the problem is the north is sentimental. they have to disown their industrial products where we pick them up in the south. london is pure avant-garde, always has been since the 1960s. even today - excluding the north east like newcastle because they are all noise rock heads and just need to merge with londonistan. we always go speeding into the future. we don't care cos we get hit with gentrification before all of you.
But all that Ah fuckin love you hombre shit don't wash here.
something like chay dahmjay i would say.I've got a question.
How do you say chez damier?
The north doesn’t need London. Never has, never will.
All hail the King of the North
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I don't have a problem with 80s north, in many ways they could be considered to be ahead of us - although the idea that noone in london was playing house in 85-86 was refuted by the sadly departed Colin Faver, but something happened after hardcore and the E's turned them into love bombs. This is excluding leeds and Sheffield granted, who were always londoners in denial. I mean you don't have a hardened geezer sweatpit like the orbit in Lancashire.
lol @ denial
Blackburn had its own thing, that’s Lancashire. Shelley’s in Stoke. Venus in Nottingham (gateway to the north), DiY everywhere and anywhere....
shelleys was a softy club wasn't it though. not like laserdrome (strictly ragga jungle) or sw1 club - militant hard acid/(pre)gabber euro hardcore and the emerging darkside jungle.
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Shelleys
During 1991 dance music had a new name and a new club to talk about.Shelley's Laserdome in Stoke on Trent. In 1989 Stoke dance main night was in small small back room at the Longton Leisurebowl...shelleyslaserdome.weebly.com
we could add Scotland too in the great north/south divide