The Pop Art Experience Tune In, Turn On, Trip Out. Be warned this post contains a mix of different music genres from back in the day! It was all packaged up on a simple cassette entitled 'Against The Tide'. I have to say I honestly don't miss cassettes that much, they were usually a bit hit and miss in terms of snagging up and unravelling, they were however, at the time, fantastic to some degree back in the day for…

Post Punk Postcard Madness Remembering this little gem from way back when...(Has it really been that long! 🤯) ...In Me Joy Division Oven Gloves Released to help save BBC Radio 6 and on their album released in 2005 called 'Achtung Bono' released on the Liverpool based 'Probe Plus Records' a label that started out as a record shop (similar to a label I discovered on an earlier post Birmingham Indie Surf Drums). Have a read about both labels on the…

Wickford is a quite unremarkable and small, sleepy town in deepest, darkest Essex on the commuter route to London, the River Crouch runs through it and would often flood the town on many occasions, most notably in the 1950's. It was often referred to as 'Gumboot Alley' as it was so prone to flooding. As a town, it is sandwiched between the delights of (slightly posher) neighbour Billericay and of course the legendary New Town 'Bas-Vegas' (Basildon) home of bands…

Malicious Damage Records Turn To Red, from the E.P. of the same name released in 1979. Youth was to leave in 1982 and was replaced by Paul Raven, by the time 1985 arrived they had hit the mainstream with 'Love Like Blood' (I remember it being released, buying it, and I still have the single in my collection, it was and still is awesome!). It used to be played incessantly at 'The Pink Toothbrush' Night Club I used to go…

The Staircase Mystery? I remember the cover of this album well, I used to spend a lot of time in 'Adrian's Records' in Wickford as a teen in the 80's. I used to head straight upstairs dodging the 'mainstream' record selections to the slightly more 'alternative' collections, on the way up the stairs album covers adorned the walls, mostly of post punk/new wave style bands, you kind of knew you were heading to the right place, a sort of upstairs…