I’ve been listening to my post-punk collection: Devo, The Fall, Gang of Four, The Raincoats, Wire, Joy Division, Echo & The Bunnymen, The Cure, Siouxsie and the Banshees…
How much I utterly <3 The Cure and Robert Smith’s unique lo-fi sound made, allegedly, by running his Fender bass VI baritone guit through an early ’80s Peavey Ultra head into a 4×12 cabinet. These guys say that his personal settings for the head are to remove the mids, set the bass half and the treble completely turned up.
If I ever lay my hands on an electric guit and a nice collection of pedals, how much I’d like to spend my nights playing in underground indie pubs to people who’d understand – not just the mod dressers in their polkadots and stripes and skinny jeans and bumblebee sunnies, but people who’d appreciate the textures and the layering.
How very postpunk revival. How very passe. Arctic Monkeys, Bloc Party, British Sea Power, Dirty Pretty Things, Franz Ferdinand, The Futureheads, Hard-Fi, Interpol, Kaiser Chiefs, The Killers, Le Tigre, The Libertines, Louis XIV, Maximo Park, The Strokes, Snow Patrol, We Are Scientists…
In line with my need to understanding the whys and whatfores of everything, am on the hunt for this book:
