"Honey" is a popular name for French Bulldogs

French Bulldog "Honey" August 2006

Lene Lovich Lucky Number

Stiff Records video 1979 from YouTube

Best of Detroit via Latvia

Stiff Records superstar Lene Lovich with Les Chappell and some unidentified band-member (maybe a Sincero) in action at Hurrah, New York City in the early 1980s. Photo would have been taken with an Olympus OM1. Film would be pushed Kodak Tri-X. She's back playing a show at the Knitting Factory this weekend. (c) Adrian Bryan-Brown

Front and Back of 1976 Who Tour Programme

Let's See Action

Pete Townshend's website has a really nice little Quicktime movie, complete with backstage wacky antics (as much as you might expect from "The Two") recorded on the recent European tour (Bonn, Germany) of "Let's See Action." It's here.

Breakfast on the way from San Diego

Breakfast on the back of the plane on a Continental flight sometime after 9/11. Could be Summer 2005.

Elvis Lives in Guildford

Elvis Costello on the "Stiff Live Stiffs Tour" with naughty Attraction Bruce Thomas on bass. The running order changed each night on the tour with each headliner (apart from Elvis and Ian Dury) enjoying shared backing band-members, which meant that Ian Dury drummed for Wreckless Eric (Goulden), and other had multiple chores. The line-up was Larry Wallis (ex-Pink Fairies) with guest star Nick Lowe on bass, Ian Dury and the Blockheads, Wreckless Eric and Elvis Costello and the Attractions. At the end of the show everyone was meant to go onstage to sing "Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll." I don't recall Elvis joining in on this particular night in Guildford. Probably shot on Diafine pushed Kodak TriX at 1600 ASA with an Olympus OM1.
(c) Adrian Bryan-Brown 1977

We miss The Who

Souvenir book cover from the 1975 UK tour.

Rock and roll retro

Kosmo Vinyl, longtime Clash and Ian Dury associate, emceeing for a Mickey Jupp show at the Nashville on the North End Road in London in the early 1980s. Photo (c) Adrian Bryan-Brown

Viva Las Vegas

At THEhotel at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas everything is labelled. Including the lavatory paper.

Tastes Like

Becks has several beers that are fortunately not exported. This is one of them.

Jet Blue, Jet Girl

JetBlue Airways
13 Aug 06 FLT: 194
Depart: Las Vegas 03:40pm
Arrive: New York City 11:40pm

GOOGLE GOES VIDEO

Here are some fun rock 'n' roll clips from Google. The CBC Retro Bite 60 second interview with the Rolling Stones from 1965 is interesting because Brian Jones is without question the leader and dominant speaker in the group. The longer clip of the Rolling Stones on the Red Skelton show is cringe-inducing as the square Skelton trips into a crowd of screaming teeny girls and is rudely jossled in the lobby of the Palladium in London. Everyone seems to thing it was the Rolling Stones first US television appearance -- 1964. The Red Skelton Show: Season 14, Episode 02, part of which may be on a new compilation of Skelton shows.

The Jane Birkin "I lurve Paris" clip from CNN is important because it has shots of her with her bulldog Dora (not French).

OK GO TREADMILL

Here's the OK GO video that's very entertaining. It's called "Treadmill Dance" on YouTube.

BUBBLES NAKED

Bubbles will pose naked if it's art and not pornography.

PAINT BY NUMBERS

Paint by Numbers on pc.

Works like this. Scan in an unpainted Paint by Numbers canvas. Go in to Photoshop and click away on that paint pot. Don't think you've matched the color? Just change it! No messy paints. May wear out your mouse from clicking!

SPLIT ENZ

Rock 'n' Roll Picture

Split Enz at Imperial College, London
November 1976
(c) Adrian Bryan-Brown
taken with a Kodak 110 Instamatic, film unknown

THE CLASH AT THE PALLADIUM

Rock 'n' Roll Picture

The Clash at the Palladium, New York City in 1979
Joe Strummer (l) and Paul Simonon
(c) Adrian Bryan-Brown
taken on an Olympus OM1 using very pushed Kodak TriX film

Cows in Hamburg, Germany

29 JUL 06 - SATURDAYAR HAMBURG 730A NON-STOPARRIVE: TERMINAL 1 REF: D8033JBROWN/ADRIAN BR SEAT-12C CO 74 SEAT 12C

APPETIZER CART

Baby shrimp wrapped with smoked salmon
accompanied by horseradish suse

Foie gras parfait with fig
garnished with green grapes and oranges


SALAD

Mesclun salad mix
with rock melon, stawberry and mozzarella cheese balls
topped with toasted pine nuts

Offered with orange mustard dressing

MAIN COURSES

Pasta bowl

Ravioli filled with cheese and basil

enhanced by creamy and red pesto sauces

topped with toasted pine nuts

Freshly grated parmesan cheese will be offered with your pasta

The economy meals on the overnight flight from Newark, NJ to Hamburg, Germany. It's chicken in there.

28 JUL 06 - FRIDAYAIR CONTINENTAL AIRLINES FLT:74 COACH MULTI MEALSLV NEWARK 540P EQP: BOEING 757-200DEPART: TERMINAL C 07HR 50MIN

Bubbles has been known to be available for commercial endorsements.

Here's a link to another great French Bulldog -- FOB (friend of Bubbles). Honey is on the Greenberg Kingsley advertising agency site. I promise it's quite adorable. And if you need a quick link to the much discussed and highly topical Tom Cruise South Park show, here's a link to You Tube. Don't know how long this will stay up. "I have doubts. I have such doubts."

Bubbles on her tenth birthday.

This is Bubbles celebrating Christmas 2005. Even though she was raised Jewish she gets caught up in the Christian holiday spirit.

This is all over the theatre and entertainment websites, which I think is a good thing. On Jim Steinman's blogsite, a demo of the Joker's song, "Wonderful Toys" from the suspected new musical "Batman" is posted as an mp3. As always, a gazillion pop culture references from "To Tell the Truth," to The Doors' "The End," and Rodgers and Hammerstein's "The Sound of Music." The song is actually very reminescent of The Tubes' "What do you Want from Life." I think Jim Steinman will write a great pop musical one day.

Now brilliantbutcancelled.com is my idea of a very satifisying use of modern tech. Currently featured is an episode of "Johnny Staccato" a really snappy Hollywood-noir show from 1959 starring John Cassavettes and guesting a young Elizabeth Montgomery. I saw it mentioned in a Wall Street Journal piece a couple of days ago (no point in linking because you have to subscribe) about networks developing broad-band sites and the need for web-appropriate content. brilliantbutcancelled.com is a wonderful extension of network tv (run by NBC). SIG Spectrum is Green.