“It’s not ‘retro’. It was very easy for recordings to sound good in the fifties and sixties, and that’s because it didn’t require discipline: the discipline was given to you by the limitations of the material or the technology. But what happened next is that people decided those limitations were a problem rather than the life. Nowadays, to have any sensible life, you have to artificially impose limitations. Otherwise you have limitlessness, and limitlessness is the opposite of freedom.” 
Billy Childish (from an S. Reynolds interview in ‘Retromania’)

I love the ‘limitlessness is the opposite of freedom’ bit. I have always found myself the most creative and liked my outputs best when I had to work within boundaries, no matter if it’s limited time in a studio or rehearsal room, limited technical skills, an approaching deadline for a text, working with other people/bandmembers/fanzinewriters… Limitlessness though is an empty sheet of white paper screaming at you so loudly that it drowns out any spark of an idea.

Lessons in staycationing #1:

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