Tag: The Smiths

  • RIP Janice Long

    RIP Janice Long

    RIP DJ and presenter Janice Long – first woman daytime Radio 1 DJ, first regular presenter of Top of the Pops, presenter at Live Aid, and by all accounts a lovely woman. And friend of John Peel – as can be seen on these segments on the excellent Top of the Pops: Story of series…

  • DJNoNo’s First Album – Accordion Hero

    DJNoNo’s First Album – Accordion Hero

    DJNoNo – Accordion Hero (Hisstory 2004-2020) by DJNoNo DJNoNo’s First Album – Accordion Hero! (well if you don’t count Ballroom as an album, it is more like mini-album or long EP…that will be posted after this for the full DJNo ‘experience’). 16 years in the making it covers the best and a little of the…

  • RC 308: Raving I’m Raving

    RC 308: Raving I’m Raving

    It’s that time of year – back to school is in all the shops, depressing reminders you summer is close to it’s end. But as it’s 30 years since the Second Summer of Love (and incidentally it’s 30 years since I left school) sod the grey jumpers and shrunken ties, I’m raving Back to the…

  • RC 275: The Man Whose Dread Expanded

    RC 275: The Man Whose Dread Expanded

    Saying goodbye to Mark E Smith with music from around the world from Icelandic surf/Country & Western, Portuguese Tuga hop, Italian warped cocktail music, American reggae, Polish dub suicide tangos, UK Indie, British lover’s rock and Jazz covers of the Smiths…it’s all there! And it is far from dreadful. Sorry for the slightly longer episode,…

  • Daphne and Celeste ARE BACK!

    Daphne and Celeste ARE BACK!

    Wow. Whereas other people’s lists of dream reformed bands are Oasis, ABBA, Smiths, Libertines (happened), Radiohead (they’ve not split – Fact Ed. Curses! – me) mine had Daphne and Celeste pretty high up on it. Non-ironically, I always felt that as this Tim Jonze article says they were a) punk as fuck and b) had…

  • This Charming Charlie

    This Charming Charlie

    I love The Charming Charlie blog for two reasons – the first Charlie Brown and Morrissey lyrics? Genius! The second is more appropriate to the copyleft issues I usually cover here: they’ve gotten legals from Universal in 2013, and have defended it through lawyering up and enforcing fair use and the man himself approving of…

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