#Nowplaying The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown - Track Record 1968. Label mate of Jimi Hendrix and The Who. Forever known for 'Fire' but his later Kingdom Come is worth finding. #ArthurBrown #Psychedelic #rockmusic #musicsky #vinylcollection #vinylrecord #recordcollection #vinylcommunity

Molly presently on watch. #caturday #catsofbluesky #cats #blueskycats

The inn up the road was full but room was found on top of the pillar box outside the antique shop.

#Nowplaying Jethro Tull – Stand Up - 1969 UK first press. Orange bullseye & pink labels Bought at a record fair last weekend for £15. Back of cover & album very dirty. Both have cleaned up really well. #JethroTull #rockmusic #vinylcollection #vinylrecord #recordcollection #vinylcommunity

The 'Mayoral Entertainment' in Ripon Workhouse was an annual event. The inmates had 'an excellent dinner' of roast beef, mashed potatoes, & plum pudding. Also a 12oz plum cake, & 1½ pints of tea & 2oz cheese.' Then a concert & dancing. #Victorian #Ripon #NorthYorkshire #Christmas #LocalHistory

The Master, George Greenwood's report on Christmas festivities in Ripon Workhouse 1883. The Mayor provided 'a capital tea' and gave 'a magic lantern show which was much appreciated' #Christmas #Ripon #Victorian #NorthYorkshire #localhistory #heritage

A few facts about Victorian Christmas in Ripon Workhouse. Life in the workhouse wasn't quite as it is usually portrayed. Concerts, Christmas trees, gifts for the children were an annual occurrence. #Ripon #Christmas #Victorian #NorthYorkshire #LocalHistory

The festive felted robin has tied itself to the iron bridge again.

#NowPlaying Handel: 12 Solo Sonatas, Op. 1 The Academy Of Ancient Music -2009 #Handel #Music #Baroque #MusicSky #CompactDisc

#Nowplaying Lou Donaldson 'Blues Walk' 2022 Blue Note Classics pressing. Originally released 1958. Bluesy hard bop. Excellent sounding reissue. #LouDonaldson #jazz #jazzmusic #BlueNote #music #vinylcollection #vinylrecord #recordcollection #vinylcommunity

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A few years ago The Keighley Beer Festival had the good taste to book Tony Mcphee for the entertainment. He played an acoustic set. Must have been late '90s or early 2000s.

John Lee Hooker & The Groundhogs - I'm Leaving Something of a treat. Groundhogs were one of the first bands I saw.

#Nowplaying Derek & The Dominos – Layla & Other Assorted Love Songs - 1970 Not heard this in years. Doesn't sound to bad after a lengthy layoff. #EricClapton #DuaneAllman #rockmusic #musicsky #vinylcollection #vinylrecord #recordcollection #vinylcommunity

The bright yellow flowers of the Common Gorse. #gorse #Winter #nature #Durham

#Nowplaying Bert Jansch – Birthday Blues - 1969 Transatlantic pressing. Almost a Pentangle album. #BertJansch #pentangle #folk #rockmusic #1960s #musicsky #vinylcollection #vinylrecord #recordcollection #vinylcommunity

The story of Farage and Putin, told by British-Ukrainian soldier Shaun Pinner on a destroyed apartment block in Kyiv.

#NowPlaying Sonny Clark Trio - Blue Note 2023 release. Original 1958. #SonnyClark #BlueNote #Jazz #1960s #jazzmusic #Music #vinyl #lp #skyjazz #recordcollector #vinylcollection #vinylrecords #recordcollection #vinylcommunity

Penrith Museum door. #adoorableThursday #Penrith #Cumbria

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The Unthanks - Magpie This song was used for the closing credits of the BBC "Detectorists" series. Probably their 'greatest hit'...

#Nowplaying The Unthanks – Songs From The Shipyards - 2025 release. Originally released on CD. Gorgeous Northumbrian voices with haunting instrumentation. #TheUnthanks #folk #Newcastle #vinylcollection #vinylrecord #recordcollection #vinylcommunity

ROSEN: Will you commit to opening an investigation into Fox News for deceptively editing a Trump interview to make him look good during a presidential campaign? CARR: No

Christmas crow on a lamppost, Northallerton, North Yorkshire. It stayed there for a long time looking at the people passing below in the street. #Bird #Crow #Northallerton #Yorkshire

#Nowplaying Cream - Wheels of Fire- UK 1968 1st press. Studio disc. #Cream #EricClapton #JackBruce #GingerBaker #Psychedelic #rockmusic #vinylcollection #vinylrecord #recordcollection #vinylcommunity

The clouds above Thorngate. #Durham #Clouds #BarnardCastle

#Nowplaying Motörhead – Motörhead - 1977 UK 1st press. A stupid thing for Hawkwind to sack a key player but the result was this. Punk was the reason Motörhead had to happen. #Motorhead #Lemmy #Rock #Hardrock #rockmusic #1970s #vinylcollection #vinylrecord #recordcollection #vinylcommunity

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Molly the cat on the mat. #cat #caturday

For my sister who thinks any music before Punk is rubbish & worthless, here's a Punk group made up of people from my generation (boring hippies as she would say) playing, err... punk music.

#Nowplaying Bauhaus – The Sky's Gone Out - UK 1982 press. Those scary goth people's 3rd LP. Contained the live LP 'Press The Eject & Give Me The Tape' which was their next release as well. #Bauhaus #goth #gothic #postpunk #rockmusic #vinylcollection #vinylrecord #recordcollection #vinylcommunity

Harvey Mandel - Wade in the Water. from 'Cristo Redentor'

#Nowplaying Harvey Mandel – Cristo Redentor - UK 1968 pressing. Harvey Mandel's first solo album with a blend of psychedelia, jazz and blues. Quite unlike anything else of the time. #HarveyMandel #psychedelic #blues #rockmusic #vinylcollection #vinylrecord #recordcollection #vinylcommunity

Wouldn’t Comic Sans be a more appropriate font?

Got the LP in 1979. Saw the show at Earls Court in 1981. Thought the album was pretty dire & the live show verged on boring. A sad end to a once great band. #pinkfloyd #thewall #70smusic #classicrock #davidgilmour #nickmason #rickwright #rogerwaters #rock #rockmusic #music #musicsky

Pretty sure I saw The Cure at St George's Hall, Bradford in 1981. Think it was November. Seem to remember the lighting was very effective. It consisted of nothing more than a dark stage with monochrome down-lights, may have been some blues thrown in.

Was listening to The Grateful Dead's 1967 debut earlier today, so here's Quicksilver Messenger Service from 1969.

#Nowplaying The Supremes – A' Go-Go - 1966 Sounds to lift a gloomy morning. Just fun. #Supremes #soul #funk #pop #TamlaMotown #vinylcollection #vinylrecord #recordcollection #vinylcommunity

Killing Joke : Medicine Wheel - 1996 A happy little tune from Killing Joke for a chance. Played this album to oblivion back in '96.

Words of wisdom…..

The view down the River Tees today. #river #Tees

#Nowplaying Pop Psychédélique (The Best Of French Psychedelic Pop 1964-2019) - 2024 compilation. Very decent selection of very decent French psych. #Psychédélique #pop #psychedelic #rockmusic #vinylcollection #vinylrecord #recordcollection #vinylcommunity

Bob Dylan – The 1966 Live Recordings - 2016 release The 36 CD box set containing every 1966 gig. Interesting listening but I may be some time. Goes well with the book 'Judas!: From Forest Hills To The Free Trade Hall"- Clinton Heylin. #BobDylan #1960s #rockmusic #Music #compactdisc #cdfriday

#Nowplaying Neil Young / Crazy Horse – Early Daze - 2024 archive release. 1969 recordings, very organic. Goes well with 'Everybody Knows' #NeilYoung #Rock #countryrock #rockmusic #1970s #vinylcollection #vinylrecord #recordcollection #vinylcommunity

Small Faces - Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake - 1968 UK first press Mono - Immediate Records, Lilac Label. @vinyleveryday.bsky.social

Small Faces - Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake - 1968 UK first press stereo - Immediate Records, Pink Label. @vinyleveryday.bsky.social

Door in 16th Century gateway that formed part of the enclosure wall of the Dominican Friary dating from the 13th Century. Beverely, Yorkshire. #AdoorableThursday #ThursdayDoors #Beverley #Yorkshire #Medieval

#Nowplaying Joni Mitchell 'Clouds' UK 1969 pressing. Another Joni Mitchell album that doesn't get played enough. Rather eclipsed by what came after. #jonimitchell #folk #jazz #rockmusic #vinyl #Music #Musicsky #vinylcollection #vinylcommunity

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#NowPlaying Rory Gallagher - Rory Gallagher - 1971 pressing Easy to forget how good he was. #RoryGallagher #Blues #trock #rockmusic #vinylcollection #vinylrecords #vinylcommunity