Hard News by Russell Brown

news of Steve Strange's passing today has me thinking back to my formative musical years... thanks to him and his peers I found the music of Frankie Knuckles many years later

RIP

A couple of different diversions for Chchch folk tomorrow
(saturday the 14th)

Inner City East Multi-Cultural Festival
11am-3pm at the Linwood Community Arts Centre, cnr Stanmore and Worcester.
and the Doris Lusk reserve adjacent - Multi-cultural diversity - food, activities, song, dance, arts and crafts

a New St Albans Saturday Market
Beulah Church car park, 140 Springfield Rd, Christchurch City
Saturday 14 February 2015 8:00am – 1:30pm

Great Roy Colbert column. Mondegreens. The New Yorker recently attributed them largely to 'oronyms': "word strings in which the sounds can be logically divided multiple ways".

Also the thing about Shayne not being especially clear in his enunciation. Until this week, I thought it was "And I quietly count with a gun ..."

Until this week, I thought it was “And I quietly count with a gun …”

You are not the only one.

Courtesy of Gilles Peterson, tracing the history of London's Pirate Radio stations. These (and Peel) made me fall in love with radio. The chaos and freedom of the north and east London dub pirate stations was a joy.

https://www.mixcloud.com/amfmlondon/londons-pirate-pioneers/

Dunedin Sound bites...

Shayne not being especially clear in his enunciation

Flying Nunciation surely?
; - )

Now I'm beginning to wonder if The Doublehappys
really did have a song called Pig Fat Elvis

Courtesy of Gilles Peterson, tracing the history of London’s Pirate Radio stations. These (and Peel) made me fall in love with radio. The chaos and freedom of the north and east London dub pirate stations was a joy.

Oh, great tip! It was Passion and Lighting for us in Brixton.

Ideas on where or how the mashup source material is made/obtained?

Thought I'd throw this in the mix, The mystery of Mingering Mike: the soul legend who never existed.

It's a fabulous story which I chanced upon about how avid 'crate digger' Dori Hadar hit the jackpot one morning in Washington DC, chancing upon 38 albums by a soul singer he had never heard of. This, from a guy with an encyclopedic knowledge and 10,000 records at home.

If you happen to visiting the Smithsonian American Art Museum (in DC) between 27 Feb and 2 Aug you will catch the exhibition Mingering Mike’s Supersonic Greatest Hits.

Thought I'd throw this in the mix, The mystery of Mingering Mike: the soul legend who never existed.

Yep, that was an excellent yarn.

This is just to say

I was at
The Southern Sinfonia
On Saturday Night

An which many of you
Were probably
Keen
To attend

It was uniformly wonderful
As you might imagine
So melodic
And so moving