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anyone heard this yet?

mouse on mars and mark e smith in proper collabaration...
an album of the year??????? maybe

this months wire coverstars with funny interview where mark slags off james murphy (lcd soundsystem) for ripping im off "he's from fuckin new york, or new jersey".........................................

I've heard the track that's on that Wire cover CD. I like.

one of the many gems on the album....

Quality video too; Fledermaus Can't Get It. Suppose you can't go too far wrong with transvestites...

Yep, downloaded it yesterday, and I'm totally blow away by it, fuckin amazing! I've been listening to it non stop, I can't recommend it enough!

I heard the track on the Wire cd as well and it sort of washed over me a bit.

On that note, does anyone think that those Wire cover cds always seem to cover the same sort of thing? Something I can't quite put my finger on but they do seem to concentrate on 'nice' electronica-ish things. They usually wash over me and I wish that they would grab my attention more often.

Never hear the wire CD's, but if the Sudenfeld track washed over you then that's sad, I really urge you to listen again, it's totally amazing in my opinion...

I find this. I also find that if one leaves it a year or two and then listens to loads of Wire compilations in a day, it's much better.

Haven't heard the Von Sudenfed thing yet as my Wire freebie jobby was left in a house that isn't this one, where I live. I'm sure it's good, I'll probably end up buying the album on spec (such is my impulsive nature).

someone told me that to be on one of those wire cover CDs you have to be asked by the wire and then you have to stump up £800 for the privelige.

that wouldnt suprise me.

have heard it also on said cd and i did like it but at the same time i just thought meh and put it on the pile of probably listen to later things (a huge pile growing daily).

I don't know if you have to be asked by the Wire but you do have to pay. I heard it was £500 though.

I've a feeling that you're thinking of the Resonance compilations, which are a donation-to-the-station jobby.

However, given that it's often pretty arse electronica on there, the case is strong for the 'pay for Wire' jobby. Is this why Ben what'shisface the Marxist left?

You definitely have to pay because I know someone who was on one of those Wire comps and his label payed.

i heard ben watson left the wire because they put keiji haino on the cover, and then he came back, and then he left again for some equally ridiculous reason anyway. from what i remember he was a shit writer, totally unable to differentiate the world from the lining of his anus.

He was the 'heckler of haino' wasn't he?

indeed he was, indeed he was.

What Wire song did they cover?

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Originally Posted by PAULYBEE2656 funny interview where mark slags off james murphy (lcd soundsystem) for ripping im off "he's from fuckin new york, or new jersey".........................................

i liked the part where mark e. smith says he went to a shop and the song "losing my edge" was being played, and he shouts at the guy from the shop "are you taking the piss? this sounds just like me!"… and the other guy doesn’t know how to react, he obviously hasn’t recognized mark e. smith…


what sort of heckling did he do?

Something along the lines of "shit, your shit Haino. You can't play. Everyone's bored"

Something like that. He was ushered out.

I haven't had the time to listen to it properly, but thanks for upping it.

Sounds like he went to the concert with the sole purpose of doing this. I hope he didn't manage to ruin the concert for the others.

No, it was only a brief interjection and it was one of the best things I have ever seen. That incident just seemed to cement it's mythic status in my mind. Not sure how much everyone else dug it because the crowd had thinned out a lot by the end but that could be as much to do with last bus/last train situations and London crowds in general.

I seem remember it as a welcome interjection of mirth. I had, up until that point, forgotten to exist, such is the wonder of Haino.

Ben Watson also threw an empty pint glass at EAR once, hitting Eddie Prevost's drums, He shouted "Hippy Bollocks!" and then stormed out. He later wrote to Prevost to apologise.

i seem to remember you were enraged and wanted to glass him, as did i.

Did he? I'm surprised that he didn't get a kick in the face. There was this gig that he played at the foundry where the hecklers were being hideous and he had to stop playing a couple of times and ask them to leave. Unbelievable.

watson or prevost?

I'm surprised that Watson didn't get glassed back. Throughout that gig there were people in there just annoying the fuck out of everyone with their silly shouts. I had brought with me a friend who was studying film and had never been to that sort of gig and he thought that everyone was mad.

watson was playing at the foundry or prevost?

Prevost was playing.

i think prevost's a bit past it these days

The gig wasn't all that (not the Prevost set, anyway) but still hecklers annoy me, no matter what. Especially since they didn't even have to pay for the ticket, so why the hell were they there?

it's the great question about all gigs in london really, why do pricks always turn up at gigs?

If i had it my way, there would be violent bouncers in civil clothes amongst the crowd. Any invasion to the joy or pain that the punter would be going through, and bang, a smack in the mouth! Unfortunately such pricks seem to only understand the language of violence. Years and years of the music press telling them that they are entitled to an opinion is ruining it for other people who don't care much for expressing live on air opinions about music.

For me personally, a crowd of pricks is infinitely more fun to play to than a crowd of neuter eyeballs staring and not speaking at all.

If the pricks were the exception, rather than the rule, i would say that you're right. A riotous crowd is one thing, but opinionated little indie people need being dealt with with force.

yeah, people who just stand still are (or worse, sit) during a performance of anything with a beat are just as bad

It's the problem I find - local gigs are usually full of bedwetters; London's full of pricks. There must be a happy medium.

I have to say the audiences up north, regardless of the type of music, generally know how to appreciate a gig without being knobs about it. The North will, as they say, rise again.

Worst prick i've ever seen at a gig was again at The Foundry. He was sitting down with a copy of The Wire....staring at the cover!

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what about when konono no1 played that free show at the barbican and there were tonnes of people sitting including one bloke reading the sunday guardian and driniking Kaliber!