huw
@huwareyou.bsky.social
david essex apologist words for shindig! magazine
Deram Records was launched 60 years ago today. Bowie, Beverley, Cat Stevens, Move, Moodies, Mike Westbrook. “A Whiter Shade of Pale”, “Nothing But a Heartache”, “Michael Angelo“, “I Can’t Let Maggie Go”, “Beggin’”, “Rebels Rule”, “Vacuum Cleaner”. Blummin’ “I Was Kaiser Bill’s Batman”. Some label!
"Another Star" is an utterly magnificent noise indeed and I would like to think that the playout lasted for at least another 15 minutes after the fade out ended.
RIP to Calypso singer Mighty Sparrow, who has died at the age of 91, such an important figure in a genre which is really unfairly neglected. www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2eK...
Mighty Sparrow singing "Madam Dracula" c.1960
YouTube video by castor3331
youtube.com
I know it sounds infantile but I listen to this and it fills me with hope and joy about this whole human race endeavour. It’s just really good innit. Happy 50th!
My mum very kindly bought me Dragonfire on VHS off eBay when I was a kid c. 2008. I watched it on our telly which still had a video player; it wasn’t out on DVD yet but I was just that keen to see the face-melting story.
Scarred For Life Books@scarredforlife.bsky.social · 2w agoDOCTOR WHO: DRAGONFIRE (1987) featured a brief Raiders-style face-melting scene which went out at 7.35pm. Top marks to the YouTuber who spliced the full unedited version into the original clip. Early evening gore? This is what they want!
“We don’t know if Bob Marley ever saw The Banana Splits…” The kind of sentence you would only hear in A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs @andrewhickey.500songs.com
Heartbreaking: Not Only is Someone on the Bus Playing Music Out Loud From Their Phone, But Said Music is “Troublemaker” by Olly Murs
Today I found Affinity’s self-titled LP on Vertigo at a car boot sale. I will be chasing this high and racked with this guilt for the rest of my days.
The Iraq War (general) and the Boxing Day tsunami in 2004.
Black Aziz Anansi@blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · last mo.What's the first historic event that you remember?
RIP the wonderful Dolly Parton. I’m very fond of this early single of hers that seems to tread the line between countrypolitan and Northern Soul. Ray Stevens wrote it but Dolly makes it fizz. youtu.be/BjqsvN02bF8?...
youtu.be
Unexpected find in an EDM-oriented record shop! J. A. Freedman’s only LP from 1969. Eccentric singer-songwriter stuff with brassy backing, a bit Bill Fay. I *think* I first heard of this guy through @23daves.bsky.social‘s superb blog but I could never find a full album rip. Now I can listen - yay!
That one funky bass note after the last “See that girl”. The swirling, wobbly effect on the massed vocals underneath “Oh yeah!”. The way the piano rhythm subtly changes halfway through the chorus.
WHAT A FUCKING RECORD@whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social · 2mo ago50
If anybody has been struggling to get a copy (I know I did!), I have now read and thoroughly enjoyed mine. Happy to pass on free of charge to a fan as desperate to read it as I was. UK-only so the postage doesn’t kill me.
Loved Bill Oddie. RIP. He did everything - he even had a Zombies-ish beat ballad in him. youtu.be/aEzXDY-_MkQ?...
I Can't Get Through
YouTube video by Bill Oddie - Topic
youtu.be
I have been on here for ages but I have never really regained all the friends and interactions I had on Twitter. I miss it tbh! But then also it was an unhealthy thing to care so much about, probably. I don’t have any hot takes or interesting things to say. Dead embarrassed to be so into music tbh.
Wrote the Wikipedia page for Oh No It’s Selwyn Froggitt and got it to Great Article status
Gail Simone@gailsimone.bsky.social · 3mo agoOkay, my QUESTION OF THE DAY is… What is your weirdest actual accomplishment? Not the biggest necessarily…but the weirdest?
I love that Rupert's People song, but it's currently on another playlist I've made called A Whiter Shade Of Paler Shade Of A Whiter Shade Of Pale!
Laura Nyro didn’t often play ”Stoney End”. I am in bits hearing this version. youtu.be/EWGMSAGnIl4?...
Laura Nyro - Stoney End LIVE @ Hoch Auditorium @ University of Kansas, March 27, 1971.
YouTube video by Den Knee
youtu.be
Wrote a handful of pieces for this, including a meditative wander around XTC’s Swindon (where I just so happen to have grown up). recordcollectormag.com/rc-specials/...
Philippe Auclair@philippeauclair.bsky.social · 3mo agoOh!
The new Record Collector special devoted to XTC features my interview with Colin Moulding and a piece I wrote on the band’s final album Wasp Star. I am utterly thrilled to be part of it.
Huge thanks to @petepaphides.bsky.social (who turned me on to Andy Bown’s music) and @huwareyou.bsky.social (who helped make it happen) for this episode. It’s probably the antithesis of ‘rock musician interviews’ but we had lots of fun making it🙂
EggPod Express@eggpod.bsky.social · 3mo agoNew EggPod Express online! Available anywhere you pod! This, then, is Andy Bown - keyboard player with The Herd (and latterly Status Quo) - *almost* discussing the 20 April 1968 issue of Record Mirror with Chris Shaw
I’m on a podcast talking about a magazine about a band!
Mark Fisher@markffisher.bsky.social · 3mo agoPublished yesterday, Record Collector presents… XTC is a magazine dedicated to XTC. To mark the occasion, today's episode of What Do You Call That Noise? The XTC Podcast brings together editor Jeremy Allen and contributors to go behind the scenes. www.xtclimelight.com/2026/07/17/x...
subjecting my little nephews to “little white bull”, “a windmill in amsterdam” and “right said fred”. welcome to huw-nior’s choice lads.
is there anyone I can talk to about Laura Nyro is there a Laura Nyro discord
It is my birthday on Friday and I have no plans. I left it too late, my friends are busy. Should I go somewhere on my own? Is that tragic?
Elvis Costello played a blinder in Shepherd’s Bush tonight and I am on a high like no other.
The Wallace and Gromit forum for kids circa 2009. There was a civil war when I asserted that Wallace never says “cracking cheese” in any of the films.
JD (by way of Blacksky)@jdot.blacksky.team · 4mo agoCan I ask y’all a genuine question? In all your life online, what’s the greatest social media you’ve ever used?
