Michael Mulligan
motorcitymick.bsky.social
Michael Mulligan
@motorcitymick.bsky.social
"Pop history boffin" - The Arts Desk, July 2021.
Works in music, works in books, writes books about music. Living the dream.
I'd like to think they meant to write 'Fluter'.
November 28, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Former Muffin Martha Ladly on keyboards. Now associate professor of design at the Ontario College of Art and Design.
November 20, 2025 at 9:18 AM
I'm sure most design experts agree this particular motif reached its peak with a badge that a small but select group of London-based Manchester City supporters made for the 2020 League Cup Final.
November 14, 2025 at 9:31 AM
I'm awarding 'Friends' bonus points for the catalogue number CHUM 1.
November 12, 2025 at 10:37 AM
'Sounds From The Street' (and 'Dr Robert') live from the Fox Theatre, Bolder, Colorado, February '94, included on the forthcoming CD box set. It is, for want of a better phrase, a bobby dazzler.
November 7, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Wonderful. There really is nothing as infectious as enthusiasm.
November 5, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Excellent service, as always. Thank you very much.
November 5, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Could be twins!
November 4, 2025 at 9:19 AM
'Jungle Rock'! 'Groovin' With Mr Bloe'! 'I Can Hear The Grass Grow'! What's not to love?
October 31, 2025 at 10:43 AM
The Ace/Kent albums are the finest body of music catalogue in recent years. The number of songs I have discovered through them is extraordinary. Always beautifully put together, no half measures. And I could probably survive in a fallout bunker with only the Mod Jazz series for musical company.
October 30, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Magnificent. Their finest moment.
October 30, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Nothing wrong with the 'nutty' hits but there is a swathe of beautiful songs, wrapped in pathos, across the Madness catalogue that lovers of music ignore at their loss.
October 27, 2025 at 9:24 AM
By my reckoning the 451st NOW title in those 40+ years, featuring mote than 26,000 tracks (some songs more than once), and yet '12" 80s: 1985 - Part Two' still found room for four that have never appeared before in any version ('Perfect Way', 'Sub-Culture', 'Neutron Dance' and 'Invincible')!
October 26, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Magnificent!
October 18, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Bravo, Sir! Well played. Also admiring your planning, whereby you get to attend the Mercury Music Prize when Ipswich Town just happen to be playing within (more) convenient travelling distance. Cap doffed, and all that.
October 18, 2025 at 9:56 AM
I shall be wearing an imaginary cricket jumper around my shoulders by way of celebration.
October 16, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Double A-Side... always a good quiz question.
October 15, 2025 at 7:27 AM
And one of my favourite '80s 12-inch singles - see also Heaven 17 'Let Me Go', Linx 'Throw Away The Key', and New Order 'Bizarre Love Triangle'.
October 14, 2025 at 7:55 AM