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Member	Item		Review/Comment
albert 20th Jun 2017		Live Music Dustball @ The Camden Falcon	I didn't see the band live on this date. That album in the special plastic ball was limited to 1000 copies, it did not protect the CD too well and also made it fiddly to get out. The album itself was poppy but unsubstantial and not very memorable, the title comes from a picture of the band beside a shop "Quality Butchers", (missing the C), guess I should have read the sign.
albert 20th Jun 2017		Live Music Happy Mondays @ Kilburn National	I don't know how they would have managed putting on 8 bands in one night even if they did start at 5pm. Note that Stitched Back Foot Airman are listed as Stitch on the advert.
albert 20th Jun 2017		Live Music Manic Street Preachers @ Hull University	Added cutting from NME advertising the tour. Any Manics fans want to add the dates to the database?
albert 20th Jun 2017		Live Music Pixies @ Top Rank Suite	As Pixies hit the charts their UK tour expanded.
albert 20th Jun 2017		Live Music Pixies @ Leicester University	As Pixies hit the charts their UK tour expanded.
albert 20th Jun 2017		Live Music Bubble-Eyed Dog Boys @ King Tut's Wah Wah Hut	Added image giving details of a 1991 tour including such venues as 'a field' in Shetland.
albert 15th Jun 2017		Live Music Bingo Hand Job @ The Borderline	Must have been a fairly open secret as the gig was listed as sold out before the actual date.
albert 15th Jun 2017		Cinema Blow-Up (1966)	from JohnPlatt's book 'London Rock Routes' - "an excellent performance by The Yardbirds in a studio mock-up of, oddly enough, the Windsor Ricky Tick, albeit transposed into Oxford Street"
albert 12th Jun 2017		DVD Box Set Dirty Harry Collection - Warner Home Video	Added some pictures to show the differences between Dirty Harry remaster DVD and original DVD. Personally I think they oversaturated the colours on the remaster, some shots look like they were done on Mars. [my screen grabs were taken from the UK DVDs, which are PAL format]. Magnum Force is just as bad.
albert 7th Jun 2017		Video Game Ms. Pac-Man - Namco	"best fiends" game sponsored this... [YouTube Video] ...I was hoping the jerk would get a killer shock from the monitor
albert 6th Jun 2017		Live Music Copper Lips @ The Monarch	Copper Lips soon after changed their name to Palookaville.
albert 5th Jun 2017		Cinema The Man Who Changed His Mind (1936)	guess they kept changing their minds
albert 29th May 2017		VHS The Ref - Touchstone	AKA Hostile Hostages
albert 29th May 2017		TV Help!... It's The Hair Bear Bunch! (1971 - 1972)	One of my favourite HB cartoons along with Dastardly & Muttley and Hong Kong Phooey. Don't know about Jon Pertwee being the voice of Bubi Bear, but he certainly was the voice of The Noodle Doodle Man.
albert 29th May 2017		TV The Monkees (1966 - 1968)	Probably repeats that got shown Saturday mornings (1970s). I am quite certain that when Night Network began 1987/88 they sliced up episodes to show throughout the night, same with Batman and Rocky & Bullwinkle, budget TV, I suppose.
albert 19th May 2017		Live Music Drugstore @ The Monarch	I remember this gig quite well, Drugstore were excellent of course and they included a cover of the Tindersticks song Milky Teeth which quite impressed me. The Monarch was in serious bad shape around this time and may even have been an abandoned pub, the bands played downstairs on a makeshift stage and there was scaffolding everywhere to support the ceiling. The bar just consisted of a few glass fronted fridges packed with cans that were probably brought in from the supermarket. After the bands you could stay there pretty much all night if you wanted to, they just didn't seem to kick anybody out, and they played a great selection of music including 60s psyche, freakbeat & garage, indie, and underground stuff, everything great. Happy times.
albert 17th May 2017		Live Music Fugazi @ Sir George Robey	The Sir George Robey along with the Bull & Gate and later The Falcon and The Monarch were favourite haunts of mine because of their policy of putting on a bunch of (good) bands for a few quid. Usually you could not buy tickets in advance, and since I did not keep diary notes its now hard for me to remember who I did see live 30 years ago. Unfortunately I did not catch this gig as I am sure to have remembered it, I did buy Fugazi's first EP when it came out though and I did see the very noisy and intense Playground on a couple of occasions around '88-'89.
albert 16th May 2017		Live Music Eager Sin Babies @ Sir George Robey	Well I didn't think I'd find much on YouTube but Eager-Sin Babies did do a single [YouTube Video]
albert 16th May 2017		Live Music Pixies @ Town And Country Club	The advert also has My Bloody Valentine down for the shows, though it is not specifically clear if they played this London gig in addition to Perfect Disaster.
albert 16th May 2017		Live Music My Bloody Valentine @ Dingwalls	Free smarties and jelly babies, that was the scene then, unnecessary cuteness maybe, ...dry ice and strobes too, I bet they did not have the fire-eaters though. This is the kind of event where you would find lots of people selling fanzines (and I would buy them too!).
albert 16th May 2017		Live Music Spacemen 3 @ Dingwalls	My Bloody Valentine had by now signed to Creation and released their classic single You Made Me Realise - a single which was roundly slagged off by pitiful reviewers in the inky press, illustrating lazy tendencies to just pull out old reviews for reference and to follow the party line. Of course once MBV started selling bucket-loads then music press attitudes changed.
albert 16th May 2017		Live Music Spacemen 3 @ Tunnel Club, Greenwich	In the listings pages the Secret Handshakes are replaced by Hiding Place, maybe somebody who was at the gig can say the correct lineup. The full address for where The Tunnel Club (for it was the promotions name) happened: The Mitre, 338 Tunnel Avenue, Off Boord Street, London, SE10 0PF These days it is known as Studio 338, a niteclub!
albert 16th May 2017		Live Music Throwing Muses @ Mean Fiddler [Harlesden]	Legendary first London gig for Pixies. The double headlining of Throwing Muses and Pixies arrived in the UK and played this date as a warm up, they then headed off to Europe and returned to the UK for a short tour a few weeks later.
albert 15th May 2017		Live Music Talulah Gosh @ London School of Economics	Last gig for Talulah Gosh, though it looks like a student union event with tickets only available from the union shop, therefore I suppose only students were allowed in.
albert 15th May 2017		Live Music The Wonder Stuff @ Dingwalls	I see the advert, but also in the same issue of Sounds (26 September 1987) the listing puts it down as: 1) Lowlife 2) The Wonderstuff 3) My Life Story I think the listing is probably more accurate as the information could be telephoned through before printing deadlines, I would also assume that the promoters wouldn't risk putting The Wonderstuff as headliners even if their new 2nd single was just about in the shops.
albert 15th May 2017		Live Music The Shrubs @ The Bull and Gate	The venue was The Bull & Gate in Kentish Town, the club-night was called Timebox. On the listing The Wonderstuff are 3rd on the bill, ahead of Moonstruck Two (4th) and Yellow Pigs From Heaven (5th).
albert 15th May 2017		Live Music The Sugarcubes @ Town And Country Club	This could be The Sugarcubes first headlining gig in London, they had been reviewed previously for gigs where they had been support but the excitement they generated meant that they would not be support for much longer. Talking of which, the support band is given as Felt on the advert but in the listings Felt are put as headlining. Giving that Felt blew out a similar sized gig the previous year when they learnt that they were support to Edwin Collins I would not be surprised if inflated egos created similar tensions for this show. Anyway the majority of people would have went to see The Sugarcubes, they were new, fresh and exciting, whereas Felt were (.....you know what they were).
albert 14th May 2017		Magazine Cut	Cut, the monthly paper, was printed in Edinburgh but was available regionally in parts of the UK, certainly in the North East, however I don't think it was readily found in London as I only had 2 issues in my pile of old papers. Now I am in the process of sorting through old papers to chuck/sell and I can genuinely state that in comparison to Cut all of the big inky press papers - NME, Sounds, Melody Maker - were totally off target pushing the most boring of bands on big labels and ignoring any band/record that was 'small', or 'tiny' if truth be told. I have added a couple of samples from Cuts pages to illustrate just what you didn't get in the NME, the 'new releases' lists include 7" for The Vaselines, Talulah Gosh, Baby Lemonade, Slaughter Joe, The Sound, The Bachelor Pad, Josef K, The Beat Poets, Man From Delmonte, etc - stuff that NME & Sounds just wouldn't even mention on a couple of lines. Meanwhile by comparison, NME (18 April 1987) had a feature on 'The New Independents' - which all look like funded fake indie labels - all of them dance: Rhythm King, Fon, Champion etc. Cut also gives space to list fanzines with contact addresses and most importantly it has pages for introducing new bands without any accompanying hype or pseudo-ramblings that proliferate the pages of the weeklies. I am keeping nothing from my pile of the weekly press, though I am flipping through the pages one last time, (hardly anything is now of interest), thankfully I didn't rely entirely on the music press to keep me informed about music. With hindsight I can see just how much was missed by the usual weekly press, its just a shame that Cut wasn't more widely available as it certainly contained more of the stuff that collectors clamour for these days (always a sign of the best music). Probably also helps explain why Scotland's music was quite a bit more invigorating than most places elsewhere in the UK at the time.
albert 14th May 2017		CD Album The Beatles - Please Please Me	Added a clipping of the news item from Melody Maker 28 Feb 1987 regarding the press event for the release of the first 4 CDs (reads like it was a very sober do). Note that 2 new manufacturing facilities needed to be built to meet the demand for Beatles CDs.
albert 14th May 2017		Live Music Primal Scream @ Harp Club, New Cross	I know the advert states "Harp Club", but I think its probably what we really know as The Venue since there is nothing else in Clifton Rise.

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