12 Songs Of Xmas, No. 6: Bullets For Brains by Roland Orzabal, this superb song from his 2001 solo album. Highly recommended!

12 Songs Of Xmas, No. 5: Mike Oldfield, Moonlight Shadow. In this video they're playing inside a mansion of some kind...

12 Songs Of Xmas, No. 4: Up, Up And Away, The Fifth Dimension. The genius of Jimmy Webb married to the unique Fifth Dimension. It doesn't get any better!

12 Songs Of Xmas, No. 3: Can You Dig It? The Mock Turtles. A bona fide classic from the era when British music inspired the world again. Always loved this song!

A good read.

I've just been told it's mince pie o'clock.

Thought for today.

#photography #EmbraceTheRandom.

12 Songs Of Xmas, No. 2: A Design For Life, Manic Street Preachers. Could hardly be more epic! And that amazing opening line... "Libraries gave us power..."

Merry Green Manmass to all my followers! 🎄

Suffragette Christmas card from the Women's Social and Political Union, 1909. UK.#Womensart

12 Songs Of Xmas, No. 1: Renaissance, 'Ocean Gypsy.' I'm sharing twelve marvellous songs this holiday; some classics, some that I've been thinking about during the year...

Tree. #photography #EmbraceTheRandom.

Today I have been mostly smashing it up 😁

#prog #progrock #progressiverock #music #musicbooks #authors

Stop Sonicbond.

Sonicbond Publishing have in recent years ripped off me and at least a dozen other music book authors. No sales figures or royalties. Today I've begun a coordinating group. If you know any Sonicbond authors who have also been ripped off, please ask them to get in touch. #progrock #progressiverock.

A film for the winter solstice, music from my solo catalogue. #Yule #solstice #midwinter.

Another winter solstice song from my group Mooch, sung by Beck Sian. #Yule #midwinter #solstice.

Merry Yule! Music here from my group Mooch, sung by Beck Sian. #Yule #solstice #midwinter.

Merry Yule! Music here from my group Mooch. #solstice #Yule #midwinter.

Red sky in the morning, shepherd's warning... #photography.

A charming #Egyptian figurine of a hedgehog, made of faience, dating ca 1900 BC, from Thebes, #Egypt. The Egyptians associated hedgehogs with rebirth. On display at Neues Museum Berlin 📷 me 🏺

Today's book signing in Ludlow. #punk #punks #punkrock #punkrockhistory #punkrockmusic #streetpunk #punksnotdead.

(Laura).

Today at the Malvern Book Cooperative. #punk #punks #punkrock #punkrockhistory #punkrockmusic #streetpunk #punksnotdead.

Fab!

It's Bandcamp Friday... #Moog.

THIS. THIS. THIS.

Malvern Book Cooperative, talk & book signing with me, Saturday, 11am to 1pm. Come on down! #punk #punks #punkrock #punkrockhistory #punkrockmusic #streetpunk #punksnotdead.

#NowPlaying. Little-known 1970s prog classic. Great multi-harmony vocals.

49 years ago today. Momentous! #punk #punks #punkrock #punkrockhistory #punkrockmusic #streetpunk #punksnotdead.

Just ace!

Really enjoying the new Charlatans album! #TheCharlatans.

#photography #EmbraceTheRandom.

Cal Lane, Canadian trained welder and metal artist, transforms common tools and also industrial steel products into intricate sculptures #WomensArt

#photography #EmbraceTheRandom.

#photography #EmbraceTheRandom.

#photography #EmbraceTheRandom.

Thursday evening: Play On, at Substack. Free to subscribe!

Really sad news.

Preparing for tonight's talk/chat/reading at Spin The Black Circle in Worcester. #punk #punks #punkrock #punkrockhistory #punkrockmusic #streetpunk #punksnotdead.

Worcester, Thursday, 7.30pm. #punk #punks #punkrock #punkrockhistory #punkrockmusic #streetpunk #punksnotdead

How delightfully quaint some of these old Devon village names are, their etymologies lost in the mists of time.

Worcester's Spin The Black Circle, Thursday 20th November, 7.30pm. Come along if you're local. Reading, talk, Q&A. See ya there!

Welcome to my recent new followers. I'm in between books at the moment, promoting the punk book, editing the Pink Floyd book, and pondering the Genesis book. If you're in the vicinity of Worcester, Malvern or Ludlow, I'll be doing a few PAs soon. Come along & say hi!

#photography #EmbraceTheRandom.

#photography #EmbraceTheRandom.

#NowPlaying.

#photography #EmbraceTheRandom. In the car, 4/4.