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ART CARS MUSIC writing inspired by the very best of Seventies & Eighties; NME, Car Magazine, Sunday Times Supplement etc. Freelance. Please DM for commissions.
December 27, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Gateway drug. David Bowie - Changes One Bowie (1976) Oh, don’t lean on me, man, ‘cause you can’t afford the ticket.
#vinyl #bowie #christmas
#vinyl #bowie #christmas
December 25, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Gateway drug. David Bowie - Changes One Bowie (1976) Oh, don’t lean on me, man, ‘cause you can’t afford the ticket.
#vinyl #bowie #christmas
#vinyl #bowie #christmas
Article I wrote about Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood style raid in NYC 1974-75 came up in a discussion about the genesis of punk rock in U.K. and simultaneous influence on fashion. Article pinned on website, link in comments. Richard Hell and the Voidoids Blank Generation (1977)
#punkrock
#punkrock
December 17, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Article I wrote about Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood style raid in NYC 1974-75 came up in a discussion about the genesis of punk rock in U.K. and simultaneous influence on fashion. Article pinned on website, link in comments. Richard Hell and the Voidoids Blank Generation (1977)
#punkrock
#punkrock
This rolling stone gathered no moss in @loueezecee loft for three decades plus kicking around without me in various locations. I’ve not seen this since early eighties. Obviously takes me back to our so-Seventies lounge and the Sony HMK70 Music Centre. I’ve missed you child.
#vinyl #12inchsingle
#vinyl #12inchsingle
December 15, 2025 at 3:21 PM
This rolling stone gathered no moss in @loueezecee loft for three decades plus kicking around without me in various locations. I’ve not seen this since early eighties. Obviously takes me back to our so-Seventies lounge and the Sony HMK70 Music Centre. I’ve missed you child.
#vinyl #12inchsingle
#vinyl #12inchsingle
Spin off from Art Pop / Pop Art, a study of Roxy Music’s In Every Dream Home a Heartache. One for coffee time.
#roxymusic #musicwriting #rockwriting
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#roxymusic #musicwriting #rockwriting
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RETROSPECTIVE: In Every Dream Home a Heartache. Parasocial Pop Art. - 45renegade
In the summer of 1973, as glam rock reached its sequinned peak and Britain grappled with economic uncertainty, Roxy Music released what may be their most uncomfortable masterpiece. Buried in the groov...
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December 13, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Spin off from Art Pop / Pop Art, a study of Roxy Music’s In Every Dream Home a Heartache. One for coffee time.
#roxymusic #musicwriting #rockwriting
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#roxymusic #musicwriting #rockwriting
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On the run up to Christmas, 12 great albums that would grace any collection. I pulled this out on the hunt for great bass guitar lines as Dylan is learning bass at school and has bought himself one with an amp. Go D-Man 💥 The White Stripes - Elephant (2002)
#altrock #cdcollection #whitestripes
#altrock #cdcollection #whitestripes
December 12, 2025 at 5:24 PM
On the run up to Christmas, 12 great albums that would grace any collection. I pulled this out on the hunt for great bass guitar lines as Dylan is learning bass at school and has bought himself one with an amp. Go D-Man 💥 The White Stripes - Elephant (2002)
#altrock #cdcollection #whitestripes
#altrock #cdcollection #whitestripes
What do you do with a mono sleeve? Some mid-Eighties sounds at Cee Acres, Tears For Fears - Songs From The Big Chair (1985) I can’t stand this indecision, married to a lack of vision. Everybody wants to rule the world.
#vinyl #eighties #tearsforfears
#vinyl #eighties #tearsforfears
December 11, 2025 at 11:52 AM
What do you do with a mono sleeve? Some mid-Eighties sounds at Cee Acres, Tears For Fears - Songs From The Big Chair (1985) I can’t stand this indecision, married to a lack of vision. Everybody wants to rule the world.
#vinyl #eighties #tearsforfears
#vinyl #eighties #tearsforfears
You can see from the background I’ve been up in the loft. Andy Crofts - The Man Who Sold The World & English Summer Live (2023) My review of his local gig is on 45renegade in NME Hip Young Gunslinger prose. English Summer is a catchy tune in a Ray Davies style.
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December 7, 2025 at 6:12 PM
You can see from the background I’ve been up in the loft. Andy Crofts - The Man Who Sold The World & English Summer Live (2023) My review of his local gig is on 45renegade in NME Hip Young Gunslinger prose. English Summer is a catchy tune in a Ray Davies style.
45renegade.co.uk/2025/12/01/g...
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I always flirt with death, I look ill but I don’t care about it. The Only Ones - Another Girl, Another Planet 12” Single (1978) There’s loads of vinyl real estate in the run out groove. 99p on the front, a bargain at 95p from Boots on the back.
#vinyl #newwave #12inchsingle #postpunk
#vinyl #newwave #12inchsingle #postpunk
December 6, 2025 at 3:18 PM
I always flirt with death, I look ill but I don’t care about it. The Only Ones - Another Girl, Another Planet 12” Single (1978) There’s loads of vinyl real estate in the run out groove. 99p on the front, a bargain at 95p from Boots on the back.
#vinyl #newwave #12inchsingle #postpunk
#vinyl #newwave #12inchsingle #postpunk
The Syd Barrett chapter of my book.
Art Pop / Pop Art: a study of the influences of art school, famous artists and movements on pop and rock music.
#sydbarrett #musicbooks #pinkfloyd
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Art Pop / Pop Art: a study of the influences of art school, famous artists and movements on pop and rock music.
#sydbarrett #musicbooks #pinkfloyd
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December 5, 2025 at 9:46 PM
The Syd Barrett chapter of my book.
Art Pop / Pop Art: a study of the influences of art school, famous artists and movements on pop and rock music.
#sydbarrett #musicbooks #pinkfloyd
45renegade.co.uk/2025/04/17/a...
Art Pop / Pop Art: a study of the influences of art school, famous artists and movements on pop and rock music.
#sydbarrett #musicbooks #pinkfloyd
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I’m on a roll this time. Radiohead - OK Computer (1997) on the big HiFi. You really need to be here for this audiophile delight. When I am king you will be first against the wall, your opinion which is of no consequence at all.
#radiohead #alternativerock #artrock
#radiohead #alternativerock #artrock
December 5, 2025 at 8:26 PM
I’m on a roll this time. Radiohead - OK Computer (1997) on the big HiFi. You really need to be here for this audiophile delight. When I am king you will be first against the wall, your opinion which is of no consequence at all.
#radiohead #alternativerock #artrock
#radiohead #alternativerock #artrock
Three-hundred-sixty-five-degrees burning down the house. Talking Heads - Speaking In Tongues (1983) already fragmented into Byrne & Eno, Tom Tom Club and Casual Gods you can hear it all in here. The album tour in ‘84 recorded by Jonathan Demme for the Stop Making Sense film.
#newwave #talkingheads
#newwave #talkingheads
December 5, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Three-hundred-sixty-five-degrees burning down the house. Talking Heads - Speaking In Tongues (1983) already fragmented into Byrne & Eno, Tom Tom Club and Casual Gods you can hear it all in here. The album tour in ‘84 recorded by Jonathan Demme for the Stop Making Sense film.
#newwave #talkingheads
#newwave #talkingheads
Hard to beat this 4th December release and Singles Going Steady. Siouxsie and the Banshees - Once Upon a Time / The Singles (1981) Side one is a desert island side one. Will somebody look at me and solve this mystery? The discordant guitar in this is pure post punk.
#vinyl #punk #postpunk #siouxsie
#vinyl #punk #postpunk #siouxsie
December 4, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Made to be played loud at low volume. The Damned - Damned Damned Damned (1977) got to say the debuts by Damned, Clash and Pistols were all bloody good in their own way. Each had their own manifesto later diluted or dissolved, The Damned - blow everything up and leave it to everyone else to clean up.
December 3, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Made to be played loud at low volume. The Damned - Damned Damned Damned (1977) got to say the debuts by Damned, Clash and Pistols were all bloody good in their own way. Each had their own manifesto later diluted or dissolved, The Damned - blow everything up and leave it to everyone else to clean up.
December 3, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Latest read. Elvis Costello - Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink. Either a great memory or plenty of diaries. It was obvious from the start he was a pretty good creative writer - see Watching The Detectives. (Cont.)
December 3, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Latest read. Elvis Costello - Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink. Either a great memory or plenty of diaries. It was obvious from the start he was a pretty good creative writer - see Watching The Detectives. (Cont.)
What’s Henri Fantin-Latour Got To Do With It? More overwrought nonsense on 45renegade to top up your pub quiz knowledge. New Order - Power Corruption & Lies (1983) I’m not the kind that needs to tell you just what you want me to.
#vinyl #indie #neworder
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#vinyl #indie #neworder
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RETROSPECTIVE: What's Henri Fantin-Latour Got To Do With It? - 45renegade
Retrospective review of New Order’s Power, Corruption & Lies, exploring its groundbreaking sound, intrigue and Peter Saville’s iconic sleeve design.
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December 2, 2025 at 8:55 AM
What’s Henri Fantin-Latour Got To Do With It? More overwrought nonsense on 45renegade to top up your pub quiz knowledge. New Order - Power Corruption & Lies (1983) I’m not the kind that needs to tell you just what you want me to.
#vinyl #indie #neworder
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#vinyl #indie #neworder
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Happy Fridays, here’s a new retrospective in a minor key.
‘When Closer arrived, it was instantly framed as a posthumous statement. It is not. It is a fully realised work by a band operating at the peak of their powers.’
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‘When Closer arrived, it was instantly framed as a posthumous statement. It is not. It is a fully realised work by a band operating at the peak of their powers.’
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RETROSPECTIVE: Where Have They Been? Joy Division, Closer - 45renegade
A deep, atmospheric retrospective on Joy Division’s Closer, exploring its stark beauty, Curtis’s haunting lyrics and the album’s enduring post punk legacy.
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November 28, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Happy Fridays, here’s a new retrospective in a minor key.
‘When Closer arrived, it was instantly framed as a posthumous statement. It is not. It is a fully realised work by a band operating at the peak of their powers.’
45renegade.co.uk/2025/11/28/r...
‘When Closer arrived, it was instantly framed as a posthumous statement. It is not. It is a fully realised work by a band operating at the peak of their powers.’
45renegade.co.uk/2025/11/28/r...
November 28, 2025 at 8:34 AM
The Brit Pop chapter of Art Pop / Pop Art a study of the influences of art school, famous artists and movements on pop and rock music.
#britpop #artschool #rockwriting
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#britpop #artschool #rockwriting
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ART POP / POP ART: Brit Pop & The YBAs - 45renegade
Or How The ‘Young British Artists’ Shaped Brit Pop’s Visual Punch In the crestfallen capital of post-Thatcher Britain, a gang of art school chancers were regurgitating ideas from Duchamp, the Sixties ...
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November 27, 2025 at 7:19 PM
The Brit Pop chapter of Art Pop / Pop Art a study of the influences of art school, famous artists and movements on pop and rock music.
#britpop #artschool #rockwriting
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#britpop #artschool #rockwriting
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Today’s tea time treat. 20 Of Another Kind (1979) Polydor’s punk and new wave bandwagon jumping compilation that saved you a fortune on singles you didn’t already own. Beware of the flowers (‘cos I’m sure they’re gonna get you yeh!) so who remembers John Otway and Wild Willy Barrett on Whistle Test?
November 27, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Today’s tea time treat. 20 Of Another Kind (1979) Polydor’s punk and new wave bandwagon jumping compilation that saved you a fortune on singles you didn’t already own. Beware of the flowers (‘cos I’m sure they’re gonna get you yeh!) so who remembers John Otway and Wild Willy Barrett on Whistle Test?
One of the great Eighties debut albums, Tears For Fears - The Hurting (1983) first three tracks; The Hurting, Mad World, Pale Shelter. All around me are familiar faces. Worn out places, worn out faces.
#vinyl #eighties #tearsforfears
#vinyl #eighties #tearsforfears
November 25, 2025 at 1:21 PM
One of the great Eighties debut albums, Tears For Fears - The Hurting (1983) first three tracks; The Hurting, Mad World, Pale Shelter. All around me are familiar faces. Worn out places, worn out faces.
#vinyl #eighties #tearsforfears
#vinyl #eighties #tearsforfears