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avalon-digest        Wednesday, October 4 2006        Volume 11 : Number 226



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  [AVALON] The Emperor's very real new clothes         [Jocelynfiske@aol.com]

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Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 19:39:20 EDT
From: Jocelynfiske@aol.com
Subject: [AVALON] The Emperor's very real new clothes

I don't know how many of you out there are familiar with one Mr Barry 
Adamson, ex bass player with Magazine and founder member of Nick Cave's Bad Seeds, 
but anyway, I find myself in the Jazz Cafe watching this man newly shiny domed 
and bedecked in burgundy velvet suit, crisp white shirt with matching pocket 
'kerchief and black cravat, glide down the stairs onto the stage as smoothly as 
a cappuccino in an otter tanning factory canteen, and I'm thinking - man this 
guy is Miles Davis cool, he's Sly Stone funky, he's a Dashiell Hammett 
raconteur with a David Lynch eye.
I'm soaking up the  Barry White deep gruff and the slinky little moves and 
I'm wondering, should I throw a freshly mutilated antelope to the lions by 
suggesting, sacrilege of sacrilege, that neigh (neigh and thrice neigh) it is not 
The Cool Ruler who is now the Coolest Living Englishman, but this magnificent 
orphan of Moss Side. 
As he suggests that "if you have any psychedelics on you, this would be the 
time to take them" they launch into a weird take on Officer Bentley's Fairly 
Serious Dilemma from the new album, my mind drifts away on a river, when bam! 
I'm wrenched right back down to earth with the dirtiest, grungiest version of 
Remake Remodel I've ever heard. It takes a lot smack my gob these days,  but 
that and a throbbing version of Magazine's (Sly Stone's) Thank You Falettinme Be 
Mice Elf Agin left me astounded. And he never had a bead of asymmetrical sweat 
out of place.
All hail the new King of Nothing Hill.


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