Cut And Paste ‘Come Unstuck’ (Freskanova, 1999)

byNeil Mason
November 19, 2020

While tidying out a dark corner of the home office recently, some boxes of old CDs revealed themselves, among them a hillock of promos from the late 90s.

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Back in the olden days, many music journalists had a nice sideline penning biogs, frothy one-pagers extolling the virtues of a major label’s next big thing. The money was more than you’d earn writing a cover feature, so understandably competition was fierce.

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Tod Dockstader ‘Eight Electronic Pieces’ (Folkways, 1961)

byRobin Rimbaud

It all began with a black and white photo, chanced upon in a book on the history of 20th century music.

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Eyeless In Gaza ‘Photographs As Memories’ (Cherry Red, 1981)

byImogen Bebb

Eyeless In Gaza were formed in Nuneaton in 1980 by hospital worker Martyn Bates and lab assistant Pete Becker.

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Paddy Mcaloon

byJools Stone

In 1991, Prefab Sprout frontman Paddy Mcaloon was struck down with serious illness that led to perhaps his boldest work, 2003’s ‘I Trawl The Megahertz’, a fever-dream of skittish longing that deserves ear time

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