#ian button

12/9/21.

Snooping the Bandcamp has never been easier. Between their articles, the new vinyl tab, and artist suggestions, it usually doesn't take much on my part (can't speak for Micah) to find some that's either new to me, or I love.

Swansea Sound (members of Heavenly, The Pooh Sticks and The Catenary Wires) recently posted their Bandcamp favorites. Rob Pursey's list does mention the great David Lance Callahan that was posted recently. But, Ian Button's list steered me in the direction of this reissue/issue from Thomas Leer and Robert Rental (Glasgow).

This is post-punk/electronic music from the late 1970s. If you've enjoy The Fall, or Grauzone (posted 3/10/21), or Chris Knox, there's definitely something here.

Looking for new music? You might as well be looking for a hit man or an Uzi.

(First sentence to be read, Julie Burchill-style, in a Bristol accent).

I went up to that London recently.

Weird that. Bristol is an almost straight line, west to east, pointing at London. But still, you always feeling like the big city is ‘up’.

Where I lived, which was north of that London, we also referred to going ‘up’ to London. Then some chauvinist sage pointed out that it was down.

He was…