Pull-quote of the day
"Mars is going to crash into Scotland" says Ultravox's Midge Ure
Obviously that's not what he's talking about, but still, I look forward to a Wellesian War of the Worlds-type screaming exodus of Scottish people who've only had half an ear on the radio.
Obviously that's not what he's talking about, but still, I look forward to a Wellesian War of the Worlds-type screaming exodus of Scottish people who've only had half an ear on the radio.
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And, apropos of what you said about Bulgarian folk and machine guns the other day, here's pianist Jean Wiener on early European jazz:
"People understood almost too well that jazz was improvisation - but they didn't understand how to do it. So you got jazz bands whose only purpose was to make as much noise as possible - bells, klaxons, drums, revolvers, etc."