Ruining it for the Kids
At the foot of Pantry For The World’s editorial page, I wrote ‘Some days I listen to but one song, once. That song is “Stumble”…’ That song, as regular readers of Backed with will know, is by Emily, and is available for download here. The words led into the next page, which reported on ‘Doing [...]
The only colour in this world is love
Has Alan McGee ever given us his considered thoughts about his group Biff Bang Pow! from the vantage point of the 21st century? Some essential and usually hidden core of modesty has probably prevented him from ever mentioning them in his Guardian dispatches. My suspicion is that he reckons his own records aren’t up to [...]
It happens
An inside page from Lemon Meringue Pantry. 500 print run, paid for out of my student grant, and sold at a loss on every copy – very Tony Wilson. And yet, at gigs, in record shops and through the post – people bought the thing. As my writing and layout improved with each subsequent fanzine, [...]
When I’m with you, everything seems just right
The latest Shivers Inside takes as its cue the Jasmine Minks 1985 single, ‘What’s happening’, one of the most attacking, celebratory, anxious slices of vinyl released by Alan McGee. A perfect gem of sixties garage pop meeting punk rock at the grass roots of Creation, I took this record as a seventeen year old to [...]
FAC 161
As ever with Momus, the plot is a woman, but you also get his take on Tony Wilson: ‘It infuriates me when people say (as some have, even on the day he died) that Tony was a bad businessman. He was an amazing – and influential – businessman. Or should we say “anti-businessman”? His contract was [...]
