Every Polnareff clip from that era is a treat, although the bassist might be the star of this.

We used to do a Michel Polnareff song for an encore with Felt : www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUqN...

Pete Astor off of out of The Loft, Weather Prophets etc is running a songwriting workshop in July. He is one of the best songwriters of his generation and it’ll be well worth signing up to. Info here sohopoly.co.uk/events/make-...

Inspired by Richard Lester‘s love of Jazz, I wrote my book on a hard days night listening exclusively to Jazz notably Sonny Rollins’s remarkable beautiful poetic soundtrack to Alfie. Such a sad day.

A Scottish vampire. A ridiculous task. A Chosen One who can’t be arsed. And Nosferatu demanding bubble baths. Jockula is now available for pre-order direct from my Ko-fi shop. ko-fi.com/s/02d085b943

Regarding all things Michel Polnareff I am happy to report that after an absence of several years this life affirming bit of telly is back up on YouTube. Only 13 views? Almost as many as saw him at Hammersmith youtu.be/WNZ8rCQ5_pg?...

Discovering Michel Polnareff is something everyone should do, and there's no better way to do it than via this song (except possibly either La Mouche or Sous Quelle Etoile Suis Je Né or the whole of the Polnareff's album)

Sonny Rollins did so much, but this is the one that came to mind first as it's laden with my own memories of the time when I was discovering life, love and a whole world of music, books and films. youtu.be/sW2aDwXO7Dg?...

Re last repost. I just had a quick google for video of Radio City/Shivering Sands Tower and bugger me if it isn't the template for Radio Goodies youtu.be/J_VIRzS5Tgs?...

Dutch beat giants Q65 visiting the Radio City sea fort at Shivering Sands in the Thames Estuary, 1966

Happy birthday to him

"Great Uncle Andy, what was Big Beat?" The old man shuffled over to a shelf groaning under a weight of vinyl records, thought for a moment, then chose one. "Well, young lady, it was many things. Drunk people jumping around in London and Brighton mostly. But it was also great music. Listen to this"

Archie. Shep.

Posted on Inastagram this weekend by Ben Johns www.instagram.com/ben_johns/. The sudden discovery that the village he grew up in is no longer a place where he can walk the street in safety has clearly been devastating...

Don't hackers normally take money out of your account?

Yesterday's Soho Radio show, in case you missed it. www.mixcloud.com/sohoradio/an...

This album was dead easy to get hold of in Watford. Past & Present had over-ordered the NEMS re-issue in the mid-70s, the one with the proper replica of the original sleeve, and were selling brand new copies from their stock well into the 1980s for £4.99. That's where early teenage me found his.

The ghost of my old cat Biggles has a proposal to make cat food free at the point of delivery to be paid for by a new 100% purchase price tax on all dog food.

“Nobody’s gonna dance to that old shit ever again”.

Here’s a photo I took of a squirrel i just saw when I was out and about.

Now playing on Soho Radio

45 minutes until curtain up on a smashing Soho Radio show. Please have a listen at www.sohoradiolondon.com

I'm on Soho Radio later on today. Have a listen from 4pm sohoradio.com/schedule/

Never mind James Burke's rocket. THIS is the greatest shot the BBC ever accomplished and it happened 55 years ago yesterday.

The record, and the book that followed shortly after, are a fantastic snapshot of a particular moment in British pop culture. Both now feel about as contemporary as Education Secretary Kenneth Baker. So much of what The Manual foresaw re technology has come to pass. As for Gary Glitter, well...

The moral panic against trans people is utterly indefensible and entirely predictable in an age where the experiences of one's own life and the evidence of one's own eyes count for nothing when measured against the torrent of online bile that's swamped our daily lives. -

Can’t think of a better person to tell the story than Ben Sidran, a brilliant jazz artist in his own right

J'Acuzzi

Could there be a more Northern aeroplane in the air over Yorkshire right now?

Folk singer and guitarist Martin Carthy is 85 today. @benfinlay74.bsky.social writes about him here (and elsewhere)... thelionandunicorn.com/2025/07/26/t...

1990. A New Decade of something or other. This and The Masterplan by Diana Brown & Barrie K Sharpe were released on the same day. On the surface as different as a sausage and a rose, both ploughed a similar po-mo neo retro furrow. Both were dance floor smashes in the SDUC students union that year.-

Nobody’s having more fun than me tonight… I’ve found a box of sevens in a corner of the shed I’d forgotten all about. Some of these will be getting spun on Soho Radio this Saturday for sure.

Cover versions are pointless. But also

I have been deemed to be a "social democrat" by recent quizzes, but I am sure that if the government marched squads of soldiers into the HQs of Tesco, Sainsbury's, Morrisons et al, and informed the startled execs that they were now under state control I'd be absolutely fine about it.-

I see the usual sensible people are pouring scorn on the idea of basic price controls for supermarket essentials. Go on then sensibles. What should be done instead? Higher wages? Lower rents? More taxes on the wealthiest to make public services cheaper so that we can afford to pay for shopping? -

HS2 expected to cost £102.7bn - or more if you purchase on the day you travel.

"You mean there'll only be one sofa every hundred yards?" "Yes, and only plain silver chandeliers"

I will inherit nothing from my parents because they have nothing to leave me, and my pension pot holds enough money for a decent Japanese takeaway, a bottle of single malt and a black market Webley for when the day comes. I am ok with this.

The Quietus is 90% funded by subscribers, and we need another 500 this spring to help us fight the AI-pocalypse – with this in mind, there's a huge sale on our top tier subscriptions. If you like what we do, here's how you can help: thequietus.com/opinion-and-...

I'm not naming names because, well, it's no good to chuck stones around in glass houses and I'm no George Martin, Michael ,Benson nor indeed Formby. But I would never be so vainglorious as to ask AI to scrape the internet and make a 4+ minute video hagiography dedicated to myself. -

Somebody's desperate to hack into my Instagram account. Seventeen attempts so far. They'll be lucky. I never use it, it's an absolute shithouse of a site. But just in case, if anyone's following andylewisacidjazz on there and I start posting please let me know because it won't be me.

The Equals

Took that other quiz we’re all doing today and it turns out no matter what you answer you end up a Social Democrat. All together now… -Whaddaweant? -MODERATE CHANGE! -Whendowewannit? -IN DUE COURSE!

Here's my cost-saving idea for the new BBC Director General. Turn off THE NEWS.

Chipping Discogs.

That Politics quiz thing you're all doing. I'm a "Progressive Realist" apparently which, since the seismic shift in the position of the Overton Window, is what they call someone who'd be happy to see the last king strangled with the guts of the last priest these days.

The best photo I ever took of a cat sitting in a bath.

Next year's Eurovision. Use computers. Loads of 'em. More computers than anyone has ever used in music production before. Get computers to perform it. Computers!

Lists of the best *anything* of all time are great, but there is nothing quite like bonding with someone over a shared knowledge and understanding of something really obscure you both love with a passion. Which is my way of saying I've only read a midget's hatful of the books on that list.