The Stud Brothers interview The Beloved, 27th January 1990
January 23, 2010
The Stud Brothers interview The Beloved, 27th January 1990. Photos by Tom Sheehan
The Big (Dance Explosion) Bang: Vague, Sabresonic, Megatripolis, Open All Hours and others, 22nd December 1994
October 4, 2009
I said dance muthafucka!
Melody Maker’s 15 page special to club culture to be posted over the next few days. I’ve decided to split it up because the content’s too disparate and difficult to tag and categorise in one post. Once this is out of the way I’m going to just start picking random stuff again for a bit.
This post for the excellently titled (and excellent) http://history-is-made-at-night.blogspot.com/
A selection of whistles and glowsticks to these blogs to:
http://teenshoegaze.blogspot.com/
http://joannecasey.blogspot.com/
http://thingsmagazine.net/index.htm
http://wordmagazine.co.uk/blog
See – it’s like I never went away.
Underworld on the cover of Melody Maker 22nd January 1994. Photo by Kevin Westenberg
Back! Did anything happen while I was gone?
I shared a tiny lift with Andrew Collins today but thankfully retained enough cool to ignore him.
Paul Lester reviews 808:90 by 808 State, 9th December 1989.
What a brilliant record this is. And then the stopped taking drugs and the music stopped being brilliant. But really if you’ve not heard this record you should. Not on Spotify annoyingly. Will come back to this post and upload a track.
Is this the way they say nostalgia’s meant to feel, or just 30,000 people standing in a field?
After me being so sniffy about the new look Maker, there’s this anomaly where Reynolds very intelligently explores the “post-rave diaspora” of styles and sub-cultures born out of the original rave scene and tries to snatch some sort of meaning from it. An amusing, must read, last paragraph reports, “There’s a sense of aftermath. You know you’ve been through something; you just don’t know yet what it was. But it doesn’t mean nothing.”
Interesting to note that this double page feature isn’t mentioned at all on the cover.
Note to Russian viewers: There have been a lot of comments in Russian in the last week or two. I’m only going to publish comments to AMP in English. It doesn’t have to be perfect, ‘correct’ English, it just needs to be understandable enough for me (and everyone else) to know you’re not spamming the site.
Ben Turner interviews Darren Emerson and Charlie Hall, 19th February 1994. Photo Steve Gullick, club pics Pat Pope
It’s been a busy week as the lack of regular posts attests so I’ve not read through this, however I suspect it is very much of its time.
Regular readers might notice I’ve got a cute little indie ‘amp’ button badge up. My friend littlepixel has kindly worked it up for me. Please do visit his blog where he’s currently in the middle of ‘reimaginitizing’ a series of classic record covers in the mode of 1950/60’s Pelican book covers. Here’s just one of them. Leave him comments and love and I’m sure he’ll pixel more for you. G’wan he lives for this sort of thing.
Oh and Simon from the most excellent Sweeping the Nation has added the 432 available tracks from Garry Mulholland’s splendid “500 Greatest Singles Since Punk And Disco”, as a Spotify playlist here: http://www.sharemyplaylists.com/this-is-uncool-the-500-greatest-singles-since-punk-and-disco/
The Boiler by Special AKA is just finishing up. Harrowing and still shocking. Listen if you’ve not heard it before.
Right I’m off to stick my new badge on to my charity shop cardy now so I can do some of my famed, doomed Morrissey dancing this weekend.
