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The Bunker – News without the nonsense

Culture Bunker: Who killed the music press? The C86 kids. And heatwave dance music

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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News, Government, Politics, Society & Culture

4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Paper Cuts: How I Destroyed the British Music Press and Nige Tassell’s surprisingly warmhearted indie odyssey Whatever Happened To The C86 Kids? Plus we bathe in the glow of euphoric 90s comedown music with ‘Fell From The Sun: Downtempo And After Hours 1990-91’.   Hear all the music on our rolling playlists. Spotify: https://bit.ly/CultBunk Tidal: https://tidal.com/browse/playlist/1aea7525-7891-4a88-8474-a08c45ea064b Presented and produced by Andrew Harrison and Siân Pattenden. Audio production by Alex Rees. Theme music: ‘Bunker Theme (Juntos Mix)’ by Kenny Dickinson. Co-produced by Jelena Sofronijevic. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. The Culture Bunker is a Podmasters production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

My name is Stan. I'm at. Nice to meet you. So you took up photography where? I've always loved

0:05.5

photography but I turn it into earning a living at 60. I enrolled on a day course.

0:11.8

Well college. I loved going to college. It's good you can retry. I'm enrolled on the day course. But college?

0:13.0

I loved going to college.

0:14.0

It's good you can retrain and do something.

0:16.0

Yeah, yeah.

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Let's talk about working, learning, saving and making the most of living longer.

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theirs with dental life. Pick up dental life in the pet food aisle. And Hello and welcome to the Culture Bunker, your Pop Culture Podcast Roundup, I'm Sean Paddendon.

1:29.0

And I'm Andrew Harrison.

1:30.0

It's a rock and roll book club edition this week.

1:32.0

We're delighted to be joined by music journalist,

1:34.4

author and recovering editor, Ted Kessler, whose book Paper Cutts, The Inside Story of the

1:40.0

slow death of the British music press, but also a love letter to it is out now.

1:45.3

And continuing our theme we welcome author Nij Tassil who's the force behind whatever happened to the

1:51.0

C-86 kids, a deep dive into the famous and infamous

1:54.7

NME compilation tape which identified the shamelessly guitar-driven floppy-fringed

2:00.0

musical movement that eventually became in D rock.

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