Where's Robin C?

More about this in my own thread, which I will shortly post.

Mi-aow!

I think it is a shame -- even though Robin hates me I found his writing about music to be very thoughtful and interesting.

Well, I used to LIKE Sounds in the Gary Bushell era. But not GB himself, of course. There's something insanely great about a music mag which could carry articles on Crispy Ambulance, Discharge and Saxon on consecutive pages.

Was Robin reading Snouds in his pushchair?

Robin I am assured does assiduous research and knows his music press eras. Honest guv.

the purge at sounds was somewhat self-made, if what sav (jon rather than pencil) tells me is correct
jane suck was sacked for "disrespect to the jam" (or somebody, jam = me cheeking dr c); sav and sandy robertson left shortly in sympathy, tho i think there was other stuff connected w.robertson's departure — mccullough stayed for some time but fighting a losing battle

i gave up reading when they gave the raincoats LP a bad review; the oi thing was still a year or so away, and it's peak prolly two yrs: bushell left mid-80s; he'd been in the IS (precursors of SWP) when he started but by mid-80s was er "of the right" (considerably more so than today, frankly: sometimes selling out ain't entirely a bad thing)

interesting controversy: he wrote a review of a members LP when still leftie where he called Churchil a "bloated tory twat": this charge has followed him — flurry in the eye in the early 90s — but he has always managed to shake it off as basically we are all relying on our memory not our archives (i'm 100% certain he did, as eye flurry came up totally independently of me, and i'd been struck by it at the time, as "going too far" even for my scabrous punk tastes!!)

Thought for the day: if you saw yesterday's Sun editorial and hated it, "Get Up (Before The Night Is Over)" by Technotronic featuring Ya Kid K becomes an eloquent political statement.

Enough for now.

I think the idea of a rightwards drift on ILE is bizarre, really: if anything I've noticed the opposite, a shift from posters not really mentioning their politics to posters feeling able to express their more radical or progressive concerns. But I agree with Robin that the best thing to do if you're not getting kicks from the boards is quit for a while.

also ronan seem a bit off limits for the moment