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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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...
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Andrew Parker reminds me of this: " In the future, everyone will be famous for fifteen people ." - Momus I suspect the graffiti...

I'm reminded of the Smash Hits mission statement being that a pop star's socks were of vital importance. Also, "favourite ethnic group"?
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