Recent content by Syd Rumpo

It should have been pretty obvious who 'Burt Macho' was, seeing as the article was reprinted in Sounds a mere 2 months or so later under Morrissey's name. It also appeared a couple of years after that in the UK girl group 'zine That Will Never Happen Again.

Just received the new (August) issue of Mojo - 'World Peace...' is this month's featured album with an effusive full page 4-star review by Keith Cameron, accompanied by a rather odd illustration by one Dan Craig. Sample quotes: "the most subtle and decorous Morrissey album for many years...

Re: Earth Is The Loneliest Planet single (digital download) released (June 3, 2014) Rough Trade are also taking pre-orders on both standard and deluxe edition CDs: http://www.roughtrade.com/albums/84117

'Smart' phones. Tsk...

You've got the mags the wrong way round there - it's Mojo that carries the 2-page review. - - - Updated - - - You've got the mags the wrong way round there - it's Mojo that carries the 2-page review.

Monday night at the London Palladium? Seems a bit odd. Concerts are usually on the Sunday when a theatre production is on during the week. Also, I imagine that anyone from the south east who would have driven hundreds of miles etc. etc. would be pretty committed to the cause and delighted to...

Stateside was a legendary UK label active mainly during the '60s and early '70s, although it has been revived on a few occasions since then. As the name suggests it was EMI's outlet for licensed-in US productions. My guess is that as Moz wanted an authentic '60s style EMI 'A' demo label on this...

Firstly, there should have been a photo in my last post to confirm that it is the promo 7" I'm referring to. Secondly, I was hoping that there might have been something in the run-out grooves to differentiate the two pressings, but apparently not! Finally, all I can do is to repeat what I...

Absolutely - RDJ 6400, 'Skinhead' sleeve, red labels with black radial Parlophone logo etc. Both sides are correctly labelled as per the sleeve. The run-out groove on the A-side (Have-A-Go Merchant) has a machine stamped matrix number of RDJ 6400 A-1-1- with 'timtom' and 'DAMONT' hand...

My copy DEFINITELY plays Have A Go Merchant/Whatever Happens... as per the sleeve. So there you have it!

Apologies from a first-time poster if this is common knowledge, but some interesting pieces have appeared on EBay in the past few days which purportedly belonged to Scott Piering, including a signed TCM 12" and Meat Is Murder LP acetate. I guess there may be more to come...