People In Glass's House...
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Tue., Jul 26, 2011
My thanks to Anil Prasad of Innerviews for spotting this piece about Spotify on the Glass Notes blog. The really interesting quote comes in the penultimate paragraph. "Even-handedly I descirbed this scenario to a music-loving 88 year old friend of mine today, being careful to mention the end-user benefits of the service. He grasped the essence of the problem immediately. I said "This Spotify gives you, in your pocket, unlimited access to most every recording in the history of music."  To which he responded, "But it also means you have no future. Who wants to live in a world with no future."

Mister Stormy's Monday Selection
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Mon., Jul 25, 2011
Mister Stormy has unearthed a lovely run-through from the ITCOTCK sessions at Wessex studios in 1969. Recorded just over 42 years ago and heard here for the first time and sounding frankly wonderful! Get it here. 

Fernando's Giveaway!
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Mon., Jul 25, 2011
There’s a chance to win not one but two albums by Los Gauchos Alemanes/ Electric Gauchos member, Fernando Kabusacki.

The albums are

Starless And Bible Black Featured Album
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Mon., Jul 25, 2011
Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone show on BBC6 Music showcased Starless And Bible as their featured album this week. Available for another seven days on the BBC's iPlayer you can listen to the show here. Stuart played five tracks though interestingly when it came to The Great Deceiver, the lines "Health food faggot" and "Gin shop slag" had mysteriously edited out. One presumes this was done to protect the nation's morals.

Over the years, the "faggot" reference in the song has been taken to be a derogatory gay reference when in fact, lyricist Richard Palmer-James was referring to a falafel, it being a vegetarian equivalent of the traditional faggot.

Phew, thank goodness Stuart didn't play the live version of Easy Money!

KC Family Reunion
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Sun., Jul 24, 2011
You can read more about the Two Of A Perfect Trio tour (including a full list of dates) over on Lori Hehr's blog. 

And The Winner Is...
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Sun., Jul 24, 2011
Congratulations go to Nick Cave who's song Heathen Child was declared to the be the song of the year by Mojo magazine. Eagle-eyed pedants will say "But that's not the one Robert Fripp played on. That one was called Super Heathen Child" and they'd be right. But we'd say "Hey, that's as close as you get!"

Elsewhere in the prize giving season, ex-Bill Bruford Earthworks pianist Gwilym Simcock has been nominated for the Mercury Prize. Here's Gwilym's reaction at joining the long and distinguished line of jazz artists who've been nominated for the prize before it's awarded to PJ Harvey or Elbow.

Finally, Rolling Stone magazine's readers poll have voted King Crimson the 5th best prog rock act. You can read the whole selection complete with helpful career advice from a caring editorial team here.

The Colour At The End Of Time
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Thu., Jul 21, 2011
My thanks also to Andrew who spotted a radio programme concerning "a neuroscientist talking about time perception and also synaesthesia."

There's A Moon In The Sky (Called...P4)
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Thu., Jul 21, 2011
My thanks to De Vito who spotted this item regarding the name of a new moon around Pluto. 

Universal Claim
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Wed., Jul 20, 2011
My thanks to Perdu for sending in this link to a rum do regarding take down notices and Universal. 

Exposure Exposed Again
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Tue., Jul 19, 2011
In one of those spooky coincidences, on the day that we release some of the Exposure rehearsal tapes featuring John Wetton and Michael Walden, the finished album is the subject of this review.