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The Big One! So, towards the end of September it was our kid's big 18th Birthday, sadly on the actual day we were all poorly with Cold/Covid. We booked a restaurant when we all felt better a week later in Drury Lane in London, next door to where my wife worked many years ago for 'Centrepoint' a homeless charity helping young people getting back into a safe place and work/standing on their own two feet. The restaurant were always good…

Just Monkeying Around. As I have 'monkeyed' around and previously published a post relating to our simian chums a while ago on this site in: Everybody Knows The Monkey here are.... Animal Magnet, Welcome To The Monkey House at youtube.com Catch the track at the link above. The song interestingly shares the same name as a book written by Kurt Vonnegut author of 'Slaughterhouse-Five' the book 'Welcome To The Monkey House' was a collection of short stories written by him…

So, a friend got me into this band, he was a massive Bauhaus fan and when they split he found a new love in Tones On Tail. I have to say they were a bit of a departure from the goth-rock style of Bauhaus and I guess it took some getting used to but they really were very good. Their whole style was a bit hard to pigeon-hole from more up tempo dance beats and electronic sounds to down tempo…

A Red Mecca Of Synth Sounds Released on the Imaginating Music Label in 1981 from the band The Naughtiest Girl Was A Monitor. I think possibly named after a collection of Enid Blyton Books. The track is called 'Front' which you can catch at the youtube link. Early 80's style new wave/post punk minimalist sounding synth pop, Sheffield certainly seemed to be the place that spawned many electronic music acts at the time, such as Cabaret Voltaire who released their…

Gee Mr Tracy & Other Quirky Norfolk Indie. Released 1986 on Backs Records. The band were from Norwich and consisted of Tom 'Brick' Smith and Vince 'Vince' Rogers, they appeared on Channel 4 UK music program called 'The Tube' back in the day and had quite a cult following. A Side - Lava Man! B Side - Mr. Unlucky More information on the band on: sofacom.co.uk norwichmusic.fandom.com The songs were always quirky, lo-fi electronic and lyrically seemed to be a…