Tag: A Certain Ratio
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Music For New Romantics – Cherry Red Records
I learnt more about the spirit of The Blitz and the people who inhibited that world from Kevin Hegge’s brilliant film, Tramps: The Death Of Punk, New Romantics, The Art Of Survival than I did from almost any other source. Tracing the lineage between early 1970’s Glam and its disparate offshoots, charting a course through…
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Shake The Foundations: Militant Funk & The Post-Punk Dancefloor 1978-1984, 3CD Box Set – Cherry Red Records
Listening to the opening numbers from A Certain Ratio and 23 Skidoo confuse the very idea of post-punk recasting it more as post-funk. It was always an odd expression to begin with anyway, slightly ill-fitting yet also neatly apt to describe the flame of inspiration which fuelled Punk’s ethos while defiantly creating something altogether new…
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Manchester North of England – 7CD Various Artists Boxset – Cherry Red Records
As Buzzcocks once sang: Nostalgia. Dreams are afloat and you can dive headlong into this epic, expansive trip down memory lane. Beginning at the (almost) point of Punk Rock with Buzzcocks Spiral Scratch EP (still got mine) this selection co-hosted by the indispensable Manchester music archive MDMA gets seriously disorientating by the breadth of records…
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