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Friday, July 25, 2025
T.V. Eye versus TV In My Eye
Monday, July 21, 2025
Objects Lesson
Awesome tune...
Sunday, July 13, 2025
None New Wavier (Gruppovoodoo)
Although I think they started before The Members.
Actually what they are really like is a Netherlands version of Deaf School. I believe Bette Bright sang with Gruppo later on.
Well this is None New Wavier to the power of I don't know what - Gruppo Sportivo covering Wall of Voodoo
Like Fabulous Poodles, like Jona Lewie, like Costello and Joe Jackson and Graham Parker, they represent that side of New Wave where it is a time when funny-looking blokes have a chance at being pop stars. People who in most other eras would not get a look-in for not being a looker - too ordinary-bloke unmemorable, or actively mis-shapen.
Thursday, July 10, 2025
mouth music (ascesis ascension)
Mouth music, although there's barely any sense of mouth or throat or any physical mechanism of breath shaping here, so pure and airy are these bodiless tones
Claire Thomas & Susan Vevey turn out remarkably to be an alias of Philip Sanderson of DIY microlegends Snatch Tapes
The whole project is well worth a glisten - https://snatchtapes.bandcamp.com/album/reprint
The first track - which appeared on Cherry Red's 1981 Perspectives and Distortion comp - reminds me of this other Cherry Red etherealism
Which led to this
and this
and this
this too
Interesting facts about Kirsty Hawkshaw the voice of Opus III via a mutual friend
- once engaged to Mark Pritchard of Global Communication
- now married to Adam F
- daughter of Alan Hawkshaw, the library music legend (as Adam F is son of Alvin Stardust)
Reminded also of the "sexy psalm" action of One Dove and of Slowdive
They done it live in a place called St. Augustine's Ampitheatre - sadly it turns out not to be an actual ecclesiastical building converted for live music, a veritable Sonic Cathedral
What is it about "purity" and the erotic?
Something about the primness (c.f those secular nuns: nurses and their uniforms), the constraint, and what might burn beneath...
Deborah Kerr's clear complexion framed by the nun's coif in Black Narcissus
Sultry Sister Ruth, delirious with repressed desire
Wednesday, July 9, 2025
"a major new force in rock music is born"
T.V. Eye versus TV In My Eye
"T.V. Eye" is not about television, of course. T.V. has a particular private slang meaning in Stooges world and to be honest, I...

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Love this tune by J Dilla Imagine my surprise on discovering that it is very largely composed out of a single 10cc song, "The Worst Ban...
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Okay, let's see how things had shifted, in terms of the canon, slightly more than a decade after the 1974 appraisal by the critics of t...
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I have written before about the Drops Away Syndrome... that thing where artists seem supremely relevant and core-canonic at a particular mo...