Poll tax riots - 20 years after violence shook London →
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And I went and hid in an underground station, obviously.
March 2010
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Lemonade
CocoRosie
CocoRosie: Lemonade - From their forthcoming album Grey Oceans (it’s got some rather disturbing, somewhat surrealist cover art). I really like this track. It starts off all crackly Joanna-Newsom-before-Joanna-Newsom-started-singing-more-conventionally, and then transforms into some kind of weird alcoholic R ‘n’ B performed by a beautifully singing robot. Or something. I don’t know. I can’t describe it. I’m not a music journalist, and I never claimed to be. So there.
Women do not have a thick enough skin to present Today, says programme's editor →
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Oh, he is going to be in so much trouble …
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Papua New Guinea (Simian Mix) - Simian produce a wonderfully atmospheric version of the classic Future Sound of London track that positively drips with mystery, clicks and creaks. Oh, and clarinets.
Probe sees 'Pac-man in the moon' →
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I’m just checking the date. No, it’s not April 1st.
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To the Editor, Rag Mag, Gloucester College of Education, 1968
You say your mag is in aid of mental health! Dear Lad, there’s no such thing, if there was anybody in a position of power with any semblance of mental health do you think the world would be in this bloody mess? Young minds at risk is different. Anyone with a young mind is taking a risk - young means fresh - unsullied, ready to be gobbled up in an adult world bringing the young into the visionless world of adults, like all our leaders. Their world is dead - dead - dead, and my God, that’s why it stinks! They look at youth in horror - and say ‘They are having a revolution’, but what do they want? I say they don’t know what they want, but they know what they don’t want, and that is, the repetition of past mistakes, towards which the adult old order is still heading. War - armistice - building up to pre-war standards - capitalism - labour - crisis - war and so on. I digress.
Mental Health. I have had five nervous breakdowns - and all the medics gave me was medicine - tablets - but no love or any attempt at involvement, in this respect I might well have been a fish in a bowl. The mentally ill need LOVE, UNDERSTANDING - TOLERANCE, as yet unobtainable on the N.H.S. or the private world of psychiatry, but tablets, yes, and a bill for £5 5. 0. a visit - if they know who you are it’s £10 10. 0. - the increased fee has an immediate depressing effect - so you come out worse than you went in.
As yet, I have not been cured, patched up via chemicals, yes. Letter unfinished, but I’ve run out of time - sorry!
Regards,
Spike
(The godlike genius of) Spike Milligan [via Mind Hacks / loopy]
Bloodbuzz Ohio
The National
The National: Bloodbuzz Ohio - Yes, they’ve had it in their set-list for a few months now, so many people will already have heard it. Yes, it’s being offered as an official free download from the site that’s gone online to preview the forthcoming album, High Violet (due in May), so even more people will get to hear it. And yes, the very fact that the band has got a separate site to promote the album means that this release is unquestionably being viewed as a Big Deal that is going to take them into the Big Time, meaning that all activities surrounding it should be loathed as shrewd, calculated commercial manoeuvring.
But. Having said all that. This is a new song by The National. It’s sublime. It’s brilliant. It’s got that voice, those guitars, that drumming. So I listened to it twenty-seven times in a row (approximately), and wet myself a little (possibly).
