Post Punk, Better Badges and the Doors of perception. 79 -82

Things are moving fast, I have moved into a squat in London with the Urban Monkees, started working for Better Badges on an ad hoc basis (all night session making badges or fanzines, selling badges at loads of gigs with Flo or Hamish), spending weekends with new friends (Flo, Renny, Hugh) discovering music new and old (from Dub to Psycedelia) and generally having my mind blown.

MTV has just started broadcasting (a different animal from what we see today). I have started doing a little DJing at the 100 Club and music has become an all consuming passion.

I went to Glastonbury for the first time (New Order are espicially memorable) and also the 3rd Futurama Festival.

I have started working for a bands (Chelsea and The Meteors) doing backline (I am a ‘Roadie’).

Time to get down!……………………

Magazine   Definative Gaze

Echo and the Bunnymen    Rescue

Metal Urbain   Hysterie Connective

13th Floor Elevators   you Gonna Miss Me

Sonny Russel    50 Megatons

The Cramps    Garbageman

Flock of Seagulls   I Ran

Simple Minds       Love Song

Tubeway Army    Down in the Park

Visage     Fade to Grey

Nona Hendrix   Busting Out

Pychedelic Furs    Flowers

Devo    Gut Feeling/Slap your Mummy

Velvet underground     What goes on in your mind

Nash the Slash    Swing Shift NEU!    Hallogallo

Can   Moonshake

PIL   Socialist

Killing Joke      Change

New Order   Doubt’s even here

Duritti Column    Sketch For Summer