Comments on: Working for the Man http://cocktailsandrecords.net/blog/2009/03/17/working-for-the-man/ Fri, 07 Oct 2011 21:05:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Cocktails http://cocktailsandrecords.net/blog/2009/03/17/working-for-the-man/comment-page-1/#comment-2348 Cocktails Sat, 21 Mar 2009 17:07:31 +0000 http://cocktailsandrecords.net/blog/?p=1669#comment-2348 Don't get me wrong, ISBW, I too enjoyed the doco and yes, the behaviour of those interviewed was fascinating. I hadn't seen anyone look quite so distinctly uncomfortable as Geoff Travis when he was be questioned about what exactly happened in the 80s for some time. I think that there is a series on radio 2 at the moment about the history of the record company which would be equally fascinating - despite it always being the same story of youthful passion and aspiration turning into corporate misery!! Don’t get me wrong, ISBW, I too enjoyed the doco and yes, the behaviour of those interviewed was fascinating. I hadn’t seen anyone look quite so distinctly uncomfortable as Geoff Travis when he was be questioned about what exactly happened in the 80s for some time.

I think that there is a series on radio 2 at the moment about the history of the record company which would be equally fascinating – despite it always being the same story of youthful passion and aspiration turning into corporate misery!!

]]> By: ishouldbeworking http://cocktailsandrecords.net/blog/2009/03/17/working-for-the-man/comment-page-1/#comment-2338 ishouldbeworking Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:37:42 +0000 http://cocktailsandrecords.net/blog/?p=1669#comment-2338 I really enjoyed that Rough Trade documentary, Cocktails. I was as interested in the things that weren't said, as much as in those that were. A vat of bad blood persists, I feel. Geoff Travis put me in mind of John Peel's famous description of Marc Bolan - "a flower child with a knife up his sleeve". For all the (inevitable?) selling out, Rough Trade in its glory days was a magnificent thing. Something I could never say about Bob Geldof. I really enjoyed that Rough Trade documentary, Cocktails. I was as interested in the things that weren’t said, as much as in those that were. A vat of bad blood persists, I feel. Geoff Travis put me in mind of John Peel’s famous description of Marc Bolan – “a flower child with a knife up his sleeve”.

For all the (inevitable?) selling out, Rough Trade in its glory days was a magnificent thing. Something I could never say about Bob Geldof.

]]> By: Cocktails http://cocktailsandrecords.net/blog/2009/03/17/working-for-the-man/comment-page-1/#comment-2328 Cocktails Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:13:15 +0000 http://cocktailsandrecords.net/blog/?p=1669#comment-2328 What, his wrinkly stomach? What, his wrinkly stomach?

]]> By: Five-Centres http://cocktailsandrecords.net/blog/2009/03/17/working-for-the-man/comment-page-1/#comment-2327 Five-Centres Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:20:02 +0000 http://cocktailsandrecords.net/blog/?p=1669#comment-2327 When I saw Iggy Pop doing that insurance ad, it all became clear. When I saw Iggy Pop doing that insurance ad, it all became clear.

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