Daz Lawrence
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Music, films, oddballs and weirdos www.weirdbones.co.uk
A short rundown of some of the weirder gods of ancient Egypt. Including, Babi – Erect Baboon God of Corpse Peni
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The Weirder Gods of Ancient Egypt - Weird Bones
You might think you can just about get your head around Greek and Roman mythology – yes, unravelling
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So good that it made me chop something down in the garden
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An Introduction to Sendelica - Weird Bones
Sendelica – ‘An Introduction to Sendelica’ – Fruits de Mer Records Several umpteen albums into their career, Sendelica
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11 days ago
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I thought this review had been lost forever, but I have rescued it from the ether. I might watch Poseidon Adventure now.
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March of the Flower Children. Life & Death in 1967 America - Weird Bones
Various Artists – ‘March of the Flower Children – The American Sounds of 1967’ ‘March of the Flower
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17 days ago
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The secret terror of bubblegum
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The Secret Terror of Bubblegum - Weird Bones
Various Artists – ‘Pour a Little Sugar On It – The Chewy Chewy Sounds Of American Bubblegum 1966-1971′
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22 days ago
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Just in case you're ever unsure who to complain to
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24 days ago
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Absolutely top tier TV horror, a Blu Ray has still yet to make an appearance
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Gargoyles - TV Horror in Overdrive - Weird Bones
‘Gargoyles,’ the TV movie which first aired on CBS in America in 1972, may not be the best
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about 1 month ago
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The Second Coming; the Garden of Eden; Holy Relics...in Bedford? The answer may still lay hidden in a box...
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What's in the Box? The Very British Cultists of The Panacea Society - Weird Bones
In 1792, France was revolting; in America, George Washington sanded off his choppers for a second term as
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about 1 month ago
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There's weird stuff happening in Portugal
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What Have They Put in my Porto? The Underground Music of Portugal - Weird Bones
Various – Anthology of Electro-Acoustic Music from Portugal – Unexplained Sounds Group Raffaele Pezzella‘ s odyssey around the
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about 1 month ago
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Ghouls - what are they? They're not zombies... they're much grimmer than that. The bottom feeders of the monster world. Read up here:
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What is a Ghoul? - Weird Bones
Since the late 1960s, zombies have become one of the most referenced monsters in popular culture, whether it
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The music of Anton LaVey - moody, inspired glimpses of fiery melody glinting in the infernal light...or mostly a load of old toss? Hmm...
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The Musical Happenings of Anton Lavey - Weird Bones
It seems fitting that music was one of the few constants in Anton LaVey’s life. As a child,
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David Rappaport - a fantastic actor and entertainer, and from the outside, despite the size fate afforded him, a happy man skilled in making people happy. But that's depression for you. It's a monster. I'm proud of this one.
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The Life and Death of David Rappaport - Weird Bones
David Rappaport was unquestionably one of Britain’s greatest actors of the 70s and 80s. Intelligent, witty, debonair and
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After centuries of the perverse and bizarre practice of castrating boys to preserve their "angelic" voices, Alessandro Moreschi became the last of his kind. Incredibly, recordings of his voice exist. Read more within.
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Alessandro Moreschi, The Last Castrato - Weird Bones
In 1984, The New York Times reported on the release of a set of recordings which by any
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The remarkable schnoz of Thomas Wedders.
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Thomas Wedders - Owner of the World's Largest Nose - Weird Bones
Thomas Wedders – likely born Thomas Wadhouse – was born in Yorkshire around 1730. Exact details about his
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Excellent new box set that doesn't pretend British music from the 60s for TV and film started and ended with Bond.
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What's It All About? The TV and Film Music of Swinging London - Weird Bones
Various Artists: ‘What’s It All About? The TV and Film Music of Swinging London’ – Strawberry/Cherry Red There
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about 2 months ago
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Manic Miner? Jet Set Willy? Unleash the horror!
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#zxspectrum
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It Came From the ZX Spectrum - 8-Bit Movie Horror - Weird Bones
Keep repeating, “It’s only a ZX Spectrum game, it’s only…” As a rule, if a game was released
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about 2 months ago
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Angelo Rossitto - a mighty, uncompromising actor, his fingerprints are across pop culture, sometimes in unexpected places.
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about 2 months ago
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A Bank Holiday repost of a waltz through horror movie adaptations on the ZX Spectrum. Spoiler, many weren't very good.
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It Came From the ZX Spectrum - 8-Bit Movie Horror - Weird Bones
Keep repeating, “It’s only a ZX Spectrum game, it’s only…” As a rule, if a game was released
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about 2 months ago
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Pity the film score composer who poured his soul into his work, only to find some other Johnny-come-lately came and stole their gig. Here are the stories behind some of the genre films with more than one soundtrack.
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about 2 months ago
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A chat I had with Gary Lee Conner from a few years ago
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Shadows of the Season - Looking Back at Sweet Oblivion with Gary Lee Conner - Weird Bones
Some 27 years since its original release, Screaming Trees’ most successful album is given the reissue treatment courtesy
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about 2 months ago
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The other Brian May.
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The Other Brian May - Australia's Greatest Film Music Composer - Weird Bones
There will be a great number of people in the world who think Brian May, the guitarist from
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about 2 months ago
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Confirming that Billy Childish is still wild
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Wild Billy Childish vs UFOs in the Desert and Phantoms Down the Docks - Weird bones
Wild Billy Childish & CTMF ‘House on Fire’ / ‘Keep Mojave Weird’ EP – Damaged Goods Three years on from Failure Not Success, CTMF return sounding anything but rested. ‘House on Fire’ is exactly what t...
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2 months ago
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Professor Plum, in the library, being beheaded.
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Music Boxes, Dead Crows, and Damp Mattresses - Weird bones
RhaD – ‘Ghost Music Library’ – Unexplained Sounds RhaD has always been the place where Raffaele Pezzella lets the wires show. Under his Sonologyst name, he’s meticulous, almost architectural in how he...
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3 months ago
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I asked AI to solve some of music's most enigmatic questions. Mixed results.
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Me, Myself and AI - Answering Music's Most Pressing Questions: Hip Hop Edition - Weird bones
The terror surrounding AI remains unwavering. How will YouTubers ever be able to make a living unboxing things with computers taking over our minds? How long can we expect to be able to select the req...
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3 months ago
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Eyeballs, Alex De Renzy pig films, meditations on the human condition by chickens. Obviously, it's my latest Residents review
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Just Bought the Farm? The Residents' 'Animal Lover' Reissued - Weird bones
The Residents – ‘Animal Lover’ – Cherry Red Animal Lover has always carried a strange reputation. Some listeners treat it like a puzzle that demands explanation and a map, a late‑period curio that sit...
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3 months ago
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New boxset covering the Paisley Underground, the second wave of psychedelia. More misses than hits, but still intriguing.
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This Can't Be Today - A Trip Through the US Psychedelic Underground - Weird bones
Various – ‘This Can’t Be Today – A Trip Through the US Psychedelic Underground’ – Cherry Red There’s a particular kind of compilation that arrives already carrying its own mythology, and ‘This Can’t B...
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Tad Doyle
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On this day, 35 years ago in 1991, TAD's 8-Way Santa was released on
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When I was little, my sister had a flexi-disc of dead voices captured within the grooves. It all came rushing back listening to this.
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The Electric Dead Speak! - Weird bones
Various – ‘Electric Dead Speak – Music for Electric Voice Phenomenon’ – Eighth Tower Records When I was little, I remember very clearly that my sister, Tracy, had a flexi-disc featuring not hits of th...
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4 months ago
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It's what all the kids are listening to. I think.
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Music for Ghosts - The Lasry-Baschet Sound Structures - Weird bones
The Lasry-Baschet Sound Structures might not be the go-to group on Spotify right now, I really couldn’t say. However, it would give humanity as a whole a tremendous boost if everyone were to run out i...
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4 months ago
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If you were there, you don't remember it. I wasn't there, so listened to this new box set.
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CBGB - A New York City Soundtrack 1975-1986 - Weird bones
Various – CBGB – A New York City Soundtrack CBGB mythology tends to calcify around the same five names – Television, Ramones, Blondie, Patti Smith, Talking Heads – the pantheon that debuted within fif...
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4 months ago
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New review is up - back to the garage
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Steppin’ Out: The Roots of Garage Rock 1963–1965 - Weird bones
Various – Steppin’ Out: The Roots of Garage Rock 1963–1965 Rock ’n’ roll was still a toddler when the kids on ‘Steppin’ Out: The Roots of Garage Rock 1963–1965’ started treating it like a battlefield....
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4 months ago
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Mark my words, all the cool kids will be listening to wobble this year
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Analog 2025 and the Case for Wobble - Weird bones
Various – ‘Analog 2025’ – Unexplained Sounds Group ‘Analog 2025’ arrives with tape flutter, slow pitch wobble, spring reverb that sounds like a corridor, and the soft, humanised clipping that turns a ...
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5 months ago
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It came from beyond The Channel. Sonic madness from the continent reviewed:
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It Came from Beyond the Channel - So High I've Been - Weird bones
Various – So High I’ve Been: A European Rock Anthology 1967–1973 3CD Set – Cherry Red For decades, the story of rock music has been told as if it were a transatlantic conversation between Britain and ...
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5 months ago
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Completely obsessed with this at the moment - unsettling and then some. Hugely recommended.
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IX TAB: Ropes, Rituals, and Inescapable Dread - Weird bones
Capricorni Peneumatici – ‘Ix Tab’, Eighth Tower Records I don’t often start reviews like this, but I think the accompanying text with this release speaks (in tongues) for itself: Ix Tab is an album de...
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9 months ago
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Joe Meek's bearing gifts. New review of a new box set covering some of Joe Meek's excursions into death, horror and cowboys
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Beyond Telstar - The Horror and Western Themes of Joe Meek - Weird bones
Various – Joe Meek – A Curious Mind Outer Space! Horror! Death Discs! The Wild West! Demos!. Cherry Red Joe Meek, astronaut extraordinaire (in his Holloway flat), was the launchpad for some of British...
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9 months ago
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Giving this another airing as it's suddenly attracted lots of hits. The last word on Horror Top Trumps (nearly)
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Dinner Party Godzilla and the Truth Behind Horror Top Trumps - Weird bones
Little evokes as eye-watering a Proustian rush as images of Waddington’s Horror Top Trumps. Despite my best efforts, I have not been able to ascertain the artist of the two packs of cards released in ...
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9 months ago
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Musical Differences - The Tribulations of Dr Teeth & The Electric Mayhem - Weird bones
Like most bands, The Electric Mayhem has experienced more than a few ups and downs nearly 50 years since its inception. That they are all still alive to tell the tale says much. But what skeletons lur...
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10 months ago
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There are even more things in the radiator
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In Feedback Everything is Fine - Revisiting the Score to Eraserhead - Weird bones
VA – The Eraserhead – Music Inspired by the Film of David Lynch – Unexplained Sounds Group In the cult cosmos of David Lynch’s ‘Eraserhead’, silence drips like oil, and the industrial groan of existen...
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10 months ago
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RIP Tom
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Tom Lehrer - Poisoning Pigeons In The Park
YouTube video by The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel
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10 months ago
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You cannot, as my creaking shelves confirm, have too much Screaming Trees
10 months ago
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"Beatles-y immediacy and cockroach intent"
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Luke Haines & Peter Buck - Going Down to the River to Blow my Mind - Weird bones
Music’s strangest séance gets its final incantation – tea brewed, minds blown. Three albums into their collaborative endeavours, we can safely remove any semblance of novelty from this album. Now able...
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10 months ago
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It's quite the listening experience
11 months ago
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"MTV had turned sound into sausages, and fashion into farting." You don't get reviews on this quality on Alan Titchmarsh.
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The Residents Wage War on the 80s - American Composers Series 1982-1987 - Weird bones
The Residents’ ‘American Composer’s Series‘ – Cherry Red There are bad years for music. Then there’s 1983. It was the year everything got airbrushed. Bowie traded Berlin’s paranoia for peroxide and pa...
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11 months ago
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A short review of outer space.
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Now That's What I Call Entropy - Sonologyst's Planetarium - Weird bones
Sonologyst – Planetarium Cold Spring Records Ah, to be floating, gliding, soaring through the silent everlastingness of outer space. Or, as the latest album from Sonologyst makes clear, the incredibly...
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11 months ago
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Nice weather for it
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Heat Wave! Sweaty Flutes and Bubbling Swamps with Lux & Ivy - Weird bones
Heat Wave – The Intoxicating World of Nexotica as Dug by Lux and Ivy I’m sure I said I wouldn’t get any more of these, but here we are. It seems entirely reasonable that some, if not all, of these rec...
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The Beach Boys - This Whole World (Visualizer)
YouTube video by TheBeachBoysVEVO
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12 months ago
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Scratching that Itch - A Year in the Music of Lee Perry - Weird bones
Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry Presents Confusion: The Jamaican Upsetter Singles 1971 One of the reasons I love music is the way that it captures an unrepeatable moment in time – thoughts, emotions, character, m...
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12 months ago
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Motown Who? Michigan's Rock 'n' Roll Roots - Weird bones
va – Motor City is Burning A Michigan Anthology 1965-1972 If Motown’s brilliant PR is to be believed, Michigan’s contribution to music starts and ends with Detroit soul. Actually, that’s unfair. You’d...
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12 months ago
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Thank You - Sly and the Family Stone | The Midnight Special
YouTube video by The Midnight Special
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12 months ago
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Why on Earth would you get up at the crack of dawn every weekend? I'll tell you why.
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Car Boot Weekends - The Joy of Jetsam - Weird bones
For the last couple of years, I have slowly – that is to say, quite quickly, become addicted to attending car boot fairs. Luckily, the small Cambridgeshire village I live in is equidistant to two fair...
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about 1 year ago
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