A double CD set comprising 81 minute’s silences recorded on Armistice Days between 1929 and 2000 …

Tom Rickey asked me to bring along some of my fave records for his @fromefm.bsky.social show Mixed Bag last week - so I did! Ha ha, that’ll learn him 😁 … www.mixcloud.com/FromeFM/15-m...

I thought the ‘nut brown maid’ referred to a woman tanned and wizened by working in the sun, until my wife started hulling fresh walnuts before knowing that they have a semi-permanent stain.

Rebuilding Avebury stone circle, 1937 historicengland.org.uk/images-books...

That aged well.

Tony Hart was born 100 years ago today.

The Caunter has gone 😥

My sole brush with screenwriting immortality was in 1986 when me & my mate Mark wrote a sketch for a BBC kids’ TV show called Fast Forward. Watched the show today. It is irredeemably awful. This is our sketch. They changed the end. We thought ours was better. youtu.be/Al3zZboqFkA?...

Followers of @fromefm.bsky.social’s Space Folk Horror Lounge … could the mystery of Slim John finally be solved … ? I found the book!

Morning

Went to this place and amazingly found something to buy.

In recognition of a hard-working toilet.

As has been the case with every holiday I’ve been on since I was about 7, I’ve spent all my pocket money on the first day & have to spend the rest of the week going round boring free attractions.

Bunk Johnson’s Original Superior Band … so, if they were the original, what were they superior to? And it suggests there were non-original Superior Bands, is the implication that they were inferior?

My cold has reached the ‘Roger Moore Voice’ stage.

Funny how it’s always the shitty science fiction things that come true rather than the utopian dreams

Funny how the cast of Fame never went on to have much fame. I’d avoid that particular performing arts academy if I wanted to get on.

Sorry, it’s obviously too niche a joke even for me.

Last night’s Space Folk Horror Lounge is this morning’s Mixcloud Upload. Whoop! @fromefm.bsky.social www.mixcloud.com/FromeFM/53-s...

All new Space Folk Horror Lounge, tonight on Frome FM at 9pm. Expect some bongo rock. @fromefm.bsky.social www.frome.fm

Buying a secondhand record online in the UK, a global guide: Buy it from UK dealer - record £40 postage £10 Buy it from European dealer - record £25 postage £25 Buy it from US dealer - record £5 postage £45.

I wish I were 30 years younger so I could eat all the unhealthy things I’m too afraid to eat now because of all the unhealthy things I ate 30 years ago.

The twenty-ninth-and-final Lounge Lock-In is now idling in one of Mixcloud’s more remote parking bays @fromefm.bsky.social www.mixcloud.com/FromeFM/29-l...

Form an orderly queue at the bar for the last Lounge Lock-In, 10pm tonight on Frome FM @fromefm.bsky.social www.frome.fm

I’ve learned to tolerate the man who loses his baked beans on holiday by imagining that every time the advert comes on, he has gone on holiday again and his case of beans has been lost again. Every time he goes away they lose his beans.

Whenever world leaders gather & are not blown up I think either there aren’t actually any SPECTRE/THRUSH organisations bent on global domination, or that there actually are Bond/UNCLE agents thwarting them every time.

Poor Peter Maxwell Davies, after writing so much tremendous music in so many styles and moods, the only thing that ever gets played is Farewell To Stromness.

I never liked Radiohead, then Kid A came out & I loved it, after it I went back to not liking Radiohead again. I bought the double-10” in 2000. My brother bought me another copy …

I just said to my wife “bring me my wine!” … I have never sounded more like Brian Blessed.

Here’s a book I always thought to be a bit over-ambitious in its subject matter.

Cast-off Corner of the day. 31st May 2009 … @fromefm.bsky.social www.mixcloud.com/FromeFM/cast...

Coo, never seen the canned version of Connect before I strode into a Warminster charity shop this afternoon. Smaller tiles than the boxed version, presumably so your tracks don’t end up falling off the table.

My window blind is making life a Pink Panther cartoon. I get it straight, turn away & it slips down on one side. I fix it, tiptoe out of the room, & as soon as I’m out of sight it slips again. If I nailed it, the nails would quietly pop out. If I got a new one it would slide while I was admiring it.

Back on Frome FM tonight at 9pm with Not Rock #3 … @fromefm.bsky.social www.frome.fm

What any middle-aged Brit male does when presented with a fez

@fromefm.bsky.social … Live Vinyl Hour at 6pm is me - ‘live’ in the sense of ‘it’s life, Jim, but not as we know it’. www.frome.fm

My birthday’s coming up in September, anyone who wants to buy me the very copy of Irene Handl’s first novel that she sent to Peter Ustinov. ebay.us/m/PQ6hC9

My wife reached saturation point with late King Crimson fairly quickly, so I went here instead, that seems to have done the trick.

Why is it that just about every ‘space age game of the future’ from the ‘70s/‘80s is essentially another take on 3D noughts & crosses?

Still pleased this eventually came out on vinyl. Having Walking On Air at the end of a side should offer the perfect opportunity to whip off the stylus early, but it seems I have even developed a soft spot for that, despite myself.

Lee Pylon’s book is a joy, one of those rare occasions when I look forward to reading a book more than once.

Have had a bit of a ‘girls, guitars and noise’ break from my usual safe place of middle aged men with synthesizers