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
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david essex apologist words for shindig! magazine
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 · 2w 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.
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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 · 2w 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 · 3w 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 · 3w 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 · 2mo agoCan I ask y’all a genuine question? In all your life online, what’s the greatest social media you’ve ever used?
DJing for the Lemon Twigs at Shepherd’s Bush Empire, where “Hancock’s Half Hour” was recorded (rock and roll). I don’t know how I got there!
Ten years gone for Merle Haggard the other day. Kaleb Horton had the definitive piece at the time. It remains such. They’re both ghosts in the culture now, but ones that I always feel.
From The Archives: Merle Haggard, Son of Bakersfield
Note: I wrote a bunch of stuff before posting the actual article. You know, like recipe sites, except I heard some of those guys make money. So just scroll down a thousand words for the actual thing y...
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just heard some blokes on a podcast say that jimmy carr is the bob monkhouse of today and I was a little bit sick in my mouth.
I (quickly) ranked my top ten Paul McCartney albums for Rough Trade. Hope people like it. blog.roughtrade.com/gb/ranked-pa...
Ranked: Paul McCartney's Greatest Albums | Rough Trade
Across solo records, collaborations with Linda and the ever-shifting identity of Wings, we rank and review Paul McCartney's ten greatest albums.
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I’ve been watching Powell and Pressburger’s I Know Where I’m Going! (1945) and I noticed a familiar extra early in the film. That’s the centenarian broadcaster and actor Pete Murray, right? Right?
60 years ago. Flicker flicker flicker blam Powis Gardens. It all begins here, underground pop dance fans.
They deserved more acclaim but couldn't shake the manufactured/pretty boy tag. Once they started writing their own material you got Sunshine Cottage, an overlooked popsike classic with Miss Jones on the b-side - a decent immitation of the Small Faces (no wonder Marriott wanted Frampton to join)
Heads-up 60s music nerds! The new issue of Shindig! features my article on The Herd, gothic psych idols led by Peter Frampton and Andy Bown, who I interviewed for it. There’s an excerpt from it here! :) shindig-magazine.com?p=7440
Issue #171 – The Herd -
Psych-pop idols THE HERD were responsible for a string of unforgettable singles in the late ’60s including 'From the Underworld' and 'I Don't Want Our Loving To Die', but behind the hits lay a frustra...
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Agreed with this statement. So much of the "Golden Age of TV" nonsense was based on the false idea that US network TV was all TV (not helped by a generation of Guardian culture-writers who thought American shit was better than British gold), at the same time post-1990 British TV quality cratered.
Centuries of Sound@centuriesofsound.bsky.social · 7mo agoGot the box set of the BBC Miss Marple series (1984-1992) for Christmas and have started a watch-through. An initial thought is: quality UK TV from the 60s to early 90s is something I enjoy so much it would be easy to just immerse myself in it entirely to the detriment of everything else.
Phil Upchurch gone? Man, that got NO publicity! One of Stepney's most trusted right-hand men. R.I.P. immense talent; I still can't sit still.
huw@huwareyou.bsky.social · 7mo ago@andrewhickey.500songs.com The new Rotary Connection bonus is a joy - thank you Andrew! I noted that you mention Phil Upchurch, who sadly died only last month; I was wondering if you were familiar with this, the first recording of “I Am the Black Gold of the Sun”? :) m.youtube.com/watch?v=qgzN...
@andrewhickey.500songs.com The new Rotary Connection bonus is a joy - thank you Andrew! I noted that you mention Phil Upchurch, who sadly died only last month; I was wondering if you were familiar with this, the first recording of “I Am the Black Gold of the Sun”? :) m.youtube.com/watch?v=qgzN...
Black Gold
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I managed in my forties to find a way to make a living from doing the thing my brain is broken for, and both I and (I like to think) the world are better off for it. Imagine if I could have done it in my twenties, when I had energy, instead of destroying my health for decades with shitty jobs.
Morbi@morbi.bsky.social · 8mo agoI have always said it, I will continue to say it, we are limiting the productive potential of millions of freaks by demanding they earn a wage to survive instead of enabling them to do whatever thing their brain is broken for
I’m writing about a really big musical group. To give you some clue, everyone’s talking about them. They are the subject of nepo baby / industry plant allegations. There’s solo stuff by the one of them. You guessed it - it’s Paul and Barry Ryan!
In case anyone missed it, there’s a Shindig special bookazine out now featuring a lengthy cover story I wrote on the beginning of Sparks! I spoke to three early members - John Mendelssohn, Earle Mankey and Jim Mankey - and there’s a special contribution from Russell Mael.
In Tune In I quoted a 1960 Paul McCartney letter declaring that the Beatals (yes) had ‘competence, confidence & continuity’ … and just today I’ve found that Paul nicked it from a Midland Bank cheque book, Competence–Continuity–Confidence being printed on the inside back cover. Great nicking, Paul!
