Rob
@covers.bsky.social
We’ve got to have some music on the new frontier. Partial to a charity shop and an old newspaper cutting. Formerly @100Covers on Twitter, author of a couple of books and used to sometimes write for the Independent.
Probably one that I’d rescue in the event of a fire. Original paper sleeve signed by the Attractions’ bassist Bruce Thomas
“I still believe in love, peace and understanding, as Elvis Costello said, and what's so funny about love, peace and understanding?" John Lennon
Probably one that I’d rescue in the event of a fire. Original paper sleeve signed by the Attractions’ bassist Bruce Thomas
It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobbledstreets silent and the hunched courters'-and-rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboat-bobbing sea. Dylan Thomas, Under Milk Wood. #BookWormSat 🎨 Augustus John
1971, L.A. Judee Sill & friend. Fun fact. Sill was married to Bob Harris, not that one, between 1966 & 1972. In 1972 she toured the UK & appeared on "In Session With Bob Harris", that one...
The pop charts, 55 years ago - July 1971. The Who, The Stones, T Rex. For me, memories of summer holiday on the Isle of Wight. Every one of these records brings it all back!
Disc, 15 July 1967. Interestingly this record didn’t appear until 1970 as far as I can see. And without the Scott Walker subtitle (although she did perform it on his TV show I think) @delonsblues.bsky.social you might know more?
Delighted to track down the super rare Attractions 10” WORK recorded with the photographer Brian Griffin at Edinburgh in 1988. Their only appearance without Elvis Costello.
Just over 50 years ago. One of the greatest TV moments. youtube.com/watch?v=iaH-...
Horses - Patti Smith (Old Grey Whistle Test 1976)
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It’s that kind of day. Pretty uncool these days, John Peel often played tracks from these two eccentric Charisma albums back in 74.
Tracking down Elvis Costello’s Japanese CD releases with bonus tracks isn’t easy in the UK. Very happy to find this one though and to hear Elvis’s cover of The Velvet Underground!
Sorry to hear about the passing of Andrew Bodnar, bass player with Graham Parker & The Rumour. And the man who played bass on Elvis Costello's (first) finest three minutes. Now on the MBRS. buff.ly/b5f6knr
This is a fabulous album. Anyone else know it? Peggy Lipton was married to Quincy Jones and had a brief on-off with Paul McCartney in the 60s.
Kevin Rowland, at the launch of his book in paperback this week at the Irish Cultural Centre in Hammersmith.
Kevin Rowland, at the launch of his book in paperback this week at the Irish Cultural Centre in Hammersmith.
If like me you’re an Elvis Costello completist, The New Basement Tapes’ album of lost Dylan lyrics is a must. Five Dylan/Costello co-writes and EC plays on all 20 tracks.
The Ramones are rubbish, reckons some giant cloth-eared idiot from Manchester, July 1976.
