ib posted an article on Siblingshot on The Bleachers - Dec 10, 2009, 5:45 am
Recorded and mixed at the Upsetter's own ramshackle Black Ark Studio with King Tubby on the sliders, "Blackboard Jungle" showcases dub at its rawest; the fruit of the trinity of Perry, Ruddick and...
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ib posted an article on Siblingshot on The Bleachers - Dec 9, 2009, 7:37 am
Two rare King Tubby mixes - date of recording unknown - which appear on the 1999 Culture Press CD release, "The Fatman Tapes", reissued as "Crucial Dub" the following year on the UK imprint, Delta Mus...
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ib posted an article on Siblingshot on The Bleachers - Dec 8, 2009, 4:12 am
illustration by ib. There is a theatre company near here on the south side. For many years it was Glasgow's Transport Museum before they moved it to the West End. Willem Dafoe did some New York S...
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ib posted an article on Siblingshot on The Bleachers - Dec 7, 2009, 1:51 pm
Originally released on the 1975 Total Sounds Jamaican LP imprint - and again on Grounation in the UK in that same year - "Roots of Dub" lays down the 'law' at Kingston 11, Waterhouse, mixed st...
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ib posted an article on Siblingshot on The Bleachers - Dec 7, 2009, 8:47 am
Ably backed by the Aggrovators, and recorded at King Tubby's Studio in Kingston, Jamaica; this diamond studded needlepoint from Melbourne James was recorded sometime between 1975 and 1977. It nei...
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ib posted an article on Siblingshot on The Bleachers - Dec 5, 2009, 12:55 pm
Alan Bennett is drowning in his teacup; a surfeit of suburban semi-detached ennui posing as angst. A whirlpool in a sweeping - suitably modest - driveway emptied of carp. No koi, then, just cloying...
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ib posted an article on Siblingshot on The Bleachers - Dec 5, 2009, 7:15 am
Disconcertingly, I remember well when those representatives of the Gideon Society turned up at my high school to distribute copies of their Holiday Inn paperback to my entire year. Now. I have never b...
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ib posted an article on Siblingshot on The Bleachers - Nov 29, 2009, 5:45 am
cry tuff Shot dead on home turf in Kingston, Jamaica in 1983 following a confrontation, seemingly, with an opportunistic armed intruder, Michael James Williams - aka Prince Far I - qualifies for an h...
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ib posted an article on Siblingshot on The Bleachers - Nov 25, 2009, 1:03 pm
a curiosity only... by deed of absurdist dissension, and conspicuously excluded from the 1984 Polydor release of Ian Dury & the Music Students' "4,000 Weeks Holiday", the executive decision to de...
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ib posted an article on Siblingshot on The Bleachers - Nov 25, 2009, 5:26 am
ANC 1021. Lifted from their 1975 LP, "Elastique" - also released on the UK independent Anchor label - "Why Did You Do It ?" remains as taut and inviting a proposition as a 38" peach in a g-string. ...
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ib posted an article on Siblingshot on The Bleachers - Nov 24, 2009, 10:58 am
not a rerun of the basement tapes, but an ear full of soot in the ink well. brass necked plagiarism, above, by ib. If you happen to be in the vicinity of Nashville, Tennessee this coming Sunday, Dece...
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ib posted an article on Siblingshot on The Bleachers - Nov 20, 2009, 6:46 am
tick... tock... tick... Like my Polish grandfather, I find myself preoccupied with watches. Wristwatches, to be precise; pocket watches, too. Silver oysters. Clocks, on the other hand... twice strik...
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ib posted an article on Siblingshot on The Bleachers - Nov 19, 2009, 11:11 am
Francis Ford Coppola's 1983 adaptation of S.E. Hinton's "Rumblefish" - expanded in 1975 from her original short story first published in 'Nimrod: 1968', the University of Tulsa's l...
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ib posted an article on Siblingshot on The Bleachers - Nov 18, 2009, 1:29 pm
Back by popular demand. Well. In a manner of speaking. The following Learism - in the loosest sense - was originally posted last Friday and subsequently withdrawn by the taste police: I could'a...
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ib posted an article on Siblingshot on The Bleachers - Nov 16, 2009, 9:16 am
And the curious thing is, I wasn't frying up 'Braveheart' beef slices over yesterday's post. I wasn't even particularly fond of that movie. Out to lunch, is as accurate an assessm...
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ib posted an article on Siblingshot on The Bleachers - Nov 15, 2009, 6:16 am
Annotated as an "outtake"on the 2002 repackage, I can hear nothing here differing significantly from their definitive LP version. The most recent accession, of course, to the Dukedom of Wessex is non...
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ib posted an article on Siblingshot on The Bleachers - Nov 14, 2009, 7:29 am
Last night's attempt at poetry stank, quite frankly. I woke up this morning and pulled the chain. Not being one to flush the baby with the bath water, I was loathe to disengage for the want of cry...
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ib posted an article on Siblingshot on The Bleachers - Nov 11, 2009, 1:26 pm
What is it with oranges ? Anthony Burgess and 'A Clockwork Orange'; Jeanette Winterson's 'Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit'; Mark E. Smith's 'I Am Kurious Oranj'. Save ...
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ib posted an article on Siblingshot on The Bleachers - Nov 9, 2009, 3:11 pm
Recorded in the studio and live at Filmore East and West - with el capitán, Dino Valente conspicuously in or out of the frame and serving a two year stretch for marijuana possession - "Happy Trails" ...
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ib posted an article on Siblingshot on The Bleachers - Nov 8, 2009, 6:22 am
Four minutes, give or take, of transcendental triumph or trash. Take your pick. This is where I pause and wish my wife many happy returns. Pounding on the keyboard while she sulks in the kitchen; not...
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ib posted an article on Siblingshot on The Bleachers - Nov 7, 2009, 6:30 am
A mere two years after Booji Boy stiffed in their native US, and an overseas deal with Stiff Records soured in the UK, Ohioans Devo signed on the line with major league hitters, Warner Bros. The rest ...
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ib posted an article on Siblingshot on The Bleachers - Nov 7, 2009, 4:03 am
john cooper clarke strikes a ridiculously cool pose, 1977. inner sleeve, "suspended sentence" ep. TOSH 103. This, as the BBC was once quick to retort, is little more than a lachrymose repeat. John ...
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ib posted an article on Siblingshot on The Bleachers - Nov 6, 2009, 6:09 am
ATV's fifth single release proper on Depftford Fun City - not including their "Love Lies Limp" flexi distributed free through issue #12 of fanzine, Sniffin' Glue, the last - "The Force is Blin...
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ib posted an article on Siblingshot on The Bleachers - Nov 2, 2009, 1:39 pm
Well. There is no ire like that of an angry mod. And maybe I am no angry mod. ▼ THE WHO: SUBSTITUTE from "Substitute b/w Circles" 45 (Reaction / Track) 1966 (UK) ▼ THE WHO: THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT...
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ib posted an article on Siblingshot on The Bleachers - Nov 2, 2009, 12:39 pm
"...ha-ha. Oh, Jesus, that's so f@cking hysterical!"
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ib posted an article on Siblingshot on The Bleachers - Nov 2, 2009, 12:38 pm
" A ha-ha-ha-ha-ha...."
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ib posted an article on Siblingshot on The Bleachers - Nov 2, 2009, 10:39 am
a rather antique silver teething spoon. On a somewhat rancorous note, I would like to lend a word or too of support to fellow Glaswegian, and stand-up comic, Frankie Boyle, recently censured by the B...
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ib posted an article on Siblingshot on The Bleachers - Nov 1, 2009, 7:56 am
... and before the skies cleared over Boomland, there briefly existed a sometimes growling sextet, Bulldog Breed. Featuring all three key members of T2 - in what I gather was a fusion of two minor l...
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ib posted an article on Siblingshot on The Bleachers - Oct 30, 2009, 10:41 am
(l to r) keith cross; peter dunton; bernard jinks. To more or less quote Johnny Thunders verbatim: "Do you want the 'lectric shit ? Or the hippie shit ?" I had not heard T2 previous to the incl...
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ib posted an article on Siblingshot on The Bleachers - Oct 29, 2009, 2:22 pm
ahhh... Recorded on the 9th September, 2009 - 9/9/9 to those of you with a morbid fascination for emergency services numerology - "The Grass is Always Greener" is the second EP release from Nashville...
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ib posted an article on Siblingshot on The Bleachers - Oct 25, 2009, 10:12 am
The act of wielding even a virtual pen can be cathartic, for sure. The act of discharging it like a weapon - a greasegun - might even be exhilirating. But. We all pay allegiance to a nominal form of...
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ib posted an article on Siblingshot on The Bleachers - Oct 25, 2009, 7:31 am
you've got a lot of nerve... I remember reading somewhere, vaguely, that Bob Dylan once attempted to make a go of it peddling bespoke wooden legs. Handcrafted prostheses, to be more precise. Is...
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ib posted an article on Siblingshot on The Bleachers - Oct 23, 2009, 11:46 am
II. I am LAYZEE BOY, lionhearts; crusaders. Furious as a pope. Flaccid and prone. occasionally rampant. # 1 with bass from Albert Dennis. # 2 performed with friction: Sue Schmidt: Guitar, Violin; ...
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ib posted an article on Siblingshot on The Bleachers - Oct 11, 2009, 4:41 am
A re-up, to those in the loop, from July last year. "...If The Stooges and MC5 were progenitors of punk in the U.S., then Pink Fairies were sperm donors who refused to fuck about." illustration ™ ...
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ib posted an article on Siblingshot on The Bleachers - Oct 10, 2009, 5:05 am
The steam locomotive whispers up to the platform, and we disembark. A little sheepishly. Beyond the clock, the panes of glass, it looks a lot like a gymnasium. A football stadium. There are rows of ...
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ib posted an article on Siblingshot on The Bleachers - Oct 8, 2009, 9:13 am
She sat barefoot in the middle of the floor, on sunlit boards browning in late afternoon. Surrounded by lengths of copper tubing. Attaching paper notes to curling branches with surgical precision. Tie...
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ib posted an article on Siblingshot on The Bleachers - Oct 8, 2009, 6:25 am
Taking up the slack from a recent post by Sheridan Dupre III, stepping off sun dappled kerb into twilight, here is a positively chilled vibe lingering in the shadow. Because less is more, and I'v...
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ib posted an article on Siblingshot on The Bleachers - Oct 7, 2009, 3:13 am
A third rate actor poses on the White House lawn on January 20th, 1981. The grocer's daughter seeks a second marriage. Fittingly, Ronald Reagan was born in an apartment above a local bank in a re...
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ib posted an article on Siblingshot on The Bleachers - Oct 6, 2009, 7:34 am
for the record: Protect me from the mangled utterances of witchfinders and the convoluted, the diapered rebuke of incontinent dribblers. Flycatchers and the sanctimonious; "My name is Legion, and we...
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ib posted an article on Siblingshot on The Bleachers - Oct 4, 2009, 9:44 am
Take that thumb off your clitoris, the gym skirt to your stick shift, and jamb it Straight up - under the hood - your stalled and dragging tail pipe. You give me gas. engine block photograph found ...
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ib posted an article on Siblingshot on The Bleachers - Oct 4, 2009, 4:59 am
A swaggering Jagger & Richard composition from their fabulous "Aftermath", this is proto-punk '1-2-3-4' at its most infectious. Restricted by the limited coverage independent distribution all...
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ib posted an article on Siblingshot on The Bleachers - Oct 1, 2009, 8:38 am
detail from a photograph by norman snyder. I was looking for this photograph by veteran New York photographer - and 'Time-Life' art director - Norman Snyder. I found it in a second hand hardc...
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ib posted an article on Siblingshot on The Bleachers - Sep 29, 2009, 9:58 am
So. A little perspective is what's required. Or merely what the doctor ordered. A little distance, certainly. A respite from ill performed quackery, and the casting of runes; the misdiagnosis of...
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ib posted an article on Siblingshot on The Bleachers - Sep 26, 2009, 8:17 am
a•non•y•mous |əˌnɒnɪməs| adjective • having no outstanding, individual, or unusual features; unremarkable or impersonal : the anonymous black car waiting to take him to the airport | a f...
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ib posted an article on Siblingshot on The Bleachers - Sep 24, 2009, 2:52 pm
If you have not already availed yourself of more on the excellent Jetty Web - see below - it is very definitely your loss. This neglected jewel, cribbed from tøday's revealing post on Digital Mel...
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ib posted an article on Siblingshot on The Bleachers - Sep 24, 2009, 5:51 am
detail from "the nightmare" (1781) by john henry fuseli; 1741-1825. Sleep hy•per•hi•dro•sis |'hʌipədrəʊsis| noun more commonly known as the night sweats, is the occurrence of excessiv...
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ib posted an article on Siblingshot on The Bleachers - Sep 24, 2009, 3:08 am
Originally hurtling into orbit via Big B over on Art Decade, and appearing here, Memphis cosmic crew Jetty Webb remain shrouded in mystery if not space debris. But wait. Delving deep into the static ...
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ib posted an article on Siblingshot on The Bleachers - Sep 23, 2009, 9:05 am
Sheesh. I just received another guest list invitation for an event at the Bowery Poetry Club between Bleecker and Houston Street, NYC. Sadly frustrating when the primary consideration is not whether I...
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ib posted an article on Siblingshot on The Bleachers - Sep 18, 2009, 4:02 pm
august 1st, 1949 - september 11th, 2009 I only caught this sad news today over at NØ's place. Hiding my head in the sand of late, I have nothing more to add - by way of my appreciation of a fine...
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ib posted an article on Siblingshot on The Bleachers - Sep 18, 2009, 4:10 am
I watched helplessly from the window as my wife hurtled on down the street with our small reserve of tobacco. She was too far away to stake a decent headshot, so I gently laid down the telescopic .22 ...
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