Dug out this poster – it’s seen better days – but it is close to 21 years old so it’s had a good innings. It’s for an event at the Merry Go Round pub in Bury St Edmunds way back in 1989. Poster designed by Devine. The night featured DJ Underground, MC Epode (RIP) & Scott The Human Beat Box. Anyone got a photos of pieces by Devine? Think he came from the Stowmarket area.

If you’ve ever wondered what the opening piece of music is to the film Style Wars, then wonder no more as it’s by Richard Wagner and is called ‘Götterdämmerung’ (Siegfried’s Funeral March) AKA ‘The Death Of Arthur’. Now you know!

You’ll see this tune on various tracklists for Easygroove sets during 1993 (Dreamsacpe 7, Helter Skelter, etc) but you won’t find the tune in discogs or any online shop. It’s often mis-spelled as ‘Costae’ and also referred to as ‘S.A.D. Productions Vol. 1′ making it even more confusing. It’s actually by MC DJ Ribbs, Dave Tidy & DJ Dren. If anyone wants to sell me a copy, feel free to get in touch

Image courtesy of DJ Dren.
[edit - youtube sound clip added ] Easygroove video image from http://www.obsession.org.uk …

Many, many years ago (well, about 22 I think) I got myself a copy of this tape made by a group calling themselves East Side Posse. It’s been sat in my stash unplayed for many years now but whilst having a bit of spring clean today I discovered it once more. A quick search on Google throws up no info on these guys, so I’m guessing their efforts didn’t make it past the demo tape stage. They did do a few live appearances though and as luck would have it, …

As promised in this post, here are some more scans of the classic Electro Rock pages from The Street Scene magazine. You can now check out up to issue 5 in glorious high-resolution on my flickr.
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Below are the pages from issue 5. Anyone know who did the Electro Rock outline?