Tuesday, June 18, 2013



first two minutes of this, sublime

rest of it, pretty darn good too

France Joli, "I Wanna Take A Chance On Love", Prelude, 1982 - a David Stubbs Meltdown classic

and here's another


and another



and another


(met Gwen, you know, interviewed her -- never wrote it up, for shame)

and the "title track"



this one i found by myself (well with a little help from barney H and one of his NME singles column)


(yeah put that in yer pipe n smoke it Mr Kirk)
I grew up in Hertfordshire...  and strange to consider, but Herts (long after I'd moved away) was a bit of a hotbed of hardcore. More the Eastern end of the county (Stevenage and Hitchin etc) and the edge-of-London parts like St Albans -- as opposed to the Chilterns-y Western end where I grew up...  So the new town, London overspilly, not-unlike-Essex parts, basically would be where it thrived, logically enough.  But nonetheless, nonetheless: Herts is ardkore....

viz, this FACT TV interview with Herts boys 2 Bad Mice