Nice, no more, no less. And no links, by way of warning: don't get hooked, let Mr Weller's marketing machine seek its own way to the money, via remixes and limited editions and the insiduous game of supply & demand and other permutations on that oh so nineties rhyme of exploiting yer stronghold of fans. 1991-2011: I've had it. Shame on you Weller.
What a dull book, "Nick Drake - the pink moon files" (Omnibus 2011-03-01, ISBN 9781849386586)! It's quite expensive, yet we don't even get a single illustration - not even a picture of any of the 19 original "Pink moon" fanzines which Jason Creed published between 1994 and 2000 … and which are recompiled here without any layout effort whatsoever. Shame on you, Omnibus! And why is it publishers are so lazy they never put the contents pages of their publications online? More interesting re: Nick Drake:
"A skin too few - the days of Nick Drake" (Jeroen Berkvens, 2002): 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5
"Nick Drake - a stranger among us" (Tim Clements, BBC 1999): 1 / 2 / 3 / 4
Michael Clark's company didn't just work to Bruce Gilbert's music obviously! Bolan, Bowie & Branca have been danced to, as well as Laibach, Pop & Reed, or the compositions of Jeffrey Hinton and Igor Stravinsky - see also here & there … But the most striking collaboration has probably been that between Michael Clark and the Fall …
"Windfall light - the visual language of ECM" (Lars Müller 2009-11, ISBN 9783037781579 in English, 9783037781975 auf Deutsch) features approx. 1300 illustrations from the archives of the Edition of Contemporary Music (ECM) record label (not just sleeve art). The book supersedes their "Sleeves of desire" (Lars Müller 1996-04, ISBN 9783906700854, also Princeton Architectural Press 1996-07, ISBN 9781568980645). The publisher's site is not at all handy (one of the most impractical ever, actually), so do use the More / Order drop down menu to have a look inside the book. Fans may also appreciate a gentle reminder re: "Horizons touched - the music of ECM" by Steve Lake & Paul Griffiths (Granta 2007-04-02, ISBN 9781862078802). Discovered via http://historyofourworld.wordpress.com/2010/11/10/windfall-light-the-visual-language-of-ecm/ ! And re: the music do read the background info … or the next post …
"Shadowplayers - The rise and fall of Factory Records" by James Nice (aka Neiss, founder of Les Temps Modernes aka LTM), with a foreword by Jon Savage, has been published by Aurum 2010-05-20 (hardback, ISBN 9781845135409). The book is a bit of a sequel to 2006's dvd.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/aug/14/document-eyewitness-neil-taylor-shadowplayers-james-nice
http://cerysmaticfactory.info/shadowplayers_the_rise_and_fall_of_factory_records.html
http://www.neworderonline.com/News/News.aspx?NewsID=1406
http://www.section25.com/2010/06/08/shadowplayers/
http://www.ltmrecordings.com/shadowplayersbook.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadowplayers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factory_Records
http://uzine.posterous.com/tag/factory
First there was one (ISBN 9781904772477, 2006-10), now there's two (ISBN 9780752853581, 2010-07) books on the history of Rough Trade (UK indie label + shop).
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00j4dx5
http://blackdogonline.com/music/rough-trade.html
http://www.orionbooks.co.uk/books/document-and-eyewitness-paperback
http://www.roughtrade.com/site/news_detail.lasso?story_id=1246
http://www.roughtrade.com/site/user_components/newsletters/solus_2/DOCUMENT_template1.0.html
http://www.roughtraderecords.com/news/3309/read-an-excerpt-of-document-and-eyewitness-an-intimate-history-of-rough-trade-in-the-times
http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/books/review-document-and-eyewitness-an-intimate-history-of-rough-trade-by-neil-taylor-2306366.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/aug/14/document-eyewitness-neil-taylor-shadowplayers-james-nice
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2006/nov/04/featuresreviews.guardianreview8
http://www.dummymag.com/features/2009/03/11/rough-trade-we-still-try-to-follow-our-hearts-/
http://www.southwestsound.org.uk/inc/files/JLandDL-SWS07.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Document_and_Eyewitness
