NEW GOLDFISH POST!
"For Keeps" - the only full length album by The Field Mice - was released 35 years ago today so I wrote about and around the album.
God, I still love The Field Mice.

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NEW GOLDFISH POST!
"For Keeps" - the only full length album by The Field Mice - was released 35 years ago today so I wrote about and around the album.
God, I still love The Field Mice.
I feel undesired, dismissed, adrift
My get-up-and-go is long gone
And the days keep dragging on
But we’ve got Arab Strap…
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Done in about five minutes to avoid overthinking (and I’m already regretting missing out Big Black’s ATOMISER!) but these all fit the brief.
THRUM.
RADHIKA & special guest JILL BRYSON.
QUAD90.
Live in concert at Oran Mor, Glasgow, on Friday 15th Jan as part of the Celtic Connections festival.
TICKETS:
www.celticconnections.com/event/1/thru...
New on the blog: Dave Jackson interview ahead of tomorrow's Liverpool album launch and next month's Edinburgh show with the Cathode Ray:
15th Oct – my book tour will take me to Glasgow, Waterstones (Argyle St) with special guest Stephen Pastel.
Tickets and info rb.gy/w5x5n6
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Fancy hearing any of these?
If anyone’s at a loose end in the Kingdom on Sunday… Just sorting out some choice eighties synthpop 7”s for this myself.
The Afghan Whigs making a big noise at SWG3 tonight.
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Tonight when the lights are going down I will surrender to the sound Tonight the sound is breaking like a wave Wish it could always feel this way And life will never be the same…
The Pastels doing some songs for adults in support of Saint Etienne at the Barras.
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This chat prompted me to just re-read the Shop Assistants chapter in Neil Taylor’s “C86 AND ALL THAT”, where David Keegan mentions a Pastels influence to “Something To Do”. Which is a bit of a coincidence as I’m seeing The Pastels live this evening supporting Saint Etienne!