12.09.2009
Jacket Hangs By The Blue Aeroplanes
This is a band that have been perennial fringe occupiers ever since they first appeared in 1984. Critically they were lauded by all and sundry. Here is the Melody Maker on the album Swagger from which the track 'Jacket Hangs' comes from: "…the most exhilarating live band in the country have at last completed a long-playing record of incomparable genius…".
Headed by singer cum poet Gerard Langley, the make up of the band has changed or evolved numerous times. Well over seventy artists have contributed to the bands discography, not least amongst them Michael Stipe. Mind you the front page of the band's website does have a gushing quote from Athens' most famous son: "Awesome, singular, revelatory".
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The Most Significant Events of the Next Thousand Y
The essay below,with modifications and additions, derives from successive revisions of a talk I gave at the 1988 World Future Society meetings. The first major revision was my paper, 'The Most Significant Events of the Next Thousand Years,' in Futures Research Quarterly, 1992, vol. 8, pp. 5-21. The second was my chapter, 'The Most Significant Events of the Next Thousand Years,' in Richard A. Slaughter, Editor, The Knowledge Base of Futures Studies, Volume 3, Directions & Outlooks. Kew, Victoria, Australia: 1996. Pp. 245-267. I made further changes in 2001, 2005, 2006, 2007, and for this 2009 version.
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