Le Weekend,more CDs,Olvis and an Elvis remix
On Friday I sauntered down to Blackwells in Manchester University Precinct,to see if they had any of the books I particularly wanted.They didn't, but they do now have a nice cafe.
On the way,I came across a book fair in what is now the Mandela Building at the Metroplitan University, and bought a very old(by the look of the cover,sixties) compendium of Soviet short stories,by authors such as Maxim Gorky,Michael Bulgakov and Boris Pasternak(who of course wrote Dr Zhivago- which earned him the Nobel Prize for Literature but also complete ostracism within the Soviet Union).
In Piccadilly Records,my brother managed to get me to buy three more CDs;Olvis, an Icelandic musician whose whimsical folky pop meets electronica sounds a bit like Death In June with a theramin; Savath and Savalas, psychedelic Spanish folk with lush electronica-style production; and Booka Shade,German techno-disco.
At one of the decks,one of the punters was listening to a VERY limited 7" single which consisted of a Dub track overlaid with Elvis' vocals. The delighted punter left with the last copy, and as he left waved and shouted "thangyouverymuch".
Ahuhuh.
On Friday I sauntered down to Blackwells in Manchester University Precinct,to see if they had any of the books I particularly wanted.They didn't, but they do now have a nice cafe.
On the way,I came across a book fair in what is now the Mandela Building at the Metroplitan University, and bought a very old(by the look of the cover,sixties) compendium of Soviet short stories,by authors such as Maxim Gorky,Michael Bulgakov and Boris Pasternak(who of course wrote Dr Zhivago- which earned him the Nobel Prize for Literature but also complete ostracism within the Soviet Union).
In Piccadilly Records,my brother managed to get me to buy three more CDs;Olvis, an Icelandic musician whose whimsical folky pop meets electronica sounds a bit like Death In June with a theramin; Savath and Savalas, psychedelic Spanish folk with lush electronica-style production; and Booka Shade,German techno-disco.
At one of the decks,one of the punters was listening to a VERY limited 7" single which consisted of a Dub track overlaid with Elvis' vocals. The delighted punter left with the last copy, and as he left waved and shouted "thangyouverymuch".
Ahuhuh.
Oh wait, youre in the UK, thats not far away...haha