Fun puzzle today with some very nice clues, in what seems to be Marty’s first puzzle in almost exactly a year. Thanks a lot to the Rotter for doing the blog last week, which 20d for you means you’ll have me again next week. Many thanks to Marty! Across

I’m less concerned with things I don’t like now. I have made my contribution to the world looking a bit better, for better or for worse. Mark Thompson, the BBC's director general, sounded the death knell for 6 Music, along with the Asian Network digital station, as part of a wide-ranging review of the corporation's operations, published last month. The music station is home to DJs including Lauren Laverne, Shaun Keaveny and Steve Lamacq. Technicolour Field (the rug), Technicolour Fade (the chair upholstery) and Technicolour Flux (the curtain) by Peter Saville/ Kvadrat Kvadrat The important thing is that a lot of people are getting very passionate about saving 6 Music," Shade said. "I hope it will help make the BBC see sense. It is too important a station to lose. With expanding digital radio coverage I think they will attract a much larger audience to the station if only they give it a chance."McCabe, Maisie (22 March 2010). "6 Music supporters push Half Man Half Biscuit song". mediaweek.co.uk . Retrieved 26 February 2016. Joy Division were an influential band from Manchester in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The song satirises band merchandising. The Half Man Half Biscuit plan follows a successful internet campaign to make Rage Against the Machine's Killing in the Name the Christmas No 1 in protest at the monopoly of the festive chart by X Factor contestants.

In 2010, a Facebook campaign was mounted with the aim of saving BBC 6 Music from threatened closure and, as a sign of protest, to get "Joy Division Oven Gloves" from Achtung Bono to No. 6 in the UK Singles Chart on 12 April 2010. [5] [6] In the event, it entered the Singles Chart that week at No. 56 and the Independent Singles Chart at No. 3. [7] [8] Whether or not the campaign was influential, BBC 6 Music was saved.Trad. Arr." is short for "traditional, arranged (by)", and is often attached to recordings of folk music. If I think of Peter Saville and interiors I think of Pulp’s ‘Help The Aged' sleeve and your Nineties Mayfair home, The Apartment. They both had a kind of retro-Playboy vibe

One fan was wielding a potted plant’ … superfan and writer Steve Hill. Photograph: John Robertson/the Guardian It’s kind of the ideal organisation. It’s so rare you encounter a company which is exactly how you imagine a company could be. Kind and virtuous. And isn’t hell-bent on making more and more money. a b Granger, Ben (1 November 2005). "Half Man Half Biscuit: Achtung Bono" . Retrieved 27 February 2016.

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Control, I obviously meant, and obviously thought “don’t type Closer, not long before typing Closer. Devotee … Chris Rand, creator of the Lyrics Project, in his Joy Division oven gloves. Photograph: John Robertson/the Guardian Based in in Ebeltoft, a sleepy port town on the northeast coast of Denmark, Kvadvat has previously collaborated with Wes Anderson, Sarah Lucas and Olafur Eliasson, while Raf Simons has on ongoing fabric line with the company. On a more prosaic level you'll find Kvadrat textiles in the more high-end furniture and interior design shops across Europe, and beyond. Yeah. I had a white one with weird abstract patches of red on it. And so that’s how I thought about it. That was my conversation with Kvadrat.

a b c Passantino, Dom (21 September 2005). "Half Man Half Biscuit: Achtung Bono". Stylus Magazine. Archived from the original on 10 May 2012 . Retrieved 26 February 2016. minutes. I’m not sure I have ever known a specific meaning of YAMMER although I’ve heard references to people ‘yammering on’ and always thought I understood what was meant from its context at the time. SOED has it as:In the movie 24 Hour Party People: The Factory Records Saga, the caricature of Peter Saville is that he’s hopeless with deadlines. How were you with this gig?