Tag Archives: 2010

Maybe It’s Time To Fully Investigate Detroit Starrzz… Steve Strange’s Project That Flickered Into Life Then Vanished

Posted on July 30, 2024 by postpunkmonk

I’d posted ages ago about an ill-fated regroup of a Visage lineup by Steve Strange and a host of electro youngsters that was known as Visage MK II [though I’d personally have called them Visage MK III…]. But that never … Continue reading →

Posted in New Romantic, Record Review | Tagged 2010, 2011, Detroit Starrzz, Steve Strange | 3 Comments

Furniture’s “The Wrong People” DLX RM Paints A Picture Of A Band Destined To Not Fit Into This Fallen World [part 2]

Posted on May 31, 2024 by postpunkmonk

[…continued from last post] The high melodrama of “She Gets Out The Scrapbook” was a tour de force of songwriting and lyric, that gave us a glimpse of High Pulp years before the band themselves were capable of rising to … Continue reading →

Posted in New Wave Blind Spots, NWOBJP, Record Review | Tagged 2010, Cherry Red, Furniture, Stiff Records | 13 Comments

Furniture’s “The Wrong People” DLX RM Paints A Picture Of A Band Destined To Not Fit Into This Fallen World [part 1]

Posted on May 30, 2024 by postpunkmonk

Furniture: The Wrong People – UK – CD [2010] There are occasions where a reader of PPM might inquire as to whether I’ve heard a particular album and being only human, there are a lot of stimuli that manage to … Continue reading →

Posted in New Wave Blind Spots, NWOBJP, Record Review | Tagged 2010, Cherry Red, Furniture, Stiff Records | 3 Comments

Record Review: Poeme Electronique – The Echo Fades GER CD

Posted on March 4, 2022 by postpunkmonk

The reason why I am the Post-Punk Monk is that, as I mentioned on the recent Billy MacKenzie thread, was that even when Post-Punk was all around me, and I was there trying to gulp it all down, you can’t … Continue reading →

Posted in Buried Treasures, New Romantic, Record Review, Your Prog Roots Are Showing | Tagged 1982, 2010, Anna Logue Records, Dave Hewson, minimal synth, Poeme Electronique | 14 Comments

Billy MacKenzie Fandom In The Aftermath: It Was The Best Of Times, It Was The Worst of Times [part 5]

Posted on January 27, 2022 by postpunkmonk

Part 5: Death As A Career Move… The next seven or eight years following Billy’s death saw all manner of his recordings get a release from various labels and concerns. While MacKenzie was gone and would no longer create music … Continue reading →

Posted in Core Collection, Scots Rock, Surviving The 90s | Tagged 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2017, Alan Rankine, Associates, BillyMacKenzie | 12 Comments

Ten Years Of Post-Punk Monk On This Day

Posted on June 24, 2020 by postpunkmonk

Yow! It was exactly a decade ago today when I crossed that line in the sand and decided to begin blogging about music. I was not an early convert to the notion. This was basically down to the idea that … Continue reading →

Posted in metablogging | Tagged 2010, 2020 | 40 Comments

Record Review: Cold Cave – “Life Magazine” US 12

Posted on April 16, 2020 by postpunkmonk

Cold Cave: Life Magazine US – 12″ [2010] Life Magazine (The Arthur Baker’s Not Going Back Remix) Life Magazine (An Optimo (Espacio) Mix) Life Magazine (Pantha Du Prince First Flash Remix) Life Magazine (Prurient Remix) I was an immediate convert … Continue reading →