This Friday I'm DJing at De Nada in Chorlton with the Eighty Six lot. It starts around 8.30pm and runs til late.
Pop down for South American food, beers and a laidback sound track.
28 February 2013
20 February 2013
Löffel Afternoon Session, Sunday March 10th
We're back at The Spoon Inn, Chorlton on Sunday 10th March for another Löffel, click here to find out miore...
ADAM CURTIS 'IT FELT LIKE A KISS' | 2009 DOCUMENTARY | AUDIO SOUNDTRACK MIXTAPE
I've just uploaded the soundtrack from Adam Curtis' 'It Felt Like A Kiss' show to Soundcloud. Not really a mixtape but it works well with just the audio, check it out:
IT FELT LIKE A KISS SOUNDTRACK
Oh What a Dream - Ruth Brown
Camille - From Le Mepris soundtrack - Georges Delerue
Let the Four Winds Blow - Fats Domino
Stealing Fat - From Fight Club soundtrack - Dust Brothers
On the Rebound - Floyd Cramer
What Does a Woman Do? - Doris Day
Monkey 23 - The Kills
Baja - The Astronauts
Do-Wah-Diddy - The Exciters
Just One Look - Doris Troy
Monkey on Your Back - Clinic
I'll Be Your Mirror - Velvet Underground
Parlez-Moi d'Amour - Lucienne Boyer
Pink Shoe Laces - Dodie Stevens
Slap in The Face - from The Gadfly - Shostakovich
Easier Said Tan Done - The Essex
He Hit Me (and It Felt Like a Kiss) - The Crystals
The Locomotion - Little Eva
In Dreams - Roy Orbison
End of the World - Skeeter Davis
Cha-Cha - from Symphonic Dances from West Side Story - Leonard Bernstein
Meeting Scene - from Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
Who's That Guy? - The Kolettes
The Madison Time, Pt 1 - Ray Bryant Combo
All Tomorrow's Parties - The Velvet Underground
Love Minus Zero/No Limit - Bob Dylan
Cry To Me - Solomon Burke
Freak Freak - The Bug
Moonlight - Four Sea Interludes (From Peter Grimes) - Benjamin Britten
Who Is Tyler Durden? - Fight Club soundtrack - Dust Brothers
I Still Miss Someone - Johnny Cash
Wouldn't It Be Nice? - Beach Boys
Sister Ray - The Velvet Underground
Have You Seen Her? - The Chi-Lites
River Deep Mountain High - Ike and Tina Turner
Is That All There Is? - Peggy Lee
Krautrock - Faust
Dawn - Four Sea Interludes (From Peter Grimes) - Benjamin Britten
Camille - From Le Mepris soundtrack - Georges Delerue
Let the Four Winds Blow - Fats Domino
Stealing Fat - From Fight Club soundtrack - Dust Brothers
On the Rebound - Floyd Cramer
What Does a Woman Do? - Doris Day
Monkey 23 - The Kills
Baja - The Astronauts
Do-Wah-Diddy - The Exciters
Just One Look - Doris Troy
Monkey on Your Back - Clinic
I'll Be Your Mirror - Velvet Underground
Parlez-Moi d'Amour - Lucienne Boyer
Pink Shoe Laces - Dodie Stevens
Slap in The Face - from The Gadfly - Shostakovich
Easier Said Tan Done - The Essex
He Hit Me (and It Felt Like a Kiss) - The Crystals
The Locomotion - Little Eva
In Dreams - Roy Orbison
End of the World - Skeeter Davis
Cha-Cha - from Symphonic Dances from West Side Story - Leonard Bernstein
Meeting Scene - from Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
Who's That Guy? - The Kolettes
The Madison Time, Pt 1 - Ray Bryant Combo
All Tomorrow's Parties - The Velvet Underground
Love Minus Zero/No Limit - Bob Dylan
Cry To Me - Solomon Burke
Freak Freak - The Bug
Moonlight - Four Sea Interludes (From Peter Grimes) - Benjamin Britten
Who Is Tyler Durden? - Fight Club soundtrack - Dust Brothers
I Still Miss Someone - Johnny Cash
Wouldn't It Be Nice? - Beach Boys
Sister Ray - The Velvet Underground
Have You Seen Her? - The Chi-Lites
River Deep Mountain High - Ike and Tina Turner
Is That All There Is? - Peggy Lee
Krautrock - Faust
Dawn - Four Sea Interludes (From Peter Grimes) - Benjamin Britten
02 February 2013
PHOTOSTREAM 02: More 1980s NYC + a narrative...
"The New York of the 1980s differed in
two fundamental ways from the New York
of today.
First, 1980s-era New York was an edgier, riskier, dirtier, tenser, more dangerous and chaotic place. I think that fairly comes through in my images.
Second, 1980s-era New York had a sense of wide-openness and freedom that was lost following 9/11 ... and likely never will be regained.
Notice how these two fundamental changes overlap in a number of important ways. A safer city, to some extent, comes at the price of a loss of freedom and openness. Conversely, the edginess and riskiness of the 1980s came at an appalling human and social cost. My photos of South Bronx and Bushwick are -- if I might say so -- a testament to that. Those who might be nostalgic for the edginess and riskiness of the 1980s were surely not the people who were growing up in the South Bronx and Bushwick in the era.
The trade-off between openness and security is reflected in a very literal way in some of my 1980s photos. Some of my photos from that era were taken from the tops of bridges and within city-owned properties that were nominally closed off to the public. In that era, many of these locations were open and accessible. It is perhaps unnecessary to state that -- in this post-9/11 era -- an itinerant photographer should not attempt to explore these same locations. The probable consequence, at the very least, will be the loss of the ability to smoothly pass though airport security checkpoints.
In any event, these are just a few broad-brush generalizations... useful but limited. The City is such an enormous and complex place that one should hesitate to resort to generalizations -- let alone attempt to explain the complicated forces that have shaped the City over the past thirty years.
My photos say this better than I can. What I mean is: If my photos show anything about New York, it is New York's astonishing diversity. New York is not one city. It is -- and always has been -- a collection of hundreds of neighborhoods. Each of these neighborhoods has its own delicate social fabric. One cannot know New York -- or understand New York -- without exploring all five boroughs.
Although I have explored the City more than most, I can still find plenty of places that I've never encountered before... that are new to me, and surprising. One can never know it all! Even if one tried, a neighborhood would likely change by the time one got around to visiting it again!
That brings me to the subject of neighborhood change. To me, viewing a neighborhood undergoing change is quite fascinating -- and a natural subject for photography. When a bodega is located next to a boutique, there are many chance interactions... and perhaps there is much more than that. Perhaps there is even real economic and racial integration. This is New York at its best and most vital. The suburbs will never contain this heterogeneity.
But unfortunately, this situation is inherently unstable. If only one could "freeze" that change in place.... before the lease on the bodega runs out, and it is forced to leave. If only.
Times Square is, in some ways, emblematic of the changes and trade-offs that have taken place in New York over the past thirty years (In other ways, it is not, because Times Square is the City's central business district -- not a mere neighborhood) In any event, no one can mourn the loss of the sleaze and degradation of the old Times Square. But the new Times Square is often sterile and corporate .... with all the character and authenticity of a shopping mall. I'm not at all sure that the best of the old could have been preserved while making way for tangible improvements.
I do know that, as long as I'm around, I'll be there -- with my camera -- to witness and record the changes in this remarkable City"
First, 1980s-era New York was an edgier, riskier, dirtier, tenser, more dangerous and chaotic place. I think that fairly comes through in my images.
Second, 1980s-era New York had a sense of wide-openness and freedom that was lost following 9/11 ... and likely never will be regained.
Notice how these two fundamental changes overlap in a number of important ways. A safer city, to some extent, comes at the price of a loss of freedom and openness. Conversely, the edginess and riskiness of the 1980s came at an appalling human and social cost. My photos of South Bronx and Bushwick are -- if I might say so -- a testament to that. Those who might be nostalgic for the edginess and riskiness of the 1980s were surely not the people who were growing up in the South Bronx and Bushwick in the era.
The trade-off between openness and security is reflected in a very literal way in some of my 1980s photos. Some of my photos from that era were taken from the tops of bridges and within city-owned properties that were nominally closed off to the public. In that era, many of these locations were open and accessible. It is perhaps unnecessary to state that -- in this post-9/11 era -- an itinerant photographer should not attempt to explore these same locations. The probable consequence, at the very least, will be the loss of the ability to smoothly pass though airport security checkpoints.
In any event, these are just a few broad-brush generalizations... useful but limited. The City is such an enormous and complex place that one should hesitate to resort to generalizations -- let alone attempt to explain the complicated forces that have shaped the City over the past thirty years.
My photos say this better than I can. What I mean is: If my photos show anything about New York, it is New York's astonishing diversity. New York is not one city. It is -- and always has been -- a collection of hundreds of neighborhoods. Each of these neighborhoods has its own delicate social fabric. One cannot know New York -- or understand New York -- without exploring all five boroughs.
Although I have explored the City more than most, I can still find plenty of places that I've never encountered before... that are new to me, and surprising. One can never know it all! Even if one tried, a neighborhood would likely change by the time one got around to visiting it again!
That brings me to the subject of neighborhood change. To me, viewing a neighborhood undergoing change is quite fascinating -- and a natural subject for photography. When a bodega is located next to a boutique, there are many chance interactions... and perhaps there is much more than that. Perhaps there is even real economic and racial integration. This is New York at its best and most vital. The suburbs will never contain this heterogeneity.
But unfortunately, this situation is inherently unstable. If only one could "freeze" that change in place.... before the lease on the bodega runs out, and it is forced to leave. If only.
Times Square is, in some ways, emblematic of the changes and trade-offs that have taken place in New York over the past thirty years (In other ways, it is not, because Times Square is the City's central business district -- not a mere neighborhood) In any event, no one can mourn the loss of the sleaze and degradation of the old Times Square. But the new Times Square is often sterile and corporate .... with all the character and authenticity of a shopping mall. I'm not at all sure that the best of the old could have been preserved while making way for tangible improvements.
I do know that, as long as I'm around, I'll be there -- with my camera -- to witness and record the changes in this remarkable City"
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