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I recently wrote a rather lengthy blog post regarding Ride’s second album ‘Going Blank Again’.
The release of this album in 1992 marked the end of indie music being interesting for a good few years, most of the experimentation seemed to happen in dance for much of the 90′s whilst guitar music became all about record sales.
I was very pleased to see the launch of a local project which has been funded by the Arts Council to get John Peel’s record collection online.
Like most people my age John Peel educated me not only on the best new bands around, but he also taught me about a stack of obscure music I’d never have heard without him.
Sennen release their forth album this week. For those of you with Spotify access you can now listen to the album there.
It’s nearly a decade since they formed and I am pleased to have worked with them for most of that time through releasing their records and building their website.
Am 80% of the way through rebuilding a website with a responsive design at the moment. The one thing that can be time consuming when you start switching the site over is that the images and videos don’t change size to suit your new layout.
Interesting to see the originators of social media Friends Reunited get a makeover, I do like the design which I think has been very clever to tap into peoples nostalgia visually. After logging in for the first time in years I still felt a little deflated at the lack of activity and things to view. Who knows if people will go back to the site.
With The Stone Roses, Happy Mondays and Inspiral Carpets all touring this summer I thought I’d take a moment to look back on the original Madchester era. Pre 1988 it was unthinkable for any ‘indie’ band to be making dance music let alone having a remix, only New Order could get away with such behaviour. After the success of Happy Mondays ‘Wrote For Luck’ and later ‘Fool’s Gold’ by The Stone Roses everyone decided they had always had a dance element to their music. This mix features many of the remixes of that era from late 1989 to 1992.
Spring is in the air and the days are getting longer, which is great news as life no longer becomes so much of an endurance test and and it’s loads easier to find pleasures in life. Therefore it’s time for a look at the releases that are currently floating my boat…. Read more »
1992. This was the year Reading went BIG!!! I first went in 1988 and it was utter rubbish. We all went just to see The Wonder Stuff whom i loved back then, but the rest of the bill was terrible (Bonnie Tyler, Meat Loaf, Starship!). The following year they addressed the line-up issue and had New Order and the House of Love play. Then in 1991 Nirvana played on a cold windy Friday afternoon (I dismissed them as Dinosaur Jr wannabes at the time) and within 6 months they were the biggest band on the planet and things started to change…. Read more »