Monday, July 07, 2014
Mad World: An Oral History of New Wave Artists and Songs That Defined the 1980s by Lori Majewski and Jonathan Bernstein (Abrams Books 2014)
Saturday, June 29, 2013
Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man's Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut by Rob Sheffield (Dutton 2010)
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
A Cure for Gravity: A Musical Pilgrimage by Joe Jackson (Public Affairs 1999)
Monday, July 16, 2012
Complicated Shadows: The Life and Music of Elvis Costello by Graeme Thomson (Canongate Books 2004)
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Up The Funny Roundabout
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I know: the picture on the left could be the East Village 2008, but it is in fact St Albans circa 1975.
The members of Wire at this point in time were still mixing their paints at Watford Art College . . . The Undertones weren't to play the Hemel Hempstead Pavillion for another eight years so, for one brief moment, power pop/new wave/proto punk (delete as appropriate) in Hertfordshire had its moment in the sun in St Albans. Squeeze supporting Curved Air. (Wasn't that Stewart Copeland's first band?)
Is it that obvious that I've been listening to the Frank Cottrell-Boyce's One Chord Wonders radio plays?
The pic comes via the excellent Packet Of Three website, which is dedicated to all things Squeeze-like, and which I have duly added to the 'Fill Your Head With Culture' sidebar. That's all. Just saw the pic and wanted to bring it to blogging light.
"A future morning at 4:50 the F Train took her rather nifty . . . ". I never can remember the rest of the lyrics.
Monday, November 19, 2007
The Kensington Muffin
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Factoid of the Day
Peter Saville did the sleeve design for Martha and the Muffins debut album, 'Metro Music'.
Yep, that Peter Saville.
Posted mp3 of the day
Best track from the aforementioned Metro Music:
Martha and the Muffins - Saigon mp3
Yep, even better than 'Echo Beach'. According to the good people at the 5P blog, 'Saigon' was the third track off the album, but sadly it never made a dent in the charts. Shame that they will always be seen as just another one hit wonder band.
The connection between Saville and the Muffins? The second Martha in the band, Martha Ladly, I guess. That and the fact that Saville, as well as doing sleeve designs for Factory Records, appears to have also worked with DinDisc artists.
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