Music, rabbits [just had 4 babaies], graffiti, New York City, the Blues, the history of NYC disco, acid house - it's 20 years!
Painting
RIP: Michael Jackson sure but Andy Hughes, who sadly passed on June 12, is an incredibly sad loss.
Music
Bad Love Cutie, Gun Club, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Grinderman, The Clash, Suicide, Magma, The Orb, Carbon Silicon, Certain General, Primal Scream, Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band, New York Dolls, Jimi Hendrix, Mott The Hoople then-Ian Hunter now, John Fahey, Albert Ayler, Isaac Hayes, Dirty Strangers, Bon Iver, the Seeds, Sunray, Blondie, Kid Creole & the Coconuts, Buzzcocks, Marianne Faithfull, Underground Resistance, the Stones, Charley Patton, Detroit techno, esp. Derrick May, Juan Atkins, Blake Baxter], early Chicago house, LCD Soundsystem, underground disco experiments [Arthur Russell, Walter Gibbons, Began Cekic, etc], Blind Willie Johnson, Son House, George Clinton & the whole Parliafunkadelicment Thang, Dave Clarke, the misunderstood, DJ Pierre, Adonis, Andrew Weatherall, Xpress 2, Sven Vath & all the nutjobs who detonated my loincloth in 90s club situations, Moby, Doll By Doll, Loren Mazzacane Connors, the Hardkiss bros, Flamin' Groovies; Chic, Velvet
Underground, Patti Smith, the Stanley Brothers, the 5 Royales, Slam, Otis Redding, MC5, Iggy & the
Stooges, the Nuggets bands [Standells, etc], Captain
Beefheart, Can, Last Poets, MC Dynamax, Implog, Sylvester, ESG, Tim Buckley, White Noise, Destroy All Monsters,
Blue Cheer, Francois K & the early 80s NYC boogie sound, Lou Reed,
Southern soul greats like James Carr, Roscoe Robinson & O.V. Wright, Sun Ra & His Solar Arkestra, The Fugs, The Arthur Penis Sound,
Maggotron, the Ramones, Patti Smith Group, Richard Hell, Ken Dodd, Carl Cox, 70s roots reggae & heavyweight dub, Burning Spear, Jayne County,
Old skool hiphop & mid-skool as spun by DJs Red Alert
& Chuck Chillout on NYs KISS FM & WBLS between 80-88; Nico, UK electronic mavericks like Dave Clarke & Depth Charge; Alex Smoke, Frank Ifield,
Moondog, the girl groups [Shangri-Las,
Ronettes, etc], James Brown & friends, classic NY
house [Nu-Groove, Strictly Rhythm], Magma, Muddy Waters, Andy Stewart, Bruce Springsteen, Howlin
Wolf, Jimmy Reed, Barbecue Bob, Mississippi John Hurt, Bukka White, 'Rabbit' Brown, James Brown, Tammi Terrell, Bowie, Wu-Tang Clan, Sly & the Family
Stone, Bo Diddley, Paul Robeson, Doll By Doll, Billie Holiday, Elvis,
Johnny Cash, Mott, Bukka White, Jerry Lee Lewis, Trouble Funk & the go-go
sound, Underworld, selected label fixations [Soma - everything they put out ups the bar, drains it and makes new cocktails}, Stay Up
Forever, UR, Touchin Bass, Vakant, Minus, etc].
Movies
Performance, Airplane!, All Dolled Up, Gimme Shelter, Wild Style, One Plus One, Ghost On The Highway,
The Warriors, The Future Is Unwritten, The Proposition, Superfly, Naked Gun, New York Doll, Will Hay - Where's That Fire? Ask A Policeman: Rude Boy, The 3 Amigos, Apocalypse Now, Manumission - The Movie, The Crakpot Quail, The Departed,
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, The Acid House, Carry On Up The Jungle
Television
NYPD Blue, The Sopranos, Kojak, Twin Peaks, Bilko, Bugs Bunny, Married With Children, Meerkat Manor, the Prisoner, Green Wing, Hill Street Blues, My Name Is
Earl, Mock the Week, Foghorn Leghorn [especially Rhode Island Red], Time Gentlemen Please, Wildlife
documentaries; Tommy Cooper, Fast Show, The Range Rider,
Books
John Fahey - How Bluegrass Destroyed My life, Chester Himes - the Harlem Cycle, Jeffrey Lee Pierce - Go Tell The Mountain; Typical Girls: The Disco Files; Slits - Zoe; Reheated Cabbage - Irvine Welsh; Culture Clash; Captain Beefheart - Mike Barnes; Dread Meets Punk Rockers - Don Letts; Can't Stop Won't Stop - Jeff Chang; Love Saves The Day: A History Of American Dance Music Culture 1970-79 - Tim Lawrence; The Fabulous Sylvester - Joshua Gamson; The Heroin Diaries - Nikki Sixx;
Push Yourself Just A Little Bit More - Johnny Green; Once In A Lifetime: The Crazy Days Of Acid House - Jane Bussman; The Rabbit Whisperer - Ingrid Tarrant; The Land That Blues Forgot - Alan Lomax; Suicide - David Nobahkt;
And The Ass Saw The Angel - Nick Cave; Barney Hoskyns' Tom Waits biog; Margrave Of The Marshes - John Peel; A Guide To Recognising Your Saints - Dito Montiel; Iceberg Slim & Donald Goines; Music
biographies - too many to mention.
Heroes
Keith Richards; Jimi Hendrix; John Peel: Jeffrey Lee Pierce; John Fahey; Albert Ayler, Kojak, David Needs, Danny Lee Needs & Mrs Michelle Needs the Bunnymad69er
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About Kris Needs, by countercultural powerhouse and seditionary influence Rhienhardt Haydn:
Journalist, DJ, production artist and living leg end, Kris Needs has been present at many of the most significant events of the last thirty-five years. From running the Mott The Hoople fan club, to running from hordes of marauding teddy boys, to running a rabbit sanctuary, Kris has seen it all. Struck by the rock’n’roll thunderbolt on seeing the Rolling Stones live at the 1968 NME Pollwinners Party, Kris apologised to the lady in front for dropping his jubbly down her neck and set off in pursuit of the rock’n’roll lifestyle. When Hendrix played the Albert Hall the following February, Kris was there. As the late sixties psychedelic wave crested on the shores of Albion, Kris was there again - ready expand his consciousness and his similarly-expanding palette of influences armed with little more than unbridled enthusiasm, a packet of Job, and some Oxo he’d bought for two bob. As the editor of legendary rock’n’roll magazine Zigzag, Needsy drove the hippies into exile and established a punk beachhead on the newsstand, championing The Clash, Sex Pistols and the Ramones. With his unique and engaging take on Lester Bangs’ gonzo approach to rock journalism, Kris inspired an entire generation of young rockers to seek out new bands, go bonkers on Benylin and then go home and write about it. He did for me. The pivotal figures of the punk scene quickly realised that Kris was unique among journalists – without ego, pretension or the change to get home – they adopted him as their own and his adventures with The Clash, Blondie, Motorhead and a score of others have become legendary. Lured to New York by the fact that it was New York, Kris shacked up next door to beat poet Allen Ginsberg and embarked on a pan-cultural odyssey of new experiences, new music and old gear. His love of rock’n’roll and reggae expanded to encompass hip-hop, no wave and house. After a short but lucrative stint as a Florida Keys bathysphere pilot, Kris returned to the UK to pitch himself headlong into the acid house revolution – utilising his vast knowledge of contemporary and classic grooves to establish himself as a pioneering DJ which led to manning the decks for fellow sonic outlaws Primal Scream, leaving a path of debauchery, carnage and Texan chicken impersonations in his wake, as he Kris-crossed the globe as their resident DJ. He also toured with the Prodigy and spent two summers as resident DJ-casuality at Ibiza's infamous Manumission. This period formed the basis of Needsy’s acclaimed Scream biography ‘The Scream – The Myths, Music and Misbehaviour of Primal Scream’. Having already penned his compulsively engaging autobiography ‘Needs Must’ – described by Irvine Welsh as, ‘The best book about music I’ve read’ – Kris undertook his epic biography of his long time hero Keith Richards ‘Before They Make Me Run’. After a lie down and a rusk, Kris followed this up with his roller coaster history of The Only Band That Matters, ‘Joe Strummer & The Legend of The Clash’ Most recently, Kris has co-authored ‘Trash! The Complete New York Dolls’ with Tooting's foremost cutpurse, Dick Porter. He also regularly contributes to ‘Mojo’, 'Record Collector', ‘Trakmarx’, 'Clash' and ‘DMC Update’ as well as keeping his wiki-wiki hand in with an occasional stint of turntablism. Right now, Kris is rewriting and vastly-expanding the afore-mentioned autobiography with eight more years and a proper happy ending. Now up to 150,000 words and I'm only up to 1985!
.. Get this video and more at MySpace.com Bruce Springsteen doing Suicide's Dream Baby Dream is heaven on your 55th birthday.
Who I'd like to meet: David Mancuso, Christian Vander, Barrack Obama, Bugs Bunny, various hares etc
Hiya, Hope you are well. I wanted to let you know that, my single 'Lost Innocence' is out now. You can get it from itunes, and on cd and limited edition vinyl
We hope to chart this week and every single sale counts, it would be great if you would buy the single, that would be fantastic, and even better in all 3 formats! Your support is much appreciated!!!
THE RETURN OF THE BAT
Specimen will bring their special brand of glam mayhem, The Batcave to London again.
After last year’s wildly-successful 25th anniversary Batcave event, The Batcave returns to its original spawning ground of London’s West End on Sunday July 19 for another night of blasphemy, lechery and blood.
Specimen (Fresh from a fantastic show at Leipzig’s Waves Gotik festival), the original Batcave instigators will headline the lurid frolics at the Embassy Club, (29 Old Burlington St, London W1S3AP) Also on the bill are original Batcavers Sexbeat, with DJs Hamish and Cavey Nick, cavorting from decks to decadence with the usual brutal, trouser-dropping surprises & suitably confronting & barbaric entertainment.
The 2009 Batcave will feature installations from exciting new artists of the ‘Dark London Underground’ and visuals from the upcoming ‘Welco
Hey, just to let you know we have uploaded tracks from Ali's new solo album Flying High to his myspace, come by and let us know what you think or if you want to pre order you can get it on his myspace page.
Ali will be on tour in the UK from June 19th – July 4th come and see him and his new band live – they are tearing it up, round the country with a great party vibe!
Big Love Ali's Team x
THE RETURN OF THE BAT
Specimen will bring their special brand of glam mayhem, The Batcave to London again.
After last year’s wildly-successful 25th anniversary Batcave event, The Batcave returns to its original spawning ground of London’s West End on Sunday July 19 for another night of blasphemy, lechery and blood.
Specimen (Fresh from a fantastic show at Leipzig’s Waves Gotik festival), the original Batcave instigators will headline the lurid frolics at the Embassy Club, (29 Old Burlington St, London W1S3AP) Also on the bill are original Batcavers Sexbeat, with DJs Hamish and Cavey Nick, cavorting from decks to decadence with the usual brutal, trouser-dropping surprises & suitably confronting & barbaric entertainment.
The 2009 Batcave will feature installations from exciting new artists of the ‘Dark London Underground’ and visuals from the upcoming ‘Welcome To The Batcave’ book, along with this year’s bitcrushed message from the creature in t
Good article in MOJO on the end of BRITPOP.I am better known for the punk years but was always into Blur and Oasis and Suede with a little Pulp on the side.Nice One.AA
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