CREATION ARTIFACT 001 - Pastels/Laughing Apple flexi w/guest Tony Fletcher (author, musician, podcaster)

OUR FIRST EPISODE!!!! Scott & Matt kick off the first episode of the Creation Records audio fanzine with a discussion of the first of two flexi singles that came with Alan McGee & Jerry Thackray (THE LEGEND)’s pre-Creation fanzines, Communication Blur. In addition to some digging into the flexi & the zine, the boys interview TONY FLETCHER, esteemed author (bios on R.E.M., Keith Moon, Wilson Pickett), who in his fanzine Jamming, wrote a piece on the state of music in 1982 that ended up being a key piece of Creation origin story. Links of note: “The Story that Spawned Creation”: https://www.ijamming.net/Jammingmagazine/Jamming!MagazineCreation.html Tony Fletcher’s web site (with link to Jamming archive): https://tonyfletcher.net/ Tony’s podcast: https://shows.acast.com/onestepbeyond Things that come up on this episode: The Legend Bobby Gillespie Primal Scream The Laughing Apple The Pastels Strawberry Switchblade Revolving Paint Dream Dan Treacy Television Personalities Patrik Fitzgerald The Jam Paul Weller Paul McCartney Pete Townsend Acid House The Homosexuals REM Special thanks to The Reds, Pinks & Purples for the theme music and to our guest narrator, Rose Melberg.