For The Dead
Well, it's only been a year since I last posted here. 30 years ago today, I saw Gene at the Northampton Roadmender. I'd been excited...
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Omni - Plastic Pyramid (feat. Izzy Glaudini)
Omni - Plastic Pyramid (feat. Izzy Glaudini) (2024) https://youtu.be/yk4ap-VDayg?si=tNz-S0aT90m66yzK #ThisIsMyNewJam 10/366
Future Islands - For Sure
Future Islands - For Sure (2020) https://youtube.com/watch?v=yC_2tlsnpMw #ThisIsMyNewJam 4/366
Madder Rose - Beautiful John
Madder Rose - Beautiful John (1993) #ThisIsMyNewJam 3/366
Prefab Sprout - Johnny Johnny
Prefab Sprout - Johnny Johnny (Live on the Tube - 1986) #ThisIsMyNewJam 2/366
Tindersticks - Whiskey and Water (1993)
Still one of the best tracks from one of the greatest albums of all time. https://t.co/RY2vkDGuY1 #ThisIsMyNewJam 1/366
At the Palace
Back in the midst of the pandemic, I was meant to be going to see The National at Brixton Academy. There was a lot of talk about how they...
Big Big Love
When I was getting into music, there were a lot of tribes, and it wasn't just based around the music that you were listening to. Fair...
Milky Teeth
I've had this strange relationship with the Tindersticks across time whereby I am utterly besotted with them for a while, before moving...
Gnawing
This is a strange one. I've got a mate in the US and we have worked out a deal due to the exorbitant cost of international shipping. I...
Louder.
Even before their first LP came out, there was a buzz in the papers about Pavement. The Wedding Present covered 'Box Elder' for a b-side,...
Frosting
Everything new is old. Everything old is new. We're forever going full circle. I remember early press about bands like Interpol or the...
Jet
I'm going to track back to (I think) February 1999. I was in a not particularly happy long-distance relationship and flying to America...
Quiet Loud
There were lots of different ways to buy music in the 90s. Some albums I would still buy on vinyl (usually because of the promise of an...
Creepy Crawley
Back to one of Gerard's tapes again, and this time around it's a bootleg of a 1980 show in Germany by The Cure. I didn't get into the...
Going Underground
Back in the 80s, there was this rather alternative music magazine that was pretty widely available. Called Underground Magazine, it was...
Substance
At some point in 1987, I fell head-over-heels for New Order. I had the double cassette version of Substance (in the Factory Ltd Edition...
Epic.
The saga of the errant Peel session continues. I found a box that said "John Peel - inc Pixies" and thought that was it, but for some...
Cassette Set
As it's now 40 years since its first release,REM decided to mark the occasion by re-releasing the first version of "Radio Free Europe"...
Green.
This is a glorious tape. As well as their various releases, Sonic Cathedral also has an excellent track record at putting on shows, and...
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