Something old
Who’d have thought we’d have new releases by Hurrah! and the Jasmine Minks in 2010? The groups I saw perform together more than half a lifetime ago have had something of a half-life after all. When I say new releases, I do of course mean that recordings are seeing the light of day many years [...]
Nothing can stop me
I seem to have overlooked a cardinal rule of fanzine rhetoric in this excerpt from Pot Plant Pantry: never apologise, never explain. Nevertheless this is the intensity of youth in full flow. God, how he and I would eye each other with suspicion if time travel ever allowed us to meet. But we would agree [...]
Are you sure it’s not heartburn?
The latest … your heart out is subtitled The enormity of small things. With the usual emphasis on connections, it intermingles thoughts on soul music made in the UK with memories of nights that Dexys Midnight Runners came to town. I suspect the chapter format intentionally recalls the third Hungry Beat, in which Kevin first wrote about [...]
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 [...]
