Five Things I Saw & Heard This Week: Wednesday 18th April
Newsnight v Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All Oh dear. Old media fails again to report properly on new phenomena… From Stephen Smith’s bizarre “Is this the future of Rock ’n’ Roll?” opening line it...
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Miles Davis, the “My Funny Valentine” scene, Homeland Carrie presses play on her music system and Miles’ trumpet entwines round the next five minutes, as the would-be dinner à deux fails to...
View ArticleFive Things I Saw & Heard This Week: Wednesday 9th May
Janis Joplin, Get It While You Can, Take Three, July 27th 1970 “Everybody I know is crazy, except President Nixon… and that’s his problem…” This is take three of the Jerry Ragavoy/Mort Shulman song,...
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IMAGE OF THE WEEKPolice mugshot of Janis Joplin. The Smoking Gun: “Janis Joplin was arrested in November 1969 in Florida and charged with disorderly conduct after yelling obscenities at police officers...
View ArticleExtra! Woodstock Mania, part 2
Woodstock Two Full Tilt, Theatre Royal, Stratford East So, a few days after The Last Waltz revisited we head to the the theatre to see Full Tilt, a musical play about Janis Joplin, who was of course...
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