Le Rayon Vert

Sorry for the lack of updates, there’s been so much going on (I’ve managed something like 17 gigs in 17 days recently, and have another 6 or so before next week).

I just heard that there’s some sort of noise thing happening at Format (on Peel St) tonight, starts at 6. Later tonight hip-hop MC Busdriver is playing at Arcade Lane. He’s from LA & has worked with the excellent Daedelus in the past. He also plays Rocket on Friday.

Also on Friday is Robert Forster which is apparently sold out. On Saturday is Dinosaur Jr, and also Naked on the Vague at the Metro. On Sunday night there’ll be the big format festival closing night.

I have a feeling that there is also something on tomorrow but there’s so much that I’m having trouble keeping track! If anyone knows of anything good on Thursday 11th then let me know.

Also the Jandek tour has been confirmed! He plays at the Gov on March 28. He will be backed by David Keenan and Heather Leigh Murray, and supporting is Primitive Calculators. This is amazing, go to it. I’m sick of great bands coming to Adelaide and no-one turning up (e.g. the absolutely brilliant Curse ov Dialect last weekend).

Unfortunately upcoming tours by two of the greatest NZ bands, The Bats and The Chills, will both miss Adelaide.

MARCH

• 10th Busdriver at Arcade Lane.
• 12th Robert Forster is the guest at Julia Zemiro’s Comfort Zone in the Spiegeltent.
• 12th Busdriver at Rocket.
• 13th Dinosaur Jr at Fowlers Live.
• 13th Hit the Jackpot with Naked on the Vague at the Metro.
• 14th Format Festival Closing night with Naked on the Vague, Fkn Tutts, Fair Maiden, Burnt Skulls, Dud Pills.
• 18th Raekwon at HQ.
• 21st Massive Attack at the Entertainment Centre.
• 25th The Pixies at Thebby (playing Doolittle)
• 25th Eddy Current Suppression Ring at Jive.
• 28th Jandek with the Primitive Calculators and Black Widow at the Gov.

APRIL

• 9th Kid Sam at the Metro.
• 16th Mountain Goats at Fowler’s Live supported by The Crayon Fields.
• 18th The Sea Thieves & Cheer Advisory Council at the Grace Emily.
• 24th Zulya at Nexus Cabaret.
• 24th No Through Road and We All Want To at the Metro.

On the Stereo

• Farafina - Nemako cd (Intuition)
• Tinariwen - Aman Iman cd (World Village)
• Tony Allen – Secret Agent cd (World Circuit)
• Dinosaur Jr – Farm cd (Jagjaguwar)
• Death – For the Whole World to See cd (Drag City)
• Joanna Newsom – Have One On Me 3cd (Drag City)
• The Sea and Cake – Everybody cd (Thrill Jockey)
• Wagon Christ – Sorry I Make You Lush cd (Ninja Tune)
• Luke Vibert - Chicago, Detroit, Redruth cd (Planet Mu)
• Squarepusher – Hello Everything cd (Warp)

Big news this week is that Pimmon is coming back to town. He played a couple of my favourite shows of the year back in 2008. This time he’s playing a show at the Electronic Music Unit at Adelaide Uni which should be a really excellent venue for him. The details are

“Pimmon
“A performance like a slow-motion white water torrent. In space.”
with Christian Haines
Saturday 20 February
9.00pm sharp
THE EMU SPACE, Electronic Music Unit
5th Floor, Schulz Building, University of Adelaide

http://emu.adelaide.edu.au/contact/

$5 entry
(enter via the Scott Theatre lifts behind the Schulz building, Kintore Avenue, Gate 15)”

This is an excellent chance to see a unique Australian artist who does not perform live very often, in a superb performance space. I can’t recommend it highly enough. At this time of year lots of Adelaide people go out to all sort of shows that they wouldn’t normally go to, associated with the festival or the fringe, but stuff like this often slips through the cracks because it doesn’t get such high profile advertising. Paying $5 is not much of a risk to take to experience something different though. Here is a great review of his latest album if you want to know more.

On the topic of the Fringe Festival, one thing that really stands out is the Shimmering West Music Festival taking place on light square. It involves some local favourites like Satan’s Cheerleaders and God God Dammit Dammit, but even better it brings the long awaited return of the brilliant Curse Ov Dialect. Unfortunately much of it clashes with Womadelaide, it’ll depend on the full Womad schedule but I’ll do my best to get up to Light Square for Curse of Dialect on Friday 5th of March.

Last week the Laneway Festival was great, highlights were The XX, Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Kid Sam, Hockey and Echo & the Bunnymen. Some good news is that Kid Sam will be back in town for a show at the Metro in April.

Some tours that are missing Adelaide are NZ legends The Bats (April) and The Chills (May). Also a bit of a disappointment is that Kid Koala is missing Adelaide on an upcoming tour, he’s always played here to good crowds on his previous tours. Also, soon to be announced is a tour by Tortoise, but they’ve never been here before so an Adelaide date is quite unlikely.

Tasmanians (or at least that’s where they started) The Paradise Motel are back after a 10 year absence, only a Melbourne show at this point though. A couple of the members (one original and one new) used to play in Adelaide band The Outland Brothers.

No details yet but Zulya will be visiting Adelaide again around April-May on a tour supporting the release of her new album.

A rumour that has been around is that The Wedding Present might tour Australia. They’re upcoming world tour is celebrating the 20th anniversary of their classic album Bizarro so that would be brilliant if they did make it here.

Finally, one more reminder that this Friday I’ll be doing a DJ set at the Metro. You can expect to hear some great post punk from the likes of PIL, Gang of Four, Wire, The Fall, Pere Ubu, Laughing Clowns, The Birthday Party, Joy Division and lots more.

FEBRUARY

• 11th RZA at Fowler’s Live.
• 12th Le Rayon Vert DJ Set at the Metro.
• 13th Avant Gardeners at the Metro.
• 13th Satan’s Cheerleaders at Higher Ground.
• 19th Yo La Tengo at Fowler’s Live.
• 20th Pimmon with Christian Haines at the EMU, Adelaide Uni.
• 20th Steering By Stars, Sincerely Grizzly at the Jade Monkey.
• 23rd Brian Jonestown Massacre at Fowlers.
• 25th Like Leaves and Steering By Stars at the Ed Castle.
• 25th Satan’s Cheerleaders at Light Square.
• 26th Satan’s Cheerleaders at the Crown & Anchor.
• 26th Hit the Jackpot at Supermild.
• 27th London Sinfonietta: Pacific Currents at the Adelaide Town Hall.
• 28th London Sinfonietta: Wind & Glass at the Adelaide Town Hall.

MARCH

• 5-8th WOMADelaide at Botanic Park with the Skatalites, Calexico, Ravi Shankar, Dean & Britta, Ethiopiques and lots more.
• 5th Clue to Kalo & Shame Spiral at the Metro.
• 5th Curse ov Dialect at Light Square.
• 6th Wayne Shorter Quartet at the Festival Theatre.
• 7th The Necks at the Spiegeltent.
• 7th Pavement at Thebby
• 7th God God Dammit Dammit at Light Square.
• 12th Robert Forster is the guest at Julia Zemiro’s Comfort Zone in the Spiegeltent.
• 13th Dinosaur Jr at Fowlers Live.
• 13th Hit the Jackpot with Naked on the Vague at the Metro.
• 18th Raekwon at HQ.
• 21st Massive Attack at the Entertainment Centre.
• 24th The Pixies at Thebby (playing Doolittle)
• 28th Jandek with the Primitive Calculators at the Gov ? (TBC)

APRIL

• 9th Kid Sam at the Metro.
• 16th Mountain Goats at Fowler’s Live.
• 24th No Through Road and We All Want To at the Metro.

On the Stereo

• Monade – Monstre Cosmic cd (Too Pure)
• Luke Vibert - Chicago, Detroit, Redruth cd (Planet Mu)
• DJ Youngsta – Dubstep Allstars Vol.2 cd (Tempa)
• Monolake – Hongkong Remastered cd (Monolake)
• The Field – From Here We Go Sublime cd (Kompakt)
• Autechre – Quaristice (Versions) cd (Warp)
• Various – Loose Cannon: Sounds from the Australian Experimental Underground 2cd (no label)
• Skalpel - s/t cd (Ninja Tune)
• DJ Kentaro - Enter cd (Ninja Tune)
• Aesop Rock - Labor Days cd (Def Jux)

Not sure if there’s an official announcement yet, but it looks like Jandek will play in Adelaide on March 28. Liveguide lists an Australian tour, but just with dates & states, on the Mess & Noise forums Melvo says it’s at the Gov with the Primitive Calculators. If it is true then well done to Heathen Skulls for being a tour promoter that brings artists to Adelaide, last year they were responsible for the Lightning Bolt tour.

Here is the info from their website:

Hailing from Houston, Texas, Jandek is the musical project of an outsider musician whose name and identity has been a mystery for over 30 years. Since 1978, Jandek has self-released over 60 albums of dissonant and often emotionally dissolute folk / blues through his label Corwood Industries.

Jandek often plays a highly idiosyncratic and frequently atonal form of folk and blues, that border very closely on the avant-garde. Refusing to use any form of traditionalism with structure, chords and tuning, Jandek has created a stylized form of music that is entirely his own. Lyrically he mirrors the country blues and folk traditions of East Texas, but sonically, he’s in a league of his own.

In 2004, a documentary was released entitled ‘Jandek on Corwood’. It documented Jandek’s recorded history and the people that have had contact with him, which is not many as he had never played live and only granted one interview, and that was back in 1985. Up until 2004 no one was certain of his identity.

The mystery of Jandek’s identity was unveiled in October 2004 when he appeared for the first time live at the 04 Music Festival in Glasgow, Scotland. He has since made a number of live appearances at festivals like All Tomorrow’s Parties, Pitchfork and SXSW.

Up until 2009, Jandek’s backing band consisted of musicians from bands such as Tortoise, Grails, Quasi and Grouper - his backing band changed for each performance, depending on who was available at the time. In 2009 he settled on a permanent rhythm section from Glasgow, Scotland, which consists of Volcanic Tongue Records owner and WIRE contributor David Keenan (Drums), and his partner Heather Leigh Murray.

Heathen Skulls is very proud to present for the first time in Australia, JANDEK!

Coming up this Friday is the Laneway Festival. Gates open at 2pm. I’m keen to see Eddy Current Suppression Ring & The XX in particular, but there’s quite a few acts I know very little about so I’m keen on checking out some new music.

Also, coming up on the following Friday (Feb 12th) I’ll be doing a DJ set at the Metro with a post-punk theme.

FEBRUARY

• 5th Laneway Festival with Echo & The Bunnymen, Eddy Current Suppression Ring and lots more.
• 6th Steering By Stars at the Ed Castle with Red Ink.
• 11th RZA at Fowler’s Live.
• 12th Le Rayon Vert DJ Set at the Metro.
• 13th Avant Gardeners at the Metro.
• 13th Satan’s Cheerleaders at Higher Ground.
• 19th Yo La Tengo at Fowler’s Live.
• 20th Steering By Stars, Sincerely Grizzly at the Jade Monkey.
• 23rd Brian Jonestown Massacre at Fowlers.
• 25th Steering By Stars at the Ed Castle.
• 26th Satan’s Cheerleaders at the Crown & Anchor.
• 26th Hit the Jackpot at Supermild.
• 27th London Sinfonietta: Pacific Currents at the Adelaide Town Hall.
• 28th London Sinfonietta: Wind & Glass at the Adelaide Town Hall.

MARCH

• 5-8th WOMADelaide at Botanic Park with the Skatalites, Calexico, Ravi Shankar, Dean & Britta, Ethiopiques and lots more.
• 6th Wayne Shorter Quartet at the Festival Theatre.
• 7th The Necks at the Spiegeltent.
• 7th Pavement at Thebby
• 12th Robert Forster is the guest at Julia Zemiro’s Comfort Zone in the Spiegeltent.
• 13th Dinosaur Jr at Fowlers Live.
• 13th Hit the Jackpot with Naked on the Vague at the Metro.
• 18th Raekwon at HQ.
• 21st Massive Attack at the Entertainment Centre.
• 24th The Pixies at Thebby (playing Doolittle)
• 28th Jandek with the Primitive Calculators at the Gov ? (TBC)

APRIL

• 16th Mountain Goats at Fowler’s Live.

On the Stereo

• Public Image Ltd – Second Edition 2LP (Virgin)
• Public Image Ltd – Flowers of Romance LP (Warner Bros)
• Siouxsie and the Banshees – Once Upon A Time: The Singles LP (Polydor)
• The Cure – Faith LP (7)
• The Fall – The Wonderful & Frightning World of … LP (PVC)
• The Slits – Cut LP (Island)
• The Raincoats – s/t LP (Rough Trade)
• Laughing Clowns – Live: Prince Melon Bootleg series Volume 8 cd (Prince Melon)
• Laughing Clowns - Live: Prince Melon Bootleg series Volume 7 cd (Prince Melon)
• Flower / Corsano Duo – The Four Aims cd (VHF)

FEBRUARY

• 5th Laneway Festival with Echo & The Bunnymen, Eddy Current Suppression Ring and lots more.
• 6th Steering By Stars at the Ed Castle with Red Ink.
• 11th RZA at Fowler’s Live.
• 12th Le Rayon Vert DJ Set at the Metro.
• 13th Avant Gardeners at the Metro.
• 13th Satan’s Cheerleaders at Higher Ground.
• 19th Yo La Tengo at Fowler’s Live.
• 20th Steering By Stars, Sincerely Grizzly at the Jade Monkey.
• 23rd Brian Jonestown Massacre at Fowlers.
• 25th Steering By Stars at the Ed Castle.
• 26th Satan’s Cheerleaders at the Crown & Anchor.
• 26th Hit the Jackpot at Supermild.
• 27th London Sinfonietta: Pacific Currents at the Adelaide Town Hall.
• 28th London Sinfonietta: Wind & Glass at the Adelaide Town Hall.

MARCH

• 5-8th WOMADelaide at Botanic Park with the Skatalites, Calexico, Ravi Shankar, Dean & Britta and lots more.
• 6th Wayne Shorter Quartet at the Festival Theatre.
• 7th The Necks at the Spiegeltent.
• 7th Pavement at Thebby
• 12th Robert Forster is the guest at Julia Zemiro’s Comfort Zone in the Spiegeltent.
• 13th Dinosaur Jr at Fowlers Live.
• 13th Hit the Jackpot with Naked on the Vague at the Metro.
• 18th Raekwon at HQ.
• 24th The Pixies at Thebby (playing Doolittle)

Rumour has it that the Wedding Present are looking to possibly tour Australia after a visit to Japan in May. An Adelaide show might be a bit much to ask for … perhaps another visit to Melbourne will be required if it happens.

Also one of my favourite bands from my Sydney days were Crow, they’re back together and have a new album on the way so a tour should be on the cards as well.

On the Stereo

• Joe Morris Quartet – Today On Earth cd (AUM Fidelity)
• Vic Chesnutt – North Star Deserter cd (Constellation)
• Thee Silver Mt Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band – 13 Blues for Thirteen Moons cd (Constellation)
• Neko Case – Middle Cyclone cd (Anti)
• Death – … For the Whole World to See cd (Drag City)
• Lightning Bolt - Earthly Delights cd (Load)
• Mark Stewart + Maffia - Learning to Cope With Cowardice cd (On U Sound)
• Machinefabriek - Weleer 2cd (Lampse)
• Chicks on Speed – Cutting the Edge 2cd (Chicks on Speed)
• Max Tundra – Parallax Error Beheads You cd (Domino)

It happened almost a week ago but I’ve only just heard that Eric Rohmer has died. He was, for me, the best film director there has been. It’s hard to descibe, since many people seem to find his films boring, but for me they are perfect. This blog is named for one of them, but I have greatly enjoyed them all, and while he did live to a good age and was making films almost to the end, I still cannot help but be very sad at the news. No more Rohmer, no more Bergman … for me no-one matches these two, and now they are both gone.

Read more from Roger Ebert, The Measure or at the New York Times.

The other day I was excited at the prospect of a new album from A Silver Mt Zion coming out very soon, now I’ve found out that two more of my favourite artists have new ones out in the next couple of months – Autechre and Joanna Newsom.

I’ve had a dig around on youtube to find some great videos of some of their older work, first up some nice unofficial Autechre video clips:

Clipper from Tri Repetae

Dropp from EP7

A lesson in how to dance to Autechre featuring Cfern from Confield.

Now some videos for A Silver Mt Zion:

Movie (Never Made) from He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of Our Rooms

and a live clip of 1,000,000 Died to Make This Sound from 13 Blues for Thirteen Moons in two parts (great footage but low quality upload, also the song is interrupted due to a weird setup at the festival):

Next, here is some live footage of Joanna Newsom from ATP curated by the Dirty Three (on the topic of Joanna Newsom live, at the show at the Forum next week she’ll be supported by the excellent Ned Collette & Wirewalker)

Bridges and Balloond from The Milk-eyed Mender

Monkey and Bear from Ys at the same show

Just a few small updates on the last post.

Satan’s Cheerleaders play at the Cranka this Friday, their first show since they played a great gig last year with God God Dammit Dammit & the Barons of Tang at Enigma. Well worth seeing, and for those who are already familiar with them there’s some great new material to hear.

Saturday offers an excellent choice between Neko Case at Fowlers, or Legends of Motorsport plus No Through Road at the Metro.

One more thing this weekend is that this Sunday arvo I’ll be doing a DJ set at the Metro from 4-7pm, and I’m in the mood for reggae.

Coming up in February is a rare gig by the Avant Gardeners at the Metro on the 13th. They were last spotted at Winnerfest in May last year (video here).

Also, I’d previously listed the Dinosaur Jr gig in March as being on the 12th – fortunately that was wrong, it’s on the 13th. Fortunate because Robert Forster is appearing that night at Julia Zemiro’s Comfort Zone.

Here’s Satan’s Cheerleaders at the Cranka last year (Adelaide band video care of Spoz as usual)

Something else to check out – Mess & Noise have an interview with Vince Giarrusso from the Underground Lovers about their album Rushall Station (as pictured in an earlier post here)

Also to celebrate the upcoming release of a new album from A Silver Mt Zion (or whatever variant of their name they’ll be using this time) here is a live performance of Blind Blind Blind from their last album (in two parts)

and from their second album,  Could’ve Moved Mountains, again in two parts.

It would be really nice if they finally tour Australia after this one. In fact, in a little over a week they will be right at the top of my list of bands that I desperately to want to see live. Expect more Silver Mt Zion promotion in future posts in the hope that I convert some fans and they buy the album and then the band tours because they are so popular here. I can hope can’t I?

One more piece of news before I get on with the gig listings – SWANS ARE NOT DEAD.

JANUARY

• 15th Satan’s Cheerleaders at the Crown & Anchor
• 16th Neko Case at Fowlers Live
• 16th Legends of Motorsport & No Through Road at the Metro.
• 17th Le Rayon Vert DJ set at the Metro.
• 20th Handsome Family at the Grace Emily.
• 20th (Melbourne) Joanna Newsom at the Forum.
• 21st (Melbourne) The Dirty Three and the Laughing Clowns at the Forum
• 22nd The Dirty Three at Fowlers Live.
• 22nd (Melbourne) The Laughing Clowns at the East Brunswick Club.
• 23rd (Melbourne) Camera Obscura at the Corner Hotel.

FEBRUARY

• 5th Laneway Festival with Echo & The Bunnymen, Eddy Current Suppression Ring and lots more.
• 11th RZA at Fowler’s Live.
• 12th Le Rayon Vert DJ Set at the Metro.
• 13th Avant Gardeners at the Metro.
• 19th Yo La Tengo at Fowler’s Live.
• 27th London Sinfonietta: Pacific Currents at the Adelaide Town Hall.
• 28th London Sinfonietta: Wind & Glass at the Adelaide Town Hall.

MARCH

• 5-8th WOMADelaide at Botanic Park with the Skatalites, Calexico, Ravi Shankar, Dean & Britta and lots more.
• 6th Wayne Shorter Quartet at the Festival Theatre.
• 7th The Necks at the Spiegeltent.
• 7th Pavement at Thebby
• 12th Robert Forster is the guest at Julia Zemiro’s Comfort Zone in the Spiegeltent.
• 13th Dinosaur Jr at Fowlers Live.
• 18th Raekwon at HQ.
• 24th The Pixies at Thebby (playing Doolittle)

On the Stereo

• Cat Power – The Greatest cd (Matador)
• Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – Wilding in the West (Spunk)
• Larsen – Musm II cd (Important)
• Magik Markers – A Panegyric to the Things I Do Not Understand cd (Gulcher)
• Fugazi - In On the Killtaker cd (Dischord)
• The Sea and Cake - s/t cd (Thrill Jockey)
• Jim O’Rourke – The Visitor cd (Spunk / Drag City)
• Mercury Rev – The Peel Sessions 2cd (Universal)
• Animal Collective - Fall Be Kind cdep (Domino)
• Björk - Voltaic cd (Nonesuch)

There seem to be a lot of gigs happening on the same nights in this week’s gig guide, so possibly some tough choices coming. There’s four things this Friday, I think it would be a bit overambitious for me to aim for more than two though. I’ll go for the two late additions – locals Cheer Advisory Council, who I’ve been wanting to see for quite a while, they’re probably on first so get to the Jade nice & early if you want to see them. Later on there’s Joker at the monthly dubstep night at Live on Light Square. I haven’t seen any for quite a while, probably not since Reso back in August, and a Joker set is supposed to be about as good as it gets, so I’m definitely keen.

Note also that another week brings another Wu Tang member to Adelaide, with Raekwon touring in March.

JANUARY

• 7th Dan V is playing a solo set with Two Suns at the Jade Monkey.
• 8th Kaki King at Jive.
• 8th Method Man & Redman at the Shores.
• 8th Cheer Advisory Council with the Honey Pies & Keepsakes at the Jade Monkey.
• 8th Joker at Live on Light Square
• 9th Like Leaves are supporting DZ at the Ed Castle.
• 9th No One Wants to Play With Me 2 at the Metro with lots of people from local bands playing solo.
• 16th Neko Case at Fowlers Live
• 16th Legends of Motorsport & No Through Road at the Metro.
• 17th Le Rayon Vert DJ set at the Metro.
• 20th Handsome Family at the Grace Emily.
• 20th (Melbourne) Joanna Newsom at the Forum.
• 21st (Melbourne) The Dirty Three and the Laughing Clowns at the Forum)
• 22nd The Dirty Three at Fowlers Live.
• 22nd (Melbourne) The Laughing Clowns at the East Brunswick Club.
• 23rd (Melbourne) Camera Obscura at the Corner Hotel.

FEBRUARY

• 5th Laneway Festival with Echo & The Bunnymen, Eddy Current Suppression Ring and lots more.
• 11th RZA at Fowler’s Live.
• 19th Yo La Tengo at Fowler’s Live.
• 27th London Sinfonietta: Pacific Currents at the Adelaide Town Hall.
• 28th London Sinfonietta: Wind & Glass at the Adelaide Town Hall.

MARCH

• 5-8th WOMADelaide at Botanic Park with the Skatalites, Calexico, Ravi Shankar, Dean & Britta and lots more.
• 6th Wayne Shorter Quartet at the Festival Theatre.
• 7th The Necks at the Spiegeltent.
• 7th Pavement at Thebby
• 12th Dinosaur Jr at Fowlers Live.
• 18th Raekwon at HQ.
• 24th The Pixies at Thebby (playing Doolittle)

On the Stereo

• Curse ov Dialect – Crisis Tales cd (Mistletone)
• The Fall – A Part of America Therein cd (Sanctuary)
• MV & EE with The Golden Road – Drone Trailer cd (DiCristina)
• Condo Fucks - Fuckbook cd (Matador)
• Fuck Buttons – Street Horrrsing cd (ATP)
• Loden – Valeen Hope cd (Mush)
• Various – Artificial Intelligence cd (Warp)
• Various – Artificial Intelligence II cd (Warp)
• Helena Espvall & Masaki Batoh - s/t cd (Drag City)
• Akron/Family & Angels of Light – split cd (Young God)

Wow, still getting over the fact that I saw the original line-up of the Underground Lovers, one of my favourite Australian bands ever, last night. They played (possibly not quite in this order) Eastside Stories, Got Off On It, I Was Right, Beautiful World, Promenade, Holiday, Corn, Nice GI, Get It On, Dream It Down, Your Eyes. First encore: Ripe, Las Vegas. Second Encore: Losin’ It (complete with party poppers handed out to the audience for the last chorus)

I have no idea whether they’ll be back for more, but they were clearly having a great time so it’s certainly possible.

No time for a full gig guide post but there’s something else coming up at the East Brunswick Club, the Laughing Clowns play there on January 22.

I’ve noticed that some of the disinformation being spread about the CRU hack (called Swifthack or Climategate – lots of info here) is starting to creep into reports on climate change on the ABC, for example this morning some radio reports regarding the WMO’s finding that the last decade has been the hottest on record has been qualified by mentions of the hack, when there is no credible reason to believe that the leaked emails indicate a problem with the instrumental record -  I note that the online version of the story doesn’t do this though).

The following videos show how comments have been taken out of context to generate controversy