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Look. Watch. Listen.
We've been rummaging through our attic and found some pictures to look at and videos to watch. You can also listen to the final AC Temple gig here.
posted on Friday 20th November, 2009
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GREAT LOST ALBUMS: Leatherface (#7 in an occasional series)
Mush
My erstwhile stomping ground of Sunderland has in recent years been fecund for a town of her size. Maximo Park and the Futureheads may not be to everyone’s taste – they’re certainly not to mine – but they are making a relatively honest living and, you know, at ... [more...]posted on Sunday 8th November, 2009
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SHARD: FIRST LOVE
In late 1977 I fell in love for the first time. Not with a girl. Good god, no. I was eleven years old and attended a single-sex school, so the uniquely sharp misery of that experience was going to have to wait another few years. To wait, in fact, until ... [more...]
posted on Thursday 5th November, 2009
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Eulogy For Martin Phillips
Mention the Chills to your local clued-in independent music scholar and, if the name provokes any reaction at all, chances are it’ll be followed by a list of some of the other acts who "broke out" of popular nuke-dodger colony New Zealand in the mid to late 1980s. "Ah… the ... [more...]
posted on Friday 30th October, 2009
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SHARD: SHARDS
They – insufferable cunts who should by now rightfully be mad or dead, this is – say that if you can remember the 1960s you weren’t there. Well, I was there all right, I have the documents to prove it, but there are two shards of memory I can date ... [more...]
posted on Thursday 22nd October, 2009
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SHARD: CHEESEBOROUGH
When I was six I did a terrible thing. My family had moved from a relatively large house a few doors down from the middle of nowhere to a much smaller house surrounded by other much smaller houses not far from the edge of somewhere. But the new house had ... [more...]
posted on Thursday 22nd October, 2009
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SHARD: EROS (CHILDS)
Herewith two pivotal erotic experiences from my childhood. Do not quail, weak-stomached reader, we’re not about to get into tales of fizzing nine year-olds ushering one out over the photographs of wretched dolly birds adorning the human and mechanical subjects of Motor Sport magazine’s 1970s centre spreads. Obviously we’re not. ... [more...]
posted on Thursday 22nd October, 2009
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SHARD: SHAVED
I went through a phase in the late 1990s of shaving my head. None of your social democrat-type fluffy fence-sitting: this was real Iron John stuff, Bics at dawn, squatting with the early crows in an enamel tub each morning and beavering away until not only every last suggestion of ... [more...]
posted on Thursday 22nd October, 2009
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MUCK SPREADER
14/10/09
An (incomplete) Muck Spreader can be found on Spotify here
posted on Friday 16th October, 2009
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Piece by Karren Ablaze! about fanzines from today's Guardian online.
posted on Wednesday 16th September, 2009
