Posts by Russell Brown
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Since then of course have bought it on CD on the 'Bigger than Both of us' compilation....in fact I was wondering on the w'end whether more Ripper stuff would find its way onto CD. I've got a lot of compilation vinyl albums from that era which are still non-digitised....
Simon has some of the Propeller Records stuff headed for a digital download service near you, so sit tight. We'll make a song and dance about it here when it happens.
But he also looks after the AK79 rights on behalf of Ripper Records founder Bryan Staff. Any chance we'll see that, Simon?
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I never had a console and I buy about one game a year, but I always read his reviews.
I hardly ever buy books featured in the New York Review of Books, but oh my, the reviews themselves make the most gorgeous reading ...
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Simon that was a very generous compliment and I appreciate it. It does raise the question of whether reviewers should implicitly or otherwise be helping sell tickets/CDs etc. I have noticed that younger reviewers/writers quickly fall for being cheerleaders of a genre or an album (remember all the dance music v guitar bands nonsense -- as if you couldn't like both?)
I don't think that's always a bad thing. The Burchill/Parsons etc raves about punk rock in the NME fired up kids all over the world -- as did a later generation raving about, well, raving -- and when I was at Rip It Up I certainly felt part of what was going on around me. But I think that only works if you're young. Going into fits of literary ecstasy about the latest single doesn't really work if you're anywhere past 30.
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If anyone's travelling to Vietnam, I can also recommend the "weasel" coffee. Similar principle : )
Now you mention it, I am headed for Nam. I'll be sure to seek out the weasel coffee ...
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But,,, I do hope we're going to see a few less columns huffing and puffing about what a pack of lying, psychotic douche bags bloggers are. Yes, there's plenty of nut bags in the blogisphere but one might think some sections of the old media (and I'll not harsh the buzz by naming names), really need to clean up their own act before getting Miss Manners on anyone else's arse.
I think that's why I'm so pleased about Friday night: it really felt that we were moving past that attitude. And as Don indicates, there were people on the online side of the major news operations who felt some vindication too.
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I lived that song, though I never got to see the Androidss live.
They were either a mobile party or trouble on legs, depending on your point of view. Lovely chaps either way, and always kind to us young whippersnappers.
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Umm... that's not Arthur Baysting is it?! :)
Hardly!
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From the forthcoming album Songs from a Dictaphone.
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A whole band full of the kind of people your mother warned you about.
From Dropa Kulcha in 1981. Can anyone name the host?
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All sort of sorted, then? I'll find some hot kitten vids when I get back to the A-town ...
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