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King Champion Sounds – Preston, The Continental
There’s something about an unconventional marriage of inspirational music and film that always appeals to me, and I’ve been spoiled for choice on that front of late. In my formative days on the ‘80s London circuit I recall a venue … Continue reading
Posted in Books Films, TV & Radio, Music
Tagged Ajay Saggar, Amsterdam, British Sea Power, G.W. Sok, John Peel, King Champion Sounds, King Creosote, Man with a Movie Camera, Preston, Public Service Broadcasting, The Continental, The Magnetic North, Tuff Life Boogie, Ukraine, Vernal Equinox Festival
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Beyond the Dandelion Adventure – having words with Ajay Saggar and Marcus Parnell
This story starts with The Membranes, because without that Lancashire post-punk band a singer known as Fat Mark and a lanky Asian indie kid called Ajay might never have met. That initial meeting came sometime in the mid-‘80s amid an … Continue reading
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Tagged Action Records, Amsterdam, Blackpool, Blur, Cornershop, Dandelion Adventure, Deutsche Ashram, John Peel, John Robb, Kevin Shields, King Champion Sounds, Mark E Smith, My Bloody Valentine, Preston, The Bent Moustache, The Boo Radleys, The Continental, The Fall, The Membranes, The Stranglers, Thurston Moore, Tuff Life Boogie
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