Furniture

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On this site I've pulled together nearly all the material I could relating to Furniture. There are a few items that I either couldn't or didn't reproduce for a variety of reasons. For completion a list of additional sources is here.

Cherry Red TV - Survival Records Story - Interview with Anne-Marie Highway & David Rome of Survival Records. Furniture are discussed at ~17:30.

Word In Your Ear Podcast featuring Jim Irvin - The popular podcast helmed by seasoned music journalists Mark Ellen and David Hepworth. This episode featured Jim Irvin, a former colleague of Mark and David’s. He discusses Furniture at around 16:30. It’s a lot of fun.

Be Stiff - The Stiff Records Story by Richard Balls. A book! Published by Soundcheck Books. I used this book when writing the section concerning the demise of Stiff. A good read.

Here’s One I Made Earlier - featuring Mick Glossop Here’s one I made Earlier is a podcast series created by Jim featuring an industry veteran who focusses on a key work in their career. In this episode he discusses “The Crack” by “The Ruts”, produced by Mick Glossop, who also produced TWP. It’s worth listening to as many of this series as you can. Jim is a sensitive and knowledgable interviewer making for an educational and instructive 45 minutes.

Fathers of Fusion - FT This is a paywalled article so I have not reproduced it. It’s really about TGU but Tim and Hami also discuss their time with Furniture. In particular their recollection of playing in Amman, Jordan for the Crown Prince is sourced from here.

Eighties Archive Podcast Episode #115 - Jim Irvin A new (2026) 90 minute interview with Jim. Lots of content about Furniture and you also get to find out about Jim’s early years job at United Biscuits.

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