Fireside Favourites by Fad Gadget

As a fan of New Wave, electro and artists like Gary Numan, Visage, Devo, etc... with "Fireside Favourites" I found something alternative, probably new for his time, year 1980.

Sounds that reminds me early 2000s and ..."Fight Club" OST!!!

I knew Fad Gadget only for two famous tracks:

"Collapsing New People" and "Lady Shave";
so, I bought "Fireside" for curiosity, I wanted to discover better Frank Tovey and his experimental music.

Great deal!

Below you can see my copy of "Fireside Favourites", UK "MUTE" release, original from 1980:

See you on sunday for other weird material from my collection.......!

-Chris-

'91 Peugeot 205 CJ.

"Records, CARS and weird stuff";
I love vintage cars, so in this blog I will talk about.

What's the better way to start?
Talking about first car of MY life!





= = Prologue = =

A convertible at 18 years old as a first car of your life, I think, is a great and funny thing... better if the convertible in question was a new Audi or a Mercedes in the years from 2006 and 2010, not a '91 Peugeot 205.

Here in Italy you come of age at 18, so you can get the driving license at 18;
I got my driving license in 2006 and my first car was a white '91 Peugeot 205 CJ.

So, the situation was like:

I owned the "CJ" from 2006 till september 2010; I called her the "Bluesmobile" due to black and white colors, black wheels, many scratches and body damages.

Some pics from 2010:

 

Jeans interiors:

= = Epilogue = =

I gave the "CJ" at a Citroen dealer and bought a 2009 brand new Citroen C4.

A sad story, I know.

See you on sunday!

-Chris-

About my weird and (sad) modern system...

 I wrote sad because I love old things, old style and design of old stuff; 

besides old Hi-Fi devices especially, were made for a long life!!!

Well, my first system, from 2014 till 2021 was a Pioneer system from early 90's (XD-Z54T) with a turntable and speakers placed on chairs.

A view of the sadnessssssss, from 2018:

(the Colt 1911 on the left speaker is a Denix replica don't worry! I'm fond of WWII history)

In the picture you can see my old "Thorens TD-280 MKII" and my old fabulous "Marantz CD-5005" cd player, that I sold.................... sigh.

In the pics below, you can see my 2025 system:

My system is composed by these elements:

-Turntable: Technics SL-1500c, with factory "Ortofon 2M Red" cartridge;



-Amplifier: Advance Paris Xi75, a 75W warm sound device;

-CD player: Yamaha CD-S303; good working device with lovely vintage design, in silver finish.
IMPORTANT: if you want to buy a CD-S303, you must update the firmware!! My device had some problems during reproduction of many CDs, I'm talking about skips; the official Yamaha update will solve these problems.

-Speakers, here shorts and fat (thanks Windows 11 resizer!): Klipsch R620F, 100 W (RMS) speakers. The Advance Paris Xi75, with his warm sound, was the best idea for this kind of speakers.

In the last shelf, my two "Knosti Antistat" and some products for records care and maintenance! :-)

My system is proudly placed in a self-made Carrara marble flexy table! 🟩⬜🟥

That's all!

Thanks for the attention and see you on Sunday!

Blog updates:

on the right column added Radio.net widget: you can listen "80s DRIVE", a wonderful american radio, only music from 80's;

New vintage style title.

-Chris-