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Reissue CDs Weekly: Disco Zombies - South London Stinks
There’s more to the arty pop-punk outfit than the racket they made
by Kieron TylerSunday, 14 February 2021
“Witless punk” was the weekly music paper
Sounds assessment of Disco Zombies’s first single “Drums Over London”.
NME’s Paul Morley was more measured, declaring it “ill-disciplined slackly structured new pop but the chorus alone makes up for it.” That was March 1979.
“Witless punk” was the weekly music paper
Sounds assessment of Disco Zombies’s first single “Drums Over London”.
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King Rocker
9pm, Sky Arts
Brass Eye director Michael Cumming and comic Stewart Lee bring this charming and experimental documentary following Robert Lloyd, the lesser-known frontman of punk groups the Nightingales and the Prefects, as he recounts his four decades spent making music outside the mainstream. Famous fans such as Frank Skinner and Paul Morley recount Lloyd’s influence, while the legacy of a long-abandoned King Kong sculpture from Birmingham town centre provides an unusual parallel to his renown.
Ammar Kalia
7pm, ITV
With the likes of Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Martine McCutcheon and Mel B already out of the running to be crowned this season’s ultimate costumed singing champion, judges Jonathan Ross, Davina McCall, Rita Ora and Mo Gilligan guess along with us at who may be behind the remaining five outfits.
Kevin Cummins: shooting punk, Joy Division, Oasis, Blur and many more
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Kevin Cummins
Kevin Cummins was born in Manchester in 1953. He spent ten years as the chief photographer for NME, he has contributed to publications wordwide and he remains one of the UK’s foremost music and portrait photographers. See his website for more
It’s little surprise that Kevin Cummins ended up as a photographer as he received a camera for his fifth birthday present and both his father and maternal grandfather had home darkrooms. After developing his own darkroom skills at a young age he studied graphic design and photography in Salford, ‘much to my parents’ annoyance… they never thought it was a real job’.
July 7th, 2015
The advent of streaming music services has been a godsend for anyone whose appetite for music exceeds the contents of their wallet. No longer are those obscure 12” Throbbing Gristle LPs doomed to spend their life in the dehumidified basement of Paul Morley. Instead, the likes of Spotify and Tidal act as a sort of benevolent cultural democratiser, dredging entire back catalogues to the surface and granting instant muso status to anyone with a spare tenner a month. But whilst the likes of
Stereogum chew over the classics again and again, there’s whole swathes of digital flotsam that go largely ignored. These are the barnacles caught in the net, records that made their peace with the sea-bed long ago but now squirm uncomfortably in the glare of our retina-display screens.