As part of the post-hack clean up, I found a few drafts of things I’ve not been able to finish – here is the first… comment welcome! Some musings on Sigue Sigue Sputnik and their hyper-glamorised capitalism. A wilfully optimistic reading of Mclaren’s “Rock N Roll Swindle” was that punk aimed to make “cash from chaos” as a fall back …
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The motherlode seems to be at this South American fashion blog. But a lot of those featured aren’t actually all that improbable, I guess. Maybe Ashlee Simpson is such a tortured soul that she regularly plays the first three Sabbath albums on rotation? For all I know David Beckham, Miley Cyrus and Charlotte Church really …
Who Makes The Nazis is a new blog which is “Keeping an eye on the neo-fascists currently burrowing their way into a subculture near you…” off to a good start with yet more on Tony Wakeford, but also some more general ruminations on the neofolk scene which are very well argued. I especially liked the …
Having a rifle through my tunes tonight I rediscovered three releases from an obscure outfit called “The Christmas Bunch”. Like a fair proportion of my records, these were all bought second hand. In fact I think I grabbed them all for less than a quid over a few years in the late 80s. They sound …
In a Madonna stageshow involving gasmasks and kilts, circa 2001. (See the left dancer’s shirt).
expletive undeleted. New address! Update your bookmarks and check the latest entry on Frankie Goes To Hollywood.
Hollow Earth: Social Trends 1950-2010. Matt comes correct with some hard data (and kittens).
Kind of amazed that they also used to do a reggae chart – check this out from 1986! Apparently the reggae chart only ran from April to September 1986. I have no idea what the selection criteria were, but I’m guessing that actually having a video was more crucial than sales. It would be an unusual chart …
History is made at night: We were brought up on the Space Race, now they expect us to clean toilets. Neil on the moon landings, the decline of utopian futurism, and pop music.
Steven Wells AKA Susan Williams AKA Seething Wells has died. He was one of my favourite music journalists ever. People will scoff at this and remind me of Paul Morley or Greil Marcus or Lester Bangs or countless legendary articulate literary types. But I’ve never been all that literary. I always looked forward to Swells’ ranty swearing and …