This is what I grew up reading, kids! Page 3 of the NME! Or maybe Page 5! At any rate, right up front, not tucked away in some ghetto section like Books, but considered as newsworthy and relevant to the readers's interests as hotshit new band Shillelagh Sisters or whatever other Bad Music Era offering featured in that week's issue. (This is September 1984).
NME literally throwing "filth at our pop kids" to use an oft jokily used phrase of the time (originally a tabloid newspaper headline complaining about the Sex Pistols on Bill Grundy).
That said, I don't remember actually reading this Boy Georges paean at the time.
I think I found my way to Bataille independently - or possibly it was via some quote or namedrop in a piece on a band (quite likely the dropper in question would have been Barney Hoskyns)
There being this thing called the Internet, you can find traces of documentation about the Visible Silence event at the Bloomsbury Theatre..
"This Is What Los Angeles Looks Like"
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We took in three No Kings protests across Los Angeles on Saturday - West
Hollywood, Los Feliz, and Pasadena. Here, for Vanity Fair, are Joy Press's
snapsho...
Special Request (Labello pt 2 - the samplige)
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Ooh *Macka Brown* sampling the Pirates Anthem
*4 Meg Soundboy* with some nifty usage of "Can't turn me away" by *Sylvia
Striplin*
Then there's *Smoke...
Costello's Ankles (none New Wavier part 172)
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What on earth is Elvis doing with - and *to* - his ankles in this video?
Throughout, but there's a particularly alarming sequence of bends from 2.41 ...
The Future Shock Question....
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....is a bit too huge of a question for me to tackle but briefly*
1/ I’m not as depressed about music and lack of futurity as I was when I
wrote Retroma...
Amazing Grace
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*Grace Jones* on the *Pee Wee Herman Christmas Special *from 1988
Jones clip via the fascinating, poignant HBO documentary on *Pee Wee Herman*,
which ...
In Full Bloom (LCD / DFA)
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*LCD Soundsystem, live, a week ago, Bowery Ballroom…*
… was more exciting than I’d thought. Came with minimal expectations really
(a guy and a synth and ...
Brutalist / Botanist
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This whole Brutalism thing has gotten a bit of out of hand now.... they are
scraping the barrel bottom, I think.
Mind, you, these photographs are co...
fave raves
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I'm not sure what the logic was exactly but as tie-in to Shock and Awe, *iD*
asked me to list my seven favorite / life-changing clubs /
nights-out-danci...
angel delights
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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...