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"Garage music is not bad,
because Christ was born in a manger,
which was probably like a garage of that time."
Sky Saxon - The Vintage Years: Long but interesting piece on Sky in the 70s.

RIP: Cordell Jackson

Thursday, October 28th, 8pm - 11pm Music to Spazz By with Dave the Spazz on WFMU with Arch Hall Jr., Nathaniel Mayer & Miriam Linna.
"An incredible line-up of superstars! Rock & Roll movie star Arch Hall, Jr. (Wild Guitar, The Choppers, Eegah, The Sadist) chats with Dave about movies, his band The Archers featuring Dobie "The In Crowd" Gray, and all things related to Konga Joe. Soul legend Nathaniel "Village of Love" Mayer will also be on hand to discuss his brand new release on Fat Possum Records and his upcoming area appearance. Add Bad Seed Honcho Miriam Linna to the mix and you've got one heck of an insane show!".
(with thanks to Jan Kooi for the tip-off on both this and the the entry above).

There's a 4 hour(!) show on the Kassel Punk Kongress comin atcha from my buddy BIGor on Radio Student in Slovenia tonight. Seems like so much longer ago than three weeks I can tell ya.

CD Universe is offering the MC 5 - A True Testimonial DVD at $11.89 a pop and claims a street date for Dec 31 (?!).

The 48th London Film Festival will host the first European screening of Edgeplay: A Film About The Runaways on October 24 and 25.

A footnote... you can find Edgeplay clips here.

The output of Captain Sensible's first post Damned outfit King only amounted to one John Peel session that was recently issued on vinyl in the US. However the BBC got word of this project and immediatly threatened with legal action, but those interested might wanna keep an eye out on eBay...

Utrecht was hardly Beat-Central in the 1960s but did produce a small number of cool bands (a basic introduction can be found here).
One of the top-draws in the local scene back then, The Mods, are doing a reunion show on November 7 at the Veemarkthallen along with the Driftin' Five. No guarantees from this end about this turnin' out to be either an oldies yawn fest or that the fire's still burning, just figured some of you might like to check it out.

The Japanese Wizzard In Vinyl label has released two CDs documenting the complete early works of Ohio legends the Rubber City Rebels: "The Akron Years - Features the '77 Clone sessions, plus live from The Crypt and awesome video content, and The Hollywood Years - Digitally Re-mastered Re-mixed '79 Capitol sessions plus bonus tracks and 1980 KROQ interview".

To view the flyer in its full size glory, click HERE!

Wish it wasnae such a long way to Germany. Agent Heiko has informed me of the imminent happenings...

"Friday in Berlin is some kinda Ramones exhibition with films, memorabilia and Dee Dee paintings but I dont have much info yet. We're playing with our mates Commando Berlin and than saturday and sunday in meißen with the Melones."

Good to hear that HANK RAY is still shakin', rattlin' and rollin' the way that only he can lay it down.



Big John Bates will be blazing a trail across Europe in December, bypassing the UK, but hitting up clubs in more deserving parts of the world. Take a look at the website and there's no way you'll want to sit that one out.

Enter the world of Rockin' Jelly Bean!

Robert Quine Memorial event 12/4.
From the Richard Hell board:
"The Robert Quine event is confirmed. It's being organized by Hell, Jody Harris, Ivan Julian, Marc Ribot, and Jim Marshall. It will take place Saturday afternoon, December 4th, at CBGB's Gallery (next door to the club), approx. 3:00-8:00 PM. The format will be that people who knew and/or worked with Quine will each get up to ten minutes (I think) to do or say something in tribute to or memory of Quine. There will be musical equipment on stage for anyone who wants to perform, but many will just speak. I don't know yet who's going to participate except obviously the organizers. Many people have expressed interest."

Fezwrecker are co-ordinating a European Invasion for The Bonniwell Music Machine. Shows are as follows...



12 Nov 2004 Mestre, Italy – “Hazy Shade of Winter” Festival, The Jam Club
13 Nov 2004 Munich, Germany – Atomic Café
16 Nov 2004 London, UK –Islington Academy (Marquee Club)
17 Nov 2004 Amsterdam, Netherlands – Paradiso
19 Nov 2004 Benidorm, Spain – “Wild Weekend” Festival
21 Nov 2004 Berlin, Germany – Roter Salon, Volksbühne
23 Nov 2004 Paris, France – Mains d'Oeuvres

"Regarded as a founding pioneer of “garage rock” in 1966, and often called “the godfather of punk,”legendary songwriter Sean Bonniwell and The Bonniwell Music Machine is performing in Europe for the first time ever this November, in a series of limited engagements of “The Turn On Europe Tour.”

Seems like we're getting a slow but steady increase in the number of visitors to this THING. Good. We try to update and add regularly to keep the flow of information going. Nothing worse than visiting an alleged resource that is seldom, if ever updated.

What about the comments facility? Should we retain it? I'm not sure that this is adding anything to the "experience" and would appreciate any angle on that subject that you, the readers, might have. Other than that, keep doing what you're doing. Spread the word on our existence and hep us to anything you reckon that we should be putting the word out on.

It's time for the nose to go back to the grindstone that just about pays for my habit. Later...

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