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Ferric Archaeology: The Apostles - 2nd Dark Age Demo (1982) C60
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Rummaging around in the underpants of musical history, then sniffing our fingers while no-one's looking. Monday, 3 August 2015. The Apostles - 2nd Dark Age Demo (1982) C60. One of the first tape labels I ever wrote to was Cause for Concern, run by one Larry Peterson. I'd been hammering Flowmotion for their reissued Throbbing Gristle live cassettes for a couple of months, and now my curiosity had been drawn by Larry's Sudden Surge of Power. I ended up in. As utter rubbish, his exact words being:. Anyway, ...
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Wax Cylinders of Excitement: June 2015
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Wax Cylinders of Excitement. Thursday, 25 June 2015. Non-Phixion - The Future is Now (2002). There's never really been a need for the white rap version of NWA because - aside from the NWA we had working just fine - if you're grading your rap by skin tone, then you're almost certainly missing a huge chunk of the point regardless of what may be claimed by idiots like Lauryn Hill or that Made Men guy who owned The Source. And Ill Bill's Anatomy of A School Shooting. From this album and Caught Between Worlds.
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Wax Cylinders of Excitement: Prince - 20Ten (2010)
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Wax Cylinders of Excitement. Thursday, 30 July 2015. Prince - 20Ten (2010). It's difficult to pinpoint quite when Prince went definitively off the boil, although for me it was roughly around the time of the song he recorded for Tim Burton's horrible Batman. Film This was annoying as I'd always been partial to the occasional dollop from the Prince spigot, certainly since Sarah - my girlfriend of the time - gave me the Purple Rain. He eventually played the hits, but solo as a sort of karaoke set with backi...
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Ferric Archaeology: The Post-War Busconductors - The Nightmare Begins... (1981) C60
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Rummaging around in the underpants of musical history, then sniffing our fingers while no-one's looking. Monday, 10 August 2015. The Post-War Busconductors - The Nightmare Begins. (1981) C60. Less obviously stupid. I was already recording solo tapes as the Post-War Busconductors, and so that's where this came from. The Nightmare Begins. Was never my first album, but it was the first one without bum jokes. By Terrance Dicks. I would have been about eight, and I still have no idea whether this tune was...
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An Englishman in Texas: March 2015
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An Englishman in Texas. Friday, 27 March 2015. The issue was, I guess, not specifically that Tim was hilariously square, socially awkward, and conspicuously in the thrall of a seemingly domineering mother, but that he was all of these in conjunction with being loud and sometimes quite pushy. He was an abrasive personality and didn't seem to realise it. He had about him the quality of a manic schoolboy and people found it unsettling. I liked Tim, or at least I didn't actively dislike. The trouble was that...
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Pamphlets of Destiny: August 2015
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Wednesday, 26 August 2015. Star Wars: A Long Time Ago. Archie Goodwin, Carmine Infantino and many, many others. Star Wars: A Long Time Ago. I was twelve when Star Wars. Came out, and naturally I was excited about the whole thing before I'd even seen it. I'd read the two giant-sized Marvel specials - weird collectors editions the size of tabloid newspapers - and I'd read that first issue of Starburst. And a couple of those other tie-in making of. Didn't disappoint when it arrived, although on close inspec...
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An Englishman in Texas: August 2015
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An Englishman in Texas. Friday, 28 August 2015. In June, 2004, I finally went mad; not mad as in drinking quite a lot, having a curry, then climbing atop a bus shelter with my trousers worn upon my head, nor mad meaning I walked through the village one Sunday wearing a rather unusual hat. Like one of those tediously middle-class fuckers who used to write in to John Peel's Home Truths. Radio show; no - my madness took the form of serious clinical depression. Music wasn't really an option, because it was t...
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An Englishman in Texas: July 2014
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An Englishman in Texas. Friday, 25 July 2014. For many years I was certain of it being the power of words which had forged the path by which I and my first ever girlfriend found each other. I initially knew her as the musically gifted and undeniably attractive girlfriend of Jeremy, my oldest friend on the grounds of our having been introduced on my first day at Ilmington C of E Junior and Infants School. Or Holmes and Yoyo. Replies. Possibly my audience had appreciated the drawings of men with large ...
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Ferric Archaeology: August 2015
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Rummaging around in the underpants of musical history, then sniffing our fingers while no-one's looking. Monday, 31 August 2015. The Dovers - The World of the Dovers (1991) C60. I probably already wrote as much as you really need to know about the Dovers here. But if you can't be arsed to read all that for whatever reason, the Dovers were myself and my good friend Carl Glover, although I actually still. Bands of whom there were far too many at the time. We started recording on portastudio around 1990...
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Ferric Archaeology: The Product - Erotic Pink Pelicans (1985) C60
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Rummaging around in the underpants of musical history, then sniffing our fingers while no-one's looking. Sunday, 5 July 2015. The Product - Erotic Pink Pelicans (1985) C60. I've no idea what became of the Product, but this stuff still sounds fucking great to me even now, thirty years later. No idea how I even got hold of this tape. I was probably drunk. Download the twelve songs and cover by clicking on this link. 1 - Production Line. 2 - Crash Course. 4 - Love Shine. 5 - If Only We Were Alone. Here is m...
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