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Comment on ➤ Smile please, Derek — you’re one of the Sunday Times Mag’s 60 ace snappers in its birthday show by >Re: PHOTO » Blog Archive » Oomska!

>Re: PHOTO » Blog Archive » Oomska! — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:50:19 +0000

[...] back to Derek Ridgers, yesterday I went to the exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery where the Sunday Times is celebrating 50 [...]

Comment on THE FACE, i-D, MEDIA by Janette

Janette — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 05:07:13 +0000

Love this posting – The Face was a great mag – Nick Logan really was ‘looking for the kids who participate in the music scene’ – fans and bands – he published my photo of the ‘Islington Twins’ and many other scenes when no one else would

Comment on 1976–1984 ➤ Creative clubbing ended with the 80s and Smithy’s book needs your help to tell the tale by Dean Cook

Dean Cook — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:42:48 +0000

Got my copy today and it is amazing. Great images,and text. Love it.XX

Comment on ➤ Enigmatic Scott Walker lets loose a revealing rush of answers by Myrtle Taylor

Myrtle Taylor — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 09:45:04 +0000

You can do it Scott. Happy early birthday!

Comment on ➤ Robbie Vincent: 35 years as master of hot cuts and getting our “rhythm buds” going by Kim Bowen

Kim Bowen — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:39:41 +0000

The Lacy Lady!!!! I used to take a tube and then a bus all the way across London to go there. That’s where I first heard Johnny Guitar Watson, “Ain’t That A Bitch”.

Such an interesting time, just on the cusp of the arrival of punk. I was a kid, used to leave the house dressed properly, my mother nodding in approval. Get to the end of the road, and like Superman, rip off my clothes, and be dressed like a hooker, ragged fishnets, spiked red stilettos, mini leopardskin dress, the hem jagged.

That period reminds me so much of Close Encounters Of The Third Kind. In that film people find themselves compelled to create these strange structures, buttes — the eventual platform for the arrival of the alien spaceship. Kids all over England were beginning to dress like punks, plastic trousers, ripped t-shirts, safety pins, it was just a surge. A year later McLaren said that he’d invented it. He didn’t, he just saw it and claimed it.

Comment on ➤ Crack open the Bolly: Ab Fab puts Bodymap back on the map by Andi Luna

Andi Luna — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 16:48:06 +0000

I was so happy to see this back on! I laughed so hard! I loved all the Duran Duran references! Spot on! Brilliant! Give us more!

Comment on ➤ Crack open the Bolly: Ab Fab puts Bodymap back on the map by Peter Steinhoff

Peter Steinhoff — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 16:26:33 +0000

Maintain! Sweetie Darhling, MAINTAIN!

Comment on ➤ Crack open the Bolly: Ab Fab puts Bodymap back on the map by petergonline (@petergonline)

petergonline (@petergonline) — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 16:15:48 +0000

MAINTAIN! SweetieDarhling, MAINTAIN!

Comment on 2011, Duran Duran celebrated in video by Dawn

Dawn — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 17:11:05 +0000

Half of them give me the message “This video contains content from Duran Duran and UMG, one or more of whom have blocked it in your country on copyright grounds.” I’m sure they are all wonderful, but I’m in the US and can’t see for myself. Shapersofthe80s writes: Hi Dawn — Yes, this is the eternal irritation of having YouTube as the middle-man. We experience the same sort of vetoes here in the UK, when American and Asian record companies impose their international restrictions on what we can view. For this tribute to Duran, it would have been straightforward enough to choose 10 competent performances with their US rights approved, but then we in Europe may not have been able to view some of them. What I set out to do was choose 10 videos on the basis of their cinematic excellence, and since Duran are a British band I hope you can forgive this perspective on a British website. Four of the 10 were winners in an Australian competition, so if these are among those prohibited in America, perhaps we should put pressure on the organiser Genaro TV to let them be seen around the world.

Comment on ➤ Robbie Vincent: 35 years as master of hot cuts and getting our “rhythm buds” going by andy polaris

andy polaris — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 19:57:20 +0000

Robbie Vincent was a beacon of light in a very dull radio landscape for lovers of black music in this period. Although a lot black artists – Barry White, Stylistics and Manhattans – had huge popular chart success, the more esoteric jazz and funk artistes were hard to find and even harder to hear on the radio. His show and playlist sent us out to limited market stalls that dealt with US imports (which cost a fortune at the time). His laid-back but friendly delivery made it a weekly highlight to discover new records and new artistes. We salute you, sir, for your services to soul as we boogied on down at Lacy Lady, Raquels, Zero 6 etc, hoping to hear some of the tunes you played on your show. A few I remember buying back then... Larry Page Orchestra – Erotic Soul (1977) Odyssey – Native New Yorker (1977) Dazz Band – Brick (1976) Bo Kirkland and Ruth Davis – You’re Gonna Get Next To Me (1977) Dr Buzzard's Original Savannah Band – Cherchez La Femme and Sunshower (both 1976) Andy Polaris.