This Bowie doc is a bit all over the shop

This will be tough….Fortunately, as well as some classic debut albums, a few of my my favourites released average records straight out the traps before they really got going…which eases it a little. Only a little mind! #5DebutAlbums9095

#NowPlaying #Someone’sKnocking #Homicide5-AsidePesticide

Somehow managed to repeatedly miss this when it’s been on before. Wonderfully atmospheric, and the twist is brilliant.

Memory Almost Full Ram Chaos & Creation In The Backyard

Perfect listening to accompany present wrapping.

Nice reminder of last week. Black & White was incredible. John’s songs on this are brilliant. Saw them three times on the Miles&Gil tour…can’t believe nearly 20 years ago..

Shack on imperious form tonight. Gig of the year for me. John’s guitar loud in the mix. Perfection.

Music confession: I spent years thinking that "Peel session" was some kind of British music industry term. Like a special category of stripped-down studio recording But no, fellow Americans: It turns out there's just this one guy named Peel, and those were his sessions....

Bit late getting to this one….great record. Best since Van Occupanther? 🧐

Two hometown Shack gigs in a year…not long to wait now

Never was a truer word spoken.

"Teenage Wasteland" is maybe the best two-word phrase in rock history and frickin Pete Townshend had to name the song "Baba O'Riley"

The only person whose standard of living has improved during this Trump term is Ghislaine Maxwell.

"What is certain, and felt instinctively by almost everybody, is that things cannot go on in their present way" – The Times, May 1975 “It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975

Nights drawing in, lashing down with rain outside. “The curse has begun, yesterday’s gone…”

Finally able to spend some time with this record. Great songwriting and playing, lots of room for the songs to breathe. @emmaswiftsings.bsky.social first album of new material post (excellent) album of Bob Dylan songs Blonde On the Tracks.

Today I watched “Tweedledum” the episode of Colditz with Michael Bryant and Bernard Kay for the first time. One of the best episodes of anything I’ve ever seen. Must be a @tobyhadoke.bsky.social favourite!

I always find it interesting how the story changes when a lawyer gets to court. They can say anything they want outside of court without accountability but the rules are vastly different in court where you can get seriously penalized for lying.

Team George on a Saturday afternoon.

Back to the brink... @radiotimes.bsky.social digs deep into the TV masterpiece that is Edge of Darkness, on its 40th anniversary, with rare photos and a special interview with actor Ian McNeice... www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/edg...

Aye aye. Edge of Darkness starting a rerun on BBC4 on 1st November. One of those dramas that just leave you rubbing your eyes in astonishment as it just gets better and better with every minute that passes. If you've never seen it before, god but you're in for a treat. Ian McNeice intro, too.

The classic "Edge of Darkness" series from 1985 gets an airing on BBC 4 from this Saturday night and on BBC iPlayer thereafter. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

open.spotify.com/album/1KyaNY... Another one odds on for #5debutalbums1014

open.spotify.com/album/1D7Vot... Will be towards the top of my #5debutalbums1014. Now I just need to try and remember what else came out around then…

4 of my 5 made the cut, the Pale Foubtains wuz robbed.

Top night celebrating 10 years of @av8records.bsky.social with Pete Wilko, Marvin Powell, Michael Robert Murphy and Sunstack Jones (plus Mick Head cameo). You could have made a supergroup out of the legends in the crowd.

The perfect soundtrack to dancing with the lepers in the madman’s house:

The Invisible Invasion reissue looks great. Available to order here 👇🏻 thecoral.lnk.to/NAD25

Tonight’s viewing:

Great night watching @thecoral.bsky.social film, a mere 4 minutes walk from my front door. As good as everyone has been saying (the film, not my front door) : catch it if you can.

Good old Dickie

open.spotify.com/album/4yXvjx... “The man across the street ain’t wise If he was wise he’d be on the other side” A shoe-in for my #5debutalbums8084

Ah, happy 88th anniversary of the day Oswald Mosley tried to sell fascism to Liverpudlians – and someone concussed him with a brick

In the build up to our Edgar Jones release we will be streaming a few tracks that didn't make the vinyl.

Last one for today. Still trying to narrow by #5albums choices down.

Next up: a favourite from 2024. Perfect for this time of year:

32

Next up: cracker by ex -Mynci Man Richard James. Well worth a listen if you don’t know it. #NowPlaying

Friday night tunes

In memoriam...

RIP Brian Patten. We read Gargling Eith Jelly at school; loved this later. Saw him reading once, at Crosby Civic Hall with McGough; a great memory. Seminal:

open.spotify.com/album/6Fhnez... Absolute certainty for my #5debutalbums0004

open.spotify.com/track/1e3Q7g... #1 in my #REMTop30 Not sure I would have called this as #1 in advance, but it’s a special song, final part of a stunning closing trio on a great album, so maybe it was always going to be… “The river empties to the tide”

open.spotify.com/track/181ERl... #2 in my #REMTop30 “What is it up in the air for?” When Mills and Berry come in 👊

open.spotify.com/track/31AOj9... 3 in my #REMTop30 . An unlikely hit single: no real chorus, written on the mandolin, and from their 7th album. Not sure something like that could happen these days…

open.spotify.com/track/3VUPAE... #4 in my #REMTop30 “Standing too soon, shoulders high in the room.”

Very happy that Anthropocene @anthro-poetry.bsky.social have taken some new poems ⬇️ www.anthropocenepoetry.org/post/3-poems...

open.spotify.com/track/5I1pIw... #5 in my #REMTop30. Classic early sound. If I ever formed a band, which given my lack of talent is extremely unlikely, I might go for the Rivers Of Suggestion as a band name..,