I’ve had a ridiculous day booting today, up early I hit a new boot in Arbroath next to the football ground at 7.15am, late I know TELL ME ABOUT IT. So I left home picked up a black McD coffee en-route and sauntered into the field to have a wander. The fruit & veg man was there, always a good sign, and I got about 3/4 the way along a row and there’s a bloke kneeling down in the familiar digging pose. I stood behind him to see what he was looking at as he flipped by original Mothers of Invention, Kevin Ayres, John Martyn albums, picking out the Genesis, Tull, Hendrix and Floyd, all originals in super clean nick (as far as I could tell by the sleeves). He got up asked how much they were, the woman said her husband, who was standing next to her, wanted a pound each, but I’ll let you have them for 50p each (!!) Jeez, god knows what he got tbh as I got down and pulled 25 in under 25 seconds including pink Island John Martyn, Andwella, unboxed Harvest albums by Kevin Ayres, BJH and others. But best of all the » Continue Reading.

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I saw this poster mentioning Frank Sanazi was playing a free show at some old blokes birthday party in a rough pub in an even rougher part of Dundee tonight. So I went along with my wife for an evening of alternative entertainment and we were not disappointed. There were about 50 folk there and most if not all were there for the birthday party, so we probably stood out a bit especially as there were no seats left and we spent the whole show leaning on the bar. It was cheap drink and free food and 2 half hour sets of Frank doing his cheeky mix of jokes and crooning. In the break we sat in the other (quieter) bar and Frank wandered in and beelined to us, as we probably looked the least drunk folk in there. We chatted to him for 20 minutes about his comedy show experiences from Glastonbury to his forthcoming show supporting a re-formed Fine Young Cannibals at the London Palladium later this year. He was a lovely, funny chap although very pissed off that the birthday guy who hired him insisted that the Hitler » Continue Reading.

Pics of bits n bobs that I have picked up in the last few weeks.

Q : What do Toots & The Maytals, DJ Shadow, Kate Bush and Danny Kaye have in common? A : They are all featured in a fresh Garden mix due on Friday morning 25/04.

If you would like a FREE DOWNLOAD in advance of this lovely mix pm me and I will sort ye! x

Further the Zak Starkey carry on, the New Pornographers drummer arrested for…. (you’ll never guess)

https://pitchfork.com/news/new-pornographers-drummer-joe-seiders-arrested-for-possession-of-child-pornography/

Well, what a weekend I had down in Milton Keynes, digging in shops and selling/buying at a small record fair in a pub. I had all sorts of finds from 60’s Afro-Beat to obscure early 80’s synth 7″s. But blowing them all out of the water was this album I came across. I emailed a guy who runs a site specialising in David Bowie autographs after I picked up a copy of Ziggy Stardust. I was hanging around outside the venue where the record fair was and as I had got there 2 hours early got chatting to a bloke who was off loading loads of his own car boot finds and he let me dig into his boot before he unloaded his wares, which included half a dozen Bowie albums. Naturally I bought them all and the copy of Ziggy he had was very clean and also a first press – with the correct credits, no Mainman on the rear of the sleeve etc. I paid him £25 as that was what he wanted but upon closer inspection I noticed a signature on the rear which (to me) looks like it could actually be by the mainman himself. As » Continue Reading.

My friend Peter on Tak Tent Radio has just posted this 12 HOUR LONG mix of The Fall, it is rather good.

Tracklist:

Intro -Roadhouse The Joke Big New Prinz Smile Mikes Love Xexagon Slang King Mountain Energi Early Days Of Channel Führer Petty (Theif Lout) L.A. Black Monk Theme I am Damo Suzuki Noel’s Chemical Effluence What You Need Winter Gramme Friday Craigness Living Too Late Bury Pts. 1+3 Mr. Pharmacist F-Olding’ Money 2 by 4 Free Range Couldn’t Get Ahead Bremen Nacht Alternative Funnel Of Love Totally Wired Eat Y’self Fitter (We Are) Mod Mock Goth Everything Hurtz (SINCD8 Single) Leave The Capital Midnight in Apsen Who Makes The Nazis? Kimble Loop41 ‘Houston Lie Dream Of A Casino Soul Jawbone + The Air-Rifle The Man Whose Head Expanded Glam Racket – Star Dead Beat Descendant Reformation Blindness Hot Cake Couldn’t Get Ahead Paranoia Man In Cheap Shit Room Industrial Estate Bournemouth Runner Pat Trip Dispenser Rebellious Jukebox I’m Frank Kurious Oranj (Peel Session Version) New Face In Hell The NWRA Paintwork Cruiser’s Creek Container Drivers Return A Lot OF Wind Chicago, Now I’m Going To Spain Paintwork Hip Priest Frenz Elves M5 Behind The Counter Hey! Student Last » Continue Reading.

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I hope you’ll dig my latest mix of a year from the 70’s – this one is 1979 and is pretty much most of the music that I was listening to at 17.

Roxy Music : Trash XTC : Scissor Man Gang Of Four : At Home He’s A Tourist The Stranglers : Dead Loss Angeles Pink Floyd : Young Lust The Cure : 10:15 Saturday Night The Damned : Smash It Up – parts 1 and 2 Nick Lowe : Cracking Up Marianne Faithfull : Why D’Ya Do It Talking Heads : I Zimbra Wire : I Should Have Known Better Ry Cooder : The Very Thing That Makes You Rich (Makes Me Poor) Joe Jackson : Sunday Papers Iggy Pop : I’m Bored The Tubes : Turn Me On Ian Dury & The Blockheads : Uneasy Sunny Day Hotsy Totsy The Specials : A Message To You Rudy Elvis Costello : Green Shirt John Stewart : Gold The Human League : Empire State Human Dave Edmunds : Crawling from the Wreckage Squeeze : Up The Junction John Cooper Clarke : Twat! Frank Zappa : I’m So Cute The Clash » Continue Reading.

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I’d buy it if it was on vinyl and if at the end of side one Kate Bush farts and says “pardon me” very gently.

I’ve had some lovely 7″ finds recently, thankfully my local car boot carries on all year round so there’s always something popping up, though I dunno what I’m missing as I often get there when the sun is up and I know there are diggers there with torches scrambling about in the dark when it opens at 6am. But I had incredible fortune when a guy rang me up out of the blue asking if I was interested in his 7″ punk collection. I went round to his house and in all honesty this was the 2nd best punk collection I’ve ever bought. The first one was in the early 90’s when I went round a guys house and said he wanted £100 for everything and there was everything punk related imaginable, including Blitzkrieg Bop in UK pic sleeve, entire runs of The Damned including promos and Stretcher Case, the Pistols, bootlegs etc, it was just nuts and I still have most of that collection in my own 30 years later. So a few weeks ago this fella rings me up from my shop ad and I go round to his garage and even with a quick flick through I » Continue Reading.

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I recently discovered this 10″ spoken word disc. It has a religious feeling to it but I think it may be Masonic related, any advice as to wtf is being talked about would be appreciated as I’m completely stumped. I did find out that the shop it was recorded at was owned by Sandy (Alexander) Muir who was once manager for The Skids and set up the No Bad Records label. video in comment

To the best song about Milton Keynes!

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Finally found a copy of The Yellow Rolls Royce movie soundtrack (not that I was looking very hard for it tbh) The pics are of my mum and dad at the films premiere at The Electra Cinema, Newport Pagnell in 1965, and yes, that is Robert Maxwell flirting with mums hair-do!

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I was very sad to hear of the passing of Anthony Dolphin last week, he was one of the good guys and he contributed plenty of his incredible music to my Gardening mixes over the years recording as Santa Sprees. He put together a hour long special for the show a few years ago so I repost it in small tribute and may I also add it does have a fucking great track-listing.

Secret Society Dub : Dance Music D.D. Dumbo : Satan Cats Eyes : Girl In The Room The Beatles : Bomb Together Santa Sprees : Twelve Imperfect Men Ivan The Tolerable & His Elastic Band with Mike Watt : A New Possibility Bill Callahan : Breakfast David Kilgour : Smoke You Right Out Of Here Baxter Dury : Daylight Omar Khorsid : Taksim Sanat Alfeyn King Uszniewicz & His Uszniewicztones : Black Saxes Himitsu King : I’m Copy LaVern Baker : Voodoo Voodoo Nelson Gastaldi : Symphony No. 3 The Petites : Is Thirteen Too Young To Fall In Love? Jimmy Dobbins : What Is Love (I Found Love)? The Dovers : What Am I Going To Do? Bobby Beausoleil : Lucifer Rising Part II Romeo Rucha » Continue Reading.

I took a punt on a painting that took my eye in a local auction, I paid around £75 for it as my wife liked it too so we put it up in the spare room. Thing is I have since looked up the painter, Harry Charles Tim and if it is by him he’s apparently quite collectible with works on display and sold via at Saatchi in London and Montpellier in Stratford Upon Avon. I wondered if anyone might be able to tell if it IS an early work by HCT and if I might have stumbled upon some previously unknown 5 figure masterpiece. it doesn’t bother me if it turns out to be fake as we like it!

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Sad to hear today of the passing of Roy Cross, not a familiar name to many but most folk here will be familiar with his art. For many years he was the main artist behind the boxes of Airfix models as well as Eagle comic (ask yer dad). I made models in my early teens for a while and always marvelled at the realism of his paintings on the boxes and of course never knew who did them until today. He made it to 100 + 1 day bless him.

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