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There was a harder version too called "hardbag" kind of a cross between (early) hard house and handbag...Pete Wardman used to mention it/play it on his Kiss afternoon show in the mid-90s.

It was still going in the summer of 1996...I know that as on the way down there once me and my friend bumped into a couple of people we knew who'd just been to a Euro 96 matches at Wembley. Then we got down to Wandsworth nice and early and had a few beers in a couple of pubs around Wandworth...I...

Isn't this all very rockist anyway...rock may have been around for around 50 years (and hopefully on its last legs) but Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Glen Miller, Nat King Cole, Dean Martin etc etc were obviously pop too and around 60, 70 and more years ago...

Just seen the Fantasia stuff...I'd retired (for the first time anyway!) from raving by 1992 so never went to any of these but (except for the music) it looks pretty similar to the big parties (Sunrise, Genesis etc) I went to back in 1988/89. I've mentioned it on here before in another thread but...

Tangerine Dream 1968/69 Before they went completely electronic but still pretty interesting (a definite early Pink Floyd influence I think) showing. And a 1000 times better than the stuff they started churning out after about 1980...

not that far out of London but one of the mixes of 'Illegal Gunshot' by the Ragga Twins said something about "a party in High Wycombe".

I've always wanted a track played on Kiss in mid-late 1994 by Pete Wardman when he used to put a pretty underground hardbag/very early hardhouse mix in the middle of his weekday afternoon show (how things have changed!). It sampled the strings from Perry Como' s "It's Impossible" and beside...

Agree with this intensity thing... I used to be a regular at Strawberry Sundae, Sunnyside Up/Mind Over Matter when I lived in the London area which especially in their latter days played a lot of hard trance and believe me those places and especially (because it was always so rammed ) Strawberry...

Isn't the main criticism for people who don't like Austen that her books seem like they could have been written by someone with the emotional development of a rather overwrought 14 year old girl and have a similar girl's preoccupations. I think the gist of a recent criticism of her by VS Naipaul...

If I remember just about the only one who had him sussed and didnt fall for it was Tony Benn. Also I don't think he was necessarily supposed to be white (just because Sacha Baron Cohen was) wasnt his ethnic background purposely ambiguous? ie he could have been white/mixed race/Asian. Whatever...

yes he sold a load of records to pop fans but he existed in a completely different universe to late seventies/ pre-house eighties Brit soul or funk scene. Any idea that he'd have got anywhere near being played at a weekender, soul/funk club or on pirate radio is about as fraudulant as the idea...

See the Clash in Rude Boy for a good example of this..but being the Clash with I should imagine very little experience of genuinely down to earth people they slightly misinterpret it and end up thinking you have to sound thick as well...

but unfortunately the jokes on them as just spending time in university/places where "non-poor" people congregate (as well as also just going on the Ch*v Sc*m site) will show you that it is often used to ctiticise anyone from a "working class" background To hear any working class person use it...

I think the permeation of more "black" sounds to even the lower sectors of the working class in London and the South-East probably has something to do with the fact that over 80% of all people of African-Caribbean background live in that area. This has meant that since at least the early-60s...

bit of an old thread but just noticed this. I'd hardly call an artist washed up whos last three albums have gone Top 3 in the US charts....3121 actually went to No 1 and all except this free one went Top 10 in the UK too

the psychiatric hospital I do work at has a coutyard and shelters on the wards so it hasn't really made much difference...I obviously don't know the set up outside this local authority but they obviously have to make allowances as around 95% of the severe and enduring mentally ill smoke (the...

saw this because i was told it was filmed in a documentary style and had good clips of everyday seventies life/events The actual film though was completely laughable. The Clash showing just how middle class they were and into the bargain ridiculing the working class they so wanted to be by...

there'd be no problem if it was only used for "yobs" as its apologists often pretend but to a high proportion of its users it basically means any working class youth who left school at 16...same as townie...which also used to really piss me off when I was at university. I was around 30 when I...

over the last couple of days been listening to Soil Festivities after the recommendation on here...absolutely stunning album...over 20 years old but pisses all over a lot of the more recent ambient stuff...definitely going to have to check out some of the other stuff of his I haven't heard