When I got back home my mom was crying. There had been an accident at the factory. Children shouldn’t play with dead things.
Josh Diamond's records of 2008
BLACK LODGE/I.U.D
LIVE IN POITIERS
(WILL BANKHEAD'S TRILOGY TAPES)
I actually haven't heard this recording, but it doesn't matter because I was there, and I can assure anyone reading this, that the performance by these two amazing groups - well, Black Lodge is not a group, he’s a sweet funny man from Manchester who was set to release a masterpiece on Mo' Wax a number of years back but got so frustrated, fed up, pissed off and angry with the music biz that he metaphorically self-combusted on stage (a performance that was recorded and is also fantastic) and went into self-imposed isolation living on a mountaintop in Tibet living on a diet of dried leaves and beer for five years or so…
Or he was just in Manchester? In any case, he’s back with a vengeance, and so is his solo performance, where he uses turntables, and taped up records to create these crazy rhythms, with impeccable control, flow and an eye to the larger cosmic picture. Near the end of his performance, two of my dear friends of the last 16 years, Sadie, and Lizzie, who is of course my band mate, together known as IUD, joined in with their vocal and drum assault. It was ferocious, the best I've seen the girls play - they were out of control. I had to lie down and close my eyes to take it all in. Quite intense really! I should note IUD have a phenomenal full length must-buy record on the way...
Drain Pipe Living
Una Hut
awry, why?
why awry?
why, oh why! ...awry?




















































































































































































































































































































