Bagging Area

More from the Snub TV archives, indie and alternative culture from the late 80s and early 90s as filtered and recorded by the BBC 2 youth cu...

I bought this book just before Christmas and read it through January, a new edition of Shadowplayers: The Rise And Fall of Factory Records b...

Over at Ban Ban Ton Ton Dr. Rob gave over most of January's posts to celebrations of music from 2025. Rob is based in Japan where 7 is ...

On Saturday night Sydney Minsky Sargeant played the basement room at Yes in Manchester, part of a week celebrating indie venues. Tickets cos...

Bruce Springsteen wrote this song nine days ago, last Saturday, recorded it a few days later and released it the following day, Thursday 28t...

Justin Robertson took his Five Green Moons on the road last week for a trio of gigs, in Liverpool, Manchester and Todmorden. On Thursday nig...

A series for Saturdays in 2026 inspired by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt's set of cards, Oblique Strategies (Over One Hundred Worthwhile D...

More from the archives of Snub TV, the BBC 2 early evening magazine programme that delved into the world of alternative and independent musi...

A post bringing together two artists from the recent past, who both released songs into the world of 2015/ 2016, a decade ago now, and who s...

At some point in the next couple of months Jason Boardman's Before I Die label is going to release an album by Hawksmoor called Am I Con...

One of my favourite cover versions- I Heard It Through The Grapevine by The Slits. In 1979 The Slits released their debut single, the exhila...

The number 23 carries some significance for me. Many of you will know that my son Isaac's birthday was the 23rd November and he died in ...

Back in December I posted I'm Not The Man I Used To Be by Fine Young Cannibals and then more recently Madonna's Justify My Love, bot...

A series for Saturdays in 2026 inspired by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt's set of cards, Oblique Strategies (Over One Hundred Worthwhile D...

Snub TV ran for three series between 1987 and 1989, shown on early evening BBC2 at a time when the channel had a dedicated youth slot which ...

Number are Ali Friend and Rich Thair exploring and creating something different from what they do in their main band Red Snapper. Number do ...

A few weekends ago No Badger Required posted about My Bloody Valentine's 1988 album Isn't Anything as part of the weekly Almost Perf...

Popper's Theme is the latest two track EP from 10:40, the second in the Retro Fit series. The first Retro Fit was inspired by The Stone ...

Sheffield's Crooked Man released a new album last Friday, Crooked Stile. It is packed with bangers, many of them well into long song ter...

In early December 2025 The Flightpath Estate DJs played warm up for Daniel Avery and Richard Fearless' Goo at The Golden Lion. Martin, D...