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Stuck Between Stations: December 2009

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Random and occasional musings on the good things in life - music, food and football. And some other stuff too. Tuesday, December 29, 2009. Today's soundtrack: Wailing Souls - Most Wanted: Classic Cuts 1978-1984. Back to football today, in celebration of an increasingly rare event - an Everton home win! Yes, it was only Burnley, and a Burnley reduced to ten men with half an hour to go at that, but I'll take that at the moment! And a very real chance that the second half would pan out exactly the same way.

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Stuck Between Stations: March 2011

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Random and occasional musings on the good things in life - music, food and football. And some other stuff too. Saturday, March 19, 2011. Paul's rules for a happy gig-going experience. These rules are my distillation of my experiences of gig-going as a fiftysomething who is now attending far more gigs than he used to, egged on admittedly by a music-mad son who likes his dad to buy his tickets for him. 1 Choose your venue with care. Preferably small, preferably standing. Standing because. 6 At festivals - ...

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Stuck Between Stations: When England was the whore of the world...

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Random and occasional musings on the good things in life - music, food and football. And some other stuff too. Monday, April 08, 2013. When England was the whore of the world. The mother of the nation has gone; she has hobbled off to her uncertain fate, having only a tycoon's salary given to her to fund the purchase of that monkey-shit-brown hair rinse we know so well. C) Cathal Coughlan, 1991. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). I'm the one on the right. North West, United Kingdom. Links to Stuff I Like.

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Irk The Purists: September 2013

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Monday, September 30, 2013. Has anyone told Este Haim that Derek Smalls of Spinal Tap was meant to be an object of ridicule, rather than emulation? Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Subscribe to Irk The Purists. Everything Starts With an A. WHEN MATES MAKE BOOKS. Links for 2016-08-23 [del.icio.us]. New Order - Kevin Cummins @ Proud Camden. MEETING MARCO PIERRE WHITE. David Byrne - 3 Big Songs ep. Other blogs and sites. Let's Tear This Damn Place Up. 20 Jazz Funk Greats. Lost Bands of the New Wave Era.

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Modern Gutnish: Record Store Day

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Squeezing the spot of 21st Century life. Thursday, 26 March 2015. Any fans of record shops will know that this year's Record Store Day. Is just around the corner. Now I quite like the idea of RSD, unfortunately, like Emerson Lake and Palmer or the Sony Discman, the theory is much better than the reality. Last year I saw the author of Last Shop Standing, Graham Jones. Besides, most of the stuff will be on e-Bay inside 20 minutes (at stupidly inflated prices). 26 March 2015 at 21:55. Oh, and theres a corre...

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Irk The Purists: Kiss FM

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Thursday, July 31, 2014. Also rather good is this newie from Sheffield's Slow Club. I'm not entirely sure the video suits the song, but there's no denying that The Pieces. Is a pretty fine choon, and, if there were any justice in the world, it'd be a summer no. 1 hit. Incidentally, there isn't and it won't be. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Subscribe to Irk The Purists. Everything Starts With an A. WHEN MATES MAKE BOOKS. Links for 2016-08-23 [del.icio.us]. New Order - Kevin Cummins @ Proud Camden.

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Irk The Purists: Heads You Win

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Friday, May 30, 2014. I recently got talking to a nice chap from a band called Stats. He said they were influenced by Talking Heads, which is something you don't hear very often. Like the Associates, like Sparks, they were a singular band who clearly had a devoted following, none of whom seem to have used them as a template for further musical exploration. A shame really. I can't quite see why. Perhaps if they'd have stopped after Remain In Light. But listen to Stats. Or Crosseyed and Painless. From Shak...

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Irk The Purists: April 2014

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Monday, April 28, 2014. There aren't enough pop songs based on the novels of Tom Wolfe, whom long-term readers will know takes up a large amount of shelf space chez ItP. In fact before today I could only recall one, and that was New Kids On The Block's 1988 classic You Got It (The Right Stuff). Which is clearly a homage. To Wolfe's description of the 1960s space race The Right Stuff. So it was exciting to hear Tom Vek's Sherman (Animals in the Jungle). As Vek himself has admitted. RIP DJ E-Z Rock.

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Irk The Purists: The Real McCoy

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Monday, April 28, 2014. There aren't enough pop songs based on the novels of Tom Wolfe, whom long-term readers will know takes up a large amount of shelf space chez ItP. In fact before today I could only recall one, and that was New Kids On The Block's 1988 classic You Got It (The Right Stuff). Which is clearly a homage. To Wolfe's description of the 1960s space race The Right Stuff. So it was exciting to hear Tom Vek's Sherman (Animals in the Jungle). As Vek himself has admitted. RIP DJ E-Z Rock .

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Irk The Purists: Seeing Double

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Sunday, March 09, 2014. We got to the Usher Hall a little too late to see Rock Action. S Remember Remember last night; they were one of the support acts for Mogwai, the other being The Pastels, who we did get to see. Is it possible to review Mogwai without alluding to that NME cliché "Cathedrals of Sound"? Probably not. So instead, in honour of the first support band, we proudly unveil the ItP rundown of the Top Ten Groups With Two Words Exactly The Same As Their Band Name. Subscribe to Irk The Purists.