Strap on your cool kid shoes and gird your loins for the kaleidoscopic aural assault that is: Retro Cassette Friday! Wham! Fantastic 1983 This week opens in onomatopoeic splendour with none other than anyone’s favourite anything ever: Wham! Don’t be fooled by the raw, dark sensuality of Andrew Ridgeley’s distracting chest hair on the cover, […]
It’s the end of the week once again, which means it’s time to dust off that glorious plastic and welcome another installment of Retro Cassette Fridays! We have three choice cuts from the tasty meat of years gone by for you to hungrily toss down your gullet and perhaps I should’ve eaten lunch before writing […]
Our foray into the world of cassettes this week brings us two artists related to Madonna and the only solo output from George Michael’s Wham! sidekick. Patrick Hernanez, Born To Be Alive CBS, 1979 He’s a classic one hit wonder with the title track, personally ‘Born To Be Alive’ is one of my favourite songs […]
For this week’s edition of Retro Cassette Friday we closed our eyes and grabbed three more tapes of the shelf. We blindly picked a Pet Shops Boys protege, one of the country’s most respected journalists and some really painful local spoken work poetry. Cicero – Future Boy Spaghetti Records, 1992 Back in 1992 Pet Shop […]
