Craig Palmer ‘Industrial – Volume 26’ (Network Production Music, 1983)
At some point, the entertainment industry will have to relax its choke-hold on 1980s nostalgia. They’ll finally realise…
Bashung ‘Play Blessures’ (Philips, 1982)
Alain Bashung is a tough enigma to crack. There’s little of the playfulness of Gainsbourg, the directness of…
Mount florida ‘Arrived Phoenix’ (Matador, 2000)
Held every Sunday between 1997 and 2010 at Glasgow’s Sub Club venue, the ferocious hedonism of Optimo Espacio…
TJ Lawrence ‘Illuminations’ (Eagle, 1985)
Since you can’t peel back the YouTube algorithm, there’s no telling how we wound up staring at western…
The Endless House Foundation
Endless House(Dramatic, 2011) You might have wished you were at Glasto 94. Or The Screen On The Green…
Tik and Tok ‘Intolerance’ (Survival, 1984)
In the early 1980s, robots were everywhere. ‘Star Wars’ had C-3PO and R2-D2, ‘Doctor Who’ had K9, ‘Metal…
Cut And Paste ‘Come Unstuck’ (Freskanova), 1999
While tidying out a dark corner of the home office recently, some boxes of old CDs revealed themselves,…
The Magnficents ‘The Magnificents’ (KFM, 2004)
The first time I saw the Magnificents live, in the small, sweaty Wee Red Bar at Edinburgh College…
Geinoh Yamashirogumi ‘Ecophony Rinne’ (Invitation), 1986
Parliament-Funkadelic. Underground Resistance. Wu-Tang. When you’re thinking about the great musical collectives of the past 50 years, your…