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September | 2012 | KAKUTOPIA
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Archive for September 2012. Radioactive Sparrow – Old Fruit (1989). Leave a comment ». Coincided with Radioactive Sparrow’s busiest ever year for gigs, playing about twenty shows throughout the year (recordings of most of them survive), which for a band like this was like a world tour. They were therefore more in touch with their craft than at any other time in their history, and it really shows on this album. Following the excitement (and record sales) of. Rockin’ On The Portoman. World and His Wife.
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Radioactive Sparrow – Burst! (The Hidden Real Truth Behind Angwitch’s Secrets) (1989) | KAKUTOPIA
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Radioactive Sparrow – Burst! The Hidden Real Truth Behind Angwitch’s Secrets) (1989). Leave a comment ». Regular visitors to the online Kak circus will be familiar now with Sparrow’s rule of exceptions whereby the material initially considered the least worthwhile when putting an album together turns out to be stronger and more interesting than what’s originally favoured. In the case of. We’re now two layers deep, a whole album of rejects already having been mounted and framed as. Blood, Piss and Burps.
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January | 2011 | KAKUTOPIA
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Archive for January 2011. Tony Gage – Doctor Shit (1995). Leave a comment ». Is a masterpiece of staggering proportions. It registers an account of turn-of-the-century Britain that seizes the DNA of social music and reconstructs it around an aperture of incisively abstract critique. It is sheer. How does he achieve this? Beats me. Except to say that Gage’s use of the familiar is key, threw out for the r/cats. There are four cover versions (well, that’s if you include ‘Angel of Death’ which. 1991), but wi...
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Radioactive Sparrow – Old Fruit (1989) | KAKUTOPIA
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Radioactive Sparrow – Old Fruit (1989). Leave a comment ». Coincided with Radioactive Sparrow’s busiest ever year for gigs, playing about twenty shows throughout the year (recordings of most of them survive), which for a band like this was like a world tour. They were therefore more in touch with their craft than at any other time in their history, and it really shows on this album. Following the excitement (and record sales) of. Rockin’ On The Portoman. World and His Wife. Written by Gustav Thomas.
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Radioactive Sparrow – Dyer: There’s No Escape (1989) | KAKUTOPIA
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Radioactive Sparrow – Dyer: There’s No Escape (1989). Leave a comment ». The summer of 1989 was a proper one. In recent years, Britain has grown accustomed to summer months sullied by relentless rainings and gusty scathe. But the summer of ’89 smoldered meanly from moon to moon, broodingly frottaging the mythological instincts of artists whose mission was to inscribe history with a blunted edge. Album, I’ll Never Fall In Love Again. Which finally put the Portoman Era to rest. By and large, Dyer. Get ever...
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November | 2009 | KAKUTOPIA
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Archive for November 2009. Tony Gage: This Is It! Leave a comment ». 1992-93 is a period that is retrospectively most remarkable for the Radioactive Sparrow movies. Deep Cop 2: Too Deep A Cop. Both movies were written and directed by Tony Gage. Gage is a compulsive and perpetually engaged artist of true genius. He joined Radioactive Sparrow in 1988 over a year after the break-up of Grenade. His first solo album,. Will be posted on Kakutopia just as soon as the original masters can be digitized and remixed.
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April | 2013 | KAKUTOPIA
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Archive for April 2013. Radioactive Sparrow – Dyer: There’s No Escape (1989). Leave a comment ». The summer of 1989 was a proper one. In recent years, Britain has grown accustomed to summer months sullied by relentless rainings and gusty scathe. But the summer of ’89 smoldered meanly from moon to moon, broodingly frottaging the mythological instincts of artists whose mission was to inscribe history with a blunted edge. Album, I’ll Never Fall In Love Again. Which finally put the Portoman Era to rest.
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October | 2010 | KAKUTOPIA
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Archive for October 2010. Radioactive Sparrow – The Complete Guide To Nothing (1985). Leave a comment ». Dai and Will Sessions. Or even, in fact,. Back in 1982. Bigga, incidentally, came from a bizarre piece of graffiti on a wall in Bridgend, a name writ large on a shabby wall not replicated anywhere else, apparently. For some reason Bargefoot liked it, and tried using it again in 1986 for the Gwilly Edmondez Laurie Anderson-imitating. Sitting between two ebulliently exuberant classics in. Oh Yeah, Oh Wow.
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September | 2010 | KAKUTOPIA
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Archive for September 2010. Radioactive Sparrow – On Th Beach (1985). Leave a comment ». Bed, Beach and Bollocks Trilogy Part Two). Was it just a hormonal thing, kids that age (17-19) being naturally open to whatever the fuck; or was it 1985 itself? Was that the bridge we all crossed out of modernism towards the grim plains wherein regurgitation became prioritized out of a collectively paranoid need for cultural sterility? The first such hit was ‘Horse Race’ which opens this, the second part in the.
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November | 2010 | KAKUTOPIA
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Archive for November 2010. Radioactive Sparrow – The Final Conflict (1986). Leave a comment ». The last ever Radioactive Sparrow album! Three days after the recording date they came to collect their freshly edited and art-worked copies, whereupon Bargefoot threw the master tape at them and told them to fuck off. Sometime Music Can Be So Modern…. Can You Tell What It Is Yet, You Twat? Although certainly marking the ‘end’ of an era, is also the beginning of an incredibly fertile period in which the group r...
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