This is pitiful – young NUJ photojournalist Jules Mattsson takes pictures of an army cadet parade and gets aggro from the police for doing so – maybe they should bone up on the law and the recent cases they’ve lost re: photography in public places. Nice that the NUJ and BJP are behind this photographer – and amazing that apparently to even question the law is to create a breach of the peace – ones created by the police. Nice logic there.

Of course you’ll get the people saying ‘why didn’t he comply?’ – well as a working NUJ photojournalist and in a public place, he has a right to take pictures. Also if we off-limit ANY pictures of children, even at official display events or parades where photography will obviously happen then that not only begets a future where children are going to be edited out or avoided from any future event shots, but also makes children feel uneasy and think that every photographer is a paedophile or terrorist, which is absolute bolocks.

And also when it affects photojournalists, like the Guardian journalist that was attacked and detained in Toronto this weekend at G20 – then you’re getting into censorship issues – it starts to be a special pleading excuse to stop any coverage at all to hide what’s really going on (doubt that would happen at an Army Cadet parade, but if this was extended to other events it would).

As an aside re: the G20 – 1) Black Bloc Tactic is a tactic not an official group afaik – and 2) like with the ‘anarchists’ at London’s G20 although not prone to conspiracy theories I’m really suspect that these people are really who they appear to be, especially as they (in London, as seem to in Toronto) were given free reign and the police stayed back while press stayed on hand to conveniently document – like in London with the conveniently empty-at-the-last-minute bank? It wouldn’t be the first time the police have used agent provocateurs. Might be tinfoil hat territory, but police and security services do infiltrate all groups, even have been shown to break the law and even allow murder…so who knows. if they are anarchists, they are fools because although it’s kind of heartening to see burning police cars, it falls exactly into what those G20 leaders want.

Back to photography and this guy – really this kind of thing is partly why I think I stopped taking pictures, I just don’t feel comfortable doing so anymore – it’s a worry in the back of my mind that some Stasi oik will take offence at some innocuous shot in public (I never take pictures of anyone without permission, rarely even crowd scenes) but when the likes of fish and chip shops, Xmas decorations and CCTV cameras are all off-limits apparently, who knows what is a ‘terrorist’ thing to do as the police are making it up on the spot.

Well Glastonbury didn’t make an appearance in the final episode of Doctor Who as I thought – BUT the Doctor DID make an appearance at Glastonbury. Check out this brilliant final song from Orbital with Matt Smith. Delia would’ve loved this, I’m sure.

This is the Orbital’s version of the theme song – rumours have it that Russel T Davies wanted this for the theme song in 2005 but it didn’t happen

And here’s their triumphant version of Satan – love how it goes double time rock n’ bass at the end:

More here – sadly the BBC only has a ‘highlights’ of their set and cuts at Halcyon of all places – where have we heard this before especially with Orbital? Grr.

Strawberry and Pimms by Moogan – Creative Commons

As the St George flags magically melt away as they were never there in the first place, just like the hopes of the England fans, we can get back to drinking Pimms, Cricket, moaning about being crap at Wimbedon, killer urban crack foxes and random violent knife crime.

Oh and listening to the monster 3-disc Summer Booty 2010 – the new summer mashup compilation from a cast of millions arranged by DJ Useo – this year with added Instamatic

Not Pimms, but oh so sweet…and the fruit doesn’t get stuck in your teeth.

Really digging the DEVO album ‘Something for Everybody’ the first proper DEVO album (The Wipeouters and Jerry Jihad don’t really count, but are good too).

They’ve not lost their acerbic wit on songs such as Sumthin’, Fresh, What We Do, and Watch Us Work It – and of course they sound achingly current, because De-Evolution has been in progress for
nearly 40 years! Even tracks like ‘Running Out’ one of the best tracks on the soon to be released Scissor Sisters album sound completely like DEVO…

But all hasn’t been so rosy and red like the Energy Dome hats in DEVO’s past – read here an interview with Bob ‘Zero’ Lewis one of the founders of DEVO and managers who came up with the DEVO concept and manifesto – then had to sue them for credit and won a six-figure sum, but then had to keep quiet about his part in DEVO…the fact that such litigation and the Branson deal affected how DEVO was pushed is interesting, since really DEVO didn’t exist in the UK, they were a MTV/US band (the only Top 40 charting DEVO record ever was the first!).

Also something I knew about before but confirmed there is probably one of the strangest episodes in rock history – Branson dragging Johnny Rotten to Jamaica after the Sex Pistols split to meet members of DEVO suggesting JR become their front man. WTF?

I really think the tell-all book of DEVO hasn’t been told yet. Makes Kraftwerk seem like nuns, really.

Yup you read correctly – Videotones videos including the premiere of this one (Brightness and Contrast) shown at Glastonbury part of Kleptones AV set – they are playing tonight (Sunday at 11pm – Rabbit Hole Stage, The Park).

‘Tell me now how does it feel’ - Music has become branding and branding has become music; marketers want to know what the audience is doing so as TV morphs into CCTV, the hanging garden of reality shows has become king. And the irony is more choice actually means less as there’s 57 channels and there’s nothing on as the news becomes another reality show and propaganda and lies become reality…

Woah there! Yes it’s a video mashup, but one that’s more like ‘Mad Groove’ but it’s darker and more conspiracy theory prone elder sibling. The Kleptones‘ excellent Brightness and Contrast mashing up New Order’s Blue Monday, Nirvana’s On a Plain, Cure’s Hanging Garden and Bruce Springstein’s 57 Channels is added to such footage as Tommy, a rare Godfrey Reggio short, EdTV, bits of Steal This Film, MC Hammer, Slacker, the Good Consumer and Adbusters shorts, The End of Violence and many more.

Someone pointed out that Donald Sutherland was a theme in all the Videotones videos – sorry it’s actually Ken Russell Followed by TVs, Godfrey Reggio and things exploding…

Apparently the Silent Disco set at Glasto went well for Eric & co. – great news