Joe Banks

Yeah, that's a great scene ;-)

In the not-quite-final episode of VdGG podcast Inside The Generator, the panel delivers its verdict on 2016's Do Not Disturb.

Was the return to a more 'classic' VdGG sound welcome or not? Should VdGG make another album?

Listen here from 0:58:59 - progzilla.com/the-progress...

Yeah, Priest is pretty more-ish

Fantastic vintage Friars flyer from 1972 featuring the subjects of my two books! #hawkwind #vdgg

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Maxwell Hutchinson & Judge Smith - The Kibbo Kift: The 1976 Rock Musical. THINK LIKE A KEY MUSIC. Buy The Kibbo Kift: The 1976 Rock Musical by Maxwell Hutchinson & Judge Smith on THINK LIKE A KEY MUSIC.

When I spoke to Judge Smith for my Hammill/VdGG book, and found out about The Kibbo Kift, a remarkable musical he'd written in 1976 with Maxwell Hutchinson, I went on a mission to get this fantastic song cycle released!

Read all about it and pre-order here: www.thinklikeakey.com/release/5757...

Early example of the terror that HM inspired in the average NME hack. What's interesting about Priest was their unconditional embrace of the HM tag, something which I think even Sabbath were wary of. Oh, and great pic of Mr Halford, who ironically looks like he could be in a new wave band here...

He certainly should be a lot better known

I think "bizarre" is fair enough for a few of them, certainly if you were in any way new wave SF averse ;-) I like Sladek best when he's not just zany for the sake of it, as I think some of these stories are...

Deranged is an apposite word!

That rang all too true ;-)

In The Happy Breed, AI infantilises humanity for safety's sake, while The Momster is an overbearing corporate droid. And in the title story, mechanical robots run riot in a plot to rid America of a childish, despotic president... Also features various SF writer parodies, inc Iclick As-I-Move... 3/3

To the point of being nonsensical - yet Sladek's prose is always funny and perfectly turned, even as his plots run around like headless chickens. On saying that, at least half of them make sense, and still feel creepily relevant, particularly his overriding theme of machines taking control of us 2/3

My slow tour of classic SF gets back in gear with John Sladek's 1973 short story collection The Steam-Driven Boy. I'm really fond of Sladek, having discovered his other collection Keep The Giraffe Burning in my local library as a young teen - but some of the pieces here are terrifyingly bizarre 1/3

Episode 14 of VdGG podcast Inside The Generator arrives at 2012's ALT. Listen here from 1:01:27 - progzilla.com/the-progress...

Experimental masterclass or odds & sods noodling? Better or worse than CD2 of Present? Let us know...

Previous episodes here: www.rockandrole.net/inside-the-g...

The opening is pretty dreary, but it's worth persevering with...

Yeah, this rewatch was driven by nostalgia ;-) Bradbury certainly writes in a completely different way to most SF authors. There's a Mars-set story called The Blue Bottle which isn't in TMC (though should be) which is just fantastic...

YouTube video by Ema Nymton The Martian Chronicles 1980 Part 1 "The Expeditions"

But the aspect that affected me most at the time was that it was being played out against the backdrop of a coming nuclear conflict on Earth: the end of episode two, where the world turns red in the telescope, really upset me...
Watch it in high quality here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQgO... 3/3

The Martian make-up and costume design is fantastic, the soundtrack is also pretty great, and some of the individual scenes are often quite eerie, particularly the despairing Martian appearing as Jesus (played by Jon Finch, of Jerry Cornelius fame!) in the church 2/3 @breakfastruins.bsky.social

Rewatched The Martian Chronicles, the 1980 TV miniseries I first saw at the age of 12... Critics have noted its turgid pacing, and even Ray Bradbury described it as 'boring'. It's also pretty cheap-looking in places, with some particularly poor model work. And yet, there's lots to like as well 1/3

Agreed on all points

Just shared on FB, from Kerrang, 1982. I bet the line, "Brock has never been truly creative" went down well... ;-0

A Marshall Amp advert in Sounds 22nd, February 1975 including Hawkwind's Lemmy and Shakin' Stevens.
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Thanks! Quite an extended metaphor there from my younger self ;-)

Yeah, Wyndham did a great job

Talk Talk - Rock & Folk Unpublished. Written October 2014.The Colour of Music – ‘Spirit Of Eden’ & ‘Laughing Stock’(No idea why this piece wasn't published. Obviously, it needs to be read in the context of when it was writte...

And if you'd like to read what I think about those albums, go here: www.daysoftheunderground.com/post/talk-ta... 2/2

"It’s About Time We Brought Art In, Innit?" Talk Talk's The Colour Of Spring at 40 | The Quietus Wyndham Wallace pinpoints the moment Talk Talk emerged from their synth pop chrysalis, on third album The Colour Of Spring.

Great piece here by Wyndham Wallace on Talk Talk's third album, The Colour Of Spring. It's a genuinely groundbreaking, innovative, and most importantly, Really Good album that deserves to be spoken of in the same breath as Spirit Of Eden and Laughing Stock thequietus.com/opinion-and-... 1/2

This is from Joe Banks’
Extraordinary book, which
I recommend, dude

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Here's episode 13 of VdGG podcast Inside The Generator, listening this week to 2011's A Grounding In Numbers.

Is this the trio's most adventurous album or too many styles in one place?

Discover what we thought here from 1:04:49 - progzilla.com/the-progress...

Err, yes...

Hyperspace Odyssey, by Spectral Sorcery 3 track album

Spectral Sorcery - Hyperspace Odyssey
spectralsorcery.bandcamp.com/album/hypers... 3/3