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Razzle In My Pocket... He was a fella I admire a lot, let's face it he didn't exactly have it easy, but rather than letting the world slap him in the face, he slapped back...only harder. From reading and watching the film about him I understand he possibly wasn't the easiest person to work with though. He wrote songs about many and varied subjects and used a lot of places from Essex/East London in the titles ranging from 'Billericay Dickie',…

After a recent trip to a part of London I hadn't been to for a long while, which you can read at: Dead Beats & Kings Cross Indie 80's. I decided to take another little trip down memory lane at the end of October and revisit a place further afield that I haven't been to for over 20 years, so I took the couple of hours train journey to 'Steel City' aka Sheffield. I used to work there on frequent…

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…