Neo Cro-magnon

Germany, circa 1600, the story of the werewolf is born.

Whenever humans face something inexplicably tragic, we tend to justify it creating impossible explanations and out of this world creatures to prove that humans aren’t inherently evil.

Written accounts say that when the habitants of a small village in Germany back in the 17th century, found the corpses of children in the outskirts of their homes, wolves was the only natural explanation as it was their most feared enemy back then.

Obviously, when signs of the children been raped as well as murdered without the distinctive marks a wolf would leave them came to be the main conversation, the villagers started questioning what was going on.

One day, they found it was one of them, raping and murdering children.

But that was impossible, it couldn’t be one of them, he was a monster they said, obviously part wolf part human, but a monster, not a member of the community. Not the son of a father and a mother.

A monster.

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If you’re like me, your iTunes music collection will look like a selection of the best grey question marks your computer can generate.

If you’re like me, you couldn’t care less, until you buy an iPhone, and then you want snazzy pictures everywhere.

Well, as usual, internet has the answer.

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Right just after the X-factor voting is closed, the facebook group supporting Killing in the Name by Rage Against the Machine is back online.

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The group and event urging people to buy Killing in the Name this week to take Rage Against the Machine to Christmas Number 1 has dissapeared from Facebook after reaching nearly 700.000 members.

Simon Cowell seems to be quite angry at the idea of people buying good music instead of the over-produced-mediocre-shit-sang-by-morons he creates.

Simon, FUCK YOU

We shall now buy the song even more

Tracy and Jon from London started a facebook group for a bit of a laugh a few days ago.

The intention of the group was to urge people to buy ‘Killing in the Name’ during the week prior to Christmas transforminig it into the Christmas Single No. 1

Epic

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There’s a vehement stigma towards TV.

People call it the stupid box, the brain washer, the source of idiocy and all that’s wrong with our society. When they think about TV, they think of Big Brother, Strictly come Dancing or East Enders. Nothing that comes from the same platform could be remotely interesting they say. You can expect to find anything culturally interesting from the TV.

I disagree.

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This is a list of my favourite live performances.

It is not a list about my favourite bands, songs or concerts, it is a list about those little clips that fascinate us for its power, or how the moment was recorded or the way the musicians felt the song that time or a combination of all of the above.

Obviously, it’s not only about the song or the band as the audience and how it was filmed or edited play a major part on how we’ll remember it.

The irony of this is that a live performance is meant to be something organic and dynamic, yet what we remember is the footage. Specific moments filmed by someone, and projected in our screens that set in stone the memory of that moment.

Probably like most of other people, my favourite live performances are some I actually never attended to.

I’ve been to my fare cut of live music, from small indie gigs in some London club to the big festivals and open air concerts in the park. But it’s these selection of clips from concerts that make the list of my favourite live performances, not organic and not dynamic but set in stone youtube and my memory.

In alphabetical order (after the jump)

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