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Welcome to Weird and Wacky Steubenville, OH

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He had never seen a sky so vast and ashen with empty fury; had never heard such dire ceaseless rumblings and deafening wails. It was as if misery, the most human of states, had taken on the dimensions of an existence apart from humanity; for it was not any sense of human misery he perceived here, nor any misery of the heavens — there were no heavens — but rather a misery of the elements themselves, of the earth and the coal-fires and the dampness of the air.

Well, hot damn. Those lines, smoking with all that hellfire and brimstone, belong to one of America’s best working wordsmiths, Nick Tosches. Here, the famed punk rock writer (well known for saying modern rock ‘n roll was about as exciting as Paul Shaffer’s bald spot) is sitting behind the eyeballs of an off-the-boat Italian immigrant at the shallow end of the 20th century getting his first look at Steubenville, Ohio. The passage is out of Dino, Tosches’ 1992 biography of Dean Martin, the famed first son of that inauspicious rust belt burg on the very eastern edge of the state’s midsection. The book spends its early chapters hanging around the town, offering up tidbits on the historical relevance of a place that, like so many smaller Ohio cities that could once flex their own economic muscle, today is little more than a footnote in the bios of the people who got out.

But now, for those of us who thought Steubenville had long ago slipped the banks of the Whateveritis River, Governor John Kasich has thoughtfully found a way to remind us the city is still there — gutted and boarded, the foundries cold, and sporting an average income of $26,516, but standing still.

Today, in an unorthodox move, the governor will deliver his second State of the State address at Wells Academy in Steubenville. This is the first time the address will be given outside Columbus. The move has more than one state legislator grumbling. Kasich, usually so careful to listen to the concerns and cares of others, has been deaf to all complaint, maintaining he wants to throw a little spotlight-love at the top-ranked elementary school in the state.

With Steubenville getting so much attention today in the statewide news-cycle, we decided to jump into the town’s history and drag to light the oddball facts. Turns out, it’s not all Tosches’ visions of industrial hell. We’ve broken down the notables into easily digestible water-cooler factoids. The art we were hoping to mangle together proved to be too ambitious for Photoshop, so just close your eyes and image Ol’ Dirty Bastard and Dean Martin shooting craps in a backroom casino, while porn queen Traci Lords teaches a group of bruiser cops to slow dance to the remnants of the Minutemen jamming out the back catalog. Welcome to Steubenville . . .

Iron: This was the industrial Big Mama back in the day for Steubenville, that all-hours, coal-chugging shop keeping the city on its feet and then some. For you young folk, an iron works is like a software company, expect the only algorithm you need to wrap your head around to work there is shoveling + 14 hours shifts + black lung = America. The iron industry is the main reason Italian immigrants flooded Steubenville from 1900 onward. By that year, the city’s steel production was the highest in the state.

Dean Martin: These smooth pipes belted out their first lungful of air on June 7, 1917, when Dino Paul Crocetti came wailing into the world. The son of Italian immigrants brought to Steubenville by the promise of coal jobs, Martin’s early years were filled with idle singing and skirt chasing, according to Tosches’ account. Martin eventually skipped out for the big city — Cleveland. In our fair land, he lived on Mayfield Road, chased more skirt through the ballrooms of long-gone downtown hotels, and mingled with the East Side criminal element, all before heading to NYC and an enviable career being drunk on national television.

Gambling: Before the Mob set up shop in Las Vegas after WWII, Steubenville was one of organized crime’s largest hubs for games of chance. Operating with a wink-wink from local police and politicos, a regular system of gambling was run in the the back rooms of clubs and restaurants. When the bosses shifted their gaming interests to the desert, the operators of new Vegas casinos dredged Steubenville for talented table workers; the first couple generations of Vegas dealers, pit bosses and backroom guys were all from Steubenville. The area’s industry eventually died out against the glam of Nevada. See, even back in the 50s, the smart money knew people would rather opt to go west for gambling than sit in a room in Ohio pulling slots . . . hmmm . . .

Traci Lords: The porno video vixen — who basically single-handedly (ha.) brought the industry to its knees (again. jesus, we’re on a role) when it was revealed in the mid-80s that the Ohio girl who hotfooted to California and away from an abusive home life was actually not technically strictly-speaking 18-year-old yet when she posed for skin mags like Penhouse and starred in more than a hundred adult films, a revelations that landed a lot of producers and co-stars in the legal hot seat, not to mention occasioned an industry-wide crack down by the federal government, but still allowed the star to springboard into a mainstream career in B movies — was born in Steubenville in 1968. Police Brutality: Back in the 80s and 90s, Steubenville wasn’t the place to get mouthy at a traffic stop. Sure, those weren’t really the heyday for civil rights at a lot of police departments, but the Ohio city was unique. Over 20 years, the city was forced to pony up in 48 civil rights lawsuits alleging police misconduct and brutality. Between 1990 and 1996 alone, the town handed over $400,000 in settlement money, says Wikipedia. Things got so bad, the Department of Justice stepped in and forced the Steubenville PD to sign a consent agreement that re-organized how officers were trained and observed — only the second police force in the country to do so at the time.

Ed Crawford: For music nerds, this guy is a savior. Born and raised in Steubenville, Crawford headed to Ohio State University, where, like a lot of other dorm room dorks, he became completely wrapped up in the music of California-based post-punk gods, The Minutemen. When the three-piece’s frontman D. Boon was killed at 27 in a car accident, a heartbroken and 22-year-old Crawford hopped in a car and drove from Ohio to San Pedro to console remaining members, Mike Watt and George Hurley. He eventually offered to front a new band with the pair, putting back to work the best rhythm section ever caught on vinyl. The result was fIREHOSE, a steady presence on 90s college radio.

Population Decline: Sad to say, the last 30 years haven’t been kind to S-ville. Between 1980 to 2000, the metro area’s population nose dived quicker than any other region in the entire country.

Wu-Tang Clan: Hip-hop’s only bizarro ninja crew has many links to the area, mostly thanks to RZA, who was born here. At the height of their celebrity, the Clan members had a “compound” in the area and were affiliated with a lot of (horrible) rap groups coming off the by-then very mean streets of Steubenville. But according to recently released FBI files, those links often had more to do with gang loyalty than musical taste. The group, which was monitored by the feds for years, was allegedly involved in gun-running activities, drug sales, and occasional hits; many of those alleged offenses led back to Steubenville.

That wraps up out guide to the history of Steubenville. We’ll let Ed and fIREHOSE take it from here . . .

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Dark fashion inspired by ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’s’ Lisbeth Salander – The Independent Florida Alligator: If The Choo Fits

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The Millennium Trilogy books by Stieg Larsson have capturedreaders all over the world. With film versions like the recentHollywood rendition of “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,” directedby David Fincher, and the original Swedish version “Man som hatarkvinnor,” directed by Niels Arden Oplev, the crime fiction series’sales have grown even more.

The universally accepted idea is that books are always better.While that is a bit true for these movies in terms of story —visually, they are incredible. The actresses Noomi Rapace (Swedishversion) and Rooney Mara (Hollywood version) both underwent extremetransformation to play the strong, androgynous vigilante LisbethSalander.

I am completely obsessed with Lisbeth. She is definitely one ofthe most inspiring female characters to ever hit literature and nowtheaters. Her style is definitely a reflection of her character:punk, strong and unforgiving.

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I think everyone should have a dark edge to his or her wardrobe.I’m not saying to cut your hair into a mohawk, bleach your eyebrowsto match the color of your skin and wear lots and lots of leather,but if you do, I will have some mad, mad respect for you.

Trish Summerville, the costume director for the American movie,debuted an H&M line in December that was based off the designsshe made for the character in the film. However, it is now longgone. Some of those pieces are on eBay, so you can buy some realLisbeth duds, but you’ll have to pay four times the originalprice.

But I can show you ways to take elements from Lisbeth’s look andfind them in everyday, inexpensive items to give your own look thatmuch-needed subtle edginess. And edgy can definitely make adifference without trying too hard.

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A leather jacket is one of those staples for every wardrobe-sowhen you get one, (or another one) get one with a biker style, likethis one from Forever 21. It has a jersey material on the sleeves,which gives it some masculinity — an element that plays intoLisbeth’s androgynous style.

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Black or grey boots with buckles or lace-ups are excellent formaking any look appear polished or more expensive. You can findedgy, inexpensive boots at Macy’s, ALDO (like the one from above)and more. Lisbeth wears a lot of distressed clothing — things likeacid-washed jeans and rips and tears held together by safety pins —but her boots make those wear-and-tear jackets and tees look readyto go.

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Speaking of distressed, literally everyone has t-shirts and tanktops. They’re simple and workable, so how about grabbing darkdistressed versions? Stores like Urban Outfitters sell a ton ofasymmetrical designs that appear used and vintage, which is perfectfor this look.

Skinny pants in leather and denim in acid wash should also dothe trick. These should be really unique pieces, since these arebasics in many people’s wardrobes, but small details will reallyspice up your outfit.

This is one of Trish Summerville’s designs, which is probably onEbay, but you can find similar ones on Urban Outfitters.

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Lisbeth has a lot of piercings: nose, lips, eyebrows and evenher nipples. The really cool ones are the tribal-style gaugeearrings worn in the Hollywood version of the film. They aredefinitely bold fashion statements. The really cool thing is thatyou don’t actually have to go and get your ear lobes enlarged, youcan buy faux gauges. Hot Topic, ebay and Etsy have loads of them.When searching, type in tribal-style fake gauges, and you’ll begood to go.

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Here is an example of how a faux gauge would look:

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The cherry on top of the punk-driven style is definitely themakeup and hair. Makeup can be relatively simple when applying:keep a shaky hand, some unevenness will bring some drama to thelook. Also, dark eye shadow could oomph up the drama but try not tomake it too girly. I think one of the great things about Lisbeth isthat she has this balance of masculinity and femininity. It’soptional to wear lipstick with a dark base, like a plum or a redwith a black base.

Rapace’s Lisbeth has eyeliner is heavily applied with some eyeshadow along to it.

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For the hair, think dramatic. You can do heavy bangs, manylayers, teased sections here and there and lots of hairspray!Lisbeth’s hair is definitely very rock ‘n’ roll and YouTube is justteeming with DIY videos. Here is one of the many on how to make afaux-hawk with your hair — no scissors or shaving required.

All of theses items mentioned above do not necessarily have tobe worn all together (it would look fantastic though), but it canbe just a little add-on to your current everyday outfit. One littlechange can make a HUGE difference.

Let’s use Rooney as an example. She already has her harshhairstyle from the film, so she definitely had to work around it.Her style, prior to her Lisbeth stage, was girly and flowy. So forred carpets, she wears girly dresses, but her edgy hairstyle andmakeup totally vamped up the looks. One hairstyle and a bit of darkmakeup took a simple, white Givenchy gown and made it look rock ‘n’roll ready.

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This sundress is given a punk edge with the leather-studdedbiker jacket. Throwing on one garment turned the girl-next-doorlook into girl with a possible tattoo.

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So now that you have an idea on how to bring dark, edgy, punkelements into your wardrobe with some simple changes, you are readyto take on the world, Lisbeth style. Next time you want to feeledgy, just think what Lisbeth would do, and the inspiration willcome — what a way to look curved-edge while living thestraight-edged life.

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Inside The Last Surviving Punk Rock Boutique In New York City

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Trash and Vaudeville, a legendary store in New York’s East Village, has been a shrine to rock and roll fashion for almost 40 years. They put the Ramones in those skintight black jeans, and helped Madonna’s stylists put together her Super Bowl look.

While every other store that sold Dr Martens boots and screen-printed band t-shirts succumbed to the brutal combination of New York real estate prices and changing tastes, Trash and Vaudeville became the only place you could find Beatle boots, that Kurt Cobain shirt and the Slash hat, under the same roof. “It’s a major compliment to be the only one left,” store manager Jimmy Webb told us during a recent visit.

Opposite the store’s changing rooms, a series of customers examined themselves in a vast, floor-to-ceiling mirror. When a portly German tourist wearing a cravat and a waistcoat strutted up and posed in front of the mirror in a dramatic black frock coat and a top hat, Jimmy told him, “You look awesome. But the shape of the hat is not good. I want to see you in the ‘Slash’ hat.” Jimmy’s remarkable eye for what works helped make the store indispensable to stylists and designers. 

Wiry, energetic and wrapped in leather, denim and clanking silver bracelets, Jimmy is fast becoming a New York legend. “I wandered in here when I was like 16 and I just fell in love with the place; a lot of people still do,” says Jimmy, perched on a wooden crate set in front of the store’s floor-to-ceiling mirror. “Many, many years later, after being a customer and living your classic New York City runaway life, I really wanted to work here.”

Jimmy says the feeling he got when he first walked into the store in 1975 was the feeling that kept people coming. “You have to be that piece of New York history, that little destination, that little Mecca,” he said. “That’s what keeps it going.” It doesn’t matter that teenybopper chain store Hot Topic sells bondage pants or the New York Dolls classic striped shirt, he said. “It’s been hanging here and selling here with its authenticity for 33 years. You smell it, the history in the walls.”

Trash and Vaudeville had a very authentic start as a Jersey City head shop and clothing store in 1972. Owner Ray Goodman was still in high school, and the original store lasted just six months, but the seeds were sewn. Three years later, Goodman took over a hippy boutique, Limbo, on St Mark’s Place. “Behind all of this was my love for rock and roll,” said Goodman in a phone conversation. “ I [thought] ‘I’ve got to figure out how to stay part of the scene.’”

Goodman fondly remembers a picture of Mick Jones from British punk band The Clash, leaning against a lamppost in St Mark’s place, clutching a bag from Trash and Vaudeville. And there was the time Bruce Springsteen came in and bought a vintage pink and black plaid shirt off Goodman’s back. It ended up on the cover of ‘The River’ album. “From early on we started developing a clientele for entertainment people, of music people,” said Goodman. “All these people I admired were coming in as my customers.”

Even when styles fell out of fashion everywhere else, Goodman saw demand and kept them in stock. When designers stopped making these things, he took over, manufacturing pink and black plaid men’s shirts, and those iconic, unrelentingly tight black jeans. The operation evolved into Tripp, a fashion label that sells around the world, run by Goodman’s wife Daang.

For the first 15 years, everything was made within a 10-mile radius of the store, in factories in Chinatown, Brooklyn and New Jersey. Then the factories started closing down and prices started soaring. “It got so expensive that our market couldn’t afford what we were making for them anymore,” says Goodman.

He had to chose between price hikes that would put the clothes they made way out of the reach of the never-ending throng of 18-year-olds who had kept the store going for decades, or move production to China. Goodman decided to do whatever it took to keep the kids coming. “I understand that 18-year-old kid. I understand that kid’s mentality,” says Goodman. “I was that kid.”

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Punk Rock Bowling fest reveals first five bands – Las Vegas Weekly

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Punk Rock Bowling has announced the first chunk of its 2012 lineup, and it appears this year’s Las Vegas festival will have a definite California flavor.

Rancid, NOFX and Pennywise—promoted as the “the three heaviest hitters on the West Coast” on the event’s official website—will perform Downtown from May 25-28, along with British band The Adicts and Seattle’s The Briefs. The site promises more bands will be announced “soon,” along with ticket details.

For the second straight year, Punk Rock Bowling will run from Saturday-Monday on an outdoor stage on 6th Street just south of Fremont, augmented by late-night club shows Friday-Sunday. A press release promises eight bands per day outdoors and four late-night shows per night, for a total of 60-plus acts.

The 2011 festival featured headliners Dropkick Murphys, the Descendents and Cock Sparrer, The Undertones, Stiff Little Fingers, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Bouncing Souls, Manic Hispanic, All and more.

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Though the Yonder Mountain String Band does play traditional bluegrass instruments, bluegrass is just a part of the Colorado quartet’s musical makeup. For instance, country, rock, punk rock, pop and bluegrass all run through the band’s 2009 album, The Show.

Singer-banjo player Dave Johnston sees bluegrass as a logical foundation for the band’s diversity.

“Bluegrass evokes rural Romantic ideas,” he said. “But it probably was ahead of its time, pushing against the boundaries of blues and country. It’s a very malleable musical form. It can take a beating and hand out a beating. It’s a powerful American idiom, direct and to the point.”

Yonder Mountain String Band singer-guitarist Adam Aijala hears a connection between bluegrass and punk rock. Like punk, bluegrass songs tend to be short and energetic.

“That’s part of why I like it,” he said. “And it’s American music that people all over the world like. There are bluegrass festivals in Australia, the Czech Republic, Japan.”

The members of the band discovered bluegrass well after they’d found their various other influences.

“None of us grew up listening to bluegrass but we wanted to be a bluegrass band,” Johnston said. “Because of all our influences, the sound is what it is.”

Adding to the band’s artistic range, its self-titled 2006 album and The Show were each guided by A-list rock producer Tom Rothrock (Foo Fighters, Beck, Elliott Smith). Rothrock contributed an outsider’s objectivity plus volumes of studio expertise to the mix.

“We, the four of us, tend to carry on,” Aijala said. “It was kind of nice to have a fifth person shepherd us. Tom is really knowledgeable when it comes to sound and, for being as a hard worker as he is, he’s very chill.”

Another editing process for Yonder Mountain String Band music exists between songwriting partners Aijala and Johnston.

“We edit each other and bounce ideas off each other well,” Aijala said. “It’s always good to have somebody else’s radar saying, ‘Naw, it doesn’t work,’ or, ‘that’s great.’ ”

The members of Yonder Mountain, all of them from Massachusetts and Illinois, moved to Boulder, Colo., in the 1990s to be part of the area’s acoustic music scene. Finding what they were looking for, they formed the Yonder Mountain String Band in 1998.

The group has since become a prolific touring unit, appearing at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, Austin City Limits Festival, Bonnaroo and Colorado’s Red Rocks Amphitheatre. Other high-profile gigs include being opening act for presidential candidate Barack Obama at the Democratic National Convention in Denver.

Performing so often promotes the band’s artistic progress.

“We’re constantly evolving,” Aijala said. “We hone our skills as a band and individually on stage. And our influences are always growing because a lot of new bands have come out since we started and we keep discovering older bands.”

“You always have your ears open for little bits and pieces,” Johnston agreed. “The band’s best stuff is the stuff we just put out. There aren’t many careers that provide that sort of opportunity, where you can always work on your projects, our songs and playing and singing. And then you find really great people who help and facilitate.”

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Welsh Velvet Underground founder sues Andy Warhol Foundation to protect the band’s iconic banana ‘trademark’

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IN THE early 1960s Welsh pianist John Cale left his Carmarthenshire home for New York, met Lou Reed and formed the Velvet Underground, one of the most influential bands in rock history.

Now, almost 40 years later, Cale has again joined with his former bandmate Reed to launch a law suit against the estate of avant garde artist and pop impresario Andy Warhol who took “the Velvets” under his wing in his famous New York Factory studio.

The legal action launched in New York this week aims to stop the famous Andy Warhol-designed banana which was used on the front cover of the 1967 album The Velvet Underground and Nico from being used on covers for Apple iPads and iPhones.

In a writ, Reed and John Cale, on behalf of the Velvet Underground, accuse the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts of trademark infringement, claiming the iconic banana album design – with “Peel slowly and see” printed near the tip – was synonymous with their work.

Reed, famous for his hit Walk on the Wild Side, and Garnant, Ammanford-born Cale, now 69, launched the lawsuit after reading newspaper reports claiming the foundation had agreed to license the banana image for a series of cases, sleeves and bags planned for Apple Inc’s iPhone and iPad.

Apple is not named as a defendant in the civil case filed in the Manhattan federal court on Wednesday.

Warhol was the manager of the Velvet Underground and the experimental band performed regularly at his raucous studio, The Factory and did early gigs at New York’s Cafe Bizarre.

Cale was a talented child pianist who left Goldsmiths College to continue his music training in New York in 1963 before forming The Velvet Underground with Brooklyn-born Lou Reed the following year.

The group broke up in 1973, but its work later came to be regarded as the early influence for punk and other genres.

Artists who have acknowledged their influence include David Bowie, R.E.M., Siouxsie and the Banshees, Roxy Music, Beck, The Fall, Pixies, Can, Kraftwerk, Nirvana and Joy Division.

All four of their albums were included in Rolling Stone magazine’s list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.

The Velvet Underground & Nico (the German singer) was recorded in 1967, a year when Martin Luther King was denouncing the Vietnam War, the Doors produced their debut album and A Fistful of Dollars starring Clint Eastwood became the first significant Spaghetti Western.

The album’s 11 songs showcased their dynamic range, veering from the pounding I’m Waiting for the Man, the droning Venus in Furs and Heroin, plus Warhol’s own favourite, All Tomorrow’s Parties.

Warhol selected the banana for use alongside his signature on the cover of the album and a result, the design, which was never officially copyrighted, “became a symbol, truly an icon, of the Velvet Underground” for a quarter of a century, the lawsuit says.

It adds: “The symbol has become so identified with the Velvet Underground … that members of the public, particularly those who listen to rock music, immediately recognise the banana design as the symbol of the Velvet Underground.”

Legal papers issued this week also claim the band had repeatedly asked the foundation to stop licensing the banana design to third parties “in a manner likely to cause confusion or mistake as to the association of Velvet Underground with the goods sold in commerce by such third parties”.

The Velvet Underground is demanding an injunction preventing the use of the banana design by third parties, a declaration that the Andy Warhol Foundation has no copyright interest in the design, unspecified damages, and a share of the profits made by the foundation from any licensing deals.

The foundation has declined to comment on the legal action.

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Super-fan puts together charity album

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Jan 29 2012 by Peter Leathley, Sunday Sun

SUPER-FAN Paul Williams has enlisted the help of music stars for a special tribute album.

The dad-of-five has put together a charity album featuring more than 30 modern artists covering tracks by his favourite band The Specials.

Fine Young Cannibals star Roland Gift and Lee Thompson of Madness are among those who have contributed to the double album which will raise funds for the Teenage Cancer Trust.

Paul, of Darlington, County Durham, is The Specials official biographer and a friend of the ska band, who enjoyed seven consecutive Top Ten hits in the late 70s and 80s.

The 45-year-old also runs the official fans website thespecials2.com and is currently working with The Specials guitarist Lynval Golding on his memoirs.

He said: “I am a massive fan of The Specials. I worked with the band on their last tour and I am also their biographer and wrote the book, You’re Wondering Now, which was published in 2009.

“It was their 30th anniversary in 2009 and they did a tour and it was clear there are still so many Specials fans out there.”

At the end of the tour Paul organised a party for thousands of fans at Alexandra Palace where members of The Specials DJ’d as well as TV presenter Mark Lamarr.

“The tour finished at the end of last year and I thought what can we do next,” said Paul. “I came up with the idea of the album where artists could cover Specials tracks in their own styles so it’s not all ska, it’s folk, indie rock, punk, mod, etc.

“The band themselves support the Teenage Cancer Trust so I thought it would be good to raise money for the charity. People I know have suffered from cancer as teenagers.”

The album will be released in February followed by a worldwide tour taking in dates in America, Australia and the UK.

Paul is also keen to hold a charity gig in the North East but has met opposition from venue owners. “They are not prepared to waive the room hire fee even though it’s for charity,”, he said.

For more information on the album visit specializedcharityalbum.co.uk.

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Disney’s Joy Division shirt: Peter Hook ‘appreciates the irony’

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It turns out that the question of licensing the album’s pulse-wave imagery doesn’t apply here. The original image, a diagram of waves from the first known pulsar recording published in the Cambridge Encyclopedia of Astronomy, is in the public domain.

The “Unknown Pleasures” album art didn’t include any other identifying information on the front cover, so it’s a rare occasion of an instantly recognizable cover that anyone is, essentially, free to repurpose. The Disney shirt, while claiming to have been inspired by Joy Division, doesn’t use the band’s name on the item, so there’s not much the band could even do to contest it (even if the branding wisdom of Disney appropriating an image associated with a rock band defined by sonic bleakness and its young singer’s suicide is debatable).

Hook, who was clearly amused to field questions about this incident while in the middle of a day of writing for an upcoming Joy Division biography, is inclined to take the allusion as proof that the band’s musical legacy (and the beloved graphic design work of Factory Records’ Peter Saville) remains potent, even if the band never set out to be brand-able.

“When Joy Division began, we didn’t believe in doing promotion. We didn’t do shirts, because we thought that cheapened the music. When you’re young and idealistic, something like this would bother you," he said. “But in old age, you can appreciate the irony.”

Of course, the band’s other album art and music are thoroughly copyrighted, and Hook says he casually polices the market for the more flagrant Joy Division bootlegs, usually asking the infringer only for a donation to an epilepsy charity (the band's singer, Ian Curtis, suffered debilitating seizures).

But this, the unexpected use of Joy Division imagery by Disney, comes at a time when Hook is deeply involved in re-assessing the band’s career. Hook (who is on famously  bad terms with the remaining members of Joy Division and New Order, the band formed by JD's surviving members after Curtis' suicide in 1980) recently came off a tour where he and his band the Light performed Joy Division’s two albums (the other being 1980’s “Closer”) start to finish.

For all the tragedy associated with Joy Division, Hook said his years in that band were some of the most optimisic of his musical life, and he welcomed the chance to revisit them and perform from those records.

And if that look backward includes an accidental Disney cross-promotion? Well, he’ll take it as an implicit salute from a company that knows from impactful images.

“Before New Order split up in 2006, it felt OK to ignore Joy Division, and we did,” he said. “But as soon as we split, I thought, ‘Why not celebrate it?’ They were planning a celebration of Ian’s life in his hometown of Macclesfield, and we never really played from ‘Closer’ because of Ian's death. I really enjoyed playing those songs again; Joy Division was such an enjoyable time as a young man. We were very strong musically, and only Ian’s illness brought us down. But he was really enthusiastic and we all wanted the band to succeed. And if old Walt Disney gives a few more young people a chance to discover and listen to that music, well, that’s very flattering.”

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Photo: Bassist Peter Hook, foreground, and Bernard Sumner of New Order at the Area:One music festival in San Bernardino in 2001. Credit: Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times.

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January 28-February 3: Including a Delius celebration

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The Transistors/Bernie Griffen & the Grifters, Recorded Live at Roundhead Studios (95bFM, 11.00am and Friday, 2.00pm). Rangiora High School was the incubator for three-piece punk band the Transistors. On their biggest day to date, they performed five separate gigs in Christ­church and were issued with a $500 fine by the city council after 20 people complained about the noise generated by the show their show on the roof of High St’s Cosmic Corner shop. The neighbours don’t need to worry about future noise problems: Cosmic Corner collapsed in the June 13 earthquake last year. Auckland’s “Swampy, country, bluesy” singer Bernie Griffen has something most of the other characters on this show don’t have – about three decades. He’s a somewhat lived-in muso whose life experiences have been the springboard for many a hurtin’ song, played here with his band the Grifters.

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Delius Day: In a Summer Garden (Radio New Zealand Concert, 10.00am). To mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of Frederick Delius, RNZ Concert presents two programmes about the English composer, who was born in 1862 and died in 1934. Delius was born into a wealthy family of German stock who wanted their Freddie to be a businessman, so they sent him off to Florida to run an orange orchard. But Delius wasn’t meant for such things, and instead of managing, he spent his time listening to the songs of the black plantation workers. He decided he wanted to be a composer and moved to Paris, where he remained for the rest of his life. In In a Summer Garden, Jon Tolansky visits the composer’s last home, in the French village of Grez-sur-Loing. He talks to the current owner and staff who maintain the garden in Delius’s memory and plays some of the music inspired there. (See also Sunday, 2.00pm.)

Spectrum (Radio New Zealand National, 12.15pm). Never one to relish a desk job, travellin’ man David Steemson is out and about once again looking at the things that make the Auckland region the place it is. In Rotoroa, No Longer an Island Apart, he prises open the lid on one of our more mysterious Hauraki Gulf islands. Until recently, you would only have the pleasure of visit­ing if you were part of the Salvation Army’s alcohol and drug programme, which was based here, but these days the only cold turkeys you’ll find will be holidaymakers that have spent too long in the sea. Thanks to $30 million and Neal and Annette Plowman, Rotoroa is now open to visitors. Steemson hops on a boat and meets Phil and Ginette Salisbury, who manage the island, and Barrie Brown, who chairs the Rotoroa Island Trust.

The Sunday Feature (Radio New Zealand Concert, 2.00pm). Delius Day continues with Frederick Delius’s Magnificent Dance of Life and Death, in which Emanuel Garcia and Simon Romanos look at the effects of Delius’s final illness (syphilis) and the roles played by his devoted wife, Jelka Rosen, and assistant Eric Fenby.

Metropolitan Opera Season (Radio New Zealand Concert, 3.00pm). Last week, we heard Plácido Domingo conducting. This week’s opera odd spot is Kiri Te Kanawa in a speaking role. She plays the Duchess of Krakenthorp in Donizetti’s The Daughter of the Regiment in this December production, with Nino Machaidze, Lawrence Brownlee, Maurizio Muraro, Ann Murray and James Courtney. First performed in 1840, it is a comic opera about a young woman brought up by soldiers in a French regiment who falls in love with – horreur! – a Tyrolean civilian who is an enemy of France. The opera is famous for the aria Ah! Mes Amis, Quel Jour de Fête!, which has been called the Mt Everest for tenors because it features nine high Cs and comes comparatively early in the opera, giving the singer less time to warm up his voice. Pavarotti shot to fame in 1972 following a heroic performance with Joan Sutherland at the Met, when, as Tonio the Tyrolean, he “leapt over the Becher’s Brook of the string of high Cs with an aplomb that left everyone gasping”, as one critic put it. (Becher’s Brook is the lethal jump in the infamous Grand National horse race, which some jockeys call “jumping off the edge of the world”.)

The Sunday Feature (Radio New Zealand National, 4.06pm). In The Te Papa Treaty Debates: The Wai 262 Claim, Justice Joe Williams and public law specialist Mai Chen discuss the Waitangi Tribunal’s long-awaited first “whole of government” report – the first to consider what the Treaty relationship might become after historical grievances are settled, and how that relationship might be shaped by changes in the country’s demographic make-up in the next 30 to 40 years.

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