Tag Archive | "music"

Björk singing for the Moomins

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

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(Björk, image borrowed from her website gallery) Icelandic singer and all round engima Björk is working with Sjón to create a song especially for a new film being made by the Finnish Filmkompaniet studio and due next year, “Moomins and the Comet Chase”. Hard to think on someone more suitable to sing for a Moomin Troll! [...]

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Alan Moore – the opera?

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

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BBC Radio music news just mentioned that a certain Mister Alan Moore was collaborating with Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett on their next opera, following the Gorillaz boys’ successful Monkey: Journey to the West opera. I thought I had mis-heard, but on the BBC’s Newsbeat site there it is: “We’re planning for me to do [...]

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Oli East’s Elbow art going to Manchester gallery

Monday, November 9, 2009

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Oli East’s artwork for Elbow’s award-winning album The Seldom Seen Kid is being donated to the Manchester Art Gallery’s permanent Manchester collection, Guy Garvey has told him. Oli, still basking in the ‘new dad’ glow, notes on his blog that he was also liked the frame the band had for his artwork, made from salvaged [...]

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CTRL ALT SHIFT music and comics night

Monday, November 9, 2009

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Yes, we know those of you in or bound for London are heading to the fab Comiket bash this afternoon in the ICA (with some of the cream of the Brit small press comics scene), but as Comica ‘09 really kicks into gear there’s much more going on, including a combined music and comics night [...]

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The Man In Black – in perfect black and white….

Sunday, November 1, 2009

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what have I become? my sweetest friend everyone I know goes away in the end and you could have it all my empire of dirt I will let you down I will make you hurt (Hurt by Trent Reznor, but made perfect by Johnny Cash) I’ve just finished Reinhard Kleist’s wonderful graphic biography of Johnny Cash – I See A Darkness and have to [...]

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“Hello, I’m Johnny Cash”

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

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Cash: I See a Darkness Reinhard Kleist Self Made Hero “If you wanna save your soul from hell, cowboy, then change your ways today. Or you’ll ride with us through these endless skies, forever on the hunt for the Devil’s herd...” Ghost Riders in the Sky To say award-winning German comics creator Reinhard Kleist’s graphic biography of the late, [...]

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Zappa and Kirby – sub-cultural coolness overload

Thursday, October 15, 2009

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Frank Zappa with Jack Kirby; on the Coolometer (invented Prof Farnsworth) that rates so many megafonzies its off the scale. Its cooler than a polar bear bathing in liquid nitrogen. Two of the greatest artists in two of the great modern sub-cultures – comics and music. Wow. You may have come across this already this week, [...]

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Nick Abadzis’ Laika, now with added soundtrack

Sunday, October 4, 2009

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Nick Abadzis’ Laika is a stunning, beautiful book, described by me last year as: “It was a one way journey, necessitated through Khrushchev’s desire to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the October Revolution with another propaganda victory to match that of Sputnik I. Yet Sputnik II’s little dog gave her life for little scientific advancement and [...]

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Mongo, Music Critic

Saturday, September 12, 2009

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Andy Winter, author of the award-winning Hero Killers and Blood Psi has teamed up with Irish artist Tommie Kelly for a 4-page comic strip Mongo, Music Critic, which sees the arrival of a violent alien warlord who also happens to be a music journalist. Cue mayhem and satirical sideswipes at some much-beloved bands and genres; [...]

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The only thing I’ve bought more often than Los Bros Comics

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

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That’s the Beatles re-mastered box sets sitting on my desk. I’m not working today but mad anticipation has brought me dashing in to grab them. I’m excited to see them, although this is something I’m now buying for the ninth or tenth time. Albums, cassettes, CD’s I’ve bought them all over the years – and [...]

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Malcy wears his musical hat

Monday, September 7, 2009

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Malcy Duff, one of our more unusual and interesting comics creators, is wearing his musical hat for an experimental music workshop with Ali Roberston (the duo form the band Usurper) at Glasgow’s Arches on Sunday 13th and Monday 14th of September, with a performance on Friday 18th. Malcy tells me Usurper also have some new [...]

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Amanda sings!

Monday, August 17, 2009

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(have uke, will travel; Amanda signing copies of Who Killed Amanda Palmer in the Edinburgh FPI yesterday; more pics here) We had a great turnout for Amanda Palmer’s visit to the Edinburgh FPI store. Edinburgh right now is in its annual Festival mode -- basically the biggest arts festival in the world is running here and [...]

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Amanda Palmer at FPI Edinburgh

Thursday, August 6, 2009

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You might remember recently I mentioned that Amanda Palmer would be performing a gig in Edinburgh (in the HMV Picture House on Lothian Road, August 22nd) and is threatening all sorts of other sneaky performances during the annual madness of the Edinburgh Festival this month (will no-one think of the children???). I’m also delighted to [...]

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Jaime Hernandez Love & Rockets print

Sunday, July 19, 2009

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Jordan Crane has re-created Jaime Hernandez’s brilliant rock’n'roll cover to Love & Rockets issue 24 as a large silk-screen print. You can practically smell the spilt beer and sweat of the mosh pit, the sort of atmosphere you only get in smaller, intimate venues (or dives really), not in the big auditorium. Imagine how goddam [...]

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The Man In Black

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

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“Well, you wonder why I always dress in black, Why you never see bright colours on my back, And why does my appearance seem to have a sombre tone. Well, there’s a reason for the things that I have on. I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, Livin’ in the hopeless, hungry side of town, I wear [...]

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