It has been 23 years since Weller’s last farewell in Australian and after playing for over 1 1/2 hours, a final encore rocked, in Melbourne that is, to the beat of the mod anthem – A Town like Malice. Travel well.

Vince and Howard inspire the studio to rocket towards the fantastic future with their Numanesque crossed with Human League romp. After unsuccessful auditions last week with Chase & Galley, and Tin & Ed (Tin was a no show). One can’t understand why the 3 Deep boys, Fabio, Vince, or Round continues to ignore our passionate invitation to team up and cut our own futuristic version of – Tie me Kangaroo down.

Important work for the design industry calls – turn that Olympic coverage off at your studios, more important matters need your urgent attention.

The second track from Thomas Dolby’s third critically poo-poo’d LP “Aliens ate my Buick” released in in 1988. The AirHead clip is an unexpected piece of puppetry, remenissent of Talking Head’s “Stop making sense” video.

Dolby has many strings to his bow, including developing the curious signature polyphonic ring for Nokia, playing the atmospheric synths on Foreigner’s romantic romp “I’ve been waiting for a girl like you” – a very popular last song in many Melbourne gay nightclubs and being sued by the Dolby Laboratories for using Dolby as his pseudonym.

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Visit Thomas Dolby’s web log here

Black Tambourine by Beck from album Guero is a fine piece of ASCII graphic directed by Associates in Science.

The work of Brian Eno polarises many music listeners. Was it David Bowie and Eno that enhanced Iggy Pop in Berlin? or was it the case that they couldn’t leave naturally talented people alone? It seems that case that Eno, typically, moved on to the next project and his ways left a remarkable impression on Bowie.

Eno describes himself as a non-musician and is credited to have developed the term “Ambient Music”. In 1992, in publication by Mark Prendergast (2001) – The Ambient Century: From Mahler to Trance: The Evolution of Sound in the Electronic Age. Eno described his time with Roxy Music as crucial to his career, stating that:

“as a result of going into a subway station and meeting Andy, I joined Roxy Music and as a result of that I have a career in music. If I’d walked ten yards further on the platform or missed that train or been in the next carriage, I probably would have been an art teacher now.”

Eno is known to not refer, even listen to his previous out puts – his focus is on current and future output. What a liberating process.

Please enjoy a little slice of Eno, a small packet of his output that also includes music producing, composition, writing, art installations to developing process tools…