Oh yeah, it’s fascinating. However brutal or austere (or even liberal & supportive) the upbringing, there’s no predicting what really changes your life in the public library/record shop/radio

Blimey, wasn’t expecting that

I’d been aware he was from Wythenshawe & sth Mancs, but just read he was born in higher Blackley, where I used to live, in nth Mancs. Just the other side of Heaton pk from where The Fall eventually got together

😬

I adore this version. Completely blindsided me as I was really underwhelmed with that final Shack album

Furthermore, if that slimy Hollywood MF had done his homework, he’d have realised ‘It’s a Long Way to Tipperary’ was written there too.

I like the story, attributed to John Squire, that CDs were ‘rich man’s weed’ when they first came on the market as you could actually hear the detail in those 60/70s albums they’d only known on knackered pressings and on crappy systems

Guilty

Wonderful news. Congratulations

I wasn’t even that comfortable! Probably a byproduct of being too poor to risk breaking guitars in my 20s, along with my uselessness at DIY. I’m definitely ready to go a little deeper now

Ok, well that seems pretty logical then

Seconded. It’s easy to catastrophise s/t like this, but there are lots of non-terrifying reasons why this may be

Aka The Tat Offensive

A total blank spot for me (well tbh it’s *mostly* blank spots out there). This is beautiful though

Got a sneaking affection for HF’s jingoistic ‘90s films