August 2011
1 post
July 2011
11 posts
MANCHESTER INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL BLOG - Premature... →
I’ve reached the end of my festival experience, in that I’m actually now back in Sheffield. I’ve updated, belatedly I admit (the last 4 days of the festival I was without the internet, or the time to do any kind of worthwhile updating), to the point at which I still had time to do any blogging or pausing.
However, what I consequently worked I had no time to blog, and with the...
March 2011
1 post
Blood Sport interview, 29/03/2011
Peruvian Eyes: Hi Blood Sport! How are you doing?
Blood Sport: Oh hey there, yeah we’re alright!
PE: I was wondering if I could ask you about your musical vision. Feel free to outline it if you like.
BS: Ok! Well, we’re influenced by three things and three things only; that should be made clear from the outset. People who have more influences than that are nostrils, y’hear?...
May 2010
3 posts
BAD STATE: “[These] proposals... are not...
badbadart:
badartbadstate:
Many of us were disappointed by the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference. And with good reason too; it showcased the fragmentation in the international community, the weight that recently emergent new world powers (China, India, Brazil) now carry, and moreover it was an unavoidably stonking let-down. Barack Obama couldn’t even shy away from this gloomy fact,...
BAD RANDOMS: The Great Entertainer
badbadrandom:
We’ve all seen the soulless, pre-programmed way in which professional footballers - especially English ones - conduct themselves in front of the media (I’m looking at you Steven Gerrard//Frank Lampard). I mean, sure we’ve had some funny moments, but they’ve been outbursts that have been, regrettably, apologised for (I’m thinking of Rio Ferdinand’s goal celebration on becoming the...
BAD MUSIC: 2010 Thus Far - Hmmm...
badartbadmusic:
There seem to be a lot of music journalists//bloggers throwing around descriptive phrases like ‘focussed’, ‘consistent’ and ‘refined’ to describe a wealth of new albums from various left-field acts this year. And before I start, may I clarify that I have nothing against an album being ‘consistent’; oh no. But I must warn you of this phrase dear reader. I must warn you, because...
April 2010
2 posts
BAD MUSIC: These New Puritans w/ Party Horse @...
badartbadmusic:
On entering the venue, a friend of mine pointed out a tall, slender, cat-suit-clad couple striding through the room towards us with a surreal poise and confidence. This was the first we were to see of support act Party Horse.
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BAD STATE: Detroit - Bit Tings Gwidarn
badartbadstate:
“Detroit, what happened to you? You used to be the epicentre of modern America, with your cars, your long, wide roads and your dollars. I mean, you were the birth place of Henry Ford’s Model T, and Fordism itself, with your mass production and assembly lines. Hell, some would say - for better or worse - you were even the source of modernity. Not anymore though, OOOH no. But...
March 2010
5 posts
BAD MUSIC: Polar Bear - Peepers
badartbadmusic:
After their almost overwhelmingly adventurous and extensive self-titled 2008 release, the British ‘post-jazz’ outfit Polar Bear consolidate their sound and bring in guitars for their fourth album.
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BAD BOOKS: Emergency Sex (and Other Desperate...
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badartbadbooks:
These three New Yorkers that sign-up to work for the UN throughout the nineties submit their tales to paper. The result? An unexpectedly human, provocative, engaging and almost psycho-analytical triad of narratives that throw themselves through the wars of our lifetime.
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BAD ART: Bernard Requichot (1929-61)
badartbadart:
Little is now know about the life and work of French abstract artist Bernard Requichot. Throwing himself from the top floor of his apartment-come-studio at the age of 32, he was artistically active for less than a decade. And yet this only cloaks his output in a more intriguing mystery, and hints that the tense, frictional forms in his work are born of a restless mind; a...
BAD BANDS: Grizzly Bear w/ Beach House @ the Corn...
badartbadbands:
Somehow the Corn Exchange seemed like an almost perfect setting for Grizzly Bear to perform in: the arched walls, the stain-glass window-styled mirrors, the royal context of the building. It seemed grand; like a space in which the band’s instruments would be met with a resonance and ambience in keeping with the chamber-choir aspect of their music. And with the stage decked with...
BAD BANDS: Flying Lotus w/ Martyn and King Midas...
badartbadbands:
From listening to 1983, it’s almost impossible to detect any signs that indicate Flying Lotus would become what he is now. Following a string of post-Los Angeles remixes that have spread awareness of his existence, and with Mary Anne Hobbs declaring his May-due third album Cosmogramma “one of the most important electronic albums of all time”, it seems there is no producer more...
February 2010
6 posts
China: the Beast in the East?
Yesterday I read a bizarre and frankly deluded article from The Times that a friend of mine recommended me because it was “about international politics”. Its teaser quotation in bold proclaimed that “It is clear that Beijing and the West are on a collision course”. Well, for a start, how old and recycled is that soundbite? And how painfully obvious is the underlying agenda of the journalist –...
Where The Wild Things Are review
Where the Wild Things Are
Huh? Wild what?
Where?
There may have been wild things in the form of massive birds and odd looking goats (although this depends on what you’d classify as ‘wild’), but in terms of wild events, I was left searching.
Sure, the kid got in a pretty doom-ridden snowball fight at the beginning, and there was a rather cringe-inducing ‘war’ part of the way through. But when...
Thom Yorke you sly sly man you.
http://radiohead.com/deadairspace/index.php?a=505
January 2010
5 posts
Gargle Veranda Cunt Punt.
It’s meant to be an easily dismissable band name. But have you ever seen a more hilarious assortment of words?
If you have I want to know about it. Write them here:
2010
I guess it was predictable, but on turning 20, I felt a change in self-perception; now, thanks to a hollow celebration of an almost irrelevant day, I feel the need, or even duty to take things, like, seriously or something.
This has combined with the the change of the year and decade, the event which acknowledged and errected a visible and emphatic break with my year of living outside reality,...
December 2009
3 posts
Dadaism.
In the end, when it comes to the crunch, what is music? I mean really?
That’s what Marcel Duschamp was all about with the art - Dadaism was all like; “and so you’re saying this aint art? Well fuck off, put it in your gallery already.” And then they kind of wouldn’t.
Hence cult hero, and the story of Dadaism.
Hi.
Listening to ‘Confield’ in its entirety for the first time in a long time. The balance between churning glitchy factory-beats and vague hints at a tune, or high-pitched mangled synths is just sublime - the perfect example being ‘Lentic Catachresis’; it’s probably the track most likely to be described as a recording of a fairground being mangled in a tape-player for...