The Beastie Boys - Intergalatic The Beastie Boys leaped into the public consciousness in the mid 1980s in a whirlwind of teenage high jinks, the theft of hundreds of VW car badges and the general disapproval of the Daily Mail. I seem to remember that there were even calls to ban the band from entering … Continue reading 1998
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Coldcut - Atomic Moog 2000 The story of Coldcut (abridged): two massive pop hits ('People Hold On' and 'The Only Way is Up') in the late eighties followed by setting up the Ninja Tune label and being some of the most innovative DJs (and latterly VJs) on the scene. The label and offshoots have produced … Continue reading 1997
DJ Shadow - Changeling I was talking with a school friend of 24 years ago on Facebook a couple of days ago about how much of my life was intrinsically linked to the BBC. I owe my very existence to the Corporation, as it was there that my parents met in the 1960s. In the … Continue reading 1996
2 Player - Extreme Possibilities 1995 and the beginning of the 'years of dance music'. As is it seems customary in my musical history, I came to the dance scene a little later than some. Mostly this was because I couldn't really see much of interest in the four-to-the-floor 'bleepshite' that seemed to dominate much … Continue reading 1995
I've been in Dublin for the past couple of days, spending time with the Google Enterprise team out here, and also telling the story about our move into the Cloud to attendees of the Think With Google conference, which is attended by customers of the Google advertising product set. Spending two days in the Europlex … Continue reading TravelBlog Extra – Live from the Europlex
Blur - Girls & Boys Ahh. Britpop. When did the charts last get mentioned on the TV evening news? Erm, probably when the latest instalment of Simon Cowell's Pop Tarts kicked off. Or at least when Rage Against The Machine swore their way to number one at Christmas. 'Fuck you, we'll all download the single … Continue reading 1994
Bjork - Human Behaviour Looking back (and we're just past the halfway point now), it's remarkable how short a period of time my university days took up. I'm not the sort of person who continually pines for the 'good old days', but I do recognise how much influence the three years I had at Loughborough … Continue reading 1993
Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit This is the riff of my student days... So this one is a bit of a cheat, because Smells Like Teen Spirit was actually release in 1991. It did, however, feature in some charts across the globe in early 1992, so it counts. My count-up, my rules, and it's … Continue reading 1992
Vic Reeves and The Wonderstuff - Dizzy LCR 963. Loughborough Campus Radio. Broadcasting all over the student village. And live to the Purple Onion. Ahh. Those were the days. As I mentioned a few years back, as a kid I used to pretend to do radio shows in my parents' front room. At University I … Continue reading 1991
The Las- There she goes Those of you who knew me in the late 1980s will know that I was a militant little git. Although the Anti-Apartheid Movement was the only organised political group that I was actively involved in (and one that spanned party politics for the most part), I tended to have a … Continue reading 1990
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