The second part of our sidewalk assignation with Toby and Tom, courtesy of Boing Boing TV

Toby and Tom, from Trangressive Records and Rockfeedback respectively, were stumbling around Brighton with hangovers. The last thing they needed was an idiot in a grey suit waving a microphone under their noses!

The second segment of our bus bound chat with Cadence Weapon

Well, my first foray into the world of Music Video production has been spot checked, rubber stamped and bathed in soft green light. Hot Fire indeed!

It gives me great pleasure to present you with ‘A Letter From God To Man’ by Dan Le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip…

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An article what I wrote for the new Beat Happening.

As dark clouds hang from the edges a of humid summer afternoons, so Nick Cave has spent four decades looming at the peripherals of Popular Culture; glowering and jowly like Cerberus’s pup, the eternal flames of Hades have flickered in his heavy, lambent eyes, a deathly glare cast over the tyrannous world stretched before him. As introductions go this may appear a mite heavy on the Brimstone, and for this I apologise, but it is not without just cause: Cave has built an unparalleled body of work incorporating music, film and literature and dealt almost exclusively in the language of foul parables and Biblical retribution. If, in the dark church of counter culture, Mark E Smith is the Hip Priest then Nick Cave is rightfully ordained the Black Bishop, growling from the pulpit with woeful tales of an iniquitous, Old Testament God- not the kindly old Man with a white beard and fair, open hands, but the one with the leather jacket who gets drunk at parties and pretends he’s the Devil.

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Rollie Pemberton III… what a very good lad! Here’s the first installment of our Cadence Weapon interview from The Great Escape, courtesy of our Occidental allies at Boing Boing TV

Well, apart from the slight jibe about my choice of head wear, it feels alright.

“Well Alright” as Mick Jagger used to say.

“Ah… so that’s how you did it in a day!”
Eva and Ioni in and out of character

A cheeky pair of Reports we made with Alice Russell and her Man Friday, TM Juke, before they headed across the pond for some Stateside shows. Courtesy, as ever , of Boing Boing TV

Hot Fire! Porter Reports from The Great Escape and has a chat with George Pringle.