1990 was twenty years ago. Ten years ago.
1. Boot Morrocan Oil. Get their services out of backstage. 2. Boot Israel. They are cheats, not to mention, well, everything. 3. Give 1/3 of the finals vote to the stadium. No more countries outright buying the public vote. Martin Green, call me. Then fire yourself.
So, what s the reason for the lack of posts this time? I was one of the delegate ambassadors for the United Kingdom s Eurovision entry in Basel, Switzerland for the 2025 Eurovision Song Content. And then some other stupid shit happened but I kind of lost interest in blogging and the Internet in general. I ll post [ ]
The Christmas Issue, December 1989 or so. Full issue linked at the bottom of the post. Is that a Frank Quitely cover? Can t say for sure, I don t see any signature but it sure does look like it. Back cover by Somme depicts the Saracen Head (Sarry Heid), one of Glasgow s oldest pubs and supposedly [ ]
I ve been wanting to scan this for a while, but various things just left me unable or unwilling to do so but for reasons today I ve decided to sit down and work on it. In reading back through some of this, it s very much a product of 1989; traces of sexism racism, but a [ ]
So, as mentioned before February is a bit different in that I m skipping forward a year so as to introduce some variety in the selections. However, RadioWorldHistory doesn t have any of February 1990 s Record Mirror and my collection is missing some issues so the first one is from February 10th. I thought I had a [ ]
End of the month, going to do something a bit different with February but until then it s ten from the Club Chart leaning into rarer / more obscure tracks and maybe some anthems, as much comment as I can muster (not much) and with hatred in my heart for Spotify. And to explain myself on [ ]
I am writing this on January 7th to keep ahead and as of today Mark Zuckerberg is enabling the apocalypse so maybe Spotify has been destroyed by a missile as he declares war on Europe and European Internet companies. Slipmatt Lime, early bleepy house but would be massive two years later with DJ s Take [ ]
Ah, here we are again. Same deal, a few tunes off youtube and a burning desire for everyone in Spotify s management to die horribly. A Frankie Knuckles creation, Soulful house at it s best. Juan Atkins on the mixing duties here, and, well, it s not that good? There were better versions but both lads are disgustingly [ ]
Annual post time again, for this year I ve scanned the Record Mirror Club Chart from 36 years ago. And if you can t read my scans, the lovely folk over at World Radio History have the full issue here in PDF. So, on to the chart, I m going to pick a few things out and we ll [ ]
Back when I started this, the Internet was a lot more promising. You could assume that your words would be indelibly etched forever into the conciousness of humanity. Turns out, that s not quite the truth. Corporate greed has overtaken the thirst for knowledge, one could write up a detailed passage of a certain Rock Group s [ ]