#NowPlaying The Weird And Wonderful Marmozets. I got this about 10 years ago, for the sole reason that they are from my home town. It's enjoyably rowdy, and 'Particle' is a standout.

Happy 80th birthday Tony Levin #LetsTHRAKAgain

I'm approx half way through a packet of Polos and so far each one has been broken in half #RuinedExperience

#NowPlaying Cacophony by Rudimentary Peni. An absolute classic!

Thought I'd bob some Yusef Lateef on, I did.

My best train journey ever was on The Cardinal from Chicago to Indianapolis in September 2000. Spent most of the 5 hours in the smoking room party. A guard popped his head in, saw were having fun and ignored the 15 min limit. We hit a car on a crossing, waited 45 mins, then continued. 👇

#NowPlaying FZ:OZ by Frank Zappa. Very slimmed down line up from 1976

#NowPlaying Half Mute by Tuxedomoon. I think it was John Costello in Cardiff in 1988 who mentioned they'd played at his school on a tour of UK schools. Which is wild.

#NowPlaying Double Exposure by Stan Sulzmann and John Taylor. Sax and keyboards - perfect for a sultry Saturday evening.

Well, The Claypool Lennon Delirum's new CD presentation has rather floored me! I wasn't expecting that! It's called 'The Great Parrot-Ox & The Golden Egg of Empathy".

They have a new album out that should be turning up in a bit, till then here is my favourite album from 2016: Monolith of Phobos by The Claypool Lennon Delirium.

#NowPlaying Suspended Moment by Artchipel Orchestra with Jonathan Coe. It's a wonderful homage to the Canterbury sound.

Synthesizer Patel has dropped out of the Great American State Fair

It's time to wallow in this wonderful thing again...

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Episode 8 of Twin Peaks S3 is quite rightly lauded, but don't overlook episode 3, which is just as bonkers.

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#NowPlaying Skylarking by XTC, the one where they fell out with Todd Rundgren. This is the version with corrected polarity (apparently).

#NowPlaying Hard Chargin' by Dreadnaught. A contender for album of the century, this.

You don't hear much about hantavirus these days.

Thread (1) Music writers find it hard to write the term "double album" without adding the adjective "sprawling". It's become an inevitable journalistic cliché: the "sprawling double album". First time I saw it was a 1970s description of the Beatles' white album, which really...

#NowPlaying Humans Fly / Every Day Timebomb by Dog Faced Hermans. The first time I went to The Duchess Of York (1988) was to see these. Having to leave before the end to get the last bus was a major factor in choosing to move to Leeds a few months later. El Doggo Speaks 👇

#NowPlaying Lifeline by Roy Ayers Ubiquity. Got this one after hearing 'Running Away', whilst listening to the funk radio station in my car during Grand Theft Auto - San Andreas, shortly after my 40th birthday.

#NowPlaying Amorphae by Ben Monder. I got this after hearing his guitar playing on Blackstar.

#NowPlaying Object 47 by Wire. They had become a trio again, with no discernable difference to their sound. I saw them tour this at The Cockpit in 2008.

#NowPlaying Superchip: The Final Silicon Solution? by The Broughtons (though credited here as 'The Edgar Broughton Band'). This is from 1982 and was their final studio album - a more contemporary sound but still compelling.

#NowPlaying Touch Me There by Shankar. Got this as part of HMV's ruinous '3 CDs for £20' offer in the early 90s, which included most of Frank Zappa's back catalogue and related releases such as this.

#NowPlaying The Sea Nymphs. Lovely album, this.

#NowPlaying A Flourishing Fall In A Grain Of Sand by Humanotone. Tasty and heavy stoner weirdness from Chile.

Not going on one of these... BBC News - More than 1,000 passengers held on cruise after gastrointestinal illness outbreak www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is perfect

Share a song from the year you turned 18. youtu.be/VKIaEm3pSj8?...

It's good that Bullseye repeats are still on. A couple of weeks back I was delighted to see the episode (i last saw on a Sunday teatime in the 80s) where Jim Bowen asked the bantam-keeping guy from Cleator, "How big's your cock?" [beat] "and your hen?".

#NowPlaying Mainstream by Quiet Sun. The LP blew my mind, and getting this wonderful Japanese SACD from @burningshed.com so many years later was a real thrill. I cannot overstate how good this is.

#NowPlaying Rumours by Fleetwood Mac. For 10 extra BlueSky points, can you name which BBC2 Grand Prix highlights programme opened with Murray Walker introducing them soundchecking 'The Chain' (or at least, the bit everyone knows)?

#NowPlaying Shaker Loops and others by John Adams

Does anyone else who was at UK Electronica at Stafford in either 1986 or 1987 remember Damo Suzuki wandering about in a neat leather coat? He wasn't performing, he was just there...

Uh-oh

Was about to play some Slift then spotted this Prime Sinister cd that I've not heard for a while, so...

I never tire from hearing this Roy Buchanan anthology. What a great guitarist he was.

Watching 'Dusty at the BBC'. There was a clip of her on BBC's 1971 Rod McKuen Show. Those were the days, Rod McKuen show - I'd forgotten the Beeb used to do things like that.

#NowPlaying Fraction sur le Temps by Urban Sax. Wish I'd bought more by this magical outfit, when that was possible. The way this evolves is SO pleasing.

#NowPlaying Morrison Hotel by The Doors. For the first time...

#NowPlaying Manual Music Of The Mountains by Ashtray Navigations. Recorded 10 years ago but withheld because of public safety legislation, it's good that they've finally allowed it to be released.

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#NowPlaying Peak Of Eternal Light by Moonbound. Italian prog-pop with Crimson & XTC connections...

Yay, it's bank holiday weekend. Let us kickstart it with this classic collection of Cardiacs singles and b-sides, Songs For Ships And Irons #NowPlaying

#NowPlaying Ron Geesin's latest release, Staring Sane. It's really good is this!