Tag Archives: kevin godley

big bang and it came upon us

Posted on January 17, 2013 by Dave

The nature of evil, the mechanical moving parts that make up villainy.The question is always posed, so that the question reveals the answer: if humanity collectively does want evil, then why does it exist? The short answer is that goodness … Continue reading →

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wild and wooly: oh effendi!

Posted on May 18, 2012 by Dave

the Turks. The young turks,the old turks, they were all wild; from the quiet tranquility of the garden to the live action slicing and dicing of the human body, there was rarely a dull moment in the Ottoman Turkish empire. … Continue reading →

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playing in the same band

Posted on March 18, 2012 by Dave

The WholeWorldBand. An uncontacted tribe coming to light.Will limited contact be necessary to protect the groups from external threats? Like Neanderthal Man recorded forty years ago, that glimpse, that brief appearance of a hitherto uncontacted tribe that vanished into the … Continue reading →

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the bark and the sound bite: back to marciano

Posted on March 10, 2012 by Dave

by Paul Hamilton ( see full links at bottom): SENIOR SHOWTIME High Wycombe is a satellite town of London and it was there, at Bucks New University’s Students Union building on Thursday 8th March 2012, Producers played the last of … Continue reading →

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“all one needs is to be able to see”

Posted on February 28, 2012 by Dave

It does appear to be beyond nominal doubt that the team of Craig Braun and Tom Wilkes pilfered to a large degree the work of Lol Creme and Kevin Godley for the Alice Cooper album School’s Out. The former’s Hotlegs … Continue reading →

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don’t let the sun go down on them

Posted on February 19, 2012 by Dave

Do only the good die young? Should we trust anyone over thirty? There was always Rimbaud, the brilliant prodigy, the romantic who was simply pining to be able to fall on his sword. And Keats and Byron who could not … Continue reading →

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get by with a little help from their friends

Posted on January 30, 2012 by Dave

What would you do if we sang out of tune?  … the press release for Whole World Band. Its a new idea that may solidify into mayonnaise yet. We shall see. It remains whetehr the creative genius of founder Kevin … Continue reading →

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shrink to fit : the matrix of 1000 true fanatics

Posted on November 27, 2011 by Dave

Digital commerce and the selling of art and cultural products via the web, is a final stage in a long process of transition to code creating from image creating. The idea of creativity as code, art based on code instead … Continue reading →

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11th commandment

Posted on November 21, 2011 by Dave

Excerpt from interview in the Idler, from Paul Hamilton: Kevin Godley: You know, the key to the writing process is finding your way in, bringing the stuff that’s in peripheral hearing into focus. You’re always aiming to get inside the … Continue reading →

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when they were fab

Posted on November 3, 2011 by Dave

The optical unconscious.The truth shoppers would have to parse through all the footage to strip away the false consciousness maintained under the neo-liberal economic model with regard to video and film. Cult values and elements of the ritual predominate and … Continue reading →

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