I would very much have liked to have bought a really cool first record, but I didn’t, at least not from most people’s point of view. I can’t remember exactly what year I bought my […]
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Milano – Daniele Luppi & Parquet Courts
At the same time I bought this incredibly cheaply: Wild – Streets Of Laredo, I also picked up Milano by Daniele Luppi & Parquet Courts cheaply. It was on sale for £8 and I took […]
Odetta – My Eyes Have Seen
So my quest to find copies of every album in my Best Albums of 1959 continues with a copy of My Eyes Have Seen by Odetta. I had thought this one was going to be […]
BLUE DOT FESTIVAL 2019 – DAY 3 – Sunday
Although it was only a couple of weekends ago I’m already confused about what I saw when! I’ll do my best though. We were underwhelmed by the music offering on Sunday, in that there actually […]
Streets Of Laredo – Wild
When an album is priced at £3.00 one doesn’t expect much, but it is certainly worth taking a chance on, it’s the price of a cup of coffee after all. In an act of pure […]
Blue Dot Festival 2019 – Day 1 – Friday
I arrived back from a week in Hong Kong late on the 18th and early on the 19th I was driving to Macclesfield, specifically Jodrell Bank, for the Blue Dot Festival 2019, there was no […]
Blanket – How To Let Go
I found an album by Blanket in the reduced items bin at the record shop which I picked up for the following reasons, I quite liked the cover, it was cheap. I hadn’t heard of […]
Eluvium – Piano Works
Label: Temporary Residence Limited – TRR299LP-C1Format: 3 × Vinyl, LP, Limited Edition, Iridescent Mother Of Pearl Limited to 1000 copies. Includes Pianoworks Vol. 2 (new recordings of classic Eluvium piano pieces). This arrived in the […]
Later…..With Jools Holland
I’ve been watching ‘Later…..’ since it started and it is the only music show on British television that has got it right, I really can’t think of anything else that’s around at the moment that […]
Nina Simone – Pastel Blues
There are a lot of old jazz and blues albums being re-issued at very reasonable prices at the moment, this isn’t one of them, costing pretty much the same as a new release, but worth […]
Sons Of Kemet – Your Queen Is A Reptile
For Fathers Day today, I received a couple of albums. By received I mean I went to the record store, chose them, paid for them and brought them home. I picked up a copy of […]
Johnny Too Bad – John Martyn BBC Documentary
Just stumbled over this excellent documentary on Youtube. I’ve seen it before but if you haven’t seen it, it is well worth watching.
London 7th June – Record Shopping
Back home from London and back at the MacBook. I had about 5 hours of wandering time on Friday morning with no pressure to be anywhere or do anything so it was time to have […]
Best Albums of 2002
I was thinking that 2002 wasn’t that long ago, but of course it’s 17 years, and looking at the albums from that year I’m quite surprised that they were released that long ago. It really […]
Pearl Jam – Vitaology
I rarely talk about Pearl Jam, which is odd as I really rather like them and have done since they released their debut album. A lot of their releases came out when I was buying […]
Death and Vanilla – Are You A Dreamer?
Label: Fire Records – FIRELP543XFormat: Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Special Edition, Pink Released: 10 May 2019Genre: Electronic, RockStyle: Darkwave, Experimental, Psychedelic Rock If either of you bothered to read the drivel I write then […]
Miriam Makeba – Miriam Makeba
Label: London Records – HA 2332, London Records – HA.2332Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono, Purple Label Released: 1961 I was delighted to find and original copy of this album in the used record store today, […]
Best Albums of 1959
I watched a brilliant live broadcast by the BBC from the Cheltenham Jazz Festival celebrating the now defunct TV show Jazz 625 called Jazz 625 Live: For One Night Only. It was broadcast in black […]
Legacy 7″ Box – 9
XTC – Senses Working OvertimeVirgin VS 4621982 UK I happen to think that this is one of the greatest 45’s ever pressed to wax, a truly brilliant pop song that has intelligent lyrics but a rather […]
Rosalia – El Mal Querer
This was one of my albums of 2018, though I’d never mentioned it before then. There’s actually a lot of albums that it takes me while to get around to mentioning, some going back several […]
