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Welcome to the website! Focused on Martin Gordon's musical activities, both Mammalian and otherwise, as bassist, composer, producer, incredulous bystander and wilful participant. Sparks, Jet, Radio Stars, the Rolling Stones, Blur, Kylie... the list is endless and exhausting. For his biography, discography and all that other stuff, see the Stuff link above; for band activity, see Bands. See what we did there?

This site is dedicated to all crustaceans who dare to dream of a fairer future, especially those from the class Malacostraca, including lobsters and crabs but excluding woodlice. But at least, woodlice, you are better off than members of the species Arion vulgaris, who are frankly banned from this website. They - nasty, slimy, mucous-emitting creatures - are not welcome here.

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2012

April 20

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Catering for your mammalian needs, in a caring but obsequious manner. For the Europeans amongst us, or equally for Johnny Foreigner.

April 2

Chris Townson interview

CT discusses John's Children, Marc Bolan, the Who, Jook and all that other stuff for Doll mag, Japan, 2007.

March 21

Gig in Stockholm

A one-off command performance on April 14th. Details!

Feb 23

Martin Gordon's 'Seventies Soundtrack'

'Seventies Jukebox' - live on BBC Coventry & Warwickshire on Sunday Feb 26th at 2pm UK / 3pm CET and via Listen Again during the following week. For the discerning. And others... MG's selection of his top tunes from the infamous decade, with only a little self-interest.

Jan 30

Disinterred

Radio Stars video from the archives - Top of the Pops and the Old Grey Whistle Test now unearthed.

2011

Sept 3

Are you dead?

Then this will give you New Hope. Video of Todd Rundgren's 'Tiny Demons' as performed by MG's Mira Ensemble at the Montreux Jazz Festival of 1997.

The most recent Newsletter sums up all the other new stuff. It's what newsletters do, isn't it. Random, well hardcore. There's the Finnish version of John's Children performing 'No Russians', mammalian overviews... and more. Check it out.

July 30

Archive video disinterred

One-time Sparks and Boxer guitarist Adrian Fisher talks to the BBC's 'Expats' programme in 1999 about his ex-patriate life in Thailand. He died the following year. See also Adrian Fisher's interviews on the Sparks page.

The Blue Meanies perform their only b-side on an Engish TV show. The parrot is nowhere to be seen. The a-side will appear in due course.

An annotated Guide to Mole Behaviour and Ideal Living Conditions. It is very important that they have enough living space or lebensraum, as the German wittily refer to it...

July 16

Chris Townson & Andy Ellison

More Jet recollections, from the forthcoming book 'Wired Up! Glam, Post-Punk & Bubblegum European Picture Sleeves 1970-1976'. Part II is here.

July 7

New tab

New Bands tab sorts content by the various bands, including lots of new stuff.

June 25

Sparks guitarist Adrian Fisher

From the archive - Adrian recalled and Adrian talks.

June 22

Video

Updated on Hugo Portion's YouTube channel.

June 7

Cheers

A report from the June 1st gig, with pic, video and gratis audio (which means like 'doesn't need money to get it', innit) here.

May 15

Swedeflash

Live gig in Stockholm.

May 13

Kant

Recovered memory.

May 2

The tragic demise of BEH

Oh, well. Can't win 'em all.

April 12

Cover of Radio Stars tune by Swedish band Scratch

And it also features the groovy Sviidish girlband Baskery on bvs. Quick, nurse, pass the electroencephalograph. But it is on MySpace, so you'll need to have half an hour to spare before it even loads into your browser.

Chris Townson/Andy Ellison interviews

Our heroes are featured in the forthcoming book 'Wired Up! Glam, Post-Punk & Bubblegum European Picture Sleeves 1970-1976'. With a nice snappy title like that, they need all the support you can give them. Chris talks (well, 'talked', I suppose, to be accurate, but we like to present-tense everything around here, much more snappy and compelling) to Phil King about John's Children, Jook, Sparks and Jet, Andy talks about JC, Jet and Radio Stars - excerpts here. And more to follow...

It's that bass...

Post-Kimono, post-Jet it ended up in the hands of Paul Gray, before it fell to bits, or so he says.

Mr Moose he is come back isn't it

Oh no, what should we have done. The reality behind 'Head in a Coup' from Hogwash, from the archives.

April 4

Jet reviews

Something old, something new...

Earlier news here.


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