The world may be in danger of turning to dust and ashes, but while we can we should remember humanity’s greatest achievements including this belting tune by Manfred Mann. Here’s a video of it I’ve not seen before youtu.be/-exoVJp5CoY

I've just seen a video clip of a mid 90s British pop band limbering up for a reunion gig, and my goodness. I'm no oil painting myself but blimey they've disimproved. It reminds me that when I went to see a reunited The Creation in 1993 they were a) younger than I am now and b) still looking cool.-

Anyone else know this film? Cracking Stanley Baker performance, and a wonderful Britxotica 1962 soundtrack youtu.be/sAh5le4xeAE?...

A decade-long zone so flooded that some of the highlights had been forgotten.

Both this song and the one by The Jam that has the same title are each tremendous. As is the book that inspired both. And-although it's possibly a heretical opinion- so is the film. If you imagine it being more about 1985 than 1958 it makes a lot more sense. -

All together now... youtu.be/ATQRWgQj6HU?...

EVERGREENLY TOPICAL www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpfc...

The perfect juxtaposition of posts! @alexvont.bsky.social

Play the B side. It's one of the greatest things they ever did. Why Can't I Touch It, it's called. youtu.be/ed1704QRKh4?...

Again for those at the back, Reform’s job in that latest by-election wasn’t to win. They’d no chance. I knew this as soon as they chose that Matt Goodwin as the candidate. No, their job was to lose, and blame their loss on things that keep the hate pot boiling. Which is what’s happened. -

A propos of the last repost, I've now got this on my mind. I've got it on their album Leatherslade Farm which is hard enough to get hold of, but have never seen the 7". youtu.be/vXIcgE1gdtY?...

🎵You’ve blown it all Sky High By selling me a pie🎵

Happy St. David's Day! youtu.be/0z8VfymHwH4?...

A random chat with a neighbour turned into them ranting about "Fifteen Minute Cities" based on a YouTube video they'd watched and anecdotal advice about their daughter getting a traffic fine for driving in a bus lane in Oxford. There needs to be a crash course in media literacy for everyone.-

Musicland Records in Watford (iirc) was on the site of what became the "bottom" Our Price store (as opposed to the "top" one up by the Pond).

From Let It Bee to Filth Hounds of Hades, the eighty best/worst British album titles of the 1980s. thelionandunicorn.com/2026/02/28/g...

Now THIS is a song. Bravo, Mr Sedaka. Thank you for everything youtu.be/W0jolmovwDU?...

Some of you will know I’m the son of a preacher man. Some of you know I grew up in Watford. This song was written in my dad’s parish. Years later I found my copy in Past & Present Records, about a hundred yards from where it was written. If you want a description of psychogeography, this is one.

Some of you will know I’m the son of a preacher man. Some of you know I grew up in Watford. This song was written in my dad’s parish. Years later I found my copy in Past & Present Records, about a hundred yards from where it was written. If you want a description of psychogeography, this is one.

Strong “My uncle’s a QC” energy from Mandelson, to which I’d yell “GETINTHEBACKOFTHEVAN!!”

2026 is the year of the horse The horse

Never mind Reform’s attempts to regulate the sexual life of the nation. My old cat Biggles,dead since 2010 but with more chance of being PM than Farage, has proposed,with an eye on Reform’s demographic (people stuck in a pre-woke past) that the punishment for bigamy be “having two mothers in law”.

I will never not be amused by the local private primary school using a public park as a playground at break times, because if this isn’t the perfect metaphor for our times I don’t know what is.

The Smiths had drawn a line in the sand dividing the Indie and Pop aesthetic, then along came The Housemartins and stood proudly astride that line. One of the best, and most misunderstood, bands of the 1980s. They were the antidote to both 80s muso wankerdom and Indie scene pomposity & I loved them.

An evening arrest too. That means a night in the stripy hole for Mandy. Oh dear. How sad. Never mind.

Katharine Birbalsingh watching Lord Of The Flies and wondering why there aren't any hobbits in it.

Wonderful Land is one of those tunes that can't help but move you. Everything about it, the melody, the arrangement, the production (oh god, the production on this is incredible) is designed to hit you right in the heart.

This was an amazing do. So much love for Wendy in the room and rightly so. Her Locomotion nights were properly brilliant back in the 80s/90s. The great music she plays and the lovely people who come along to dance like loons haven't changed at all. She gave me my start as a DJ in 91. I owe her all.

Former UK PM Gordon Brown is providing - voluntarily and not for the first time - information to the police about abuses of power relating to the Epstein files. As PM Brown was briefed against by people such as Alistair Campbell and Peter Mandelson as being ‘psychologically flawed’ ….1/

"Things got so bad that not even an adult Richard Attenborough was safe; he is seen on a bombsite by a nosy neighbour and as a result later accused of murdering a child." @lordbonkers.bsky.social on the dangers of bombsites in post-war British cinema. thelionandunicorn.com/2026/02/21/f...

Searching for records to play at a thing tomorrow, I came across this wonderful thing in my collection. An early outing of Bill Oddie’s musical talents. Properly good in a kind of Scott Walker sort of way. I don’t know anyone else with a copy but I bet one of you lot has one.

We had just moved into our house in Watford when this was broadcast. The enormous ivy covered oak tree that overlooked the house bore an uncanny resemblance to a fully grown Krinoid. Not at all unnerving…

With the caveat that this is a council by-election and the number of votes cast in total was only a few thousand at most, this is a snapshot of the kind of area that Reform would need to be getting Labour levels of vote share if they were actually going to form a government at the next election-

I always thought that this record and Can You Feel It by The Jacksons coming out on the same day was quite an amusing coincidence.

When Norfolk Police ask Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor if he has any special dietary requirements whilst in custody:

Oh, the grand old duke of york He ██████████████████ He ██████████████████ And he ██████████████████

"Andrew Mountbatten-Win...what?... Sorry you're breaking up"

Chefs kiss

As ever, @privateeyenews.bsky.social were ahead of the curve

An obit in Welsh, naturally, of Leno Conti, the proprietor of Conti’s Cafe of Lampeter, and owner of the most ferociously warped copy of Love Is Contagious by Taja Sevelle you’ve ever heard on a jukebox www.bbc.co.uk/cymrufyw/ert...

I’m so happy with this comp. No acetates or anything recovered from a degrading quarter inch… all songs that will be familiar to anyone who woke up to Wogan/Ray Moore/Steve Jones in the 80s. www.acerecords.co.uk/weds-morning...

This sounds like something Captains Tanguy and Laverdure would've had something to do with. Right up their boulevard.

Sunday’s Soho Radio show. www.mixcloud.com/sohoradio/an... it was a lot of fun.

"Save money! Instead of buying the new Big Country single, get a copy of the 7" of the Theme From Z Cars by Johnny Keating from your local charity shop for 25p"

When this came out in the USA, it had a load of extra Hammond on it, and sounded all the better for it. Have a listen. Tell me you don't agree... youtu.be/iggzVjGRft4?... -

The more I find out about the RAM chip shortage, and now the Hard Drive Storage shortage, the more I am grateful for the fact that most, if not all, of my computing needs are currently met by a collection of old but perfectly serviceable equipment that's not in any immediate need of an upgrade-

New Railcard video! Stocks of their debut CD are diminishing… and they are only available from us and from @slumberlandrecords.com

17-02-265 Dear Middle-Aged Moaners, as a pissed-off bloke in his 70s, I deplore in the strongest possible terms your lazy assumption that all old people approve of Reform. No. They are, like the Tories before them, like the tech bros ahead of them, a peloton of cunts. Yours, A STATE PENSIONER