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RIP. He seemed to face where he was in the last few months with courage and wisdom. A life lived fully and creatively.

"...my dream band would be Bob Mould fronting the Mahavishnu Orchestra".

+1. Mine, too, Matt.

But that is surely territory that's yours for the taking….!

Ahh... I remember that cassette inlay: as if Roger Dean had designed a cover for the 3 Mustaphas 3. (I wonder how many times the old Virgin logos by Dean have been revived over the years, like the...

As are "China Doll" from 'Saint Julian', and "Beautiful Love" from 'Peggy Suicide'.

'World Shut Your Mouth" is a great album. As is 'Fried'.

His productivity levels - then and now - are in...

And an unexpected obituary -- quite a full one -- in the highly establishment Daily Telegraph here.

'Fact and Fiction' has to be the one, if one it must be then 'Live and Let Live'.

When 'Dreamtime' was originally released initial copies came with a second bonus LP: 'Dreamtime Live', which was indeed the same show that came out somewhat later on VHS as 'Live at the Lyceum'....

Time to crank up some Deviants...

Can't find much information out there at present..but it was at a gig?...while he was performing...?

Knew he'd been having health problems.

R.I.P.

And here they are ...

http://www.hackettsongs.com/blog/tour56.html

There are recordings of the Hackett/Fraser live collaboration floating around out there....

...not sure what she's like on stage now but I saw the Cocteau Twins in, I think, 1986, (with Throwing Muses and Dif Juz in support, IIRC) and Elizabeth Fraser remains to this day the single most...

I distinctly remember John Peel, after playing the Cocteaus one evening, saying something along the lines of "the King Crimson of their generation" not, I think, wholly ironically.

Head over...

That sounds pretty accurate. "Discreet daubs of synthesizer" says David Shepherd in his big Eno biography.

You can, however, listen to it yourself, here:

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That's fantastic news.

And Steven Wilson will be remixing, of course...??? ;)

'In a Land of Clear Colours', Robert Sheckley short story, read by Pete Sinfield, with background ambience/atmospherics from Brian Eno (and art by Leonor Quiles). Came out in 1979, and Voiceprint...

For a while (?still) he was involved in classical Indian music:

http://www.teentaalrecitals.com/en/home.html

..but this looks to be related to his involvement with Auroville that spacefreak...

I've never really listened to them properly. I first came across them through one of their videos about 1986/7: lots of stags' heads and youths with raised trumpets. I did sort of enjoy their...

No, that was an analogy.

Most of the Austrians I know seem to be able to be pretty smart and extremely self-effacing and can do both fluently in someone else's language. Which is simultaneously impressive and very...

I'd agree with the Rondo recommendation; I'd take my 2006 Agile over an Epiphone any day. They also have regular B-stock offers if you want to keep the price down. And they have a fair selection if -...

Back to the music, as perhaps we ought, and the general spirit of this thread let me recommend - if you haven't come across them/him before - Phil Legard’s Xenis Emputae Travelling Band.

John...

My memory of that was that there was some concern amongst Marillion fans as to whether they'd be able to deliver some or all of 'Misplaced' without disappearing beneath a hail of urine-filled bottles...

Thanks for that: just got the new(ish) Marillion for $3 with a Fandango credit...

Never a fan of Real to Reel. Nor the word-heavy 'Incubus'.

The Reading '83 disc on the 'Early Stages' box set is excellent, and that performance is, IMO, the band at their peak at that period as...

Well, that was underwhelming.

It's a good job she told the interviewer how smart she was otherwise one might come away with the idea that she was an idiot.

Codreanu and the Iron Guard (?the...

Surely the truth is that Andy Revell and Clive Mitten now have full-on careers in areas far from music and there's a limit to what they can do and do well...or really want to do at this stage of...

I'm looking forward to sitting down and watching this in the next day or two. First glance suggests that by the look of his outfit Clive Mitten may also be appearing in panto this season.

Marillion at The Apollo Theatre, Manchester, 14th February 1984, supported (?I think) by Rage, a mis-matched but ( I recall) John Arnison-managed Liverpool metal band whose drummer was the 'Mylo'...

Thanks for that, too: I have done.

Goldfinger, closely followed by Casino Royale...which also has 'The Look of Love' in it, of course, soundtracking Ursula Andress in slow motion behind the fish tank: hard to beat. Shame they lost so...

INADE I've never heard... will have to check it out.

Endvra: I have some of, but would highly recommend Christopher Walton's next project TenHornedBeast, especially 'Hunts and Wars' (2010) which is a fantastic piece of work that stands far above most...

Any other takes on the sound quality on this? I'm keen to get it but haven't, yet.

I swapped my original copy for a Bill Nelson double LP in about 1985, but bought it again on Ebay a few years...

Twelfth Night, 'Sequences'. ("Over the top...we go")

Yes, 'Harold Land' ("Harold Land with a wave of his hand said goodbye to all that.")

Thanks for that.

What about the great Albert Robida's Le Vingtième Siècle (1883), The Twentieth Century? 621 [Why is this so tiny?]

Available in English in the Wesleyan 'Early Classics of Science Fiction' series....

However, we seem to be the only country in the world having a black metaller into Parliament.

Oh, I'm sure there's a copy of 'At War with Satan' in David Cameron's collection. The music he claims...

A briefer reply than your full and thoughtful response deserves.

It's a little, well, 'essentialist' isn't it? I assuming that the greatest proportion of the populations of these countries are...

Absolutely: and this one has - to push the metaphor - much better light and more rooms. The decision not to set the posts count was ABSOLUTELY the right one: much more inclusive, much more...

And he never quite gets the recognition he deserves, does he, despite the occasional comment about how influential 'East-West' was.
I was re-reading Jac Holzman's semi-autobiography ('Follow the...

I think there are a fair few of us about. How long have you been transplanted?

240It used to be about $2.00 in CVS and whilst it has gone up a fair bit in price it remains, for me, anyway, better than most of the alternatives, with the possible exception of a well-looked after,...

I'm Paul -- and here, as on the old site -- I'm Pangolin. Originally from north-west England but now in the US. Having walked the dog I'm currently sitting here drinking some warm sake and listening...