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Fabulously Flamboyant Fridays: Synth Pop Part Three – Breaking Up Is Hard To Do

26th January 2024 Going Postal 0

Greetings pop pickers and welcome to another edition of Fabulously Flamboyant Fridays – our occasional Campari and soda drenched probe into the rainbow and glitter world of artistes who are quite simply fabulous, darling. This [more…]

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Inventions that changed music – Part 1: The Piano

21st January 2024 Northern Man 0

[This is part one of a short and sproadic series of articles exploring a number of inventions/creations that I think of as being instrumental (hah!) in changing how music is made and/or or how music [more…]

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Iggy Pop – The Idiot (1977)

19th January 2024 Going Postal 0

Listening for the first time to a bone fide legend of music comes with more than a small amount of trepidation and expectation. One expects to be immediately impressed, wowed, surprised and entertained; one expects [more…]

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Fabulously Flamboyant Fridays: A Postcard From 1976

12th January 2024 Going Postal 0

Greetings pop pickers and welcome to another edition of Fabulously Flamboyant Fridays – our occasional Campari and soda drenched probe into the rainbow and glitter world of artistes who are quite simply fabulous, darling. This [more…]

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High Vis – Blending (2022)

5th January 2024 Going Postal 0

Music of the angry working class has not been commercially supported over the last fifteen years or so. I’ve nothing to back that point up other than anecdotal evidence from perusals of the genres in [more…]

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Crom’s Fav Albums of 2023

31st December 2023 Going Postal 0

Below I present my five favourite albums of this year. They aren’t necessarily ‘the best’, (whatever that even means), just the ones that I am most likely to revisit over the ensuing years. Of the [more…]

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Fabulously Flamboyant Fridays: Synth-Pop – Part 2

29th December 2023 Going Postal 0

Greetings pop pickers and welcome to another edition of Fabulously Flamboyant Fridays – our occasional Campari and soda drenched probe into the rainbow and glitter world of artistes who are quite simply fabulous, darling. This [more…]

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Doves – The Last Broadcast (2002)

22nd December 2023 Going Postal 0

Whilst the dark, brooding and somewhat claustrophobic atmosphere of debut album Lost Souls (2000) can be heard throughout Doves’ second offering, The Last Broadcast undeniably bursts through with a confidence and energy sounding everything like [more…]

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Fabulously Flamboyant Fridays: Synth-Pop – Part 1

15th December 2023 Going Postal 0

Greetings pop pickers and welcome to another edition of Fabulously Flamboyant Fridays – our occasional Campari and soda drenched probe into the rainbow and glitter world of artistes who are quite simply fabulous darling. This [more…]

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