Admiral Stefan Conrad on the second instalment of Sophisticated Boom Boom on the cyberwireless tomorrow night between 7 and 9 CET. That's 6 til 8 here in the UK... good gear of the musical variety guaranteed.

The very Rev. JD King has posted another one of his fine yarns on his website. Go there and get acquainted with it in due course. All you need do is click this link.

There's 5 more hours to do at the coal face and then I have a week to try and restore order to various aspects of what passes for an existence. Part of this involves what goes on here in the blogosphere. Probably.

Also, I have Comedy Central free until May 4th so I'm making the most of that. South Park and Sarah Silverman tomorrow, after SBB of course. 'til then...

CULTURAPOP!

The Autographs on Revolver, found this via Ms Mona's B-Girls tip on fb earlier...

Hard to comprehend that it's just about a year since The Sonics blew through London. I imagine that a bunch of you kids will be taking in the LBB festivities over the impending weekend? No such gallivanting for me but I have a pass out from the salt mines for a week. At this point, there are plans to extricate myself from a number of ruts but that could all go south or down the pan, depending on how you like to describe what will likely amount to procrastination. So long as I keep away from futzing about on facebook then that’ll be something…

A schlep to Glasgow and Edinburgh could be on the cards, actually – it’s the MC Lars show on Wednesday. Couple movies, couple pints of Guinness mayhap? Just the two mind. Some gardening depending on the weather... I'm sure you get the drift. All subject to change.

Let’s get to some info then. It’s been a weird day with some kind of fug implanted where my common sense, such as it is or was, usually lives. This could make sense or not. Oh yeah, and this has nothing to do wit ICP or juggalos or whatever their crew call themselves…

Maybe some of you folks would like to try out Freekly?

I guess it works along the lines of when you order something from Amazon and it suggests other gear you might like? Anyway, it's a tie up with Rocks Backpages and it will deliver yer actual "rock writing" to your portal of choice.

I don't use iTunes or an iPod so I can't tell you if it does what it sez on the tin or not.

It does have an ever growing archive to draw upon though so it's potentially a very good source of information indeed. Particularly for future generations who are yet to discover that before the days of cut and paste, there was actual opinion and sometimes even passion involved with all this malarky.

I've also started to post on the RB blog. The idea is to float stuff on there that might not have made it to the pages of what's left of the inkies yet. We'll see, there's a lot of good stuff in there too so why not have a rake around. It goes like this, you head over to RBP via this link.

You’ll see an ad in the far RH column offering you an invite for a week so click on that and do the bizzo. Let me know what happens after that because I’m not tooled up for the full bhuna.

For those of you in the US, Eddie and the Hot Rods are headed in your direction! Click on the poster to enlarge and find out when they're hovering close to your zip code.

GLASGOW RHYTHM AND BLUES FESTIVAL - MAY 2009

A ton of shows happening over the coming week and months all over. I'm kinda pushed for time right now so maybe I'll try to round those up and, should you be in the 'hood of any of them then feel free to make the necessary arrangements...

In NYC...

It's more off-color action this week with Susquehanna Industrial Tool & Die Co. -- working blue at the honky tonkin'est joint in town, the Rodeo Bar!

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8th / RODEO BAR /
375 Third Avenue (at the corner of 27th Street) in Manhattan / Two big & bawdy sets, from 10pm sharp until 12:30am / No cover -- and free peanuts! /

Ribaldly yours, Michael
Susquehanna Industrial Tool & Die Co.
"Ballads, Boogies & Blues"

in LONDON...

Thomas Phobic Esq sez... "I have tickets for sale for our up and coming gig at The Dirty South on Saturday 18th April.They cost £8 but I'm selling my allocation for £6 quid each - the £2 is supposed to go to us but feck it, theres a credit crunch (is that some kind of biscuit??)

You will be entertained by: CATFIGHT, WONK UNIT, your favorite well mannered deptford guitarslingers, THE PHOBICS, The Wonderful BERMONDSEY JOYRIDERS, featuring Garry Lammin from Cock Sparrer and Keith Boyce from The Heavy Metal Kids and, playing a rare London gig - PETER AND THE TEST TUBE BABIES.

The shindig starts at 7:30pm and the bar is open til 2am so come early, stay late and enjoy a smorgasboord of rock n roll delights. It will cost more on the door - so act now and save money for drink. Thank you for your kind indulgence."

in OSHAWA, CANADA...



Rob from Crummy Stuff checked in...

Hello everybody... Don't miss The Blue Coupe/Crummy Stuff show on April 17 at Chicago's in Oshawa...

Members of Blue Öyster Cult, Alice Cooper Band and Teenage Head all sharing the stage...

There is a good chance a certain Teenage Head member will join Crummy Stuff on stage for some rock classics!!

Let the music play, Rob.

And that's about yer lot for now, much more gig info to be processed and relayed in due course. I'm off to check out the new BoB and to have my tea. Not necessarily in that order though.

RIP - Mike McCann (Cannibals 82 -84/Disi & The Rathole Sheikh)

(Thanks to Gildas and Patrick for the info)

Here's a cool end to the weekend. Mr. Paul Cangelosi kindly dropped me a line to say that the Girl Trouble anniversary show sets are right there on the interweb for your downloading/listening pleasure!

All you got to do is click here and scroll down to the sonic paydirt. Of course it should be a triple vinyl release but until then, this will do nicely. I'm listening now and really wish I'd been there. A couple of the finest shows I ever saw by anybody was spent in their company way too long ago. They've still got it alright!

LORD ROCHESTER/THE MAD SCENE/THE INEPTORS plus Dj: Chris Fast/Wednesday 15th April/Henry's Cellar Bar/Morrison Street/Edinburgh/doors at 8pm - £5/4

Lord Rochester return fresh from London's 'Big Beat Bonanza' festival playing stripped down Bo Diddleyesque rock'n'rumble in tartan jackets! Featuring Russ 'Wildebeest' Wilkins, Saskia 'Sally Skull' Holling and Tim 'Mystery Juice' Matthew. Expect an LP real soon.

The Mad Scene play a warm up before 'Homegame' Fence Collective festival in Anstruther. From Brooklyn, New York they are a Velvets/Television Personalities/Syd Barrett inspired cacophony and amongst them lurks Hamish Kilgour of New Zealand's Flying Nun legends 'The Clean'

The Ineptors are the recently renamed 'Preston Pfanz and The Seaton Sands', Edinburgh's premier Surfbeat and R'n'R instrumentalists

Also in Edinburgh, two screenings of The Monks: Transatlantic Feedback doc at The Cameo. Friday 17th and Saturday 18th (the timings aren't on the site yet, it's late - I know that). So if you missed the recent Glasgow stint then get yourself along to one of those...

I'm experiencing some e-mail turbulence this am. Pain in the arse. Anyway, I'm off now to see Spinal Tap on the big screen (on a double bill with Anvil). A perfect Sunday afternoon pastime methinks!

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)