son of captain blood

rat patrol on remote control. fort bragg. A choice cut from what was originally envisioned as the double LP, “Rat Patrol from Fort Bragg“. Produced by Mick Jones prior to the in party squabbling which saw the raw material being passed to Glynn Johns, and whittled back to one double sided slab of vinyl, singular.Four

after wal; hol and mart

Recorded at home in Texas, in between soulless shifts at Wal-Mart and diaper changes. All instruments overdubbed by Maureen Tucker; atmospherics courtesy of the Tucker clan. ▼ MAUREEN TUCKER: BO DIDDLEY from “Playin’ Possum” LP (Trash Records) 1981 (US)MO’ HERE

sans palmolive, without lubrication

Oh, well. It’s now or never. In less than a fortnight I shall be officially married – road traffic accidents and strokes, excepting – a convention I have studiously avoided in the thirty odd years since I legally ‘came of age’. Out of atypical modesty, I have thus far resisted the urge to announce said

vladimir cosma

kiss by the hotel de ville by robert doisneau, 1950. Thinking on Emmett and his wife honeymooning close to the Seine as we ‘speak’, it brought back to me my first – and, alas, only – visit to Paris in the 80’s. It is a city unlike any other. The light, too, diffused and gentle,

and if that don’t work…

FACT 40: live at the moonlight club, London; 3rd april, 1980. Hey man, you shouldn’t do that… don’t you know you’ll stain the carpet. “…previously unused studio material and a live recording of Joy Division’s last concert. Originally planned for release in August, it was eventually released on October 8th 1981.“ Probably not as strung

flowers of romance

flowers #2 by ib, SibLINGSHOT ON THE BLEACHERS.I originally photographed these flowers in front of a rain swept window about ten years ago, when my son’s mother was pregnant with him. The image is one of a series of four. Now in the summer / I could be happy or in distress /Depending on the

the clash

radio free europe ▼ THE CLASH: THIS IS RADIO CLASH from “Radio Clash” EP (CBS/Columbia) 1981 ( UK/US)