Ian Wade

(I’m currently in Helsinki and a couple of hours ahead and also quite pissed)

It’s Bookshop Day and Coming Out Day so allow me to recommend my gay book

Hello from Helsinki! It’s very groovy and, inevitably, I’ve found a record shop and ended up buying another copy of Love and Dancing but it is in a different sleeve. Yaroo!

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Love Hangover by Diana Ross is the sound of the diva getting fucked in her kitchen and bent over the sink in her mules, smoking a B&H.

New York’s Mineshaft club opened 49 years ago this week

TRY IT YOU MIGHT LIKE IT

1981’s Autumn of the Futurists was in some ways Philip Oakey’s deranged idea that The Dignity of Labour could’ve been a No.1 come to fruition. In a week’s time, his idea won’t seem so deranged after all.

PINK FLOYD SHINE ON by Mark Blake is OUT NOW!

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it's maddening!

THE ONES FLAWLESS

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ahead of my long weekend in Finland obviously I've downloaded a few podcasts, some pop docs, a few Hey Duggees, uploaded a future DJ setlist to check out, my next album and mp3s of three forthcoming boxsets. Obviously the minute I'm on the plane I'll not fancy ANY of it, but at least I'm prepared.

UH OH. LEGENDS

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Oh he’s been a fucking Nutjob for a while now

Purcell’s Role in Gay Rights and How He Was Basically A Futurist So anyway I’ve been listening to Purcell’s Funeral Sentences for the death of Queen Mary II, Z.27: VII March, which was sort of prompted by…

With Purcell in the news I've resurrected a thing I wrote years ago

Found this article in Music Week dated 10 Oct 92: 30 Sep sounds likely for Automatic For The People. And 7 Oct for Prince’s Symbol, not 13 Oct as is commonly believed.

YES! YES! YES! THANK YOU. I thought I was going mad.

‘Are the neighbours’ curtains twitching? Good!’ Avril A, the 80s housewife who became a star of Manchester’s gay scene She sang out of tune, her choreography was bizarre – and everyone who saw her loved her. As her superb music is rereleased, her family and fans recall a subcultural great

I have just been listening to this album (on bandcamp) and it is completely amazing

Purcell’s Role in Gay Rights and How He Was Basically A Futurist So anyway I’ve been listening to Purcell’s Funeral Sentences for the death of Queen Mary II, Z.27: VII March, which was sort of prompted by…

With Purcell in the news I've resurrected a thing I wrote years ago

Come on down to The Social for Late Nite Minicab FM on Saturday Nov 1. Soft sounds that hit hard thesocial.seetickets.com/event/late-n...

Come on down to The Social for Late Nite Minicab FM on Saturday Nov 1. Soft sounds that hit hard thesocial.seetickets.com/event/late-n...

You *could* listen to a podcast that somehow fails to acknowledge me or my book. But if you value actual research and proper journalism, you can read the definitive account of EMI and Terra Firma here. (Hem hem.) uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

ooh nice. Yeah I think it might have been brought forward or maybe released midweek.

I mean, everyone is saying October 5 and it is very much an October album, but what if everything I know is actually wrong

trying to work out how Automatic For The People was 33 yesterday when it entered the charts dated 4/10/92 and all the other new entries that week came out 28/9

RIP