Went out to the nice patisserie, came back with the charity shop equivalent of magic beans. £1 each

Hoping my home town still has enough of this sentiment to vote in the greens today. Taken on the day my mum moved out & delighted to preserve some 40 yo graffiti that burned its way into my skull on countless trips to the sweet/video shop

Just checked & #catsonamps is still a thing

First gig of the year. Just remembering that I like music

💯. As with Barney & Stephen, the dude could’ve not played a note after 1980 & still been one of the most unique & iconic players of his generation.

Big noughties vibes on today’s #cdfriday bonanza. £1 each

Who’s the most famous alum of your high school? Sadly, just Scott Andrews from my year who was on GamesMaster once

Now playing

So many big talents before their downfall on #totp. Timberlake, Jim Corr, Lauryn H.

Brooklyn Beckham: it's time to address the shadowy shape that's difficult to photograph in the room

Now playing Part of an order from the excellent Worried Songs over Christmas. Aptly, kicked off my birthday run over the weekend with ‘No Spring Chicken’ worriedsongs.bandcamp.com/album/no-new...

Pick of the haul earlier today. £2 for Pink Island OG ‘An Electric Storm’

"Don't make me sign the tap!" - Marcel Duchamp

Post a pic of the venue where you saw your first concert/artist. Not counting covers bands in the caravan club it was this. Godley & Creme weren’t in the lineup. My mum won some tickets at work

s/o to William Tyler’s equally hard-to-find reworking of the Southern Comfort theme (in the style of The Rolling Stone’s ‘Play With Fire’), recorded for @aquariumdrunkard.com

Switching the turntable off, out of necessity, this #cdfriday

At the gym & went to put my trainers on. Something was in one of the shoes. Turns out a stray Celebration was in it #true

Jan 1: time to enjoy listening to music I already own & spend less time & money in charity shops etc Jan 3:

A shame The Lighthouse Family were too early for the soft/ yacht rock revival. Wasn’t there a Balearic remix at one point? I guess they had to settle for millions of record sales & massive fame

First #cdfriday of the year. A basic choice for a lot of deadheads, but J’s solo on a manic Deal is pure 🔥🔥🔥(sounds almost like he’s jamming on ‘You’re Sixteen’, before he really takes flight) #deadsky

Productive start to the year. Done some minor guitar modding Now time to get practicing! *fires up ps5*

Nice version, but reckon he’d have rocked a solid TB Sheets #ronan

Obviously I watched this earlier and, yes, obviously I googled how old the actors were at the time and, yes obviously I’m the same age as Robert Shaw was

Bit of a Spiritualized vibe Ronan’s got on Life is a Rollercoaster here #happynewyear

Shell in the Pacific #eggamovie

Aside from missing (or studiously avoiding) the most *howlingly* obvious Iggy/Canine pun, would recommend this company

Legit thought until this week that he was the jazz drummer dude in Thom Yorke’s band

Probably in my mind as I use it a lot at work when asked how a bit of kit works (that I probably should know)

#cdfriday shenanigans. Shame I thought one of the live discs was faulty for ages, before realising it’s a DVD

Enjoying some old classics at this time of year & wondering at what point in my life I went from being on team Floyd to team Keller

Looks like they really dug deep to give the awards to a strat, a Les Paul & a vox amp

My tribute to Rob Reiner as Marty DiBergi.

Back from The Shining at the BFI IMAX. The US cut with the - mostly - superfluous bits, although great to see Anne Jackson’s utterly aghast response, as Shelley Duvall explains how Jack hurt Danny’s arm

Wonder what he said

#nowreading at a fairly rapid pace. Too fast now to listen to every song I’m reading about. Fascinating that jdb based the riff for Yes on Penguin Cafe Orchestra’s Music for a found Harmonium. Oddly, this feels as subversive as his balaclava on totp

Spent the week travelling & in hospital, along with a long day - as Mark Eitzel sang - ‘walking in circles in a waiting room’. Thankfully things turned out well

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you had tickets for but didn’t attend Nirvana - MCR gmex Oasis - knebworth MBV - Glasgow, last night Realistically there will have been at least 2 more this year, likely I was tired or it was cold out

A movie that takes place where you’re from. Richard Gere famously burned his bridges in Tameside when he said in interview that Stalybridge was the worst place he’d ever been on location. Frankly, he can do one.

#nowplaying Had to bail on the gig last Sunday as I was too middle-aged to handle a start time of after 10pm. Anyway, this arrived today while I was waiting for a boiler to get fitted & I’m slowly warming up to it tonight

The Partridge subreddit way ahead of things here

RIP Mani. A constant presence in this city over the years. Not many bands are lucky enough to have as a member their biggest fan

#charityshopmonday vibes

Took a guitar maintenance course, now - after 30 years of playing - I’m not terrified of breaking them & can actually set up a guitar. Just as well the ‘doomscrolling for middle-aged men’ course was booked solid

Not sure how I’m gonna watch this, but hard to pass up #charityshop

Watching an old episode of Bergerac that has Richard Griffiths & Celia Imrie in. Truly, we don’t know how good we had it back then

Not sure why. They weren’t on the bill & Deke Leonard’s been gone a few years now

Assorted #nowplayings. All from the dependable @stickyblacktarmac.bsky.social

Now sat on the couch idly playing the Little Wing intro, wondering how 15 yo me played it on a strat copy with a ropey neck (answer: practice & no social media)

Now playing. A recent £1 find. Had ignored most JH posthumous stuff tbh & the genesis of this sounds like a total car crash (probably a drop in the ocean when we see what AI is gonna do w/most deceased artist’s legacy). Some absolute jams on it tho