auteurtoauthor|How Bastard Thatcher’s pocket money made her the mother of indie music

Having just read Neil Taylor’s excellent C86 And All That: The Birth Of Indie In Difficult Times; a book not so much about the NME’s much (rightly) derided C86 mail-order cassette and more about the lesser-told tale of bands operating on a Sellotape budget from the early to mid-80s. The other side of the coin to Simon Reynolds’ story of post-…