Jemblog

back back back!

Although my job involves trying to help others to blog. I've been rather sporadic at keeping this going. The last post was a year ago. Typepad got suspicious and suspended my account. I had occasional nightmares that some one might swipe  my jem.blogs domain. But they didn't. In the meantime i've had a go with Common User (last post: May 5th 2006) at blogspot. I even flirted with some getting fit malarkey. I've been rather more diligent at kept my Flickr account going and posting links to the lovely del.icio.us. So here i am back back back! for at least 1 post and probablyabout 5 more. This time we'll see. Here's a funny photo of what I've been doing instead.

CD86

So via Tom on Indie MP3 - Keep C86 Alive (no less) comes the news of CD86. (geddit ?) Apparently 48 tracks all the way from "the birth of Indie Pop" (although the CD has tracks between 1984-1989). The cover looks like a spoof (spotted dresses, WHAAAM, Centre Point ?, "right here" on the guitar) and it all feels a bit crap compared to the very similar and impressive Rough Trade Indiepop Vol 1.
But then its all down to licencing. And if you go through the tracklisting then there's Sun, A Small Star from the Servants, On Tape, Anorak City, Jasmine Minks, If I Said by the Darling Buds. There's even some 14 Iced Bears (not Inside though) and Jack and Julian by the magnificent Bachelor Pad. My one small contribution to art was "promoting" one of their gigs once supporting the equally astonishing Jesse Garon and the Desperadoes. I was DJing and got off with my (long in the future) wife.  What a night indeed. So i'll stop carping as I will inevitably buy it. I enjoy buying duplicate copies of stuff I already own.   All together now.."I've got Falling and Laughing...the original Postcard version."