80s nostalgia

[suityou01]

Ghettoblasters
School discos
De la soul
Whose line is it anyway
Dirty Den
Ricky Villa
Linda Lusardi
Theme from S Express
Kylie
Boris Becker

[hyperD]

UFO Master Blaster

Still got it, and it still works!

[Aman]

Sisters of Mercy, Pixies, Fields of the Nephilim, Yamaha RD350LC, bones that healed in a few weeks, clearasil, Ian Botham, nights out in shoegazing clubs with loose birds, ...

WHS
Alt goth / industrial; Sisterhood, March Violets, Bauhaus, Killing Joke, NewModel Army, Nitzer Ebb, Front 242 ...
YMO, Depeche Mode, ,
Doing full tours, hitchiking gig to gig with kitbag on back, crashing on some strangers floor after the gig.
Parties in old abandonded warehouses in Hackney
M1 house sound, 303 acid bass sound
Big hair, padded shoulders and white stilletos on the square girls.
Only a few clubs in town.
Channel 4
Coming home from a night out at club closing time (01:00) and watching Open University

Being well paid.
A practically non-existant accreditaition industry.
Social mobility, though as a phenomenom that lasted through most the 90s, until 1997 to be exact.
Not being anatomically attached to a computer at home, editing CVs in order to find jobs.
Freedom of movement of trade in the UK.

[Gonzo]

The red triangle that Channel 4 used to helpfully display to tell teenage boys whether a programme was worth watching or not.

[TestMangler]

Roland Juno 6
Tascam Portastudio
Cubase 1.0 on an Atari

Still got an old Juno 6 that I had midi retrofitted in the early 90's (don't really use it any more though).

Cubase for the Atari on ONE DD Floppy and it still did everything you wanted it to.

Alesis SR16 Sequencers

Meeting Gary Numan in a hotel in Glasgow (while completely pissed) and telling him that "D'ya wanna be in my gang" was his best track

[wobbegong]

Uni
Revising on hot summer evenings
Ben Trumans
CX500 (Despatch riding in central London)

[SupremeSpod]

Dragon 32
Ocean Software
Atari 130xe
Ferranti
Iron Maiden
S'Quo

[Mich the Tester]

The red triangle that Channel 4 used to helpfully display to tell teenage boys whether a programme was worth watching or not.

[Cliphead]

Meeting Gary Numan in a hotel in Glasgow (while completely pissed) and telling him that "D'ya wanna be in my gang" was his best track

I'd love to have done that.

[Alf W]

Nostalgia's a pot best left unstirred.

Remember Fuzzbox?


Wendy James?


So, let's leave this one in the past.