Here are the answers to last weeks progtastic pop quiz: The track that people seemed to struggle with was this one: This was, of course, the vocal line to “If You Love Someone (Set Them Free) by Sting from CD-bothering megahit “Dream of the Blue Turtles”, but with the back track from “Eye in the… Read More Phil and Friends | The Answers
Hobsbawn argues that to understand the C19th you should start in 1789 and end in 1917. He also argued that to understand 80s pop quiz you should start in 1978 and end in 1992. He was a wise man. This weeks pop quiz is all about the ska and reggae scene. From ’79 onwards the… Read More Pop Quiz | Ska and Reggae
“Just remember how you felt on that dreadful morning of June 10th, just remember how you felt then, and think to yourselves: June the Ninth, 1983, never ever again will we experience that.’” This was Neil Kinnock’s first speech to Labour Conference as leader. He had started the process of taking the Labour back from… Read More Goodbye Jeremy