"Boys Keep Swinging"-echoing provocations from Tricky Kid and Martina T-B
successor to Shock and Awe whose feed no longer seems to be working properly - original blog + archive remains here: http://shockandawesimonreynolds.blogspot.com/ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ the blog of the Simon Reynolds book about glam and artpop of the 1970s and its aftershocks and reflections to this day
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Secret Thesis - 1980s Division (t'was Blitz to be alive in that dandy dawn)
There's an exhibition at the Design Museum in High Street Kensington dedicated to the New Romantics and the club scene of Blitz and ...
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NME cartoon circa 1981 nicely skewers the self-declared aristocracies of club culture Apropos Oh the myopic narcissism of the young! Or ...
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He should at least have put on some make-up on his legs for the studio lights Russell wore hotpants in the promo video too - it was a uni...
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Came across this snippet from Kevin Rowland 's The Q & A in The Guradian a few weeks back (Kev promoting his memoir Bless Me Fathe...

At the time I thought Tricky in this era was the pinnacle of recorded music. I still half-think it today.
ReplyDeleteMe too. Maxinquaye still sounds amazing.
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