1988 - the year before Madchester broke & I was a scrawny, raggy arsed student in that self, same great, grey, rain sodden metropolis halfway along the M62 'twixt Liverpool & Leeds....
...The Smiths had just split, Morrissey was the new pop idol & a host of bands were itching to take his late band's thorny crown
Bradford - who remembers them? The Railway Children - yikes, The good old solid Weddoes. The Primitives, the Darling Buds all battling against the ever present student disco goth-thrash of Pop Will Eat Itself, The Sisters, The Mission & countless other flour coated Goths!
Two great things about 1988 - John Peel's radio show - a shining beacon amongst The Hairy Cornflakes, Simon "Master" Bates, Steve Fuckin' Wright in the afternoon & countless other dross
the other thing - The House of Love - little did we realise then that Guy Chadwick was already about 75 years old & that they would split acrimoniously pretty damn quick
so here combining Peel & Chadwick are two tracks from The HOL's 1988 Peel sesh - ejoy.
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