Wow, you kept that quiet til now! Your organisational and archiving skills suddenly make a lot of sense. What was Rob like ? I only knew Rob for a short time but he was brilliant to be around. He was warm, funny and generous and he lived an amazing life. It’s only about once a decade I find anyone ...

Thanks everyone [emoji4]

Can we see your Erasure scrapbooks now please? LOL. I was never an Erasure fan, but back in the mid 90s I spent a couple of summers working for New Order’s manager Rob Gretton, and one of my jobs (in between answering the phone and brewing up) was to wade through a massive pile of NMEs and Melody M...

So we end the journey here! I didn’t think I had nearly 600 posts’ worth of stuff but obviously I did and I’ve enjoyed going through it all again. Thanks to everyone that’s read along or left a comment and for all the nice messages. Hopefully this will remain an archive that people can dig into and ...

In all their glory.

True scrapbook madness.

Opportunities, first release, press ad. Thought I’d lost this so a nice one to end this journey on.

It’s a sin press ad.

Smash Hits pull out poster.

Were you also a member of the fan club, Dog? Yes, from the start. I remember I also used to ring their management offices periodically to ask whoever answered the phone if they had a new single coming out! They seemed not to mind chatting and even told me about DJ culture before it had been announc...