It's a little known fact that Handsome Bastards saved Madonna's ailing career.  Released on Stupid Rabbit Tapes, 1989.  Lyrics, bass - Naylor; Vox, guitars, engineer, producer - Handyside; Drums - RJ.  Music by the band.

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Handsome Bastards : 'How we saved Madonna's career'

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Wire’s new mini-album, Nocturnal Koreans, is striking in its diversity, the band fluently negotiating an expansive stylistic range, from immensely catchy pop to ambient introspection and beyond. Chronicling a sleepless night that Wire spent in a seedy Boston-area hotel on their 2013 US tour, the title track is the kind of charging, urgent tune that’s always been vocalist-songwriter Colin Newman’s forte. The lyrics, by bassist Graham Lewis, make this one of guitarist Matthew Simms’s favourites on the record, largely because of the associated memories: “It’s a great snapshot of touring America and when I hear or play that song, it reminds me of the many weird and wonderful times, places and people that cross your path.”

Nocturnal Koreans

We've seen the cover and the flexi-disc.  Here's the inside as it arrived as a Christmas card, in . . . 1975?

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'ISOLATION' -  JOY DIVISION  COVER by jez kerr

From the Avengers' lost-single "The American In Me." Originally released in 1979. Reissued on Superior Viaduct, 2019. www.superiorviaduct.com

Handsome Bastards : 'How we saved Madonna's career'

Tim Naylor

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