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New Wavest (#3 of ??) - *Clock DVA *- a name one associates with industrial music. Well, they were actually on *Industrial Records*, weren't they? Put out a cassette via them...12 hours ago
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RIP Shel Talmy - One of the odd things about the social media era is becoming "friends" with musical legends and cult figures that you've never met. Musicians you've inte...1 day ago
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Futuromania in Rough Trade's Books of the Year! - "A collection of compelling essays analysing the technological evolutions which have defined pop and electronic music and how this history intersects. Fr...5 days ago
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Dream on - Last week, I found it very hard to get down to the work I was supposed to be doing. Writing about music felt trivial, absurd. That feeling has passed - fo...1 week ago
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anti-theatricality + politics (the finale?) - *A wise person once said: “When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn’t become a king. The palace becomes a circus.” Donald Trump is a clown. Let’s preve...2 weeks ago
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It's Different For Girls (Auto-Tune) - Following on from the "my kind of rap" post with its coda about Auto-Tune and ad libs. Here's something that's been puzzling me for a while... Q: Why ha...3 weeks ago
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RIP Lillian F. Schwartz (1927 - 2024) - *"Resident artist and consultant at Bell Laboratories (New Jersey).... during the 70s and 80s Schwartz developed a catalogue of visionar...4 weeks ago
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haunty ha-ha, haunty peculiar - Sometime ago, *Vic Reeves* posted this on Twitter - if I remember right, it's artwork for a tour poster that was nev...1 month ago
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50 Favorite Songs - (for an Italian publication, 2009) The Eyes -- "When the Night Falls" The Beatles -- "Strawberry Fields Forever" John's Children -- "A Midsummer ...2 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...2 years ago
Not sure what's more interesting - that Morley was writing like himself basically from jump, or that he was a Van der Graaf fan (albeit one who's trying to stealthily extricate himself in the light of Year Zero)
ReplyDeleteHammill was the thinking music fan's choice for a lot of people pre-punk - most famously John Lydon. Also I think he was from Manchester (?) so there's a bit of rooting for the local boy maybe.
ReplyDeleteYes, he's fully formed, isn't he, aged what something like 20 or 21.
I like the bit where he has the Coca Cola girl speechifying his own aesthetic viewpoints. The Art versus Entertainment polarity fits my Triangle of Folk / Art / Showbiz.