Category Archives: smiths

Let’s Start The New Year Right

Posted on January 3, 2010 by

‘We were working together quite a lot, and tried to make the BBC sessions as easy, and as painless, as possible. We’d try and get it good, but not get too hung up about it. I think all the numbers … Continue reading →

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Mea Culpa

Posted on June 17, 2008 by

OK, for various reasons, it’s repost time. First up, a track that up to yesterday, I did not have in any more than the truncated version that JP played: but, thanks to the mighty sun god Eduardo of 17 Seconds, … Continue reading →

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One Year On: The Mega Smiths Post

Posted on May 5, 2008 by

It’s exactly one year ago today that I started this madness, and, as I’m sure I’ve said before, it’s all because of London Lee. [If you're reading this, mate, thanks! You've nearly caused a divorce!!-SIG]I used to download soul records … Continue reading →

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A Rose By Any Other Name

Posted on February 1, 2008 by

I received an email today from the venerable Ken Garner, he of the mighty Peel Sessions tome, today, with this interesting fact from one of his contributors, Hugh Brune: June Tabor’s No Man’s Land is of course Green Fields of … Continue reading →

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Bad Moon Rising

Posted on October 25, 2007 by

The season of the witch is upon us! and in true heathen fashion, a small selection of Festive Fifty entries to make your bones shiver and make the undead rise before your eyes. Woohaahaahaa!!!! Specials, Ghost Town (FF 1981 #21, … Continue reading →

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The World Won’t Listen

Posted on August 25, 2007 by

JOHN WALTERS: Out of the sort of liberation that punk brought to the model that that area was getting into, I should imagine that the most successful band that you’ve had on the programme recently must surely be The Smiths, … Continue reading →

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