by hiabx | Jun 20, 1986 | 1980's
June 1986 Alex and Graham came strolling into the dining hall and sat at the table while Antonia and I quietly ate our pack lunches. They seemed to be on something as they kept saying “A weeshker-neeshker”, talk to them about anything, A-weeshker-neeshker was the...
by hiabx | Mar 20, 1986 | 1980's
March 1986 David O’Callaghan lent me a really cool tape today called ‘Please’ by an ace new group called The Pet Shop Boys. It’s well-smart. The tape is recorded with Dolby Digital and starts with these digital bleeps, so futuristic! All the songs are made with...
by hiabx | Feb 20, 1985 | 1980's
February 1985 Theres this new song out called 19 by Paul Hardcastle, its about the Vietnam war and has this brill voice saying “N-n-n-n-Nineteen” Me and Jamie are mad about it and both bought it, though Jamie bought the twelve Inch and I only bought the seven inch...
by hiabx | Dec 31, 1983 | Radio HIAB-X, Radio HIAB-X Childhood
Moving into the second decade of my life, I realise that the playlists are tricky to piece together as the 1980’s were musically like several audio bombs going off in my head in close succession to each other. This playlist represents the last phase of my not...
by hiabx | Aug 20, 1981 | 1970's
August 1981. Today I was round Nanny’s house, I was looking at her Sun newspaper while she was cooking in the kitchen. I opened a page and saw the werewolf from the new film American Werewolf in London. I couldn’t stop looking at the picture even though it scared me,...
by hiabx | Dec 31, 1979 | Blog, Radio HIAB-X, Radio HIAB-X Childhood
I wasn’t buying music in the 1970’s but I was listening intently at the variety of styles, knowing as all music lovers do, the tracks that ‘hit the spot’. They were committed to memory, they were in their own kind of way, ‘first...
by hiabx | May 20, 1979 | 1970's
May 1979 I was sitting up late watching Film 79 presented by Barry Norman. He showed a clip of a film called Alien, there was this man in a tunnel and a dot was chasing him while a woman was starting to cry. The music was really scary and the dot was getting closer to...
by hiabx | Mar 16, 1979 | 1970's
March 1979 Today Gillian took Jamie and me to Sainsburys in Bowthorpe and left us to look at books in the newsagent. I saw this horrible book called The Howling with a scary lady wolf on the cover, I didn’t want to look at it but I kept doing it, in the end I turned...
by hiabx | Jan 5, 1979 | Radio HIAB-X, Radio HIAB-X Childhood
My love of music stretches back to my earliest memories of being alive. My parents, especially my Mum usually had the radio on or was regularly playing something on the record player. This and the Vol.2 playlist are a compilation of the tracks that most strongly evoke...
by hiabx | Jun 20, 1978 | 1970's
June 1978 There’s this new film that all the girls at school are mad about, called Grease. Today Teresa Brown brought her soundtrack in to play during ‘Show and tell’. It’s quite good, I found the picture of the cow on the record quite hypnotic as it spun round and...
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