Because you aren’t a nepo baby like he is, his dad, Freddy, pulled some strings and got him the gig.
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2000 records! Fuck me, i came back from a Soulthport Weekender with more more than that in the mid-90s*
*almost
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people are LITERALLY GIVING HIM RECORDS FOR FREE - why has he only got 2000?
“Dali tells Starr to take them for free. Starr refuses, so Dali counters with €100. Starr reevaluates his selections, not wanting to further betray his monthly record budget. Dali insists again that he take them for free, and this time Starr accepts.”
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2000 records over 23 years is 1.67 records a week. Not even a doublepack.
i need to go for a walk.
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I’m not a reseller and I’ve shifted more records out than that
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Anyone playing Gwen McRae at 2pm on a Sunday afternoon in probably the most revered club in the world gets a thumbs up from me!
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I would like to meet this Dali guy. If he’s giving away the entire Guidance back catalogue as ‘cheap records’.
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Oh the twists and turns!
“A probation officer said the ankle monitor Goudreau was supposed to wear was still located in the Tampa area, where Goudreau was living while undergoing equine-assisted therapy supervised by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.”
^ I wasn’t sure where that was headed once I started the sentence, and I even had to re-read it as I thought it said “U.S. Department of Vetinary Affairs”
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Mention of Spacemen 3 in another thread reminded me of this classic memoir.
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The Will Carruthers book is excellent on the early years. Interesting how they all diverged. Saw spiritualized a few years back and found the gig really boring, whereas Kember’s hypnotic drone set around the same time completely overpowered my senses, and was on nothing stronger than Estrellas that night
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Re-reading (again) Helen Thompson’s ‘Disorder’ because it is a majestical analysis of where we have come from and where we are now. It’s a book that needs to be read closely, several times. Simply the best analysis of our current times and how we got here.
Just essential reading.
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Gatien's new documentary, “Men of War,” is a largely sympathetic look at Goudreau’s slapdash plan to train a mercenary force of Venezuelan army deserters in neighboring Columbia to carry out a cross-border raid that aimed to spark a popular rebellion and remove President [Nicolas Maduro] ... The plot, exposed by The Associated Press two days before the incursion, never stood a chance against Maduro's far superior security forces and ended with several would-be freedom fighters killed and two of Goudreau's U.S. Special Forces buddies locked away in a Venezuelan prison.
Clearly hadn’t read any Frederick Forsyth!
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I also would love to read that….
also, why is the hardback cheaper than the soft back?
I’ve bought more than that this year.
No idea. I find it quite amusing.
here’s the digital version if you like
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