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Niche - what a shithole that was/is...both(! didn't know any better the first time and we needed somewhere late to go the second) times i went were completely unpleasant expereinces.Horrible atmosphere. The first time in about '97 it was full of wannabes who thought they were gangsters but...

don't quite understand what you're getting at here but I doubt the cohort of youth I'm talking about (probably those born roughly 1964-74) were old enough to grab the levers of world influence and fuck it up before your generation started to grow up. Seeing as by what you say you're at least old...

Agreed. I'd say more accurately that it was a profession which a proportionately large amount of people enter for socially admirable motives than is the norm...to "actually try to make a difference". They certainly don't enter it for the working conditions or the pay. Such a distasteful...

First got him through an article about 10 years ago in a dance magazine "50 pioneers of dance/electronic music" or something...quite like that "El Greco" album he did

The way Americans use the term New Wave to describe ANY music post about 1975 with slightly shorter hair than the Eagles. I mean no-one in Britain (where a lot of the stuff they mean obviously comes from) has used the term seriously since about 1978 and to me it has nasty connotations of...

Isn't it accepted even by most evolutionary biologists that Dawkins is a complete charlatan...Stephen Jay Gould for instance making it obvious what he thought of him for instance And regarding his materialist fundamentalism isn't it very likely if he'd been born in the middle ages there's a...

think it all looks like window-dressing and/or things which noone gives a toss about and conspicuous by its absence the one thing we really need... proportional representation...the present absence of which makes any real claim to democracy in this country extremely dubious

Yes I could see there more funky stuff fitting in on the Balearic Scene as wasn't the definition of Balearic sort of anything goes...Thrashing Doves, Italian pop disco, Blow Monkeys, Chris Rea etc

it might actually exist as they were THE big local punk band around there and these reunions were the first for about 15 years...my girlfriend at the time (definitely not into dance music!) actually came to the pub to see them. They had some pretty devoted fans so you never know someone might...

From someone who was there (on the English side of it) I don't remember the slightest link between The Clash and Acid House and as far as the American originators went and as someone's already said if it was influenced by anything European it was the obvious Kraftwerk, obscure euro-disco and a...

forgot about this thread! yes I think we were at cross purposes...I suppose the Andrew Weatherall scene ploughed its own furrow from the beginning...I can't really comment as I didn't go to any of his nights...and to be honest he used to slag off the other (vast majority) side of the scene quite...

you must be talking on a global scale as the hottest day this year was back in April- it's not got above 79 degrees anywhere in england this june....surely one of the coolest in living memory?

I don't know IMHO Listen Without Prejudice and Older are classics and the former is one of my favourite albums of all time (Cowboys and Angels, Waiting for that Day etc) about as perfectly melancholy as you can get

"Earthly Powers" by Anthony Burgess "The Way of All Flesh" by Samuel Butler "The Woodlanders" by Thomas Hardy all 3 on the go at once! all were verging on overdue with the library so thought I'd start all 3 together thinking probably one would prove to be a load of crap so I'd be down to a more...

isnt the resason why they were in the NME in the 80s but dont feature in any lists of the greatest these days because of what were known as the "NME hiphop wars" ? ie the attempt by some of the writers to feature a lot of black music vs those who wanted to keep to the traditional guitar band...

Agree with Woebot here. Most of the early DJs and a large proportion of the early audience (early 1988) in the south east came from the pre-house soul/funk/jazz scene which existed in a parallel universe to the canonical rock scene. Robert Elms (I think) went as far as to call the acid explosion...

I thought someone would have mentioned Lake Erie "Sex 4 Daze" by now, quite a big one back in the day. His influence on the early acid/rave scene as the usually only US dj at a lot of the early parties should never be underestimated. Then he just seemed to vanish...him and also Colin Hudd were...

Think she was as i remember how when they first came out they were mouthing off about very misdemenours which the police investigated (to piss them off i think) and eventually issued a statement that basically said that theyd admitted theyd made it all up; which tallied with what the old bill...

obviously some places more painful than others (eg forearm near elbow hurts more than the more fleshy bit) but what is constant is that the outline always more painful than filling in which is a kind of quite nice feeling and you get used to it all in the end anyway

Yes Slough Record Centre was the place was still using it till I came to Yorkshire sad to hear its closing down. Before my time (and according to a couple of hoary old soul boys from our pub who used to come with us to the house do's) Slough Centre had also been the venue at turn of 70s/80s for...