barrence Whitfield; and Muck and the Mires. Dates: September 24, 25 & 26, 2004.
The one and only Ira Robbins TROUSER PRESS has a nifty new set-up going. Why not hit it up and see if your fave act is on there?
So yeah, I finally escaped and have a week off. This always happens, I keep my vacation to do something and usually end up having to use them (I ain't going to chuffing lose them!) before February is up. Anyway, time to catch up on stuff that oughtta have been done eons ago. I'm not sure that my e-troubles are over for a start so I need to make inroads into that. I have no patience it's true. I expect things to work and that might make me naive but is it really too much to expect a service? We're tied to this for a bloody year and as far as I'm concerned it ain't really up to scratch. Anyway, let's see how it pans out...

Last night, I spotted not one but two clips of Jennifer Aniston in her (levis) MC5 t-shirt during the intro credits to the new (and allegedly final) series of Friends. Moxie in Auf Wedersehen Pet was sporting one in the most recent, Havana-based, episodes of that show. Wonder if either of them is eagerly awaiting the release on DVD of A True Testimonial like I am? Hopefully we'll be able to bestow the news about that (and all the fab extras) comin' out soon!

Meanwhile, THE BLASTERS - GOING HOME live DVD is now available from Amazon, It's NTSC but you need it and I'd say the price is right at $13.99 especially for us when the exchange rate is so good. The live regular cd ($14.99) of the show features several different cuts too so you really need both. Anybody who saw 'em last summer shouldn't need any prompting.
Here in the UK, that's a little under 20 quid for the set. The tasteless masses can't get into a disco and scarf a couple of drinks for that. Going Home promises to be a full tilt testament to one of the greatest combos that ever took to a stage with plenty of guest stars to boot. Read about it on the BLASTERSITE and expect a full review when the package arrives.