Tag Archives: lol creme

school’s out: very blue notes

Posted on March 16, 2012 by Dave

Its always been acknowledged that there are intrinsic qualities to the study of music. But to go to school and make a career of it has always been a questionable decision. The precarity of employment juxtaposed with the liberty of … Continue reading →

Posted in Shake Your Hips | Tagged ash sloan, Donald Kuspit, Jacques-Louis David, Joseph Schumpeter, lol creme, madame pickwick art blog, Maimonides, steven lipson, The Producers Music Group, trevor horn | Leave a comment

senior showtime

Posted on March 12, 2012 by Dave

Paul Hamilton: SENIOR SHOWTIME High Wycombe is a satellite town of London and it was there, at Bucks New University’s Students Union building on Thursday 8th March 2012, Producers played the last of their nationwide sprint of college gigs. The … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Music/Composition/Performance | Tagged ash soan, David Bowie, Godley & Creme, grace jones, graham gouldman, lol creme, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, paul hamilton, paul hamilton bisonics, ronnie corbett, steve lipson, The Producers Music Group, trevor horn | Leave a comment

buggles on basing street

Posted on March 10, 2012 by Dave

by Paul Hamilton ( http://www.bisonics.net ) Trevor Horn makes for a diffident, somewhat baffled front man. Looking like Ronnie Corbett with an ice cream on his head, he engages with the audience like a slightly mad old uncle who’s walked … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Music/Composition/Performance | Tagged anthony newley, ash soan, David Bowie, Kate Bush, lol creme, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, paul hamilton, paul hamilton bisonics, ronnie corbett, Stanley Kubrick, steve lipson, The Producers, The Producers Music Group, trevor horn | Leave a comment

the bark and the sound bite: back to marciano

Posted on March 10, 2012 by Dave

by Paul Hamilton ( see full links at bottom): SENIOR SHOWTIME High Wycombe is a satellite town of London and it was there, at Bucks New University’s Students Union building on Thursday 8th March 2012, Producers played the last of … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Music/Composition/Performance | Tagged 10cc, ash soan, Bucks New University Students Union, Frank Sinatra, GG/06, Godley & Creme, grace jones, graham gouldman, kevin godley, lol creme, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, paul hamilton, paul hamilton bisonics, steve lipson, The Producers, trevor horn | Leave a comment

“all one needs is to be able to see”

Posted on February 28, 2012 by Dave

It does appear to be beyond nominal doubt that the team of Craig Braun and Tom Wilkes pilfered to a large degree the work of Lol Creme and Kevin Godley for the Alice Cooper album School’s Out. The former’s Hotlegs … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged alice cooper, Andre Breton, boris lurie, Craig Braun, GG/06, graham gouldman, Hotlegs group, karen levine, kevin godley, lol creme, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Tom Wilkes, Walter Benjamin, Wilkes & Braun, Yves Tanguay | Leave a comment

park it on the parthenon: bonds & byzantium

Posted on February 25, 2012 by Dave

Its an object of blame for a crisis that it is not to be blamed for. This idea of north and south is an excuse for invidious comparison: the industrious, virtuous, thrifty north and their slightly darker Mediterranean neighbors to … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged European Central Bank, greece exit eurozone, Greek debt crisis, james rickards, James rickards greece, katerina kitidi, lol creme, Lord Byron, Lord Byron greece, lord frederick leighton, mark blyth, mark blyth brown university, megan greene greece, Roubini global economics, trevor horn, yiannis kotsiras | Leave a comment

11th commandment

Posted on November 21, 2011 by Dave

Excerpt from interview in the Idler, from Paul Hamilton: Kevin Godley: You know, the key to the writing process is finding your way in, bringing the stuff that’s in peripheral hearing into focus. You’re always aiming to get inside the … Continue reading →

Posted in Shake Your Hips | Tagged 10cc, gg2006, godley and Creme, graham gouldman, kevin godley, lol creme, paul hamilton | Leave a comment

when they were fab

Posted on November 3, 2011 by Dave

The optical unconscious.The truth shoppers would have to parse through all the footage to strip away the false consciousness maintained under the neo-liberal economic model with regard to video and film. Cult values and elements of the ritual predominate and … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged Charlie Chaplin, George Harrison, godley and Creme, kevin godley, lol creme, richard kazis, The Beatles, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

business is business

Posted on November 3, 2011 by Dave

….Courtesy of Brainiac Paul Hamilton: 1st of November 1979: BBC Radio 1, a Saturday afternoon magazine show called ‘Rock On’ (WOOO!), and Kevin Godley & Lol Creme are discussing their new LP ‘Freeze Frame’ with host Richard Skinner. Some excepts. … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Music/Composition/Performance | Tagged Donald Kuspit, gary tibbs, gerard scarfe, Hilton Kramer, kevin godley, lol creme, neil sedaka, Piet Mondrian, richard skinner BBC, Wassily Kandinsky | Leave a comment

2.5cc… 5cc… going going…gone

Posted on October 26, 2011 by Dave

And old interview dug up on Godley and Creme. The issues they raised thirty-plus years ago are more relevant than ever. They may not be “right” but their views represented here are honest to themselves. It does reflect on the … Continue reading →