On the 19th August 2006 Dirty Three guest programmed RAGE. Dirty Three is my favourite band. And RAGE is a late night Aussie TV show which invites bands or artists to pick favourite songs or video clips or the video clips of their favourite songs. At this time it was Dirty Three’s last full Aussie tour for the new album Cinder which was a year old anyway. So writing now means it has been almost five years since a new Dirty Three album. At the moment bands like Portishead and The Drones are my favourite bands but off course both have pulled out new albums this year. Portishead took ten years for Third but it is one of the greatest albums ever. But I hope Dirty Three don’t take that long for a new album.

Warren Ellis has joined Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and started a new band with Nick Cave called Grinderman. Jim White is playing for Cat Power, PJ Harvey, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Beth Orton, Nina Nastasia so he’s a drummer for hire for anyone he wants to play for. Mick Turner has been the quietest but has had solo albums and painting exhibitions. Dirty Three have played together a few times but these shows are getting less and less. Since this tour they have done Chinese tour, curated the ATP festival in England and played festival shows in France, Spain, Australia and the last one being The End of the Road festival in England. So there haven’t broke up but just haven’t done anything new for a long time. Anyone who has not seen the Dirty Three DVD which came out last year should check it out because it’s the closest to a new album and one of the greatest music docos and live show double DVD ever.

Anyway here what Dirty Three picked that night -
Nina Simone - Revolution
Erykah Badu - Tyrone
Ol' Dirty Bastard - I Got Your Money
Cat Power - Living Proof
Deerhoof - Wrong Time Capsule
Art of Fighting - Reasons Are All I Have Left
Joanna Newsom - Sprout And The Bean
Art of Fighting - The Unappreciate
Smog - I Feel Like The Mother Of The World
Joel Silbersher - Through the manoeuvres
Tendrils - Soaking Red
Joel Silbersher - Flappin' On A Hook
Russell Morris - Sweet Sweet Love
Robert Forster - Baby Stones
Palace Brothers - Ohio River Boat Song
Crow - Railhead
Jerry Lee Lewis - Whole Lotta Shakin'
Them - Baby Please Don't Go
Canned Heat - On The Road Again
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Ice Cream for Crow
Beasts of Bourbon - Words from a Woman to Her Man
Ed Kuepper - The Way I Made You Feel
Dave Graney with the White Buffaloes - Robert Ford On The Stage
Dragon - Get That Jive
Slade - Get Down & Get With It
Rose Tattoo - Rock & Roll Outlaw
God - My Pal
The Saints - Run Down
Sex Pistols - Anarchy in the U.K.
The Only Ones - Another Girl Another Planet
The Stooges - Loose
Laughing Clowns - Holy Joe
The Reels - Bad Moon Rising
Jimmy Cliff - Reggae Night
Bob Dylan - Things Have Changed
The Who - Can't Explain
The Birthday Party - Release the Bats
Einstürzende Neubauten - Halber Mensch

Well what happens next is RAGE plays all of the Dirty Three video clips which you don’t really get to see that often. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds videos follow that night too. If anyone knows what the Dirty Three are up to now please let me know. I hope you enjoy this as much as I did.

So I've been working in Ottawa, Canada for the past 6 weeks now and I'm really missing my home stereo :( The charger for my mp3 player isn't working and to make matters worse the sound card on my laptop is goosed so I can't even listen with the terribly bad built in speakers.

My only respite has been Chez 106, Ottawa's classic rock radio station. I feel like I've really got to know Doc and Woody from the morning show and I ought to buy them a beer for keeping me sane.

Thankfully though I managed to pick up a full pass for the Ottawa Bluesfest. Last night I managed to catch some of Secret Machines, Taj Mahal, The Blind Boys of Alabama and The Tragically Hip. Over the next 10 days I'm mostly looking forward to Hamell on Trial, Richard Thompson, Canned Heat, Primus, Brian Wilson and Ray Davies and lots besides!!

And then it'll only be 4 more weeks to go and my ears wont know what's hit them (and neither will the neighbours!!).

1. How did you get into 31?
Mötley Crüe.
An asshole from Hamar. <3


2. What was the first song you ever heard by 22?
Turbonegro - All My Friends Are Dead. Haha!


3. What's your favourite lyric by 29?
Rammstein.
I don't know. German is ugly. :D

4. What is your favourite album by 49?
I don't have a 49 so I'll do one of my 4 47's.
Jokke & Valentinerne - Alt kan repareres.

5. How many albums by 13 do you have?
Something Corporate.
I don't have any. I only like one song (Konstantine), but that's amazing!

6. What is your favourite song by 50?
Yet again, I don't have a 50, so I'll do a 51.
Canned Heat - Going Up The Country


7. Is there a song by 4 that makes you sad?
Deftones.
Hmm, yes, if I'm in the mood. Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away) (Acoustic) makes me think alot!

8. What is your favourite song by 15?
Audioslave - Be Yourself.

9. What is your favourite song by 5?
Dream Theater.
Tricky! The Glass Prison, Home, Honor Thy Father and This Dying Soul is four songs I really like at the moment.

10. Is there a song by 6 that makes you happy?
Raga Rockers.
All of them! But my favourite is Hun er fri.

11. What is your favourite album by 40?
Shadows Fall.
I hate them. xD

12. What is your favourite song by 10?
Dimmu Borgir.
At the moment it's Sorgens Kammer. Amaaaaazing!

13. What is a good memory you have involving 33?
Kamelot.
It reminds me of Stine, and that is GOOD! :D

14. What is your favourite song by 37?
I don't have a 37. And I don't have any favourite song by Tenacious D. :D

15. Is there a song by 19 that makes you happy?
Iron Maiden.
Nope, Iron Maiden is actually _really_ annoying.

16. How many times have you seen 21 live?
Stone Sour.
Zero.

17. What is the first song you ever heard by 23?
Immortal.
I think it was One By One.. Haha! Fangirl. <3

18. What is your favourite album by 11?
Bob Marley.
Legend.

19. Who is a favourite member of 1?
Metallica.
Kirk! No doubt.

20. Have you ever seen 14 live?
Incubus.
Nope.

21. What is a good memory involving 45?
Masterplan.
I have way too many good memories! :D

22. What is your favourite song by 16?
Death Cab for Cutie.
I Will Follow You Into The Dark.

23. What is the first song you ever heard by 47?
Rage Against the Machine.
Killing in the name of.

24. What is your favourite album by 36?
Manowar.
I don't now.

25. What is your favourite song by 18?
NOFX.
The whole I heard they suck live-album. :')

26. What is the first song you ever heard by 38?
The Dillinger Escape Plan.
I don't know why The Dillinger Escape Plan is on the list. I have never listened to them. xD

27. What is your favourite lyric by 3?
Volbeat.
Healing Subconsciously...Google it.

28. What is your favourite song by 2?
KoRn.
No One's There.

29. What was the first song you ever heard by 32?
Radiohead.
Creep.

30. What is your favourite song by 8?
Jack Johnson.
Good People.

31. How many times have you seen 17 live?
Pantera.
0, but Down is support for Metallica in July! :D

32. Is there a song by 44 that makes you happy?
Ryan Adams.
Nope!

33. What is you favourite album by 12?
Hellbillies.
Hahahahahaha, ALT! :D

34. What is the worst song by 34?
Staind.
Hmm, dunno.

35. What was the first song you ever heard by 46?
Queens Of The Stone Age.
No One Knows.

36. What is your favourite album by 42?
Jason Mraz.
The new one. xD

37. How many times have you seen 39 live?
Nirvana.
None.

38. What is your favourite album by 9?
BigBang.
[Too][Much][Yang]

39. What was the first song you ever heard by 28?
Foo Fighters.
The Pretender.

40. What is you favourite album by 7?
Tori Amos.
Little Earthquakes.

41. Is there a song by 31 that makes you happy?
I don't have a 31 so I will do a 30.
Sufjan Stevens.
To be alone with you.

42. What is your favorite album by 41?
Motorhead.
No idea.

43. What is your favorite song by 24?
Arcturus.
Star Crossed.

44. What is a good memory you have involving 46?
Masterplan.
Again, many.

45. What is your favorite song by 35?
Ayreon.
I don't know. The whole cd I've heard is amazing.

46. Is there a song by 9 that makes you happy?
BigBang.
Girl In Oslo, and Too Much Yang.

47. What is your favorite album by 4?
Deftones.
Around the Fur.

48. Who is a favorite member of 36?
Manowar.
Eeeew. xD

49. What is the first song you ever heard by 43?
No 43.

50. How many albums do you own by 20?
Allen/Lande.
Where Have The Angels Gone.

First, make a list of your top-20 artists overall. Then, for each of these artists, add the 8 most similar artists to your list. Delete any duplicates, count up the number of entries on your list and this will give you some idea of how eclectic your listening habits are. A score of 9 represents an extremely unvaried musical taste while a 180 represents an extremely varied one.

1: Patrick Wolf
2: final fantasy
3: antony and the johnsons
4: beirut
5: rufus wainwright
6: the libertines
7: tom vek
8: bright eyes
9: The Cat Empire
10: the whitlams
11: the beautiful girls
12: the john butler trio
13: lior
14: the waifs
15: bernard fanning
16: josh pyke
17: eskimo joe
18: Manu Chao
19: mano negra
20: amparanoia
21: babylon circus
22: sergent garcia
23: los fabulosos cadillacs
24: buena vista social club
25: orishas
26: macaco
27: Thievery Corporation
28: tosca
29: zero 7
30: kruder and dorfmeister
31: a forest mighty black
32: nightmares on wax
33: bonobo
34: massive attack
35: rockers hi-fi
36: Kula Shaker
37: the jeevas
38: the charlatans
39: ocean colour scene
40: supergrass
41: suede
42: the bluetones
43: shed seven
44: the stone roses
45: The White Stripes
46: the raconteurs
47: beck
48: yeah yeah yeahs
49: the strokes
50: jack white
51: modest mouse
52: The Flaming Lips
53: wilco
54: pavement
55: neutral milk hotel
56: yo la tengo
57: the polyphonic spree
58: of Montreal
59: Muse
60: placebo
61: radiohead
62: arctic monkeys
63: coldplay
64: kasabian
65: kaiser chiefs
66: keane
67: Rage Against the Machine
68: slipknot
69: red hot chili peppers
70: system of a down
71: beastie boys
72: limp bizkit
73: korn
74: deftones
75: a perfect circle
76: Bob Marley & The Wailers
77: the wailers
78: peter tosh
79: bob marley
80: burning spear
81: ziggy marley
82: jimmy cliff
83: black uhuru
84: israel vibration
85: Canned Heat
86: mountain
87: foghat
88: the animals
89: three dog night
90: joe walsh
91: bob seger
92: stevie ray vaughan and double trouble
93: the edgar winter group
94: Sublime
95: slightly stoopid
96: 311
97: long beach dub all stars
98: pepper
99: reel big fish
100: catch 22
101: operation ivy
102: blind melon
103: Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
104: the human league
105: ultravox
106: yazoo
107: heaven 17
108: erasure
109: visage
110: thompson twins
111: ABC
112: Jurassic 5
113: blackalicious
114: the roots
115: a tribe called quest
116: dilated peoples
117: de la soul
118: gang starr
119: hieroglyphics
120: mos def
121: Jefferson Airplane
122: the doors
123: janis jopin
124: cream
125: 13th floor elevators
126: big brother and the holding company
127: grateful dead
128: strawberry alarm clock
129: jimi hendrix
130: Led Zeppelin
131: pink floyd
132: the who
133: lynyrd skynyrd
134: deep purple
135: the yardbirds
136: Tokyo Dragons
137: roadstar
138: hurricane party
139: big cock
140: the wildhearts
141: zodiac mindwarp and the love reaction
142: rattlesnake remedy
143: nashville pussy
144: diamond dogs
145: Ramones
146: joey ramone
147: sex pistols
148: the clash
149: misfits
150: dead kennedys
151: rancid
152: new york dolls
153: buzzcocks
154: Digitalism
155: simian mobile disco
156: boys noize
157: mstrkrft
158: goose
159: vicarious bliss
160: shitdisco
161: the presets
162: the klaxons
163: Pulp
164: blur
165: manic street preachers
166: the tears
167: new order
168:graham coxon
169:morrissey

169/180, not bad!

They've kept us posted on life on the road, they've shared background stories with us and they've conquered our ears and hearts on their European tour - thanks, gracias and Danke for that! Un Kuartito is back in Buenos Aires now and they're already working at new material - we can't wait compedres!! Hasta la proxima!

Ok, Kontanz was a good concert, people dance and some old faces from old tours and also from concerts that we left behind. Aftershow we talked with them and we were the last ones to go, wrap the back line and to sleep.

Next morning before take the ferry to the other side of the lake, we walk around the Bodense lake, and then to Lindau another old and familiar place. That concert we share stage with SuperSKAnk, nice fellows and after them everybody to dance, great response from the crowd, Club Vaudeville always nice to us and specially the food, what a chefs they have there!!!.

Long way to Jena and the place: Kassablanca. Wow!!! around 800 people, xlnt sound, stage a wild party in a packed place. Next morning back to Reutlingen and again for third time in this nice city with a day off before the concert, so everybody to buy some presents for the families. The concert was good, wasn't full only half, for a monday is OK and with good feelings that is more important.
Augsburg was our next stop and this time to the city were live our friend and promoter Manne. Good to see him again a warm hearted person that always took care of us. Again the place was full an a lot of students from Spain that come to see a latin band that sing in their own tongue, also friends from Munich came. The concert finished late and to bed because the next day to Switzerland and the old town of Fribourg.

This city is very old and we visit the old town next morning before return to Augsburg for a second gig, but first the concert was packed, of course the venue was little but were so many people that some stayed outside to only listen the concert. The concert at Augsburg was in a school and again our friends of Munich and the new friends from Spain showed up, a very good concert that we finished very late. Thanks Manne!

2 more concerts to go and back to Switzerland, back on the roads, as usual we got stop and the polizei start to look for drugs and guns, what they think we are????. Of course they didn't find nothing except: candies and some beers, two bottles of wine, and autographed picture of the outlaw Pretty Boyd Floyd, 3 machine guns, 5 rifles, 1 bazooka and my personal Magnum 44 the replica of Dirty Harry so I said: Do you feel lucky? So do ya punk!!!. What and assholes this bavarian Polizei.
They let's go after checking documents but they took a long time and after them the swiss border also stop us, so we got to the caffe Mokka very very late almost minutes before they open the doors.
Long time friend and owner Bert was there and also Andreas that they gave us a hand and in minutes we set up, we made sound and ready to roll. Bert is a very cool person, lot of experience and a kind of groovy collector that he put all as decoration at his place. If Andy Warhol were alive I'm sure that they become instant friends. Good concert and always Caffe Mokka take good care of the bands we appreciete that.

Finally the last concert in Jona, Susanne and Rodolfo were the organizers, very good concert and specially the last one of the tour, friends from Fribourg showed up and Julio from Zurich (well originally from Peru), he is part of our famly a very long time friend that always is ready to work and gave a hand, with him the end of the tour was complete.

Next morning with all our bags we travel non stop to Frankfurt airport, we left Jenny the minibus with some guy from the rental company that he woud return the backline to Gate to hell. Happy goodbyes and the band start the check in were in the meantime Ana Sol and this reporter took the flight to Barcelona. Here we close the log tour and as always some music were the one that were there all the time pumping the ears of everybody. In the past was Seeed first album, this Eurotour 2008 was and old band from Los Angeles, "Canned Heat", On the road again the leit motiv song and Remember Woodstock was always in our brains and singing everytime. A big thank you for Canned Heat drummer Fito de la Parra that he gave me that cd long time ago and make this long driving road much shorter. Keep rockin' Fito!!!!!.
That's all folks
UK
Ana Sol, Ariel, Emi, Fernando, Jose, Juan, Martin, Sebastian.


If you like Che Sudaka, Manu Chao, Sublime, Fidel Nadal or Obrint Pas etc. you'll love Un Kuartito!

An all vinyl evening:

The Slits - Typical Girls
Crass - Big A, Little A
Redskins - Keep On Keepin' On
The Monkees - Mary Mary
McCarthy - Get A Knife Between Your Teeth
Paul Haig - Heaven Help You Now

Scars - All About You
Clinic - Ipc Subeditors Dictate Our Youth
New Order - Ceremony
The Housemartins - Five Get Over Excited
Prefab Sprout - Faron Young

Belle and Sebastian - The State I Am In
Sundowners - Always You
Wire - Mannequin
The Wave Pictures - We Dress Up Like Snowmen
Trembling Blue Stars - Beautiful Blank

The Fall - The War Against Intelligence
Cookies - Don't Say Nothin' Bad (About My Baby)
Edwyn Collins - Don't Shilly Shally
Rosa Yemen - Larousse Baron Bic
The Fall - Wrong Place, Right Time

Rosa Yemen - Decryptated
Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers - Here Come The Martian Martians
Randy's Group – Royal Charley
McCarthy - The Well Of Loneliness
Dexys Midnight Runners - Keep It Part Two (Inferiority Part One)

Pacific - Barnoon Hill
Wah! Heat - Better Scream
The Fall - Big New Priest
jet stream - Ready To Leave
New Order - Vanishing Point

The Tough Alliance - Hung Up On A Dream
Prefab Sprout - Life Of Surprises
The Monochrome Set - Ten Dont's For Honeymooners
Crass – Nagasaki Nightmare
Crass - Reality Asylum

The Monochrome Set - Eine Symphonie Des Grauens
BMX Bandits - Sad?
Scritti Politti - Jacques Derrida
Canned Heat - Going Up The Country
Move - I Can Hear The Grass Grow

Kirsty MacColl - Terry
Orange Juice - I Can't Help Myself
Johnny Thunders & the Heartbreakers - All By Myself
Trembling Blue Stars - The Rainbow
The Cure - Plastic Passion

The Go-Betweens - Streets Of Your Town
Electronic - Disappointed
808 State - Pacific State
Saint Etienne - Kiss And Make Up
Crass - Bloody Revolutions

Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers - Buzz Buzz Buzz -
Skeeter Davis - I Can't Stay Mad At You
The Monochrome Set - He is Frank -
Franke - Jag Älskar Dig
Moscow Olympics - Still

The Cure - A Forest
Young Marble Giants - Final Day
Primal Scream - Imperial
Fire Engines - Get Up & Use Me
Fat Tulips - To Put It Bluntly

The Shangri-Las - Shout
Au Pairs - Inconvenience
Gang of Four - Damaged Goods
Christine's Cat - Your Love Is
The Fall - Psycho Mafia

The Fall - Repetition
The Fall - Totally Wired
The Fall - Guest Informant
Television Personalities - A Sense of Belonging

1. The Allman Brothers Band
2. Animal Collective
3. Arlo Guthrie
4. Bert Sommer
5. Blood, Sweat & Tears
6. Blue Öyster Cult
7. Bob Dylan
8. Bob Marley
9. Brownman Revival
10. Buckethead
11. Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
12. Canned Heat
13. Carlos Santana
14. Country Joe MacDonald
15. Country Joe and the Fish
16. Creedence Clearwater Revival
17. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
18. Crosby
19. Dave Matthews
20. Dead Meadow
21. Death Cab for Cutie
22. Deep Purple
23. Donovan
24. Drive-By Truckers
25. Feist
26. Frank Zappa
27. Grateful Dead
28. Hot Tuna
29. The Incredible String Band
30. Industrial Jew
31. Iron Butterfly
32. Israel Kamakawiwo'ole
33. Jack Johnson
34. Janis Joplin
35. Jefferson Airplane
36. Jerry Garcia
37. Jimi Hendrix
38. Joan Baez
39. Joe Cocker
40. John B. Sebastian
41. John Popper
42. Johnny Cash
43. Johnny Winter
44. Joni Mitchell
45. junior kilat
46. Keef Hartly
47. Led Zeppelin
48. Les Claypool
49. The Mamas & The Papas
50. Melanie
51. Mountain
52. Nash
53. Neil Young
54. New Grass Revival
55. Paul Butterfield Blues Band
56. Peter Tosh
57. Phil Lesh and Friends
58. Phish
59. Pink Floyd
60. The Polyphonic Spree
61. The Postal Service
62. Primus
63. Procol Harum
64. Quicksilver Messenger Service
65. Quill
66. Radiohead
67. Rainbow
68. Ravi Shankar
69. Regina Spektor
70. Richie Havens
71.Sha-Na-Na
72. Sly & The Family Stone
73. Steppenwolf
74. Steven Stills
75. Stockholm Syndrome
76. Strawberry Alarm Clock
77. The String Cheese Incident
78. Sufjan Stevens
79. Sweetwater
80. Ten Years After
81. The Band
82. The Beatles
83. The Decemberists
84. The Doors
85. The Other Ones
86. The Shins
87. The Who
88. Tim Hardin
89. Tropical Depression
90. Willie Nelson
91. Yann Tiersen

This is the second part for Un Kuartito's tour diary!

OK, here we are back again and as Canned Heat used to sing: on the road again!

Kiel was a good show, the people were great and everybody dance, we received friends from Lübeck so that complete the party. Also were a lot of Latin guys from different parts living at this north and cold city and they were very happy so they promise to come to the net show. Thanks Carlos you are my carnalito.

Next stop Hamburg and the Hafenklang, rainy as usual but what the heck is The Beatles town, so we arrived very early and there was Lars a warm and very tall German promoter that speak Spanish and was Andrea and Siri that they make it us feel at home. Concert packed and we have a great time, we got to come back here. Thank you Hamburg, thank you Lars, thank you Siri.

Next stop Hannover, Übersee home so double opportunity to be there with friends. Henning Übersee head man), show up with records, friends and co-workers so everything ready to rock the joint. We sleep at the same place so afterwards we stay there with more Latin immigrants and old friends, interviews, TV, everybody was there and the place was almost full and was MONDAY, incredible.

Karlsruhe, 5 hours drive to this legendary place were Dio, Fish, Mike Patton, Biohazard also play. Jörg, Kyle and Vivian were there so unload and sound check fast so we can have dinner with the excellent food that Vivian made. The concert was good and Martin our lead vocal and bass was with some fever for the last days so he made a good effort to put a good show, the rest of the band made double effort too. At the end everybody was happy and the people came to buy records, t shirts, pins etc... Thanks Substage for a good evening.

Next morning after have breakfast with Jörg we walked a little bit looking for internet and record stores and then head up to Wermelskirchen. Snow on our way but didn't stop us, we made it in time
and there was Steini and Carmen to receive us. The AJZ is a place that are making concerts for the last 17 years and at that place came bands like The Offspring, Green Dayy, NOFX, Wisecräcker, Laurel Aitken and many many more. The concert was good half of the venue with people and some technicals problem during the show, at least Martin is already well. We stayed for a while and then went to the bedrooms to sleep because next stop is Siegen and the famous Vortex.

Siegen concert is done, finish and a good feeling. Not too many people but from almost the first song they start to dance. After the concert people bought records, t-shirts and they really love the band, taking pictures with the musicians, autographs, guau feeling like rock stars NEH,!!!! just regular persons doing what we love to do, made people happy and a little bit more. So is time to sleep tomorrow we are going to Netherlands and for Un Kuartito is the first time but that is gonna be another story. So long for now

Continuara