My copy arrived today – I should have filmed the ripping open of the Cherry Red envelope as some sort of unboxing moment, but I failed to anticipate the contents, so you’ve lost that pleasure. I ordered this aeons […]

St. Peter’s ordered in extra Guinness for the bar up there. Thanks Paddy; they’ll be out on the pavement at Molloy’s in Westport tonight.

Wow, a decent gig diary, and there’s the listing for the gig I saw: 4-Oct-74 – Exeter University, playing as the support band for Hudson Ford. Amazeballs!

Thanks Niall, I’ll be buying this one too.

That must have been the same tour that I saw – they played Exeter University at some point during my first year, which was 74/75. I remember enjoying them at the time, and being amused when they even explained […]

One Trick Pony – as a soundtrack of sorts, it’s outside the main run of solo albums, and an absolute pleasure to listen to.

Bingo’s tribute to the Rhythm album is also well judged. Coincidentally, the two vinyl […]

TBH you haven’t missed much. Worth a listen, but not a set I replay often.

The Pocket WOMAD tape is much more interesting:

A1 Orchestre Super Matimila– Nalilia Mwana
A2 Toumani Diabaté– Djata
A3 Asha Bhos […]

Wow, that’s a great link, thanks.

*rings estate agent, berates local emporia*

Top work Major @Twang. Correct use of nomenclature there. Good show, keep it up. We’ll have no snickering in this thread. Five rounds, rapid, to the first recalcitrant.

Did you know you can still get Old Jamaica, only if you order it online? Absolutely gorgeous. Otherwise it’s the 85% or 90% for me, especially since you can drop a gert slab of either stuff into a chilli along […]

That reminds me, must drop by the little shop in St. Nick’s Market that only sells chocolate……

Like a lot of people, I still have a couple of boxes full of cassettes I made as, er, *backups* when I could borrow vinyls from the public library. I’ve also got a stack of the freebie tapes that came with Select […]

I did a skinny-thin-cheapo-cassette-tape drop (like a needle drop, but from a NME compilation cassette) of the Smile Jamaica beanfeast.

A1 Lord Creator – Independent Jamaica
A2 Jimmy Cliff – […]

This one’s a little less flippant, and amply demonstrates that the band had chops:

Very much of its time, but still fun nonetheless:

The four double CD Haunted Year albums (Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter) on Cooking Vinyl – re-releases of fan club stuff originally on Haunted Valley – are stuffed with exceptional material. I think those are […]

Gosh, yes, Doll By Doll. I’d forgotten that they were my route into Jackiedom – I bought a copy of Grand Passion from a vinyl bargain bin, just on the strength of the lovely Klimt on the cover, Helen Turner’s […]

Cracking list. I’m encouraged to see how many of those I already have, and that there are a further load where I have at least one album from the same artist, but not the one they have included. In some cases I […]

I beg to differ. The last place I worked had a desk booking system (ignored by the entitled twats who think they own the place), every desk had the full complement of plug sockets, there were two (only half decent […]

Sorry to hear that the shipping industry is in a mess. But the shipping industry’s problems don’t translate to many other industries. If there is a structural problem with people deliberately making themselves […]