A Certain Ratio: ACR CAR MCR
With their back catalogue being lovingly reissued via Mute, we pile into a car for a guided tour of the Manchester hotspots that shaped the influential sound of A Certain Ratio… fasten your seatbelts
1978
It was the year that the Taito Corporation in Tokyo released its ‘Space Invaders’ arcade game. It was the year that Douglas Adams’ ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy’ was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4. And it was the year that the punk rock revolution opened the way for some of the most innovative and exciting music ever.
Andy McCluskey
OMD frontman Andy Mccluskey shares the music, men, maladies and machines that make him tick
Finitribe
In 1989, Finitribe landed themselves in hot water with a provocative campaign to promote their ‘Animal Farm’ EP. Frontman Davie Miller relives the day the corporate lawyers came a-knocking
Mellotron
This month records featuring the unmistakable and somewhat wobbly tones of the Mellotron come under the gaze of our resident archivist
Vesce
Shuuush, it’s the new sound of Bristol
The Flying Mojito Bros
1970s Pan-American disco bandoleros
Inwards
Hazy analogue walls of sound
Hanz
Welcome to the sonic surgery
Gary Daly ‘Black Man Ray’
China Crisis’ Gary Daly looks back on the genesis of their 1985 hit ‘Black Man Ray’, which featured the late, great Walter Becker at the controls