" Have you got Beetlebum ?" " No. It's just the way I'm standin '." The happiest job I ever had (and possibly ever will have) was when I worked behind the counter of a well-known High Street music retailer. A stop-gap job that somehow lasted 11 years, it took me all the way from Inverness to Leeds and back again via Ayrshire. Amongst the minority of planks, skanks and wanks in management that I was unfortunate enough to share a tea break with, I met a fair number of like-minded music obsessives, film obsessives and [...]
Fritter about on the margins of success. Get signed. Release a hit single. Release a hit album. Tour bigger venues. Release a small run of future classic singles with killer b-sides. Release further singles and albums with ever-decreasing returns. Implode around 5th/6th LP when key member leaves or dies. A year or so down the line, entice same member back (unless dead) for one last hurrah and pay-day, but by then the magic is gone. All this is of course played out to a backdrop of drink and drugs and guns and girls and boys and Bentleys and bad and/or [...]
Fritter about on the margins of success. Get signed. Release a hit single. Release a hit album. Tour bigger venues. Release a small run of future classic singles with killer b-sides. Release further singles and albums with ever-decreasing returns. Implode around 5th/6th LP when key member leaves or dies. A year or so down the line, entice same member back (unless dead) for one last hurrah and pay-day, but by then the magic is gone. All this is of course played out to a backdrop of drink and drugs and guns and girls and boys and Bentleys and bad and/or [...]
That's the punchline to a well-quoted Billy Connolly joke, where he explains the joys of cycling at high speed. You yourself better get on yer bike and download the following tracks ASAP before the internet police remove some or all of them quicker than you can say " Wow! More Blur fanclub singles !" Go! Go! Go! This is the second volume of the Blur Fanclub Singles. You can find out the background to the singles here , where the first few tracks are still available (after much re-uploading). 2000: [...]
It seems as good a time as any to post some of these tracks. Actually, a couple of weeks ago would've been better, but then as you know, I'm always just a half-step behind what's currently in vogue. As I write, Blur have played their final gig. Again. And broken up. Again. (snigger) I've written about this before, but for those irregular/new visitors, I'll go on record again and say that I'm a bit of a Blur fan. I have been since day 1. Bought [...]
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