Unspun Heroes – Artery, ‘Oceans’

Digging up buried treasure from the depths of our collection. This week – Luke Turner on the post-punk obscurity that warmed the young Jarvis Cocker’s cockles. It was not being forced to wear lederhosen as a teenager that inspired Jarvis Cocker to form a band. Nor was it a liberating, if fumbled, encounter with a housewife on the floor next to a plywood chiffonier as David Bowie played on the Dansette. Instead, it was seeing an unhinged performance by Artery in his hometown of Sheffield. ...

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