Mr Suicide

In memory of my band The Good Hurt splitting up I searched for some iconic Greek imagery to commemorate it.
This is much better – it’s Mr Suicide. Stick him in your bath tub and when you are done pull his lifeless plastic body out and watch the dirty water dissapear.
Allet.

All Together Now

A blogworthy week of music events in the lead up to the Flying Mountain Extravaganza gig on Friday 22nd June at the Green Room Manchester…………with The Good Hurt as the house band.
Monday 18th June
Get a text from rapper Brother Ghazi that’s he’s pulling out of the show on Friday because he’s seeing family in Liverpool. [...]

Planet of the Apes 4Brains

Recently I undertook a one-off concert with my band The Good Hurt where we themed the visual side of the show on the movie The Planet of the Apes. By that I mean we dressed up in white boiler suits and had a French VJ (Emmanuelle) broadcast and remix the original movie onto our clothes [...]

The Good Hurt

Kick This Habit of You
My new band The Good Hurt was formed in Manchester late in 2006. We’re now playing live in the NW England and it is about time that I dropped a little blog about how the band got together and who is in it and all o’ that.
I was wanting to get [...]

100 Fields – Each One Was a Jewel

100 Fields
If ever I did a Zeitgeist Orchestra recording without knowing it fully at the time then it was definitely ‘100 Fields’. This record is now available (hear some) but here’s my story of where, who, what and why…
Somehow, somewhere I was drawn to black gospel music as manifest in America during a time where [...]

VIDEO : Bismillah Khan the great Shennai player dies

I got a phone call yesterday from Greece to tell me that the great Shennai player from India, Ustad Bismillah Khan, had died of a heart attack. His health had been bad for a while and his playing had naturally reached it’s peak a few years ago.
The gentle genius of Bismillah Khan is perhaps single [...]

VIDEO : HLI+Drongomala Sat12thAug – Birmingham

Footage links below to the recent gig by HLI and Drongomala at the Rainbow, Digbeth in Birmingham. Footage has a blend of daytime messing around aswell. This was a fundraiser for earthquake victims. Camcorder quality sound…..H(B)ollywood please call.
Filmed by MiMi and edited by AntKnee
Part 1 – hanging out and rehearsing
Part 2 – ElectroRaga
Part 3 – [...]

Newspaper Article: When Hoodies Attack (ElectroRaga)

southmancreporter-electroraga attack
Originally uploaded by drongomala.
One of the local newspapers caught on to our little drama at the ElectroRaga dawn gig in Chorlton, Manchester.
Feel free to leave comments on their site….already the rights and wrongs of what we did is being debated….
The article is replete with misquotes and made up bits – [...]

ElectroRaga VIDEO : Malkauns (midnight) 23/7/06 Red Light Area, Manchester

Malkauns is a dark brooding raga. PLayed late night. (see my article ‘Robert Johnson, The Cross Roads and Malkauns)
This gig like the rest wasn’t agreed…..thing is it wasn’t the authorities we were worried about it was the lawless…..this one was in the red light district of Manchester. Watch out for a cameo by Mick Jagger.

ElectroRaga VIDEO : Yaman-Kalyan (evening) 22/07/06 St Anns Square

Yaman Kalyan is an evening raga. We conspired to slip into St Ann’s square and quickly setup as we didn’t have permission to play. We hadn’t counted on the security guards for the stalls nearby – our generator was freaking them out as a fire hazard and me out becuase it wasn’t in the [...]