This Reddit thread - What’s little secret that you know only because you work in that industry?
Talk about eye opening/watering.
Warning - it’s addictive!
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He must be gutted that he never managed to catch himself. He was right under his own nose. Talk about hiding in plain sight
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New electronic sound is good this issue. Throbbing gristle special and Orb interview comes with 7 inch as usual.
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Nice piece on band members of beloved groups attempting to carry on after the singer dies without exploiting or cashing in on the past, Talk Talk and a band formed from their ashes feature large.
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Good read thanks!
When I was 15 my Mum went to see her friend in Uganda for a month. She left me at home with £150, a cupboard full of Pot Noodles and strict instructions to feed the cat.
Within 24 hours I’d been to the Virgin Megastore in Birmingham and spent the bulk of the £150 on records, the rest I spent on shit lager and Cinzano (?!) and takeaways the first weekend when my friend Craig came over. We got absolutely battered, ran riot and listened to loads of records at top volume and both puked absolutely everywhere overnight (I still have photos I took 
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One of the records I bought was Yello - The New Mix In One Go 1980 - 1985 double album. It was pretty pricey being a double and I didn’t really get into at first. In the days that followed trying to eek out supplies and survive on Vesta Curries I really resented it. Then I began to love it. It’s probably a record I’ve listened to more than just about any other over the years and still have it.
The production still astonishes me!
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Already crying after the first paragraph! 
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Did the cat get fed ? 
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I must have fed her, although she did go missing for a few days (in protest at being left with me I think). She was going around to one of the neighbours for extra-curricular treats and fuss 
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"Limeys, huh?.. I imagine I’d get a big write-up in your English newspapers if you were to die in the back of my cab.”
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Ha ha, great that
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Fantastic, enjoyed that.
Same.
Funnily enough, I remember that the first volume was available heavily discounted a few months after it came out. Can’t remember the exact price, but it was something like £15 from Fopp or somewhere like that.
I’ve been looking forward to volume 2, but don’t think I’ll bother for now.
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This is great.
Reminds me slightly of catching the Alaska Marine Highway (the ferry). It’s a 3-4 day trip aboard a ferry, and you can either book a room for ~$600, pitch a tent on deck (depending on which ferry it is), or sleep on pool lounges under the heat lamps on the side deck. My partner (just married - on honeymoon) and I thought the idea of sleeping under the stars in the viewing deck under the heat lamps all while watching the fjords coast by was a great idea.
So we line up our new temporary sleeping abodes (pool lounges). Hemmed in on one side by a charming father/son-in-law couple returning from their first big motorcycle trip together. On the other side, and bear in mind it’s quite snug, with less than a metre between all of us new room mates is a reserved, introspective gentleman. During the trip his backstory slowly unravels: after getting out of the army, he became a meat buyer for McDonalds. Sadly his marriage had recently dissolved when he found his partner sleeping with a friend of theirs.
The reason he was in Alaska was due to the warrant out for him in his home state after he beat his former friend to a pulp and left him hospitalised, so he skipped state lines. He wasn’t sure how the friend was going and what his long-term prognosis might be, seemed genuinely tortured by that fact. Sometimes this torture played out in his dreams very late at night while I was trying to sleep at breathing distance from him for 3 nights through sudden yelling.
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The story of Mitterand’s last meal- so well written, although some of the language hasn’t aged well it must be said-
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Enjoyed Tim Jonez’s piece on 50 years of Autobahn in the Guardian this morning. It’s a good piece, although I would have liked more about the road and less about the war.
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good read that. Not sure anyone in the UK has ever iconised (iconified?) the M6 in music. Motorways don’t hold quite the same mystique in British culture (with all due respect to Chris Rea, It’s Immaterial & Orbital)
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Not to mention Tom Robinson
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Could be a new thread, songs about motorways and roads 
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