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pod 1: is the PILOT, explaining the background to the project and my reasons for starting it
pod 2: is abt the NME, and some thoughts on the demise of the print format of the final UK music weekly
pod 3: an old man explains PUNK, in the knowledge that literally no one will agree with what’s being said (=definition of punk)
pod 4: looks at undergrounds and overgrounds, and WHAT GOES ON BETWEEN THEM, media-wise
pod 5: the art of the discussion of the NOT EVEN QUITE SEMI-POPULAR, and what you do when it’s never going to be big: from Sun Ra to Ut, from Bhangra to Kpop
(Bhangra and KPop are obviously way way more than just semi-popular, except with the targeted demographics of the publications in question — so the issue of how you talk about them becomes even more complicated… )
post 1: OTHER JACKSONS IN YOUR HOUSE, or how when we made Morrissey we made him bad
post 2: THE INVISIBLE DANDY: scribbled farewell notes on Tom Wolfe
post 3: NO LONGER A DEBATE? Lennon’s Revolutions 50 years on
post 4: THE EIGHT-AND-A-HALF PILLARS OF TRUE PUNK (disclaimer: some of them are false)
post 5: FROM ICEBERG TO TITANIC, AND FROM TITANIC TO ICEBERG, AND FROM ICEBERG TO TITANIC AGAIN: THE MICK FARREN STORY — a semi-forgotten UK rockwrite great, and the 1976 polemic that maybe kickstarted UK punk
post 6: WHAT EVEN IS AREVIEW? Pro and con lost or discarded ways to approach the evolving art of rock criticism: noiseboys dept (=Nick Tosches being a dick and why that’s maybe not all bad… )
Sad interlude: two obits of key figures at the NME, late 70s and early 80s. ROY CARR (1945-2018) here and here; PENNY REEL (1948-2018) here, video interview here. Next post will be a longer appreciation of Penny, a key contributor to conference and anthology (and a Hackney neighbour I’ve known for years).
post 7: HOW NOT TO WRITE ABOUT JAZZ , PROBABLY, a long piece on the problems of explaining genre — and when and why you need to, and what you need to talk about to justify talking in terms of genre at all (probably)
(post numbering excludes all the ones where I’m basically saying “sorry I haven’t posted recently! more very soon!”)
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― mark s, Wednesday, 12 September 2018 12:31 (five years ago) link
one month passes...
post 9: about INDUSTRIAL ACTION AT THE POP TITLES and why it was good not bad (subscribers only since i need more subscribers)
there are two podcasts recorded and nearly ready to go up but my cohost and producer is overwhelmed by the pressures of freelancing currently: of course if you subscribe that will relieve pressure!
(end very good shill)
― mark s, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 13:58 (five years ago) link
nine months pass...
Oh man, the Silver Screen piece is grebt, mark s! I didn't start reading until 83/84 (after the strike?) but with its Bilko/Barthes/Blimp/Brookie focus it was the section that spoke most clearly to me (particularly since it was far easier to track down the stuff under discussion than eg a Scraping Foetus 12"). Would much rather read an anthology of IP's TV stuff than his LRB elegies, and still aspire to be a member of the silver screen screwball comedy squad :/
― Stevie T, Friday, 9 August 2019 12:23 (four years ago) link