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27. Nag,Nag,Nag….Cabaret Voltaire
Post Sex Pistols/Grundy Interview at the end of 1976 punk bands appeared almost overnight across Britain. Not since the skiffle boom of the late 50’s had so many people been prompted to pick up a guitar, learn three chords and form a band.
Manchester in particular asserted its position as the punk capital of the North but everywhere, even Norwich was able to boast a band or two. The notable…
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This is Pop...The Rezillos
This is Pop…The Rezillos
The career of the Rezillos was short and punchy, just like their songs.
Coming from Edinburgh they emerged fully formed, had a couple of hits, released an album that was in effects a greatest hits record and then squeezed out a live record of their greatest hits album before they split. It all seemed to take about a year.
It was slightly more complicated, they started off as a kind of art…
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Mark E Smith;Spector vs Rector vs Reaper
When Mark E Smith died at the age of 60 my first thought was to marvel that he had lived that long. Smith died on 24th Jan, my father in law Ralph passed away 24 hours later, it all felt rather personal. Smith entered my life first, about 40 years ago to be more precise. I’m sure that the Fall will be categorised as a punk band by…
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The Tracks of my Years Splitting out lives into decades is, at best, an arbitrary experience. Its not possible to divide a century by 10 and expect life events to follow a pattern.
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Live Stiffs
On the 18th October 1977, just a few days after my nineteenth birthday, the Stiff tour hit the University of East Anglia. Elvis Costello chose this time to debut a ragged version of ‘I Just don’t Know What to do with Myself’. Costello was on fire, having released ‘My Aim Is True’ backed by country rock band Clover he was adopting a scorched earth policy to his career. He now had a proper backing…
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Grandad….Clive Dunn Its almost impossible to comprehend at a distance of 50 years just how popular the TV series Dad’s Army was.
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If it ain't Stiff..part 2
If it ain’t Stiff..part 2
On of the few things I can still remember from studying history in my humanities degree was the concept of unwitting testimony. As far as I remember this is the idea that you can find out things from a period in history from what was written, unwittingly, about something else. For example a 1920’s biography of Nelson could also reveal information about the 1920’s in terms of the moral or…
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When Punk Comes to Town
When Punk Comes to Town
My diary from 1977 is a pretty miserable specimen illustrating all too clearly that youth is wasted on the young. Boredom was a pretty constant factor but when I wasn’t bored I would go out with numerous friends to numerous pubs. I saw a band called Dunlop more time than I can remember but then again I can’t remember ever seeing them now. Most striking is how often friends came round or I went to…
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Into the 80’s..Altered images
Into the 80’s..Altered images
Altered images entered the 80’s on a trajectory steep enough to make you dizzy. Formed by members of the Siouxisie and the Banshees fan club in Glasgow it was immediately clear where their influences lay. Tribal drumming, chiming guitars and a melodic droney bass. It was also obvious that the band were a bunch of friends who had got together to play music rather than a bunch of musos.
There…
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11: Maybe I’m Amazed...Paul McCartney/ The Faces
11: Maybe I’m Amazed…Paul McCartney/ The Faces
The official video for McCartney’s classic has been released newly remastered. It’s just over 50 years since the release of his first solo album ‘McCartney’. A record recorded before we were even certain what was happening with the Beatles. Most of the record is pretty sketchy, McCartney was partly relieved and partly traumatised at breaking free of band democracy and so recorded a selection of…
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The Doctors of Madness
The Doctors of Madness
Many years ago while working in Leicester I came across a story in the local paper, the Leicester Mercury, about Leicester bands who had not quite made it. Leicester is not exactly a rock and roll city but it’s made its mark on the rock music map of Great Britain. In the 60’s there was Family, in the 70’s it spawned Showaddywaddy, in the 90’s, almost inevitably given the city’s Asian population,…
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Neil Innes
If I had been born in Manchester or London, I would, no doubt have a stock of anecdotes about sitting next to Joe Strummer on the bus or being at school with Peter Hook or delivering mail to Ian Dury or whatever. Living my formative years in Norwich I was denied these casual brushes with fame. The most exciting it got was when a school friend had a text book which had been once used by Neil…
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Love Like Anthrax
One of the consequences of the digital age is that we don’t really have to listen to music we don’t want to anymore. When I was young I listened to the 6 LP’s my parents owned and whatever was played on the radio stations they tuned in to. As I got older I started buying my own LP’s but I was still reliant on the radio, in this case Radio 1 and as I might listen for hours and not hear very much I…
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The Summer of 79
The Summer of 79
The Summer of 79 lasted for ages, I left Polytechnic in June and wouldn’t go back until nearly October. I managed to get in the Glastonbury Fayre/Festival in June and a trip to Ireland in August (I have documented these journeys of discovery in earlier post), I also had to find somewhere to live before I returned for the Autumn Term but I still had loads and loads of time to form yet another band…
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The Stick Thing and Other Instruments
The Stick Thing and Other Instruments
Musical instruments were expensive in the 70,s relatively speaking. I wore out a guitar catalogue just gazing at the impossibly expensive instruments for hours on end. A cheap electric guitar could set you back £70 in the days when I hadn’t even started earning 30p an hour. My dad, ever keen to save a few pence ,decided we could make an electric guitar. We never finished it of course, the body…
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10 Saxophone Solos from the 70's
10 Saxophone Solos from the 70’s
After a break for Glastonbury its back to the world of 70’s saxophone. This week it’s 10 memorable sax solos from UK Artists (America you can wait). As Greenpete58 observed on my sax in the 70’s feature the Yanks invented Jazz but the Brits integrated it into rock music (probably because we invented prog).
Here are some good old fashioned sax solos though from popular songs, no jazz rock, no…
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