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My, it’s been quiet around here, hasn’t it? I have plans for this place, of which more another time, but I wanted to post about music. Just because I can.

First, the Rocking Vicar has put up The The Greatest Piece Of Music Television Ever, a slice of Otis Redding performing - LIVE! - on Ready Steady Go in 1965. If you have any interest in music, and any sense for how dramatic a year 1965 was, you need to watch this video. Awesome.

Second, last night I paid my first visit to Vince Power’s Pigalle Club in London, a “dining club with live music”. I’ve never eaten and watched music before, and a fine thing it was too. What was particularly fine was the music, as provided by Nouvelle Vague. If you don’t know them, they’re a bunch of French counter-culturalists, DJs and musicians whose stock in trade is bossa nova and torchlight versions of English new wave classics. Their encore? Bela Lugosi’s Dead. With two of the three vocalists pretending to be dead on stage. Unmissable.

Third, if you haven’t bought She Wants Revenge’s album, and you like Joy Division, you should.

Thank you and good night.