This is one that I’d wanted to go over here pretty much from when I first started doing this. It was going to be a gleeful recollection of a youthful discovery that made the most brilliant sense to me in so many ways, and how it also went on to define the way I listened [...]
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There’s just something gloriously mad about Blade Runner, as it’s a film that is almost impossible to explain to anyone who has never seen it, especially if they start asking awkward questions like “so, why is he called a Blade Runner then?” It’s one of those films that has very slowly and carefully created a [...]
What better way to ease the vague stresses of trying to work through a pile of new CDs (and the huge stresses of everything else) than pushing them all to one side and digging out something weird from ages ago? I bought this one in a huge CD store in Tokyo in 2001 and must [...]
A bit of an unintentional coincidence this week came in the form of stumbling across this curious release (seemingly a 2011 edition given wider distribution on this past Christmas Eve) the same day that I pre-ordered a vinyl reissue of a record made by her son. So with that in mind, this was an irresistible [...]
Ooh, sometime back in the early 1990s, I was at a Festival (either Reading or Phoenix, can’t remember which), and I was looking forward to seeing a band play that I’d never heard of but were going to have the legend that was Ginger Baker play with them. I was understandably Very Looking Forward To [...]
Happy Halloween, one and all! ’Tis the season for religious types to get all whiny about “well, it’s all a bit pagan, isn’t it? Corrupting young minds and all that” when they’re not that hugely bothered about all the paganey goings-on at Christmas and Easter… Anyway, [...]
To be honest, this is something that I should have plugged into months ago, as this label brings together so many of my favourite things and reignites far too many instances of childish, nerdy glee than can possibly be good for me. That it’s taken [...]
The three years in which this blog has existed has been something of a struggle for consistency, pretty much to the point where I have given up any notion or pretence of striving to achieve it. Then again, I set this up to be so personal to myself that nobody would ever read it (with [...]
It can’t have escaped anyone’s notice that Adland is currently having a right musical pillage of late. It can be beneficial of course, as it’s not beyond the realms of possibility that the music of Nick Drake would remain the secret preserve of a handful of people were it not for a car advert, but [...]
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