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Monday 31st December 1984

Happy birthday to Howard Pearson and Rachel Turner. I hope they both live happily Musical Review of 1984 Top 5 7" singles 1. Locomotion - OMD 2. Close (to the edit) - Art of Noise 3. Talking Loud and Clear - OMD 4. Devil and Darkness - Freur 5. Shout - Tears for Fears Top 5 12" singles 1. Triangle / Atom Rock - Quando Quango  2. Sensoria - Cabaret Voltaire 3. Talking Loud And Clear - OMD 4. Tesla Girls - OMD 4. Thieves like us - New Order Top 5 LPs 1. Junk Culture - OMD 2. Sparkle in the rain - Simple Minds 3. Treasure - Cocteau Twins  4. Step Forward - Portion Control  5. Fried - Julian Cope * Top 5 LP tracks 1. All wrapped up - OMD 2. Sunspots - Julian Cope  3. Aloysius - Cocteau Twins  4. Kick inside of me - Siniple Minds 5. White Trash - OMD Top 5 B-sides 1. Her body in my soul - OMD 2. Jazz is king (?) - Freur 3. Garden City - OMD 4. How soon is now? - The Smiths 5. Lonesome tonight - New Order Top 5 Peel Session 1. Perfect Vision 2. Julian Cope. 3....
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Sunday 30th December 1984

There was an item on the news about how Sir Keith Joseph will make sure that bad teachers get less pay and the NUT don't like it. Therefore the NUT must have bad members or they'd have nothing to worry about. * Anyway. The Review Of The Year 1984 January  The main event in this month was the sudden departure of Debbie Carr on 25th January. Absolutely nothing else happened. ** February  Main event is the announcement to Howard of my apparent "love" of Rachel Turner. Also Hagyard goes insane. OMD announce their tour and new LP. I find Radio Prague on Short Wave and I define the "Debbie Syndrome". *** Also the bloody Eisteddfod with Rachel.  March  Debbie reappears, according to Cooper and Holey. I tell Bev to tell Rachel that I fancy her. I have a terrible day on 23rd March. Brud goes to a Kinks concert  April OMD release "Locomotion" single and "Junk culture" album. I go on holiday to Oxford and return with more records **** May My birthda...
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Saturday 29th December 1984

The question on everyone's lips is "Did Rob write to Debbie?" The answer which is in everyone's ears is "No" * Some great new arrangements of old songs - mainly those with a main "hook" line which can be sequenced. Playlist? Well take a guess! I haven't had the time or inclination to think about Rachel. (I have had the time but I'm just lazy) during the holiday.  ----- Footnotes  * Who did I post the letter to on the 28th???
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Friday 28th December 1984

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What a day! I got a lift to town (Cardiff) with Mum and Dad and arrived at about 8:45am. After buying a stamp and posting a letter * I rushed off to HMV. I was first in but I didn't see much in the sale that I wanted. I bought "Shout" by Tears For Fears. Then on to the Tandy shop. They haven't got any mixers (not til February) so I take a catalogue. Then on to Gamlins ** and I buy their last Casio VL-tone. Good fun it is too! *** Then on to Spillers. I buy "Life's a scream" 12 inch by A Certain Ratio (fantastic!) and "Devil and darkness" 12 inch by Freur (weird) I have got 11p left from £36. Oh I met Rhiannon in Cardiff, and Melissa. The b side to the Freur single is excellent. It's called "Jazz is King (?)" - including question mark and brackets - and once it gets going from a slow drum and synth and voice part, a piano enters and the singer starts singing "The In Crowd" and shouts "Thank you, Lamb Chop!" And ...
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Thursday 27th December 1984

My stomach is telling me to stop eating and I'm quite happy to oblige! I haven't written the lyrics yet! I'm trying the rerecord the backing track and of course it isn't as good as the original. A pity. "Airplane!" was on TV last night so I recorded it on video. Smiths session on Peel so I recorded it. Brilliant Festive 50 - 20 to 11. I missed recording "Murder" by New Order (it's better than I thought). Also more Cocteaus, Smiths, Billy Bragg (must buy his LPs)
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Wednesday 26th December 1984

Song to be written "Look back in anger". I've got the backing track, all I need are lyrics and that's it! * I dunno whether I should buy a VL-tone or a mixer. "Treasure" is a fantastic album. Liz Fraser has got a great singing voice. If only... ----- Footnotes  * "Look back in anger" was just a title, it became a song in June 1985 hidden away amongst the dross of "Help the fire escape"
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Tuesday 25th December 1984

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Happy Christmas! Records. "Step forward" - Portion Control (brilliant!), "La Dusseldorf" - La Dusseldorf (I haven't played it yet). "Treasure" - Cocteau Twins (brilliant). "Hatful of hollow" - The Smiths (brilliant). "Music for fans" - Eno bootleg tape (brilliant). Also Volumes 2 and 3 in "The Album Cover Album" and Volume 4 of "Guinness book of hit singles". Also piles of food. Plus piles of cash (£36!) and a clock. * ------------- Footnotes  * Just the facts, ma'am. For a more considered (and slightly factually inaccurate) assessment of the weeks leading up to Christmas and the albums mentioned, try an old Goldfish post One Christmas For Your Thoughts.
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