Sometimes you have to wait forever for something that you want. Forever is an elastic term though – at the age of 16 waiting a year for the next album by your favourite group can seem like forever, in your thirties waiting five years may seem reasonable (as long as they make a good album).Continue reading “Brain and body melting”
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Would you still remember me
In the days before the internet when friends moved schools that was usually it – you never heard from them again. I made an effort and visited Royston after I moved away and some of the people visited me (plus we were prolific letter writers) but there were plenty of people I never saw again.Continue reading “Would you still remember me”
You know its righteous stuff
It should have been The Ace of Spades when I first saw Motorhead on TV but somehow I missed it and the first song I saw them do (on Top of the Pops) was Please Don’t Touch in collaboration with Girlschool. (Motorhead and Girlschool in 1981) (Girlschool were unlucky for me – I crashed myContinue reading “You know its righteous stuff”
Time for…..
It was not the first time that we went punting but it was the funniest. Neil, Dave and I had tried punting one afternoon the previous year and Neil had fallen in when the punt pole got stuck and we had found that the mud at the bottom of the Cam smelt disgusting. June 1991Continue reading “Time for…..”
Rendez-Vous
Parties, I don’t really like parties anymore. Not being able to drink alcohol is part of that, but it is just such hard work to interact with people with the requisite loud music and in the semi darkness. My lack of dancing ability probably did not help either. Graham used to have good parties inContinue reading “Rendez-Vous”
Let’s All Meet Up in the Year 2000
Doctor Who fans have always been more like than most fans. How else can you account for the fact that the reason that we have audio recordings of missing episodes from the 1960s when fans recorded them on tape recorders? Target books released novelisations of all but 5 TV stories (copyright issues relating to TerryContinue reading “Let’s All Meet Up in the Year 2000”
Another Runner in the Night
Who is the second greatest sportsman ever? It’s a tough question. The greatest is an easy question and the answer is not Mohammed Ali. Ali’s main claim to being the greatest is that he kept saying he was and that Michael Parkinson repeated it for a long time.. Ali won an Olympic gold medal andContinue reading “Another Runner in the Night”
On an island
This is the kind of group that shows my age (like The Mood https://fivemilesout.home.blog/2020/06/14/we-almost-made-it/ ). New Musik only produced two proper albums and were very much an example of that synth pop era. Their most famous song (or at least most commercially successful) was Living By Numbers. The favourite song from the group for usContinue reading “On an island”
I’ll hear you when you’re calling
Asia were a supergroup formed in the early 1980s. There was Carl Palmer of Emerson, Lake & Palmer (https://fivemilesout.home.blog/2020/05/06/the-hut-of-baba-yaga/ ), Geoff Downes of the Buggles (coming later) and Yes, Steve Howe of Yes (https://fivemilesout.home.blog/2020/07/08/it-is-no-lie-i-see-deeply-into-the-future/ ) and John Wetton of King Crimson. Supergroups had been a feature of the late 60s and early to mid-70s butContinue reading “I’ll hear you when you’re calling”
Wind was blowing, time stood still
The first of two appearances by Peter Gabriel as a vocalist. This is from his career after leaving Genesis. From prog rock he moved in a far more political direction and championed world music. It is hard to choose between three of his solo tracks. Biko is about South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko. InContinue reading “Wind was blowing, time stood still”
Five Miles Out 