MOPI

MOPI IS A BAND FROM POLAND. SINCE I'VE BEEN INVOLVED WITH SELLABAND, I AM CONTINUALLY AMAZED AND SURPRISED BY THE FANTASTIC VARIETY AND HIGH STANDARD OF MUSIC THERE IS AROUND. OF COURSE THE GREAT THING ABOUT SELLABAND TO ME IS THAT IT IS EUROCENTRIC, AND I HAVE FOUND SO MANY WONDERFUL ACTS FROM NON ENGLISH SPEAKING COUNTRIES. SO, THIS WEEK I'M GOING TO INTRODUCE SOME ACTS FROM POLAND, STARTING WITH MOPI.
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DRUMMERS ARE ELITE ATHLETES!?

UNIVERSITY RESEARCHERS IN ENGLAND HAVE JUST ANNOUNCED THAT DRUMMERS ARE ON A PAR WITH OLYMPIC ATHLETES. HERE ARE PICS OF SOME DRUMMERS I KNOW, SO WHO COULD ARGUE?DRUMMER WAYNE THOMAS, LEFT OF PHOTO.
THE LATE STEWIE SPEER, WAS AN ATHLETIC FREAK. AND THERE IS KEITH SLINGERLAND, BUT YOU ALL KNOW WHAT HE LOOK LIKE FROM HIS EXPLOITS IN BALI.

IT'S A SLOW NEWS WEEKEND

WITH THE POPE IN TOWN, SPREADING PEACE AND LOVE, OH AND APOLOGIES FOR HIS SEXUALLY DEPRAVED PRIESTS, I REMEMBERED SOME PICS FROM BALI THAT HAVE BEEN LINGERING.
THE PIC BELOW OF THE BALI BONKERS BASS PLAYER, SHE HAS A BASS IN HER HANDS TO PROVE SHE REALLY IS A BASS PLAYER.


THE HERBERTS REGULAR BASS PLAYER, "H" WAS LAID UP WITH A SERIOUS FUNGUS INFECTION BETWEEN HER TOES.

THERE ARE SOME UNUSUAL RESTAURANTS IN BALI, AND HERE IS ONE WITH A VEGETARIAN CUISINE.

OUR ECONOMY IS TO GET A BOOST.

IT HAS BEEN ANNOUNCED THAT THE SYDNEY ECONOMY WILL GET A BOOST OF $230 MILLION FROM EXTRA BUSINESS THE CATHOLIC HAPPY CLAPPERS WILL BRING. THAT'S A BLOODY BIG LOAD OF CHINESE SNOW DOMES, KOALAS AND DIDGERIDOOS!

CHRISTIANITY IN ACTION

I WAS INTERESTED TO READ THAT ABOUT 100 HOMELESS PEOPLE WHO NORMALLY SLEEP IN HYDE PARK HAVE BEEN MOVED ON TO MAKE WAY FOR THE WORLD YOUTH DAY FESTIVITIES. I'M SURE THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN VERY ANNOYING TO PILGRIMS.
IMAGINE PILGRIMS FROM 3RD WORLD AND DEVELOPING COUNTRIES HAVING TO SHARE A PARK WITH OUR AFFLUENT DEVELOPED WORLD HOMELESS. IT WOULD HAVE BEEN AN OUTRAGE.

GEOFFRY GURRUMUL UNUPINGU

GURRUMUL IS DOING A SERIES OF CONCERTS IN SYDNEY. IF YOU EVER GET THE CHANCE TO HEAR HIM, DO.

BLIND CONCERT GOERS

IT'S NOT UNUSUAL TO HEAR OF RUSSIANS GETTING BLIND, BUT THIS TIME IT'S A BIT MORE PERMANENT. 30 PEOPLE AT THE AQUAMARINE MUSIC FESTIVAL NEAR MOSCOW LAST WEEK, WERE BLINDED BY A LASER LIGHT SHOW THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE POINTED INTO THE SKY, BUT WAS INSTEAD POINTED AT THE AUDIENCE.

A TRIP TO PLANET PLUTO ON SELLABAND

MY CURRENT MUSIC PROJECT IS CALLED PLANET PLUTO, A MUSICAL JOURNEY FROM EARTH TO PLUTO, WITH VARIOUS STOPOVERS ALONG THE WAY. IT IS A JOURNEY IN A SHIP RIDING THE SOLAR WINDS. I HAVE SET THE SCENE ALREADY, WITH THREE TRACKS CONTEMPLATING THE VOYAGE, WITH ME AS THE JOURNEY AGENT. THE TERM "JOURNEY AGENT" WAS PENNED IN A ROLAND KIRK TUNE, "THEME FOR THE EULIPIONS". SO, IT IS A HUMBLE TRIBUTE ON MY PART TO HIM.
THE FIRST LEG OF THIS VOYAGE IS A MODEST ONE, WHERE WE DROP ANCHOR IN THE SEA OF TRANQUILITY.
THE STORY WILL BE CONTINUED.