🎵 Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds Announce 2020 European Tour
Time to plan my European Tour.
🎵 Did I mention that this week’s newsletter is out … it dropped on Tuesday.
Exploring Punk Floyd (no typos) and the rewriting of history.
Did John Lyndon Hate The Floyd?
Is Pink Floyd a punk band?
Are people really surprised when Roger Waters delivers protest?
Why is the film not Called 'Us and Them'?
All this and more in this week's newsletter.
🎵 ‘Us + Them’ … BOOKED
… and I do like the subtle switch from ‘and’ to ‘+’
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”I’m in competition with myself and I’m losing.”
Roger Waters
🎵 At 24, Barry Godber painted the design for the album cover of
In the Court of the Crimson King
He died from a heart attack shortly after the album was released.
🎵 Been a little lax in keeping up recently - but @justgoodmusic is still cranking out posts thanks to @Cassinato - anyone else want to be a contributor
🎵 Watch Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour Sing Shakespeare via Eric Alper .
“…it would not be entirely fanciful to imagine Fripp & co. – in accordance with the “Third Principle of King Crimson (‘All the music is new, whenever it was written’) – as the best new rock band in the world.”
Ben Thompson, Mojo
🎵🎵 Heard part of this on the final episode of Nick Mason’s Sound and Technology podcast.
This is a more complete 6 minutes of the David Bowie interview.
The disbelief and facial expressions of Paxman are priceless.