Monthly Archives: August 2010

Gigs report: one-nil …

Posted on August 30, 2010 by csm

Just a quick update on the weekend’s gigs: The Crosstown Lightnin’ gig at AbbeyFest 2010 – our first with the new line-up featuring The Great Pete Myles on drums alongside Marc ‘The Exorcist’ Jefferies on basso profundo and, of course, … Continue reading →

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Gigs alert: Saturday with Crosstown Lightnin’, Sunday with Peter Conway …

Posted on August 28, 2010 by csm

One’a them MEWzical weekends … Saturday night at 10pm, Crosstown Lightnin’ will be doing their Blues With Attitude thang at the Colour House Theatre, Merton Abbey Mills, SW19 2RD as the climax of an Abbeyfest day of bluesy groovitude … … Continue reading →

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Returning to OZ-Trial-Year …

Posted on August 24, 2010 by csm

In my pecular cosmology, one phenomenon which recurs every time the decade-number flips over is that Britain’s collective folk-memory of the publication of OZ 28, the ‘Schoolkids Issue’, begins to twitch when the zero arrives, and to positively throb at … Continue reading →

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Star Spangled Hendrix: BBC R4, Tuesday, 1:30pm …

Posted on August 23, 2010 by csm

… so my Lovely Gurlfiend emerged from the kitchen, where she’d been casually whipping up a tasty repast, and announced, ‘I just heard you on the radio.’ It was a trail for a Radio 4 documentary about the political impact … Continue reading →

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Kvetch a falling star …

Posted on August 20, 2010 by csm

Apropos of nothing in particular – and in no apparent order – my three favourite Jewish jokes. * A mother and her toddler son are walking along a beach when suddenly the skies darken, a strong wind rises and a … Continue reading →

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Copy protection – mud-wrestling the digital beast

Posted on August 19, 2010 by csm

Is this ‘copy protection’ thing getting a little out of hand? One recent rockcrit assignment involved reviewing a new album – the first in half a decade – by a venerable superstar we’ll refer to simply as **** *******. The … Continue reading →

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