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It sounds liek the perfect home for them - remember saying to someone after I saw them that they were a lovely cross between Bis & DHR... Did they ever get a Peel session?

well Ross you could always book Johnny Ball for a gig....

http://www.drownedinsound.com/articles/10056.html - an event in December featuring Slint et al

Scientist - Rids The World Of The Curse Of Evil Vampires I've not got this but have the boxing one (Heavyweight Dub Champion), the pacman one (Meets the Space Invaders) and Scientific Dub which is on Clocktower Records. If you like his work check out the better Lee Perry / King Tubby albums....

It has to be either 1) I Hate Scotland by Ballboy OR 2) The First Big Weekend - Arab Strap Both some up our sense of humour, social problems etc etc Dave

This compilation has no street cred but sounded better than it should have after I finished it... The theme is twee for the hard of hearing ! Side A Belle & Seb - Slow Graffiti Dimitri form Paris - Toujours L'Armour Spare Snare - Cray Sort of Hum Clearlake - Jumbo Sailing Vaselines - You think're a man The Boy Cartographer - Threnody Mouse Eat Mars - Hush Nou High Fidelity - Hi Fi Family of God - Nirvana Family of God - Duck Style Mull Mistorical Society - This is not who we were Side B Violent Femmes - Country Death Song Herb Albert - Tijuana Taxi Devo - Mongoloid Shonen Knife - Bear up bison Beat Happening - Fortune Cookey Prize Hanson Brothers - My girlifriends a robot Ramones - Needles and Pins Hefner - Fat Kellys teeth Stereolab - Baby Lulu Avalanches - Electricity Bis - Its all new Kings of convenience - Toxic girl Mojave 3 - Return to sender

Well I have done loads of themed tape compilations - but here are two of my favs* below. The first one was to get some hip hop and comedy / spoken word gubbins together and the second one is just a compilation of some recent dub / reggae I had bought. But I still have a soft spot for my slow core alt indie country compilation... * well I like most of teh compilations I do but other people I have swopped with like these the most... Hip Hop / Spoken Word Side 1 Bill Hicks - The Elite Gil Scott Heron - Revolution will not be televised Mark E Smith - Cd in your hand Cannibal Ox - Atom Mumia Abu- Jamal - Prisons vs pre schools Howard Zinn - Corporate welfare Chill EB - Menace to society Cannibal Ox - Pidgeon Tino - Vice versa dub Cex - Ad Nauseam Dalek - Spiritual healing Jay Z - Takeover Mixmaster Mike - Can of ass kicks Wobbly - Vogv Side 2 Cex - Brutual exposure Prefuse 73 - Last night Angela Davis - Making a difference Jello Biafra - The green wedge Fog - F*ckedfu*ckf*ckup Arsenik - Lenfor remonte a la surface Bill Hicks - Time to evolve Atmosphere - If I was santa claus Cannibal Ox & Eip - Ridiculoid U Roy - What is catty ? Beastie Boys - Alive The Beatnigs - Television New Kingdom - Good times Doug E Fresh & the Get Fresh Crew - The show Seven Up Jah Side 1 New Age Steppers Fade Away Gregory Issacs & Dillinger Take a Dip The Wailers Black progress / say it proud Music Doctors Bush Doctor Israel Vibration The Same Song Time Unlimited Africa we are going home Lee Perry Untitled toast & clip from interview Augustus Pablo Skanking dub Prince Student Rivers of babylon Bongo Herman & Harry J Allstars Reggae with the birds Ras Michael & the sons of negus Cast them in the fire Lt Stitchie Bad like yaws Wackies Mash it up Desmond Dekker Reggae recipe Side 2 Scientist Cloning process Big Youth Love is what we need Burning Spear Walking Prince Far I Shuffle & deal Jah Stitch Black Harmony Killer Cynity & the Monkeys Lady Lady Johnny Obsbourne Budy Bye Zion Train Grandmaster Lee Perry Justice to the people King Tubby Cannabis dub Ghetto Priest Show them The Congos Ark of the covenant (edit)

Whats your July playlist ? - here is mine... a heady mix of blues, jungle, dub and weirdness this month Chess Records Blues 2 LP compilation Sh@tmat - Killababylonkutz Primal Scream - Echo Dek The Pixies - At the BBC The Who - Who's Next ? Trans Am - Liberation (great album but they are better live!) Wackies - Lovers Rock (female rootsy reggae unlike the title suggests) GBVoices - Under the bushes, under the stars The Magic Band - Peel Session 2004 Great Moments in Vinyl History vol 1 - Andy Kershaw LP Rough Guide to Lucky Dube (still dont like it but wanted to review it) Soundmurderer - Wired for sound Lee Perry - Voodooism PS I should have Alien Lines by GBVoices on this list but a certain Ebayer seems to have ripped me and many others off

Yes original Farah slacks, Ivan Lendl tennis shirts, flares from the 70s, line dancing boots - I like their till. Tis like the one from Open All Hours...

Yep he used to be around Hazlehead quite a bit when I was @ HH academy (86-92). He was still speaking to himself then as well. What about Dod as an Adeen celeb - he is quite often seen playing bagpipes at random spots round the city, wearing tartan troos and always at punk and reggae gigs. I think he will always be a punk...

Whats the best Merzbow album ? I've just taken a gamble and bought the Alec Empire / Merbow split live album from One Up so. I assume this shall be a little noisy..... Dave PS noticed when I standing at the 1UP counter that some immature kiddy had put some false sexist / offensive details on the Cafe Drummond petition - well done kid !

Someone told me that the guy has MS or something similar ? Anyone know ? The guy who dresses like a character from Braveheart and has an animal skin over his shoulder Yep people are always taking photos of him. I think he looks really interesting, although he doesn't have make a noise in the library when he is walking around with all the stuff on his clothes....

The guy wears a helmet and pull a sign about police brutality etc and wears an army jacket. I think his protest has changed a little nowadays ? The dirty/ well tanned tramp guy who buys cassettes in One Up and then breaks them up. The owner of that wee Italian bistro / cafe place beside Union Terrace Gardens who has "character". The lay preacher guy who sometimes preaches on St Nicholas Street at the weekend with his family looking on in a very sad embarrassed manner. He claims we are all going to hell unless we become a copy of him and his views.

For the missing link between free jazz and punk try some of the Japanese bands such as Melt Banana, The Boredoms and Merzbow. Great to see the articles mention Beefheart and his free jazz meets blues smelting...

Said band were on Peel's show last night...