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NOT OLD... "RETRO": About a Ticket
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Celebrating all that we've left behind. and the nonsense that's clagging up our lives now. Yesterday's stuff today. And today's.tomorrow. Or next week. Tuesday, March 18, 2014. This wasn't any old gig though. This was Nirvana. I never did get a refund on the ticket. I couldn't find it in myself to return it to the G-Mex for my money back, it didn't seem right somehow. It was the right decision. I'm trying to convince myself. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Sarah's Melody Maker Party Tips. Ahhh Whatev...
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NOT OLD... "RETRO": Blimey! Is this really Top Of The Pops?
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Celebrating all that we've left behind. and the nonsense that's clagging up our lives now. Yesterday's stuff today. And today's.tomorrow. Or next week. Saturday, January 19, 2013. Is this really Top Of The Pops? Or sexist 70's tosh? Or an lame excuse to place photos of models from the 70's in this blog? Probably a bit of all three, but. Like the original. Fascinating fact: early albums contained vocals by the likes of Elton John (before he was famous) covering the hits of the day! But I loved to listen t...
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NOT OLD... "RETRO": February 2013
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Celebrating all that we've left behind. and the nonsense that's clagging up our lives now. Yesterday's stuff today. And today's.tomorrow. Or next week. Wednesday, February 13, 2013. It's not a carpet as such. That would be crazy! It treats funny then the same as funny now, with no boundaries, no distinctions. I can't see any Horne and Corden quotes". Top experts carefully remove the highly unsafe stones using delicate equipment. Well done lads. now let's see if we can find another cock-up to fix....Despi...
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"Thanks For Your Support...": Pet Shop Boys "Bilingual Special Edition" Promo Postcard
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Thanks For Your Support.". Remember life before Facebook, Twitter, My-Space and e-mail, and all the junk-mail record companies sent to you back in the 1990's to promote their artists and their latest single/album/tour/t-shirt etc? Here's my personal collection of it, along with flyers and other ephemera, all collected during the era of little cards you found in CD Singles and sent off by Freepost to some place in Leamington Spa. Tuesday, 20 March 2012. Was it the lack of a tour to accompany the album?
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NOT OLD... "RETRO": Before They Were Famous - Pet Shop Boys
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Celebrating all that we've left behind. and the nonsense that's clagging up our lives now. Yesterday's stuff today. And today's.tomorrow. Or next week. Sunday, January 20, 2013. Before They Were Famous - Pet Shop Boys. From THE SMASH HITS YEARBOOK 1983. an article about t-shirts. But can you spot the SMASH HITS writer who's part of an electronic duo, alongside his bandmate who just happened to be hanging around on the day of the photoshoot? Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe, a pre-fame Pet Shop Boys. Ahhh, Bac...
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NOT OLD... "RETRO": March 2014
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Celebrating all that we've left behind. and the nonsense that's clagging up our lives now. Yesterday's stuff today. And today's.tomorrow. Or next week. Tuesday, March 18, 2014. V97 Not my first festival, but I still had an aversion to camping at this point, so took advantage of the much missed Argon Events coach to the Saturday date in dirty Leeds. In retrospect, this was madness as the Sunday was pretty good (pretty good? Look at the bloody price. £28.50! And why were the majority of them crap? Twenty y...
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"Thanks For Your Support...": Dannii Minogue "Everything I Wanted" Promo Postcard 1997
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Thanks For Your Support.". Remember life before Facebook, Twitter, My-Space and e-mail, and all the junk-mail record companies sent to you back in the 1990's to promote their artists and their latest single/album/tour/t-shirt etc? Here's my personal collection of it, along with flyers and other ephemera, all collected during the era of little cards you found in CD Singles and sent off by Freepost to some place in Leamington Spa. Sunday, 27 May 2012. Dannii Minogue "Everything I Wanted" Promo Postcard 1997.
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"Thanks For Your Support...": Paul Weller "Out Of The Sinking" Promo Postcard October 1994
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Thanks For Your Support.". Remember life before Facebook, Twitter, My-Space and e-mail, and all the junk-mail record companies sent to you back in the 1990's to promote their artists and their latest single/album/tour/t-shirt etc? Here's my personal collection of it, along with flyers and other ephemera, all collected during the era of little cards you found in CD Singles and sent off by Freepost to some place in Leamington Spa. Thursday, 5 April 2012. This is a promo postcard sent out in October 1994.