tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930103.post9131806185836459089..comments2024-03-18T11:43:53.754+00:00Comments on No Rock And Roll Fun: "How about having Borrell hog-tied and inviting the others to whack him like a piƱata?"Simon Hayes Budgenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07084524317888577404noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930103.post-12551697769870748172007-02-23T05:04:00.000+00:002007-02-23T05:04:00.000+00:00I wake up bleary eyed, check my emails, laugh at t...I wake up bleary eyed, check my emails, laugh at the nerds on Digg, and then read an article mentioning the Motorcycle Boy. Excellent. This day will be good. Tomorrow can you mention the Siddeleys. Cheers.PeterDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03025669661226533627noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930103.post-44568611085126812712007-02-23T02:24:00.000+00:002007-02-23T02:24:00.000+00:00The Motorcycle Boy business happened I think becau...The Motorcycle Boy business happened I think because they were going to do a high-concept issue on censorship - this being towards the end of the broad-ranging Stuart Cosgrove era - and much of the content was, er, censored (IPC having "planted" Alan Lewis as editor entirely to sort out this "nest of Bolsheviks": specifically, the cover was supposed to be that Frankenchrist painting, and they had to create a new cover at very VERY short notice. Very soon afterwards Cosgrove et al were sacked and it became basically a populist indie mag with all those future Bannister-era Radio 1 mainstays coming to the fore.<BR/><BR/>That's how Mark Sinker tells it anyway, and he knows, cos he was there ...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930103.post-73941158067887024842007-02-22T23:04:00.000+00:002007-02-22T23:04:00.000+00:00"apparently"Heh, you cynic."apparently"<BR/><BR/>Heh, you cynic.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com