It's nineteen hundred seventy seven Whole country is doing a fix It's doomsday, doomsday 28 December 1977

Good morning #WeekendSingles people Thanks to Father Christmas I now have all three of the Ashes To Ashes picture sleeve variations (and one in a company sleeve)

Christmas additions to the reading pile

Good King Wenceslas looked out Silly bugger he fell out Happy Saint Stephen's Day and #FallFriday m.youtube.com/watch?v=z6oF...

West End lights 📸 Bob Hyde (1960s)

Christmas NME 1985

Former Pop Group frontman Mark Stewart’s posthumous solo LP; probably his most accessible, it melds dub, punk and haunting ballads. #5albums25

David Bowie on Broadway as John Merrick in The Elephant Man December 1980 📸 Susan Cook

Debut album by Sheffield’s James Leesley aka Studio Electrophonique; for fans of Bill Ryder-Jones and the third Velvet Underground LP #5albums25

Good morning #WeekendSingles people No Christmas records just cover versions

Purple in its glowingness Golden roasting in its duly knowing #FallFriday m.youtube.com/watch?v=TNkQ...

White Stuff fanzine Christmas 1977

Well I was stone and he was wax So he could scream and still relax Unbelievable 17.12.71

Last night’s film: a gothic treat from Guillermo del Toro

Zigzag magazine December 1985

Blitz club extras on the beach at Pett Level near Hastings during the filming of the video for David Bowie’s Ashes to Ashes

Good morning #WeekendSingles people Some more recent Bowie finds

The killing clowns the blood money men Are shooting those Washington bullets again 12.12.80

11 December 1977 Croyden (sic) Greyhound The only time I saw The Jam live

Wire on Wednesday

Low tide

These New Puritans 📸 Hedi Slimane

Good morning #WeekendSingles people Here’s my favourite LP of 2025 for the #AlbumAlmanac

Good morning #WeekendSingles people Here’s some of my favourite 2025 LPs for the #AlbumAlmanac

Do The Strand www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

I remember when we used to sit In the government yard in Trenchtown 5 December 1975

Jonathan Richman Mariposa Folk Festival 1990

Holly blue

In the café

Ah, but remember that the city is a funny place Something like a circus or a sewer December 1975

Ian McCulloch Liverpool Cathedral 1983 📸 Kevin Cummins

November sky

Good morning #WeekendSingles people Yesterday’s finds at Wow and Flutter in Hastings

They always say it comes in three and fours And that it never rains it just pours #FallFriday m.youtube.com/watch?v=C3xP...

OMD day

John Cale and Lou Reed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in November 1989 📸 Patrick McMullan

Current reading; can be expensive to buy but, as usual, the library came up with the goods.

I'll burn my fingers, burn my toes Burn my uncle, burn his books November 1974

Augustus Pablo on stage at the London Astoria in November 1987 📸 David Corio

A couple of cool t-shirts arrived today from @gailmyerscough.co.uk Her designs are so creative - it’s good to shop independently!

Good morning A monochrome set for #WeekendSingles

I'm becoming everything I used to hate But I can't go back there Grotesque: 45 years old this week #FallFriday m.youtube.com/watch?v=43QU...

Coffee, cake, sun and sea.

Jim and William in their winter coats

Sometimes I walk sideways To avoid you When I've annoyed you 18 November 1985

Eno at home 📸 Erica Echenberg

NME 16 November 1985

Good morning #WeekendSingles people Yesterday’s finds at Not Just A Record Shop in Eastbourne

Eno: Another Green World 50 years old today

This is the modern world