The Casuals: Football, Fashion and a Forbidden Style - File Under Popular Most fashions of the 1980s have been endlessly recycled. Nostalgia has long since replaced creativity. But one style code still remains largely forbidden territory: the casuals. Pringle jumpers. Sergi...

Most 80s styles get recycled. One never did.
The story of football casuals — sharp clothes, brutal violence, and a legacy nobody wants to claim.

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CATALOGUE DREAMS AND FORMATIVE PSYCHEDELIA Before Amazon — before the internet even existed — there was the catalogue. For anyone who never had the pleasure, this was a vast slab of glossy paper, thumped through your letterbox like an oversize...

Unboxing nostalgia: how one Christmas catalogue cassette rewired my entire music taste — and probably yours too.

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The Action, Motown, Mods and Muslims Back in the 1980s, before the internet and YouTube, it was hard to dig up information about forgotten 1960s bands. Knowledge was at a premium. In 1980, Edsel Records released a compilation called The ...

The Action: the 1960s mod band who never had a hit but inspired generations — from soul clubs to Sufi devotion.

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People Get Ready, The Impressions 1965/Pushing Onwards, Big Freedia 20 I was brought up CofE.  My dad was the Church organist, by Grandad the Church Warden, and we went to Church every Sunday.  We were a bit high church, and I was an altar boy as well as singing in the c...

Sunday morning music blog. Why is it so hard to write about religion in music? What songs would you put on a religious music playlist?

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Searching for the Young Soul Rebels 1980 Kevin Rowland, Searching for the Young Soul Rebels, and the Courage to Be Yourself I’m in Ireland, reading Kevin Rowland’s autobiography. Predictably, it’s brilliant — one of the best music autobiogra...

From Northern Soul swagger to Irish literary wit, Kevin Rowland’s music is a masterclass in authenticity — and why it still matters today.
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The Jazz Singer Who Took on Oswald Mosley — Cleo Laine’s Untold Story Cleo Laine, SCIF, and a Forgotten Anti-Racist Moment in British Music Cleo Laine died this week, aged 98. I’ll admit it — I was never much of a Cleo Laine fan. Her smooth, polished brand of jazz was a...

Cleo Laine didn’t just sing jazz — she fought fascists. The forgotten story of Britain’s first anti-racist music movement.
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