A friend has been working on this for some time and it has just launched – pic posters may find it useful, link in comments, cheers!

Weekend album finds from a huge stall at Scotlands largest car boot on Sunday, I was happy to pay a fiver each.

It’s funny but I actually give a shit about these things now I’m in my 60’s. I find it quite incredible that the council or whoever is responsible for upkeep of the local landmarks have neglected to cover up the graffiti that has been sprayed over the beautiful Mini-Lighthouse up the road in Arbroath for the past 6 months. It’s the first thing visitors see as they come into the town from the south and I can only imagine the disappointment so many visitors will have felt as they saw it and thought awww, how sad it looks. I’ve complained to the council and I would be happy to paint it if the powers that be gave me a 2.5ltr tin of Signal Red, though I’d probably be arrested if I just went ahead and did it!

This seemed like a good place to post this, the first in a series of chats where a friend of my son comes over to ask me about my vinyl collecting habit, vid in comments.

These are some of the albums that have made they way into my grubby hands in the last couple of weeks. I hit Northampton pretty hard the other week, I was only there a couple of days but still crammed in a boot, one auction and several charity shops. The best stuff turned up on my doorstep when I got home when a bloke answered my ad and rang saying he had a load of singles. I went round to his fancy static caravan and although the records were alright but nothing special and as I was saying my thanks but no thanks he asked if I liked The Beatles. Yeah sure, I said, so he pulls a record case out full of fab four and solo albums, “I want a fiver each for these, no offers” erm, OK so, I bought the lot, it’s what he wanted. Nice original UK 1st mono pressings, although there was a White Album with only one disc but it had the bits, lovely copies of Ram, Walls & Bridges etc, and…

48 years gone, today. I still remember being so upset when I found out as I arrived at school I had to just go home.

Just back from a family trip to mid Wales, visiting caves, parks and buying paintings, fancy cheese and erm, records. After a stop-over at the beautiful Ingleborough Cave in Yorkshire we drove past a small town that had a charity shop on the high street. Stop if you want said my very patient wife, so I pulled over to the side of the road with my flashers on and popped in, I saw a box on the floor and asked the guy on the counter if they had any more, thousands round the back he said, but the bloke that sorts them is away for his lunch. So I left wondering what could have been out the back but we had to continue our journey and not hang about. I drive on about 100 yards and spot a 2nd hand shop on the same street and once again I get my wifes blessing to pull over and check it out. I walk through what looks like a large empty village hall and at the back spot a bloke eating a sandwich, are you the guy who sorts the records for the charity shop? I enquired and to my delight he » Continue Reading.

I came across this inner sleeve inside a second hand Hawkwind record, I thought I’d post here as it’s obviously quite old and I doubt that Tony & Paula will ever know I shared it.

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Not a post on a wee book of autographs, though I do have some of those – another time maybe. This is about an autographed LP that I picked up at the weekend that must be some kind of (world?) record. It looks pretty simple on the front, 5 Maori lads jumping in the air in some ceremonial fashion but when it’s flipped over, the back has 36 autographs on it, way more than several signed albums by various groups that I have in my collection. The telling thing is the pic of the group on the back of this sleeve that shows 36 men & women posing like a sports team photo, so I assume the previous owner carefully managed to persuade each and every member of the erm, squad, to sign the back. Is this some kind of record, for a record sleeve, I lay down the gauntlet and ask all signed album owners to show me their collected examples, surely 36 signatures cannot be beaten?!

Some of the albums and singles I have picked up on my recent local digging trips, pics & vids in comments.

Something fishy I’ve been doing recently – putting the music to an old French film! I did it ages ago (badly) but have got it spot on and edited sweetly now and it will be playing in cinemas in UK before the end of the year. I originally played the score at The Big Chill, The Cube Cinema and other groovy screens – PM me for a download link to the film with the new score, it is 7gb but I assure you it’s worth it!

My latest two hour mix featuring some of my fave music, TV, adverts and film samples from 1980. This is the first 80’s mix in an ongoing series that will drop in on different years at random, it will probably upset and amuse some folk but it will hopefully not bore you!

John Lennon : (Just Like) Starting Over (intro) Simple Minds : I Travel The Fall : Totally Wired Magazine : Because You’re Frightened The Clash : The Magnificent Seven Devo : Whip It David Bowie : Up The Hill Backwards The Specials : Too Much Too Young The Police : Driven To Tears Peter Gabriel : No Self Control Kate Bush : Delius Robert Palmer : I Dream Of Wires Bill Nelson : Do You Dream In Colour? Rush : Spirit Of Radio Queen : Escape From The Swamp Dexys Midnight Runners : Burn It Down Yoko Ono : Kiss Kiss Kiss Paul Simon : Late In The Evening The Cure : Play For Today Siouxsie & The Banshees : Happy House Steely Dan : Hey Nineteen The Beat : Ranking Full Stop The Clash : Version City (intro) XTC : Paper and Iron (Notes and Coins) The » Continue Reading.

One record fair, half a dozen charity shops and 2 auction wins later…

Start your bidding, weirdos. David Lynch’s personal archive—aka the most cursed estate sale in cinema history is going under the hammer. Over 450 items are up for grabs, including the Twin Peaks Black Lodge rug (finally, a piece of furniture that stares back), his Eraserhead 35mm print, and the espresso machine that probably fueled half of Mulholland Drive. Also on the block: a Lynch-played, five-neck steel guitar, a Lost Highway-style sofa that screams “mid-century but haunted,” and enough Blue Velvet memorabilia to make Dennis Hopper rise from the grave in a gas-huffing rage. Auction starts June 18. No refunds if your dreams get weirder.

https://www.juliensauctions.com/en/auctions/julien-s-auctions-turner-classic-movies-present-the-david-lynch-collection

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I’m just back again from another successful dig down south, I make the trip every 6 weeks or so and this visit to friends and family and found some great records. I only went to 2 boots and both were busy with one bloke turning up with boxes that looked very dusty even sitting on the grass at an early morning Northamptonshire playing field but I bought several from him including the Hatfields & KPM albums at £2 a pop.