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"a long shout" - A long overdue big shout going out to S. Vispi, B. Thomas, D. Duncan aka *Intense* aka *Babylon Timewarp* aka various other identities Here's a ...1 day ago
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The Futurist - A Futurist, but not a Brutalist - too ludic, too goofy I guess Gehry (RIP) was considered a postmodernist, but I don't see what he is quoting, c...1 day ago
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Sex Maniacs - Does any phrase bring to mind the atmosphere, the aroma, of the British 1970s better than "sex maniac"? Not a rhetorical question - I genuinely am cur...4 days ago
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Hauntology Parish Newsletter Yuletide Edition: Ghost Box 20th; Moon Wiring Club; Lo Five; Oneohtrix Point Never; Jean-Michel Jarre, Bernie Parmegiani, Ms. Jean Schwarz, Kilkenny Electroacoustic Lab - Sweeping up the mince pie crumbs and taking down the tinsel, while feeling one-sherry-too-many green-about-the-gills - that's yours truly the d...1 week ago
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Hauntology Parish Newsletter Yuletide Edition: Ghost Box 20th; Moon Wiring Club; Lo Five; Oneohtrix Point Never; Jean-Michel Jarre, Bernie Parmegiani, Ms. Jean Schwarz, Kilkenny Electroacoustic Lab - Sweeping up the mince pie crumbs and taking down the tinsel, while feeling distinctly one-sherry-too-many green-about-the-gills - that's yours truly the da...1 week ago
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Ghost Box - 20 years - *Sleeve notes for In A Moment... (Ghost Box compilation, 2015)* *Tell me what you see vanishing and I* *Will tell you who you are* W.S. Merwin, "Fo...1 week ago
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Most Important / Best Artist of 21st Century (how it looked in 2017) - * original Q - who's the Best Artist Since 2000....* No overall single figures springs to mind, I'd have to divide it up into categories and with multip...5 weeks ago
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Secret Thesis - 1980s Division (t'was Blitz to be alive in that dandy dawn) - There's an exhibition at the *Design Museum* in High Street Kensington dedicated to the New Romantics and the club scene of *Blitz* and *Billy's* and *Le...5 weeks ago
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Circle of Light (1972) - Anthony Roland / Pamela Bone / Delia Derbyshire +Elsa Stansfield. - Would dearly like to see the whole of this film, based on Pamela Bone's amazing photographs Now did not know this Arena docu-drama existed - they d...1 month ago
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angel delights - https://rada-ve.bandcamp.com/track/saturn-rings-songs *Go on* - listen to that gorgeous bubble bath of synthtronica! Another vintage release, with a vi...3 years ago
I always love seeing these pieces. That sense of possibility: "There's this new band called The Clash. They could be big!"
ReplyDeleteThe Sounds writers did pretty well, on the old wave as well as the new. Sources suggesting Fleetwood Mac's new album could be a good one...
Interesting to see "new wave" being deployed already by January 1977: I had always thought of it as the marketing term used a year or two later to tidy up the Punk revolution.
And that is future novelist Tim Lott making the case for Cado Belle, isn't it? Not a terrible pick: although they never made it big, Maggie Reilly sounds great on those Mike Oldfield hits.
New Wave was a term used quite early I think. Malcolm McLaren preferred it to punk, possibly because he was a Francophile and a cineaste, so it reminded him of the Nouvelle Vague. Seymour Stein was another one pushing for 'New Wave'.
DeleteIs this the first example of the sanitised, orthodox and asinine take on The Clash, that American-dominated opinion which holds The Clash to be a superior rock band which achieved their full potential when they ditched all that punk claptrap (see also: the championing of Elvis Costello as punk's saving grace)? I find that the American heralding of the virtues of musical slickness and professionalism flosses my helmet red-raw.
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