Tiny picture or what? It's from the Bus Stop gallery page. Allen Clapp is a relatively new aquaintance for me, but is quickly becoming one of my favourite artists. Before he was just a name on the Bus Stop website, and there are plenty of them left to discover. He started recording on his own, then formed Allen Clapp & His Orchestra and eventually The Orange Peels who are set to play the NYC Popfest this year. This is one of his older songs and it came out on a Bus Stop 7" in 1992. It's also included on the new compilation of stuff from his "four-tracking heyday" called Something Strange Happens, which is a must-buy if there ever was one! Check Skatterbrain in the link list, where there are two more songs in a recent post. And there are some great podcasts on The Orange Peels website.
This was a combined blog and radio show about POP! music. I started the blog when I moved to Glasgow and it ran during my stay there. We broadcast weekly from Glasgow University's Subcity.org. The shows are catalogued as SPLASHes, and you can still listen to all of them. There are also some rare or hard-to-find indiepop gems for download, and these are labelled DROP. Have fun while it lasts!
or any encouraging words you might have, can be sent to this address. But it'll be a whole lot easier to just leave a comment! I won't check the mail too often. If you've got more general ponderings, such as "what's all this pop stuff about anyway?", your questions might be answered by the manifesto I wrote some time ago, for better or worse.
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