Ed Hodgson

@edhodgson.bsky.social

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I wore my fringe like Edwyn Collins

LP cover - King Tubby Presents Dub from the Roots
Four Gold singles Family Cat - Goldenbook parts 1 & 2 New Order - Ceremony Loose Ends - Golden Years
David Essex - Rock On Shirley & Co - Shame Shame Shame Bobby Gentry - Ode to Billie Joe Barry Biggs - Love Come Down
When Edwin Pouncey first got namechecked by Mark E Smith, he was sitting alone in his home office, having just bought The Fall's 1979 album 'Dragnet'. ""Your Heart Out' came on, and in that moment I was absolutely amazed to hear him mention me," says Edwin, the surprise still perceptible after all these years. "I think it goes something like, 'Don't cry for me / Or Mexico/Or Savage Pencil/I'm nearly healthy'. I thought, 'Wow!'. I was absolutely honoured, thrilled... and even better, it was etched onto vinyl forever." To find yourself on Mark's list was not always a good thing, as history attests. Countless individuals have been verbally battered by the Prestwich misfit's unforgiving and unsavoury tongue, including most famously the frontman of LCD Soundsystem: "James Murphy is their chief/ They show their bollocks when they eat". Ouch. Edwin was not a member of that unfortunate club. Instead, it appeared Mark was giving him a nod of acknowledgement - if not a complimentary wink - with his lyric being a direct reference to Edwin's comic strip Rock 'N' Roll Zoo, which appeared in the music paper Sounds. "I was always commenting on the week's happenings," explains Edwin. "One time, a news story had come in about Mark being beaten-up for not being a punk and refusing to wear all the typical punk stuff. So I drew him being beaten up by a group of riled-up skinheads, saying, 'Why are you beating me up? Why aren't you beating up a hippie?'. I was obviously glad that he seemed to think it was kind of funny." It was the beginning of what Edwin calls "a kind of creative relationship" between the two, which included an interview and regular hang-outs via a mutual friend, the infamous French counterculturalist Claude Bessy. "Claude used to work at Rough Trade doing stuff behind the scenes," says Edwin. "He knew Mark, and The Fall had just signed to the label, so we started meeting up at parties. They were just booze-ups really, I can't imagine any food was being eaten - …
The Associates - The Affectionate Punch
1979 release of Entertainment by Gang Of Four Three section cartoon says The Indian smiles, he thinks the cowboy is his friend The cowboy smiles, he is glad the Indian is fooled Now he can exploit him
Four albums by Yes Relayer Fragile Yessongs Going for the One
Gene Pitney - I'm Gonna Be Strong Higsons - Push Out The Boat Mary Coughlan - Leaf From a Tree Psychedelic Furs - Sister Europe Associates - A Bob Marley - Keep on Moving
CD of Mark Hollis debut album on a wooden shelf
CD copy reissued on Blood and Fire
Linton Kwesi Johnson - Bass Culture and In Dub vol 1 & 2. Someone has written on the covers.. Lou Reed - New York Beatles - Abbey Road Tom Waits - Closing Time
Hi Tension - Hi Tension ACR - Shack Up Linx - Throw Away the Key Pop Group - Where There's a Will
PJ Harvey - Words That Maketh Murder Nina Simone - To Love Somebody Paul Haig - Justice Mega City Four - Iron Sky
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS First off, a special thanks here to Elaine for listening to all my trial readings and initial draughts and also for putting up with my moods and sometimes cynical outlook to life. Thanks to anyone who has given me help and advice and also everyone who gave me gigs and support slots; especially Dwane Butterly, Frank Strident, Joe Giro, One Eyed Jacks, Moving Room, Aaron, and all those who came along to give me support/encouragement/abuse, in particular Wayne, Bone, Tommy and last but not in any way least the remaining three quarters of the Leicester Four Eddie, Paul and Chambo.
A 26 page book of poems by my old friend Pip Southall. Printed in 1988
Cd copy of Live at The Lyceum by Cabaret Voltaire. Recorded on a Walkman IIRC
LP cover of Big Science by Laurie Anderson Laurie in a white suit and white glasses, with hands outstretched in front of her
Laurie Anderson - United States Live LP set A picture of Laurie with a light in her mouth
CD copy of CYRM by ØXN
Echo & the Bunnymen"s best album, with a cover photo of the lads lit up in a forest
Four Tops album Reach Out
3 copies of What We All Want, two with 4 prong centres
12" Singles by aXXo No Idlers EP Silvah Bullet On killtone records
Chairmen of the Board - Pay to the Piper Isley Brothers - Put yourself in my Place Mac Davis - Baby Don't Get Hooked on Me Neville Grant - Baby Don't Get Hooked on Me Chairmen of The Board - Everything's Tuesday O'Jays - Backstabbers
Ferry Boumann - Belgian TV character - drug dealer & gangster
Flac copy of SAULT 5 playing on my little Hitachi WXAD-10 Music cast streamer
Indeep - When Boys Talk Stevie Wonder - Heaven Help Us All Whispers - It's a Love Thing Harold Melvin - Don't Leave Me This Way
Elvis Costello - New Amsterdam Aretha Franklin - Spanish Harlem Darts - Boy from New York City Candi Station - Nights on Broadway
Sufjan Stevens - Fourth of July James Blood Ulmer - Are You Glad to Be In America? Comsat Angels - Independence Day Simple Minds - The American
CD single with a group photo of an ice hockey team
Roberta Flack - Original Album Series (First Take / Quiet Fire / Killing Me Softly / Feel Like Makin Love / Blue Lights in The Basement Love - Four Sail Haig Mackenzie - Memory Palace Paul Burch - Pan American Flash
Loose Ends - Golden Years (poster cover) ACR - Shack Up The Beat - Ackee 123 Age Of Chance - Playing with Fire
7" single with a drawing of an animal standing at a counter with all its internal organs laid out for sale in front of it
CD copy of Tinch by Natalia Beylis
Nine 7" singles by the Comsat Angels Total War / It's History / After the Rain / Do the Empty House / Day One / Independence Day / Island Heart / Will You Stay Tonight / I'm Falling
Buffy Saint Marie - Fallen Angel Three Wise Men - Urban Hell Balaam & The Angel - I'll show you Something Special Fra Lippo Lippi - Angel PJ Harvey - The Devil Comsat Angels - You Move Me Everything but the Girl - Angel Comsat Angels - The Cutting Edge Angel Chorus - Devil on My Shoulder
New Puritan Back cover of The Fall Kicker Conspiracy double single
CD copy of Mash Down Birmingham - The Early Recordings of Musical Youth with a cover photo of the group sitting on steel railings outside a block of flats
One Leg One Eye at the Castle & Falcon, Birmingham