Me every time I hear Hüsker Dü's cover of Eight Miles High. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBKy...

Went with Fargo as our post blow-out Christmas dinner film; Marge Gunderson embodying the hope for the future that we all need right now.

Saw Rear Window at the cinema last night. A film in which, let’s not forget, an ageing James Stewart is in a relationship with Grace Kelly - but thinks he can do better.

The Sparks Toppermost from @thecraigaustin.bsky.social www.toppermost.co.uk/sparks/

"The inaugural-ah / FIFA peace prize-ah!"

Jackie magazine hunks, 1974. Don’t worry, girls - they’re married.

@webuyrecords.bsky.social Dua Lipa album, sealed, and in a locked glass case in my local Cancer Research shop. Zoom in and you’ll note an actual Discogs price history attached to it. Textbook ‘the game’s gone’ stuff!

Remembering Malcolm McLaren’s genius turn on ‘The Baron’, one of television’s finest moments. The disparaging cockney voice you can hear at 00:15 is Mike Read’s. youtu.be/ovI-aMzOK14

Dear Auntie You will be surprised to hear that I am going to prison tomorrow.

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW! This month’s Electronic Sound explores the strange and unsettling world of COLD WAR ELECTRONICA and we have a superb 35-track double CD to accompany the mag. Tension! Anxiety! Paranoia! Doom! Gloom! It’s all here! Get your copy at electronicsound.squarespace.com/shop/magazine

Bought a record from a pop star at the Groovy Fayre on Saturday. Lawrence’s cheery ‘See you in prison, boys!!’ line reminded me of that time Lionel Blair bumped into The Clash in Glasgow.

Lorraine Kelly choosing Grace Jones’s ‘Warm Leatherette’ as one of her Desert Island Discs is a big moment for the transgressive pop music community.

Ryan seems sound.

David Speedie, recalling his relationship with ‘the alternative footballer’ Pat Nevin, when they played together at Chelsea.

One of the highlights of 168 Songs, @keithcameron2.bsky.social’s MSP book, is the reference to JDB having attended Hüsker Dü’s 1985 show at the Stow Hill Labour Club - Newport’s own ‘Free Trade Hall’ moment.

Hats off to @victoriasegal.bsky.social for sneaking an Earl Brutus quote into a TV review in The Sunday Times.

London’s only democratically elected freakbeat councillor and I are en route to the seaside to meet Brighton’s premier Cwmbran modernist. Feel free to join us in The Cricketers for counter-cultural tales of yore and in-depth discussion about Woodfall Film Productions.

Couture-loving psychobillies should head to Oxfam on Marylebone High Street for: * Two-piece Viv Westwood Suit * McQueen trousers * Near-mint vinyl copy of Stomping at the Klub Foot Vol. 2

The long 70s

Remember when Eddie Mair told Boris Johnson, quite calmly & entirely correctly, live on BBC 1, 'You're a nasty piece of work, aren't you?' Would be nice to see more of that spirit driving political interviews 12 yrs later. No shortage of nasty pieces of work in plain sight. Call them what they are.

Post an obscure album in your collection that you always think: ‘Surely nobody else has got this?’

trump booked himself a remote cabin with no devices and is going to have a proper go at middlemarch

Watched Jaws at the cinema last night. I’d encourage you to do the same, if only to remind yourself how TOTALLY MENSWEAR Chief Brody is. A man seemingly immune to the worst sartorial excesses of 1975.

What's a reasonable level of 'rain risk' when considering wearing a suede jacket? I'm going with '10% chance of precipitation', but all too aware that anything above 'zero' has disaster potential.

Take My Breath Away

If you can’t be arsed to watch that Led Zep doc on Sky, here’s the undoubted highlight.

Ronnie Spector wrote an afterword to her memoir a few months before she died in 2022. Re-read it today on her birthday, and enjoyed her valedictory payoff in this paragraph.

Hüsker Dü Toppermost from @thecraigaustin.bsky.social www.toppermost.co.uk/husker-du/

The next time I hear some rube slagging off London I’ll remind them that in the space of a week I’m getting to see My Beautiful Laundrette, Dog Day Afternoon, and The Friends of Eddie Coyle *at the cinema*. Take that, bumpkins!

‘But you use a Slazenger 7 Goldfinger, no?’

There’s a wealth of great mid-60s ‘Look at Life’ docs on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social. Special mentions go to ‘London Clubland’, ‘The Air Hostess’, and ‘Comprehensive Schools’.

Days of our lives (April ‘65)

The two things that made me want to move to London were Lloyd Johnson’s shop on the Kings Road and @bobpetesarah.bsky.social, so it’s sad to hear the news that The Et will soon be no more. Pop music changes lives for the better - all the rest is propaganda.

Sinners is an all-time horror (and film in general) great. If you're undecided on waiting for it to come to streaming, don't. Go and appreciate it on the big screen if you can, it's superb.

Liberty’s website certainly nails its class war colours to the mast.

France, the country of true justice

We both really like Europe.

Mick Ronson on E

Planning to frame this mid-70s jigsaw representation of a lost Europe. A typewriter and some smelting for East Germany, a sack of potatoes for Czechoslovakia.

A character in Anita Brookner’s ‘Undue Influence’ (1999) derides ‘young men with their shirts hanging out’. 1999 being the peak year for young men with their shirts hanging out.

So tucked away on #iplayer possibly not find unless actively searching. Cannot recommend this 1971 “Play for Today” by Dennis Potter enough. John Le Mesurier won the BAFTA “Best Television Actor” for this. If only know him from “Dad’s Army” worth hour of your time.. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Responses for all occasions #42: "We go from questioning the dry old man, to understanding the dry old man, to becoming the dry old man." Rest in power, Keith Brown.

Is @dominicnolan.bsky.social from Acton? I’d like to think so. This is from his excellent book White City, by the way.

Always fun to find a signed Ian Dury record.

Good morning to everyone except Martin Hodges

Marianne Faithfull was a towering artist, not just the muse she was painted as

Marianne was the coolest. Photo by David Redfern, 1975

#SaveThePCC Some of you may have read about the situation regarding our new landlord wishing to add a new redevelopment break clause, with only 6 months notice to our lease. For now, we're simply asking you all to share & sign the petition below; you.38degrees.org.uk/p/princechar...

Moving to London and discovering The Human League worked out pretty well for me too (though not in that order).

Just learnt that Byron's nickname for Wordsworth was "Turdsworth".