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Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Song In My Head - Matt Pinfield Edition

Remember how MTV's 120 Minutes host Matt Pinfield would show off his command of arcane musical history by name-checking all the musical relationships and prior bands that musicians were in as he presented their videos? Well here's my best attempt at imitation:

Here's a flashback to 1987, when Howard DeVoto, late of the Buzzcocks and Magazine, teamed up with Noko to form Luxuria. DeVoto of course was on hand when the Sex Pistols played the Manchester Lesser Trade Hall on that fateful night in 1976, along with future bandmate Pete Shelley, future Joy Division and New Order band members Peter Hook and Bernard Sumner, future Factory Records chairman Tony Wilson, Mark E. Smith, who would later form The Fall and future Smiths frontman Morrissey. Anyway, Luxuria had a minor hit on college radio with "Redneck" on the critically acclaimed Beggars Banquet label.


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