Here’s this year’s birthday card! Have a great day… Love, Andy, Hazel & Adam
A nostalgia trip
I’m not entirely sure how I became a fan of XTC but for a very short period of time in the early 80s I was. At the time I was listening to, almost exclusively, heavy metal. The two exceptions (that spring to mind) were XTC and Kate Bush. I’ve regularly listened to Kate over the [...]
Mar 282009
OK – I haven’t really dug anything out…but a sudden wave of uncontrollable nostalgia inspired me to post this to the Galaxie 500 Mailing List – which got (mostly) the whistling silence it’s astonishing off-topic-ness deserved. I thought it really ought to live here where it can offend no one… Back in the early 80s [...]
These questions concern our universal experiences with music, how we’re exposed to it and our reactions. It’s not about how much you know or your tastes now in music (we can see that already in FB). Answer the questions or not, tag your friends or not. LOL at some of your answers. What was the [...]
Feb 052009
Lux Interior, Cains Ballroom, 1980 There was a time in the early/mid 1980s after Fast Eddie Clarke left Motorhead and before The Pogues released Rum, Sodomy and the Lash were I was lost in a frustrated grasp to find a musical place for myself. For a short time during that aimless wander through the obscure [...]
Feb 032009
Today is 50 years since Buddy died in that plane crash and given that I’m not yet 50 obviously his death wasn’t really something that had any sort of impact on me…but his music did. I grew up with a lot of Buddy Holly, my dad had a pile of original albums (that I think [...]
My dad used to volunteer at the local St John’s Ambulance book sales and for a while in the late 70s and early 80s you’d always find a pile of records at these sales that had clearly been donated by some local, music industry insider. Stacks of unplayed promos and, being a St John’s Ambulance [...]
Ken turned me on to Miracle Legion and I picked up a CD of Me & Mr Ray at an indie record shop in Epsom and over the next months filled in a collection. This is probably my favourite though (actually…no…thinking about it now Surprise Surprise Surprise is much, much better) , probably because it [...]
Jul 272008
Scrapperoriginally uploaded by grange85 This is me holding Scrapper – the first and only dog I was ever given – like I suspect many of my age (what am I 10??) the idea of having a puppy (the playing and the loyal friend) was more interesting than the reality (the walking on cold mornings and [...]
Jul 152008
Summer 1998 All the good pictures of my dad are currently out of reach so this one will have to do – this was taken 10 years ago but he hasn’t changed that much. Happy Birthday Dad! – and here’s your pressie…
