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James Evans
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Oh, it wasn't that bad. I was just skint, and the short-term contracts I was taking on were badly paid, dispiriting, and ultimately led nowhere. But I was fit and healthy and I was cycling a lot, which kept my spirits up. Your situation sounds way more stressful than mine ever was.
Another great read. Incidentally, The Field were also the backdrop to a bit of a rough time in my life (although not half as rough as yours, by the sounds of it): embracethemargin.blogspot.com/2018/04/line...
LINER NOTES: TAKE A RIDE [2013]
Terrorist chic in Berlin
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Good shout (even if I am more of From Here We Go Sublime kind of guy).
Check out volumes 1 (not derived from National Fresh) and 3 and 4 (derived from National Fresh and the Rap Selection that succeeded it).
I don't think anybody growing up in the 1970s and '80s is either completely ignorant nor disinterested in what happened in Northern Ireland. You couldn't be - it was on the news all the time.
I've just recently finished the book, and I would recommend it highly.
Walking With Thee by Clinic is conspicuous by its absence.
That time period IS my twenties. Quite a few on there that featured on the playlists I made back then. I could suggest others that aren't, but you've got to draw a lime somewhere...
I prefer that too, but it doesn't yield enough material on its own. I don't think music journalism is objective as it once was, and some of my friends have stagnated in their listening habits - or they'll recommend something but by the time I've got home I'll have forgotten what.
Listening to the algorithmic music on Spotify is a bit like shopping in TK Maxx: more often than not it doesn't lead to anything, but every now and then you stumble upon a gem. (I don't pay for it or use it for that anyhow.)
A playlist of bits and pieces, that for one reason or another never made it onto any of my compilations, in roughly chronological order: open.spotify.com/playlist/27i...

#playlist #mixtape #britpop #indiemusic #1990s #1980s #sarahrecords
ROSE TINTED SPECTACLES
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Enjoyed that, thanks. Musically speaking, I would have said you straddled both the first 'phase' of The Fall - embracethemargin.blogspot.com/2021/11/line... - and the second - embracethemargin.blogspot.com/2021/11/line...
Discuss? Shall we start with that amazing haircut Stephen's sporting? Here's a Pastels playlist if anyone's interested: open.spotify.com/playlist/5p6...
THE PASTELS
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Yeah, but that one wasn't like other ones, such as the ones up by Drake's Circus. It was open and visible and felt completely safe. It may well still have smelled of wee in the morning, though. 😞