Ane Brun has announced to fans that a full concert, from 2008’s Changing the Seasons european tour, has been posted to youtube – and what a beautiful intimate concert it is! The filming took place in Amsterdam’s legendary Paradiso club (a converted church which, since 1968 has hosted concerts), as part of the Fab channel […]
Sad news today as word came through from Montreux, Switzerland that one of the giants of Italian music, Lucio Dalla, had died of a heart attack just days before his 69th birthday. The news all the more shocking for most Italians as he had been seen performing at the annual San Remo music festival just […]
There’s a quote, from an article that Germaine Greer wrote back in the 70s,which springs back in to my mind continuously when listening to certain albums: “When Joshua fit the Battle of Jericho the walls came tumbling down. That’s revelation. The holy Ghost talking. So it can be done. The way to crack a mirror or shiver […]
‘I think I’m mostly inspired by emotional and existential topics, either my own or people around me’, muses Ane Brun, the Norwegian songstress as she reflects on everything from poetry in politics to racism and fantasy collaborations. Having recorded nine albums since her debut album Spending Time with Morgan in 2002, it’s fair to say that […]
Words launch other words, and names have a way of establishing themselves as footholds – nothing could be truer than with the name Jesus, which – thanks to the centuries of teaching, tradition, imposition and imperialism which have used him as currency – has come to mean whatever you earnestly wish. The devil may have […]
April is the cruellest month – always has been, and always will be, just like tuesdays never come out right; but there is hope at the end of the tunnel, glimpsed briefly through the showers. In those long northern winters, when you’re cooped up, it seems natural to think ahead, to dream – more often […]
Though it’s officially springtime, celebrating the sunshine I find myself paradoxically listeing to Paddy Casey’s Ancient Sorrow (rather than the more appropriate Sunnyside of the Street by the Pogues) – a song that, with a brave production that highlights the voices of Casey and the real foundation given by the soulful singing of Terry Sutton. […]
“For in vain from the grasp of Religion I flee The most tenderly loved of my soul Are slaves to its hated control It pursues me, it blasts me! Oh where shall I fly What remains but to curse it, to curse it to die?” (1) Every bit the sneering, instinctive, anti-puritanical, vote-splitting impulsive Prometheus, […]
It’s hard to choose just one song from Loudon Wainwright’s skeletal, bruised, shocking – and yes, at times extremely funny – 1979 live album a live one. Wainwright is a far more versaitile songwriter than he’s often given credit for, and this collection, perhaps more than any other, shows off his talent in a raw […]
The artist Robert Luxemburg, in the thought-provoking Steal this film II (freely available through bit-torrent – download it, watch it, pass it on), talks about the absolute fear that record companies and the film industry have that the average consumer will, with the aid of cheap technology, morph themselves into producers. With the aid of […]
