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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I have been collecting old 78’s for several years but never come across this pair before, the Titanic one in particular is a nice find as the last one I saw was in a museum! I thought I’d share as I’d be happy to add any others I come across and see any unusual ones folks here may have.

Released in 1912 to raise funds for Titanic survivors.

and a one sided disc issued in the early years of WW1

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Going through old family pics last night I found what I believe to be the oldest one I have as it’s just over 100 years old, circa 1922. It has my grandad as a 2 year old sitting on a tractor with his grandmother, does anyone have an older family photo?

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Well this is a bit of a turn up for the books, I have found that just about every compilation record that carries a well known name – such as Cocteau Twins, has been well documented and it’s pretty much impossible to discover something unknown that no collector, DJ, record dealer seems to not know something about, this was until last weekend. I did a clear out of my mum’s garage on Saturday to make up some boxes for a fair in Reading the following day. I came across an album I have no memory of ever having or even it’s origins so I did a bit of research to find out more. I found absolutely nothing. I’ve had a couple of 7″s for years that are still a mystery but this album (pictured below) was something quite different. The label, the bands compiled on it, Cocteau Twins alongside punk band Conflict was very odd to see, but I couldn’t find anything on Discogs etc so took it along to the fair and asked as many sellers as I could. I even bumped into Mark Lamarr who also drew a blank, none of the traders at the fair, some who » Continue Reading.

I’m not sure where I heard about this guy but I like his lounge lizard singing dictator shtick, especially as he uses audience participation well, “everyone put their hands up” always seemed so innocuous. I look forward to seeing his show at the Edinburgh Festival in the summer. Anyone here seen him/invaded his stage before?