LEAVING THE SCHOOLYARD BEHIND Schoolyard Ghosts could have been No-Man’s last album but they’ve loved themselves up for this one. Love also features heavily in the No-Man catalogue. Lovesighs, Loveblows & Lovecries, Love and Endings so Love You To Bits kind of follows suit which, when you consider the song has been kicking round for […]
Monthly Archives: October 2019
THE FLOWERS OF ROMANCE The Flowers of Romance brought the early eighties to life mostly through a set of effeminate frontmen such as Boy George, David Sylvian, Billy McKenzie, Steve Strange, John Foxx and Iva Davies whose own band FLOWERS originated in the northern suburbs of Sydney (Australia). Not far away another band were also […]
THE ROAD TO GRACELAND? How bizarre the nomadic road that guides has lead me back to Britannia at a most tumultuous time in its history yet it’s in the quieter hinterland of North London I find myself pondering the second JAPAN related exhibition in as many months. Just as my residence in Lewisham afforded me […]
DICK WHITTINGTON Near the end of 1988, Steven suggested that no-man become the main musical focus for both of us, So in October 1988 I headed Dick Whittington style to the nation’s capital (sans cat). – from Tim’s Speak blog (abbreviated mix by moi)… In the run up to No-Man’s first new album in over […]
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