Treat. Another Hallowe'en related post, for all my saying I'm not a fan. This is an eerie slice of breakbeat led, 80s horror film...

Trick or treat? Neither, go away you pesky kids. I'm not a big fan of Hallowe'en but it gives me the excuse to post this slight...

Arab Strap's Packs Of Three contains possibly the most attention grabbing opening line of any song I've heard. They always sounde...

Brand new up on Youtube today, an Andrew Weatherall remix of Lose Your Love by Le Carousel (from an e.p. out at the end of November). Nice v...

It's a small skip and jump from Roddy's Aztec Camera to Edwyn Collins and Orange Juice. Their Postcard single Blue Boy is a hype...

There aren't many days that can't be immediately improved by a spinning of Aztec Camera's 1983 single Oblivious. Brilliant tu...

Montevideo is the capital of Uruguay. Apart from being a lovely word to say, Montevideo was the home of the first football World Cup back...

Back to the 50s for tonight's rockabilly, this time with Bobby Lord and a wonderfully unhinged vocal performance. Bobby's had eno...

The Gun Club's first album, Fire Of Love, is a Bagging Area favourite, best played loud. Its best known song is Sex Beat, a prowling ...

We Ain't Got Mates. October 25th has become Keeping It Peel Day in recent years, a series of blog tributes to John Peel's radio...

I'm reading Tony Fletcher's new biography of The Smiths at the moment. The early chapters are pretty good on late 70s and early 8...

You wouldn't have thought there'd be too much to get out of forming a band and making a record that sounds exactly like early Jes...

A random Mary Chain post. This appeared through the car speakers on Friday evening driving home and sounded great. It's the re-recor...

This Margie Geddes. When she died aged 96 over a hundred love letters and postcards from John Betjeman were found under her bed. Betjeman...

Our local free newspaper The Sale and Altrincham Messenger reported this week that Frank Sidebottom's statue could be unveiled in Ti...

I promised The Cramps' Peel Session cover version of Andy Starr's Give Me A Woman last Friday evening and here it is a week later...

To answer the question, er, sometimes yes I think so. I've always found the triple threat of Page, Beck and Clapton a bit offputtin...

Bagging Area loves The Smiths, from their first recorded note to the end of Strangeways, Here We Come. Except Golden Lights, no likes tha...

It's like punk never happened- PiL's I Must be Dreaming (one of the stand out tracks from this years This Is PiL album) remixed, ...

I love Acid Jazz, beat poet, house/techno, beardy types Sandals out of all proportion to their actual output or  the actual merits of the...