Sunday, October 31, 2010

A monkey escapes on Halloween


Happy Halloween!

Few years back on the You Are The Quarry tour in Devore, San Bernardino, California Morrissey took to the stage in a priest costume for Halloween and the members of his band were all dressed like nuns. Hear a HALLOWEEN W/ MORRISSEY - MASHUP click here

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Reissue, Repackage, Repackage

Anthony Lui is an art director / designer based in London’s East End, see the great reissues for Morrissey.
All You Need Is Me’ was the second release from Greatest Hits. The patterned paper on this was made of snakes, globes, eyes and stars. Also released as two 7″s and a CD wallet. See also Morrissey Greatest Hits and That’s How People Grow Up Cover photography by Jake Walters.
Michael Muller shot Morrissey on the grave of Johnny Ramone for this cover.The CD two inner bag carries a reproduction of the Camden Town engine house which eventually became the Roundhouse—where the Ramones first played the UK in 1976. There’s a great seven-minute long doco about this show you can watch here.

Tribute to a friend and a "cultural catalyst"

Factory Records founder Anthony H Wilson died in August 2007. Just over three years later, a memorial headstone designed collaboratively by Wilson's long-term associates Peter Saville and Ben Kelly with Paul Barnes and Matt Robertson, was unveiled in The Southern Cemetery in Chorlton-Cum-Hardy, Manchester

Saturday, October 23, 2010

Antony and the Johnsons: How I wrote ... Swanlights

Performing on a grand piano, Antony Hegarty plays a mesmerising version of Swanlights, taken from his new album of the same name. Click picture to view video.

Thursday, October 21, 2010

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Slum art

The TED prize for 2011 will go to the graffiti artist J R, who has made a name for himself by plastering downtrodden neighbourhoods around the world with colossal photographs

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Pierre Elliott Trudeau and René Lévesque

10 years ago Pierre Elliott Trudeau died, the NFB are featuring some great documentaries.

In Part 1 of this 3-part documentary series, director Donald Brittain chronicles the early years of Pierre Elliott Trudeau and René Lévesque. From their university days in the 1950s to 1967 when Lévesque left the Liberal Party and Trudeau became the federal Minister of Justice, Brittain attempts to get at the heart of what makes these men so fascinating.

Click here