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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...8 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 ...5 weeks 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
The late Andy Gill was an exemplary journalist and had the keenest ears. I always enjoyed reading him in the UK's Independent newspaper.
ReplyDeleteLovely bloke too.
DeleteAnd I also enjoyed John Gill when he wrote for Time Out!
ReplyDeleteFaust were the Alternative TV of Krautrock. Bit cheapo.
ReplyDeleteAway with your iconoclasm!
DeleteThey really were though. That 99p Virgin sampler. The monochrome sleeves. That sense that the albums were cut from demo tapes.....
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