14 French favourites, a list. Marie et les Garcons punk blast, Alain Z Kan's blowout, disco, hi-nrg, grandeur and Metal Boys fracturing Metal Urbain in extremis, the title from Christopher Priest's harrowing endgame novel. Closing with hankering, resigned melodies of Desireless

Finished reading the smashing 1984 The Year Pop Went Queer, with its beating heart of Hi-NRG. Therefore some '84 ads to celebrate.

Ripon night

On the cusp, the end of summer, Generation X add punk vim to the Marc tv series, which ran Aug-Sept 1977. Bolan introduces their punchy debut single performance with a coy "They have a lead singer, Billy Idol, who is supposed to be as... pretty as me".

Deejay mag 6, 1973. "Everything's opened up. There's been a social revolution." Polly Perkins talks to Anne Nightingale. PP "What kind of music do you like?" Anne "King Crimson, Nielson, David Bowie and Lou Reed - all that camp lot." PP "That's Brighton's influence on you dear!"

'Human Phil'. 1981 pic via NME 1980s #HumanLeague

Interessant pour 2 x 20p

This cool clear day

14 September 1977. Was at Siouxsie and the Banshees - taut attack at the Electric Circus, Manchester. Make Up. Metal. Mirage. A record contract and Hong Kong Garden a year away. Pics by S Rowen, me red hair.

September 1974, glamrock's autumn. Va Va Va Voom by Brett Smiley, both delectable sides sung in Hollywood sighs, a glam will o the wisp - "Nowadays the line between male and female is practically non-existent" - hyped onto the Russell Harty show by manager Andrew Loog Oldham.

Patrick Cowley “Kickin’ In” an epic 8-minute journey through disco, recorded with Loverde in 1978. The newly remastered reissue adds an instrumental mix 🪩 darkentriesrecords.com/store/music/vi…

Whittled from Welsh, hewn from the The Four Branches of the Mabinogi. Enjoying how this brisk book by Catherine Fisher author ***The Clockwork Crow. unfolds and unfolds

Great time DJing a record set at the Crescent in York last night - incl The Marcels pure Blue Moon, Sabrina Johnston Peace, David Bowie corkscrewy Time Will Crawl, Miquel Brown HiNRG blaster So Many Men So Little Time, Ofra Haza swirling Im Nin'alu, Abba en Espanol Dame Dame Dame

Yorkshire Arboretum today, walking among trees