The blog of simon crab of sunseastar, N.I.R., Recloose Organisation, Informal and Bourbonese Qualk..amongst others. I started writing this blog to try and work out why people write blogs and, through sheer laziness, to answer in one go questions that people have asked me. there is no overall theme to the site but it tends to be about issues around music and sound.
Fascinating blog site that I have just chanced upon. I put Bourbonese Qualk in to google because I was interested to know whether or not those early recordings were to be re-released / re-packaged as CD’s. Nigel Ayers seems to be doing it! And what about “Songs Of The New International” picture disc, any chance of those compilation releases being given the same treatment??
Fascinating site as I mentioned, and finally I get to see what Het Zweet look like!!
Cari Saluti.
steve.
Hello, blog site is gerad und cool Artikels.
Simon!
SO cool to find your blog! I’m not even sure how I did but I think it had something to do with the wonders of Google. Glad to see you are still a good Thetcherite and the collaborations with Rick Astley are going swimmingly!
Ahem. Seriously, I am looking forward to hearing your latest stuff. Your music has opened my pedestrian American ears in so many ways.
Namaste!
Hello, I recently wrote about BQ on my website, and want to thank you guys for the good sounds. I would be interested in hearing your new music if you could throw a link of some information my way. I would be honored if you’d view my site and read about yourself :)
BTW, listening to the song Temporale right now. I really love this one. I would love to hear a whole album of stuff like this. Very nice.
Doh. I did not see the links above already. My bad :))
Hi
You shoud be the journalist with your great talent
hey simon
just found this blog…nice! moscow miles mind blows ..uncertain times BUT
good memories..nice to read about it again.
iv
Hi, i´m looking for information about BOURBONESE QUALK. I´m looking for for a long time this song, around 1986 or previous, and a friend tell me perhaps it´s this group. Please, listen to this unknow song for me in this link:
http://www.4shared.com/file/67998582/9d8587e5/DESCO_MACLAMAR_20_NUEVA.html
Is it BOURBONESE QUALK or not?.
Do you know any forum, web, blog,…can help me to identify this song?.
Thanks for reply and your blog, and regards from Spain.
Javi.
Hi Javi,
no it’s not BQ – quite close… sounds to me a bit like Klinik, a belgian band from the ’80s except the vocalist has an american accent (maybe)…
http://nostalgie-de-la-boue.blogspot.com/
might be able to help…
HOLA(HI) very very good site,well I play bass guitar in a anarchopunk band of name KAMENISH,form part of one anarchist collective of my city MAR DEL PLATA(south of buenso aires capitol).I make too one anarchopunkzine of name DEKADENCIA HUMANA and now go the new number in
http://www.scribd.com here put on in groups dekadencia g and can you read(SORRY ONLY IN SPANISH for now) things mine.
I have toomuch interest in have one note report about the conecction ANARCHISM IDEAS WITH EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC and I believe wht you cna write on this¿you can?,friends send one great embrace!!! DEKADENCIA G
Hola Gerardo!
thanks for your comments – i’m downloading DEKADENCIA HUMANA right now…by pure chance i was also researching into the anarchist revolts in argentina and patagonia during the 1920′s.
greetings from london
crab
Please excuse this rather vague comment. The name “Bourbonese Qualk” rang a bell with me, after I came across it surfing for all sorts of other things. A friend (my literary agent) told me he was acquainted with you in Southport in the early 1980s, and has a couple of (maybe) interesting photos. Please feel free to email me if you would like to see them, and I’ll put the two of you in touch.
hello. hope you are doing fine. lately I received a letter from frank (from the label ‘VOD’ – vinyl on demand). he’s specialised in re-releasing this ancient ‘cassette culture’ stuff (from the 80s). he would like to get more infos about some ??? recordings of BQ (5 ??? tapes), which had been published between 82-84. in case you can help out, it would be very kind if you could reply. thanks in advance. all the best from Berlin. Sea W.
I was wondering if you could re-up Achwghâ Ney Wodei Triptyque? Here’s hoping you’ll be posting more frequently in the future.
Where did the name “Bourbonese Qualk” come from. ???
Hi Simon
I’m reissuing The Last Supper on CD in 2012 and wanted to check you are cool with that as there is a BQ track ‘In The Flesh’ featured. E-mail me at alanrider1@aol.com. It’d be good to hear from you again after all these years.
Alan
Hi,
Can you please, please let me know how I can get hold of the copyright owner of this ashphaltophone image. I am putting together a learning unit to be published on a website for teachers which is about Musical Roads. I have to submit it in a few more days but I would really like to include a copy of the image on your blog. Can you tell me where it came from? Is it an original photo of yours, is it out of a newspaper – if so which one and from when? Please, please can you let me know!
Thanks.
Hi, I saw BQ play live in Sevilla, Spain. I found the Spike vinyll this summer in Amsterdam. Thanks for all the great sounds!
Zizi