Ciarán Ryan notebook

For anyone who likes Talking Heads - and thought there was something not quite right with Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. Vampire Weekend have drawn from Afropop rather than draw on Talking Heads drawing on Afropop (as Clap Your did)… and it sounds good as a result, right now.

King leans forward. “I’ll tell you something that’s absolutely astonishing. In China, when Mao died, at his funeral there was a photograph taken of all the bureaucrats in a long, long line. But there were four carefully retouched blanks in the picture - the Gang of Four. Underneath, in the caption to the picture, they laboriously listed everybody, a name and then a comma. When it got to the Gang of Four, there were three x’s, comma, then three x’s comma… Amazing. They wanted you to know that they’d gone, and this was a warning: this is what you’re going to get, if you don’t watch out.”

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19991130/ai_n14270884/pg_2

Arts: Retouched by the hand of God
Independent, The (London), Nov 30, 1999 by Linton Chiswick

also music

http://www.chesternovello.com/default.aspx?TabId=2432&State_3041=2&WorkId_3041=11869

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang_of_Four

Just had a heart attack 1973.

In his hallway on a stretcher - refused to be moved until the ambulancemen changed the orange blanket they had put over him. He said that the colours clashed, said Jane Birkin.

His life a struggle. The best form of revenge is to live well.

George Formby: A troubled genius by David Bret - 1999

George and wife Beryl went to South Africa - insisted on playing to black audiences. Father of apartheid Daniel Francois Malan phoned them up - Beryl told him to “piss off” (?)

Hound dog - elvis - guitar break?

NY musician Moondog died in September 1999.

Look out for 1969 orchestra LP and

1950’s EP of street sounds and street music

william lester bowie - trumpet player 11 oct 1941 - 8 Nov 1999

Supposed to be interesting:

Gettin to Know Y’all - Baden Baden Free Jazz Orchestra

New York Hot Trumpet Repertory

LP: All the magic

Ideas

Obituary: Ian Dury
Independent, The (London), Mar 28, 2000 by Pierre Perrone

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20000328/ai_n14285614

There was a West Coast scene - USA - 1960s.

Meshes of the afternoon music is by

Teiji Ito, not Partch. Partch didn’t like Cage.

http://www.answers.com/topic/teiji-ito?cat=entertainment

All links up.

Partch’s favourite film of his music is supposed to be:

Rotate the Body in All Its Planes—Ballad for Gymnasts (1961) 8:51

Also: Delusion of the fury and Windsong

Musician, interesting:

Third Violin Sonata

Piano Quintet Op 29

Second piano quartet

Diane Arbus: Revelations was published in 2003.

Diane Arbus photographer. She was alienated and a Weegee fan. Tried to show what is not normally seen - that was new back then. Strangeness of existence - the ceremonies and isolation. Use of flash increases isolation - blackening background.

Her final note has never been found. Removed by medical inspector? July 26 1971.

See: Woman carrying a child in Central Park - 1956

One of her favourites was Untitled (6) 1971

TICKETS FOR JONATHAN RICHMAN

Where: Shepherds Bush Empire, London
When: FRIDAY, 09/05/2008, doors at 19:00, starts at 19:30

What’s the technique here? Neil’s doing his performance slowly? - it’s then sped up?

No personality of your own?

Buy a Pete Doherty hat!

Put it on immediately

And that will be that.