WHAT WE PLAYED AT THE 90s INDIE NIGHT
As requested by Rebecca on the forum: not in order, and only about half complete (my memory of Friday is a wee bit patchy). The crowd loved it, honest.
THE GOOD
THE SHAMEN – “Love Sex Intelligence&#82[…]

IHM LYRIC WATCH SPECIAL : DOUBLE NEGATIVE WATCH
A special edition – which of course in music terms means you are getting exactly the same as you would with the regular edition just paying more. Owning said special edition record will mark you o[…]

A Chance Meeting With Nurse With Wound: courtesy of Josh, a superb 1981 interview which makes plain the link between listening to far more records than is in any way normal, and making the kind of sounds NWW make. It also explains why there’s t[…]

Realkosh: An Australian Music Weblog: mostly about Aussie music, it says here.[…]

watching high fidelity last night i was all ready to disagree with tom’s piece on said movie. i’d held off on reading the article because i wanted to see the film with a clear mind. (hmm, yes, that sounds like a good excuse.) imagine my s[…]

Dump The Pubs – Fairer Prices for UK Drinkers. Whilst this site is most amusing, and has more than a fair point – I think they should have picked a better name for the campaign. Dump The Pubs suggests that we should be attacking pubs rath[…]

MORE TOP OF THE POPS MEMORIES
Since it would appear I am incapable of thinking of more than one subject these days, I must refer to you a conversation I overheard in a pub the other day. A man, let’s call him Gerard, was surrounded by a number[…]

A desert of pubs – that’s what the Finchley Road north of the wee bit too quaint Ye Olde Swiss Cottage is. Its all Supasnaps and empty restaurants. Where a major thoroughfare like this needs its pubs, it has hoardings over old cafes which[…]

I’m off until Sunday afternoon: if my fellow team members want to take up the slack, you may have something new to read anyway. Otherwise, have a good weekend![…]

Loving and Leaving the Phonograph; or; Napster for Record Romantics. Well-written overview of what Napster means for the way we consume and listen to music. Two points leap out.
First off is the way Harry Smith’s Anthology Of American Folk Musi[…]