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  • The bit that you skip #23: Nik Kershaw – Wouldn’t it be good?

    May 2009. I was at the O2 academy in Sheffield. Placebo were at their peak, and even if Battle for the sun was underwhelming, I was excited to see them live. A friend of mine from the Netherlands managed to get the tickets and although we got separated after security took everyone’s mobile phone, we…

  • The bit that you skip #22: The Cure – 10:15 Saturday night

    When I was 5, I listened to vinyl. Mostly because my grandfather would play classical music on that format and taught me many great composers that way. I inherited a bunch of hand me downs from my brothers, which were LP audio adaptations of Disney movies and a collection of Cri Crí tales and songs.…

  • The bit that you skip #21: For Love Not Lisa – Slip Slide Melting

    Album: Merge. Release date: March 31, 1993. Track: 2. Mood: Grease paint, rain, and hot dogs with lots of onion. The Crow was a mythical flick in the summer of ’94. My parents took me to Ireland in the summer, and everywhere you went, that poster beckoned you. The Quad poster in the UK was…

  • The bit that you skip #20: Helmet – Birth defect

    Album: Aftertaste. Release date: March 18, 1997. Track: 6. Mood: Jump and mosh, motherfuckers, there’s no tomorrow. Aftertaste is a tricky album in Helmet’s discography. I’m on the fraction of their fandom that likes the album, and they were on my bucket list of bands to catch live. It wasn’t until 2007 that I had…

  • The bit that you skip #19: Wang Chung – Let’s go

    Album: Mosaic. Release date: October 14, 1986. Track: 5. Mood: Poptimism before it was a thing. What was your dream car in the 80s? The people I knew would’ve go for KITT, or Magnum’s Ferrari. Perhaps any of the sleek car from Miami Vice. Mine was a Citation X-11. It was a little rusty, the…

  • The bit that you skip #18: Jon Secada – Just Another Day

    Album: Jon Secada Release date: May 5, 1992 Track: 1 “You need to come.” “I’m not going.” “The entire generation will be there.” “I’m not going and that’s final, Rodrigo.” “Please reconsider.” “I’m going to hang up. Sorry.” I push the telescopic antenna back into its place and carry the phone back to its charger,…

  • The bit that you skip #17: Depeche Mode – Enjoy the silence

    Album: Violator. Release date: March 19, 1990. Track: 6. Mood: Self reflection (while carrying a chair). Like yesterday’s post, this is a story about loss. Unlike yesterday’s post, this is a story about a person I never met, but whose passing affected a whole generation of kids at the school I studied at. October 24th,…

  • The bit that you skip #16: Outkast – Speedballin’

    Album: Tomb Raider. Release date: June 15, 2001 Track: 5. Mood: Bombs over Baghdad part Deux. Teresa was a cool friend. Her drink of choice was Gin & Tonic. She wore a bucket hat. We met at a CathSoc retreat in Alton Castle, 2002, and kept conversations firmly on music. She spent a good chunk…

  • Review: Starfleet Academy – Kids these days

    It’s easy to make fun of J.J. Abrahms. Fun, too! But he managed to do in 2009 something many have failed to do: make Star Trek popular again. Sure, it was now an action romp in space with hints of Sci Fi, but the box office numbers assuaged any “it’s not real Trek criticisms.” It…

  • The bit that you skip #15: Nightmares on Wax – Morse

    DISCLAIMER: These won’t be proper reviews -as if I could write those- or have interesting technical tidbits on them. These are more of a “ah, that song reminds me of…” thing. Like the part you skip on a recipe. So it goes. Album: Carboot soul. Release date: April 12, 1999. Track: 2. Moods: Chilling out.…