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david essex apologist words for shindig! magazine
just heard some blokes on a podcast say that jimmy carr is the bob monkhouse of today and I was a little bit sick in my mouth.
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I (quickly) ranked my top ten Paul McCartney albums for Rough Trade. Hope people like it.
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Ranked: Paul McCartney's Greatest Albums | Rough Trade
Across solo records, collaborations with Linda and the ever-shifting identity of Wings, we rank and review Paul McCartney's ten greatest albums.
https://blog.roughtrade.com/gb/ranked-paul-mccartneys-greatest-albums/
7 days ago
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Iāve been watching Powell and Pressburgerās I Know Where Iām Going! (1945) and I noticed a familiar extra early in the film. Thatās the centenarian broadcaster and actor Pete Murray, right? Right?
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Hell of a record tbf
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If anyone remembers me from Twitter, you will remember my morbid suppositions. Hereās a new one: the BBC series Call the Midwife (seemingly) ended last night. Was Judy Parfitt, who plays Sister Monica Joan, the last actor born in the 1930s to have a regular role in a British continuing drama?
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Rob Chapman
2 months ago
60 years ago. Flicker flicker flicker blam Powis Gardens. It all begins here, underground pop dance fans.
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Chthönic Smïth
3 months ago
They deserved more acclaim but couldn't shake the manufactured/pretty boy tag. Once they started writing their own material you got Sunshine Cottage, an overlooked popsike classic with Miss Jones on the b-side - a decent immitation of the Small Faces (no wonder Marriott wanted Frampton to join)
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Heads-up 60s music nerds! The new issue of Shindig! features my article on The Herd, gothic psych idols led by Peter Frampton and Andy Bown, who I interviewed for it. Thereās an excerpt from it here! :)
shindig-magazine.com?p=7440
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Issue #171 ā The Herd -
Psych-pop idols THE HERD were responsible for a string of unforgettable singles in the late ā60s including 'From the Underworld' and 'I Don't Want Our Loving To Die', but behind the hits lay a frustra...
https://shindig-magazine.com/?p=7440
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Andrew Hickey
3 months ago
Agreed with this statement. So much of the "Golden Age of TV" nonsense was based on the false idea that US network TV was all TV (not helped by a generation of Guardian culture-writers who thought American shit was better than British gold), at the same time post-1990 British TV quality cratered.
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DJ Punctum
3 months ago
Phil Upchurch gone? Man, that got NO publicity! One of Stepney's most trusted right-hand men. R.I.P. immense talent; I still can't sit still.
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@andrewhickey.500songs.com
The new Rotary Connection bonus is a joy - thank you Andrew! I noted that you mention Phil Upchurch, who sadly died only last month; I was wondering if you were familiar with this, the first recording of āI Am the Black Gold of the Sunā? :)
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Black Gold
YouTube video by Phil Upchurch - Topic
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qgzNOHVEYjA
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Andrew Hickey
3 months ago
I managed in my forties to find a way to make a living from doing the thing my brain is broken for, and both I and (I like to think) the world are better off for it. Imagine if I could have done it in my twenties, when I had energy, instead of destroying my health for decades with shitty jobs.
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Iām writing about a really big musical group. To give you some clue, everyoneās talking about them. They are the subject of nepo baby / industry plant allegations. Thereās solo stuff by the one of them. You guessed it - itās Paul and Barry Ryan!
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In case anyone missed it, thereās a Shindig special bookazine out now featuring a lengthy cover story I wrote on the beginning of Sparks! I spoke to three early members - John Mendelssohn, Earle Mankey and Jim Mankey - and thereās a special contribution from Russell Mael.
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Mark Lewisohn
4 months ago
In Tune In I quoted a 1960 Paul McCartney letter declaring that the Beatals (yes) had ācompetence, confidence & continuityā ⦠and just today Iāve found that Paul nicked it from a Midland Bank cheque book, CompetenceāContinuityāConfidence being printed on the inside back cover. Great nicking, Paul!
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work party tonight. must not get drunk. must not try to explain who stanley baxter was to co-workers.
4 months ago
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Saw Cliff Richard last night (itās okay I wasnāt cool anyway). A unique experience and I enjoyed every minute of it, to be honest. Reminded me of this great piece from his last tour by
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Middle England Gospel: Cliff Richard At Hammersmith Apollo | The Quietus
Underneath the Hammersmith Flyover, parked in single file down a busy street and flanked outside the Apollo, there are coaches booked in package deals from Essex towns. Clacton and Colchester, Chelmsf...
https://thequietus.com/quietus-reviews/live-reviews/cliff-richard-blue-sapphire-tour-review-hammersmith-apollo/
4 months ago
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Hot Chocolate were fucking brilliant and for years, honestly.
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5 months ago
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I love Suzi but āDevil Gate Driveā is a bit shit tbh.
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5 months ago
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I donāt get sick of good pop songs and āKiller Queenā is a perfect example. Loved it since I was a kid. Best Queen single.
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5 months ago
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ABBA were listening to Wizzard right?
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5 months ago
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The first George McCrae album is one of the very best 70s LPs you can still find for under a fiver. Unbelievable singer.
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5 months ago
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āCrazy Horsesā. Kinda the best record ever letās be fair
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5 months ago
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David Bowie and the Spiders from Mars doing āStarmanā. Sick to death of hearing received wisdom about this appearance but I did rinse it on YouTube when I first got into Bowie. It is a wonderful clip.
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5 months ago
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Mickey Finn pretending to play the snare hits in the intro on the bongos is hysterical
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5 months ago
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Alright, āMaggie Mayā is one of those songs I grew up constantly being told was a stone-cold classic, used in constant clip shows, referenced everywhere. It aināt that good is it? āYou Wear It Wellā demolishes it.
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5 months ago
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āLolaā is alright but I have never felt it was a great example of one of the best bands Britain ever produced. Hard to love Rootsy Kinks sorry.
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5 months ago
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āRaindrops Keep Fallinā on My Headā was one of my first favourite songs cos I had this thing as a little kid. I think it had been my mumās.
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I know people hate āWhere Do Go To (My Lovely)ā (overexposure, hectoring lyrics etc) but Peter Sarstedt got the last laugh (ha-ha ha-ha) because a lot of young people into 60s music love it unabashedly.
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5 months ago
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āBaby Come Backā is one of a few UK number ones where the original recording isnāt on streaming. Streaming is rubbish innit.
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Jonathan Bernstein
6 months ago
Heartbreaking
www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
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D'Angelo, Soul's Modern Visionary, Dead at 51
D'Angelo, the soul and R&B great whose three albums ā 'Brown Sugar,' 'Voodoo,' and 'Black Messiah' ā are all revered as modern classics, has died.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/dangelo-dead-obit-obituary-1235446878/
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Chloe Cumming
7 months ago
Invest in humanity: buy my art
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Two albums I love, now getting a boost from
@andrewhickey.500songs.com
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Greg Pak
8 months ago
"A.i." doesn't empower anyone. It strips them of belief in themselves and the power of their own minds and hands and abilities and stories. EVERY KID CAN DRAW. EVERY KID CAN TELL STORIES AND MAKE COMICS. Fuck "A.i." for telling kids lies and making them less-than.
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Ed Zitron
8 months ago
Generative AI by definition is conformity. It is an averaging of anything you ask of it - quite literally guessing what the most likely version of a thing might be. It is, by definition, mainstream, as is everything it creates old and deeply ideological, as every model trains on similar data.
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The late Jane Morgan with a breezy Bacharach-David tune.
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1959 HITS ARCHIVE: With Open Arms - Jane Morgan
YouTube video by The45Prof
https://youtu.be/6Y1qcT9uv-M
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Chloe Cumming
9 months ago
Hi itās Chloe, I have added these four original artworks to my website! (For sale) Monkeys and hearts, frog looking on, William Blake and the Tyger, the eye tree. If you share this post I will be chuffed.
www.chloecumming.com
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Centuries of Sound
8 months ago
It is bizarre that there's this well-established TV canon which is entirely prestige US shows from the 21st century, as if the 20th century and the rest of the world don't exist. Not the case for film, music, art, etc., just TV.
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an american on instagram just told me that āthe welsh had their own language and they have their own accentā. fascinating if true, will keep you all posted.
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jae holzman
9 months ago
X social engineering 101: Below is the kind of general āpromptā post that does well on X This one has gone fully viral today it is my unfortunate job to tell you your friends over there have all been quote-posting a natalist anti-gay advocate, sending all their feeds further to the right
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tuffins supermarket in knighton just played the full 12-inch version of PSBās left to my own devices followed by django by rocky roberts. who made this playlist. why is it so good.
9 months ago
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Does anyone need their Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich fix? Surely you do! I wrote about their colourful 60s career in the latest Shindig! magazine, out now. This isnāt an ad, Iām just pleased to have done it. :)
9 months ago
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off to a coffee shop to interview someone in person. never done this before! aaa!
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Andrew Hickey
9 months ago
"Before then, a new Otis Redding record, a Donovan record, a Who record were all part of the same thing. Then Rolling Stone started telling people, āThis is hip and this is not.ā" John Sinclair, manager of the MC5
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Chloe Cumming
10 months ago
Haunting and goofy are two key Beach Boys words.
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Catherynne M. Valente
10 months ago
Itās hard to escape the dawning realization that part of the goal of Googleās AI Overview is to simply eradicate the concept of anyone else having any kind of website at all. Why click on a link & explore when Google told you the answer & you didnāt know it was wrong?
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Just been informed that Abaco Dream B-side may not be Sly so hereās something else brilliant; Sly and the Family Stoneās kooky French-language rejig of āDance to the Musicā, a sort of dub version with an extra dollop of psychedelia.
youtu.be/mwMsySApBrQ
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The French Fries - Danse A La Musique - Raresoulie
YouTube video by raresoulie
https://youtu.be/mwMsySApBrQ
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just listened to that podcast with those two old english rock critics chatting away. talking about sly stoneās influence, one of them pronounces dāangelo as danjello. love it.
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š³ļøāā§ļø FTP of the Elders of Zion
10 months ago
This article is about horrifying things, not least of which is the fact that it opens with an NYT writer enthusiastically using an A.I. to generate focus, characters, and thesis for his next book, because he couldn't think of them Personally, I would fire that person today, but what do I know
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