new series: shite bands filling up the space in Melody Maker that wasn't filled up by "our" bands, part 1
"our" = Arsequake League
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- *FOOTNOTES #5* ** *CHAPTER 4 CONTORT YOURSELF: No Wave New York * *[chapter 9 in the US edition]* ** *Page 50* >A British invention The Sex Pistols’s...4 years ago
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Beyond the Black Rainbow - A film by Panos Cosmatos - *"Set in the strange and oppressive emotional landscape of the year 1983, Panos Cosmatos' Beyond the Black Rainbow is a Reagan-era fever dream inspired b...3 weeks ago
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Terrible, obviously, but also influential? Boys Wonder = secret godfathers of Britpop?
ReplyDeleteyeah they're like the missing link between Jook and Blur
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