New Year treat in Utah

What could persuade you to spend New Years Eve in Utah? How about Wainwrights Rufus, Loudon and Lucy playing together?

Park City Eccles Center gets the event. New Years Eve is when you'd expect it.

The art that you like is probably bad

Jesse Helms - a man who tried to take federal funding away from 'bad' art - has died at the age of 86. His only positive contribution to art was inspiring this song by Loudon Wainwright - here filmed during a live 1986 appearance on NBC, given a slightly Max Headroomy feel by the camera-pointed-at-TV recording method. There's also some bonus Philip Glass.

Something to listen to: Father and daughter

On Friday, Loudon Wainwright dropped by Danny Baker's Radio London show [real media; link expires Friday lunchtime; Loudon from an hour in]. He did two songs while he was there, Gray in LA and a snatch of Sixty.

Danny didn't use the opening gambit he'd promised during the trails the day before - "So... Loudon, got any kids?" - but, talking of whom, Martha Wainwright was on this morning's Today [real media; permanent link]. She spoke a little about her family, but they didn't illustrate it with Bloodymotherfuckingarsehole. Not at that time in the morning, anyway.

You, YouTube and the music: Loudon Wainwright III

A spot of Loudon Wainwright gathered from around YouTube:

Not John at RockPalast, 1984
Bicentennial
The Morgue

We were a bit disappointed by the paucity of what we found there - nothing from his weekly slot on Jasper Carrot's programme, for example.