Here early for #Rialto. Euro-cinema indie-pop. Should have been a lot bigger. Well, they ticked my boxes at the time.

#Rialto and #Sleeper tonight at the Electric Ballroom. To be honest I'd have gone to see either one of them so both on the same night is a bit of a treat. Also #Gene on Saturday! 😁

New Cœur De Pirate album 'Cavale' is out on Friday 🥰 Not available in the UK 🙁 You can order it from the Bravo web site where there is an édition spéciale Européenne 🥰 Cost including postage is £34 🙁 But l’édition spéciale Canadienne is £22 including postage 🥰 Vive le Canada 🍁

"Put your hands together for French-Canadian superstar Coeur De Pirate!" She's not playing a UK gig next year so I'm paying a stupid amount of money to see her in Amsterdam in March! 🤣 youtu.be/O3x7zZu0ZZI?...

It's the little hop at the end of this video that gets me every time! 😉 #ZooeyDeschanel #SheAndHim youtu.be/pZ3cTwI9bIw?...

Even if she wasn't playing guitar this would be my favourite cover of this song... but she's also playing the guitar. WOW!!! youtu.be/ZOG3lUM2ZtY?...

I love Spinal Tap and the BBC4 Brian Pern mockumentaries but nothing has surpassed this! #TheRutles youtu.be/sEwySvgfwLE?...

#Strictly My annual music zeitgeist top up. 😉 H.O.T.T.O.G.O.

Is it just me who's ordered Zaz - 'Sains et Saufs' from France to get the Collectors' edition 😁

Here we are destroying our last song "Please Mister" at Balstock Music Festival last weekend, thanks to Lee for the clip. Can you count how many pedals Simon turns on and off?

As today is International Talk Like A Pirate Day, I will mostly be doing a French-Canadian accent 😉 @beatricepirate.bsky.social

This is so good. It's being repeated again tonight on #BBC2 at 2330. #Twiggy #iPlayer www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Watching old Monkees on Rewind. There's an interview about the 1966 Sunset Strip Riots! The political stuff went way over my head when I was younger. "The reason I haven't spoken all this time is because it doesn't matter what I say. No-one will listen to me because I'm under 21." - Davy Jones

#TheMoreYouKnow Watching an episode of The Monkees. The address they've given as theirs in an episode, 1438 North Beachwood, is a real location… it's of the studios it was filmed in. 🤣 It's also where Judge Judy was filmed.

Ooh. Going through old PVR recordings and in my 2017 recording of the defunct Vintage TV channel's programme "A Ghouls Best Friend" there's the video of The Bolshoi's 'Away'! 🥰 Other good stuff in it including Love and Rockets 'So Alive', Killing Joke 'Kings and Queens' and the Neph's 'Blue Water'.

Just musing. Bands I've seen multiple times without necessarily being a fan: Biffy Clyro; Enter Shikari; Frank Turner; You Me At Six Mostly because of Reading Festival. I should perhaps add that I don't dislike any of them, just that I wouldn't have bought a ticket specifically to see them.

Not my thing but, for those for whom it is, @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social is broadcasting the Cream Farewell Concert on Sunday 14th September at 9:45pm.

For a friend. 20 years have gone so fast. youtu.be/22dvKCjsIkY?...

Day 3: Might watch Chappell Roan again on iPlayer 😁

I think I've watched more BBC Proms this year than any year since I was a kid! Great music is great music regardless of genre. 😉

24th August. If you can please think about a donation. You can Gift Aid it. www.justgiving.com/charity/thes...

Didn't take a camera this year but a few phone snaps from Reading Festival on Friday. #TheRoystonClub #BlockParty #LindaLindas #ChappellRoan #ReadingFestival

One thing I’ve learned from decades of gigs and festivals is that no-one outside a small circle wants to hear about great shows you’ve been to. But it’s 24 hours later and it’s still woah, Chappell Roan 🥰

Chappell Roan was so ••••ing good. 🥰 #readingfestival

#thelindalindas 🥰 #readingfestival

Festival Republic stage. Snayx 😁 #readingfestival

We all like @blocparty.com don’t we folks 😁 #readingfestival

The Royston Club are good. #ReadingFestival

This will be my 18th Reading Festival. My first was in 1987. It's always been my favourite because you go to it to see bands not for the "vibe" 🥰 I will be seeing The Linda Lindas!

Casablanca is probably the most perfect film ever made*. 😱😭🥰 *And I say that as a "Les Parapluies de Cherbourg" stan. 😉

Not going to lie. "Let Me Entertain You" by Robbie Williams is fantastic! #TOTP #TOTP98

35 years ago, and to this day, I still don’t remember how I got back home afterwards 😂 #TheCure #AllAboutEve #James #Lush

Change of pace. I'm going to watch last night's Dvorak's New World Symphony from BBC Proms now. (Tip... you need to skip the first hour of the programme 😉)

Weird how memory works. "This is Hardcore" on #TOTP98 made me remember I saw #Pulp at Birmingham Academy in 2001. A gig I'd completely forgotten about and hadn't put into setlist.fm. I know there are many many more I can't remember.

This is on my list of songs that I can just put on repeat and play for an hour 🥰 It's the little hop at the end of the video that gets me every time! 😉 #SHEANDHIM youtu.be/pZ3cTwI9bIw?...

My PVR has a buffer in which I save favourite songs I've recorded off TV in. This is the first, which I saved on 9/9/2016. 🥰 #SandieShaw youtu.be/wHVCre_2H70?...

There are very few bands as consistently good as Ash. Another cracker.

Watching ELO at the BBC has reminded me that Oasis are only the second best Beatles' tribute band 😉

Still bloody love this song 44 years later. Fatal Charm - Paris (This was my Eurostar advert/mix attempt from a few years back.) youtu.be/NCz6l9cBUoQ

😂 #OTD has reminded me that 10 years ago I went to Montauk, and other "Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind" filming locations in NYC. (The second picture is where the "Are we the dining dead" scene was filmed 😉)

Also, did you know we have an official YouTube channel? youtube.com/@whitelandsb...

Wimbledon and the Women's Euros is taking up all my viewing hours right now... but I am recording all the Blondie programmes on BBC4 tonight for later watching!

Bangles - Hazy Shade of Winter One of the few songs that nailed the right amount of cowbell 😁 youtu.be/TxrwImCJCqk?...

My 16th favourite single of 1981. Still love it. 🥰 #FatalCharm "Paris" youtu.be/tHAhrpItp4I?...

"In A Lonely Place" is on at 2pm. No not the Joy Division/New Order song, the Bogie film noir. Talking Pictures TV Freeview channel 82.

The 2009 #BBC serial version of #Emma is really good isn't it! #JaneAusten

It's summer! Joyeuse Vie ! - Brice Davoli, Delphine Joutard youtu.be/XO1vFXIxPTM?...

This is probably the best Girls At Our Best fan video out there. Footage from "Funeral Parade of Roses" (1969) (Sadly the Lazy Town mash up has been removed from the interwebs but that was also good.) youtu.be/650Mag3CmP8?...

"…and so is Wincey Willis." youtu.be/-692SSSy2ZE?...