For the Crosstown Lightnin’ detractor who wrote to me saying Jeff Beck is a “pub band”, here is a musical interlude of a classical persuasion to help you focus your thoughts while you bone up on your genres. The sublime double-monikered One plays Chopin Etude No. 3, Op. 10 in E major as an encore […]
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I enjoyed immensely last night’s Crosstown Lightnin’ gig, the first with new drummer Pete Myles who joined Charles Shaar Murray, Buffalo Bill Smith and Marc “The Exorcist” Jefferies for the Abbey festival weekend. Pete brought a sensitive interplay to the performance and a strong sense of dynamics making Canned Heat’s On The Road Again a
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Al Jazeera grills the Swedish prosecutor over the defamation of Julian Assange“I’m not bovvered.” The Swedish prosecution puts up an appallingly weak defence in the above Al Jazeera interview. Has to be seen to be believed. More about the dropped sex charge against Julian Assange raising suspicion that this is the US authorities pursuing their
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Utter bastards! We knew US officials were out to get Julian Assange of Wikileaks, a hero of our sad times, but this scrapes the bottom of the barrel and breaks through to a whole new bottom we never knew existed. One worry was that the US would kidnap Assange through the blandly named “rendition” process
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Well, call me Kafka. My contribution to today’s Feedback programme on BBC R4 ended up as a cutting-room floor job in favour of a letter from another listener making similar points, which was good. At least it shows someone else could be bothered to write in about the god-awful throwback Fu Manchu In Edinburgh programme
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The Chinese People’s Liberation Army performs “Beat It”, probably directed towards assorted running dogs and capitalist roaders, not to mention the US navy currently in the middle of military exercises in the Yellow Sea off Korea. Look at that erhu go! Nice solo, man. I was brought up on this stuff and had to sit
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