To say that this year has been disorientating is an understatement of some size. It’s been like finding out that Black Country glam rockers Slade used to cover The Lovin’ Spoonful’s ‘Darling Be Home Soon’ live in concert, thereby forever ruining one of John Sebastian’s greatest songs for the rest of your life. Then wakingContinue reading “Into The Valley”
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Strain Contortion Of Bag
The Temporary Return of Prolapse I can no longer remember for sure where I first heard Prolapse. It was almost certainly on a mixtape supplied to me by Wibble sometime in the mid 1990s, and it was almost certainly the single ‘TCR’ that jumped out and grabbed me. I soon had a copy of thirdContinue reading “Strain Contortion Of Bag”
Last Days at The 12 Bar The Membranes, 20/12/14.
“The mad ones are always the best…” John Robb Down the way from the Tottenham Court Road, just round the corner from old Soho, there used to be a venue on Tin Pan Alley called The 12 Bar. Denmark Street is only a couple of hundred yards long at most but as many people knowContinue reading “Last Days at The 12 Bar The Membranes, 20/12/14.”