Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Fragrant Nimbus/Whea Yo Ghost At
Monday, December 19, 2011
Xmas 2011: Frosty
Bit dusty round these parts isn't it – or is that just some seasonal sprinklings from Santa's dandruff? Either way, it's time for an Xmas collection. Download the two files below for 32 tracks of extreme yule terror and assorted xmas loveliness from some of pop's most interesting people, ancient and modern. And some wacky interludes. And a printable cover for those of you still stuck on archiving formats you can bite. Now there's a thought. Happy holidays, pop pickers.Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Xmas 2010: Christmas Is Cancelled
I'm thoroughly delighted to announce that - due to the almost otherwise entirely unwelcome predations of two weeks off work with Real Flu - I have had time to compile an Xmas collection this year. Thirty tracks of festive fun and frightfulness, from the modern noise stylings of Jesu and Wooden Shjips to all manner of cheesy ghastliness from yesteryear.Tuesday, September 07, 2010
Re:cent 0810: In his heart, the wolf was planning mischief

Being a selection of top pop from my world to yours. See Frank's #118 for more waffle about all of these.
BTW, I found some YouTube links for some of the tracks (* or another track by the band in question) so you don't even have to download the two archives if you don't wanna.
01. CHRISTIAN PROMMER'S DRUMLESSON Trans Europa Express
02. MAJOR LAZER feat MR LEXX & SANTIGOLD Hold the Line
03. SALEM King Night
04. BEST COAST I Want To
05. SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS Babelonia
06. SOFT MOON Parallels
07. SHOGUN KUNITOKI Vinonaamakasio *
08. EL JEFE AND THE EXECUTIVE LOOK The Fountain *
09. YOKO ONO Why?
10. THE SAINTS This Perfect Day
11. ZINJA HLUNGWANI N'wa Gezani My Love
12. HARMONIA & ENO Sometime in Autumn (Shackleton remix)
13. KEITH HUDSON Hunting *
14. BALAM ACAB Regret Making Mistakes
15. TRUTH Revelation
16. HOLGER CZUKAY & CONNY PLANK Biomutanten
17. DEMDIKE STARE Caged in Stammheim *
18. VOLCANO CHOIR Seeplymouth
19. MICACHU & THE SHAPES Vulture
20. BEAK> Iron Acton
21. BELL ORCHESTRE As Seen Through Windows
22. EMERALDS Living Room *
Plus a couple of crappy bonus trax and an inlay card. You love it.
Saturday, January 02, 2010
The Beat-Beat-Beat of the Tom-Tom
Saturday, September 12, 2009
Buckfast of Champignons - Not Can
A colleague of mine has recently heard Can for the first time. I envy him having the opportunity to listen to that great music with fresh ears! I thought I'd help him on his way by making a Can compilation for him. In doing so I re-discovered a playlist I'd put together as a potential TOAD some time ago, titled Buckfast of Champignons. I was intending it for use at Sunday brunch, you see. But now I have re-jigged it and expanded into what I think is a reasonable selection of music you might like if you also like Can. And which if us does not like Can? I have also re-named it:
Much of this will be familiar to most of the regulars visitors to this blog. I hope you all enjoy nonetheless.
1. She is a Rainbow in Curved Air - Acid Mothers Temple
2. Ali's Here - Ali Farka Toure
3. You don't Pull no Punches, but you don't Push the River - Van Morrison
4. Spiders (Kidsmoke) - Wilco
5. Rolling Thunder - Steffan Basho-Junghans
6. Fur Immer - Neu!
7. Wished I Was in Heaven Sitting Down - Mississippi Fred McDowell
8. Spem in Alium - King's College Choir & Stephen Cleobury / Thomas Tallis
9. SHIRIN: Chaharmezrab-e bidad - Behnam Manahedji
10. Chaminuka We - Hakurotwi Mude, Cosmas Magaya, Luken Pasipamire, Ephat Mujuru
11. Kabacha Meflayey - Tsehaytu Beraki
12. E-Musik - Neu!
13. Can I Sleep In Your Arms? - Willie Nelson
14. Galactic Joke (B) - Cosmic Jokers
15. Barnowl - Caribou
16. Hallogallo - Neu!
17. A Raga Called Pat, part 4 - John Fahey
18. Homesickness - Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou
Rory.
Thursday, September 10, 2009
TOAD: Two movies
If you need or want that, it can be arranged. Let me know.
Otherwise, start your download engines...
Kill your idols
A thrilling, comprehensive guide to New York’s buzzing downtown underground post-punk scene. Director Scott Crary kicks things off with the birth of No Wave in the late 1970’s, providing an angular rush with a priceless collection of live performances from Suicide, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, the Theoretical Girls and DNA. From this initial explosion of artistic energy, the film moves through the 1980’s, passing the torch to Thurston Moore and Lee Renaldo of Sonic Youth and Michael Gira of Swans, before crashlanding in the noisy Now! of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Black Dice, Liars, A.R.E. Weapons and the Gypsy stylings of Gogol Bordello. Interviews connect the threads between the past and the present, an ever-fertile scene is defined, celebrated and trashed with equal amounts of enthusiasm, and the creators of some of the most challenging rock music of all-time get to explain what they do, why they do it and where it’s all heading.Downtown 81
Starring the legendary artist Jean Michel Basquiat, Downtown 81 vividly depicts the explosive downtown A young artist needs money to reclaim the apartment from which he has been evicted. He wanders the downtown streets carrying a painting he hopes to sell, encountering friends, whose lives (and performances) we peek into. He finally manages to sell his painting but he’s paid by check. He spends the evening wandering from club to club, looking for a beautiful girl he had met earlier, so he’ll have a place to spend the night.
The cast includes Deborah Harry, Kid Creole and the Coconuts, James White and the Blacks, DNA, Tuxedo Moon, the Plastics, and Walter Steding and the Dragon People. Also on the soundtrack are Melle Mel, John Lurie, Lydia Lunch, Suicide, Vincent Gallo, Kenny Burrell and Basquiat’s own band, Gray.
Rory.
Saturday, June 13, 2009
TOAD: Re:cent 0509 - "Lonely Planet Nothing Left"
Twenty more mind-expanding pieces of modern music for you, plus a bonus. Starts quietly, then heads for the back of your skull with all the subtlety of a lame new Hollywood remake of Driller Killer.Titled, BTW, after the A & B side of a recent dubstep single by Randomer. The two titles seemed to run together nicely as a kind of concentrated SF poem. Can the world be as sad as it seems?
01. Teitur - The Singer
02. Gala Drop - Ital
03. Working for a Nuclear Free City - The 224th Day / Troubled Son
04. Fever Ray - When I Grow Up
05. Grails - Reincarnation Blues
06. Farflung - Endless Drifting Wreck
07. The Bug w/Flowdan - Warning
08. Van Shipley - Jan Pahechan Ho
09. The Sight Below - Dour
10. Anthony Newley & Delia Derbyshire - Moogie Bloogies
11. Franz Auffray - Sweet Popcorn part 2
12. Lacrymosa - Welscher Tanz "Wascha Mesa"
13. Nails - 88 Lines About 44 Women
14. Savant - Sensible Music
15. Distance - No Sunshine
16. Amesoeurs - Gas in Veins
17. Sideshow w/Samar - French Model in Dub
18. Mikey Dread - Mikey Dread in Action
19. Virgin Prunes - Moments 'n' Mine
20. Raccoo-oo-oon - Untitled I
+ a bonus track that's about three weeks past its listen-by date
Download here [new MU link] or here [ShBee] [141 Mb].
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Xmas 2008: Slush
01. The Free Design - The Now Sound of Xmas
02. Mojochronic - Yuletide Zeppelin
03. Fleshtones - Super Rock Santa
04. Dean Martin - Jingle Bells (Dan the Automator remix)
05. Ween - We're All Snowflakes
06. Wormburner - Bells of St Ignatius
07. Thurston Lava Tube - Sleigh Ride
08. Dies Irae - Silent Night
09. Arcanta - Carol of the Bells
10. Molly Bee - Where Did My Snowman Go?
11. Mr Bob Francis - That Swingin' Manger
12. Neil Innes - Dear Father Xmas
13. Bad Tattoo - Are You Going to Stop the White Xmas
14. The Fab Four - Hark! the Herald Angels Sing
15. Bob Rivers & Twisted Radio - I am Santa Claus
16. Killwhitneydead - Holiday Medley
17. The Candy Store - Little Drummer Boy
18. Lee Scratch Perry & Sandra Robinson - Merry Xmas, Happy New Year
19. Divide & Kreate - Velvet Santa
20. Sam Flanagan - Frosty DMC
21. Kirsten & Heather Mayne - Silver Bells
22. Vic Mulkey & the Blue Veins - Ain't Got Time for Christmas
23. Lycia/The Unquiet Void - We Three Kings
24. Twice as Much & Vashti Bunyan - The Coldest Night of the Year
25. The Three Little Dwarfs - Hardrock, Coco & Joe
26. Toots & the Maytals - Christmas Feeling Ska
27. Girls Aloud - Not Tonight Santa
28. Charly Lownoise & Mental Theo - This Christmas
29. Kekal - God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen
30. Glasvegas - Fuck You, It's Over
31. Evangelicals - The Last Xmas on Earth
... plus the usual raft of merry hangers-on and inappropriate festive interruptions. HFXmo! -- marco & crew
Download (MP3 plus cover, 139 Mb)
Thursday, November 20, 2008
TOAD 4U
I know, rush rush rush. Anyway, the URL given in the APA is wrong... because, well, let's just say someone objected to one of the tracks on this. But here's an unedited repost, so D/L these two sections (they are separate parts of the archive so you don't need both... though you do need them):Part 1 | Part 2
Saturday, November 01, 2008
An Eclectic Collection of Memorabilia
Download it here (94MB)
- Vassilis Tsabropoulos, Arild Andersen & John Marshall – The Spell (Achirana, 2000)
- John Surman – Figfoot (Adventure Playground, 1992)
- Anouar Brahem – Kashf (Thimar, 1998)
- Eberhard Weber – Maurizius (Later That Evening, 1982)
- Jan Garbarek – I Took Up The Runes (I Took Up The Runes, 1990)
- Tord Gustavsen Trio – Being There (The Ground, 2004)
- Ketil Bjørnstad, Terje Rypdal – The Sea IX (Life in Leipzig, 2008)
- John Surman Quartet – Promising Horizons (Stranger Than Fiction, 1994)
- Doran, Studer, Burri, Magnenat – SCD (Musik für zwei Kontrabässe, Gitarre & Schlagzeug, 1991)
- Christy Doran, Fredy Studer, Stephan Wittwer – Canon Cannon (Red Twist & Tuned Arrow, 1987)
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Exquisite Choral Moments
This, the second of three ECM TOADs, groups various pieces that involve song or classical music. The Hilliard Ensemble feature on several of these. A couple of the pieces are rather long - Evening Prayers is about 15 minutes and it is still the shortest piece from that album.
You can download it here (100MB).
- John Dowland – Weep You No More, Sad Fountains (In Darkness Let Me Dwell, 1999)
- Jan Garbarek & The Hilliard Ensemble – Quechua Song (Mnemosyne, 1999)
- Paul Giger – Organum (Ignis, 2000)
- Hilliard Ensemble – Introitus (Lassus, 1998)
- Giya Kancheli – Caris Mere (Caris Mere, 1997)
- John Surman – You Never Know (The Spaces in Between, 2007)
- John Adams – Negative Love (Harmonium, 1984)
- Giya Kancheli – Evening Prayers (Abii ne Viderem, 1995)
- John Dowland – Flow My Tears (In Darkness Let Me Dwell, 1999)
Friday, October 24, 2008
The Echo of Contrapuntal Melodies
This first disk features almost 25 years of John Surman, particularly his solo or duet work, plus some similar tracks from Jan Garbarek and Eberhard Weber. My title is probably wildly inaccurate, as I doubt that there is any actual counterpoint going on, but it seemed appropriate in an impressionistic (i.e. wrong) sort of way.
Download it here (85MB).
- John Surman – Portrait of a Romantic (Private City, 1988)
- John Surman – Trethevy Quoit (Road to St Ives, 1990)
- John Surman, Jack DeJohnette – Fair Trade (Invisible Nature, 2002)
- Jan Garbarek – The Arrow (Visible World, 1996)
- John Surman – Druid’s Circle (A Biography of The Rev. Absalom Dawe, 1995)
- Eberhard Weber – Street Scenes (Pendulum, 1993)
- John Surman – Debased Line (Free and Equal, 2003)
- John Surman – For the Moment (Coruscating, 2000)
- John Surman – Edge of Illusion (Upon Reflection, 1979)
- John Surman – Fide et Amore (The Amazing Adventures of Simon Simon, 1981)
Friday, September 12, 2008
TOAD : Après UP! : Le Rebel Accidentel
It was completed by design - this is intended as music to listen to when you get home from the Rebel Up Soundclash, the monthly party that Seb runs in Amsterdam.
Don't worry if you don't live near enough to ever go to Rebel Up.
You will still enjoy this, I'm sure.
Best listened to between the hours of 00:00 and 12:00.
Après UP! : Le Rebel Accidentel
1/Radicalfashion ~ Shousetsu
2/Ensemble Modern ~ Pulses
3/Burial ~ Shell Of Light
4/Flower Travellin' Band and Terumasa Hino Quartet ~ Doob
5/Hurdy Gurdy ~ Luder Anders/ Skuren
6/Radio Malanga ~ Barceloneta
7/Ragunath Seth ~ Shuddh Sarang
8/Rahsaan Roland Kirk ~ Haunted Feelings
9/Sorcha Ni Ghuairim ~ Mainistir Na Buille
10/Rahul Sharma ~ Mela
11/Rail Band ~ Rail Band
12/John Lee Hooker ~ Bumblebee, Bumblebee
13/Margaret Barry ~ She Moved Through The Fair
14/Rita Abatzi ~ Gazeli Neva Sabah
15/Stubbs, Surman, Homburger, Guy ~ In Darkness Let Me Dwell
16/Various Madang Artists ~ Gomkail. Bak. Borai.
17/Damon And Naomi With Michio Kurihara ~ Tanka
18/The Raincoats ~ Don't Be Mean
Download (Rapidshare, 69mb)
Friday, July 11, 2008
TOAD: Re:cent 0608 – "Keep Your Teeth Clean"
In the recent June and July - I had my church camp. It is supposed to be my break. As in rest before other commitments falls in. BUT I haven't rest just yet. I guess. It will only commences after 12 July. I guess I'll plan for a week away by myself. hehe..Wondering why the pictures with human are strangely taken? Haha... Joy took them. Since she is only 4 this year, I think is very nice! So I decided put it on.
1. The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band - "Sofahead" (Top Gear Session, BBC Radio 1, 1969)
2. Té - "That It Makes Nonexistent Intelligence Even Although It Calls It With a Powerful Mind and Power How to 'None' Equal" (Sore Wa, Narihibiku Sekai Kara Ganjitsutekina Oto Wo Uta Outo Suru 2007)
3. Extra Life - "Blackmail Blues" (Secular Works 2008)
4. The Homosexuals - "Astral Glamour" (The Homosexuals LP 1978)
5. Fuck Buttons - "Bright Tomorrow" (Street Horrrsing 2008)
6. The Scarlets - "Stampede" (Lost & Found: Rockabilly & Jump Blues 2007)
7. Skream - "2-D" (Skreamizm Vol.4 2008)
8. Peter Broderick - "Broken Patterns" (Float 2008)
9. Collections of Colonies of Bees - "Flock IV" (Birds 2007)
10. Paul St Hilaire & Rene Lowe - "Faith (Vox)" (12" 2003)
11. Transmitters - "The Ugly Man" (Searching for the Ugly Man EP 1979)
12. Truckers of Husk - "This Odd Modern" (2008)
13. Ulaan Khol - "Untitled II" (I 2008)
14. The Misunderstood - "Find a Hidden Door" (Before the Dream Faded 1969)
15. Blackfilm - "Come and See" (Blackfilm 2008)
16. Yeasayer - "Sunrise" (All Hour Cymbals 2008)
17. Paavoharju - "Kevätrumpu" (Laulu Laakson Kukista 2008)
18. Popol Vuh - "Nachts: Schnee (Mika Vainio remix)" (Mego Remixes 2007)
19. Pete Atkin - "The Wristwatch for a Drummer" (A King at Nightfall 1973)
20. Armour - "Iron Man" (Armour vs Hijack EP 2006)
21. Fovea Hex - "Don't These Windows Open?" (Neither Speak Nor Stay Silent 2008)
22. Box - "Untitled 9" (Studio 1 2008)
Two hours of recent listening. Do as you will. Variable or 192kbps MP3s, across two files, with slightly naff assemble-it-yourself cover. Love ya.
> Part one (103 Mb)
> Part two (105 Mb)
Sunday, May 04, 2008
TOAD: Young Virgins Call For Mutiny (Deluxe Expanded Double Disc Edition)


Back in 1994, some of the Frankies really enjoyed this collection of the sounds of what we ended up agreeing we'd call, erm, dreampop and beyond. So, since I have had a little time on my hands recently, here's a new rip. One substitution and a new cover, but otherwise just how you oldarses remember it... or just how you young shavers will come to remember it. See Frank's #104 for more mithering about each track.
1. Butterfly Child - A Breath of Fresh Air
2. Moonshake - Two Trains
3. Seefeel - Industrious
4. Insides - Darling Effect
5. Flying Saucer Attack - Wish
6. Medicine - Aruca
7. Medicine - Something Goes Wrong
8. KK Null/James Plotkin - Sawtooth Swirl
9. Cul de Sac - Death Kit Train
10. Bark Psychosis - Manman/Blood Rush
11. Main - Rail
12. Papa Sprain - U Swell
13. The Ecstasy of Saint Theresa - Surfing on Steam
14. Thieves - Unworthy
15. Bark Psychosis - A Street Scene
> NEW LINK: Young Virgins Call For Mutiny (125 Mb, cover & mp3s in zip file)
At the time, there were several bands I either forgot about (hello, A R Kane - doh!) or ran out of space to include (come on down, Labradford). After the time, there were further bands I came across and realised they should have been rounded too. So now, just like some tawdry major label reissue, chock full of useless live tracks and latterday b-sides, I collected a second set for you. Again, see the APA for more.
1. A R Kane - Lollita
2. My Bloody Valentine - Instrumental II
3. Disco Inferno - In Sharky Water
4. No-Man - Sweetheart Raw
5. Earwig - Every Day Shines
6. Experimental Audio Research - DMT Symphony (Overture to an Inhabited Zone)
7. Laika - Sugar Daddy
8. Slowdive/Brian Eno - Sing
9. Pieter Nooten/Michael Brook - Searching
10. Lull - Time
11. His Name Is Alive - Lemon Ocean
12. Labradford - Experience the Gated Oscillator
13. Orang - Orang
14. Circle - Meronia
15. A R Kane - Baby Milk Snatcher
> NEW LINK: Nymphs Sing the Blues (128 Mb, cover & mp3s in zip file)
Friday, April 25, 2008
Re:ups - Re:cent 1106 / Re:cent 0907


Back up, as more permanent files, are a pair of Re:cent collections from the last couple of years. Sorry about using the somewhat unfriendly Megaupload service, but at least I can ensure that these hefty files can stay up for as long as I want them to.
Re:cent 1106 :: More Things
Barry Adamson / AR & the Machines / Associates / Atrium Musicae di Madrid / Blut aus Nord / Burial / The Can / Coheed & Cambria / Tore Elgaroy / Brian Eno / Espers / Fujiya & Miyagi / The Grey Daturas / High on Fire / Infantjoy / Jonathan Kane / Kill Whitney Dead / Morgen / Serena-Maneesh / Six Organs of Admittance / The Slits / Chas Smith / Susanna & the Magical Orchestra
Download (144 Mb, mp3 files plus inlay)
Re:cent 0907 :: Blind Children at Hide & Seek
Aluk Todolo / Belong / Eel / Faust & Nurse With Wound / 5ive / Ben Frost / Girl Talk / Grails / Minsk / Parts & Labor / A Place to Bury Strangers / Rameses III / Trentemoeller / Yeti
Download (194 Mb, mp3 files plus inlay)
Warning - more on the way, including new rips of some very old TOAD tapes. Coming next ~ Young Virgins Call for Mutiny.
Sunday, February 10, 2008
TOAD: Re:cent 010208
Oh goodie goodie, more new music scraped off the audio tarmac with a spade and dropped into the capacious baggie that literally is Re:cent 010208. Some of it's so new it won't be in your stores for a few months. Several other selections are wearing very well for middle aged. One piece, it has to be said, is a crime against humanity. Sowotjagot?1. THE FOCUS GROUP "Dancing Horse (Logotone) / Look Hear Now" (We Are All Pan's People 2007)
2. JEFFREY LEWIS "End Result" (12 Crass Songs 2007)
3. WOODEN SHJIPS "We Ask You to Ride" (Wooden Shjips 2007)
4. BLOC PARTY "Where is Home (Burial Remix)" (12" single 2007)
5. HANNE HUCKELBERG "Cheater's Armoury" (Rejkstrasse 68 2007)
6. HOLY FUCK "Solar Inuit (live)" (Holy Fuck 2007)
7. JULIANNA BARWICK "unt1" (Sanguine 2006)
8. ELECTRIC WIZARD "Torquemada 71" (Witchcult Today 2007)
9. MAX RICHTER "Shadow Journal" (The Blue Notebooks 2004)
10. WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM "Vastness & Sorrow" (Two Hunters 2007)
11. EXPO ’70 "Entering the Night on a Highway of Astral Projection" (Animism 2007)
12. DISRUPT "Tubby Rom Module" (Foundation Bit 2006)
13. BIRUSHANAH "Iyodo" (Akai Yami 2007)
14. BORIS "Message" (Smile 2008)
15. HAIZEA "Argizagi Ederra" (Hontz Gaua 1976)
16. JAPANCAKES "I Only Said" (Loveless 2007)
17. BURNING STAR CORE "The Universe is Designed to Break Your Mind" (Blood Lightning 2007)
18. CLOUDLAND CANYON "Silver Tongued Sisyphus" (Silver Tongued Sisyphus 2007)
19. THE FOCUS GROUP "Salty Sun Tales" (We Are All Pan's People 2007)
20. SUSAN CHRISTIE "I Love Onions" (7" single 1971)
21. bonus mystery track
Download part one and cover [RS 99mb]
Download part two [RS 89mb]
Monday, December 24, 2007
Xmas 2007: Batman Smells
The latest incarnation of my ever-less-legendary Xmas compilations is now online for your downloading pleasure or otherwise. Just drag your butt over to this downloadable archive (140 MB, 40 MP3 files)More details just in:
BATMAN SMELLS
Vol.22: Xmas 2007
- KILLWHITNEYDEAD Merry Axemas
- ASOBI SEKSU Merry Xmas I Don't Want to Fight Tonight
- HOMER & JETHRO Santa Claus, the Original Hippie
- INSANE CLOWN POSSE Santa's a Fat Bitch
- THE MERRY MACS Christmas Cha Cha
- ASPMA Rocking Disco Santa
- THE SOULFUL STRINGS The Little Drummer Boy
- V - THE PRODUCTION LIBRARY The Season to be Quirky
- JOSH ROUSE Christmas with Jesus
- ERASURE Silent Night/Erasure Christmas
- ANNA RUSSELL with JIMMY CAROLL & HIS MISERABLE FIVE Please Santa Claus
- NICO Winter Song
- BOBBY HELMS Captain Santa Claus and His Reindeer Space Patrol
- CHUCK BERRY Run Rudolph Run
- COLOSSUS Charlie Brown Cut Up
- KITT THE CAR OF THE FUTURE A Knight Rider Christmas
- MEL BLANC I Tan't Wait Til Quithmuth Day
- SAINT ETIENNE I Don't Intend To Spend Christmas Without You
- TOOTS & THE MAYTALS Christmas Feeling Ska
- SY MANN Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
- COLD CHILLIN' JUICE CREW Cold Chillin' Christmas
- JOE WARD Christmas Questions
- MANIC STREET PREACHERS Christmas Ghost
- SINGING SAMMY MARSHALL Jingle Mint Twist
- BOB RICH Christmas in my Pants
- THE VIPERS Christmas I'll Be Home
- MARCEL God Rest ye Merry, Gentlemen
- AL & THE VIBRATORS Merry Merry Xmas
- YO LA TENGO Rock N'Roll Santa
- FRED LOWERY Silent Night
- BILLY WARD & THE DOMINOES Christmas in Heaven
- TONY SCHWARTZ Christmas in New York City
... plus the usual interruptions and endorsements.
