Recent content by martin

In principle, I'd support suicide clinics - hardly a source of joy for those left behind, but surely preferable to know they died pain-free and with some dignity, rather than in panic, plummeting 20 floors, or getting decapitated by a train. But then I read about the Swiss clinic where the...

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I agree with Third though, it's not like we're sneering at the Beatles because they're scouse hicks. No clue why people who love the fab four think we're trolling them for kicks, I just find them very boring, whiny and pedestrian, and would feel the same way if they were from Maida Vale.

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I would literally pay a tenner to go and see a band called Scab, right now.

Weirdly, though I think the Beatles were musically unadventurous dorks, I really love Siouxsie & The Banshees' covers of Helter Skelter and Dear Prudence. And the excellent Beatle Barkers.

This is true, '94 was a glorious, long summer (I defied my Irish genetics and had a great tan)...while I remember '93 being rainy, grim and socially tense. There was a girl fashion trend in late autumn '94 for tartan mini skirts, thigh-high black socks and boots - no idea why I remember that...

Only things missing are Brian Rose doing roundhouse kicks behind Tate and Piers Corbyn toasting about Fogvid.

Latvia: went to Riga in the mid-2000s and ended up drifting into a crowd in a square - thought it was an open-air gig (there were bearded blokes in viking outfits chanting on a makeshift stage), but turned out to be a fascist rally. An armed policewoman with scene girl mascara totally lost...

Haven't kept up with their recordings but apparently the UK Subs were detained at LAX Airport and then deported last week. Charlie Harper once chatted up my sister after a gig in 1979 and he was in his 40s back then.

I remember an Ed Kemper interview where he said he used to go to a police bar and chat to cops working on the case - his case - and offer his own theories to them, posing as a wide-eyed amateur sleuth, while picking up their info on him after a few beers. One thing you soon learn about serial...

Do you know what it was like trying to source OG industrial records before the internet? DO YOU??? Some zine would mention Current 93, and how they were like Throbbing Gristle but with “disturbing, dark, occult themes” and “like, totally nightmare soundscapes”. OK, I was easily sold. I bought a...

Always liked this one too

Good selection. Like going to Bangkok and ordering pork pie and ketchup.