I know Genesis aren’t very hip but I do like their 1973/4 output. To claw back some street cred, a Blue Nile 45 too! 😉 #weekendsingles

What’s the best posthumous album? Two of mine here #JudeeSill #LauraNyro

What’s the best posthumous album? Two of mine here #JudeeSill #LauraNyro

Godspeed to Danny Thompson. He added so much grace, beauty and guile to so many outstanding pieces of music (you could live a pretty nourishing musical life listening solely to the records he contributed to.) And an unfailingly entertaining and soulful conversationalist. One of the greats 💛

Bit of a theme/connection here! #weekendsingles

"In their bright frocks, chunky monkey boots and boyish haircuts, the vivacious postpunk hopefuls Dolly Mixture were hard to miss around town in late-70s Cambridge" @covers.bsky.social reviews @debseyonbass.bsky.social ... @newmodernbooks.bsky.social www.toppermost.co.uk

"In their bright frocks, chunky monkey boots and boyish haircuts, the vivacious postpunk hopefuls Dolly Mixture were hard to miss around town in late-70s Cambridge." In this week’s Book Choice on Toppermost @covers.bsky.social reviews Debsey Wykes’ memoir ‘Teenage Daydream’. www.toppermost.co.uk

Will have to get me lugs around it. Another one of my favourite Prefab songs is Billy from Crimson/Red - ‘Trumpets come, trumpets go It's amazing what gets left out in the snow’ …amazing.

One from me for #weekendsingles - I have two copies of Shipbuilding- red and green labels. The sleeves unfold and join together to make one long Stanley Spencer frieze!

In the world of #Pointless the top five UK singles by the Beatles (ignoring reissues & EPs) are: Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978) Back in the USSR (1976) Movie Medley (1982) Baby It’s You (1995) Yesterday (1976)

Happy birthday Barry Andrews. Here’s the wonderful Rossmore Road. One of those overlooked songs with “London” titles. youtu.be/7helGibteIM?...

In the world of #Pointless the top six UK 70s singles by David Bowie are: Holy Holy (1971) Memories of a Free Festival pt 1 (1970) Prettiest Star (1970) Be My Wife (1977) Beauty and the Beast (1978) TVC15 (1976)

It’s either ‘shrank’ or ‘has shrunk’. BBC journalists raised on Honey I Shrunk the Kids. I suppose 😕 #pedantic

Hogarth’s World. 1974. Hipgnosis were busy, I assume.

Stewart Copeland hits out at punk, February 1977.

Strange cloud in the Norfolk sky today. Looked like a ski slope!

That’s a 70s Asda price sticker on a US import. Does anyone remember Asda selling records? And imports?

Hogarth’s World. 1974. Hipgnosis were busy, I assume.

Ed Sullivan, a very young Scott Walker, and Liberace, 1950s.

“Before we send this to the printer, shouldn’t we have it proofread?” “Nah, it’ll be fine.”

King of America is top 5 Elvis Costello for me, so very happy to find the 2LP version from 1995 recently, which includes a disc of live and bonus tracks unavailable on vinyl elsewhere. 🙂

King of America is top 5 Elvis Costello for me, so very happy to find the 2LP version from 1995 recently, which includes a disc of live and bonus tracks unavailable on vinyl elsewhere. 🙂

The Pogues at the Bull & Gate, September 1983. I saw them the following month at the Hope & Anchor and can attest to the amount of booze that flowed.

Favourite summer movie. Sharp, funny, romantic, nostalgic.

Ormonde Terrace, overlooking Regent's Park, where Scott Walker lived circa 1966/67 (with Keith Moon as a neighbour) and the likely inspiration for Montague Terrace on his first solo album.

Stewart Copeland knows which side he’s on in the Punk v. Prog wars, February 1977.

“Veteran” singer releases new single, 1984. Scott Walker had just turned 41.

Kirkaldy’s Testing and Experimenting Works

Kirkaldy’s Testing and Experimenting Works

Ormonde Terrace, overlooking Regent's Park, where Scott Walker lived circa 1966/67 (with Keith Moon as a neighbour) and the likely inspiration for Montague Terrace on his first solo album.

Love this prediction from 1972. Is there an Alice Cooper High School yet?

Yesterday (1976), Back in the USSR (1976) and Sgt Pepper (1978). Probably pointless answers if “Name an official UK Beatles single” were a question on Pointless.

Nice find. Signed too. I’ve been after a copy of this Laura Nyro biog for a while, too.

@scribblerrob.bsky.social any clues here? Why 117 Blinco Grove? Near R Waters’ mum!

Laura Nyro singing Wedding Bell Blues, from Musical Architecture. I’d love to see the full thing, but no idea where it’s from originally. youtube.com/clip/UgkxBUV...

Favourite summer movie. Sharp, funny, romantic, nostalgic.

“Was a hot afternoon, the last day of June, and the sun was a demon…” fun fact- the woman in Summer (The First Time) would be 93 now. youtu.be/87ruZX5JdCk?...

Who remembers buying bootleg tapes of gigs from London markets like Portobello and Camden?

Man and horse. Pompeii. Over 2000 years ago.

Back from the record fair with this beauty. Lynn Castle was a protégée of Lee Hazlewood. If you don’t know, listen here m.youtube.com/watch?v=1U6_...

Nice find in Oxfam. First edition of Michele Kort’s Laura Nyro biog. Signed too 😃 #LauraNyro

Chicory Tip raid the dressing-up box, 1973

Early call for punk albums (presumably 60s garage), by Rock On records, Soho, April 1975

“Veteran” singer releases new single, 1984. Scott Walker had just turned 41.

Delighted to pick up a near mint Climate of Hunter, still in its shrink wrap (although not sealed). Completes my Scott Walker original vinyl. Is that the remnants of a Virgin price sticker from 1984?

Delighted to pick up a near mint Climate of Hunter, still in its shrink wrap (although not sealed). Completes my Scott Walker original vinyl. Is that the remnants of a Virgin price sticker from 1984?