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Entries from June 14th, 2009

When the Lights Went Out: Britain in the Seventies

June 14th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Politics

Recently I finished reading When the Lights Went Out: Britain in the Seventies, a book by Andy Beckett.  It was another book I got through Amazon’s ‘Vine’ programme, in which they send me free stuff and in return I review it for them.   As a child of the seventies I couldn’t resist requesting it, but […]

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Where’s Captain Kirk?

June 14th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Music

Still on a Spizzenergi theme.  I found this on Youtube: it is the cover of Where’s Captain Kirk? that REM produced as a xmas single for their fan club in (I think) 1992.  The arrangement is based on the version performed in the film Urgh! A music War.   As far as I know, this cover […]

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Airships

June 14th, 2009 · Comments Off on Airships · Music

As mentioned in a recent comment, a video for Airships by Athletico Spizz 80 has been uploaded onto Youtube.  It has some slightly ambiguous comments attached. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video The description says: The longest and most popular song wanted / requested to be included in the […]

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