While Rhino is set to release an "alternative" 80s box-set entitled Left Of The Dial, we here at NBT are more eagerly lookin' forward to the long promised Children Of Nuggets set, tho' there's some serious head scratchin' goin' on over some of the more dubious selections that made it to the set's shortlist. Comments on this?.

"Eddie Shaw from the legendary Monks answers Poptones.co.uk's Questions Of Doom about being in thee first legendary proto-punk band of the sixties, being in an American feedback freak-out band in ''66 Germany, inventing noise music, the album 'Black Monk Time' and well ... the history of one of the most important punk bands ever. This is a fantastic interview from an amazing band".

Snarky Ramone sent in this link for The Village Voice...

Last Ramones Standing by John Piccarella... Marky and Tommy discuss Joey, Johnny, Dee Dee, the documentary, the stage musical, the DVD, and drumming.

Not necessarily in that order...

I have no idea how many shopping days it is until Santa comes but what i do know is that this audiobook crew specialize in wares that make fine gifts for the discerning so and so that has pretty much everything...

Joss "Memphis" Hutton wishes it to be known that...

Artprojx and Victoria Miro Gallery presents



UK premiere of William Eggleston's legendary experimental film, in the presence of the artist on Sunday 21 November 6pm - 8pm at the Prince Charles Cinema · 7 Leicester Place · London WC2

This one-off film, true cinéma vérité, was shot in the 1970s on early handicam and captures the beginning of a profoundly disenchanted decade. Drawing on intuition and ego Eggleston's scathing study of Memphis's shady underground exposes a world of wild nights, hard liquor, rock, drugs and firearms, of which he was a principal hell raiser.

Born in Memphis in 1939, William Eggleston has, for almost fifty years, photographed American life and in particular the southern states. Hailed as the father of colour photography, his ability to find beauty in the banal has changed the way we look at the world.

Stranded in Canton will be released on DVD later this year. Tickets £10 from Prince Charles Cinema Box Office 020 7494 3654 Further information & ticket discount ARTUPDATE.COM/LONDON

Another cool picture gallery featurin' many NBT faves: Mindless Music Photos.

While I'm unable to attent myself, please note that the mighty Nitwitz are doin' four shows here in Holland this weekend: Fri. 22 - Simplon, Groningen. Sat. 23 - Dystopia, Den Haag. Sun. 24 - Cafe De Pits, Amsterdam. Mon. 25 - De Bliksem, Den Helder. All, except the first show, together with Sweden's Sewergrooves.
A full scale European tour is in the works for spring 2005, hopefully coinciding with the long promised 2nd full-length...

A message this morning from Gary Gold suggested that Jandek had played the Instal Festival in Glasgow. I figured that if he did then one man would know. He did and here's a front line report from Mr David Keenan...

"Lindsay

Yeah, it's true, I didn't get to speak to him, no one did except my friend Barry who booked him and Richard Youngs and Alex Neilson who played with him. He never once said he was Jandek, just a rep of Corwood Industries. Said to Alex afterwards that the live show was the first time he had ever felt truly alive. Smiled on stage once. Looked very emaciated. Apparently in rehearsal, he told the group he had three types of songs and he would signal by the way he played guitar what type each one was, either Blues, Ballad or Brutal(!). He had been in Glasgow for a week, flew over on his own money so that he was under no obligation to play if he didn't feel like it. The venue was emptied while he practiced and no one was allowed to announce he was playing or he would pull the show. I knew he was thinking about doing it for a while and finally over the last few days realised it was happening but was unable to tell anyone. We have about 70 pics in all. The concert was filmed with Jandek having the option of releasing it as a DVD on Corwood(!). Everyone here is still in a daze, can't believe it happened, the concert was everything you could've hoped from a Jandek show, crazy heavy Velvets spiked blues guitar, Richard playing Holger-Czukay style bass throbs, Alex playing heavy and free and that fucking voice sounded like it was straight from the void, set of blasted blues, Haino said afterwards "Jandek *is* the blues." Jandek looked like he was realy enjoying it and pulled a few good shapes too, never said one thing though, took his time packing his guitar but no one approached him and he left the venue as abruptly as he had arrived. All the songs were of heartbreak and abandon, few funny lines too, like when he suddenly exploded "I made the decision to get real wild!" and everyone began screaming. Apparently he loved the screams, looks like he wants to do it again, maybe even announce it next time. Anyway, still trying to piece it all together. Who could've thunk it? Dx"

Now that's what you could call a world exclusive I believe.... thanks David...

The Susquehanna Industrial Tool and Die Company site is up and atcha.

It’s Monday again. Yippee, (not). So how is it? All though the week at work it’s like somebody threw “The Magic Boomerang”? How many of you are old enough to remember that 60’s Australian show or have even heard of it?? Anyway, time stands still all during the day, Monday to Friday, and accelerates in the evenings and at weekends. Can’t some of these quantum physicists or something get this sorted.?

That was quite a rant I “inspired” Mr Stigliano to let loose after posting the freeway blog thing yesterday. Shemp, Jesus, they’re all the same to me chief. After November 2nd we’ll all (that’s the collective global village and beyond) have to live with the backwash of what’s gonna go down (United) Stateside. I think we should club together and get Chris one of those “cuddle cross” things to keep him safe in his cabin in the woods. Enough with the flippancy, reality will bite, as sure as eggs is eggs…

From 60sgaragebands.com: The next issue of UGLY THINGS (#22) is tentatively scheduled to hit the streets by the end of October, and it again looks like another stellar issue: "First of all there is the epic - and we do mean EPIC - third installment of The Misunderstood story. Co-headlining is the story of 'The Other Them': The Belfast Gypsies by Richie Unterberger. We have also eye-opening exclusive interviews with Ace Kefford of The Move and Chris Youlden of Savoy Brown, and features on The Wild Cherries and The Twiliters. Plus 'The Prehistoric Pretty Things': the scoop from their pre-Viv Prince drummer, Viv Broughton, complete with drop-dead cool, never-before-seen prehistoric photos. As with every issue we trip around the world to uncover stories on bands like The Matadors from Czechoslovakia, The Checkmates from Singapore, The Speakers from Colombia, Nigeria's Fela Kuti and France's own Plastic Bertrand."

In other exciting news on The UGLY THINGS front, currently in the very early planning stages is a CD compilation of The Bush / Bushmen. According to Mike Stax, "So far there are four acetate tracks, all from 1966. The Bushmen tapes are probably from 1965, and there may be more Bush stuff from 1966-67, plus of course the three singles on Hiback." We'll provide more information as it becomes available.

No Elvis, Beatles or the Rolling Stones in the November issue of Mojo but look out for an eight-page farewell to the Ramones comprising of an appreciation of the band by Charles Shaar Murray, an eyewitness account of the sessions for End of the Century, and one of Johnny’s last interviews. Add an article about the proto-punk significance of the Saints, complete with a side-bar that cites Rocket from the Tombs, Dictators, Radio Birdman and the Hammersmith Gorillas (inc. picture), plus a short feature about the One Hit Wonder status of the Barracudas and you have something worth visiting WH Smiths for ... apart from gawping at male “lifestyle” magazines. Hey, not me mister!

Talking of El ‘Cudas, the boys were on fine form the other night at the Borderline just off the Charring Cross Road in London. Their hour-long set began with thirty minutes of surf/punk material while the second half hour added a primed Chris Wilson with the emphasis on later period tunes. How old is Wilson? 53? 54? 55? ‘cause he sure is looking fit and well for someone who has done a lot of rock’n’rolling and imbibed the odd dram of whisky. Bounding onto the stage wearing a big shirt and an even bigger semi-solid guitar he tore into “I Can’t Pretend” and in so doing brought the sort of perfectly balanced twin-guitar attack that you rarely witness but often dream about. While Wills concentrated on chords, Wilson added tasteful fills and would occasionally hit the neck of his guitar or the whammy bar for sheer devilment. Jeremy Gluck was on great form too and made the occasional foray into the decent-sized crowd while the two guys from the Scoundrelles built the musical foundations upon which Wills and Wilson launched themselves effortlessly. Pure magic for those of us who still believe in this kinda stuff. If someone had said to me at the Hope & Anchor in ’84 that “…in twenty years time you’re gonna see this band again and they’re gonna be every bit of good, if not better,” I would have demanded a pint of whatever they were drinking. Paris, are you ready?

Joe Bonomo, the chap researching and writing a book about the Fleshtones, has tipped us to a nice little photo gallery that contains lots of moody black and white shots of acts such as the Chesterfield Kings, Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet, Tav Falco, Gun Club, Per Ubu etc taken by Derek von Essen. With regards to his book, Joe is still working away and has now interviewed such revered figures as Andy Shernoff, Handsome Dick Manitoba, Billy and Miriam at Norton Records, Marty Thau and dozens of other people that readers of NBT will be familiar with. Unfortunately, Debbie Harry put the phone down on Joe but what would you do if were an international sex symbol and someone rang up saying : “Hi, Ms. Harry, it’s the guy who’s writing the book about [the] Fleshtones.”? Whatever, Joe remains on the look-out for a publisher and would dearly love to hear from any interested media moguls. If one doesn’t come forward soon then it might have to be another case for NBT International Publishing, so be warned. The text holds a wider message than simply being the account of yet another obscure RnR band and will slot nicely alongside your growing collection of books about the Ramones.

So you’ve grooved to the Nuggets boxsets and now want to delve deeper into 60s garage punk but have heard all kinds of rumours about the bootleg quality of Boulders and Pebbles. Then why not head over to the MP3 section of the Garage Rock Radio website and dig into approximately 50 prime cuts by the likes of the Paragons, Romancers, Zakary Thaks, Bad Seeds, King’s Ransom, Starfires and all? The files are free and your work colleagues will thank you.

So long Rockin' Granny. Cordell Jackson dead at 81...

Ace/Big Beat is about to unleash a revamped 25th anniversary edition of the Damned's Machine Gun Etiquette album w/ truckloads of extras.

Rob Jovanovic's Big Star: The Story of Rock's Forgotten Band will be published on November 1st.

Talk about NOT having one's finger anywhere near the pulse... how can one of yer favourite bands of all time have an album come out on Evangeline Recorded Works and do a show at The Borderline in London and you not have a scoob about it until three weeks after the bloody event? Well that's the situation I find myself in regarding The Blasters 4-11-44 which allegedly came out on 4-10-04. Anyway, more on that when I get to playing catch up... you can however do that now by hitting the Blasters listing in the sidebar yonder.

I'm gonna play on the Freeway Blog now... (thanks for the tip off Marty!)

The Master Plan (with Andy Shernoff (Dictators), Keith Streng & Bill Milhizer (Fleshtones) and Paul Johnson (Waxing Poetics) will be out and about on
19th November @ The Continental , NY, NY w/ The Waldos
20th November @ Arties Bar, Troy NY
21st November @ Ottos Shrunken Head , NY, NY

Thanks to Adam for pointing out that this was for November and not October... L