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12 Hour mix of The Fall

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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.

Feelin’ 1979

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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.

Mystery Cardboard Box

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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!

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Recent Vinyl Finds

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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.

Voice of The Chief 78rpm

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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

Folk In Hell

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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.

Feelin’ 1975 mix

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I have enjoyed doing 6 other 70’s mixes and today my latest one is out. I am kinda nervy of doing 1977 and 1979 as they were both such amazing musical years (for me) so I’m leaving them until last. The one from 1972 was great fun to do as I started digging and found nothing but incredible funk and soul music from that year so may do a more rock orientated one in the future, Roxy, Bowie etc. This one has nods to several genres and most of the tracks are linked with samples from TV, film, adverts etc from that year, it was great fun to do and I share it here in the hope you will dig it too!

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Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel : Introducing ‘The Best Years’ Pete Wingfield : Eighteen With A Bullet Parliament : Give Up The Funk (Tear The Roof Off The Sucker) Wild Cherry : Play That Funky Music Wings : Medicine Jar Nazareth : Hair of The Dog Queen : Death On Two Legs (Dedicated To…) Alice Cooper : Only Women Bleed Hatfield & The North : Fitter Stoke Has A Bath Robert Wyatt : Solar Flares Camel : » Continue Reading.

Remembering Live 8

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It’s 19 years since what turned out (to me) to be a very disappointing and incredibly long day. Although it was to be Pink Floyd’s last gig I came away exhausted and a bit cross that it was all such a major faff. The food & drink were super expensive and the music on the day was meh, at best! The only thing I can’t moan about though was that the tickets were free as I won them in the national raffle – the only way to get them at the time (unless you were friends with any of the bands) which I’m not. I can’t think of a single band who were worth watching and it was a varied and popular mix of old and new artists. No alcohol was allowed in so the only drink was over-priced soft drinks and I hardly smelt any dope wafting around, it was like an over cultured Glastonbury minus the fun. A huge cordon around the main stage kept the hoi-polloi at bay – but I noticed THEY had booze in their special circle, bastards! Did anyone here go? Was it really as » Continue Reading.

Take The Floor

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literally! The floorboards from Syd’s flat and as featured on the cover of The Madcap Laughs come up for auction, so tempting…

https://bid.omegaauctions.co.uk/auction/lot/lot-293—pink-floydsyd-barrett-interest—the-original-painted-wooden-floorboards-from-madcap-laughs-album-cover/?lot=55480

Malcolm Middleton

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I am sure you know he’s great and he really is a lovely chap to boot. The Arab Strapper was kind enough to record 4 songs in session for my show and in a shameless act of publicity I wanted to share them here, so I hope you enjoy! x

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JOHNNO CASSON AKA SNIPPET : Hi There UKULELE ORCHESTRA OF GREAT BRITAIN : Leaning On A Lampost MALCOLM MIDDLETON : Week Off JOHN MATTHAIS : Evermore DAVID CRONENBURGS WIFE : My Best Friend’s Going Out With A Girl I Like JOHN SIMON : The Wabe MALCOLM MIDDLETON : Total Belief HAYMAN, WATKINS, TROUT & LEE : Beulah Crossing The Marshes DAVID PEEL : Up Against The Wall THE BREEDERS : I Can’t Help It MALCOLM MIDDLETON : Autumn ISOBEL CAMPBELL & MARK LANEGAN : Shotgun Blues BON IVER : Re: Stacks THE BOATS : It’s Not Your Fault DAVID KARSTEN DANIELS : Evensong MALCOLM MIDDLETON : Blue Plastic Bags BILL WELLS vs FUTURE PILOT A.K.A : Requiem Pour Un Con MASTER GRIME : Window Shopping

Let’s Hear It For The Kids!

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I’m just posting a shameless plug for my lad and his mates film & music projects here as they are going in the right direction and I reckon they deserve the promotion. My son has been making short films since he was about 8 years old and has carried on with his singular vision into his late teens now and I’ve no doubt he’ll keep at it as he loves doing it his way. The shorts from the past few years have been pretty dark at times, dealing with drugs, sexual abuse and violence but his most recent one is also pretty grim but has a lightness that he hasn’t shown before. Titled ‘The Last Time I Saw Annie’ I post it in this thread as it only went online a couple of days ago and he has had more hits on it than any of his previous short films. Also 2 of the stars in it who are in a local Dundee metal band, as singer/drummer, released their debut EP on Bandcamp only yesterday so as mates they are all on a bit of a roll. I hope you enjoy either the film or the music, am happy to » Continue Reading.

R.I.P. Anthony Dolphin

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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.

Stickers On Record Sleeves

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Further I comment I made in another thread, I thought I’d post up some of my more interesting (hopefully not just to me, haha) record sleeves that have special stickers on the front. I’ve found it’s most often the initial pressings that will have these special additions, sometimes making them much rarer records as a result, but often they seemed to have been added either as a marketing tool or just for fans amusement. Anyway, I have quite a lot of these and so will share some of my favourites, I’d be interested to see any others you may have too of course.

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Can I Retire Now?

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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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R.I.P. Roy Cross

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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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78rpm Finds

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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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Oldest Family Photo

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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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It’s a Mystery – sleeve

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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.

78’s Box

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I was so tempted by this old 78’s record box at the car boot this morning but it was too pricey for me. The discs in sleeves flipped out at a 45 degree angle but it only held 12″ discs and I have mostly 10″ ones. I’ve never seen one like this before and I’ve collected 78’s for decades and it was in really lovely condition, possibly 1930’s.

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Frank Sanazi

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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?

World’s Oldest Football Record

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Hi, I am a first time poster but a long time record collector and thought I would kick off my account on TAW with a question. Does anyone here have an older football (soccer) related record? The reason I ask is because I would love to know if one exists older than the one I found a few years ago and just showing the disc here may interest other collectors to get in touch. I found it in an auction lot a couple of years ago and it dates from 1907. The audio on the link is an Englishman doing the commentary on a Scottish match on a one sided 78 that was reproduced in German 115 years ago! Curious facts include Celtic referred to as The Celts on the label and that radio football commentary didn’t start until 20 years later. I hope someone has a similar old football related record and even though I have quite a few I am always pleased to see others I don’t have.

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