Viva Vinyl Villain

Like so many other bloggers, I was shocked yesterday to find out The Vinyl Villain had been deleted by Blogger. It’s hard to express  the frustration I feel that all that work has been summarily deleted, without a by your leave. There was some brilliant writing from JC and a host of contributions from others, including when he had a family bereavement a while back. This morning, I’m therefore reposting something a I wrote almost twelve months ago. But I also wanted to direct you attention to JC’s new TVV site at WordPress and encourage you to go there and say hi.

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If anyone’s ever trawled the stuff at the side of these pages you’ll see a page marked Inspirations. This blog has two. This post is for one of those, the terrifically good and terrifically nice blogger JC who runs the Vinyl Villain.

Why an Inspiration? A couple of things. First, he showed me that you could write a specialist blog in an entertaining way that people would want to read. Even for the obscure stuff – with Bourgie Bourgie being how I first came across him. Second, he’s a terribly nice man. I’ve only met him the once. And with some trepidation. But he was as good company in real life as he was supportive on line when I was writing ependyparent. This is to hoping that there are many more years of blogging left in him.

If you did a Venn diagram of what JC posts and what I posts you’d find a very small area of overlap. So, what to post? What sits in that elusive area between his mainly 80s indie and my 90s and beyond dance? Only his number 1 song on the 45s at 45 series. And that’s New Order’s Temptation. This cover version by the autoKratz is for you JC.

~ by acidted on July 25, 2013.