My two favourite shop names from wandering around London earlier….

The excellent and prolific @armstrong-wales.bsky.social We, on the other hand are still working on the difficult second album 😆 In the meantime, here are some pics of all of us plus the multi talented Spencer Segelov doing some live playing…

A few days in London on a cultural visit. Went to view the Bowie archive at the V&A Storeroom, the Blitz exhibition at the Design Museum and the theatre to see The Book of Mormon! Even managed to pop into a record shop and find an original Cassius Clay 7” in the cheap rack!

The exclusive Country Mile Records compilation CD that Fruits de Mer Records club regulars will get if they order all three of our March releases includes this excellent track by The Ash And The Oak... www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsEK... full details at www.fruitsdemerrecords.com/country.html

The exclusive Country Mile Records compilation CD that Fruits de Mer Records club regulars will get if they order all three of our March releases includes gems such as this... www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGWg... full details at www.fruitsdemerrecords.com/country.html

40 years ago today I went to see the Red Wedge tour play St David’s Hall in Cardiff. Still got the T Shirt & programme!

THIS IS THE RIGHT TIME by ARMSTRONG... a brand new digital single for 2026 recorded today available on Bandcamp. If you like Aztec Camera, Lemonheads, Bluebells, Buffalo Tom, Smiths, Pale Fountains vibes @wallytbm.bsky.social @countrymile.bsky.social armstrong2.bandcamp.com/track/this-i...

A brilliant, packed, hot & sweaty gig by @theedarlingbuds.bsky.social supported by @keeleysound.bsky.social in @bunkhouseswansea.bsky.social tonight. The Buds get better each time I see them and the new songs are sounding huge!

The link to order The Grief Brothers album “35 Years On Woodfield Street” on vinyl (out 9th Feb) is now live on Last Night From Glasgow….. shop.lastnightfromglasgow.com/products/the...

New release! - Record Collector magazine have just Tweeted the news that we are releasing The Grief Brothers album on vinyl next month! Very limited edition on grey vinyl! Order a copy for Valentines Day from your local independent record shop or @lnfg.bsky.social

WHEELS OF MY TOWN demo - ARMSTRONG influences- Gilbert O'Sullivan, Paul McCartney, Zombies, TV Music-Mr Men & Mr Benn. Just piano, sadly I deleted recording but will be better production on next Armstrong album #gilbertosullivan #paulmccartney #beatles @wallytbm.bsky.social @countrymile.bsky.social

Order a bundle of the excellent new releases on Fruits Dw Mer Records and get a compilation CD of our releases for free!

❗Fri., Feb. 27 at Comet❗ The Paranoid Style ➕ Dot Dash tix/info: calendar.rediscoverfirebooking.com/shows/the-paranoid-style-dot-dash-27-feb @paranoiacs.bsky.social @dotdashdc.bsky.social @rediscoverfire.bsky.social @barnonerecords.bsky.social @wallytbm.bsky.social @countrymile.bsky.social

A compilation CD of various of our releases is available free when you buy the latest release bundle on the fantastic Fruits De Mer label!

Second gig of 2026 sees us in the Patti Pavilion in Swansea for the first time in 20 years to see From The Jam supported by Ruts DC….

First gig of 2026 tonight with the brilliant @keeleysound.bsky.social at @lepub.bsky.social ! Respect for able support from @shounshounuk.bsky.social

Thanks to everyone who supported us through 2025! Two lathe 7” singles and one CD album that received some amazing feedback! A few copies of The Sun Kings 7” & album and the Coastal Ghost 7” are still on Bandcamp! countrymilerecords.bandcamp.com/artists

🔴🟡🔵➕📢 dot dash, 'the color & the sound' + Yo La Tengo, Go-Betweens, Buzzcocks, ♾️ ➡️ open.spotify.com/playlist/0LKau5pLTrNR8EUfq9d1PG @onrepeatrecords.bsky.social @wallytbm.bsky.social @countrymile.bsky.social

Some rough live mixes, BBC radio 1 and radio 4 excerpts and studio single / unreleased recordings archive of ARMSTRONG 1996-98 "popumentary" FREE album THE EARLY BAND YEARS compilation on BANDCAMP here ... @countrymile.bsky.social @wallytbm.bsky.social armstrong2.bandcamp.com/album/armstr...

Great single and album! Look forward to seeing you live in 2026!!

Let me take this opportunity to say that This Is My Street is still available digitally on Bandcamp for a very reasonable price... daytriprecords.bandcamp.com/album/this-i...

Many thanks to this years Vinyl Santa. It always amazes me when people find records I do not have and with the “This Is My Street” album, I have been looking for a copy for ages! Happy Christmas all! #VinylSanta

Postie passed me the last delivery before Xmas so I have some top new @spinoutnuggets.bsky.social 7”s to spin while I wrap the pressies… cheers Lee and Happy Xmas all ahead of Vinyl Santa at 7pm… 🎅🏻

Excellent of live music night in @lepub.bsky.social with @burningferns.bsky.social supported by a solo Joyce and Pub Quiz! Thanks to all who came down and bought loads of T Shirts and LPs!

I also still buy a lot of singles so have made a Top 50 list of my favourite physical single releases of 2025. (NB The Number 1 and 2 singles are from my label but I love them and I’m biased!) countrymilerecords.wordpress.com/best-singles...

Here’s my Top 50 Albums of 2025 list. There were dozens of other great albums bubbling under in what has been a great year for new music… Top of the tree for me this year is the fantastic Brian Bilston & Catenary Wires album which was fab live too countrymilerecords.wordpress.com/best-albums-...

Great to get the reissue of the classic Bob compilation “Swag Sack” now with extra tracks and new liner notes from @johnynocash.bsky.social. Here it the LP with its older brother….

📺 throwback vid ⚪ 🔵 🟢 @wallytbm.bsky.social @countrymile.bsky.social @jlenahan.bsky.social

Great to see Shack live at The Fleece in Bristol tonight. Top tunes and fantastic playing by Michael and the band! How “Comedy” wasn’t a massive worldwide hit is a total mystery!

🌪️⚡☔ @wallytbm.bsky.social @countrymile.bsky.social

As it’s Bandcamp Friday (unless you didn’t know!) why not buy one of the last remaining copies of our recent Coastal Ghost “Nightwalker” lathe 7” singles that received a 5* review in Shindig magazine! coastalghost-uk.bandcamp.com/album/nightw...

The story of the infamous Stone Roses gig including the image of my ticket from that fateful night!

Three weeks today is Christmas Day and postie just delivered my first pressie (from myself) - the Swansea Sound “All Is Calm” LP! It comes complete with branded balloons, hat, Xmas card and some Welsh music related crackers jokes including one for Newports finest! Get yours at @skepwax.bsky.social!

30 years ago tonight The Stone Roses played Newport. It didn’t end well! The band were known in town from going to TJs while recording at Rockfield and John Squire even used the cherub off of Newport Bridge for the cover of “Love Spreads” but Ian mistakenly put on a Cardiff FC shirt & chaos ensued!

Enjoyable evening in Cardiff seeing Divorce tonight with superb support by young Scottish band Curiosity Shop (whose accordion player joined Divorce for their Xmas song!)

Today in 1982 I saw The Jam play one of their last ever gigs…. in Port Talbot!

From two years ago: Wrote about records from Neighboring Sounds, Dot Dash, Flat Mary Road, and Colt Wave:

To celebrate 49 years to the day since the classic Pistols single was released, I booked tickets to see them play live in Cardiff next summer as I didn’t see them back then….

That was fun! the (mini) Mekons and Jon Langfords Men of Gwent playing on a ship motored on the Thames! Susie from The Mekons joined Men of Gwent for one number and they returned the favour by joking The Mekons for a few too! Good fun (even if everyone bumped their heads on low beams!).

One of the most unusual venues I have ever been to! Jon Langfords Men of Gwent are supporting the mini-Mekons here for two shows, one at 5pm and one at 7:30pm….. I may borrow the ship to get home and moor it on the Usk!

Music brings people together as well as entertaining them so it was so great to meet people who made the journey from Austria to Newport to see Jon Langford & The Men of Gwent playing a church in Newport this evening!

Totally bonkers but highly entertaining evening in @lepub.bsky.social with Mik Artistiks Ego Trip supported by local heroes, Fnools!

Just heard the sad news. RIP Mani.

Top evening of entertainment in Swansea tonight with Catenary Wires (acoustic duo), Brian Bilston (solo poetry) and then Brian & The Catenary Wires (full electric band) playing tracks from their brilliant album “Sounds Made By Humans”. See them if you get the opportunity, it’s such a great show!

As it’s a week since this months Shindig magazine was published with our Coastal Ghost “Nightwalker” single getting a 5* review, here it is again! Last few lathe 7” vinyl records on Bandcamp… coastalghost-uk.bandcamp.com/album/nightw...

Odd charity shop finds #1043… a 7” single on a German label from 1976 by a band called “Newport” (who seem to actually be from Cardiff) found in a charity shop in Newport! Love that they have the Newport coat of arms featuring the cherub used by the Stone Roses on their sweatshirts!

If you fancy seeing the brilliant Brian Bilston & The Catenary Wires play in Swansea tomorrow night for a few quid less than face value we have two tickets up on @twickets.bsky.social as our friends have been taken ill…. www.swanseagrand.co.uk/BrianBilston...

Hello, here are most of the artists playing WGP 2026! No clashes! HEAVENLY, PROLAPSE EVEN AS WE SPEAK, BRITISH BIRDS STUART MOXHAM, RACHEL LOVE SWANSEA SOUND, LANDE HEKT THE CORDS, THE BOOJUMS YNYS, LILITH AI, THE SCHOOL... 👇

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In case you missed our post earlier this morning….!