I spotted another invasion of spambots in my comments boxes this lunchtime. This necessitates laboriously going back through all the old posts and deleting huge great entries about finance for people who by accident of birth happen to live in the US. It’s not all bad, though, because I do sometimes see comments on old …
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Some interesting stuff in the comments box below about the origins of Big Beat. Obviously it’s a mongrel genre, but some interesting precedents – nice to remember Meat Beat Manifesto and some of the post-industrial stuff. John Gosling, once of Psychic TV and Zoskia (who turns in a great appearance in the Keenan Book) was …
“You come to realise that peeling spuds is good fun. Much better than being dead.” Just got a text from Neil reminding me that Derek Jarman died 10 years ago today. I met him a couple of times and he was wonderful – really generous and kind and interesting. One time he’d just come out …
\ The kind, gracious and every so slightly piss-taking Dubversion lent me his copy of England’s Hidden Reverse. It’s a bit pointless me doing a full review as the book has been out so long. I also should mention that I helped the author out with some of the bits on Spanner/Dispatches which makes it …
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Some larrrrrrrrrrge blogging from Paul Meme. Nice one! On Bowie – I think “Ashes to Ashes” must have been the first time I was really aware of him, what with the spooky video and all. So “Scary Monsters” era Bowie will always get the thumbs up from me. I do think he’s surrounded by a …
I know your intentions are pure, young jedi. But you should see some of the emails I’ve had! Heh. I’m sure a lot of this is to do with my regular Meme-baiting on account of his dodgy hippy tastes. (Which is far more to do with our mutual matey antagonisms than anything serious.) Never had …
“If you look at the whole of that so-called ‘Industrial’ scene from Cabaret Voltaire to Marilyn Manson, the band with the most far reaching influence wouldn’t be Throbbing Gristle, but… Hawkwind! This is something that they rarely mention in the press, as Hawkwind have this reputation as a British ‘hippie band’ who do ‘science fiction’ …