Our Record Company now sponsor Tennis Borussia who peaked in the punk era & have been steadily relegated since the dawn of indie pop.
I certainly don’t see it as a metaphor.
Our Record Company now sponsor Tennis Borussia who peaked in the punk era & have been steadily relegated since the dawn of indie pop.
I certainly don’t see it as a metaphor.
The remake of the 1987 song that begat the eponymous band.
Another VTOR blast from the past, 1998′s Further Afield, or at least the first half as the whole thing became a bit unwieldy as a download.
It’s a pretty high-tech recording for this one, we had a compressor! And a pop shield, admittedly tights over a wire coat hanger, but all the same. Actually the lack of gear is why a lot of the recordings brush up quite well. We didn’t have the kit to bugger them up at the time.
If anyone wondered why we use the script font for the booklet it’s as it’s based on Walt Whitman’s handwriting, which ties in rather well.
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p style=”margin-top: 2em;”>Just twenty four years too late.
…From Hove presumably.
Jim on Radio Free Brighton talking about music that has been and is important to him on the Duke’s Special show on 10th May 2014.
Tying in with the Gits CD some contemporary music from 80s ‘Orsham.
It may be the musical equivalent of returning to motorcycling in your 40s but a few years ago I chanced upon the Japanese band Moscow Club and through them a music scene that was reminiscent of Britain in the mid 1980s and since have kept a watching brief on developments therein.
So comes the hour to give the world the benefit of my time well spent with a fairly arbitrary selection of the great and the good with a particularly indie bent. I’ve tried for a selection that works as a whole rather than forcing each band’s best song into the mix.
Featuring never before seen live footage – because we cocked the song up so much at the Collyers gig that we can’t use it whole.