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How To Write A Blues Song: St Ives Literary Festival

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What happens when a white man sings the blues? Here’s the first of my videos of the St Ives Literary Festival that ends tonight (Saturday). Rod Bullimore performs How To Write A Blues Song, accompanied by Charles Shaar Murray and Buffalo Bill Smith at the St Ives Arts Club on Thursday. More about the St […]

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Burka Blue: Afghanistan’s first female band

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Over at Slacker Chic, Mrs M makes this extraordinary find: Afghanistan’s only all-female musical group, The Burka Band. It’s amazing how art finds expression under the most oppressive circumstances. The music has a hypnotic almost dopey effect parodying the internal world these women are expected to have. “My burka it is blue”. How safe is

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What technology can do: gigacam pic of Obama’s inauguration

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Click here for the Gigapan picture of Obama’s 2009 inauguration in which every face in the vast crowd can be made out using the sort of sci-fi technology you see in Google Earth satellite shots. And the police are bleating because we might capture their pretty faces on our cameras? What a total diversionary cheek!

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The Delta Blues: MC5 guru John Sinclair jams with Charles Shaar Murray

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John Sinclair A collectors’ item and UK exclusive at Madam Miaow’s. Author, journalist and one-time New Musical Express gunslinger Charles Shaar Murray on blues guitar gets down and dirty with legendary John Sinclair, beat poet and former manager of the MC5. John is performing his poem, The Delta Blues. CSM is playing an old Hofner

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