Some dates for your diary, March 12th the mindblowing Matthew Herbert Big Band @ The Queen Elizabeth Hall, London and March 28th Herbert live @ the North Sea Jazz Festival Cape Town, South Africa.

The Legendary Foxy John's bar and hardware store, Dingle, Co.Kerry, Ireland

Showing at the Phoenix Cinema, Dingle on Tuesday 28th of January is the eccentric musical murder mystery 8 Women. Directed by François Ozon with a cast of Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Huppert, Emmanuelle Béart, Fanny Ardant, Virginie Ledoyen, Danielle Darrieux, Ludivine Sagnier, Firmine Richard.

For anyone who didn't catch the recent live session by The Roots which was broadcast on Gilles Peterson's "Worldwide" BBC Radio 1 show. The good people at www.okayplayer.com have made the tracks available to download as mp3's enjoy!

Top Ten Digital Photography Tips by Derrick Story, author of Digital Photography Pocket Guide at www.macdevcentre.com. 

great pics @ www.stevebicknell.co.uk check out "the journey"
G2 should follow a similar line...

Can't wait to see this film Donnie Darko

Detox
It's time for APPLES

Bye bye wine!

March 18th is the release date for Carl Craig's "The Detroit Experiment" project on ropeadope records. The album was produced by: Aaron "Ace" Levinson, Carl Craig, and Karriem Riggins and features a line up of

Marcus Belgrave - trumpet (Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, Tribe Records)
Regina Carter - violin (Kenny Barron, Vernon Reid)
Bennie Maupin - tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, bass clarinet (Headhunters, Herbie Hancock, Miles Davis)
Allan Barnes - alto saxophone, flute (Blackbyrds)
Amp Fiddler - keyboards (P-Funk, Maxwell, Carl Craig)
Jeremy Ellis - keyboards (Ayro, John Beltran)
Geri Allen - piano (Wallace Roney, Charlie Haden)
Jaribu Shahid - bass (Sun Ra, Roscoe Mitchell, David Murray)
Karriem Riggins - drums / Producer (The Roots, Common, Slum Village Mulgrew Miller)
Al Turner - bass (Detroit session musician)
Ron Otis - drums (Detroit session musician, Earl Klugh)
Francisco Mora - percussion (Max Roach, Carl Craig, Sun Ra)
Perry Hughes - guitar (Detroit session musician)
Monica Blaire (Blaire White) - vocals
Invincible (Anomalies) - vocals.

With elements of Jazz, Blues, Soul, Hip Hop and House music plus covers of Marcus Belgrave classic "Space Odyssey" and Stevie Wonder's "Too High" the album is set to be one of the highlights of the year.

TIME magazine's list of People Who Mattered in 2002, Joe Pantoliano.

Some super deals from Chateau Online today:

40% off* Tours de Charmail 2000 Haut-Medoc £6.59 instead of £10.99 per bottle, per case of 3 (only 72 bottles remaining!)

40% off* Catalogne Sarabanda Tempranillo 2000 Espagne £2.98 instead of £4.98 per bottle, per case of 12

That's 10EUR for a 2000 vintage Cru-Bourgeois. Good deal! The tempranillo @ 4EUR/bottle looks good too!

Interesting new project The Digital Hub is an initiative of the Irish government to create an international digital enterprise area in Dublin city. The current exhibition has work by newcomers and established artists, filmmakers, designers, programmers, developers, musicians and animators from diverse backgrounds. It is running from January 6th to March 3rd in the project office. More details can be found at www.thedigitalhub.com

The Legendary Dj Paul Murphy (Afroart records) returns to Ireland next weekend to play Cork Jan 24th, Ultra lounge at the Morrison Hotel, Dublin, Friday, Jan 24th at 11pm. He will also be doing a special free gig at Drumpound, The Brogue, Tralee, Co.Kerry on Sat Jan 25th at 12pm. A night not to be missed.

A few interesting tracks on the Fat City list... including:

Nas - Made You Look - UK 12" 2.49
(massive Apache sampling comeback from Nas ? this rocks big time!) listen to the track

The search begins for Marvin Gaye Live at Montreux: Marvin Gaye, Casino, Montreux, Jul 7 1980

also found this interesting post on another list:

"the best Marvin live recording is Belgian....
Some of the best Marvin singing I've ever heard is in the rare Belgian TV documentary "Transit Ostend". Very sensitively filmed as he (temporarily) recovered from drugs and depression in Ostend working up his comeback last album, it's a haunting beautiful film which touches your heart in every frame. Marvin strolling around the cobbled streets of Ostend in a long dark coat, wandering into a bar chatting with local fishermen who've never heard of him, walks into a little Belgian church and sings the Lord's Prayer in a church with tears in his eyes, plays great gospel piano singing a slowed down Come Get To This (a bit like London Palladium version)/Distant Lover on an empty theatre stage; and a backroom band rehearsal with his visiting American musicians has a brutally raw "I Want You" and "Grapevine". I've had a treasured VHS since it was last on UK TV mid 80's but it's now seemingly on DVD with a new title "Marvin Gaye Soul Searching" from DVD Source. It's got a nasty cheap cover with an inappropriate mid 60's shot of Gaye - take no notice. As I understand it (awaiting my copy now) this is "Transit Ostend" which has been previously impossible to buy. If so: All Marvin fans please get this before it disappears again for another 20 years."

Sounds good but that site doesn't have it in stock, niether do amazon etc.
A tracking mission!

Not bad clothing site: Paper Doll designer Canadian stuff prices quite cheap because of good exchange rates.

Also wicked t-shirt (pricey though):Marvin
nice:The illest...

Drinking now-:)
1950 Ch. Pétrus Pomerol only £12,000 stg at: Berry Bros. and Rudd Not SO bad considering it is a magnum!

Wines wines wines.
Top of the list this morning is Guigal Chateauneuf-du-Pape 2000. Given a rating of 90-92/100 by Parker. Will reach it's peak in 2008-10 available from Chateau Online. Available for just under EUR25.

A great crisp, fresh white the 2002 Selaks Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc is now available from Karwig Wines, EUR15 best left to age for another 3 - 6 months all indications are that this will be even better than the superb 2001 vintage.

Stay well away from the Fox Creek Vixen Shiraz/Cabernet Franc (Sparkling, N.V. also available from Karwig Wines EUR25). It's dangerous, and that's all i have to say about that.

Those with access to BBC radio 1 tune in to Gilles Petersons worldwide show this wednesday night - special guests in the studio are Hip Hop legends from Philadelphia The Roots.

Showing at the Phoenix Cinema in Dingle on Tuesday the 14th is Rabbit-Proof Fence . The film is a moving story based on the true story of three young Aborigine girls, removed from their mother in 1931, for 'Dillution' back into 'white' Australian society. They escape, followed by the authorities and walk 1,500 miles home following a rabbit-proof fence.