Tag: bernard sumner
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Power, Corruption and Interviews
New Order are posting interviews about their classic ’83 album Power, Corruption and Lies, and the latest is about the gear they used and pushing buttons. And the first video was about the history of the album: This follows similar interviews about their sadly overlooked first album, Movement, when that re-release came out last year.…
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St Anthony
Somehow missed this tribute to Tony Wilson by Mike Garry & Joe Duddell released last month, but Your Silent Face never sounded better…I heard it via the excellent Lloydbrary 72 which you should listen to. In the rain today I felt rather homesick for Manchester… Echoes of Big Hard Excellent Fish (RIP Josie) although about…
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New Order 6Music playlist help
Looks like Now Playing on Friday is doing a New Order special and via Friend of Radio Clash (I should make Tshirts saying that) Jeb 50PoundNote I’ve heard they want input from New Order fans what to play…links in quite nicely with their recent Kraftwerk specials too, I bet – and New Order have some…
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Not another John – John Lydon on 6Music
You need to hear this – John Lydon on 6Music’s ‘The First Time’ on the state of music and the UK today, PiL reform, his eclectic and very mashup approach to music, Malcolm McLaren (interestingly echoing my take on McLaren’s death and the deification, he’s right about concentrating on the good but there was sadly…
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Looking from a Hilltop – RIP Larry Cassidy
Word has got through via the NoRecordShopsLeft blog that Larry Cassidy of Section 25 has died. Who you might say? Well Section 25 was part of the Factory Records roster, formed in Blackpool in 1977, and one of those few electro/dance acts that prefigured and prescribed acid house, linking electro to it’s future Detroit home.…