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FAC 15: The £2 Festival Where Manchester Met Liverpool

FAC 15: The £2 Festival Where Manchester Met Li...

Alejandro De Luna

27 AUGUST 1979: ZOO MEETS FACTORY HALF-WAY Joy Division. Echo & the Bunnymen. The Teardrop Explodes. OMD. A Certain Ratio. Admission: £2. The idea started with a phone call On...

FAC 15: The £2 Festival Where Manchester Met Li...

Alejandro De Luna

27 AUGUST 1979: ZOO MEETS FACTORY HALF-WAY Joy Division. Echo & the Bunnymen. The Teardrop Explodes. OMD. A Certain Ratio. Admission: £2. The idea started with a phone call On...

Glen Matlock at 70: The Songwriter Who Missed the Record

Glen Matlock at 70: The Songwriter Who Missed t...

Alejandro De Luna

Happy 70th birthday to Glen Matlock, the original Sex Pistols bassist and credited co-writer of 10 of the 12 songs on Never Mind the Bollocks, even though he’d already left...

Glen Matlock at 70: The Songwriter Who Missed t...

Alejandro De Luna

Happy 70th birthday to Glen Matlock, the original Sex Pistols bassist and credited co-writer of 10 of the 12 songs on Never Mind the Bollocks, even though he’d already left...

Shirley Manson at 60: 22 Records That Shaped Her

Shirley Manson at 60: 22 Records That Shaped Her

Alejandro De Luna

Born in Edinburgh on 26 August 1966, Manson came through the city’s post-punk and alternative scene before eventually becoming the unmistakable voice and presence at the centre of Garbage. To...

Shirley Manson at 60: 22 Records That Shaped Her

Alejandro De Luna

Born in Edinburgh on 26 August 1966, Manson came through the city’s post-punk and alternative scene before eventually becoming the unmistakable voice and presence at the centre of Garbage. To...

Hand-drawn notebook page by Alejandro De Luna mapping John McGeoch's career across Magazine, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Visage, Armoury Show and Public Image Ltd.

John McGeoch: Wizard of Bleak Arpeggios

Alejandro De Luna

Old notes on John McGeoch. Born on this day in 1955. Gone in 2004. I found this messy sketch I did of John a while ago, mapping out his legacy...

John McGeoch: Wizard of Bleak Arpeggios

Alejandro De Luna

Old notes on John McGeoch. Born on this day in 1955. Gone in 2004. I found this messy sketch I did of John a while ago, mapping out his legacy...

The Last Time I Saw The Fall

The Last Time I Saw The Fall

Alejandro De Luna

The last time I saw The Fall. 28 May 2017. Manchester, England.Going through old boxes of tickets and abandoned folders of photos on my hard drive, I came across these. ...

The Last Time I Saw The Fall

Alejandro De Luna

The last time I saw The Fall. 28 May 2017. Manchester, England.Going through old boxes of tickets and abandoned folders of photos on my hard drive, I came across these. ...

Orange Juice “Falling and Laughing” 7-inch vinyl single, released by Postcard Records in 1980.

Before The Smiths: Orange Juice, Postcard Recor...

Alejandro De Luna

1980. Glasgow. Postcard Records. Orange Juice. 'Falling and Laughing'.One of the foundational indie bands of the early 80s British pop scene, back when the term “indie” meant something: the forever...

Before The Smiths: Orange Juice, Postcard Recor...

Alejandro De Luna

1980. Glasgow. Postcard Records. Orange Juice. 'Falling and Laughing'.One of the foundational indie bands of the early 80s British pop scene, back when the term “indie” meant something: the forever...

Andres calamaro, discos favoritos

Andrés Calamaro: discos, músicos y libros de su...

Alejandro De Luna

Hoy, en el cumpleaños de Andrés Calamaro, vale la pena recordar algo que a veces se pierde detrás de la obra inmensa del artista porteño: la amplitud de sus placeres...

Andrés Calamaro: discos, músicos y libros de su...

Alejandro De Luna

Hoy, en el cumpleaños de Andrés Calamaro, vale la pena recordar algo que a veces se pierde detrás de la obra inmensa del artista porteño: la amplitud de sus placeres...

Lydia Lunch sitting in a Delancey Street loft in 1977/78, wearing a Disneyland sweatshirt and black trousers, photographed by GODLIS.

Lydia Lunch on Delancey Street: No Wave Taking ...

Alejandro De Luna

Lydia Lunch sits in a Delancey Street loft wearing a Disneyland sweatshirt as one of New York’s most abrasive musical movements begins to form around her. Photographed by Godlis one...

Lydia Lunch on Delancey Street: No Wave Taking ...

Alejandro De Luna

Lydia Lunch sits in a Delancey Street loft wearing a Disneyland sweatshirt as one of New York’s most abrasive musical movements begins to form around her. Photographed by Godlis one...

Hand-drawn sketch of Phil Lynott next to a handwritten notebook page mapping his musical and cultural influences

Phil Lynott's Influences: The Sounds Behind Thi...

Alejandro De Luna

This is a messy drawing of Phil Lynott, and a map I put together a long time ago trying to trace some of his influences. A good opportunity to take...

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Phil Lynott's Influences: The Sounds Behind Thi...

Alejandro De Luna

This is a messy drawing of Phil Lynott, and a map I put together a long time ago trying to trace some of his influences. A good opportunity to take...

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Sex Pistols Lesser Free Trade Hall gig poster, the sleeve of a bootleg 7-inch from the June 4, 1976 Manchester show

The Gig Nobody Agrees On: Sex Pistols at the Le...

Alejandro De Luna

Manchester, June 4th, 1976: Sex Pistols play a room called the Lesser Free Trade Hall to somewhere between thirty and fifty people. The support act, Solstice, were a group from...

The Gig Nobody Agrees On: Sex Pistols at the Le...

Alejandro De Luna

Manchester, June 4th, 1976: Sex Pistols play a room called the Lesser Free Trade Hall to somewhere between thirty and fifty people. The support act, Solstice, were a group from...