Tag: human league
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Crumplstock 10 – DJNoNo set & brief roundup
Yes like Glasto Crumplstock 10 is over! (and unlike Glasto we won’t be going on about it for the next 4 week. Hey 6Music:, my favourite Glasto moment is when you shut the fuck up about it. Don’t need reminders of an event I missed out on tickets in not one but two different years!)…
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The Black Dog – Sheffield Favourites
I’m a strange mongrel, one foot in Manchester and the other in Sheffield (appropriate metaphor since it’s always pissing on the Pennines). My family come from Sheffield so I have a particular fondness for the grey and damp rainy city (more overgrown village), it’s seven hills ‘just like Rome!’ and it’s put upon citizens. So…
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Bar 2, Psalter Lane 1980
Didn’t know there was ANY footage of Bar 2, at Psalter Lane, the Art College in Sheffield where Pulp had their second ever gig, Human League had their first along with a band called Vice Versa. Two years after this they were on the top of the charts with Lexicon of Love…yes this is ABC…
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In which I find a Skrillex bootleg I actually like
My disdain for the floppy haired Korn-bothering dark lord is well known, but really like this mashup by Bynar – a year late on this one and came over it by accident. The New Order, Depeche Mode & Human League (is that the synth bits?) seem to make a complementary dark brooding sense in this,…
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I Remember Donna Summer
More than remember Donna Summer, she was an influence on me and the music I love – from the seminal I Feel Love onwards, to helping create Blue Monday with that drum line (nicked off a Donna remix) and kickstarting Moroder’s career into the stratosphere. RIP Donna. And we have to play out with the…
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Synth Britannia
People have been mentioning this for AGES saying ‘Have you seen Synth Britannia?’ and I was wary since I thought it might be another 80’s nostalgia fest with the usual faces. Not at all – and I was blown away how indepth they went, even visiting my old alma-mater at Psalter Lane (my claim to…