I’ve always quite liked the style of old handbills: the erratic punctuation, jumbled type sizes and overuse of exclamation marks especially. If I produced a handbill for this blog, it would look something like this…
In my teens being there mattered. Having, or at least knowing about, the latest album RIGHT NOW was crucial. To my shame I was late to the Cure and late to the Smiths and countless others. But with the Sundays I got there bang on time. As soon as their first album was released in early 1990 I went out and bought it. That made them mine.
A new way to go behind the scenes of some of Bristol’s most historic buildings.
All book lovers and avid readers, whatever type of book or subject matter they’re into, are faced with one great big non-negotiable truth – YOU’LL NEVER READ THEM ALL.
This sleeve is a genuine piece of history, and in it’s own stiff way everything it says about the value of LPs still holds true…
I’ve just returned from a three-day visit to the Port Eliot Festival, in St Germans, Cornwall. It’s hard to put into words just how good and right the place and atmosphere felt. On the last stage of the drive you wind through a series of roads that alternately give views across small fields that are…
You can now you can explore John Peel’s personal record collection online at this charming site.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-0s4l4Ydjo
What a song. Used up my Spotify quota and have now ordered the LP/CD from here http://www.fencerecords.com/shop/
It’s great.
As a teenager in the eighties my hometown seemed blessed with a surprising variety of record shops, but I always saw Revolver as the one true emporium of cool.
Richly Evocative 