PANTHEON

I've posted here before about Mick Farren 's famous " The Titanic Sails At Dawn " polemic. Appearing in the  NME 's   ...

Not interested here in rock writers in their current haggard state, of which there are innumerable examples on YouTube.... but rather, rock ...

I am obsessed with the advertisements in the old music papers - the New Wave era is particularly rich for the semiotician and lover of graph...

 RIP Mr Kershaw... I didn't much care for his taste (and the underlying ideology) -  as least as evidenced by his influential radio show...

Sadly I don't have the whole Mackenzie singles page, nor do I recall where it came from (the year must be around 1987).  Still, William ...

Via the YouTube channel Yesterday's Papers , a motherlode of musicians guest reviewing the Singles for Melody Maker and New Musical Ex...

 

Picking up on the "mean review" thing, as with the Tin Machine II beat-down ...  it struck me that music journalism is much close...