20th Century
The History of Pop Music – 1983
Featured song: Spandau Ballet – True This is a series of articles looking at pop music from 1955 when in my opinion proper pop music began up to 1999 when they stopped making it. One [more…]
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Fabulously Flamboyant Friday – Chastity Bumgardener’s Dub Reggae Corner
Welcome back my friends, to the flamboyance that never ends. This week we shall metaphorically whip out our king size Rizlas, skin up (on a suitable album cover, of course), inhale deeply and take a [more…]
20th Century
The History of Pop Music – 1982
Featured song: Madness – Madness – House of Fun This is a series of articles looking at pop music from 1955 when in my opinion proper pop music began up to 1999 when they stopped [more…]
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Fabulously Flamboyant Friday: The Day Music Died Pt 3 – Live Aid
Greetings pop pickers and please be welcome to tonight’s Fabulously Flamboyant Friday and another of our fortnightly mastications upon the marshmallowy pillows of musical magnificence. In the first two parts of this series we examined [more…]
20th Century
The History of Pop Music – 1981
Featured song: Squeeze – Labelled With Love This is a series of articles looking at pop music from 1955 when in my opinion proper pop music began up to 1999 when they stopped making it. [more…]
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Always Worth Saying’s Glasto Review
Glasto 27th-29th June 2025 Present: Charli xcx Bob Vylan Neil Young Venue: Glastonbury What a struggle it was, but on your behalf this humble reviewer — devastated by the absence of Question Time during the [more…]
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Fabulously Flamboyant Friday – A Postcard From Cannes
Welcome back my friends to the flamboyance that never ends, as Fabulously Flamboyant Friday sashays up to the crease to deliver yet another light-loafered, lubed-up googly from the gasworks-end of musical magnificence. This week’s missive [more…]
20th Century
The History of Pop Music – 1980
Featured song: Blondie – Call me This is a series of articles looking at pop music from 1955 when in my opinion proper pop music began up to 1999 when they stopped making it. One [more…]
Arts
Fabulously Flamboyant Friday: Ivory Cutlery’s Day Off – Paraskevidekatriaphobia
Welcome back my friends to the flamboyance that never ends. Greetings pop pickers and please be welcome to tonight’s Fabulously Flamboyant Friday and another of our fortnightly mastications upon the marshmallowy pillows of musical magnificence. [more…]