Not playing any #WeekendSingles today as all the cartridges have been carefully wrapped up for moving (out on the 18th, hopefully - keep everything crossed for us 🤞) So, from the archives, four of my favourite 80's singles: Wah!, Siouxsie, Chameleons and The Church. #MusicSky #VinylSky

RIP #SteveCropper 😞 - this is just one great guitar lick from a truckload he came up with. An obvious choice, perhaps but it's the one where he gets a shout-out at 1:14 ♥️ youtu.be/vcfWxbOBijQ?...

A brief calm before the day kicks in. #Poole #Dorset

Before disco, before they became a national institution, The #BeeGees made some of the strangest, existentialist stuff to hit the UK top 10. "I've Gotta Get A Message To You" may be the first No. 1 about someone going to the electric chair, but I'm happy to stand corrected. #WeekendSingles #VinylSky

Morning all. Four randoms from the photo library: The Colour Field, Electronic, Michael Penn and The House Of Love. #WeekendSingles #MusicSky #VinylSky

Moving home, day 7,212

Easy mistake to make 😂 #SaintsFC #SouthamptonFC

Well, that's pretty much most of our life's collected obsessions packed, ready to move. Even the dancing sunflower's back in its original box. I'll leave LP packing to the professionals. Everything crossed the final hurdles get overcome this week and we can finally get going... 🤞 #WeekendSingles

Two tie-in #WeekendSingles from Volkswagen TV ads (Alan Price, Bluebells) and a pair of Suzanne Vega 7's. I really need to pack these now - I'm too easily distracted once the turntable's switched on... #VinylSky #MusicSky

Next from the box of unknown pleasures: Italian issues from Barry McGuire (Mamas & Papas on backing vocals), Jay & The Americans, Moody Blues and Nada (which I first heard in a superb horror movie called Raw). Bought from a friendly Discogs seller in Florence. #WeekendSingles #MusicSky #VinylSky

Looks like I had four from #TheMission hiding away as well. Still think editing Tower Of Strength for a 7-inch was sacrilege, mind. #WeekendSingles #VinylSky #MusicSky

Four rarer corkers from 1966-67 which I thought I'd filed but clearly hadn't: Bystanders, Tim Buckley, Jim Sullivan Sound and The Grass Roots (with which I pleased my wife on her birthday. Scored plenty of brownie points) #WeekendSingles #VinylSky #MusicSky

Ah, I'd forgotten I had this: Jukebox-only #Supergrass single, coupling Pumping On Your Stereo with Late In The Day. Plain black injection moulded labels, very hard to get a decent photo of. #WeekendSingles #MusicSky #VinylSky

Just found a small case of waifs and strays that still need packing 🙄 What delights await? #WeekendSingles

Random thought: I recently threw out a pile of flexi discs #ReadersDigest used to send out to advertise their LP box sets (all bent/folded and unplayable, sadly). Was there ever one with a message that said "Sorry, you haven't been awarded a free mystery gift"? #WeekendSingles #MusicSky #VinylSky

Still packing up stuff on this miserably wet Dorset day 🙄 Here's a very mixed bag from 1967-68, but all favourites of mine from the period: Gene Pitney, Pink Floyd, The Move and The Paper Dolls (if you're gonna be a one-hit wonder, make it an absolute doozie). #WeekendSingles #MusicSky #VinylSky

Cold. 🥶 Impressive skyline, though. #Poole #Dorset

Today's packing music: Not played this in a thousand years, yet still appear to know it off by heart... Gathered up six #WeekendSingles, too! All About Eve - All About Eve (1988) #AlbumAlmanac #MusicSky

Still on a #SoulMusic thread for #WeekendSingles: Sly & The Family Stone, Sam & Dave, Marvin Gaye, The Ad-Libs (and yes, they've all had a good clean since the photos were taken) Really hope we move soon - I'm running out of archived images and my singles need a good airing 😞 #VinylSky #MusicSky

Picture this: We're on honeymoon, December 2004. I'm in a record shop on Guernsey. My wife's waiting outside, sees an assistant removing this from the window display, and thinks "oh God, I know what he's up to" 😂 #Motown 45th Anniversary Singles Box #WeekendSingles #MusicSky #VinylSky #SoulMusic

Still waitng to move, records still mostly packed away, so more from the photo archive today: The soundtrack from #NorthernSoul (2014), spread over fourteen 7-inch singles. #WeekendSingles #MusicSky #VinylSky #SoulMusic

Never underestimate the healing powers of chocolate digestive biscuits.

Happy to say that education has moved on somewhat since this UK government pamphet was published in 1937.

I know it's not an #AlbumAlmanac this week, but it seems an appropriate sleeve for today (and it does compile some great #WeekendSingles) The Alarm - Standards (1981-90) #MusicSky #VinylSky #NowPlaying

Apropos of nothing, here's two from The Belle Stars and two from Lloyd Cole & The Commotions. #WeekendSingles #MusicSky #VinylSky

If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.

Between defrosting the freezer and my wife emptying the remains from her jar of beetroot, the kitchen sink now looks like the crime scene in a Scandinavian thriller.

Early 1970's TV themes: Van Der Valk (the final number one from EMI's Columbia label, trivia fans), The Adventures Of Black Beauty, The Rockford Files and Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads. #WeekendSingles #VinylSky #MusicSky

The UK top 20, today in 1967. Where psych-pop classics meet head-on with easy family favourites. (I would illustrate with a few singles but they're mostly packed away for now 😔) #WeekendSingles

Duff tracks ruining great albums, you say? Beach Boys: "Wow, this album we just finished is amazing and will restore our cultural reputation no end!" Mike Love: "Wait, you haven't heard this yet..." Student Demonstration Time, blighting Surf's Up (1971) #WeekendSingles #AlbumAlmanac

#Halloween viewing... #HammerHorror #Frankenstein

Scary #Halloween costume for #WeekendSingles types?

A lost love replaced, courtesy of an early chazza visit this morning. Belinda Carlisle - Heaven On Earth (1987) (No Halloween theme here, but what the hell)

Anyone need a playlist? Happy #Halloween. 🎃

The leaves are finally coming down, and in one go apparently.

Final #WeekendSingles floor-fillers before I get on with humdrum stuff: Freda Payne, Otis Redding & Carla Thomas, Ramsey Lewis Trio and Gloria Jones (early-mid 70's bootleg - I'm not made of money 😂) #VinylSky #MusicSky #NowPlaying #SoulMusic

Certified #WeekendSingles floor-fillers: Gladys Knight & The Pips, Millie Jackson, The Flirtations and Gayle McCormick (slightly longer mono mix with alternate end vocal, exclusive to this promo issue). #VinylSky #MusicSky #NowPlaying #SoulMusic

The last light in the sky we'll see after 6pm for a while. I'll be back with more cheering and inspirational thoughts later. You're welcome.

When you finally discard that beloved item of clothing after many, many years of service... 😭 #declutter #lifelaundry

For the run-up to #Halloween, four discs which involve a fatal encounter with the grim reaper: John Leyton, The Shangri-Las and Twinkle all got a BBC ban (Auntie Beeb didn't approve of such things). Bobbie Gentry got away with it. 🎃💀⚰️🪦 #WeekendSingles #VinylSky #MusicSky #HalloweenMusic

Last ones from me (before I get some tea on), spanning 1970-72: Three Dog Night, another Badfinger belter (its lack of a UK release sums up the disarray Apple was in by then), Lindisfarne and a Fortunes ditty which suits the day nicely. Have a good week y'all. #WeekendSingles #VinylSky #MusicSky

One to get you in that #Halloween season mood: Over at #SpookyIsles, I look at what just might be the creepiest of #Sapphire&Steel assignments: The Railway Station (1979) #SpookyIsles @spookyisles.bsky.social www.spookyisles.com/sapphire-ste...

Four more from 1970/71: T.Rex's first top 10 smash, a Badfinger banger, Gilbert O'Sullivan (not sure he ever topped this one) and a very belated 2004 7" release from Nick Drake. Still tipping it down in Dorset. #WeekendSingles #VinylSky #MusicSky

Four from 1970/71 for a wet Dorset Sunday morning: Cat Stevens, Electric Light Orchestra (not a single until mid '72, but let's not split hairs), Brewer & Shipley (loving that label design) and The Marmalade. #WeekendSingles #VinylSky #MusicSky

We've now reached the "finding old phones at the bottom of drawers" stage of the clear-out. This was considered state-of-the-art when I got it 😅

Early start as the big sort-out continues - here's a few freebies that came with Sounds, with Iggy Pop, Blue Aeroplanes, Sonic Youth, Mega City Four, Pussy Galore, The Mission, Pixies, Dinosaur Jr, Throwing Muses and many more fab groovy artists. #WeekendSingles #VinylSky #MusicSky

Mine at last - even the outer delivery packaging is a nice touch. #HammerHorror #Frankenstein

Most of my singles are now being packed away so I'm entering the "here's some I photographed earlier" phase of #WeekendSingles. Still, always a good reason to pull out some photos of #KirstyMacColl singles. #VinylSky #MusicSky

When you order a raven from Temu...

RIP #JohnLodge. His partnership with #JustinHayward helped transform the #MoodyBlues from a hot Brum Beat outfit to symphonic prog rock legends. Perfect double-header here, held off the top by the England World Cup Squad in 1970. #WeekendSingles #VinylSky #MusicSky