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At their best, Geese are like if the singer from Reef was playing Astral Weeks.

I blame Geese fans for the traffic.

On the way to End of the Road this year and I’ve never seen traffic like this, backed up for miles and barely moving. Taken us 2 hours to get a couple of miles with 6 more miles to go. Should be there by midnight.

Band name: “Tesco Inferno”. Is there anything in this?

Shabroky 𓆏@shabroky.bsky.social · last wk.

Who was your first anime crush? Teenaged me had several, but it was really over from the start, the rest didn’t stand a chance.

Can you even imagine being such a genius that you just write a song like Fall At Your Feet by Crowded House? Like, whaaaaaat?

Guy with an Osamu Dazai t-shirt.

Koenji music (eastlmark)@koenjimusic.bandcamp.com · last wk.

The problem with Awa-odori is that it’s 5% dancing, 15% food and drink stands (all good), but then 80% noisy, aggressive crowd management.

Today (& tomorrow) Canada Water, London.

Ohmygodatinyhorse!!!!

C’est La Vie by B*witched is such a good pop song but can it please leave my head for just a few moments.

Still thinking about that ludicrously handsome jazz bassist last night completely blowing off this very pretty French girl because he just couldn’t stop himself getting into this deep discussion about On The Corner. The purity of his love for the music overwhelming the libido. I can’t help smiling.

Festival weekend and got absolutely shitfaced talking with this one guy about Miles and Coltrane. Glad I did my research!

Briony Neilson@brionyneilson.bsky.social · last wk.

(1) This is cool, and (2) I can't be the only Guided By Voices fan who did a double-take at the name Allen Lane.

Allen Lane, co-founder of Penguin Books, extracts a book from the brand new "Penguincubator" – a vending machine with a range of Penguin titles available for sixpence, placed outside Collet's bookshop on London's Charing Cross Road in July 1937 🗃️

b&w page with a photo of a man in a suit extracting a book from a vending machine

Oh god what now

Been watching Legends with the wife and I asked her what she made of the media comparisons that place it as "a British The Wire". She immediately said, "It's not The Wire; it doesn't have a couch," and she nailed it. That's exactly what's missing.

Pesky Splinter@peskysplinter.bsky.social · 2w ago

Also very important to remember that’s not a raw, authentically northern working class Yorkshire hill there. That’s Gold Hill in Shaftesbury in Dorset, which is Maximum Little England and has been Tory since the Permian age.

In Andy Burnham's ideal world every child would be pushing a bike up a hill full of bread from t'mill. Unpaid of course.

A boy in a flatcap pushing a bike loaded with bread up a cobbled hill from the incredibly shite and mawkish sentimental hovis advert

CD shopping at Higashi Nakano Book Off:

XTC’s “Nonsuch”, and the albums “Soultrane” and “A Love Supreme” by John Coltrane.

Down Down Super ‘78

Me,wearing my new Neu! parody Quo! t-shirt

Breaking scientific ground here by proving it possible for hair itself to sweat.

Since @matthewjashton.bsky.social won’t do a proper run of these, I had to reverse-engineer his design and make my own.

A black t-shirt with the word “Quo” and an exclamation mark, in the style of the Neu! 75 album jacket.

Dolly there on the far left, next to what I think is Johnny Cash and maybe Don Williams?

A country compilation LP called “Country Legends, with over art depicting Mount Rushmore with the faces of six country music stars carved into it. Dolly Parton is the leftmost one.

Perennial@perennialtheband.bsky.social · 2w ago

Not my favourite Bob but maybe my favourite bob:

The cover of one of Guido Crepax' Valentina comic books. The top half of Valentina's face is framed immaculately by her sharp, black bob hairstyle while the lower half just disappears into the white of the page.

Name your fav Bob

Dolly with guitar, also from 1974 I think. Just a gorgeous folk song with what I always think of as a distinctly 60s flourish, from the album "Jolene". www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZH7B...

Dolly Parton - Early Morning Breeze

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Incredible writer, performer and just all-round extraordinary artist. That little cascading chime that punctuates "rare and gentle thing" does something to me. Also can't help feeling The Byrds could have slayed this song if they'd existed (and had the guts) in 1974. www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_lJ...

Dolly Parton - Love Is Like A Butterfly (Dolly TV Series 1976)

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Oh no, I just learned I’ve been shrekked!

Wiz Ball@wizball50.bsky.social · 2w ago

Hat!

The cover of Aunt Sally's first album. Phew is looking cool as fuck in the photo with her arms casually folded and her eyes casting a curious gaze at something we can't see. She's wearing a beret (which is a type of hat).

Drop some HATS!

Even with the air conditioners on and the blinds down, you can sort of feel the walls of the house pulsating with the heat.

Call And Response Records@callandresponse.bsky.social · 2w ago

Label news. And yeah, I'll be knocking around End of the Road next week, just generally not knowing who any of the bands are, trying hard not to mentally convert the food and drink prices into yen, that sort of thing.

CALL AND RESPONSE IS GOING ON HOLIDAY! This means from Sept 1 to 14 we won't be able to fulfil any orders of physical goods. Any orders we get this week will go out before 5pm Monday 31st, but any shipping after that will be delayed until the 14th. Also, if you're at End of the Road, come say hi!