Back in 2007, a good friend of mine Alice took some photos for a release of ours by Sennen, the shots were for the press release of their second album ‘Where The Light Gets In’. These photos featured in many national publications.
Taken from an idea by their manager, Alice took the band to the outskirts of Norwich where she had to stand at the top of a ladder in a cornfield to take the shot below.
For their new release, Clinic have released the following press shot.
Inspiration or coincidence?
Crikey, all my recent posts seem to be purely nostalgia based, this one is no exception.
This week was the 20th anniversary of The Stone Roses at Spike Island.
I remember that day so well and 1990 was the hottest summer I can remember in my adult life. The gig was May 27th and it seemed already as if summer had been going on for months. This day was again a scorcher, which was just as well as the event itself was rubbish. We managed to be the first people to buy a beer when the tent opened and couldn’t be bothered to queue for hours for another one afterwards. So we spent most of the day laying on the grass soaking up the sun. Living in Kent at the time we had to get a coach from Maidstone at about 7am and arrived at Spike Island just after lunch.
All the way up on the motorway was a sea of people hitch-hiking in Reni hats and Stone Roses t-shirts. It was actually quite exciting until we got there and realised we now had to wait about 8 hours before the band came on with nothing to do. Read more »
When you first get into music as a kid, you always have terrible taste in music. Like most people my age, my first brush with Pink Floyd was when they released ‘Another Brick In The Wall’ which sat at the top of the singles chart for ages. My teacher at the time was a bit Genesis fan so he loved the fact that all the kids in his class loved the old hippies. After that single I wanted to check out some more Pink Floyd and it never occurred to me that owning records by the likes of the Pistols, Chic and Pink Floyd (punk, disco and prog) was a bit weird. Read more »
Part 3 in the Creation Records discography mixtapes is now live, I suspect there will be many people who hate this section. Most Creation fans either love the C86-era, the Shoegaze-era or are new Oasis fans who want to discover a bit more about the bands roots.
This mix though mainly features dance tunes the label released between 1990 and 1991 mixed with a few indie/shoegaze tracks, therefore not really appealing to anyones particular tastes. The dance tracks also sound really dated, which is strange as just a decade ago all the C86 tracks sounded really dated. That’s musical trends for you! Read more »
With just about every band playing a reunion tour these days, it’s good that one band never split up. I remember going to this gig all those years ago. We travelled all over the place to see The Charlatans.
Their debut album has just been re-released with all the Peel Sessions, I always thought these sessions were much better than the finished recordings which were slightly over-produced. The original version of ‘Polar Bear’ is a great tune but the album version is just plain rubbish, and why wasn’t ‘Always In Mind’ on the album? Read more »
This is one of my favourite mixes on Mixcloud.
If only he was a presenter on Radio Norwich. Read more »