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Hüsker Dü | Bob Mould | Grant Hart | Greg Norton

This is not a Bob Mould newsletter.

After all, you can sign up to the Hüsker Dü and Sugar singer and guitarist’s own mailing list for that.

That in itself would be worth doing.

His last email announced another extension of his solo electric dates, shows that are well worth catching (which was pretty much the gist of my Punk News review of last year’s London gig).

More intriguingly, with it being almost three years since 2020’s Blue Hearts album, Bob also teased new material in the form of “a handful of new songs to share” on the new dates.

But this is not a Bob Mould newsletter.

Even though Husker Du* will certainly feature in it.

Perhaps I’ll mention breaking the news of Tonite Longhorn a couple of years before the double live album eventually saw the light of day, or maybe I’ll celebrate the band’s Savage Young Dü boxset some more.

There will undoubtably be some words at some point about Hüsker Dü’s singer and drummer Grant Hart and Greg Norton, singer and bassist for the hardcore punk/college rock/pop punk band.

So we’re clear then, this is not a Bob Mould newsletter.

Though the eagle-eyed amongst you** might have spotted that my Tangleofwires handle comes from Sunset Safety Glass, a song on Bob’s 2002 album Modulate.

And if you know that then you almost certainly know that one of the song’s next lines mentioned a fire red sky.

But this really is not a Bob Mould newsletter.

What will it be then?

Why, a newsletter about punk rock, metal and indie music and the culture that surrounds them.

Thanks for joining me.

Bonus writing: Bob Mould on the songs that are important to him

Credit for main photo: Blake Little Photography

*A deliberate omission of the umlauts for unknowable SEO benefits. (You can take the digital journalist out of the man, but you can’t take the man out of the digital journalist, or some such)

**Bonus points if you connected the title, that of a Public Image Limited album, to Hüsker Dü’s first single Statues***, whose post-punk sound is often linked to PiL

***But apologies if you’ve stumbled over Statues On The Storm, when any time you spend on mashups should really be devoted to A Stroke Of Genie-us or Lady Judas