MEMORY TAPES: 27TH JULY 2012

This weeks Memory Tape comes from listener Louise Norris and what a story she has for us...

“ I found my way to your 'memory tapes' purely by chance from somewhere else in cyber space - and after a couple of random clicks to see what great things other listeners had written about the wonder that is the mix tape, I happened across one sent in earlier this summer from none other than my first love - who I have not seen or heard from in years - ah, the memories - I could almost feel the weight of the eye liner descending onto my lids and I swear I caught a waft of Body Shop White Musk on the wind......”

“I couldn't let this happy discovery go unmarked and several hours of digging through boxes of history later, I found the first ever mix tape he made me in those first heady days of goth fuelled teenage love when we thought a certain Robert Smith may well have been the big fella himself, and we were pretty sure we were the bees (very black) knees - oh for the undoubting confidence of youth!”

“Thankfully my musical horizons have broadened somewhat during the intervening years, and I can now boast off-black and even grey amoungst my wardrobe, but I still get goose bumps and feel slightly homesick when I listen to this tape! Enjoy!”

The tracklisting can be seen below:

Side 1

Away - The Bolshoi

Serpents Kiss - The Mission

Boy's Don't Cry - The Cure

There She Goes Again - The Velvet Underground

Looking Glass Girl - The Glove

Pluto Drive - The Creatures

Dream Now - All About Eve

Into The Night - Siouxsie & The Banshees

Wake Up - The Danse Society

Swamp Thing - The Chameleons

Wild Thing - The Troggs

Side 2

Sunday Morning - The Velvet Underground

Blind Lemon Sam - All About Eve

Killing Time - The Creatures

Pearly Dewdrops Drop - The Cocteau Twins

Waiting For The Flood - Love and Rockets

Pariah - Danielle Dax

Punish Me With Kisses - The Glove

2 Late - The Cure

What Kind Of Fool - All About Eve

Kernow - Danielle Dax

Hollow Heart - Birdland

A Night Like This - The Cure

Hope - Bauhaus