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Brilliant. Sounds like incidental music from series one of Auf Wiedersehen, Pet.

The Young Gods, September Song

Saw this last week. A great looking film. But some caveats for the potential viewer:

• narrative impetus is difficult to sustain in a near-silent animation
• Jacques Tati’s mime style antics don’t really translate well into a cartoon: pathos is lost. The Tatsischeff of the film as a result is slow, and it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say lugubrious. Unrelentingly so.

It’s good to have competition…

It’s good to have competition…

It’s good to have competition…

It’s good to have competition for many reasons. It means the market is healthy, it means our industry is growing, and it means that you have to be a complacency-free zone.

Being involved in search engine optimisation Scotland is fun for a lot of reasons: seeing tangible results, working with exciting blue-chip companies, and the general buzz of the office.

So it’s good to see that someone’s SEO company van is doing the rounds here on the banks of the bonnie River Clyde. Why an SEO needs a van with its own livery, I have no idea. But it’s cool.

Maybe we should do the same and get the Link Münki a fully decal’d up van so that he can further spread awareness of his diurnal linkage activities?

I was listening to BBC Radio 6 yesterday afternoon and by chance managed to catch the last half hour of an interview with Bill Drummond.

Drummond – the former Echo & The Bunnymen/Teardrops manager, KLFer and carbonizer of one million GBP – is fascinating to listen to:  the outlandishness of his ideas seeming at odds with his educated middle-class Scots accent. If you want an introduction to the mind of Drummond and an idea of just how outlandish his ideas can be, have a read at his books 45 and The 17.

Anyway, in this interview, Drummond mentioned a book I’d never heard of – Playpower by Richard Neville.  I think I’ll have to track down a copy – if it was an inspiration for the JAMMS/ KLF then it’s got to be worth a look.

This is my Factory top 10. Joy Division and New Order releases have been left out on account of obviousness.

1. A Certain Ratio – The Graveyard & The Ballroom [fact 16]

2. Royal family & The Poor – The Project Phase 2: We Love The Moon [fact 140]

3. Wim Mertens – Educes Me [fact 190c]

4. The Durutti Column – The Guitar & Other Machines [fact 204]

5. Stockholm Monsters – Alma Mater [fact 80]

6. Biting Tongues – Fevrhouse [fact 105]

7. The Wake – Harmony [fact 60]

8. The Wake - Here Comes Everybody [fact 130]

9. Thick Pigeon – untitled [fact 85]

10. Railway Children – reunion Wilderness [fact 185]

FCL HQ, Palatine Road, Withington.

This one’s for Link Munki.

Ruby was the band Lesley Rankine formed after Silverfish. And very good they are too.

Bertrand Tavernier’s La Mort En Direct (Death in Full View) – probably the best Franco-German-British SciFi film shot in Glasgow, ever. Tavernier’s L.627 is also well worth a look.