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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Applause without ears
Came across this review of Shock and Awe online and was reading it, nodding along and thinking ' this is rather perceptive' and t...
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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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David Thomson has a new book out, A Sudden Flicker of Light: A Revisionist History of Movies, in which he convinces himself that the artf...
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There's an exhibition at the Design Museum in High Street Kensington dedicated to the New Romantics and the club scene of Blitz and ...

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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