Simple Minds / live on Fabchannel

Fabchannel.com brings you a wide variety of live music in sound and vision. From upcoming acts to big stars playing rock, hiphop, avant-garde and everything in between.
Originated from Paradiso and with the continuous help of the Paradiso and Melkweg staff, Fabchannel provides you with the music and the tools to watch it……

One of the concerts on Fabchannel is the one Simple Minds did 2 years ago. It was the so called ‘cd presentation of the Black and White-album. So check that out……

Jim Kerr/Simple Minds (copyright 1991 by eric de vries) 

Upcoming live webcast will be the Kula Shaker concert on october 16th. 

photograph…. of the week

Wallpainting of Jim Morrisson near Venice Beach, Ca.

copyright 1995 / eric de vries

photograph…. of the week

3 boys hanging around near the railwaystation…

Rachel’s Cambodia….

One of my fans in the UK put some bookreviews of ‘Images of Cambodia’ and ‘A Blues For Buddha’ on her website.

Thanks for that, Rachel, and keep up the good work…..

let’s all buy the new iPod touch….

The new iPod touch introduced today features built-in Wi-Fi networking and a revolutionary multi-touch user interface—first introduced on iPhone—that makes it easy to find all of your music, video, and other digital content and enjoy it on the gorgeous widescreen display on iPod touch. The multi-touch interface uses pioneering new software to present the perfect user interface for Safari, Apple’s YouTube application, and the new iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store—all of which come with iPod touch. An unbelievable 8mm thin, iPod touch features up to 22 hours of audio playback and up to five hours of video playback.

Available later this month, iPod touch comes in 8GB and 16GB models for $299 and $399, respectively.

NOOR

Noor is a collective of nine independent documentary photographers, pooling their strengths and committed to working independently to make impact on world views and opinions through photography. In a combined effort – and with support and coordination of managing director Claudia Hinterseer and associate editor Lotti Pronk – Noor will promote, sell and exhibit the work of its founding member photographers:

Samantha Appleton
Jodi Bieber
Philip Blenkinsop
Pep Bonet
Jan Grarup
Stanley Greene
Yuri Kozyrev
Kadir van Lohuizen
Francesco Zizola

new kula shaker album…

Kula Shaker’s comeback album, Strangefolk—their first in nearly seven years—is a conservative one, sticking to a watered-down vision of their standard “Hush”-like riffs. It’s strange to say, but given today’s pop landscape, Kula Shaker’s particular brand of retro now sounds, well, dated. In the place of the druggy, Madchester-ish wobble that elevated their first two records is an overload of classic-rock retreads and hippy-dippy mysticism, with few memorable moments.

Like the two previous albums, Crispian and the other KS-bandmembers did a good job. Hope the new album gets lots of airplay. More information, go to the Kula Shaker website…..

Book review by Andy Brouwer…

Eric de Vries’ love affair with Cambodia began in 2000 and shows no sign of waning as he’s just about to spend the next six months based in Phnom Penh on assignment. A photographer and artist, his book, Images of Cambodia – This Must Be The Place, was published by Cleartrails Publishing in The Netherlands in December 2006 and contains nearly 150 black & white and colour images taken between 2000 and 2006. The majority are black & white, capturing the good, the bad and the ugly faces of Cambodia, the smiles and the scowls, the signs of hope and the darker, more brooding aspects of this beautiful but tragic country. From Angkor to Bokor, from rubbish dumps to S-21, landscapes, portraits and images from around town and the countryside, evoke the diversity of Cambodia for the viewer.

At least thirty of the photographs constitute the complete collections of four exhibitions that the photographer held in Phnom Penh and in The Netherlands in 2005. Images of Cambodia is a very valuable addition to the all-too-sparse number of publications of photographs outside those of Angkor and Cambodia’s temples.

More at Andy’s website…..