Saved by the Timpson!

Lick My Decals Off, Baby is the less cheerful but fascinating sequel to Trout Mask Replica. I usually forget I have this, so it's always a nice surprise when I remember.

Just dreamt an interesting guitar part. I even transcribed it, in the dream. It's gone now.

#NowPlaying You're Dreaming by The Cactus Blossoms, whom you might recall from Twin Peaks: The Return. Countryish with a nod to the Everly Brothers. I had a ticket to see them about 6 years ago but was ill and missed the gig.

Watching Live And Let Die (1973) and quite chuffed to see the new James Bond still using Morse Code. Later, there'll be the speedboat bit that always cropped up on Screen Test. Love it!

My watch battery has carked it and it's at moments like this I appreciate how switching my phone on to tell the time just WILL NOT DO!

#NowPlaying No Humans Allowed by Chrome. This includes the 42-minute version of Read Only Memory which, like the artwork, takes its inspiration from Pil.

Daevid and the gang giving it the Big City Energy.

Time for a laugh - it's Faust IV

#NowPlaying Structures Of Feeling 1 by Max In The World & Kroba. A cool, comforting listen to wind down with this Friday.

#NowPlaying Tangerine Dream's latest - 50 years of phaedra - at the barbican.

#NowPlaying First Light by Barbara Thompson. Another musician I failed to see when the opportunity arose, but this is a great set featuring top accomplices.

Happy International Customs Day

Happy Burns Night!

#NowPlaying The Sylvie And Babs Hi-Fi Companion by Nurse With Wound. This is objectively one of the greatest creations of mankind, and always makes me laugh.

#NowPlaying this 2CD collection of early Traffic radio sessions. It has variable sound quality, but there's loads of songs, including by the short-lived Wooden Frog - the line up without Winwood after he left in 1969.

#NowPlaying Night Parade of One Hundred Demons by Earthless. This is a splendid album of stoner / psychedelic rock from 2022.

#NowPlauing Live '78 by Hawklords. I could do with more live stuff by this band...

I've given it some thought, but I'll not be joining Donald 'so called' Trump's Board Of Peace.

Here's page 42, but I'm unsure where the second sentence starts and finishes.

I don't have much by Stackridge - Extravaganza on pvc, Friendliness and this BBC Live In Concert on CD. Should get more really, they were very good...

Share a bird photo you've taken, please.

#NowPlaying Cold Fact by Sixto Rodriguez. A psych-folk obscurity that has achieved wide acclaim in recent years, deservedly.

Working from home, so I have the new Cloudland Blue Quartet release 'Shostakovich' playing in the background. It appears to be conducive to industry, as I'm getting a lot done...

I fancied some excruciatingly tense viewing for a Satdy night, so I'm watching episode 15 of series 1 of Colditz. Last time I watched this, it took about 3 hours as I had to keep pausing it to recover. But this time I'm wondering who the jazz musicians are...

#NowPlaying Panamerica, a 5CD box of live frolics by Stick Men featuring David Cross. Recorded on a South American tour which scandalously avoided Leeds.

Share what you consider to be a goddess tier album.

Time to rock out to Miles Davis with his Tribute To Jack Johnson!

This sends shivers down my spine youtu.be/sxXtpMngivM?...

Some marvellous creations here by Ralph.

#NowPlaying Vier by Perfect Beings. Good album by a group now sadly disbanded.

I missed out on Can's 1977 Keele Uni CD when it first appeared, but I saw it was available again the other day. Well worth the wait. They were on svorching form here.

#NowPlaying Back To The Story by The Idle Race. It contains all three albums, b-sides and rarities. The second one is my favourite, the third was obviously going to suffer the effects of Jeff Lynne's departure.

Post the venue where you saw your first gig and name the performers. St George's Hall, Bradford. Hawkwind suported by Mama's Boys, October 1981.

Talking of Daevid Allen, this 2CD compilation is pretty good

Anybody else remember - in the late 80s - seeing Daevid Allen and a group of young women performing a fairly odd, funny, perplexing and occasionally disturbing evening of music & cabaret in the basement of the Roundhay Astoria? Probs the weirdest gig I attended...

Eee I right fancy some early 70s German psych-folk. I reckon Trips + Träume by Witthüser & Westrupp will do the business.

#NowPlaying Unretirement Principles - Fox and Newt, Leeds 14 Dec 2025 by Ashtray Navigations. And realising it's over 20 years since we gigged together #AncientHistory

#NowPlaying some psychedelic fun, Midnight Sun by The Ghost Of A Sabre Tooth Tiger. If you enjoy The Claypool-Lennon Delirium, I reckon you'd like this, too.

I've probably missed something, but it occurred to me that I haven't seen any posts from Duke of OddsFiche for a while - it appears his account has gone. Hope he's ok.

When I was getting into Zappa around 1980, the only early Mothers LPs available down HMV were Uncle Meat and this, Burnt Weeny Sandwich, so I had to get both. Though I prefer the former, I've played 'The Little House I Used To Live In' dozens of times since.

#NowPlaying A-Z by Colin Newman. Released after '154', it's an interesting collection of several different styles of song. Includes the classic 'Alone', the rowdy 'But No' and the bonkers 'S-S-S-Star Eyes'.

Bet that FIFA guy's self-awareness is overloading right now (sarcasm)

#NowPlaying Black & White Raga, a couple of sets from 1966 and 1965 by Group Sounds Four & Five.

49 years ago today since my cousin secretly drank loads of our Grandma's apple champagne while doing the washing up, leading to spectacular projectile vomiting during the Augustus Gloop scene in Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory.

West Side Story's on and 'America' has just happened. I always feel emotionally drained by that part, because it's unsurpassable.

My Album Of 2025 is LSD by Cardiacs. Never thought this would be released, it's a really emotional ride and a fitting tribute to the unique vision of Tim Smith. #AOTY

Dial M For Murder ✂️ followed by Rear Window 👁 on Beeb 2 now!

What did he say?