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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.
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Hip Replacement: Magic Reggae by Various Artists (K-Tel International)
THIS is where it starts getting tricky. It’s getting on for three decades ago since I first heard this album, so you’re just going to have to bear with me if it all gets a bit sketchy. Magic Reggae, a collection of music by Island, Creole, Trojan...
Hip Replacement: Temptation by Heaven 17 (BEF/Virgin)
BREAKFAST television was a new and exciting concept. New kid on the telly block Channel 4 was showing the very creepy and disturbing Minipops. Everyone thought it was simply hilarious when some student asked if he could have a P please Bob on Blockbu...
Hip Replacement: Charly by the Prodigy (XL Recordings)
E-COMMERCE meant something very different to what it means today. It’s not like we didn’t have good reason. It seemed like Thatcher had been around forever and she didn’t appear to be in a hurry to relinquish her icy, vice-like grip on the thro...
Hip Replacement: LKJ In Dub by Linton Kwesi Johnson (Island Records)
I HAVE a vague recollection of buying LKJ In Dub with Christmas gift vouchers from the exotic and exciting Record Village in town. I think it had been out for a while, but it was probably one of the first dub albums I ever owned - as opposed to havin...
Hip Replacement: The Curse Of Zounds by Zounds (Rough Trade)
AS MUCH as I loved fast and furious bands like Antisect, Amebix and Discharge, who operated at the heavier, more raucous end of anarcho punk, there was also a place within my heart for the bands who took a stealthier approach, who sang rather than sh...
Hip Replacement: Grotesque: After The Gramme by The Fall (Rough Trade)
“‘GROTESQUE’ is the new LP by The Fall .. The Fall are the group who keep being brought up and slagged by other insecure bands – this automatically invokes a curse on them which usually takes its toll. This is true. Most people who like The F...
Hip Replacement: Bad Girl by Bad Girl (Ibiza Records)
A WHILE before we started doing the Microdot parties in Leeds, me and Jez did a few nights at the 1in12 in Bradford called VLF, which stood for Very Low Frequencies or Vegetable Liberation Front, depending on who we were talking to at the time. On th...
Hip Replacement: Walt Disney Presents The Story And Songs Of The Jungle Book (Disneyland)
MY MUM and dad drove me up the A1 with a carful of vegeburger mix, tinned soup and vegetables, a Crank’s cookbook, my fanzine collection, a few dozen records and a stereo that was already on its last legs. I’d got a room, sight unseen, in a share...
Feature: The vinyl countdown
FOURTEEN years after he was name-checked in Shakermaker, Peter Howard - alias Mr Sifter - still gets fans turning up at the shop he runs on Fog Lane in the Manchester suburb of Didsbury. “We get them coming from all over, and they say, where else i...
Hip Replacement: Good Thing Going by Sugar Minott (RCA)
IN MANY ways, being able to get into the football club discos and pigeon fanciers dinner-dances which were held at the village community hall was merely a fringe-benefit of getting served in the White Lion. I must’ve been about 14 when me and Sally...
