Bites: Ministry's Festival No Show: Gary Numan's No Drink & Drug Diet: Electroclash's Theoretical Genesis: Brits Too Shy (Shy): Reggae's True Colours

"Maybe it's the cost of signing Fischerspooner. Maybe it's that 2001's headliner (Jamiroquai- ha! ha!) event was a soulless unmitigated failure. Maybe they're just having a rest. But Ministry aren't holding a festival this year. Shame." (Muzik)

Could Muzik be unconcerned at Ministry's Knebworth 2002 no show-


Gary Numan on how he proved his critics wrong.

http://ubl.artistdirect.com/store/artist/album/0,,140113,00.html (Tubeway Army)


"With 1980's retro, we have reached the point of second-order recycling. It's the equivalent, God forbid, of double quotation marks."

New York University cultural critic Andrew Ross is unimpressed by the rise of electroclash (New York Times)

http://javajanesworld.com/Playlist.htm (Generation 80s Retro online radio)



"It is a remarkable fact- but a revealing one - that unprotected sex frequently takes place between two people who are both carrying condoms." (The Guardian)

Too many Brits are still too shy to practise safe sex.

http://www.shyness.com (The Shyness homepage, California)



"Jamaican music was the source of an independent identity. Reggae wasn't just about love songs but society and spiritual nourishment." (The Guardian)

Dub poet maestro Linton Kwesi Johnson explains why reggae was always more than pop.

http://www.classical-reggae-interviews.org/lkj-int.htm (Linton Kwesi Johnson interviews)
">http://www.muzik.co.uk (new chat room)


"I was determined to show them I was not an 80s throwback past his best. And I never got druggy or drunk or any of the things that take away other people's chances of coming back." (Standard)

Gary Numan on how he proved his critics wrong.

http://ubl.artistdirect.com/store/artist/album/0,,140113,00.html (Tubeway Army)


"With 1980's retro, we have reached the point of second-order recycling. It's the equivalent, God forbid, of double quotation marks."

New York University cultural critic Andrew Ross is unimpressed by the rise of electroclash (New York Times)

http://javajanesworld.com/Playlist.htm (Generation 80s Retro online radio)



"It is a remarkable fact- but a revealing one - that unprotected sex frequently takes place between two people who are both carrying condoms." (The Guardian)

Too many Brits are still too shy to practise safe sex.

http://www.shyness.com (The Shyness homepage, California)



"Jamaican music was the source of an independent identity. Reggae wasn't just about love songs but society and spiritual nourishment." (The Guardian)

Dub poet maestro Linton Kwesi Johnson explains why reggae was always more than pop.

http://www.classical-reggae-interviews.org/lkj-int.htm (Linton Kwesi Johnson interviews)
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