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Up Middle Finger - This pair had a Top 10 hit with a song that is basically about an intra-scene war - the nu garage rappists (Oxide + Neutrino, So Solid) versus the old...1 week ago
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None more Old Wavier - Fascinated by this particular performance of a song that was among the select group of pre-punk songs to cut through to me, a child then not paying th...1 week ago
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Still In A Dream - my new book, out in June - Excited to announce the publication this summer of Still In A Dream: Shoegaze, Slackers and the Reinvention of Rock, 1984-94. On White Rabbit Books. It'...2 weeks ago
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RIP Kenny Morris - One intriguing counterfactual in rock history is what would have happened if drummer *Kenny Morris* and guitarist John McKay had not quit *Siouxsie and t...4 weeks ago
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living in the ethereal world - And I am an ethereal boy... My faves of 1987 in the Melody Maker end-of-year Xmas edition1 month 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...2 months 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...3 months 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
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- Paul Oldfield - Everything But The Girl / Harry En...
- Andy Sex-Gill
- Paul Oldfield - Pulp "Freaks"
- Paul Oldfield - ECM (unpublished text)
- Jonh Wilde - Bros - Melody Maker April 16 1988
- Paul Oldfield - The Noseflutes - April 2 1988
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Those were the days, criticism that stung, critique that went for the kill with no fear of offending or reprisals.
ReplyDeletePlus, what was it with music journalists calling themselves Jonh?
I imagine in Wilde's case it was a homage / continuation of Jonh Ingham? I can't think of any other Jonh's though off the top of my head.
ReplyDeleteI love this review, my favorite single thing by Jonh I think - just the sheer smiting he applies to the piffle.