Unthanks & Crimso
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Sat., Apr 9, 2011
King Crimson get another mention in connection to The Unthanks and their cover of Starless in today's Independent. 

A Scarcity Of Miracles
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Wed., Apr 6, 2011
As you can see at the top of the page there's an edited version of the full-length video that comes as an extra feature on the DVD-A edition of A Scarcity Of Miracles.  Enjoy! 

Scheduled Downtime
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Tue., Apr 5, 2011
DGM Live and its subsidiary sites will be unavailable for approximately two hours starting Friday April 8 at 7pm US EDT (23:00:00 GMT) while our systems undergo scheduled hardware maintenance. Access to dgmlive.com, king-crimson.com, and thevicar.com will be disabled during this time. BitTorrent connections to DGM Live and its BitTorrent tracker will also be unavailable during this period. All active download windows will be extended by 24 hours for your convenience.

If you have any questions or concerns please e-mail support@dgmlive.com

TU Play Two Dates In Texas
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Tue., Apr 5, 2011
Trey Gunn and Pat Mastelotto will be playing two dates in Texas at the end of this month. You'll find them at the One World Theatre, Austin on Friday 28th April. The Granada Theater, Dallas plays host to TU on Saturday, April 30th. To find out more about TU take a peek at Trey's site. 

And The Winner Is...
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Tue., Apr 5, 2011
Congratulations to Jon Lyne of Sheffield who told me that the first album by Mister Mister was called I Wear The Face. As a result of being chosen at random for a bulging postbag, Jon gets the wear the T-shirt and play the CD by Pat's pre-Crimso group, Mister Mister. 

P4 At Boulder
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Mon., Apr 4, 2011
The second night of ProjeKct Four's West Coast tour of 1998 has the band on particularly fine form.

3D Hoax A Hoot
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Sat., Apr 2, 2011
Yesterday's April 1st tomfoolery on Radio 4's flagship news programme about Simon Heyworth and Robert Fripp conducting experiments into 3D radio gets a few mentions here and there. The Guardian described Simon and Robert as "the Tubular Bells sound engineers" and praised (if that's the right term) the item for its "plausible dullness". Elsewhere, STV mentioned it in dispatches, and Prefix ran a piece about what it describes as "The BBC, as usual, rides to the rescue, putting their own elegant touch on a douchey American tradition."

KC Sighting In South Korea
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Sat., Apr 2, 2011
My thanks to Alec Miniero for sending in the following. "Been living in South Korea for the past 2 years and sighted this the other day in an area centralized Seoul known as Noksapyeong.  The place is called Pizzarium and features the closest thing I can find to NY style pizza...

Ozzy On Crimso
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Fri., Apr 1, 2011
The new issue of Classic Rock magazine features 100 songwriters as chosen & written about by 100 other songwriters. Ozzy Osborne has this to say about KC. “King Crimson were out there, man. No one else sounded like them back then, and no one has sounded like them since. They had all this great musicianship, but there was a fuckin’ nasty edge. I covered 21st Century Schizoid Man. That’s me in a fuckin’ nutshell.”

Fripp Surround Sound Radio Four
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Fri., Apr 1, 2011
Simon Heyworth and Robert Fripp can be heard on BBC Radio 4's Today programme talking about the new innovation of 3D Radio,