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Those Horny "Horns" (slight return) - Always felt this tune by Dev, "In the Dark" - my fave single of whatever year that was - was a UK garage flashback / rip-off. And now I realise that the...14 hours ago
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You know the score - Son vaults ahead of father by joining the select grouping of music critics who have had diss songs aimed at them by aggrieved musicians. In this case, the...1 day ago
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The Parental Voice in Pop - "*We gave her most of our lives.... never a thought for ourselves...*" "*We only wanted to be loved*" (always taken it to be meant as a clinging moth...2 days ago
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Future Shock / Techno Rebels - 1972 program based on Alvin Toffler's best-seller, with a wonderfully grave narration from Orson Welles and occasional shots of the great man wandering...4 days ago
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retrochat - I had a very interesting and jolly chat with *Adina Glickstein *for the arts magazine *Spike *on the subject of nostalgia and retrokultur, touching on ma...3 weeks 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...3 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...4 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 Now did not know this Arena docu-drama existed - they do a good job telling Delia Derbyshire’s stor...5 weeks ago
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Blogging! - *director's cut of piece in the The Guardian, roughly a year ago - with the follow-up blog pieces below* I started blogging in 2002. Prior to that I’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
These are fantastic. He’s someone else I wish had written more books. Even just a new edition of More Brilliant Than the Sun would be nice: I lost my copy and it’s currently selling for $350 on EBay. A while back Amazon had it for $1000!
ReplyDeleteA Verso reissue of More Brilliant Than the Sun is supposed to have been coming out every year for about the last five or six years. I prematurely announced it at least 3 times on Blissblog! I wonder what is holding it up...
ReplyDeleteIf I have spare time I may put the rest of the club licks columns up, he did them most months for a bunch of years. Great commentary that should be out there for people to enjoy.
Then there are the all pieces he did for iD and The Wire etc.