WWW.BADFORMAT.CO.UK MUSIC CITY [email protected] PaulDuNoyer // // TheBirth&DeathOfCopyright SuperIslamBanana// //RecylingPop NaNoWriMo// PLUS UpToDateMusicWeekListings 4 PUBLISHED OCTOBER 2009 Thumbnails PretendFriends Editorial OCT/NOV Welcome to Issue 4 of BadFormat! Magazine It’s been a rollercoaster ride since the last issue - Bar Closures, Bar Launches, Bar Re-openings, and Editor’s missing in action. Liverpool’s sub-culture has never been so colourful. 2 // Thumbnails WINNER BadFormat! Social Club was closed, under a section 19 3 // Editorial closure order, in a bizarre encounter between the Police and legendary DJ John Kelly’s new night at BFSC: ENDUP! (Last 5 // The Birth & Death Of Copyright / Status Saturday of the month). It was welcome to the Terrordrome for us: a rude awaking to the heavy hands of the Police, in 6 // BadFormat’s Penguin Plug-In what was essentially a Shakedown. But we prevailed, re- opening within a few days 7 // Nature Vs Nurture While on the other side of town, sub-culture was on the move… 8 // Elevated The Heebies gang launched their latest adventure and re- 9 // Super Islam Banana opened The Masque. The Masque retains it’s roots in live music, but decided a course of steroids was required for the 10 // Recycling Pop / Nanowrimo PA system: Funkton 1 – sonic pioneers - was rolled out and installed not to only to provide hi-fi sonic clarity for live bands 11-14 // Liverpool Music Week Pullout but also to feed power the increasingly influential Chibuku & Circus. Downstairs, INK was launched – A Sailor Jerry’s 15 // Paul Du Noyer - Futuresound tattoo biker bar decked out with tattooed Suicide Girls! 16 // Fanwalkers Intrigue was afoot on Hardman St… It seems that all the cool Indie bars are retreating up Hardman 18 // Nevermind the Erics / Bedroom Jam Hill - An escape from the migrating Scallie hordes that have reached as far north as Heebies. 20-21 // Regulars and Reviews First of all we were treated to the opening of the new Baabar: Launched on the site of the old Geisha, BaaBar lies at the frontier of town, in a key but challenging location, but BaaBar EXECUTIVE EDITORS Scott Jones ([email protected]) look to have gotten it right. This new venture comes after the Laurence Easemen ([email protected]) huge success of The Bumper (BaaBar LTD) also on Hardman GUEST EDITOR Rosie Harris St. WORDS Jensen WIlder, Sarah Monteith, Framed Ink, Rosie Harris, Anna Machel, Liam Flanders, Isobel Jones Mindy Torr, Laurence Easeman, Scott Jones Korova is Dead. Long live Korova! After a brief closure, Burgerboy PICTURES Scott Jones, Will Johnston Contribute Korova decided to flee the lion’s den that is Concert Square, ART DIRECTION AND LAYOUT Scott BadFormat! ([email protected]) THANKS The Hawk, Gary Murphy, Andrew Edmundson, Denise Pendleton, And and uprooted their entire operation to the old Roadkill on Chris Hoole, Will Evans@Diageo, Louise Lynn@RedBull, Hope St. In less than a month they re-fitted and re-opened! 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Status! nikdoof @oscillik strangely enough, Scott from BadFormat said that one of the LUG members could DJ @jensenwilder - I’m buck-toothed and jabbering about the nation spirit - i need some sleep and maybe an apple sour to lll#bVhfjZ"a^kZgedda#Xdb reign in my rebel tongue @pjamesstuart - Kept awake by scally C argument next door and two housemates having unexpected and aggressive sex 30.10.09 - SON OF DAVE downstairs. @hootingyard - Facts About Weasels, Number One: A weasel can both kill a rabbit 30.10.09 - CRAZY P and wriggle through a wedding ring. http:// bit.ly/3A1npi 03.11.09 - DANIEL JOHNSTON @ptak - Telling the Future with Bones and Pee--or--the Lyricism of Urine Color Wheels 04.11.09 - BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB http://tinyurl.com/yhpg6e9 @SchapiroArchive - Processing boxes labeled “miscellaneous notes scattered on 04.11.09 - THE APPLES The Birth desk”...woe is me this Monday... @jchou ...met a brilliant man studying Japanese who says he fell from another By Laurence Easeman 04.11.09 - BROKEN RECORDS &DeathOfCopyright galaxy 100 years ago... we’re going to a musical sometime @themichaeladams - I love the words 06.11.09 - TWISTED WHEEL What is a “right”? control them. As surely as the rise of the printing press “Christian burial” ... Cadillac limousines, made the birth of copyright inevitable, so black umbrellas & no tears because wasps Superstitions to the contrary, rights are not Presto: Copyright! the rise of the Internet made the death of can’t cry 08.11.09 - DINOSAUR PILE UP magic spells emanating from some hairy Not because of any divine dispensation, not copyright inevitable. fairy in the sky. Rather, rights are codified for the greatest good of the greatest number expressions of underlying social power -- but simply because it could be done. Social adaptation to changing realities takes @cubemate - drifting through another part relationships. time, of course. It took years for copyright 09.11.09 - BRAND NEW HEAVIES of muzak land: watching the Monday night The printing press gave the state cost- law to reach its equilibrium form after the knitting circle work to smooth corporate For example, Americans have the right to effective control over the first mass medium, introduction of the printing press, and it will jazz... 10.11.09 - CHROME HOOF hum or whistle any tune they like as they and “copyright” arose as the codified take years for copyright law to evaporate drive to work. expression of that power. now that technology has obsoleted it. Why? To put it perfectly plainly: The printing press @tokyohanna - Just saw a girl dressed at the intersection of high fashion and 1930s Because of divine dispensation? created copyright. Nerve impulses travel slowly down the insane asylum. Marry me? 10.11.09 - BLUE ROSES Because the RIAA out of the goodness of But what technological progress creates, it nervous system of the dinosaur of state, its heart decided to allow free exercise of can also destroy. and nowhere more slowly than through the @erikjansen - from now on i’m post- this right? hindbrain that is the morass of case law. everything. post-modern, post-strategic, 11.11.09 - THE HOLLOWAYS No, because there is no cost-effective way The introduction of dirt-cheap desktop But the fact remains that copyright law is post-industrial, post-rock. pre and current of preventing Americans from doing so. computers and Internet communication the codification of a state power which no is for losers restored the pre-Gutenberg status quo longer exists, a lingering shadow which 11.11.09 - DANANANANAKROYD The moment a technology appears which ante. Armed with a desktop computer, cannot long outlive the light which cast it. makes it cost-effective to monitor what document reproduction has become fully Kathryn Jones - Thiller Halloween Party tonight at BadFormat! Come show us your Americans are humming and whistling as decentralized and uncontrollable as it Copyright -- the notion that the state has moonwalk! (9 til late) £3!x 13.11.09 - THE BAYS in their spare time, be assured that the was before the introduction of the printing the power to tell people what they can and RIAA will be pitching legislation to the US press.