Birmingham screening of Memory & Desire at The Flat Pack festival http://bit.ly/bo9nPv YEAH!

 

 

Another day transferring the analogue. I’m sure you cant wait to own these outré fragments of peculiarity, wrapped in the reassuring hiss of tape. How well the cassette recorded the vinyl album, I came across a selection of songs by The Beatles, far superior to last years remastered compact discs. It is little wonder that the music business ended.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It seems Mr. Hopper may have spent his last Christmas on earth. He made The Last Movie years before. Perhaps he will release it again before he dies so it can be showered in the acclaim it deserves.

 

 

February 15th, 2010

 

I’m transferring all my cassettes and DATs and mini discs onto a drive and compiling a cd of the amusing bits for release. I remembered that John Taylor had given this cassette to me in 1979 so imagining untold and unheard early Duran sonic experiments I made to transfer. But the cassette had snapped. Luckily growing up in the 70’s one learnt how to rectify this kind of palaver. So I set about the task. Very fiddly having not done such a thing for so long. After pinging bits around the room for twenty minutes I slipped the healed cassette into the player. 120 minutes of local bands recorded at the Barrel Organ in 1978. A Generation X Peel session. A little bit of Dada rehearsing. A phone conversation. And “Life in Tokyo” by Japan, the reason why he gave me the cassette. I still don’t like it.

 

 

 

 

 

Independent on Sunday. Please draw a beard on this picture of me in Alaska in 1993.