Robyn Hitchcock in 2009. This live performance of "Up to our Nex" is much better than the album version!

"I want to make drum 'n' bass music with John Paul Jones - Jason Bonham" "Jason Bonham, son of late @ledzeppelin drummer John Bonham, tells BBC 6 Music he wants to embark on a drum 'n' bass project with the band's bassist John Paul Jones." http://audioboo.fm/b...es-jason-bonham

John Paul Jones and Supersilent feature on the November 2012 issue of Jazzwise magazine.

John Paul Jones was on Radio Eins yesterday. After the interview I listened to the station for about an hour, I liked the music they were playing, it was already morning in Berlin and they were giving some news and updates, I think I'm going to tune in to this station later in the day again. It's www.radioeins.de

Hvid Nat (Denmark, 2007) (English title: White Night) Directed by Jannik Johansen, script by Anders Thomas Jensen Hvid Nat isn’t as bad as a couple of reviews that I read suggested. Its strengths lie in the script, very solid and without a flaw, and in the acting: the lead role was given to Lars Brygmann, an accomplished actor in Denmark with several dozen films in his resume. The movie documents the spiralling down of Ulrik Nymann, from a very succesful, confident and happily married real estate agent to a pariah, disawoved by his father, friendless and bankrupt. The event that sets in motion Mr. Nymann’s debacle is a squabble at a small pub where he engages a “loser”: an unemployed, alcoholic man who accidentally dies in the fight. Nymann doesn’t spend much time in prison (“you’ll be home by dinner” says his lawyer). Everyone from boss to family members and friends seem to believe that he has done a favour to society by killing a man with a record of petty crimes and spousal abuse. Nymann never resumes normal life. After he learns that his victim had a wife and two kids, he finds the widow and practically stalks her day and night, offering his financial protection as the only way to escape the feelings of guilt that engulf him. In his quest to protect the widow, Mr. Nymann slowly descends into the abyss as he loses wife, job, apartment and car. His troubles are compounded by obscure events from the past that have returned to haunt him. Hvid Nat succeeds in sending a powerful message of moral principles in today’s society. The brilliant real estate agent has to reevaluate his definitions of good versus evil, success versus failure and truth versus lie.

In their new album Lonerism, released October 9 in the United States, the band established in Perth, Australia, included the song "Led Zeppelin" as an iTunes bonus track. The track listing of the album is as follows: There's a video of the song on youtube, although it is blocked on certain geographical regions, not everyone will be able to see it:

Reykjavik-Rotterdam (2008) Directed by Òscar Jònasson. This Icelandic movie is about Chistopher, an ex-convict who’s hired by his close friend and associate, Steingrimur, to do a last smuggling operation between Holland and Iceland. Chistopher is promised that upon completion of the job he’d be relieved of his financial difficulties. Little does he imagine that, in reality, Steingrimur is concocting a vicious plan to betray and get him imprisoned, while at the same time keeping his wife Iris and two kids. The movie tries to be a comedy, a drama and a thriller at the same time. The scenes in Rotterdam succeed in being comedic and in providing dark humour, but the scenes in Iceland have a larger degree of succes as a thriller. Overall, the case could be made that the film is a much better thriller than it is a comedy. At some point there’s the impression that two different movies are occurring, The first movie chronicles the slow mutation of Steingrimur, from a Samaritan to a devil. The poor Iris has not only to contain Steingrimur´s advances, but she also has to suffer the intimidation of three violent thugs who have a stake in the operation. The second plot revolves around Christopher’s doings aboard a cargo ship and in Holland, which provide a temporary comedy relief, but overall they tend to drag down the pace and the tension created by events in Reykjavik. The film features actor Ingvar Eggert who does an excellent job portraying the evil Steingrimur. Baltasar Kormakur (who has a slight ressemblance to Colin Farrell) plays Christopher.

Tom Hanks?

Strawbs with John Wesley Harding.

Thanks, Strider, somehow I missed the Drive discussion here, although I'm going to search in the posts above to read more of it. Prior to Drive had you seen a Winding Refn film or was this your first exposure to his work? I'm also looking forward to that Gordon Levitt / Bruce Willis film, I've seen comments posted of people who have already seen it.

I watched Drive last night. I had heard, read some comments that it was a really violent movie (which didn't surprise me since I'm familiar with the work of the director). Overall it was a good movie, although people should be warned that there are a couple of really disturbing scenes full of blood. What I enjoyed was the pace of the film: the opening scene, for instance, is full of adrenaline, with the hero running away from the police at full speed. I'm a fan of Nicolas Winding Refn. In fact, I have managed to acquire all of his films (the ones that are available with English subtitles) since Pusher. The only disappointment so far has been "Bronson (2008)", which honestly I found silly, but at least the character played by Tom Hardy exhibited a few traits that would later reappear in Batman's Bane. "Drive" is actually very reminiscent of "Pusher". I think Winding Refn employs many of the camera techniques and story-telling methods that he used in his 90s trilogy. Bernie, in the scene where he washes a bloody knife, reminded me of Milo doing the same in Pusher III. Gosling´s character reminded me a lot of Kim Bodnia's: even though both are criminals, Winding Refn manages to tell the story in a way that the audience develops sympathy towards the hero/criminal by recounting events as if they were part of a grand conspiracy against the hero. These criminals slowly become heroes as the audience realises that they're just little fish within a very long and vicious food chain where others (Milo in Pusher, Nino in Drive) are bigger fish and worst criminals than them. The scenes where Gosling drives also reminded me of Milo driving the highways of Copenhague, late at night while slowly and literally descending into Dante's inferno.

How does the new Aimée Mann compares to the past discography? I still think her best are Bachelor #2 and I'm with Stupid. Still don't know whether I should get the new one, her voice has changed, although it's still amazing.

Peruvian magazine Dosis running a Zeppelin feature ahead of a Robert Plant concert in Lima.

Jason Bonham appears in the September issue of Chile's Rock Axis. Obtain a PDF copy here: http://rockaxis.k-dr...eptiembre-2012/

Despite the cancellation, this Chilean magazine still published a Jason Bonham feature in its September issue. Obtain a PDF copy here: http://rockaxis.k-dr...eptiembre-2012/ * also posting this in the JBLZE thread

A couple of Scandinavian thrillers on region 2 DVD

some photos of travels through the state of Paraná in Southern Brazil, dating from the summer of 2001:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kf4H-Ms9VNs