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.
Remembering Marc
Further August Vinyl Finds
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.
Break Up Inner Sleeve
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.
Feelin’ 1988
I hope you dig my latest two hour mix of music from 1988 including film/TV clips, link in comments.
The Fall : Cab It Up! Sonic Youth : Silver Rocket Morrissey : Suedehead The Primitives : Crash The Stone Roses : Elephant Stone Public Enemy : She Watch Channel Zero Prince : Alphabet Street Scritti Politti : Boom! There She Was The Go-Betweens : The Streets of Your Town Pixies : Where Is My Mind Edie Brickell & The New Bohemians : What I Am Julian Cope : Charlotte Anne Prefab Sprout : Hey Manhattan Talking Heads : Nothing But Flowers The Waterboys : And a Bang On The Ear The Pogues : If I Should Fall from Grace with God Crowded House : I Feel Possessed Steve Earle : Copperhead Road Janes Addiction : Thank You Boys Enya : Storms In Africa The Fall : Carry Bag Man The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu : Burn The Bastards A Guy Called Gerald : Voodoo Ray Leonard Cohen : First We Take Manhattan Thomas Dolby : The Key to Her Ferrari Nirvana : Love Buzz Robert Palmer : She Makes My Day Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds : The » Continue Reading.
August Vinyl Finds
The month is shaping up to be a good month for digging at fairs and auctions and on Scottish fields, pics & links in comments.
Autographed Album
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?!
Recent Vinyl Finds (again)
Some of the albums and singles I have picked up on my recent local digging trips, pics & vids in comments.
The Garden of Atlantis
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!
Feelin’ 1980
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.
Recent 7″ Vinyl Finds
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.
Recent Vinyl Finds XXVIII
One record fair, half a dozen charity shops and 2 auction wins later…
Rubbish Gig Pics
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!
Happy Father’s Day
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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Feelin’ 1977
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.
David Lynch – auction
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
Further Vinyl Finds
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.
Old Band T-Shirts
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.
Expensive Foreign Chocolate
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?
Car Booting Today
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.
Frank Sanazi Live
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.
Recent Vinyl Finds Vol: 247
Pics of bits n bobs that I have picked up in the last few weeks.
It’s FREE and you’ll probably like it!
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
Bad Week For Drummers
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/
Further Vinyl Finds
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.
Ziggy Comes Up Trumps
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.
