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Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Organisation, 1980. Mine’s a 1986 UK pressing on Virgin sublabel Dindisc. Via Dyno Records in Newburyport (pre-covid). “Enola Gay, you should have stayed…
UB40, Signing Off, 1980 on Graduate Records. Opens with “Tyler” (about Gary Tyler, sentenced to death at 17 in Louisiana, who served 41 years before being released in…
The English Beat (or as they were known in the UK, The Beat), Wha’ppen, 1981 on Sire. Went through a mod phase in the early eighties – you…
Thompson Twins’ second album. In the US we didn’t get A Product Of and Set but instead got In the Name of Love, which was most of this…
On our last night in London, we made our way over to Fulham for Blue Elephant Royal Thai Cuisine. It’s in a very unassuming part of Fulham, near…
While in London (photos here) we had dinner at a local institution – Mildreds in Soho, a vegetarian restaurant for the last 17 years. We knew right away…
We spent a night in Bath, on our way to Bristol airport to fly over to Dublin. Bath’s a great town – we could have spent another couple…
My wife and I recently spend a week and a half in the UK and Ireland. This post is the first in a series about the vegan goodness…
There just has got to be a better way to get access to content from good UK-based music magazines! Subscriptions to the “rest of the world” are incredibly…