Harry's Place Arts

This is a guest post by Daniel Goldsworthy On the 4th of February 2010, the Federal Court of Australia ruled that the Australian Band Men at Work reproduced 2 bars of an iconic Australian round “Kookaburra sits in the old gumtree” in their hit song “Down Under”. (link to ruling) “Kookaburra” was written in 1932 [...]

This is a guest post by Ben Cohen Last night, New York discovered what British audiences have known for some time: The Specials don’t need Jerry Dammers. I wouldn’t go so far as to disparage Dammers in the manner of the British tourist who was happily skanking next to me – “he’s just a fuckin’ [...]

This is a cross post by Hylu & Zorion: We have become aware in the last 24 hours of the recent posts on blogs, twitter, etc, titled ‘Warning to Dubstep fans: London promoter is BNP member’. We want to make it absolutely clear that Organix, Dubscover, Techscover, and ourselves (Hylu & Zorion) absolutely reject racism [...]

You would imagine that the Dubstep scene – being based around a musical style that is the direct result of the mixing of different cultures (in particular having its roots in Jamaican Dub music) – would be one of the last places you’d expect to find a BNP member, but it turns out this is [...]

It is 15 years since Pulp released their classic number one album A Different Class – flowery acrylic shirt enthusiast Jarvis Cocker spelling out their central message on the album’s sleeve: “We don’t want no trouble, we just want the right to be different, that’s all.” And now Lady Gaga has single-handedly reinvented the scandalously [...]

Good to see young African-Americans reclaiming the string band tradition. The banjo, after all, was developed by slaves in Colonial America, adapted from African instruments.

This is a cross post from theartsdesk Amongst all the musical benefits for the victims of the Haiti earthquake, one club event which took place on Wednesday night in London stands out as a small, but powerful, beacon of hope. Not because it could rival Jay Z and U2 for levels of funds raised, but [...]

“As Lord Mandelson’s anti-piracy Digital Economy Bill begins its uncertain journey through parliament, John Tatlock investigates the music industry’s most troubled decade yet and says ‘stop whining, it’s only a scratch’.” Read the full article at The Quietus and see how Tatlock demolishes four music industry myths. Meanwhile, The Register notes that grassroots opposition to [...]

Morrissey has been rushed to hospital The former Smiths frontman Morrissey was rushed to hospital tonight after collapsing on stage at the start of a concert. Witnesses said that just moments after the 50-year-old had finished performing his opening song, the 1983 hit This Charming Man, he fell to the floor and was dragged offstage [...]

Well, I was hoping to get to Shot Of Love on Friday, but alas other demands caught up with me. I’ve now had a chance to listen to the album. My chief criticism of Saved was that, after Slow Train Coming, it seemed a bit sloppy. I was worried that perhaps Dylan had acquired Christian zeal [...]