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Richard Foster
, April 22nd, 2021 07:38
Peggy Suicide was the first marking and mapping out of a new Julian Cope, says Richard Foster; one who kept us sane and questing for new ideas at the dawn of the 90s
You could argue that the opening notes of Julian Cope’s double album,
Peggy Suicide, can be heard on the last few pages of his ever-entertaining autobiography,
Head On/ Repossessed. The book chronicles the rise and fall of his band, The Teardrop Explodes and the often painful road towards chart success as a solo artist in the mid-to-late 1980s. On the very last pages, whilst documenting a private memorial ceremony in Tamworth on New Year’s Eve 1989 in honour of his late friend, Echo And The Bunnymen’s totemic drummer Pete de Freitas, Cope writes of experiencing a vision in the form of “a current of truthful gas”.
Patrick Clarke
, January 29th, 2021 10:25
A new documentary by Paul Duane chronicles the attempts of Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty, aka The Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu, aka The KLF, to build an enormous pyramid in Liverpool
A brick of Mumufication, photo courtesy of Paul Duane
On August 23, 2017, Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty ended the 23-year moratorium they had placed on their era-defining musical duo The KLF, aka The Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu, to host a bizarre three-day event in Liverpool. Billed as
Welcome To The Dark Ages, it began with the duo careening through the city in an ice cream van before launching an ultra-meta sci-fi novel called
The central cast of It s A Sin. (Channel 4)
It’s a Sin is the heartbreaking TV drama about the 1980s AIDS crisis that everyone is talking about, and its incredible soundtrack is definitely one of the highlights.
The first episode aired on Channel 4 on 22 January, with a new episode being released every Friday. Meanwhile the entire five-part series was also made available on streaming service 4 On Demand in the UK.
So whether you chose to binge-watch the whole series on its premiering weekend or you’re waiting to watch an episode each week, you might notice how important – and amazing – the