Year: 2020

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Vintage Merch Part 1 – smelly old T-shirts

October 4, 2020
Ian
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You’ve probably come to realise by now that I’m a bit of a hoarder? I prefer…

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My 1970s Glam Rock childhood

September 20, 2020
Ian
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I was born in Nottingham in 1967 and grew up on the Clifton housing estate (home…

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Scrapbook finds

September 13, 2020
Ian

As a kid growing up in the late 70’s / early 80s I was very much…

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Gig Tickets part 3 – the 2000s

September 6, 2020
Ian
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If the 90’s saw my musical tastes become a little more eclectic then the ‘noughties’ was…

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Gig Tickets part 2 – the 1990s

August 30, 2020
Ian
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This was my ‘decade of diversity’ – the era when the heavy metal shackles came off…

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Triumph and Tragedy at Donington 1988

August 22, 2020
Ian
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It was 32 years ago this week that I went to my fourth and final Monsters…

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Gig tickets part 1 – the 1980s

August 16, 2020
Ian
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At some point I’ll probably share my recollections of some of the gigs I went to…

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Get with the programme

August 16, 2020
Ian
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When I first started going to gigs as a teenager in the early ’80s I always…

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Donington before Download – 1984

July 11, 2020
Ian
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Monsters of Rock Festival, Castle Donington – 18th August 1984 The summer of 1984 is remembered…

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End of the road for Quo….? Never!

July 9, 2020
Ian
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In 1984 Status Quo announced that they were going to split up after 22 years together.…