one fellow's political coverage, music ramblings and general hijinks across decades under a range of guises at several locations often in a state of awe.
Peso playlist Friday October 4, 2002 Feeling very sick tonight. Bad cold again. But I do have the Nirvana single, downloaded from a Polish Nirvana fanclub website. Sweet. Sorry Kate Shannon, still breaking Universal Music embargos after all these years :P Gusgus – Cold Breath ’79 Primal Scream – Autobahn 66 (Evil Heat) Stereolab – … Continue reading “Mental Notes: October 2002”
TAIWAN–While the Chu Mei-feng VCD saga has been rattling the bedposts of Taiwan’s citizens for well over a month now, the repercussions of the former Hsinchu City Cultural Affairs Bureau chief’s brazen – and by all accounts admirable – sexual performance in the 40-minute liaison, continues to do what centuries of foreign perversion has failed … Continue reading “Mental Notes: January 2002”
It could have been described as ‘the march of the indie kids’, a packed Planet arena reverberating with the chatter of alternative music talk and the clatter of Converse sneekers. And Britian’s Swervedriver were soon to be the toast of the several generations of indie music fans squished against the rails, ears bleeding but bodies … Continue reading “Swervedriver; Ammonia, Planet, 6 December, 1995”
While the majority of the UK music scene is measuring each others’ hair length, IQ and ‘Beatleness’, some bands are actually getting down to business and writing great music. Once again it is led by Swervedriver, a band originally from Oxford but who now command one of their biggest audiences in America, the traditional graveyard … Continue reading “interview | Swervedriver (1995)”
