Tag: The Human League
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Great When We Were Young* mashup album
About a month ago there was a challenge on the Crumplbangers Discord set by iWill Battle to mashup acts from the newly announced ‘When We Were Young’ festival in Las Vegas – a massive list of acts mostly from the late 90’s and 00’s mostly from emo and pop-punk genres. When it was announced there…
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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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Workin’ In A Cocktail Bar
Sometimes a novelty edit gets stuck in your brain and it won’t let go…such is this clever yet dumb edit/remix of Human League’s ‘Don’t You Want Me’. (via DJ Lumpy)
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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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Radio Clash 45: Le Detroit Edition
Live and Large from Le/La/LuLu(?) Detroit via Toronto; Why the Crisps must be Free from the Proletariat; Lusty Trains, pieces of pi, Diners inExpress, a few gay jerks and feeling lost in New Orleans. Recorded on the road on the US-Canada tourrette(s). Get your Detroit motorcity around this Shownotes https://media.blubrry.com/radioclash/www.radioclash.com/show-archive/rc_045.mp3Podcast: Play in new window |…