Barry Adamson

Like Howard Devoto and Dave Formula, Barry Adamson needs no introduction to Magazine fans.

Indeed the brilliant singer, songwriter and Bass player has gone on to release some great solo work outside of Magazine and my personal fave is this track, "Destination."

Like Dave Formula, Barry has his own website which you can get to by clicking on his name Barry Adamson

Dave Formula

As is typical with many bands you could be forgiven for not remembering that they do have other members beside the singer and whose talents make up a significant contribution to what you finally get to see and hear from your idol's.

In some bands, outside of the singer, you might not have much interest in anyone else however with Magazine you just couldn't do that because this band has a remarkable lineup of amazing and talented individuals not least one of my all time favourite musicians "Dave Formula."

It's not often that you'll find other members of a band doing so much interesting solo or side projects/ work but with a great band like Magazine there's usually something else interesting or on the go when the band aren't together collectively.

Here is the website for the brilliant Keyboard wizard that is Dave Formula whose sound is, for me what makes Magazines music so much more special than any other band.

Check out his work which is incredible by clicking Dave Formula where you'll then be be taken to his brilliant website.

Magazine - Cut Out Shapes (Promo)

I enter the room

Confident enough

For now I tread

A straight and narrow way

So I sleep soundly

A little blue in the face

Cut-out shapes

In secondhand daylight

Somewhere else

Something else

On my mind

She's caressing me

With the hidden hands

Of the only kind of violence

She thinks I'll understand

We've got them dancing

To all of our confessions

They don't know how

We rehearse our dreams

Somewhere else ...

I just get numb

When you're hard to find

We met at a psychiatric unit

She was in for having habits

No one else would try

She didn't know what she was in control of

She had all the advantages of magic

No one could deny

There was an old lady

Who swallowed a fly

Your inescapable mother

Such a crazy lover

I just get numb ...

Find out

You'll find out

Thanks

Thanks for the plug Graeme/Magazine - I love your work and this blog is merely to promote it to a wider audience if I can and share my own love of all things Magazine, Howard Devoto etc.

(Maybe It's Right to Be Nervous Now) [Box Set]

If there's one album you should buy if you love Magazine it is this compilation boxed set "Maybe It's Right to Be Nervous Now" Virgin Records Ltd. MAGBOX1 released in 2000.

Even if you aren't a fan of the band you should buy it anyway as it's bloody brilliant.

Disc:1
1. Shot By Both Sides (Alternate Recording)
2. My Mind Ain't So Open
3. Touch And Go
4. Goldfinger
5. Give Me Everything
6. I Love You You Big Dummy
7. My Tulpa
8. Definitive Gaze (Live)
9. Parade (Live)
10. The Light Pours Out Of Me (Alternative Version)
11. Rhythm Of Cruelty
12. Tv Baby
13. Back To Nature
14. Permafrost (Live)
15. Feed The Enemy (Live)

Disc: 2

1. A Song From Under The Floorboards (Live)
2. Twenty Years Ago
3. Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) (Live)
4. The Book
5. Upside Down
6. Sweetheart Contract
7. Shot By Both Sides (Live)
8. Because You're Frightened (Live)
9. I Want To Burn Again
10. Model Worker (Live)
11. Vigilance (Alternative Mix)
12. In The Dark
13. The Operative
14. Come Alive
15. Thinking Flame (The Garden)

Disc: 3

1. Touch And Go (Peel Session)
2. The Light Pours Out Of Me (Peel Session)
3. Real Life (Definitive Gaze) (Peel Session)
4. My Mind Ain't So Open (Peel Session)
5. Give Me Everything (Peel Session)
6. Burst (Peel Session)
7. I Love You You Big Dummy (Peel Session)
8. Boredom (Peel Session)
9. Tv Baby (Peel Session)
10. Thank You For Letting Me Be Myself Again (Peel Session)
11. Permafrost (Peel Session)
12. A Song From Under The Floorboards (Peel Session)
13. Twenty Years Ago (Peel Session)
14. Look What Fear's Done To My Body (Because You're Frightened)
15. Model Worker (Peel Session)

Magazine - Six Demo's - Pennine Studio Oldham 1977

The 2nd track Sandwiches is just brilliant.  
My Mind Ain't So Open indeed ;-)

Feed The Enemy on Tumblr

Feed The Enemy is another blog page I have which tends to feature various things I'm interested in not just my Devoto, magazine, Buzzcocks obsession.

Rhythm of Cruelty

The fabulous, brilliant single "Rhythm of Cruelty"

Posters and Tickets

Some more posters and tickets

Howard Devoto - Taxi-ng

Great photo of Howard looking relaxed as he takes a taxi ride - destination unknown.

Harry Papadopalous photo exhibit - Clydebank Town Hall

Some brilliant photo's at Harry Papadopalous exhibition - Clydebank Town Hall but the one in particular that I love is this superb image of Howard Devoto.

Jezebel - Luxuria

Luxuria - Against The Past (Promo Video)

Buzzkunst - Til the Stars In His Eyes Are Dead

Fabulous track from the Buzzkunst album.

He wants to cry until the stars in his eyes are really dead
he wants to cry until the stars in his eyes are really dead

He is poised to a very strange degree
wrapped up in emotional imagery
small and senseless, on an alter ego trip
he wants to alter your every ego trip 

"Nothing personal
nothing to see me
nothing doing
nothing with me
nothing much
and nothing to do with me"

He wants to cry until the stars in his eyes are really dead
he wants to cry until the stars in his eyes are really dead

He is awash in competing theories
he's glad to be out of the house
it's that time of the evening
"I need to have some feelings"

"I'm all surface tension
present tension
keeps you going
gets you nowhere
no pretension
worst person singular"

He wants to cry until the stars in his eyes are really dead
he wants to cry till the stars in his eyes are dead

Because the message is cheap and exhilarating
now he's slobbering on the glass
a sexistic boy, having a world wide wank
he says "well, that's very punk of me"

"Nothing personal
nothing to see me
nothing doing
nothing with me
nothing much
and nothing to do with me "

He wants to cry until the stars in his eyes are really dead

he wants to cry till the stars in his eyes are dead

Real Life

Magazine Covers and Real Life Poster Ad.

Howard Devoto - ' A Blue Note Permafrost' Live at The Blue Note Derby 12th July 1983

Howard Devoto - ' A Blue Note Permafrost'

Live at The Blue Note Derby 12th July 1983

01. Out Of Shape With Me

02. Waiting For A Train

03. Topless

04. You Never Knew Me

05. Cold Imagination

06. I Admire You

07. Permafrost

08. About The Weather

09. Will Pay (For What Others Pay To Avoid)

10. Rainy Season

11. Song From Under The Floorboards

12. Taking Over Heaven

13. Parade

14. Way Out Of Shape

Howard Devoto - Live at Larry's Hideaway Toronto Canada 10th November 1983

Howard Devoto

Live at Larry's Hideaway Toronto Canada 10th November 1983 

01. Waiting For A Train

02. Topless

03. You Never Knew Me

04. Song From Under The Floorboards

05. I Admire You

06. Permafrost

07. Cold Imagination

08. Some Will Pay For What Others Pay To Avoid

09. Way Out Of Shape

10. Rainy Season

11. About The Weather

Magazine - 'Crackdown' Live at Fox Warfield Theatre, San Francisco USA 5th August 1980

Magazine - 'Crackdown'

Live at Fox Warfield Theatre, San Francisco USA 5th August 1980 

01. Feed The Enemy 

02. Stuck 

03. Permafrost 

04. The Light Pours Out Of Me 

05. Because You're Frightened 

06. Parade 

07. Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)

08. Shot By Both Sides 

09. I Want To Burn Again 

10. A Song From Under The Floorboards 

11. A Model Worker 

12. Twenty Years Ago 

13. Definitive Gaze

Magazine - 'A Guide To Communication' Live at Hurrah's New York USA 2nd August 1979 (fm broadcast)

Magazine - 'A Guide To Communication'

Live at Hurrah's New York USA 2nd August 1979 (fm broadcast)

01. MY TILPA 

02. GIVE ME EVERYTHING 

03. DEFINITIVE GAZE 

04. PARADE 

05. BOREDOM 

06. PERMAFROST 

07. THE LIGHT POURS OUT OF ME 

08. SHOT BY BOTH SIDES 

09. PARADE 

10. GIVE ME EVERYTHING 

11. SHOT BY BOTH SIDES

Magazine - Live at Melkweg Amsterdam Holland 8th June 1980

Magazine - Live at Melkweg Amsterdam Holland 8th June 1980

01. Radio Station Intro

02. I'm A Party

03. Permafrost 

04. The Light Pours Out Of Me 

05. You Never Knew Me 

06. Thank You Falletin Be Mice Elf Agin 

07. Shot By Both Sides 

08. Song From Under The Floorboards

09. Radio Station Outro

Magazine - Live at The Lesser Free Trade Hall, Manchester 21st July 1978 (soundboard)

Magazine - Live at The Lesser Free Trade Hall, Manchester 21st July 1978 (soundboard)

01. Definitive Gaze

02. Touch & Go

03. Burst

04. The Light Pours Out Of Me

05. My Tulpa

06. Shot By Both Sides

07. Give Me Everything

08. I Love You, You Big Dummy

09. My Mind Ain't So Open

Magazine - Live at The Zodiac, Oxford 10th February 2009

Magazine - Live at The Zodiac, Oxford 10th February 2009

01. Intro 

02. The Light Pours Out Of Me 

03. Model Worker 

04. The Great Beautician In The Sky

05. Because Your Frightened

06. You Never Knew Me

07. Rhythm of Cruelty

08. I Want To Burn Again

09. The Great Mans Secrets

10. A Song From Under The Floorboards

11. Permafrost

12. The Book

13. Twenty Years Ago

14. Definitive Gaze

15. Band Intros - Parade

16. Shot By Both Sides

17. Thank You Falletin Me Be Mice Elf Agin

18. Motorcade

19. I Love You, You Big Dummy