Hive present a Long Night of the Biennial event Thursday 30 October 6-11pm Tate Liverpool Free admission

Hive present a Long Night of the Biennial event Thursday 30th Oct 6-11pm
Tate Liverpool
Free admission.

HIVE explore the ways in which the relationship between the heart and the machine is endlessly Made Up through an evening of carefully selected music, performance and live intervention.

Wolfgang Flur (ex-Kraftwerk) Ich war ein Roboter (reading)
Kraftwerk’s joyful hymns to modernity form some of popular culture’s most enduring works and their influence on contemporary electronic music is immeasurable. Hive is delighted to present former member Wolfgang Flur reading and screening related visuals from his celebrated autobiography I was a Robot. As drummer / electronic percussionist between 1973 and 1986 Flur is in a unique position to share his experience of one of the most influential bands of all time.

Robert Strachan and Anni Hogan (Live)
Producer, collaborator, DJ and writer Anni Hogan first came to prominence as a musician in Marc Almond’s Marc and the Mambas. Hogan would continue to work closely with Almond until the early 1990s as a writer, arranger, performer and producer. Among many current projects, her compositions with Robert Strachan are particularly striking; micro-constructions and piano melodies blended into profound and beautiful new shapes. Such experimentation underscores much of Strachan’s recent work, which included the stunning improvised soundtrack to accompany 'Blue Remix'- a performance by the Swiss artist Yann Marussich as part of the sk:interfaces exhibition at FACT.

Testcard (Live)
Testcard are an electropop trio based in Liverpool who meld power pop, future disco and pristine Italo to soundtrack poignant tales of modern urban life. Coolly observing the contradictions of contemporary relationships, Testcard swerve the electropop stereotype through soaring, soulful vocals and an unashamed love of pure pop.

Café del Lar DJs
The Café del Lar doesn't exist, it's an imaginary place where the Mersey meets the Medi and the ferries go to Birkenhead not Formentera. Phil Thornton and Ste Connor have been championing the original 'balearic' ethos in Liverpool for the past two decades and refuse to accept any musical boundaries or phoney marketing pigeonholes. Their rare as hen’s teeth mix cds travel from sun scorched West Coast psychedelics to distant galaxies of space funk and beyond...

DJ Joe Mckechnie
Label runner, club promoter, musician and regular DJ at the legendary Fukdup Ravers nights, Joe has remixed tracks for, amongst others, ROC, Alabama 3, Echo and The Bunnymen, Ladytron, X-Press 2 and Will Sergeant.

Hive visual artists
Hive’s visual artists debut a film screening based on the recent Shopping Remixed Hive event, which saw local sound artists Noise Club challenge, perplex and delight Saturday afternoon shoppers in Liverpool’s St John’s Shopping Centre.

Plus HIVE DJs, Outsiders Film Festival screening and Biennial exhibition

benny profane - shc/choir of drunks/fear [live liverpool 1989]

Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band - Queen Matilda [Live Liverpool Academy 18-9-08]

Wire - Being Sucked In Again, Live Manchester Academy 12-9-08

jpmc - mnml mx no3 - recorded 1-9-08

1 - Marlon Krupa - Bershka
2 - DJ T. - Outbreak
3 - Marc Houle - Flapping Around
4 - Uto Karem - Drummers Delight
5 - Miss Fitz - Colici [Sascha Dive's Dark Beat Mix]
6 - Mr. De' Superugly (Funk Piano Mix)
7 - Uto Karem - Insideout
8 - Daniele Papini - Church of Nonsense
9 - D'julz - Just So You Know
10 - Christopher Just - I'm A Disco Dancer (John Tejada Remix)
11 - Five Green Circle - Hasto
12 - Deetron ft. Justin Chapman - Let's Get Over It
13 - Tocadisco - Morumbi (Popof Remix)
14 - Dave Shokh - Chlam
15 - Ane Brun - Headphone Silence [Henrik Schwarz Remix-Dixon Edit-Ame Approved]
16 - Gruber & Nuernberg - Laugh Lines
17 - Decimal - Eleanor
18 - Simone Tavazzi - Muzik
19 - Adonis - Rockin Down the House (Micky Slim Remix)
20 - Kevin Saunderson - Rock To the Beat [Christian Smith & John Selway Remix]
21 - Delete - Hide & Seek

Joe Mckechnie - Champagne For My Real Friends...No4

Champagne For My Real Friends, Real Pain For My Sham Friends...No4

1 - Fontella Bass & Bobby McClure - Don't Mess Up A Good Thing
2 - The Rascals - Island Of Love
3 - New Flesh - Almshouse
4 - DJ Mujava - Township Funk [DJ Nonsense Mix]
5 - Ten City - That's The way Love is [Acid Mix]
6 - Basement Jaxx - Set Yo Body Free
7 - Frivolous - Post Depression
8 - The United States Of America - I Won't Leave My Wooden Wife For You, Sugar
9 - Eugene MC Daniels - Welfare City
10 - The Fall - I've Been Duped
11 - Monks - We Do Wie Du
12 - Johnny Cash - On The Evening Train
13 - Jerry Reed - Amos Moses


Enjoy/Endure [click on title]

Joe

W.C. Fields - The Fatal Glass Of Beer/Honest John

Genius at work.

I'm Not Always So Stupid: There's something in my Twinkies...

I'm Not Always So Stupid: There's something in my Twinkies...

Hive Collective Liverpool - You Are Sound

Hive Collective Liverpool - You Are Sound
Some snaps from the 'You Are Sound' event in St John's shopping centre Liverpool, 12th July 2008.

Joe Mckechnie - Live from Liverpool [Capital of Counter Culture] 7th August 2008

Joe Mckechnie - Live from Liverpool [Capital of Counter Culture] 7th August 2008

1 - Rex the Dog - Sequencer
2 - The Grid - Put Your Hands Together [Kriss Darang Deep Groove Mix]
3 - Kevin Saunderson - World of Deep [Jesse Rose Respect To Detroit Mix]
4 - Lets Go Outside - Girls Don’t like Me (Mark Broom Remix)
5 - Phunklarique & Pierce - Swoosh (Nudisco & Kaiser Souzai Remix)
6 - Xpansul & Damian Schwartz - Sour Mood [Xpansul Revisited Mix]
7 - DJ Sneak - Sticky Shiet (Jason Hodges Shieety Redux Mix)
8 - Hijack - Out There
9 - Frivolous - Just Add Irony
10 - Green Velvet ft. Walter Phillips - Shake & Pop [Mark Grant Remix]
11 - John Spring - Skychef
12 - Dan Ghenacia - Garden
13 - Odd Dots - Egg Head
14 - ROC - Sink A Bite into Life [Joe Mckechnie Remix]
15 - Echo & the Bunnymen - The Cutter [Joe Mckechnie Long Mac Remix]
16 - Jandroide - What Is Spanish Dust?
17 - Midimiliz - Subtil
18 - Morgan Geist - Detroit

more donaldson definitions

these from 'i'm leaving you simon, you disgust me...' a dictionary of received ideas.

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Scotsmen, strawberry nosed, See FERGUSON, SIR ALEX

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Intervals, theatre. Always too short.

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Liam, rock stars called. Forever telling their fans to 'fuck off'

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47-year-olds. Always in a 'stable condition' after being rushed to hospital in an ambulance.

See also AMBULANCES; ARRIVAL, DEAD ON; 49-YEAR-OLDS.

Hive Collective Liverpool

http://www.thehivecollective.co.uk/



Hive Twilight City 3: The Spectacular Suburb

Saturday 13 September 2008
Matthew Herbert
Chris Watson

Hive DJs + VJs

the Bluecoat
School Lane
Liverpool L1 3BX
8pm - 11pm
£5/£7

Tel: +44 151 702 5324
Tickets on Sale Now

The Hive Collective has commissioned two of the world’s most accomplished sonic pioneers, Matthew Herbert and Chris Watson, to collaborate on a unique composition constructed entirely out of recordings from Crosby Beach – the site of Antony Gormley’s Another Place installation.

A one-off event at a specially prepared performance space within the Bluecoat will see Watson explore Another Place through a series of source recordings, followed by Herbert’s presentation of a brand new musical composition based on those recordings.

By considering what these impassive iron men ‘hear’ as they gaze on the changing seascape and a changing Liverpool, the audience will, in turn, be encouraged to reimagine both the installation and the surrounding area, as well as reflect on how definitions of place vary, yet hold a truth, as they pass from person to person.

Challenging yet accessible, the event aims both to introduce new audiences to music composed from field recordings, as well as explore questions relating to what can constitute ‘music’ in a city dominated by more traditional definitions of authenticity.

About the Artists

Matthew Herbert
Restless innovator, sampling wizard, classically trained pianist and superstar collaborator, Matthew Herbert is one of electronic music's most versatile and prolific figureheads. Herbert has produced and remixed artists as diverse as Björk, REM, John Cale, Roisin Murphy, Yoko Ono and Serge Gainsbourg. An alchemist of avant-garde sound in the tradition stretching from Stockhausen to the Aphex Twin, Herbert combines playful pop sensibility with a strictly imposed experimental agenda.

Chris Watson
Chris Watson is a world renowned sound recordist and one of the pioneers of UK electronic music. Chris has travelled the world exploring the wildlife sounds of animals, habitats and atmospheres for some of the BBC’s most popular natural history programmes, such as Life in the Undergrowth, Talking with Animals, Big Cat Diary and The Life of Birds for which he won a BAFTA . Beginning his career as a musician in the Sheffield band Cabaret Voltaire, he has released three solo CDs through Touch.

Friction @ Korova Liverpool

Last night Will Sergeant [that's Will with his back to the camera] had them dancing in the aisles [and, as pics show, dancing on the tables and on the chairs] at his regular Thursday night 'Friction' session down at the Korova Bar in Liverpool. Will's winning mix of psychedelic modernist soul had hands in the air everywhere.


Will Sergeant/Friction every Thursday @ Korova, Fleet Street, Liverpool.
Admission free.
Listen to a Will Sergeant/Friction DJ Mix further down this page
http://www.myspace.com/clubfriction


Also worth a look see is Central Nervous System with Aslan Kastanetz & Bob Katz every Sunday also @ Korova
http://www.myspace.com/centralnervoussystem









Be Seeing You RTG2!

looks like we got us a reader

Recent reading has included books by Mark Twain, Steven Daly & William Donaldson. Donaldson is best known for the Henry Root Letters but, as i've discovered, there's a lot more besides.

Here's some definitions from his final book 'The Dictionary of National Celebrity'[written with Hermione Eyre and published after his death in 2005].

Enjoying a pint with the lads after the game.

Hospitalizing a law student.
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Game, the Beautiful.

Twenty-two silly haircuts and three rape allegations.

see also ADOLESCENCE; ROASTING; ROLE MODEL, A GOOD
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Fry, Stephen [b. 1960].

The stupid person's idea of a clever person.
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Sassy.

Scrawny, no neck American actress reduced to vibrator sex.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2005/dec/04/features.magazine
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This biography is a good place to start with the reading and such, the William Donaldson story would make a great film.

You cannot live as I have lived and not end up like this : the thoroughly disgraceful life & times of Willie Donaldson by Terence Blacker

Though born into privilege and inheriting a fortune, Willie Donaldson ended up dying alone in a seedy rented flat, his computer still logged on to a lesbian porn site. To some, he had been one of the great, under-rated comic writers of our time, and to others, a dangerous force of corruption and decadence. His achievements were significant - he published "Sylvia Plath" while still at Cambridge, as a producer in the Sixties he staged "Beyond the Fringe", and he was later to write the celebrated "Henry Root Letters" - but not as impressive as his reckless talent for self-destruction.The impresario became a serial bankrupt. The man about town, who had lived with Sarah Miles and been engaged to Carly Simon, ended up as a ponce in a Chelsea brothel. Success as a writer quickly led him into a dark underworld of crack addiction, fraud and sexual obsession. Now friend and collaborator, Terence Blacker unravels the intimate truth of Willie Donaldson's strange story in all its glamour, hilarity and pain. 'What a young fool I was. But how I adored him' - Carly Simon. 'A slimy crook' - "Private Eye".

Champagne For My Real Friends...No3

1 - The Warlocks - Can't Come Down
2 - The Seeds - No Escape
3 - Pere Ubu - Humor Me
4 - Dr Dooom - Welfare Love
5 - Pole - Acherbahn (Frivolous Remix)
6 - Burning Spear - Social Living
7 - Spank Rock - Top Billin' From Far Left
8 - The Pop Group - She Is Beyond Good And Evil
9 - Benga & Coki - Night (L-Vis 1990 Hyper Bass Remix)
10 - Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band - Sun Zoom Spark

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hear my mixes on this fab swiss website

Here's a Mckechnie DJ Mix from this excellent Swiss site - http://djsets.ch/dj-sets.html/
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Joe Mckechnie - DJ Mix 10th May 2008


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and here's a Will Sergeant 'Friction' mix.





Visit the site to hear more Mckechnie mixes and to get a player to embed in your own blog/website.

Joe Mckechnie - Pirate Revival 2 Hour Internet Radio Show

I've recorded a 2 hour show [1hr My Old School/1hr My New School] for Pirate Revival, it'll be broadcast 14th September 8pm til 10pm.

Here's the tracklist -


Joe Mckechnie DJ Mix - My Old School One Hour for Pirate Revival

1 - DJ Marley Marl - Beyond
2- G-Love ft. Jayne Casey - You Keep the Love
3 - Model 500 - No UFO's [D-Mix]
4 - DJ Pierre - To Tha Musik
5 - Phuture - The Creator
6 - Marina Van-Rooy - Let You Go
7 - Inner City - Pennies from Heaven
8 - Rising High Collective - Fever Called Love [Hardfloor Remix]
9 - Outrage - Theme from Outrage (That Piano Mix)
10 - Romanthony - Bring U Up
11 - NY Housen Authority - Apt.3a
12 - Tyree - Acid Over
13 - Jack Frost - Clap Me
14 - Fast Eddie - Pump It
15 - White Boy Mike - Something To Dance To
16 - DJ Icey - We Do It like This
17 - Maggotron - Bass, What’s Happenin Black
18 - Dynamix II - Pledge Your Allegiance 2 Electro Funk
19 - Unknown

Joe Mckechnie DJ Mix - My New School One Hour for Pirate Revival

1 - Jack the Juker - Jukin Like Water
2 - Green Velvet ft. Walter Phillips - Shake & Pop [Mark Gant Remix]
3 - Felix Da Housecat - Pretty Girls Don't Dance (What Should I Do?)
4 - Todd Terry - Make the Place Jump
5 - Hijack - Out There
6 - Phuture - Rise from Your Grave (Tiefschwarz Remix)
7 - Frivolous - Just Add Irony
8 - Sis - Orgsa
9 - Loco Dice - Pimp Jackson is Talkin Now!!!
10 - DJ Sneak - Sticky Shiet (Jason Hodges Shieety Redux Mix)
11 - Lützenkirchen - Panker [Disco Tech]
12 - Phunklarique & Pierce - Swoosh (Nudisco and Kaiser Souzai Remix)
13 - Xpansul & Damian Schwartz - Sour Mood [Xpansul Revisited Mix]
14 - Popof - Chiken Flavour
15 - Someone Else & Miskate - Ooh Yeah
16 - Burufunk Carbon Community - Community Funk [Deadmau5 Remix]
17 - Gamal Kabar - The Filth
18 - Oliver Koletzki - Music from the Heart (H.O.S.H.S Unbreak My Heart Remix)
19 - Lets Go Outside - Girls Don’t like Me (Mark Broom Remix)
20 - DJ Foundation - Ghad [12 inch]



http://www.piraterevival.co.uk/

Joe Mckechnie - August DJ Chart

jpmc mnml mx 1

jpmc mnml mx 1

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Joe Mckechnie DJ Mix - recorded 5th August 2008

1 - Superpitcher vs. The Congosound - Say I'm Your Number One [Superpitcher Remix]
2 - Beck - Cellphone's Dead (Villalobos Entlebuch Remix)
3 - Cari Lekebusch - Shaded (Compuphonic & Kolombo Dub)
4 - Gavin Herlihy - Give Me A Funf (Original Mix)
5 - Polder - Frisky
6 - Terry Lee Brown Junior - Delightful Encounter (Terry's Deeplightful Edit)
7 - Ricardo Villalobos - Minimoonstar (Shackleton Remix)
8 - SIKK - Muezzin [Lutzenkirchen Remix]
9 - Kelis - Trick Me (Tiefschwarz Remix)
10 - Jimpster - Square Up (John Tejada Remix)
11 - Polder - Bondage

Buffalo Recordings Podcast

i've just set up a new podcast for my dj mixes/tracks and stuff, get signed up for it why dontcha.

find it here -

http://buffalorecordings.mypodcast.com/


joe