Tag: Bronski Beat
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Paranoia in America
As you might have guessed from the last post I’ve been revisiting past eras to find music of resistance for today – the UK and Trump situation isn’t a new one, resisting Thatcher, Nixon, Reagan and Bush v1 and v2 created a lot of music pertinent to today. One of those is The Au-Pairs with…
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RC 261: May The Bridges You Burn Light The Way (!Summer)
Aka Lang May Yr Lum Reek…the Not Summer edition (well Summer can’t make up it’s mind, so really ±Summer) Dark and cloudy at times, it seems the light from all the burnt bridges might be more reliable? [Image is a burnt out scooter from Ham Lands, a supposedly sunny/cloudy day just when it started raining…]…
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RC 234: The Queer History of Pop Part 1 (1960s-1980s)
I’ve been listening to the Story of Pop which again has been repeated on 6Music, but this time also reading the excellent Simon Napier-Bell’s Black Vinyl White Powder and the contrast has been striking – not so much the drug usage which has been there in the BBC series, but the queer element has been…