Today is a beautiful day… but mostly I’m stuck at work. I just sat in the garden over lunch and listened to The Comforts of Madness by Pale Saints – an album that takes me away from where I am and puts me in a much better place. Like many I suspect my first introduction [...]
The first time I saw Ozzy was supporting Motorhead at Port Vale in ’81 – he blew me away… I was already a Sabbath fan having been sucked in with a copy of Paranoid I picked up at a jumble sale a couple of years previously, but had never managed to see them live. I [...]
I’ve never been to an indie disco… and I’m too old now, and I don’t dance, and most music that could make me dance just makes me cringe and shuffle uncomfortably into a dark corner… however if I were to be at an indie disco and had the desire and ability to dance (and it [...]
So… it seems to me that young Ryan’s art is strangely reminiscent in it’s gruesomeness of not so young Giles’ from a couple of years later… Motorhead’s Killed by Death was first released on the compilation album No Remorse and was one of the four songs on that album that killed my love for Motorhead.. [...]
Post a video to represent each of the subject matters below. Post the first song that comes to your mind to best represent the subject. Send on to a selection of your friends including me. Here’s my list with choices beneath: A TUNE THAT MAKES YOU HAPPY/SMILE/LAUGH Stereolab – Stomach Worm Here’s a listen video [...]
I saw The Sid Presley Experience three or four times in 1984 to 1985 the most memorable was the first time at The Marquee (when it was in Wardour Street). The band were young, the drummer was probably only about 14. The Marquee was a sweatbox, horrid and dark and damp – the walls were [...]
I love living in the future – I love that I can get music instantly delivered to my ears without leaving my seat… but I also have a fondness for vinyl not for any reasons of quality or snobbishness but more because somehow putting a needle into a groove of plastic and getting music out [...]
Of all the albums I owned in the days before Motorhead, Out of the Blue was certainly the one that had the longest lasting affect on me. If you asked me to name any albums from before my heavy metal Damascus (In late 1979) I’m sure I could name very few. And I suspect that [...]
This list was inspired by my finding the “Best Punk Album In The World… Ever” in my collection. Given that only two of these six songs are on that compilation I think we have to assume that the title is misleading (and given that The Motors and the fucking Tubes are on it!!). Punk, for [...]
Adam and I have been fascinated by the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission to the moon. I have vague memories of watching it first time around – although those memories could easily have been of later missions. We’ve spent a lot of time listening to the “as live” broadcasts played on the We [...]
