Keith Jarrett invents the house music piano break on Koln Concert. Nobody mentions this enough.

I only know the rock and roll hall of fame is going on because you lot keep stancing about it. #stancing

I get home from a nice day out, turn on the news to find that we need to increase defence capabilities 'in case Iran drop a nuclear bomb on us', Badenoch moaning that Labour spend more on welfare than defence (yes it's what Lab govts do you shithead) and I mean where is all this crap coming from?

Ok Rob this is getting out of hand. That's far too much BigBillBroonzy. Everything he did for £12. I mean c'mon!

Been in Huddersfield uni library where the students are obviously getting well educated.

I'm been in too many room with coked up people like this to want to add to the sum of human misery by diminishing a favourite song.

I know most of you can't stand him but Mr Forensic is making mincemeat out of Badenoch in the House right now.

Mr Priapic is back. Must be the warm weather. "I see next door have a new extension" etc. I have a PhD you know.

I always assume people have seen this wonderful clip but last time I posted it I got a few wows never seen this. So here it is again in tribute. When Rosko played it on R1 he dedicated it to the squatters at 144 Piccadilly. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ca5s...

RIP Patrick Campbell-Lyons. Carrying a copy of All Of Us nearly got me beat up by skinheads on Stevenage station in 1971 but that wasn't your fault. Rainbow Chaser was my gateway drug to everything. All dressed up and laughing loud. Rest in phasing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcf1...

You like those kind of gag merchants, don’t you? The mug boys. The double takers. The repeated tag line gang. Two men walk into a bar. Into a bar. Two men. Have you noticed when you get on the bus? On a bus. There’s a driver and a conductor and some passengers. See I can do the observational stuff.

"And these letters were written by the same man who wrote The Whitsun Weddings collection you say?" (continues)

Ticket To Ride straight in at number one with Ringo giving a trial run out to that lolloping rolling beat he would use again to even better effect on Tomorrow Never Knows. Ringo was the best psychedelia drummer bar none. Fact.

Thread of the day (he said, doubling down on his deep dive into Porcia's request to Brutus to 'get a life'.)

King of The Road by Roger Millar. A record whose terminology was as impenetrable to me at the time as Finnegans Wake would have been. #oldstogies

Love Her by the Walker Bros. New entry at 28. Spine tingling when heard in context. A record that announces there's a new wall of sound in town. You can already hear that they're going to be massive.

Another BigL Fab 40 revelation. Don't tell me Syd Barrett hadn't heard this when the Floyd did those earliest demos, esp Lucy Leave, King Bee & Remember Me. See also The Goods Gone by The Who. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx6Z...

BigL Fab 40. Separated at birth. Don't Get Off That Train by Tony Blackburn and What by Melinda Marx, later covered by Soft Cell.

But also, as I said recently, a great lost delta blues man called Nick Drake. He only recorded as many songs as Robert Johnson but I gather he met the same hell hound. He did this thing called Black Eyed Dog which.....(continues)

My recent King Bee purchases. I'm by no means a blues novice but I did choose well here. Not a bad selection among them. All good but I think my favourites are the Son House, Bukka White and Mississippi Fred McDowell. "I'm going round again" I told a quizzical Les behind the counter.

Any blues scholars on here? What's the best period of Lightning Hopkins to zone in on for potential purchases.

Been playing loads of Bukka White and I think I'm finally beginning to understand what Syd Barrett had pared it all down to in those 1974 Abbey Road sessions. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hasl...

Dance people. Name that tune. Gorgeous piano tune at the v end of the tape. Lovely bit of Italo House. I have it on a white label and call it Can You Understand after the vocal refrain but who is it? archive.org/details/808-...

Here's the second of my early 90s ravey uploads for all you dance heads. Not entirely sure of the precise dates of the recordings but as I mention in the description I'm not really here for the admin. archive.org/details/808-...

Here you go ravers. Something for the weekend. 6Music tried to convince me the other morning that 1991 sounded like that. Not to me it didn't. It sounded like this. archive.org/details/mix-...

A couple of great rave tape uploads coming later, I'm telling you.

Did anyone else have the KLF bootleg? At least I assume it was a bootleg. You never could tell with those scamps.

What we did (not long) before the internet. Part 3.

Best wishes to any animal rights protestors today. Good luck with your endeavours wherever they might occur.

After a week of Easter archive uploads we end later with a couple for the ravers, some of my earliest Manchester recordings 1991/92. Mix Factory on Sunset, Stu Allen on Key 103. Full on.

Saturday morning before anyone else gets up is often me time and what do I do with that time? This morning I think up really naff band names. 17th on the bill at an early 70s festival names. So far I've come up with Magic Problem and Brown Toast.

So much of that new Morrissey LP sounds like rejected Stretford bedroom demos from about 1983. This however is somewhat terrific and the video is top. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFac...

For the evening crowd and the old head fraternity. I uploaded two 1968 radio shows this morning featuring Frank Zappa. This was the first of them. archive.org/details/zapp...

For anyone who needs convincing how consistently grim horse racing is I recommend this website. www.horsedeathwatch.com

Not to make light of these old school violence posts but the only time in my life I was ever mugged when I was 17 I gave him my small change but refused to hand over my brand new copy of Lol Coxhill's Ear of The Beholder LP which is about as on brand a me mugging as you could possibly get in 1972.

Absolutely true this. As I mentioned recently a film I could never watch again. The blankness. And it's only towards the end you realise there's been a total absence of cops. Just a suitcase left by a roadside. #thatslife

I see Will's written his Rolling Stones still vital piece for the Times Arts section again.

"Tough old game this at times." Commentators word just now as the winner of the 2.20 at Aintree has had to be put down. Landed badly at the final fence and still ridden hard despite virtually hopping on his hind legs the last furlong. Probably shattered a pelvis. Heartless money game. Fuck off ITV

Anyone fancy inviting me to do a gig? Don't all rush at once. I like talking and one look at my posts or my website will indicate the wide range of expertise I cover. Will perform for travel expenses and overnight accommodation. Solemn promise not to use the word icon.

Having an archive sift and sort. ie moving stuff into cheap crates I bought when Factory Shop closed down. What we did before the internet. Long long before the internet. Part one.

The second of two Zappa recordings I've uploaded this morning. Frank guests with the big Daddy of Underground FM radio Tom Donahoe on KSAN in November 1968. The usual mixture of erudition smugness and mindblowing music. Radio was once like this. archive.org/details/zapp...

Oi you! 'Ands on 'Eads We know how to deal with you ageing Heads. Happy listening mofos Archive material to die for. (Not literally) archive.org/details/zapp...

"Comedy is the art of telling truth through the medium of lies. I mean, if you’re into intellectualising it at this point, then that’s where it’s at."

Folks, what's the link to that site that tells you what Bluesky block lists you're on? I've been blocked by 9 people today and I'm curious.

“I like fluoro. i-D magazine in the 80s was always fluoro. And that was an era I really liked – all that street fashion.” Chris Lowe from that Alex Needham Guardian interview. Me too. I loved i-D more than the Face. I still have several copies. Best looking mag on the shelves bitd.

Left it a bit late to upload onto archive dot org today. It gets v slow once the Americans start using it but a couple of prime bits of late 60s Frank Zappa on the radio going up tomorrow morning. Frank playing doo-wop. Frank being Frank.

Not only is this a book that needed to be written, it needed to be written and curated like this. One review I read praised it but said it lacked an overall historical arc. Nonsense. The participants are the historical arc. John tells their tale beautifully. Lyrical, nuanced, poignant witty and wry

The last of my 4 Simon Dee uploads. Listening back I wince at the corniness of some of the patter then I realise we're not even 2 full decades on from the 60s yet. Many of those readers letters will have come from people in their mid to late 30s. archive.org/details/dee-...

Driving past the cricket ground just now. The covers are on. The nets are up. The bees are buzzing. The tulips are blooming. Here for another year.

R3. "I don't suppose that when Christopher Tye was alive in the 1500s he ever thought he's be number 15 in the classical chart." Well no Georgia, I don't suppose he did. Some of you like this sort of thing don't you? You think it gives the music personality.