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they were absolutely the soundtrack to my late teenage years, although i must admit they don't now resonate emotionally in the same way. i saw them live once, at king tut's in glasgow circa 1994: they were absolutely incandescent, so good i missed the last bus home to edinburgh in order to see...

i really didn't realise it was possible to be so devastated by the death of someone i never actually knew. i suppose what really cuts me up is that, after all these years, he'd become a constant. and constants aren't meant to die. RIP john. and thank you.

no, but you've given me a top idea for my dad's christmas present. cheers!

i assume you've read words and music, the morley thing? i've just been commenting on that in another thread, oddly. it's a sprawling work of sporadic genius, but if you're not a morley fan (ie if you're not willing to indulge him) then you're gonna hate it ;) the other one i always recommend to...

hmm: it failed to move me in any way, really. it was a decent enough yarn, but there's nothing special or unusual about it at all. i really have nothing else to say about it, which is a shame. it's worth reading because it's morley and he's always worth reading because he has a wonderful mind...

the awesome power and beauty of wind turbines

yesterday ... in the car, first thing, on a drive to a pier: joy division: substance (mrs fiendish's choice) johnny cash: the man comes around back home: kitchens of distinction: love is hell the cure: faith on the bus, going out: depeche mode: construction time again in the pub: aidan...

from 1991 to about 2001 i wrote, recorded and - very occasionally - played live as one half of a duo. synths, guitars, delays, the best effects we could create with ancient equipment ... we were, depending on when you caught us, years ahead of or behind our time. (we never got as far as putting...

yes. excellent point. this, surely, is what we should be aiming for. BUT ... this is a dream, an ideal. the problem is the here-and-now. for established artists, the problem is their existing contracts: they can't just go bypassing their labels. and for new artists ... well, without the clout...

for the first time in my life, words fail me. you're joking, right? this is a big wind-up? if not, god save us all. especially the poor bands you're dealing with. this is their L I V E L I H O O D! if people like you don't engage with the issue, who will? what happens in the future is moot -...

yes! i was thinking about that - shazam - the other morning, basically because i had need of it but couldn't remember for the life of me what it was called or what the number was. and i figured that, because i hadn't seen any promotion for it for ages, it had gone under. obviously not. how the...

very interesting. and impassioned. thank god MP3s weren't common currency then :) but what it seems to overlook is the fact that, for the consumer, vinyl (and don't get me wrong, i love vinyl, if only for aesthetic reasons) is easily damaged, and cassette tape ... well, don't make me laugh. i...

in my humble opinion ... ... better a mass-market, mildly interesting, at-least-they're-trying-what-do-you-want-blood? magazine such as OMM than a smug, holier-than-thou, let's-be-obscure-to-mask-our-social-inadequacy pile of piss like the wi [+++NO CARRIER]

long post warning! multiple quotes alert! but musicians make nothing from live performance. gigging pays next to NOWT, unless you're *huge* (madonna, U2-style huge). the cost of getting a band around the country/world is enormous; most ticket costs barely cover overheads. it's long been a...

hmm. i suppose having a pop at mick middles and not sharing isn't really in keeping with the spirit of this thread. so, on the grimly bedside table at the moment are "what's it all about: philosophy and the meaning of life" by julian baggini and "nothing" by paul morley. the former is the...

thanks for that link, 2stepfan: i'll read the whole thing when i've got more time. (it was me that asked the original question, not mms.)

i've just realised that during a conversation today i repeatedly referred to it as "dissonance" ... which is also very fitting, i think.

yes: me too. and i think the majority of us who care about music would feel the same way. but the problem is that the majority of people *don't* care about music (at least, not in the worryingly obsessive way we do) and won't see the moral imperative to support the producers. to an awful lot of...

except it's even more important that musicians get paid. if, say, you're producing cardboard boxes all day long, you expect to get paid for it. if you don't, you'll quit and do something else ... and someone else will come along and take over producing the exact same cardboard boxes. but with...

middles is an appalling writer. his woefully titled "from joy division to new order: the factory story" is laughably poor. but, sadly, it's about the only remotely detailed book of its kind.