BLIMEY! THIS IS GREAT! Classic David Bowie
David Bowie ' Bring Me the disco King ' Live 2003
" We could Dance, Dance, dance through the Fire “
again the algorithm there this one at me!
Sunday, August 16, 2026
Swinside Stone Circle - The Lake District national park, UK - 2012
swinside stone circle // lake district national park, uk // 2012 //
I would feature a stone monolith of the day . . . this would be one!
The Specials - Too Much Too Young - Taken from the Old Grey Whistle Test October 1979
THE SPECIALS - Too Much Too Young [O.G.W.T.] Terry has a dig at the Beeb!
ART/FASHION/PHOTOGRAPHY of the week: Staudinger + Franke
Staudinger + Franke
From their series Barrier
Staudinger + Franke is a Vienna-based photography studio. Their series Barrier consists of stunning portraits of women separated from the viewer by a barrier of water. Simple in concept but executed to perfection, the images put a unique spin on the trend of underwater photography.
Clip from D.A.Pennebaker “What Kind of Friend is This” Bob Dylan 1966 | Swingin’ Pig
This from Flikeannahok
"What Kind Of Friend Is This" - Bob Dylan (1966)
Taken using archival footage of Dylan's 1966 tour filmed by D.A. Pennebaker. This is great footage of an acoustic Dylan during his electric era. Great clips
: Swingin Pig(we have featured Swingin Pig before I think!)
Flagging Down The Double E Newsletter : Bob Dylan Concert Posters in the 1970s
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Today, the belated second entry in my decade-by-decade series about Bob Dylan concert posters. The 1960s were a wild ride, poster-wise. The 1970s, though, are more straightforward, largely because the tours were more discrete: 1974 with The Band, Rolling Thunder #1, Rolling Thunder #2, etc.
As I did with the 1960s entry, I’ll start with the standard poster formats—the ones that Dylan’s people used for many shows—then share some favorite one-offs at the end. (Credit as always to DylanStubs, where most of these come from.)
Disclaimer: I’m using the term “poster” a little loosely. “Printed concert advertising material” is more accurate, but makes for a cumbersome headline. Working off digital images of these decades later, it can sometimes be difficult to determine whether these were posters hung up on walls, flyers handed out, or even ads in magazines or newspapers. Where I do know, I’ll say.
Poem of The Day: – Paul Éluard, from “The Capital of Sorrow” 1926 [Nusch & Paul Éluard] - Uncredited and Undated Photograph [possibly Man Ray]
Nusch and Paul Éluard Uncredited and Undated Photograph [possibly Man Ray]
I go to the arms of shadows,
I am at the bottom of shadows,
Alone.
The pity is higher and can stay there,
Virtue makes itself the charity of its breasts
And the grace became entangled in the nets of her eyelids.
She is more beautiful than the faces of the bleachers,
She is harder,
She is down with stones and shadows.
I joined her.
It is here that the clarity gives its last battle.
If I fall asleep, it is to stop dreaming.
What will then be the weapons of my triumph ?
In my eyes wide open the sun makes the joints,
O garden of my eyes !
All fruits are here to show the flowers,
Flowers in the night.
A window of foliage
Opens suddenly in its face.
Where I would put my lips, nature without shore ?
A woman is more beautiful than the world where I live
And I close my eyes.
I go to the arms of shadows,
I am at the bottom of shadows,
And shadows are waiting me.
– Paul Éluard, from “The Capital of Sorrow” 1926
Nusch Eluard fascinates me at least as much as her husband as the women of Dada and Surrealism frequently do. From Lee Miller, to Dora Maar to artists the strength of Frida Kahlo, Leanora Carrington, Dorothea Tanning, Dali’s wife and muse Gala. They seem collectively to have had at least as much free thinking exploratory relationships with art and their menfolk an exploration of them all collectively is long over due
Ronnie Dawson - Rockin’ Bones [Born Bad Vol 1] | sonicandvisualsurprises / roguetelemetry
ROCKIN’ BONES - RONNIE DAWSON
1959
Full throttle rockabilly
Time to shake the bones. Ronnie Dawson brings the goods with Rockin’ Bones.
Turn it up!
Saturday, August 15, 2026
Album of The Week : THEA GILMORE LIVE! [CAN YOU HEAR THE GHOSTS SING? Vol II]
Get it while you still can limited edition (1000), brilliantly recorded and fine fine performances throughout , Thea with her superb band and it hasn't been off the player yet!
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Robert Frank : Leaving Home, Coming Home (2004)
More than just America, Robert Frank is a life of experimentation, of travel, of sensitivity. American by adoption, he returns to his roots in Europe, his apprenticeship and his first photos. Guided by intuition, he gravitates towards the cinema in the early 1960s, won over by the Beat Generation and its poetry. He revisits his career highlights while strolling through New York, Coney Island, places that shaped his work. He also invites us to his studio where he works "on life” with June Leaf, his wife. His photos and his films show how much his life and his work draw upon the same material.
🔎 What you will learn in this film…
Robert Frank's New York • His iconic photos • Excerpts from his films • His life • His philosophy • His studio on Bleecker Street • His apprenticeship to a retoucher in Zurich • The flight to the USA in the 1930s • His beginnings at Harper’s Bazaar • A stroll in Coney Island 50 years after his photographs • Paris seen by Robert Frank • His archives • His take on London • His solo trip through the United States that was behind The Americans • His complicity with sculptor June Leaf, his wife • The influence of the Beat Generation in his filmography • His haven of peace in Nova Scotia • The importance of work in the lab to editing • His tour with the Rolling Stones • Robert Frank's roots
🎬 ROBERT FRANK: LEAVING HOME, COMING HOME (2004)
A film by Gerald Fox - United Kingdom - 85'
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