Showing posts with label mike mead. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mike mead. Show all posts

Thursday, February 26, 2009

mike mead

No he isn't dead (as far as I know). Something rather special might happen to me quite soon when I get hold of the Mike Mead album. Here is Mead in a short segment from Flashez which is on YouTube as a blooper but isn't, it is in fact a perfectly sensible comment to which Mead (on the right) and his cohost Ray Burgess (on the phone) overreact for some unknown reason.

Mead made a privately pressed album in the mid-70s and showed it on Flashez in '75 or thereabouts. I always wanted it. I may soon have it. The fear is (1) it's crappy (2) it's an album by a different Mike Mead (3): (1)+(2). We will see.

gillard: a post from fifteen years ago

I have to say that every time there is a piece of Gillard news I get depressed. I turn it off if I can. I think a lot of the reasons she is ...