Music royalties hit record £300m as workplace listening soars Office and factories music licensing generated about £120 million, an improvement from the pandemic years when it fell to £57 million from £100 million

Imagine having to listen to Sheeran at work. I’d definitely be onto HR.

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YouTube video by Emperor Palpatine Echo & The Bunnymen with The KLF - What Time Is Love? (Live At Bootle)

The Bunnymen and KLF live

youtu.be/NgJuZvO7pSg

Not missing much 😀. BTW, listened to the podcast you did with Martyn Ware last week- very entertaining. Hadn’t realised you worked at Rising High (I knew you released records with them, obvs). You still there when they down Westbourne Grove?

Nitzer Ebb - Belief, LP

Nitzer Ebb - Belief, LP

Went to see Erasure with some schoolmates in 1988 and this lot were the support act. So yeah, first band I saw were Nitzer Ebb - and they blew my tiny fragile mind.

#nitzerebb

www.discogs.com/release/1288...

Spiritualized - Pure Phase

Thirty years since the album launch party for this LP at Dingwalls. Full of flu, got on the Benylyn and brandy for the full Spiritualized experience. Well, almost 🚀🚀🚀

Meat Beat Manifesto - Psyche Out (Remixed By Andrew Weatherall) / Radio Babylon - 12”

Meat Beat Manifesto - Psyche Out (Remixed By Andrew Weatherall) / Radio Babylon - 12”

Classic of the genre (whatever that genre is). Was late to this, but bought down at Sister Ray on Berwick Street in 1992. Rasping dubbed out Weatherall remix on B side. Meat Beat Manifesto were ace live.

#meatbeatmanifesto

www.discogs.com/release/5898...

Lovekittens - What Goes On? 12”

Lovekittens - What Goes On? 12”

Shuffling effort of indie-dance with a remix from the Orb of Lovekittens’ cover of the Velvet Underground’s What Goes On? Bought in Durrants, summer 1991. Lazy remix from LX Paterson, but marginally improved a track that should have been an indie hit.

#lovekittens

www.discogs.com/release/4281...

And HBD. Lzy sds

Loving the Christmasville 12”. Happy Christmas

Things can only get better! Chin up

Kraftwerk - Autobahn LP cover

Kraftwerk - Autobahn LP cover

Somewhere in the recesses of my mind is the memory of our dad playing this loudly. Not my favourite Kraftwerk LP, but as concept albums go it’s up there. Dad popped this on as soon as we hit the autobahn en route to Dortmund for the Uefa Cup final in 2001

#kraftwerk

www.discogs.com/master/10873...

The Jesus and Mary Chain - Automatic, limited edition gatefold album cover

The Jesus and Mary Chain - Automatic, limited edition gatefold album inner

The Jesus and Mary Chain - Automatic, limited edition gatefold album

Was never a massive Mary Chain fan, but definitely liked them. As I discovered looking at my record shelf as there are a few LPs, 12”s, 10”s and 7”s on there. Another Our Price purchase around time of its release.

#JaMC

www.discogs.com/release/1620...

Inspiral Carpets - Find Out Why 12”

Inspiral Carpets - Find Out Why 12”

Classic Our Price purchase. No idea why, but the local store always had loads of new indie / house / bleep – but don’t recall piles of mainstream fodder.

Bought late ‘89, prior to first time I saw Inspiral Carpets live at Keele Uni. Mad strobes 🙄

#inspiralcarpets

www.discogs.com/master/46322...

Hardfloor 12” - Hardtrance Acperience EP

Hardfloor 12” - Hardtrance Acperience EP

Hardfloor 12” - Hardtrance Acperience EP label

Can’t remember who, but someone sent this to me in 1992 and it blew my mind. Was writing for a student magazine at the time, while also doing music PR/club promotions at Polydor.

Monstrous track that still melts my head. Kings of the Roland 303

#hardfloor #303

www.discogs.com/master/23006...

Manuel Göttsching album cover - E2-E4

No words necessary, quite literally. This might be the best instrumental LP out there: Manuel Göttsching’s seminal E2-E4. Influenced Gong fans and house heads alike. Still sounds ace.

Think I bought at HMV on Oxford Street in 1998 – 17 years after its release

#E2E4

www.discogs.com/master/2786-...

Fluke album - The Techno Rose Of Blighty

Fluke album - The Techno Rose Of Blighty

Would have bought this in Durrant Records in Shrewsbury, early 1991.

Went to see Fluke on my own once at a party out west in autumn ‘91 (mates were mostly indie kids) but got there too early (doors still closed), so went home with tail between legs. I tried

#fluke

www.discogs.com/release/1956...

Absolutely convinced I bought it off you. Or maybe it was Spears?

Yep

808 State 12” - Pacific 909 (Mellow Birds Mega Edit) + Bonus Bird Beats / Cobra Bora)

Purchased on December 30 or 31, 1989, from Eastern Bloc on record buying afternoon in Manchester – the last 12” I bought in the 1980s.

Ace remix of huge crossover track from late ‘89. Indie club I went to even played 808 – or as we called them: Bob state

#808state

www.discogs.com/release/3494...

Daft Punk 12” - The New Wave

Daft Punk 12” - The New Wave

Not the first record I bought featuring this pair, but probably the best. Bought at Sister Ray.

Between 1994-97 Daft Punk may just have been the most exciting live act/DJing duo on the planet. Fond memories of watching them in tiny clubs or tents at raves

#daftpunk

www.discogs.com/release/7982...

Cabaret Voltaire - Yashar 12”

Cabaret Voltaire - Yashar 12” sticker

Cabaret Voltaire - Yashar 12” reverse cover

Cabaret Voltaire - Yashar 12” John Robie label

Bought this from the Record Peddler in Manchester in 1989. Amazing shop filled with Factory stuff, old and new. What I would do for a time machine.

Brilliantly dark electro, mixed by John Robie of Soulsonic Force fame.

Cabs’ only Faç release.

#cabaretvoltaire

www.discogs.com/master/2705-...

Becketts 12” cover for Three Songs

Becketts 12” cover for Three Songs - rear

Lad I knew at London College of Printing was in this band so I bought it.

He was very tall and called Howard. Went to see them live at (possibly) the Bull & Gate – don’t think I was overly excited.

Not listened to this since 1991. Doubt I will again.

www.discogs.com/release/2033...

#becketts

A Certain Ratio: MCR album cover

A Certain Ratio: MCR album cover - rear

Bought this off my mate Tim for £5 in 1990. He didn’t like it – “too dancey”. I loved it.

Incredible LP which has the worst title in the history of music, but is regularly played at home.

Mrs Mac insisted we played a track off it during our wedding ceremony.

#acr

www.discogs.com/release/2459...

Pavement 10” mini-album, Perfect Sound Forever

Insert / flyer from Pavement 10” mini-album, Perfect Sound Forever

Loved Pavement, briefly, in 1991/92. Bought this mini-LP from Drag City on mail order and it took weeks to arrive. Not sure if I paid for it being sent to an ‘exotic location’.

Look at those prices!

Listened to yesterday for first time in 30+ years. Very lo-fi.

www.discogs.com/master/17439...

Shelf filled with vinyl records: Albums, 12”s, 10”s and 7”s

Every record has a story, or memory (most of them fairly mundane). In the absence of having any real use for social media nowadays, I will be cataloguing my collection - in no particular order - here. See below 👇

Still loving them!

Too easy!

Table with piles of vinyl records on it

Lost in music: but what city am I listening to? An easy one to start with