"And do you know what they call a Syllabub in Paris? "What'd they call it?" "They call it a Crème Fouettée au Vin" "Crème Fouettée au Vin! What do they call a Jumbal?"

Who'll Stop The Coloured Rain? Shoot Out At Cosmo's Factory Dear Mr Fantasy Records Fortunate Paper Son

Back on X I got blocked by Lee Hurst when I made him the punchline to one of his own jokes. If you followed me, you might find he blocked you too as he was weird like that. I also got blocked by Ian Brown because I compared his shit satin jacket with sewn on planets on it to David St Hubbins' jumper

Another favourite Dartmoor rock formation: The Bowerman's Nose. In the folklore version, Bowerman was a hunter who a coven of witches turned to stone after he and his dogs knocked over their cauldron, while hunting a hare. The dogs can be found across the valley, also in stone, as Hound Tor.

#EmojiSounds 11-🍕 Chicago - I'm A Man From when they were known as Chicago Transit Authority before *the* Chicago transit authority said "hey, wait, we're already using that name". Anyhoo, this as we all know is an incredibly damn fine & never backing off version! www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM6l...

OK, hold onto your hats, because here's Dave Brock playing Bring It On Home on the Austrian music show Spotlight in 1969! www.youtube.com/watch?v=6k1S... (Many thanks to Rob Godwin for the tip-off!) #hawkwind

The shortlived five piece lineup of The Damned, minus Rat & plus Lu Edmonds & Jon Moss out of London & later Culture Club

RCA’s March 10, 1973 advert for Lou Reed’s “Vicious” is pure Transformer‑era irony — flowers behind a heavy black title, sweetness and bite in one frame. A small but vivid piece of Reed’s early solo mythology. #LouReed #Vicious #1973 #Archive

The arch flagshagger up the road (£500k+ property, self-employed) has stuck up a huge American flag alongside his permanently flown Union Jack. He did this last time the US bombed Iran. I think he's on a wind up to be honest www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0m6...

#FairyTaleTuesday Spring has sprung, bringing with it the rebirth of the rustic deity, Pan, half man, half goat. Though ancient Arcady is hidden beneath the dismal cacophony of modernity, for those of discerning ears, his piping lilt can still be heard. (art: Jennie Wren)

#ChurchOfRockAndRoll #68 Behind the scenes yet always influential, recording engineer/producer Glyn Johns was on the first Stones session in '63, thru The Who, Kinks, Small Faces, Led Zep, the Beatles' legendary Get Back sessions and beyond. He took no shit.

#EmojiSounds 10-👠 WiLDHEARTS - Nothing Ever Changes But The Shoes First track on their first EP and it's a classic flying in the face of those who think you'll never amount to anything. Ginger had a lot to prove at this point, and not just to his family and friends www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJOS...

‘The Roost’ Latest (small) painting. Oil and acrylic on canvas.

Look at him there, so young and innocent, like gorilla tranqulisers wouldn't melt in his mouth

For everything there is a Wildhearts song m.youtube.com/watch?v=WMt-...

Are you sitting comftibold bunkled up two square biffed on your botties?

Happy birthday John Cale! Just remember, you might think you're cool and you probably are but even on a really good day, you still won't be as *effortlessly* cool as Cale in 1966!

THX @p70.bsky.social EDGAR BROUGHTON BAND + LOVE IN THE RAIN www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1pr...

Jean-Paul Sartre died in 1980. Incredible to think he may have bought the album Boogity Boogity by Ray Stevens

I'm issuing a range of those 'band members' t-shirts that were all the rage about 17 years ago. You know the ones, got the classic line-ups on - instant recognition. Buy now, display your cool tastes at the pub! (Link in bio)

EARTH - BECOME BLACK SABBATH MELODY MAKER MARCH 1970 + EARTH ( PRE- SABS ) DEMO 1969 www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5XX... Made their concert debut at The Roundhouse, London. @ledaimmortelle.bsky.social @chthonicsmith.bsky.social @pasivirtala.bsky.social @kingludd.bsky.social @angusdugg.bsky.social

#EmojiSounds 9-🎻 High Tide - Futilist's Lament Formed by Tony Hill (formerly of the Peel championed Misunderstood) whose vocals sound remarkably like Jim Morrison, the scything violin is courtesy of a certain Simon House who would shortly bring his skills to Hawkwind www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpBC...

1965, local combo The Gas Board on the roof of Newcastle University Students' Union. Singer Bryan Ferry did OK, Mike Figgis, bottom left, became a successful film director, on the raised bit are John Porter, who produced The Smiths debut LP, & Roxy's first bassist Graham Simpson

#NowPlaying XXV Gatherimg: Let Us Prey This live recording of their 25th anniversary Shepherds Bush Empire gig is a heavy resurrection shuffle! Requiem and Primitive are rendered as hulking death doom marches and Wardance sounds like Sepultura. An astonishing wall of noise. Magick in the air!

40 YEARS AGO TODAY: "Siouxsie Sioux and Budgie on Wide Awake Club" is a statement full of promise enough before you see the pair joining in with the marzipan cooking make, admiring an otter and backing the world hackysack champion with a bowed cage.

+++ On this day, the 8th of March 1985, The Sisters Of Mercy first released 'No Time To Cry', as both 7" & 12" singles. +++ #thesistersofmercy #mercifulrelease #andreweldritch #notimetocry #WayneHussey #garymarx #craigadams #doktoravalanche #postpunk #altrock #goth #gothic #gothicrock #OTD #TSOM

#EmojiSounds 8-🐩 David Bowie - All The Madmen "Zane zane zane, ouvre le chien" The psychological spectre of Bowie's stricken brother Terry cast a long shadow over a great deal of his earlier work's explorations of the human condition and existential dread. m.youtube.com/watch?v=KrlvgARHdzc

That bit during Sympathy For The Devil on Rock And Roll Circus where Mick takes off his top to reveal the (obviously temporary) tattoos - and bearing in mind it's about six songs in - if that was you and me the whole thing would be smudged with sweat. Some people are just base clay (in Bangs' words)

Finally begun work on the @protectthewild.bsky.social colouring sheets. Just me and a trusty pack of Staedtler!

Take a chance and listen to some new music instead of putting on Rumours for the billionth time… m.youtube.com/watch?v=3Z18...

Mark Weiss has put together a great Rock Scene archive site here - rockscenemagazine.com/intro/rock-scene-introduction - indulge yourselves!

#EmojiSounds 7-🔙 The Remains - Don't Look Back Lenny Kaye's Nuggets introduced the soulful garage rock of Barry Tashian and The Remains to a new generation of fuzz fanatics. The band were also one of the support acts for the final Beatles concert at Candlestick Park m.youtube.com/watch?v=t-ne...

#NowPlaying The Cramps - Off The Bone Hey, whaddya mean it's way too early for such unrefined sewer trash rock and roll? It's midnight somewhere!

#birdbot

A new Albert Hall spatial calibration just dropped

Fox cubs are born deaf, blind and completely dependent on their mother. In early March. She will usually have four or five cubs and stay with them constantly in those first vital weeks. Hunting season runs until March.

#EmojiSounds 6-🙈 Siouxsie & The Banshees - Peek-A-Boo Still pushing the post-punk envelope a good ten years into their career, Peek-A-Boo is an intriguing blend of dance beats, looped instrument samples and 1930s swing. And of course it works! www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGH_...

1980. 4 Bands. £2.50 🙂

#NowPlaying Killing Joke - Pandemonium Feels properly like the first day of Spring today so thought I'd indulge in this monolithic slab of serpent-powered industrial groove metal. Did just the trick (I think) as I climbed high above the countryside and breathed freely! Not bad for a shopping trip

This is interesting... www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvFP... I love Halford and those early JP albums, but I'm absolutely certain he's been asked this before ;-) I've always thought this track is pretty Hammill-esque... www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSF8... (ha, YT segued it into Too Many Of My Yesterdays!)

Hark! Just heard the first local lawn mower of the year Hold on a minute, it was ME!

This morning on Exmoor …

#EmojiSounds 5-🇯🇵 The Stranglers - Ice "Hagakure with perfume" JJ's Ice is the conceptual sequel to Black & White's Death & Night & Blood, being a further treatise on the bass player's fascination with martial arts, Samurai culture and the writings of Yukio Mishima www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGTi...

Self-hobbled and confined to a wheelchair, Luke Haines dug deep into middle England’s psychic hinterland to produce the definitive anti-Britpop album... Many Happy Returns to The Auteurs' After Murder Park, which turns 30 today! buff.ly/kUSJLkJ

1974, San Francisco, CA

Just spotted this UK first edition, if any MES fans have a spare £350!

#EmojiSounds 4-🪖 The Seeds - Did He Die "Soldier soldier on the hill, how many good men have been killed?" After leaving GNP Crescendo records (following the contract fulfilling hack job Spoonful Of Seedy Blues) the band recorded two (incredibly rare) singles for MGM www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQfe...