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Richard

we have to go back

About Me

i'm a fan. a listener. a hanger-on. i spend a lot of time listening to music, a lot of time thinking about music, a lot of time writing about music and a lot of time talking to musicians. the one thing i never, ever do is make music.
i write for the sound projector magazine . it's an honour to appear in its pages. buy a copy and keep ed the editor happy.
i've also written for grooves magazine .
i live and work in vienna, austria. i contribute to ether , the magazine for vienna's english speaking community.
these days you can mostly find me at viennese waltz .

My Interests

music. film. visual art. good quality tv. reading. drinking. my wife and son. vienna.

I'd like to meet:

people who agree that you should do as you would be done by.

Music:

peter hammill. van der graaf generator. swans. current 93. death in june. nurse with wound. godspeed you black emperor. 10,000 maniacs. the cowboy junkies. einstürzende neubauten. the dirty three. zoviet france. tindersticks. spiritualized. saint etienne. peter brötzmann. attacco decente. neu. laura cantrell. kraftwerk. test dept. stereolab. the copper family. shirley collins. angels of light. jarboe. low. nick cave. gillian welch. jandek. anthony braxton. philip glass. steve reich. amm. richard thompson. bob dylan. leonard cohen. the velvet underground. joy division. king crimson. dead can dance. whitehouse. albert ayler. evan parker. tim keegan. laika. sunburned hand of the man. marissa nadler. carla bruni. bruce springsteen. lucinda williams. red house painters. cocteau twins. stockhausen. sagor and swing.

Movies:

the wicker man. paris, texas. the shawshank redemption. don't look now. twelve angry men. heimat. wonderland. if. o lucky man. before sunrise/sunset. picnic at hanging rock. three colours: red. the lives of others.

Television:

lost. er.

Books:

ian mcewan, the child in time. adam thorpe, ulverton. martin amis, money.

Heroes:

leonard cohen. peter hammill.

My Blog

over there

for anyone still interested, i'm not updating this page much anymore. updates can be found at viennese waltz....
Posted by Richard on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 06:35:00 PST

denk

saw my first concert of 2008 on saturday night - an "ausgsteckt" (unplugged) performance by austrian group denk. this was an unusual one for me, partly because it was much poppier fare than i'm used ...
Posted by Richard on Mon, 04 Feb 2008 09:00:00 PST

wire

happy new year. some kind of letter from me in the wire again this month. check it out, if you're not bored by my ramblings.
Posted by Richard on Mon, 07 Jan 2008 01:56:00 PST

star spot

back from christmas in the uk. star spot: brian eno, in oxford town centre on christmas eve. it's good to know that even phenomenally intelligent theorists of art and music leave their christmas sho...
Posted by Richard on Mon, 31 Dec 2007 02:50:00 PST

concerts of 2007

Here are my top ten concerts of 2007:1. Anthony Braxton - Porgy & Bess2. Peter Brötzmann & Keiji Haino - Porgy & Bess*3. Van Der Graaf Generator - Nuremberg4. Philip Glass, Music In Twelve Parts - Lon...
Posted by Richard on Sun, 09 Dec 2007 03:00:00 PST

the sound projector

the new issue of the sound projector magazine is out now. this time round i've contributed reviews of cultural amnesia, nurse with wound, colin potter, michael gira, graf & zyx, maurizio bianch...
Posted by Richard on Mon, 03 Dec 2007 06:52:00 PST

okkervil river

took the s-bahn over to the szene last night for a concert by okkervil river. this group were a new name to me, i only looked them up when doing research for the column and immediately liked what i ...
Posted by Richard on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 08:39:00 PST

porcupine tree

trudged through the first snow of winter to the arena last night for a concert by the british group porcupine tree. their fusion of progressive and hard rock didn't really grab me throughout, but th...
Posted by Richard on Fri, 16 Nov 2007 03:50:00 PST

viennale 2007

just realised i failed to file a report on the two films i saw at the vienna film festival last month. so i need to rectify that. first up was the scott walker documentary 30 century man. this was...
Posted by Richard on Thu, 15 Nov 2007 02:41:00 PST

brötzmann and haino

i'm still reeling from saturday night's awesome soundclash between peter brötzmann and keiji haino at porgy & bess. it was a stunning performance, with brötzmann firing on all cylinders from the...
Posted by Richard on Mon, 12 Nov 2007 03:12:00 PST