The Velvet Forum

I was disappointed by Venus in Furs as it's presented as silent while a soundtrack exists. Yes, I noted it was silent and wondered what that meant. Has anyone ever seen the film with a complete soundtrack? There's scant information about the film. The only book I have that lists it, says that all H...

Thank-you, RnR - I’m wondering whether you are working on a PC or Mac, but I’ll give that a go. I’m on Mac. I'm on Mac. A 2015 MacBook Air with an external blu-ray drive. Yes. External bluray here too. Ok it worked perfectly thank-you. No encryption key error messages The extended Jonathan Richman ...

I have only watched the Venus in Furs film which I found disappointing but I was able to rip the disc to my Mac using Makemkv. I ripped it as the full disc and VLC plays it. Makemkv gave me a message about new encryption it didn't recognize but I let the rip keep going and when it was done, I had a...

Has anyone been able to watch the bluray disc extras? Like the full John Cale and Moe Tucker interviews? I'm annoyed that this is the first bluray that I have bought which does not play on my Mac. I'm using VLC and have downloaded and installd the latest enrcyption keys. I'd be interested to hear wh...

If there’s anything worth hearing on Warhol’s master tape, I predict a five year wait.

I looked at this. Half the songs in this Top 50 seemed to be Lou Reed solo material. No news of anything interesting.

On bandcamp it’s around £29.00 plus postage direct from japan. No idea whether you have to pay vat. At least i don’t know whether bandcamp add that like Discogs do

https://art-into-life.bandcamp.com/album/tapes

This is a re-issue of the Angus Maclise 3 cassette release from 2015. But sounds like it has been remastered and resequenced with some nice looking packaging and insert. A Japanese release. It’s listed on Discogs already with full tracklist https://www.discogs.com/release/26546519-Angus-MacLise-Tape...

Thank-you. I read the link and it looks like it’s called 50 Greatest Songs by….

I had hoped for a wild moment some archive releases news.

Are there any local newspapers that migth have reviewed the gig?