" I ‘ave no truck with nostalgia freaks " - M.E.S. Following on from the 'Container Drivers' Grotesque album and his aural assault on Kay (Older Lover, Slates), Hex Enduction presented the finest collection of Fall tracks from the pre-Brix era. The Classical was lost on me to begin with until it proved itself to be more addictive than chips, an album that punches with a different level of invention compared to what went before. You can hear the remaining members maturing from

Real to Real Cacophony was an abysmal failure for Simple Minds despite my best efforts. Four versions on vinyl, a cassette tape and two CDs have been bought, placed into my collection and, somehow, vanished without trace. While people were reluctant to get a copy themselves, many appear to have been happy to take mine. It's 1980 in a wealthy provincial market town strewn with school kids in blazers prematurely approaching middle age. My parents decided that I was not to con