John Cavanagh has this info for you lucky folks in "the London"...

"I'm sending this to friends who either live in London or who might be interested in Delia Derbyshire. Quite clearly, I understand many of those I 'invite" won't be able to attend, but I hope you're interested to know of this new film. I supplied interview material I recorded with the late Delia Derbyshire and also recorded a bit of voiceover for the film.

Here's some info about the film: The Delian Mode explores the life and work of electronic music pioneer Delia Derbyshire, the woman behind the distinctive Doctor Who theme music created at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop in the early 1960's.

The film delves into Derbyshire’s unique approach to sound recording and manipulation while supporting a slowly growing recognition of her as an influential figure in the history of electronic music.

Participants include Brian Hodgson and Dick Mills of the now defunct BBC Radiophonic Workshop, the founder of Electronic Music Studios (EMS) Peter Zinovieff, musicians Peter Kember (Sonic Boom), Adrian Utley (Portishead), and Ann Shenton (Add N to X) as well as other friends and colleagues of Delia. Directed by Kara Blake/
Duration: 25 minutes

Yellow Room, Spirit Level, Southbank Centre - The film will be introduced by Peaches at 6.30 and will screen on a loop until 9. Admission is free.

I decided against the haircut. And the rain meant that I could procrastinate with regard to pulling weeds outta the drive. Some headway was made in filing away 45's but that's all come to a grinding halt because I've brought a pile of stuff down to play. So I can do that while I futz around on here. Perfect. At the moment, The Screaming Blue Messiahs are reverberating at some considerable volume. I was inspired by hearing them on NoFoSo this morning and I'm thinking that this combo should have been bigger than U2. Come to think of it, everybody should be bigger than them but you get my drift. And if you don't then you can suck on the proverbial dummy...

A major regret of mine was not being able to see through the publishing of JD King's "Like A 45 at 33" collection of short stories. Each and every one was solid gold and if there are any enterprising publishers out there looking for that commodity then you should cyberscamper over to his site to check out a brand new piece that he's posted there. Also, if there are any bands who are looking to have a boss jacket adorn some kind of physical release, then JD is yer man. His wares are there to be poured over after you've dug the wordage.

Ever wondered what punk rockers in Glenrothes get up to? Nip on over to Newtown Products to find out.

Oh, Side one of "Gunshy" (pronounced "Gun Shy") is just about done so it'll be kettle on and flip it over. Oh, and I need to scan that Larry Wallis "Police Car" sleeve. Telling you, it's all flippin' go...

Robbie Fulks has 50 new songs available for your downloading pleasure right here...

He's also headed for Sweden, details here. (Thanks to Ms Amy Allison for the nod on this one)

I was never on board the Josef K bus but I'm down with this cause...

ROLinc News Release:

Basic premise: Blogs being targetted randomly by ISP’s even for music where artists are happy about the extra coverage. The sites are essential promo tools for all artists.

Most artists express the view that as many people should be able to hear their music as possible by whatever means. The fan will then go to a concert or by back catalogue get the vinyl or even the new cd. The Internet is just like radio and mp3s are just clutter to be binned or bought in better quality format after sampling!!! Artists need loyal fans.

Paul Haig gave a free track "Reason" to The Vinyl Villain to give away in support of the blogger network.

If you a have great track, the best method of getting it heard is over the net – where word is spread by music fans - Hearing new music is based on recommendation, not by mass advertising budgets….unless you are U2, blogs/free music on the net is the only future…

Evan, Label Manager ROLinc

Announced by Jim Clark (The Vinyl Villain)

"If you go stumbling around music blogs on the Internet on Monday 6th April, there's a reasonable chance you'll find someone saying good things about Paul Haig, arguably the greatest pop star to ever have come out of Edinburgh.

So far, some 25 bloggers have decided that next Monday should be designated 'Paul Haig Day' and will be featuring posts about the musician whose career goes back almost 30 years to the days when Postcard Records were The Sound of Young Scotland.

This sudden upsurge of interest in the former Josef K lead singer is no accident, and is the result of a number of music fans, not all of whom know much about Paul Haig, wanting to thank him for taking a stand and encouraging bloggers to keep on doing what they do.

Bloggers have come under increasing attack in recent times, thanks to many in the music industry using the draconian measures of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA), an American piece of legislation signed by President Clinton in 1998 which insists that Internet Service Providers (ISPs) must remove material that appears to constitute copyright infringment.

So, if a music industry lawyer discovers a blogger has posted an mp3 of a song without permission, they can contact the ISP, claim they represent the individual or organisatin with the copyright and demand the offending material be removed. Fair enough you might say...

But, the law is such that anyone can use DMCA to demand a takedown without having to prove that they have ownership of the copyright, and the ISP have no option but to comply - it has even been proven that where musicians have expressly given support for their song to be highlighted on a blog, an anoymous DMCA request has seen the mp3 removed.

Such was the case last month when my blog, one that's been running since September 2006 and almost exclusively looks back to music of the 80s and 90s, featured "Blue For You", one of the early solo singles by Paul Haig. I'd been in touch with the singer who didn’t object at all to featuring the song and was given a few words by Paul to add to the story behind its recording in Edinburgh back in 1982.

Within 48 hours of publication, the piece was removed by the ISP, although no-one associated with the copyright had made such a request.

In response, Paul Haig immediately decided to make his 2007 single "Reason" available through TVV on the basis that music fans who downloaded the song and decided that they liked it were more than likely to subsequently purchase a copy. So far, after just more than a week, no-one has asked the ISP to remove the mp3....

JC, who runs "The Vinyl Villain" said:-

"I was shocked when the DMCA was served on 'Blue For You' and I did think about closing down the blog altogether, wondering if the hours spent working on it were worth it. But the quick response from Paul and his mangement and the offer of a further song made me realise that there are some musicians out there who value what I and many thousands of others do every day. Blogging isn't about piracy or making music available for free - it's more to do with writing about artists we love in the hope that more people will become fans.

I get about 700 hits a day from all over the world and quite a number of readers got in touch to say how much they appreciated the support given by Paul. The idea of Paul Haig Day emerged from that.

The thing I find most pleasing about it is that up until all this DCMA nonsense, some people knew next to nothing about Paul Haig and don't have any of his records in their collections but they're still going to put some words together and post an mp3. It'll be interesting to see if any of us are served DCMA notices."

Blogs in Australia, Canada, Germany and America and across the UK are all taking part.

Details can be found at www.thevinylvillain.blogspot.com.

As a footnote to all this, I don't post mp3's because I prefer to direct visitors to the artists site. There's simply no time on my part to harvest tracks and post every day. We're lucky to have resources like The Vinyl Villain and So Many Records, So Little Time to name but two.

The old guard is on the ropes, mostly because of their own inability to recognise that this is a legitimate form of getting the word out. They confuse a desire to communicate with piracy and for that alone they need to get a rocket up the arse. Ouch is right.

Bucketfull Of Brains returns after an 18 month hiatus to celebrate its 30th birthday!

The new issue features stories on the iconic JESSE HECTOR, the legendary MARTY THAU interviewed by Jeremy Gluck, THE SONICS, STEVE WYNN, WILLARD GRANT CONSPIRACY, THE PILLBUGS, PAUL & BARRY RYAN, Hugh Gulland remembers NICK SANDERSON, and there's more of the usual features, reviews, blabber and smoke. All subscriptions are being honoured but for the moment we're not taking more. Order the issue now direct by Paypal:

£2.99 UK / £3.75 Europe / £4.50 ROW

quote: bucketfull(at)blueyonder.co.uk

It's the end of another topsy turvy week. Ben Weasel informed me that his biz partner and friend Erika Hynes passed away and he's posted a short message. My condolences and thoughts are with her friends and family at this time. I had some contact with her when they picked up the NBT shirt and found her to be a diamond. We've lost another keeper of the faith.

RIP - Erika Hynes

Remember him this way (link via Staysick) I imagine this could be considered "Not Work Safe" or whatever the term is...



Other than that. Mr Percival is in the area so we're most likely headed for the pub. See you there or see you tomorrow...

Age old Dutch punk rock...

RIP - Duane Jarvis

I'm stunned that I can't find a YouTube clip to give you a taste of this guy's work so here's Lucinda singing a song that they wrote together. Of course, you can go to his myspace but I figured there would be something more tangible... also, Amy Rigby remembers DJ..

Short and sharp. None of these are April fools and they have little or nothing to do with G20 which up until now was a Glasgow postcode...

Today is this print relative of this blog's 32nd birthday. Who'da thunk it? March was the second highest "hits" month since records began. That's statistics, not them black round things some of us are obsessed with. Gracias for continuing to visit or howdy if this is your first pitstop.

Screeching Weasel and The Riverdales will be hitting up Austin this coming summer, full details here. Grab your tickets fast.

"Melodramatic popular song" duo, Two White Horses album is out today. More about that in due course...

Excellent, personal Lux recollections... at Popshifter (courtesy of nimereht/staysick)

And the Lux tributes just keep on coming...

17th April in Newcastle Upon Tyne and 18th April in Portland, Oregon. Watch out for news of a red-hot remembrance coming down on Philadelphia very soon too.

It's all pretty quiet around here tonight. It's been like summer today and by all accounts it's to stay like this for a few days. Probably up to Friday...

Still, I completed my Adiam Dymott assignment and it came out OK I think. In addition to having made an amazing record, this gal is our kinda people! Much more about her as the story unfolds.

There's other stuff to relay I'm sure but I'm not really up to writing any more today. They've started to show The Wire on BBC2 at 11.20pm and there's something strangely satisfying about watching it being aired. It gives one a sense of something beyond just slapping in a dvd whenever you want. it requires a level of engagement and commitment. Like seeing something at the cinema maybe. I'm sure you know what I'm getting at here. This 24 hour society thing is way overrated. Nothing can be overground popular anymore for any longer than a blip.

Anyway, I hope to be able to catch as many as possible in this manner and might even have a wee kip now to make sure I can stay awake. I shall leave you with this...

“Birdsongs, Beesongs” includes new and previously unreleased tracks from acts like Hari and Aino, BMX Bandits, TWIG, Saturday Looks Good To Me, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, The Paper Merchants and many many other great acts. Give it a try.

So much great music in this release and Knut has worked so hard to get all these great bands to release new songs for this project. Downloading "Birdsongs, Beesongs - Volume A" is free, so get to it."

Stop Press - James King and The Lone Wolves myspace, courtesy of The Vinyl Villain!

Wanda Jackson at The Jazz Cafe in June. (Thanks Andrew) and, while we're on the subject of legends, Mose Allison is at Pizza Express Jazz Club, London on June 15th - 21st.

Daylight fucking saving? What's that all about then?? Is it designed for lazy blighters that find it hard to get out of their scratchers or something. Far as I can tell it serves no purpose. And don't lay that "it's for the kids getting to school" bollocks. The molly-coddled little dears more often than not get dropped off by a parent or friend of same. The days of rugrats actually using shanks's pony to get anywhere are all but extinct.

So it was all a bit frantic this am. Just as well I had the new Wooden Shjips to audially sandblast on the journey to work. More about "Dos" closer to it's Holy Mountain release in May.

The priority tonight is to complete my Adiam D epistle so take a look at this and follow the instructions implicitly.



By the way this was post #4000.

BEEPFEST - Glasgow -SATURDAY MAY 9th 2009

The guff weather that was forecast to hit this part of the world hasn't shown and it's nice and bright out. Might take a trochle into town but...

...there are more pressing things on the horizon. Like listening to these City Rock tracks kindly dropped in courtesy of the good offices of Doc. H. I've got an itch to search for a Michael Stanley Band comp. "Midwest Midnight" track whetted my appetite. I remember liking another song of theirs back in the stone age but can't remember the title. This gives me a chance to maybe get into listing some stuff that you might care to check out rather than get on with your life.

The new issue of Dig It! (#45) is available and as ever it flags up all kinds of stuff that I need to hear and in some cases get. It's all in French but it's literally dripping with that high energy enthusiasm that their crew never fails to deliver.

Not music-related but cool nonetheless is the Glasgow-based I Like. A site that I do, as a matter of fact.

Mr Rafferty caught this and figured you may be interested. Think of The Dictators "Avenue A" when you're reading it.

There's a book out about Eric's in Liverpool. haven't seen it but you can get the scoop here.

Back to CR... what's wrong with me? I'm thinking that Huey Lewis and The News "The Heart of Rock'n'Roll" is some pretty hot shit... and I'm not ashamed to say it. It's maybe even the metaphorical AOR flipside of "American Beat"!

Tonight's Monorail Film Club... "This month we're showing Lynne Ramsay's Morvern Callar, a morally ambiguous story about a suicide and its immediate, unexpected aftermath. Partly set in Oban and partly in Ibiza, Morvern Callar is based on an Alan Warner novel and will be introduced by Roddy Woomble of Idlewild at GFT - 7.30pm".

I always loved "Summertime Girls" by Y&T. Didn't you?? This is turning into some kind of multi-cultural melting pot for a Sunday afternoon. I hope you'll be able to keep up... woah, the guitar solo!! Bring back full-on rock stupidity, please!!? Somebody??

Wow, thanks for the tip on this one. For a minute I thought Andy Stewart had been cloned. So, there's no White heather club footage but there is this...



And then there's this, unearthed by Eric Fusco and facebooked. Captain Cruickshank has a copy of the 45. It has some tie-in to what would become Beserkley.



This trio should keep you amused while we all adjust to being short-changed an hour.

"Turn Out The Lights" is an Amy Allison song. Sounds cool by candlelight when you're doing the Earth Hour thing.

I jus heard The Seeds "Can't Seem To Make You Mine" in a deodorant commercial.

These are weird times. Goodnight.

I heard Graham Forbes on the Janice Forsyth show this morning and he sounded like a top geezer.

Reckon there will be some cool tales in this new book of his, "Rock'n'Roll Tourist".

Here's something to blow off those cobwebs...



Thanks to Tex for fb'ing it and the Bedazzled Corp for everything else. A cinema stint with these babies is a priority. I feel another project coming on!