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Tales of lost, flogged and stolen old records, republished vintage fanzine interviews and musings on contemporary arts and culture from the perspective of one man in the north of England. you might like.
Recent Posts
Hip Replacement: Cream Corn From The Socket Of Davis & Psychic .. Powerless .. Another Man’s Sac by the Butthole Surfers (Fundamental)
I KNOW I make it seem effortless, but pulling this shit together isn’t half as easy as it looks, y’know. Yes, I could easily spend a couple of lazy days on the internet, max out the credit cards, order a mountain of vinyl and probably just about ...
Hyperbole: Beefs and love, again and again
EARLIER this year, for reasons too complicated to go into here, I had reason to be looking for kids from an estate in Preston who made their own music. It turned out that the supposedly uncommunicative and hard-to-reach youth on this particular estat...
Feature: Overpaid, oversexed and over here
THE first time Charles Gettis came to the UK was as a private in the 91st Airborne Division of the US Army. His first sight of the country came through the early morning November mists covering the vast open spaces of the Greenham Common airbase near...
Interview: Amp Fiddler
JOSEPH ‘Amp’ Fiddler has a theory that conversations are the dynamic for change in our lives and I’m with him all the way. How true this is when you’re speaking over the phone, I’m not so sure. Surely you need to be clos...
Hip Replacement: Metal Box by Public Image Ltd (Virgin)
HAVING just bought the 4 Men With Beards reissue of Metal Box from Piccadilly for an eye-watering 36 quid, I’m struck by a fortuitous piece of weird symmetry when I get home from town after the usual interminable endurance test that is the number 8...
Hyperbole: Punk is dead but music is free
WHERE are the old punks on Twitter? There are more 30-something DJs tweeting their brains out than you could shake a shitty stick at, but the generation of stay-up-forever party animals before them don’t seem to have caught the bug in quite the...

