Tag: The Associates

  • Magazine Sixty Music Review with Heaven Sent: The Rise Of New Pop 1979-1983

    Magazine Sixty Music Review with Heaven Sent: The Rise Of New Pop 1979-1983

    Greg Fenton reviews Heaven Sent: The Rise Of New Pop 1979-1983 – Cherry Red Records Coined by Paul Morley the term New Pop is not one I cherish sounding a little too contrived, too smooth to taste. Although, as with all these things labels stick with a certain accuracy. Words aside I love a lot…

  • Magazine Sixty Music Review with Moving Away From The Pulsebeat

    Magazine Sixty Music Review with Moving Away From The Pulsebeat

    Greg Fenton reviews Moving Away From The Pulsebeat – Post-Punk Britain 1978-1981 – Cherry Red Records Shall we discuss Post-Punk again? Maybe not beyond sounding like it was dreamt up as one of those catch-all titles, though lacking the necessary breadth to fit the great divide between its wild diversity of styles. In reality, the…

  • 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…

  • TO THE OUTSIDE OF EVERYTHING: A Story Of UK Post Punk 1977-1981 – Cherry Red Records

    The brilliantly titled: TO THE OUTSIDE OF EVERYTHING continues Cherry Red’s equally wonderful series of invaluable histories. This time round tackling, or rather defining Post Punk. The tempting question here is about whether it was really just Punk after all. The ‘Post’ bit a journalist tag line applied to sell the repackage while continuing our…