As far as memory recalls, the best gig I have seen by a band/artist with that letter
Air
birthday Party
Leonard Cohen
Damned
Echo and the Bunnymen
Fallen Women (better live than the Fall in my opinion)
Gun […]

From 1972 listening to the Tuesday Chart run down was my introduction to Johnny Walker and stayed listening to him during 74 75 when he used to get readers to send in with their favourite songs by certain artists […]

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music nerd-dom 1971 – 1977
born january 1964
random memories of hearing tunes as a toddler on what may have been radio 2 – guantamera by the sand pipers and morningtown ride still give me warm comfortig […]

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I have a dodgy keyboard on my laptop so sometimes can’t access the Z and so resorted to a C to convey the but I would draw your attention to a contemporaneous Strawbs b-side – Ciggy Barlust and the Whales […]

Single : The jean Genie , late 1972

Album: Ziggy Stardust, early 1973

First gig: Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames, 1975 uncool at the time but now pretty hip in hindsight

First CD: London Calling, Exile on Main […]

The Specials – Hammersmith Palais – July or August 1979 – the week Gangsters got into the charts. I was 15 and visiting my sister in London in the summer holidays. The energy was amazing – the whole audience […]

Oh Shit – Buzzcocks. Greatest B-side to the greatest A-side of all time.

The Clash – The Clash.
Throughout 1977 I recorded various songs onto my mono tape recorder ambiently (ie using the built in condenser mic) from John Peel and even Radio Luxembourg – Remote Control, I’m so bored […]

Saw them in spring 1985 in Oxford. Did’t know what to expect having only heard a couple of singles. I was used to seeing alternative bands (these were pre ‘indie’ days) play in the back room of pubs to a handful […]

thanks for the tips duco.
it appears that ms liptrot is mostly blogging about her travels with her baby in her camper van https://twitter.com/amy_may
but this article appeared in the guardian recently which […]

Published last year “The Outrun” by Amy Liptrot is my book of the year. The best thing I have read in ages, in fact. Can’t quite put my finger on what made it so good but the contrast between her life in the […]

Another vote for Joy Division.

My gig going got going in the late 70’s/early 80’s and while not a great time to be a young person due to the bastard Tory war on the working class, recession, youth unemployment, […]

Thanks, Gary for your kind and helpful comments. As an introvert and a bit of a natural nihilist I have previously suffered from depression which I have successfully kept at bay for the last few years by a […]

As a veteran of approximately twenty Glastonbury festivals since 1981 as a punter, fence jumper and worker and generally a fan of dodgy on the edge events ie Stonehenge Free Festivals, Mutoid Waste parties I found […]

PS – Reading back my listening choices above I’m struck by the journey I’ve had from my 14 year old punk rocker self (albeit already a Bowie, Stones and Kraftwerk fan) and I would never have guessed that these […]

I find I tend to gorge on a certain artiste of whom I own the entire collection and tend to play their stuff almost exclusively for a week or two focusing on an individual albums for a few plays before moving on. […]

Hi, glad you throught the thread I started was great. I have read both Sounes and Mick Wall. Sounes I enjoyed. The thing about him is he is an investigative reporter so great on private life etc (I believe he […]

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No TV as TV is under dust sheets as in the middle of decorating living room. Half watched the BBC 4 McGee/Ryder indie programme at my girlfiriends house and we also watched a rented DVD (from Bristol’s […]