13 days ago by secretcircuits

Edinburgh is a great, historic city full of castles, historic dwellings and pubs, winding paths, and a fair dose of urban grandeur. It also has CD shops. Among those CD shops it the small independent Avalanche, just a skip off the famed Royal Mile. Although much revered by the locals, it’s actually ...

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17 days ago by secretcircuits

CD shopping in Scotland overall was really quite good. London might have an edge for vinyl collectors but Glasgow and Edinburgh really have quite a lot more music on CD available, partly due to a robust presence by HMV and partly because they have stores other than HMV that actually sell music… good ...

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17 days ago by secretcircuits

For roughly four years of my life (roughly 2000-2004), I awoke to the same song every morning that I actually set an alarm. That song was “Love My Way” by the Psychedelic Furs. I woke to that song every morning for a couple of reasons. One of them was to remind myself, as the lyric of the song says, ...

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22 days ago by secretcircuits

I’m in Glasgow, Scotland, and I just had the opportunity to watch the debut screening of Synth Britannia on BBC Four tonight! It’s very well done and utterly brilliant. It’s a well financed, respectful film that traces the evolution of its subject matter in a full 90 minutes, starting really from th ...

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26 days ago by secretcircuits

Here is the trailer on the Synth Britannia documentary, set to show on BBC4 on Friday, Oct. 16.

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26 days ago by secretcircuits

So I’m visiting Northern Ireland and Scotland this week on vacation. While I’m here this Friday, the BBC will debut a documentary called Synth Britannia, which charts the rise of electronic New Wave music in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s. Thanks to Steve Strange for this excellent link about ...

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30 days ago by Tim at The Clash Blog

Not for the first time BBC Six Music comes up trumps, I love the fact that the BBC realise they have an archive that’s worth it’s weight in gold but more importantly they share it. This time it’s a very special broadcast that the BBC are allowing access to again for a limited time. The proviso for t ...

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33 days ago by secretcircuits

Well, now my musings on industrial music totally made me reflect a bit on dark wave–a really great musical subgenre that rose out of New Wave. Dark Wave bands such as the Cure, Clan of Xymox, Depeche Mode and Siouxsie and the Banshees fit the New Wave mold but they were generally not a bright and ha ...

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38 days ago by secretcircuits

The best New Wave album in at least 2 years is the self-titled debut from UK duo La Roux–finally released in the United State only yesterday. After being delighted with three powerful singles, it is reassuring to see now that a powerful album stands behind them as well. The best track, in my opinion ...

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46 days ago by secretcircuits

Hey Automan, you seem like a smart guy who’s really thought these things through, and we buy that punk bands don’t suddenly become New Wave bands because they add electronics. But what about post-punk bands??? Do they become New Wave bands under those conditions? Um, sometimes? I would argue the mos ...

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