Musings on the byways of popular culture
I’ve been on another jaunt digging down south, I stayed in the Milton Keynes area this time but probably hit every charity shop there with mixed returns. I did drop off 3 huge boxes of LP’s I had won in a previous auction that were sitting in my mum’s garage at various shops in the south of the city, but it was 7″s I was mostly looking for this time and I found plenty from the 60’s. Pics in comments.
One record fair, half a dozen charity shops and 2 auction wins later…
Looking through some boxes I came across some rubbish gig pics I took, most from the early 80’s to early 00’s. See if you can recognise the band or singer in them, I know who they are of course, but some are so crap that it might be fun to see if you can identify them. Post your own too as I’d love to try and figure out who or what your blurry images might be. OK, first batch of two pictured in thread, I’ve not found that many!
The lad has just risen (12:30pm which for a Sunday isn’t unusual even though I have been up since 6am) and he’s just given me my Father’s Day present (+ chocolate, no card), very sweet of him. Did your kids get you anything?
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A two hour mix of some of my fave music, TV, adverts and film samples from 1977. This is the final 70’s mix in the series and was one of the hardest to do, (my favourite one to do was 1972 if your curious). It’s not meant as any definitive overview of the year, I couldn’t fit in ELO, Donna Summer, X-Ray Spex etc, but is pretty much what I was listening to when I was 15. I was probably the only kid I knew who raved about Aja and NMTB at the same time in my school, haha. I hope you dig it anyway!
Sex Pistols : Pretty Vacant Ramones : We’re a Happy Family Penetration : Don’t Dictate Blondie : Rip Her To Shreds Ian Dury : Wake Up and Make Love With Me Buzzcocks : Orgasm Addict Wire : 12XU Radio Stars : Nervous Wreck Wings : Girls’ School Suicide : Cheree Hawkwind : Spirit Of The Age Be Bop Deluxe : Life In The Air Age (live) John Martyn : Big Muff Steve Miller Band : Electro Lux Imbroglio/Sacrifice Jackson Browne : Cocaine Peter Gabriel : Moribund » Continue Reading.
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
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.
A friend found a big bag of his old band tee’s in his attic all of which have not seen daylight in over 40 years. He’s a bit of a hoarder and is always finding stuff he squirrelled away years earlier – records usually and he plans on putting these tees up on the bay sometime but I thought I’d give you first look here. Several I had not seen before and I think the one with the rope/hands is an un-official one, he saw The Stranglers several times in the 70’s, these are all original and medium size but they certainly don’t fit him anymore. I’d be interested in seeing anyone else’s if they have them, some are worth quite a bit now too.
I keep seeing that fancy new chocolate from Dubai that is cropping up in garages and supermarkets now but at £12 a bar (!!!?!!) I’m too tight to buy and try it, is it worth the price and have you bitten off more than you can afford?
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.
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/
I have been digging through an awful lot of 7″s (+ one 5″) recently, a few of which I found on my trip down south a week ago when I picked up the signed Ziggy which is now hanging in my front room.
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.
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.
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.
An old bloke in Arbroath rang me yesterday to say he was clearing a house and that he’d seen my records wanted card in a shop. He said he didn’t know what to do with a big pile of albums so was thinking of just dropping them at the tip but asked if I’d like the lot for nothing. So I went and collected a huge sellotape sealed box which is now sitting in the back of my car. I haven’t opened it yet as it’s fun to imagine wtf is actually in it!
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.
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!
Cheer up! my latest mix was uploaded today. Titled Folk In Hell, it’s a mixture of old 78’s from The Depression era onwards featuring songs of love and hope, loss, death and despair, I hope you dig it.
The Bently Boys : Down On Penny’s Farm Cliff Carlisle : The Wreck Of Number 52 Bascom Lamar Lansford : I Wish I Was A Mole In The Ground The Caroliner Tar Heels : Got The Farmland Blues Bob Miller : Ohio Prison Fire Clarence Ashley : Naomi Wise Blind Willie Johnson : John the Revelator Ramblin’ Thomas : Poor Boy Blues Floyd Ming & His Pep-Steppers : Indian War Whoop Uncle Dave Macon : Way Down The Old Plank Road The Memphis Jug Band : K.C. Moan Frank Hutchison : Last Scene Of The Titanic Williamson Brothers & Curry : Gonna Die with My Hammer In My Hand Alabama Sacred Heart Singers : Rocky Road Ernest Phipps & His Holiness Singers : Shine On Me Elders McIntorch & Edwards : The Flood Of 1927 Bob Miller : The Crash Of The Akron Nelstone’s Hawaiians : Fatal Flower Garden Carolina Buddies : The » Continue Reading.
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!
