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Your Turn To Run
Malaria!, Berlin 1982. Taken from the July 1982 issue of The Face.(Photo: Ian McKell)
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The Moodists - "Two Fisted Art"
Time to post some more music, I think. However, at the moment I can't particularly be bothered to write some expansive blurb about, for instance, how great The Moodists are...This is the essential two...
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The Jesus And Mary Chain / Primal Scream, Nottingham Rock City, 26th June 1985
Serving as a footnote to my earlier run of Mary Chain related posts, by the time of this appearance in my hometown the headlining act had increased the duration of their set from 20 to 30 minutes...
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Felt - Sunlight Bathed The Golden Glow
More often than not, if you spy this absolute classic masterpiece on the 'blogosphere' these days, it's actually the shorter version of the song which is taken from "The Strange Idols Pattern" album....
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The Nightingales - "What A Carry On"
From 1985, this 12"EP is a mixed bag, capturing the 'gales between the Beefheartian twin-guitar dynamics of their excellent "Hysterics" album and the more country tinged atmosphere of their final...
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Quint – “Time Wounds All Heals”
The short lived Quint were Sally Young’s project after spending 10-12 years as singer/multi instrumentalist with trailblazing female No-Wave trio Ut (a band whose multi-faceted sound still remains...
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Vic Godard & Subway Sect - "20 Odd Years"
Probably the definitive compilation of the singing postman's work released thus far (though my only qualm is that it doesn't include the blistering "Don't Split It") this two disc career spanning...
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Cold (Wave) Spell Ahead
Midsummer. Hasn't rained for weeks. Sun beating down endlessly. Call me a spoilsport, but at this time of year I'm to be found indoors with the curtains firmly closed and a bottle of gin close at hand....
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Hermine - "Lonely At The Top"
Hermine's brand of languid torch songs and avant-garde cabaret may be something of an acquired taste, but regular readers of this blog will note my devotion to her cause. This, her second album was...
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Owning Up
Jazz singer, Surrealist, writer, critic and arch raconteur George Melly onstage in 1960.I'm currently revisiting his hugely entertaining memoirs "Rum, Bum and Concertina" and "Owning Up".
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Annie Hogan Plays "Kickabye"
Annie Hogan will be known to many as Marc Almond's musical foil, co-writer, pianist and arranger on some of his best work from the mid - late 1980's. Whilst her work in Almond's ensembles the Mambas,...
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Public Image Ltd. - "Memories" 12"
As requested by a number of folk, the version of "Memories" that appears on the 12" single differs quite radically from the version on "Metal Box". Characterized by a deeper bass sound and dubwise...
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The Party's Over
"Me, I'm just a dead fly in the soup at the tycoon's banquet"I've long been an admirer of Oliver Reed's early roles, and over the past year I've been catching up with some of the films that have...
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The Gun Club - "The Birth, The Death, The Ghost"
A lo-filive album (seemingly recorded on a cassette recorder) that captures what was effectively the second line up of the Gun Club that existed briefly from June - November 1980. Jeffrey Lee Pierce is...
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