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Hello bonbon cosmique and thanks for the link (wow it's just like MySpace around here.) Visit this SNP blogger for vital tea reviews. I know I will.
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:: Monday, October 30, 2006 ::
Into the Archives
Here's the real thing! OK not 'The Saints are Coming' but even better, 'Into the Valley'. Still played at East End Park as the mighty Pars come on.
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Bono Collaboration
It was a rather strange sensation hearing 'The Saints Are Coming' on the radio. "That's a Skids song" I thought to myself. The guitars are pretty spot on but whose weak voice is that? Well I never, it is the 'friend of the poor' and pal of Saint Bob, Bono. Actually the live version above is better. Turns out that U2 have got together with Green Day to record the song for victims of hurricane Katrina. Specifically to help get musicians back on their feet "The campaign's goal is to rebuild the musical heart and culture of the Gulf Region by replacing the musical instruments lost during Hurricane Katrina."
They told the NME:
"When the idea of playing at the Superdome re-opening first came up to the invitation was for Music Rising to put together a ten-minute musical piece and I immediately thought of 'The Saints Are Coming'," U2 guitarist The Edge told NME.COM. "It could have been written for this occasion. The lyric fits so well it's almost eerie."
As a Dunfermline lad the Skids hold a special place in my heart. They used to rehearse next to the church hall where my sister would go to brownies which must have livened up brown owl's evening. Into the Valley and Masquerade would appear on many top tens of Scottish singles. John Peel wrote of them "Scottish fanzines had been noising abroad the excellence of Messrs. Jolson, (sic) Plode, Adamson and Bomb, remarking that they had moved beyond the confines of pure punk and were evolving into something entirely of their own devising, something that was, or so it was hinted, identifiably Scottish."
After the band split it gave rise to the late Stuart Adamson's Big Country and Richard Jobson's Armoury Show. That reminds me, must go download 'castles in spain' from iTunes. Damn, they don't have it. Can anyone help?
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:: Friday, October 20, 2006 ::
Dear Santa
Is nothing sacred?
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Shower Power
This is a terrific photo from JP on flickr.
I love that for any developing struggle around the world, or in fact any event, you can find reports, photos and discussion online. This is what web 2.0 is really about.
Students in Chile have taken to the streets again to protest about educational reforms.
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:: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 ::
sketchy
retrievr
This is brilliant, although maybe pointless. Make a little sketch and it finds pictures in flickr that look like the sketch...
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:: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 ::
Round 'Em Up
Scottish Blogging Roundup is a new blog which errm rounds up Scottish blogs. Including me.
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:: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 ::
Guerra Civil
Guerra Civil, originally uploaded by alister.OK, I'm back.
Did I miss anything? Any good football matches, interesting newspaper articles?
This photo is of a poster advertising a commemoration of the civil war. In the town of Ortiga, near where I was seeing, historians have uncovered the murder of 4000 republicans by fascists during the civil war. The bodies were dumped off a bridge into the local river.
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:: Thursday, October 05, 2006 ::
Ahlam's StoryCheck out these videos about the plight of an Algerian asylum seeker fleeing persecution. Living now in Glasgow (thanks to the dispersal of asylum seekers)she faces deportation to a ruthless regime in Algeria. Please distribute this video on your blog or website.
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