Tag: Buzzcocks
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RC 295: Balls To Xmas
Light up your balls, erect your tree, turn on your lights, drink loads and eat like a horse and do that thing where you pretend to be a stripper with the tinsel (I’ve seen you), it’s Xmess! Xmas (or the holidays or whatever you celebrate, Christmas is just a placeholder here) comes earlier every year…
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RIP Pete Shelley
Somehow missed the news that Pete Shelley, frontman of the Buzzcocks has died. Loved his music ever since I heard ‘Ever Fallen In Love’ so many years ago… What Do I Get is a seminal punk song, and one I love greatly, as well as a lot of their back catalogue, they really were one…
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RC 206: Wise Enough?
Recorded last Monday after the black cloud of a bad day was dissipating, now I post it as the rain clouds are precipitating, it seems very appropriately down for today… It’s raining, it’s pouring, the old man is snoring… (101Mb, 1:50) Friendly Fires – True Love Buzzcocks – Harmony in My Head The 2 Bears…
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Martin Rushent RIP
Sad to hear at the weekend of the death of Martin Rushent, producer of several of my favourite songs and albums of all time – the singles off Dare by Human League and Homosapien by Pete Shelley (probably my favourite actually) and the Buzzcocks LPs amongst others from Stranglers, Go Go’s, XTC, Altered Images etc.…
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Here are the young men, the weight on their shoulders
For those into Joy Division and New Order, until Friday 23rd Jan, see the 2007 Grant Gee documentary ‘Joy Division‘ online. You know the one were Annik Honnore is interviewed (this is why Deborah Curtis unusually refused to take part) and interviews with all the band members, Peter Saville, Paul Morley and Tony Wilson –…