This article can now
be found amid Mick Sinclair’s collected music journalism at Rock's Backpages.
As well being incorporated into his substantial volume of
early 1980s reminiscences:
ADJUSTING THE STARS :
Music journalism from post-punk London
During the early 1980s, London-based Mick Sinclair met many of the
music scene’s leading – or simply most intriguing – figures and wrote
about them for the major UK publications of the time, such as Sounds,
NME and Zigzag
Illuminating often commercially neglected but critically acclaimed -
and highly influential – post-punk artists such as The Fall, The
Monochrome Set, Felt, The Triffids, the Go-Betweens, Killing Joke the
Cocteau Twins and the Marine Girls, Sinclair’s journalism brings
revealing insights into the contemporary sounds of those times while
also chronicling the ups and downs of a music journalist’s life.
This accessible and entertaining collection of interviews and reviews,
some never previously published, also spans everything from anarcho
punk to stadium rock. Alongside established names, such as Eurythmics,
Simple Minds and Duran Duran, are punk legends Crass, Black Flag, the
Ramones and the Damned, and industrial noise pioneers Einstürzende
Neubauten, Foetus and Test Dept.
More diverse subjects include writers Raymond Carver and Kathy Acker,
LSD guru Timothy Leary, explorer Christina Dodwell, historian
Christopher Andrew, film-maker Alex Cox and tabloid editor Derek
Jameson.
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