From: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org (idealcopy-digest) To: idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Subject: idealcopy-digest V9 #307 Reply-To: idealcopy@smoe.org Sender: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk idealcopy-digest Sunday, December 24 2006 Volume 09 : Number 307 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [idealcopy] REWIND 2006 [Fergus Kelly ] [idealcopy] There won't be Snow in Africa... [Tim Subject: [idealcopy] REWIND 2006 In no particular order, and I've probably forgotten a few things... CDs: - ---- Morton Feldman: Clarinet and String Quartet (Metier) For Philip Guston (Dog W/A Bone) Ellen Fullman: Staggered Stasis (Anomalous) Zeena Parkins: Necklace (Tzadik) Daniel Menche: Jugularis (Important) Fransisco Lopez: Untitled 2005 (Anoema) Touch 25 DNA on DNA (No More Records) GIGS: - ----- RTE Symphony Orchestra performing Feldman's opera NEITHER (with Beckett's libretto). The Pelligrini Quartet performing Feldman's marathon 5.5 hour STRING QUARTET II Chris Corsano Volcano The Bear Boredoms Blind Idiot God The Fall Gang Of Four DVDs: - ---- The Minutemen: We Jam Econo Einstuerzende Neubauten: Listen With Pain Books: - ------ Iain Sinclair: London, City of Disappearnces Merlin Coverley: Psychogeography Rebecca Solnit: A Field Guide To Getting Lost Wanderlust (A History Of Walking) Ed Glinert: East End Chronicles (Three hundred years of mystery and mayhem) Will Self: The Book Of Dave Gary Indiana: Do Everything In The Dark Films: - ------ The Departed Hidden Volver The Wind That Shakes The Barley Little Miss Sunshine Films I wanted to see, but missed: Brokeback Mountain, Breakfast On Pluto, United 93, Capote, Cock and Bull TV: - -- Longford - A difficult subject (Lord Longford's decades-long campaign on behalf of Myra Hyndley) intelligently handled. Perfectly cast - Jim Broadbent absolutely outstanding as Longford. Samantha Morton icily brilliant as Hyndley, and Andy Serkis very unsettling as Brady. A tour de force. Have I Got News For You - 15 years on, still excellent. Paul Merton's still a comic genius. QI - Fry & co continue to mine obscure arcana to great comic effect. Planet Earth - At 81, Attenborough is still OUT THERE in my book, continuing to amaze. No wonder he was voted the UK's greatest living icon by The Culture Show's audience.. absolutely no competition with Macca and Mozza (pah !). Theatre: - -------- Barry McGovern performing Beckett's trilogy selection "I'll Go On" at The Gate for the centenary celebrations. 20 years on from first performance and better than ever. A treat. Michael Gambon & Penelope Wilton performing Beckett's "Eh Joe" at The Gate - spellbinding. - ----------------------------------------------------------- ..and a nice little bit of icing on the cake for the year's end - my duo album with David Lacey, "Bevel", favourably reviewed in the January 07 edition of The Wire (jazz & improv section).. Indulge me, if you will - Fergus Kelly & David Lacey: Bevel (review by Brian Morton) "Good to be reminded that Temple Bar in Dublin isn't only soundtracked by screaming hen parties and disco throb. Bevel's last three tracks were recorded without an audience at Temple Bar Gallery in July 2000 (that should read 2005), while the opening "Whittle" comes from an earlier public gig at Trinity College. Kelly is Ireland's Hugh Davies, shrewd guardian of the cabinet of curiosities, while Lacey provides percussion and electronic asides. It's often very soft, intimate, even introspective, but both men manage to sustain their discipline and sense of order even when the dynamics increase." You can't say fairer than that... a great vindication of the work. Thanks Brian... Well, whither Wire in the 7th year of the 3rd millenium ? A new well known horizon with the 30th anniversary looming... eyes steady for peeling... Meanwhile, seasonal salutations and festive felicitations to one and all... The Shrewd Guardian ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2006 01:21:31 +0000 From: Tim Subject: [idealcopy] There won't be Snow in Africa... Ah, the "clanging chimes of Doom" are upon us once again. Good to read those best ofs, not much consensus of opinion so far! Sufjan? Not really my sort of thing but the other Indestructible loves him and we have a track 'Alchemy of Sound' that samples his bells heavily along with the voice of Delia Derbyshire. Why...I think you can hear a live version of it on our myspace site. A Merrie Festive Season to all you Readers. I Shall think of you all as I settle down to watch the Dr Who Xmas special with my Port and Stilton having read Peter Kays no doubt riveting autobiography. Here's to Sir Bono of Vox...and perhaps a re-Wired 2007. http://www.myspace.com/kidsindestructible ------------------------------ End of idealcopy-digest V9 #307 *******************************