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Please send any future communications in this Thelonious Monk font…

Last call for this, thanks everyone that’s listened. Have kept plugs to a minimum as a piece of my soul dies each time I try to sell it and, let’s be honest, much cooler be a niche cult artist than yer run of the mill mainstream popularist… 🐵🚶🏻‍♂️📻🎭

Brooke Combe at Koko last nite. Been championing BC for a while but had never seen her perform (even online). Voice, material, style, confidence and likability - she’s got it all. Young fresh take on classic/northern soul. Very impressed.

Rosanna Reade, Northern Irish contemporary printmaker and illustrator, living and working in Edinburgh #WomensArt

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Gordon Parks: We Shall Not Be Moved at the Alison Jacques Gallery, Mayfair. Powerful, brilliant.

Shabaka at Village Underground tonight. Very experimental vibes but hit some real highs at times. Can’t pretend it wasn’t a massive thrill to see him back on the sax after last year’s hiatus. Also my first time at this venue - I like it!

Photo evidence of the recent Bob Dylan-Question Mark summit!

First edition On The Road for sale in Mayfair today if anyone after a copy. £6,500…

Fair dues to Harry Styles for getting Kamasi Washington, Shabaka, Mulatu Astatke, Yussef Dayes and Devonté Hynes Ensemble on his Meltdown line up. Gonna bankrupt me…

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Move over Chris Packham…

Always an education, and invariably discover a new favourite track via mon frere simian.

The Speedways at Paper Dress Vintage last nite. Immaculate old school powerpop. If only Dave Robinson and Jake Riviera were still looking for bands…

Loved researching this connection between the Dave Brubeck Quartet's 'Take Five' and the amazing Jean Seberg. davehaslam.substack.com/p/the-bestse... includes Marlon Brando, benzedrine, and JD Salinger...

We’ve all been there…

New MONKEY’S WANDERING WIRELESS SHOW: Tambourine Dreams is calling! Escape to a better world where the soul shakes to the beat of the veins. 70 years of old treasures and shiny new musical gems in one glorious hour. Believe! 🐵🚶🏻📻🎭 www.mixcloud.com/markraison12...

New MONKEY’S WANDERING WIRELESS SHOW: Tambourine Dreams is calling! Escape to a better world where the soul shakes to the beat of the veins. 70 years of old treasures and shiny new musical gems in one glorious hour. Believe! 🐵🚶🏻📻🎭 www.mixcloud.com/markraison12...

Kit Sebastian at the 100 Club last nite. Best I’ve seen them and helped by YOUNG enthusiastic crowd dancing. Great atmosphere.

“I love a line. Primitive artists use lines around things: gives clarity; you have to commit”. Rose Wylie

collage 12x12 on wood

IT’S THE P.I.T.S MAN VOL.20 OUT NOW ! For a 60s vibe ….. there’s 3 seconds away from an hour of 60’s - ish tunes ….. youtu.be/ysY9NoYviDE?...

Window Of The Day Number 42 The Inherited Barn #photography

The Redskins attacking Thatcher on Saturday morning kids TV show No. 73. And yes, that's Five Star, Matthew Kelly and Andrea Arnold dancing along. Watch the full 1985 recording of Plateful of Hateful with added Sandi Toksvig at youtu.be/XvsM-BsaznE

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Sun Up (1960) by Gillian Ayres

Oh my god, the alt text is a gift. 😹

High School (1968). Frederick Wiseman’s fly-on-the-wall film of Philadelphian students and teachers. The sex education class for the lads is, er, uncomfortable but check the threads.

Enjoyed artist George Shaw’s Baker’s Dozen selection of records that shaped him. I won’t spoil the list as it’s an interesting (familiar to many of us) journey but no prizes for guessing who was “presenting a Black soul idea to an audience of white meatheads”. 😃 thequietus.com/interviews/b...

The Manics at the Royal Albert Hall last nite. 35th year seeing these and an absolute joy. A real “fans set list” with songs from 11-12 albums including some not heard for yonks. ❤️

Merna Kennedy “pretends she’s the ‘gun moll’ just to demonstrate how attractive outlawry can be.” Photo by Ray Jones, 1930.

Mate, that pint was £9 plus a 50p donation, get yer monkey paws off.

One for the Manics fam ahead of tonight’s Teenage Cancer Trust gig. This 1984 album by pianist Mal Waldron includes Suicide Is Painless. Unexpected Manics/jazz crossover!

“Clothes and music, that’s it for me. They make me happy”. None of that “after my family” sop from our Paul. Bosh. 💥

The Trouble Twins

#OtD 23 Mar 1953 singer, songwriter & former Black Panther Yvette Marie Stevens, better known as Chaka Khan, was born in Chicago. Joined the BPP aged 14, spoke at rallies and worked on their free breakfast for schools program. Learn more about the BPP: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

Here's your moment of zen: A "holy" cat named Coco stands at the entrance of a church in Mexico, seemingly blessing everyone who walks in 🐱

#NowPlaying Pete Christlieb / Warne Marsh Quintet – Apogee (Warners, 1978) www.youtube.com/watch?v=F26Q...

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Nothing beats the sound of a Hammond B3/C3. Here’s the beaut used for gigs at Ronnie Scott’s.

Your Duty To Be Beautiful Collage made from Wills Cigarettes & PG Tips collector’s cards, Ladybird books, 1960s wallpaper & Parade & Women’s Realm magazines, watercolour, acrylic marker & felt tip

Emma-Jean Thackray: Dear Miles - A Love Letter debut at Ronnie Scott’s last nite. Holy shit. Took Electric Miles “to its natural conclusion - Electronic Miles”. Stunning baton exchange and fusion of creativity. And yes, Miles woulda been into jungle! 💥

From Instagram. Willie Colón's funeral. www.instagram.com/_giafu

A right bit of me is this. On sale for £3000, so this week would be a good time for those Euromillions to come in.

Always enjoy reading @adellestripe.bsky.social and this clear-eyed episodic memoir no exception. “An alternative confessional of working-class life in the closing years of the twentieth century”.

They said it would take 193 years to clean London’s air. We did it in nine. 💨 London has now met legal limits for nitrogen dioxide air pollution.

New phone. First photo…

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