What should they be honoured with/as?
Bono admits he can never write another song again Desert Island Discs
Mike Scott returns – Glastonbury Fare
Back home for me.
Hull is not only a former Culture City of the UK. but it will, and always was, the Culture City of The World
It has a nice long bridge.
If The Afterword Massive were to form a political party for the General Election what would be called and what would our policies be?
Down with the Tories and up with Prog.
Other more politically related opinions are welcomed!
Word In the Attic does NWOBHM
Nice discussion on a new book tracing this history of NWOBHM from a range of perspectives.
Kool and The Gang. The greatest ever disco group?
I think so.
Their greatest tune:
Steve Wickham has retired as a live player with The Waterboys
He was a great band member.
If you have read Mike Scott’s biography the way they re-connect after the 1980s triumph and then have another 21 years together is a thing of beauty.
Two Doors Down
I discovered this over the last lockdown.
Great pathos with a Scottish twist.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b072wv8z/two-doors-down
New Model Army – 40 years on doc
I love the 1980s New Model Army.
Nice doc here on how they kept on keeping on.
Desert Island Bands. Who could you live with? It is a small island so only four bands are allowed. There is a recording studio!
I would take The Beatles, Supertramp. Blondie and The Waterboys.
Sports you don’t ‘get’ as a spectator. What is the point of Speedway as an example?
I have never understood the appeal of Speedway.
Basketball is another sport II have never ever wanted to watch – pointless end to end scoring and nothing else.
But my favourite sporting event is a cricket test match, especially one that end with a result during third session of the last day, so I too may be open to criticism.
NWOBHM Started here with Danny Baker as the interviewer
Happy days
If Roxy Music blended with Pulp and a smattering of Suede had arrived in the 2020s you would get Blossoms live at reading!
A great performance well worth off a n hour of your time.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p09qgb04/reading-and-leeds-festival-2021-blossoms
Bob Dylan covers to celebrate his 80th birthday
BBC4 are showing a few as I write.
ATM What defines a ‘Person of Colour’
I have no idea but would like to be educated as we return to some offices in June.
Neil Young is better than Bob Dylan
Better songs that the ‘common’ people know
Sham 69…Time for a reinterpretation of their statements in the current political environment
Ahead of their time in 1979 and they never saw the Beast of NHS crap that was Matt Hancock.
1970s MOR – Carpenters and Bread. My lockdown bubblegum.
Classic smooth music.
I love it.
No need to post a track but let me known about similar acts who were as good but ‘undiscovere’ in the 1970s
I like watching golf and I really liked Peter Alliss.
If you do too watch this.
Being a University student in the 1980s…we never had it so good!
I was at Bradford University 1883-87 on a four year sandwich course studying pharmacy.
Got an honourable 2:2 and had some the best hears of my life and a reasonable career to follow with a lot of further studying afterwards.
But being a student in the 1980s was cheap and affordable in Bradford- £9 a week rent in a shitty room in a crap hose with dodgy gas fittings and landlords where the curtains froze to the window in the winter. Happy days.
But the best bits where the music and the dodgy nightclubs…Pickwicks in my case.
After a year of lockdown and shit why not have a memory fest of the good old days.
Here is my go to song from that period
Men and Women
Following the news today with the confirmation of the death of Sarah Everard and the subsequent tropes and memes and all the radio and social media coverage and the proposed vigil in Clapham…I had a thought. I was shocked but realised subconsciously in the 1980/90s this could have been me in attitude if not action.
I have never really considered a women’s viewpoint on this before in terms of how safe they feel on the street. I would always cross the road if walking behind a women going in the same directions as I has some awareness of this but that was about all.
I know my partner has experienced stuff like this since she was 14 and she is now 51.
Thoughts?
What are the best and worst cars you have ever owned…a list with a twist! You create it!
I have owned the following.
A six year old mark 1 Ford Fiesta 1.1 after I graduated in 1987. It had a choke (remember them?) that was awful to use to get it started in the cold winter of 1987/88 when I lived in Leeds.
Nine months later I was given a company car – also a 1.1 Fiesta but a mark 2 with a rear screen wiper and two wing mirrors, a parcel shelf )not available on the base model) and a radio/cassette player.
All enclosed in a flat blue colour with 54bhp .
Happy days!
More to follow.
Any you?
Up for a new list? The first issue of Kerrang from 1981 published the best 100 Heavy Metal songs ever. I have a copy somewhere in the loft!
Interested.
It will obvious;y be 1970 based!
Lovely Justin Currie interview here discussing the new Del Amitri album and his past
