Mark E Smith’s Sisters

19May08

Just spent a weekend with Mark E Smith buzzing around in my head.
He’s been buzzing around my head for a few years – but this week it was a bit more reasonant,  courtesy of reading his book Renegade. 
I always thought Mark E  Smith was an undiagnosed Aspergers,  the music  has an autistic feel, all dum, dum, [...]

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Tags: Aspergers, Mark E Smith, Mark E Smith's Sisters, Renegade

Blue Plastic Bag’s

16May08

Being spending a lot of time listening to Malcolm Middleton’s Blue Plastic Bags.
Its a wonderful song – its got that feel of this age, we’re all consumered out,  we’re  all sold, we saw the bright shiny smily people in  that advert for mobile phones  -
[you know the one with the pastoral guitar strumming and that [...]

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Talyor Parkes

01May08

Recently I have been looking for Taylor Parkes. Taylor Parkes was a music journalist who used to write for the  Melody Maker during the last great renaissance of music journalism the early 1990’s.. It was for me anyway as I was on the dole with time on my hands the read this stuff.
What is it [...]

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Tags: Melody Maker, Music Journalism, Taylor Parkes, Wanking