Not Rock On

The very fine blog The last Pop Song introduced me to the very fine work of Jamie T . This got me hooked and now I spread the word. A nice combination of DnB and Pop and much more! Jamie T - 4 songs

As I still don't have my records back, you get some more tape recordings. While checking my stuff I found some tapes again I bought in London when I visited Matthias Hanich in 1987, see there. Expect some more of this for the next posts. This is the first. Roddy Frame and his band Aztec Camera played live in Milan/Mailand Italy on November 04 1984. Since I recorded the tape last week I can not get these fantastic tunes out of my head, I am humming Matress and wires all the time, it still is that great! The sound quality is pretty good, I think this is a radio transmission. Here is the tracklist: 01 Matress of wire 02 Introduction 03 Lost outside the tunnel 04 Head is happy, heart's insane 05 Walk out to winter 06 The bugle sounds again 07 The boy wonders 08 We could send letters 09 Backwards and forwards 10 Oblivious 11 All I need is everything 12 Still on fire 13 The back door to heaven 14 The knife 15 The birth of the truth 16 Down the dip 17 Back on board 18 Jump (Van Halen...

Ich suche dringend eine Wohnung in BI. 2ZKB, gerne mit Balkon, möglichst im Westen, Nähe Siggi. Gerne auch mit EBK und Wanne. Bitte alles anbieten! Jeder, der einen kennt, der einen kennt... Allerdings ist es etwas dringend, da ich zum 31.10. aus der Wohngemeinschaftswohnung raus muss, da die aufgelöst wird. Jeder mit Idee einfach unten einen Comment hinterlassen! Ausserdem brauche ich noch ein billiges Auto! Fiesta o. ä. max. 1000 €, mind. 1 Jahr TÜV und ok! Hat sich inzwischen doch beides erledigt!

Today it is Reunification Day in Germany, so it is a day off, that's why you get this post with a connection to then separated Berlin in 1980. Human League, combining electronics with Pop in the late seventies with their albums Travelogue and Reproduction (don't expect links, you can find them anywhere) were really great in trying to sound difficult, while they were POP. This might have it's roots in the two teams in the band. Phil Oakey, the guy with the Blade Runner makeup and Adrian Lyne, who later carried on (get the pun, eh?) with Human League were on the more Pop/Fun side (although Adrian was a bit arty) while Ian Craig-Marsh and Martyn Ware wanted to back the electronic music revolution with the liberation of the proletariat! They tried so with Heaven 17 (The name came, off course, from Clockwork Orange. Now it is easy to find it cheesy, but I think they really meant it!) Fantastic Pop songs, not much impact on the masses concerning the revolution... This posting giv...

This is my original of the first BowWowWow cassette. I bought it in late 1980 in Lüneburg. As you can see from the scans it was in heavy use. For some time this was together with the first two B-52's LPs my early morning wakeup soundtrack. If you hear it, you will understand... Due to the use in Sofia Coppola's movie "Marie Antoinette" they seem to be back, at least in people's minds. BOWWOWWOW - Your cassette pet 1980 Back online! Some links: Official BWW site Private BWW site

So now I have to unclose the mystery of my new place. I moved from Wilhelmshaven to Bielefeld, from one center of the world to another... Well, I didn't really move yet, I still have my flat in Wilhelmshaven, 3 rooms, 70 qm, view to the sea, 5 minutes to the only south beach on the german coast (which I used less than ten times in five years, but now it seems precious...). Now I have two small rooms in a "Wohngemeinschaft" until the end of October. Until then I have to find something new. But it is already better than the first place I had, a very, very tiny appartment in a students home, better than a place in a dorm, but not funny for more than three weeks. At least there are more concerts here than in Wilhelmshaven. In the five years there I saw Götz Alsmann (some nice CDs over at Der Likedeeler ) and Bernd Begemann (search this blog and more to come). Tonight I was at my first concert in Bielefeld (well, actually the second, as I saw Marc Almond & La Magia here in...

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