Musique Fragments

Welcome to Musique fragments. A collection of images and links to music projects I work on and various archival pictures. All though some pictures are my originals, there is no copyright on them. Also if I have not credited a source I am happy to do so.

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The chameleons . Worth it for the track swamp thing, his vocals were a bit out as was suffering from cold. But the concert meant a lot, a sort of homecoming.

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Bauhaus 1980...Many concert venues now gone.

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My teams manager, just a matter of when. If we dont offer him a contract someone else will. 1 win in 12, then 4 out of 4. Actually playing with belief and not trying to contain sides.

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Good version.

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a certain ratio.1981

A band thats had some pretty rotten luck, but coming good.

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Human league -1979/80

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Orbital-from 2004. their last shows before the reform, the first time break.

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david bowie. 1977/78. A god in our house

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Basement jaxx _remedy, hard to imagine that the album is 25 years old.

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Diogo Jota 1996-2005

Its hard to convey the loss of this player not just to Liverpool but to the game overall. The thing with Jota was he was really down to earth, he reminded me of Solsksjar for man utd. Thatrkind of cold assassin. He was in many matches consistent, vital goals. In terms of the game as well he had the portugese agent Mendes but never tried to force a move or try or give any hassle regarding contracts. As a southampton Fc fan he was one of those players I would look on the team sheet and know he was a formidable opponent.

In terms of the loss there have been many players that have died in matches over the last 30 or so years, normally though the increase in medical has avoided players with heart issues suffering more serious injury or death. Last year Antonio of West Ham was involved in a serious almost life changing crash, so its probably something that becomes more common but that never the less it becomes hard to comprehend the loss of a player so admired and loved and the loss to his family. In terms of the players normally tributes are paid after their careers have ended, with Jota its the first player I can remember to pass in such a way when he had so much to live for and give. Much respect to fans of all other premier league and other clubs for their respect especially Everton and Manchester City.

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cd singles Gat decor-passion(1992)

Cd Singles 9-Gat Decor-Passion(1996)

Now another dance single from the 90s. In terms of tracks at this time there was some really good tracks from a kind of production point of view I thought this was really clear in terms of its elements. It was re-released a year or so afterwards but the original mix is the best. Tracks from this time started to find the right mix between the treble and bass and of course the rolling sort of piano line at the midway point which sort of dates it to that time.

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Cd Singles No.10- Frankie Goes to Hollywood-Two Tribes(1984)

So the original was 1984, recently I have been getting all the singles. So in the photo is the 'Welcome to the Pleasure dome'. I think all the singles were good from this period, especially the really long versions that were on the cassette singles at the time. I think this mix is part of one of them. Tracks at this time were remixed to death, but the overall tracks were just stunning. I think even 40 odd years later it still sounds good. All these singles were reissued to promote a greatest hits compilation called'bang'

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CD Albums-The Who Maximum R &B

Cd albums past and present no 118. -The maximum r &b(1994)

So this is a compilation that is probably one of the better ones. There is so many who greatest hits which tend to be single cd compilations. This was more 4 cd box set which covered the main singles but included demo and alternative out-takes, which in turn sort of gave the faithful sort of new material or rare that came to light. Probably released at a time when there was a ressurgence in their music, mind you they always seemed to be touring on and off at some point. For me the Who material from the 1968-1975 is really good. I have listened to some interviews by pete Townshend and he seems to sort of reinterpret the past, however he was far ahead of the pack for those few years. By the 1975-78 period drugs and drink was rife in the band and then in 1978 Keith Moon died, which then put the who on hold for many years. The shepperton Studios from 1978 I always find good versions of the tracks but Townshend seems to be to over the top in that. I always go back to the Isle of Wight festival footage from 1970, the band at their peak.

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Cd albums past and present no.119. Wire-Pink Flag(1978)

Cd albums past and present No.119. Wire-Pink Flag(1978

The work of Wire I really loved in the 80s, even though the band was then on their kind of second wave. By then they were on Mute and were releasing some really well produced material. So I always look at the band as in two parts. The punk period and the post punk and electronic part, they were not really electro at all but they used the instruments in such great ways. Even into the early 90s. But go back to the original punk records they released, most of them came out post 1977 . The albums were full of tracks that were short but condensed with ideas. Its hard to imagine now that an album would have 21 tracks as a single album, they sort of had ideas and then ran with them. The best known track on this album is '12xu' and 'three girl rhumba' which was covered by Elastica and sort of redone. This version i have is the 2018 edition. So redone and remastered

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Cd albums past and present No.120. The Small faces-the masters(1997)

Cd albums past and present No.120. The Small faces-the masters(1997)

So one of the bands that I seem to get cd's by without trying, with the small faces and the faces. there is the two different eras. the Steve Mariott almost psychdelic era. Their music had these raw elements but also used production techniques which now seem simple. But at the time highly effective. I have never really looked into the Small Faces history, but I knew that Marriott left the band in 1969 and they formed Humble Pie who had Peter Frampton on guitar. Then the faces came along with a certain Rod Stewart joined the ranks and seemed to do his solo work alongside as the band sort of imploded again.I seem to recall Ronnie Lane was involved with Peter Townshend's solo works in the late 70s. 'Itchycoo park ' and "stay with me' the main highlights.

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Southampton 2025/26 season preview.

So another piece to update what was recently wrote. So as a fan of southampton for over 30 years I find myself literally a few months ago finding myself in that position I found myself with my hometown. So when I was very young I was sort of a coventry city fan but really if Im being honest I did not understand football at that time and it was a more environment thing and family links to the club. Music was my main thing, anyway I digress I got so disillusioned with Coventry in the early 90s there just seem to be no real direction. I wont go into the ins and outs of it but I started following Southampton in 1993. The club last year reminded me of that period and it seemed like it was a club out of control. Fans of Luton have reminded me of that can happen, I dont really want to tempt fate but we have been run very well economically and I don't think we will be that poor in our return to the championship. I dont see relegation to league 1.

What I found when Russell Martin was manager is that there was an exceptionally high number of managers that came and went and sometimes the best way is to stick with the manager no matter what, while the pressures of getting promoted are left for the others. I have to say the appointment of Will Still is exciting for most fans. I think in some ways there is a bit of all our previous managers in him, so maybe a bit of Hassenhuttl working with resources. Maybe a bit of Martin as well in working with a small group of players. But Will Still is more kind of pragmatic and I think most of the players will buy into the clubs vision. Its good to see players returning from loan spells away, hopefully to enable either moves away for the unsettled and sort of more regular starts for players not given a chance under Juric. I have counted that since we appointed Will Still, there has been 8 championship changing their managers late. I am expecting Wrexham, Ipswich, Coventry to be up there. Maybe Play offs is our best way again, but to be fair we need an identity so if we don't get promoted I wont be gutted, as long as the football is joy to watch at times.

The club looking back at last season Martin was good for that season but did not show faith in the players who got him there. Maybe more a spotter of players that had done well at Burnley and Shef Utd. That probably. created a divide. Also Jason Wilcox being recruited by Man Utd was a big mistake. I mean we cant turn the time back, but hopefully the board has learnt from that.

I think the club is more geared to being between the divisions. So a few years ago when we were relegated we made 220 million in players out. We then brought some players and loan players and only spent 70 million. I think the same is going to happen this time as well, so far we have made 29 million in transfers and very little player movement. So relegation does enable you to pocket TV money and sort of encoruages prudent spending. I expect we will make alot of certain players(Dibling especially). Maybe of 4 quarters , 3 quaters will be saved and 1/4 spend on players. I dont mind that FFP

For fans of clubs just going up good luck, but even just one season away it has gone up a notch. In that clubs who skirted with relegation and now massively organised. I do think a club next season will beat our low points tally.

I am really looking forward to this season. We march on

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This is a great track from 2017. 12 mix especially