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Inside Extremities…

Posted April 24, 2007 | Comments: 0

Extremities, dirt and various repressed emotions was always my favourite Killing Joke album so this is a real special treat for me - I just got this delivered from Play.com.

Inside Extremities, Mixes, Rehearsals & Live

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This is a fan’s dream come true! A double CD of Killing Joke material taken from the band preparation for the “Extremities” album, rare mixes, a TOTALLY unheard track “The Fanatic” and a full live show from the Extremities tour.
The track list speaks for itself, this is a fantastic journey through the making of this album and beyond. Fantastic sound quality throughout!

Kung Foo Hustle

Posted April 21, 2007 | Comments: 2

I saw Steven Chow’s “Kung foo hustle” last night on film 4 in the UK. I had seen this movie before but forgot how funny it was.
Rather than try to write a review I’ve quoted one used on imdb.com which sums up the movie much better than I could hope to do.

The Beast (Siu-Lung Leung)

Lambretta

Posted April 18, 2007 | Comments: 0

The Swedish band, not the moped.

The band

Sadly now defunkt (afaik) this band were shit hot and had quite a few hits before singer Linda went off on a solo career. I first saw these on TV in Sweden singing Blow my fuses and I pretty much kept my eyes on them them after that. They had numerous hits in Sweden but never seemed to expand into the UK. Our loss really.

Below are three videos found on youtube

Voice of an angel

Posted April 11, 2007 | Comments: 0

There was a documentary on BBC the other night about The carpenters. Mainly discussing about how its now cool to like them etc but mainly concentrating on sibling rivalry and Karens (ultimately lost) battle with anorexia.

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The program reminded me how much I actually do love them. I grew up listening to The Carpenters and even to this day there is no one that can match Karen Carpenters vocals. She is the greatest voice that ever lived and if you don’t believe me ask yourself how many singers you can regonise after only hearing 2 notes.