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Review: Happy Mondays – Excess All Areas – by Simon Spence
This is the third Simon Spence book that I have read. He is a very talented music journalist from Manchester with a taste for documenting, wild, stylish cultural movements that have emerged from the Madchester craziness. Excess All Areas covers perhaps the most successful and innovative band to have ridden the early acid house craze… Continue reading
Acid, acid house, Barbados, Cardiff University, Clubbing, COcaine, crack, crack cocaine, dancer, Depeche Mode, drums, E, Electronic Music, Excess All Areas, Factory Records, festivals, Gary Whelan, Greatest Hits, guitar, Hacienda, Happy Mondays, Happy Mondays Greatest Hits, hedonist, heroin addiction, journalist, Joy Division, keyboard, Madchester, Manchester, Mark Bez Berry, Mark Day, Melody Maker, music, music tehnology, narcotics, New Order, NME, Paul Davies, Paul Oakenfold, Paul ryder, polydrug, Princess Diana, rock music, SBez, scallies, Shaun Ryder, shopflifting, simon spence, SPectrum, steve osbourne, substance abuse, Tony Wilson, UK, USA -
Review: Altered State – The Story of Ecstasy Culture and Acid House – by Matthew Collin
I’ve already read a Matthew Collin book – This is Serbia Calling – so I was chuffed when I stumbled upon this work, a history of UK dance music culture. As a DJ and Promoter for 24 years I’m quite aware of a lot of the history of dance music in the UK. This book,… Continue reading
Acid, acid house, acid ted, Acid teds, amphetamines, blackburn, club culture, COcaine, dance music, danny rampling, DJ, djs, Drum and bass, dubstep, ecstasy, ecstasy culture, free party, Government, grime, heroin, House, House Music, Ibiza, jungle, ketamine, London, LSD, Manchester, matthew collin, Milk Bar, mixmag, narcotics, nicky holloway, nightclubs, Paul Oakenfold, police, promoter, promoters, Rave, Shoom, SPectrum, speed garage, Summer of Love, Techno, techno anarchists, trevor fung, uk dance music, uk police -
Review: The Life and Lines of Brandon Block by Matt Trollope
I was a DJ myself back in the 1990s and although I never played alongside Brandon Block, I had the pleasure of meeting him a couple of times. Once, on his father’s birthday in a London bar/club, I had just got out of one of my early mental health hospital stints and I think Brandon… Continue reading
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Review: Mister Good Times by Norman Jay MBE
I was lucky enough to be a warm up DJ for Norman Jay back in the 1990s in The Cross Nightclub, London and I think I was billed on a couple of other events with him. He was a great DJ, I remember him once, in Ministry of Sound, having a full glass of drink… Continue reading
anfield, balck music, Black DJ, Clubbing, DJ, DJing, Football, funk, Good Times, Good Times soundsystem, House, House Music, John Barnes, judge jules, Ladbroke Grove, Liverpool, London, Met Police, Mister Good Times, norman jay, norman jay mbe, Notting Hill Carnival, racism, Soul, The Cross, The Queen, Tottenham Hotspur, UK DJ, warehouse parties, West London, Windrush -
Review: Soldier Spy by Tom Marcus
I initially bought the second book in this series, I Spy, but on learning that this volume preceded it I thought it apt to try this one out first. It’s not a huge book and is very accessible. The autobiographical account of a soldier from the streets, recognised for his unique skills and recruited to… Continue reading
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Review: Viva La Revolución by Eric Hobsbawm
This is my first venture into respected leftist author, Eric Hobsbawm’s work. The book was compiled after the author’s death in 2012 and is a collection of his writings on Latin America after he spent over forty years passionately exploring the continent. The essays have a deep focus on the poor masses of the populations,… Continue reading
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Review: Atatürk – The Rebirth of a Nation – by Patrick Kinross
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was from humble beginnings. He lived through a critical period of Turkish history, witnessing the decline and fall of the Ottoman Empire and making it possible for the modern secular, Western-focused nation state of Turkey to phoenix itself from the Ashes. Atatürk was a military man and although very lucky, his innovative… Continue reading
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Review: Doing The Business – The Final Confession of the Senior Kray brother by Colin Fry and Charlie Kray
The notoriety of the Kray twins, Ronnie and Reggie, is present in their legacy. These were the most infamous London gangsters to emerge during the 1960s. Their older brother, Charlie, used to try and keep his distance from Firm activities, yet he had a lot of insider knowledge of operations. In this confession, he reveals… Continue reading
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Review: The Billion Dollar Spy – by David E. Hoffman
This espionage thriller tells the true life story of one of the Cold War’s most valuable assets, a Russian spy working for the CIA in the heart of the Soviet military aerospace sector. Adolf Tolkachev made the first tentative moves to reach out to the Americans in January 1977, in the heart of Moscow. At… Continue reading
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Review: Dangerous People, Dangerous Places – by Norman Parker
Author, Norman Parker served a 24 year jail sentence for murder. On his release, wanting to experience life to the fullest, he took advantage of his writing skills to become a journalist for lads mags and the Daily Express and set about tackling the niche market of visiting dangerous places in the world and through… Continue reading
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