Tim Aldous Hooks up with DJ, second album artiste and Skint supreme Damian Harris AKA Midfield General
A glance at the papers will inform you that Bob Geldof’s daughter Peaches has got herself in trouble with the police. Despite appearing to be someone who does very little other than go clubbing, it would be accurate to say that she comes across as one of the least delightful people on the planet. That’s quite an achievement for someone who’s not yet turned twenty. A hard worker, then. Meanwhile, Jennifer Lopez, the post-Madonna prima donna, hardly wears the charm hat either. Van Morrison is fanously quite an arse, and in his heyday, Liam Gallagher was as likely to cover himself in his own urine than in glory. In fact, the media and music business is littered with arrogant tossers, wankers and arseholes who’d eat their nans if it got them an appropriate front page and a VIP spot in the right club. (more…)
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If you ask Michael Brimmer what he likes, what inspires him, you’re in for the duration.
“Here goes,” he says, “Femme fatales, acid house hues, images that scream, honesty, sleep deprivation, stale cigarette smoke, vintage glasses – but not sunglasses, interesting mustaches, odd encounters, jazz from bebop to mystic fusion, people who keep things moving, bad make-up, glitter on the right people, booty bounce, street artists who don’t wear Carhart, New York Dolls, Iggy Pop, a slight sense of dazed bewilderment, Japanese films, things I’m not supposed to do, inappropriate humour, nerds with no social skills, warm beer, cold beer, champagne, Parisian weekends… and girls in amazing shoes.” (more…)
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Beatmag’s regular technical columnist James Spectrum (AKA Jari Salo of Pepe Deluxe)
Uncannily many writings of ancient people worldwide tell the same story, that of decline from an original age of imagination and hope. Mysterious artifacts and sites around the world have been created with help of knowledge and culture more advanced than our current one. This ‘Golden Age’ is perhaps best captured in the legendary monument known as “’TWA Flight Center’, designed by Arch-Architect Eero Saarinen. While it’s impossible to fully understand the depth of Saarinen’s genius, leading popular experts agree on what is most likely the original source and inspiration for his seemingly unlimited creative power: his childhood home. (more…)
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Festival Special
With the indefatigable Blackbelt Jonez
Tis the season to get wasted, tra la la la la etc. Now, unless you’re super rich and unemployed (and therefore probably a dealer) then you’ll be finding the arrival of lots of new festivals gets your mind all twisted up, thinking ‘great’, ‘annoying’ and ‘hmmm’ in a confusing tandem of contradiction. How will you find the time to go to them all and how will you afford to part with a considerable wedge of your hard-earned cash? Well, the obvious answer is working in the bars and helping hoover the shit out of the portaloos, but that’s really for the students and the heavy smokers who have no sense of smell or pride remaining. You can’t go to all of the festivals, that’s just silly. Instead you should check out the marginally bitter Beatmag guide to some of the festivals that are going on this year. Glastonbury is off our radar – it’s had more than enough press over the last two months and all of that quibbling over Jay Z (who will do a great show) is silly…
Anyway, have a read, make a decision and shut up. (more…)
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June 2008
Airport
As if they weren’t already enough expensive distractions at airports, EMI have announced a partnership with Medianywhere which will enable pasty holiday makers to spunk the last of their coinage on any last minute tunes they’d forgotten to copy onto their MP3 players, meaning that any potential trauma involving an Aya Napa beach and some wanker from Croyden blasting the latest nauseating R n B hit out of his phone is no longer the nightmare we all imagined it couldn’t never not be. (more…)
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