Tag Archives: 1980

Gary Numan Giving Telekon’s 45th Birthday A Big Party With UK & North American Tours, New Song

Posted on November 10, 2025 by postpunkmonk

NEW SONG: LIKE A B-FILM Gloryoski! It was a fortnight ago when commenter Echorich in an offline thread told me that Gary Numan had released an unreleased “Telekon” track to herald a 45th Anniversary DLX RM of that album later … Continue reading →

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The Soundtrack To The Futuristic Dystopia That Never Was, “Metamatic” Returns In Grey-Vinyl Form On 45th Anniversary

Posted on October 14, 2024 by postpunkmonk

Aaaaaand we’re back! We’ve picked ourselves up, performed a seemingly endless parade of heavy manual labor, gotten internet in our Asheville locale restored so we’re up to jump-starting this moribund blog now that we have a lunch hour again. Let … Continue reading →

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Maybe It’s Time To Compile That Box Set: Produced By Midge Ure? [part 2]

Posted on September 11, 2024 by postpunkmonk

[…continued from this post] Today we’ll continue and hopefully finish looking at the career of PPM icon Midge Ure as a producer of other peoples records. We got into this a few weeks ago and I knew the timing was … Continue reading →

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Maybe It’s Time To Compile That Box Set: Produced By Midge Ure? [part 1]

Posted on August 29, 2024 by postpunkmonk

Today we’ll start looking at the career of PPM icon Midge Ure as a producer only. I swore that I’d already posted on this before, but inasmuch as I may have mentioned it, the nuts and bolts of it remained … Continue reading →

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Wha…??! Pearl Harbour’s “Don’t Follow Me, I’m Lost Too” Finally Made It To A DLX RM CD And No-One Told Me?

Posted on August 16, 2024 by postpunkmonk

Yow! The things one finds when rooting around on teh interwebs looking for something else entirely! I was deep diving into Bandcamp since I saw a reference to Scotland’s PunkFunk maestros, APB [more on them later…hopefully] and I saw that … Continue reading →

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Maybe It’s Time For That Unnamed Men Without Hats Rarity Project™?

Posted on August 5, 2024 by postpunkmonk

After last month’s rippingly great Men Without Hats show, I’ve been on a MWH jag, understandably! I only have the first three albums, and have penciled in the others into the endless want list®, but the fact remains, that I … Continue reading →

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REDUX: Want List: The Fingerprintz Singles

Posted on March 19, 2024 by postpunkmonk

October 7, 2015 Among the 30 releases that arrived in the mail on Monday, was a record that was pretty significant to me. The Fingerprintz “Shadowed” 12″ single. I bought what was the new Fingerprintz album, “Beat Noir” when it … Continue reading →

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