Smashbomb

"If you're listening to prog like Gong then you're going to bump into Magma. They make their own language on their records, so we made our own words for Magma albums. A number of Magma albums would pop up in various friends' record collection, and each one was quite different. On Üdü Wüdü there's an 18-minute track called 'De Futura', which is like a suite and it moves to different tempos and it's got all these cross rhythms in it; it's an overwhelmingly transcendent record. There was a rock disco that we used to go to in Manchester in the 70s and you could take your own records and we used to take this record. You'd see these rock fans freaking out to it. It was a curious time in Manchester because you had the punk thing, but all these other oddball things like Magma and Earth, Wind And Fire were standing beside each other. It wasn't as tribal as it's been made it out to be. You'd go up to a free festival in Rochdale that was called the Deeply Vale festival and all these subcultures would be represented there, because all of the sub-cultures would be big enough to stand on their own two feet. But at this disco in Manchester, you'd hear Bowie and Roxy Music, and Magma, probably some Genesis and some Sex Pistols."

Source

Kudos

Fergies Fledglings

Wayne Barton

(0 Ratings) Rate It

Book

Fergie's Fledglings is the most comprehensive and unique record of its kind, telling the story of...

Alex Ferguson My Autobiography

Alex Ferguson

(0 Ratings) Rate It

Book

Sir Alex Ferguson's compelling story is always honest and revealing he reflects on his managerial...

A Vision of Battlements

Andrew Biswell

(0 Ratings) Rate It

Book

A Vision of Battlements is the first novel by the writer and composer Anthony Burgess, who was born...

Dean (6926 KP) rated East Is East (1999) in Movies

Apr 30, 2019

East Is East (1999)

1999 | Comedy

6.0

(1 Ratings)

Movie Rating

A funny film set in 70's Manchester as a Pakistani family have a culture clash between the parents and kids over traditional Muslim values and English culture. Not quite as funny as I thought it would be, quite serious towards the end but it was still funny see the kids trying to out smart their father. A lot of familiar faces from English TV star in this.