Sounds thrilling.

Looking at the catalogue, amid the original master tapes, Joy Division rehearsal cassettes, original gig posters, Ian’s lyric sheets etc there’s a whole heap of absolute worthless junk as well – including tatty […]

I know where you’re coming from and indeed the aforementioned MJ out of Hookworms pretty much had his music career terminated overnight after a tweet. Not as famous as Ryan Adams but they were getting a lot of […]

So SteveT thinks the Ryan Adams accusations are due to ‘exes with an axe to grind’ and Twang and others seem to think it’s just Guardian men-hating in a Viz ‘Student Grant’ stylee. Hmmm OK. – Bottom line for me – […]

Not all of it – just selected items. I don’t think anyone particularly understood what Ian was going through at the time – and certainly nobody was going to suggest taking a break from touring while he got himself […]

He’s accumulated a vast archive of stuff (see also Bill Wyman with The Stones) – I’ve read a few things as to why he’s getting rid- I don’t think it’s for the cash it’s more about just clearing the decks, moving […]

er…. yes @dai I am well aware Spotify isn’t the only game in town – this album isn’t available on any official streaming or download service – which is probably why YouTube’s algorithms and recognition services […]

Here’s another great lost 90s not on Spotify one (not on iTunes etc either so don’t go looking for it).

18 Wheeler – sadly best known as the band Noel Gallagher’s Low Flying Turds were supporting at King Tuts […]

It’s a massive myth that everything is out there for streaming. @dai Even if things are on YouTube now – don’t count on them staying there for you to enjoy – Youtube has increasingly sophisticated systems to make […]

I wasn’t holding those bands up as potential hitmakers, just saying that there are still people doing enjoyable and engaging stuff with guitars, bass and drums – both could have existed in 1987, there’s always […]

What I didn’t know was Chumbawamba were very quick out off the blocks a week later with a furious ‘answer song’ – ‘Scab Aid’ – prompted by the fact that it was Gary Bushell and The Sun that initiated the recording […]

Great minds think alike and great spots there – I also spied Fay Lucas off of Grange Hill, Mike Peters and I think Dave Sharp from The Alarm, Ped Gill and Mark O’Toole from Frankie, Bobby G and Mike Nolan from […]

Considering Geldof supposedly had to give a bleary eyed Boy a wake up call in New York and read him the riot act until he agreed to getting on Concorde to turn up for the Band Aid recording, Boy George clearly got […]

Well argued. Rock isn’t dead – however what I see as a regular gig goer – is an awful lot of really competent bands who can play really well – probably got a guitar as a Xmas present when they were 5, practiced […]

I agree – Saville was just appropriating an aesthetic – but because of the previous problems the band had run into with the connotations of the names Joy Division and New Order, that was just more fuel for music […]

The biggest culprit is the sleeve for ‘Movement’ which borrows heavily from design work by Marinetti founder of the Italian Futurism movement which had strong links with Fascism.

It was in the air, and in the 1970s what better way to piss off an older generation …see Jordan with her Swastika armband in those early Sex Pistols clips for instance …although this is some years after Steve […]

Yep Altrincham is usually held up as a model for how town centres can work but the big caveat there is that it sits amid one of the most affluent areas in the entire North of England so what it has done most […]