9th January – A shadow

Day begins with the schlep to take herself to work.  Leave a little later today and it works out much better, would have been dead stressed of I’d have been at work today.

Car hoover arrives and set it charging.  Take the car for a bath, end up in Leigh and fill it up. Update spreadsheet.  Bit of shopping in Morrisons and grab a coffee.  Home and it’s time to clean the fridge out which is achieved, cooker cleaned and cat litter changed.  Hoover the car and jobs a good ‘un.  Decide I’d better do something with this year so new year, new learning.

  1. Tai Chi
  2. Photoshop

Much discussion around the notion of C’s retirement.  We find some sort of financial solution.  Not my best moment but C believes it so.  That in itself is rewarding.

Review #9 – The Headcoats – The Sherlock Holmes Rhythm ‘n’ Beat Vernacular

Pure garage sounds from Billy Childish et al.  Classic no-nonsense stuff.

Music

  1. The Headcoats – The Sherlock Holmes Rhythm ‘n’ Beat Vernacular
  2. The Headcoatees – Mantrap
  3. The Headcoatees – The Man-Trap Sessions Vol. 1 (EP)
  4. The Headcoatees – The Man-Trap Sessions Vol. 2 (EP)
  5. The Bad Beats – His Vengeful Hand
  6. The Bad Beats – Gotta Get Loose
  7. The Bad Beats – Off The Hook
  8. The Bad Beats – Demo
  9. Stereolab – Cloud Land / Flashes In The Afternoon (EP)
  10. Green Seagull – Cloud Cover
  11. Green Seagull – First Snow Of Winter
  12. Green Seagull – Scarlet Fever
  13. The Knight Shades – Switch on! With..
  14. The On and Ons – Menacing Smile
  15. The On and Ons – Let Ya Hair Down!
  16. The On and Ons – Back For More
  17. The On and Ons – Welcome Aboard
  18. The On and Ons – You And I / Hard To Say Goodbye 7″
  19. The Sences – Done With You
  20. The Sences – Better Than Before
  21. The Sences – We Had Tyme To Spent
  22. The Crystal Teardrop – The Crystal Teardrop…Is Forming
  23. The Crystal Teardrop – By The River
  24. The Crystal Teardrop – Nine Times Nine

 

My Word For The New Year

2nd January 2026 – My Word For The New Year

My Word For The New YearBack to work today.  Team is compact and small.  Tales of folk’s New Year drift in and some horrors have manifested themselves!  Day flows a few Easy Leads but not enough, HBB and a fair few sales.

Drive in via the ASDA to grab lunch and paella mix.  The latter is a complete waste of effort because the personnel due to eat has changed since yesterday.  Pain in the arse, duck out for a takeaway and a swift pint.

Drive home is kinda interesting. Need to learn patience when defrosting windows in the car.  It kinda helps when trying to see the road.  In other news I end up listening to some Bee Gee’s and realising how good they are as a bit of light frothy music.

Start to pull a driving playlist together.  It’s more a case of pissing about than anything else.  Still it’s kinda fun and will baffle herself tomorrow when we nip into Wigan for an appointment at the building society.  That bit of the proceedings will be amazingly grown up…. C is making me do it!

Review #2 – Loose Tooth – New Age

Dolewave album that is reminiscent of the laconic nature of Courtney Barnett.  Melodic, fuzzy and jangly with a girl group vibe.  A pleasant listen on a cold day on the basis that it is in itself in congruent with the weather.  Not an immediate album but a few listens will be rewarding.

Music

  1. Moderate Lovers – Lost City
  2. Moderate Lovers – Lucy’s Gardening Again
  3. Moderate Lovers – Crayon Shades
  4. The Silent Love – Rainy Season
  5. The Silent Love – Painted Feelings
  6. Neshband – Melodi Cinta
  7. Neshband – Dekadensi Cinta
  8. Bee Gees – Saturday Night Fever

Movies

  1. Operation Mincemeat
Soft focus

15th August Soft focus

Soft focusSoft focus. Had to be Elise Cat….  Start the day with a piss delivery to the quacks for C.  Then onto the allotment.  Water, weed and chat.

Music

  1. Trabants – Lockdown
  2. Trabants – Lockdown (PT II)
  3. Trabants – live at New Alliance an evening with… TRABANTS
  4. Trabants – Coast of Capri
  5. Trabants – Freakout
  6. Trabants – Mantra
  7. Trabants – Highwire Surfing
Something that sparkles

8th August 2025 Something that sparkles

Something that sparklesSomething that sparkles

Music

    1. Stanley Brinks – Maltese Suite
    2. Stanley Brinks – Apocalypso
    3. Stanley Brinks & the Flying Kaniks  – Hafna Xita
    4. Stanley Brinks – Loiters
    5. Stanley Brinks and The Wave Pictures – Another one just like that!
    6. Stanley Brinks & the Old Time Kaniks – Babylon Vibrations
    7. Stanley Brinks – Bc
    8. Stanley Brinks – Dank U
    9. Stanley Brinks – Fiddles
    10. Stanley Brinks – Back in the Dales
    11. Stanley Brinks – Digs
    12. Stanley Brinks – Yodels
    13. Stanley Brinks – Bit
    14. Stanley Brinks – Hovers
    15. Stanley Brinks & Freschard – War
    16. Stanley Brinks & the Kaniks – Jamaica Inn
    17. Stanley Brinks – Bops a zap
    18. Stanley Brinks – Plastic Kettle
    19. Stanley Brinks – And The Wave Pictures
    20. Stanley Brinks – Claps
    21. CVS – Country Versus State
    22. Stanley Brinks – Sings the blues
    23. The Fox – The Fox
    24. Stanley Brinks & Freschard – New Cologne
    25. Stanley Brinks & The Kaniks – Alligator Twilight
    26. Stanley Brinks – Taf Taf
    27. Stanley Brinks – River Green
    28. Stanley Brinks – Cooks
    29. Stanley Brinks – Strikes
    30. Stanley Brinks and the Space Kaniks with Olav Christer Rosseboe – Night In The Country
    31. Stanley Brinks – Horns in
    32. Kreuzberg Museum – Calypso
    33. Kreuzberg Museum – More Calypso
    34. Kreuzberg Museum – Ten American Classics
Under My Feet

1st August 2025 Under my feet

Under My Feet

Under my feet

Music

  1. Various Artists – Krautrock – Music For Your Brain Vol. 1
  2. Various Artists – Krautrock (Music For Your Brain) Vol. 4
  3. Various Artists – Krautrock (Music For Your Brain) Vol. 5
  4. Various Artists – Peace & Love – The Woodstock Generation
  5. Cosmic Analog Ensemble – Les Sourdes Oreilles
  6. Del Shannon – Daydreams
  7. The Hi-Fly Orchestra – Violet
  8. Underwater Bosses – Aqua La Vista
  9. Underwater Bosses – The Night Divides The Ride
  10. Underwater Bosses – Hyrule Castle Theme
  11. Underwater Bosses – Queen Of The Sea
  12. The Head Henchmen – Oh No! It’s The Head HenchmenOh No! It’s The Head Henchmen
  13. The Surferific Dudes – Mountain Wave
  14. The Surferific Dudes – Sharks In Tuxedos
  15. Q-Tips – Q-Tips
  16. Pete Bentham and the Dinner Ladies – Art, Religion and Chocolate Biscuits
Unexpected colour

25th July 2025 Unexpected colour

Unexpected colourUnexpected colour

Music

  1. The High Dials –  Primative Feelings – Part I
  2. The High Dials –  Primative Feelings – Part II
  3. The High Dials –  Anthems For Doomed Youth
  4. The High Dials –  Desert Tribe EP
  5. The High Dials –  Foreverish
  6. The High Dials –  In the A.M. Wilds
  7. The High Dials –  Yestergraves EP
  8. The High Dials –  Moon Country
  9. The High Dials –  A New Devotion
  10. The High Dials –  War of the Wakening Phantoms
  11. Night Rites – Nine Of Swords
  12. The Oscillation – Live at Beursschourwburg, Brussels Jan 2014
From above

July 18th From above

From aboveFrom above – feet in the chippy.  C feeling dreadful the TN is back with a vengeance so it was off to the chippy for me.

Bit of a mixed day off, breakfast at the Tom, little light shopping and then back.  Day was a mix of showers and sun.

Lunch with herself.  Then a kip.

Music

  1. Swansea Sound – Oasis v Blur
  2. Autocamper – What Do You Do All Day
  3. Stereolab – Pulse Of The Early Brain (Switched On Vol. 5)
  4. Stereolab – Miss Modular (UK Version)
  5. Various Artists – Saint-Germain-Des-Prés Café: The Best Of
  6. Various Artists – Saint-Germain-Des-Pres Cafe: The Must-Have Cool Tempo Selection From Paris (Vintage Mix By Bart & Baker)
Current view

July 11th Current view

Current viewCurrent view, a blisteringly hot day so I resort to Leffe.

Music

  1. The Motorcycle Boy – Scarlet
  2. The Motorcycle Boy – PRE 052: The Motorcyle Boy – John Peel session 14.09.87
  3. The Frames – I Am The Magic Hand
  4. The Frames – Fake
  5. The Frames – Headlong
  6. The Frames – Happy
  7. The Frames – Rent Day Blues EP
  8. The Frames – Lay Me Down
  9. The Frames – Sad Songs
  10. The Frames – Finally
  11. The Frames – Pavement Tune
  12. The Frames – Sideways Down
  13. The Frames – Falling Slowly
  14. Glen Hansard – Take Heart
  15. Glen Hansard – Cold Comfort
Neighbourhood

4th July Neighbourhood

NeighbourhoodNeighbourhood

Music

  1. Stevie Wonder – Number Ones
  2. Stan Getz & Chet Baker – Line For Lyons
  3. Stan Getz & Chet Baker – The Stockholm Concerts
  4. Chet Baker – She Was Too Good To Me
  5. Chet Baker – Plays Standards
  6. Chet Baker – Sings
  7. The Popinjays – Don’t Go Back
  8. Tony Jay – Tony Jay EP
  9. Tony Jay – The Morning Juice
  10. Tony Jay – Faithless
  11. Tony Jay – Knife Is But A Dream
  12. Tony Jay – Hey There Flower
  13. Tony Jay – Perfect Worlds
  14. Tony Jay – Older Stuff
  15. Tony Jay – Better Before Vol. 1
  16. Tony Jay – A Wave In The Dark
  17. Tony Jay – There Is No God
  18. Tony Jay – 2023
  19. Tony Jay – 2022
  20. Tony Jay – 2021
  21. Tony Jay – 2020
  22. Tony Jay – 2019
  23. Tony Jay – 2018
  24. Tony Jay – 2017
  25. Tony Jay – 2016
  26. Tony Jay – 2015
  27. Tony Jay – 2014
  28. Tony Jay – 2013
  29. Tony Jay – 2012
  30. Tony Jay – 2011
Who put this here?

27th June Who put this here?

Who put this here?Who put this here? Well it was a day late but heck. Friday and I’m chasing my tail doing the tasks I’ve set myself.  Remember the Milk pays dividends as I check things off.

Music

  1. Lightheaded – Thinking, Dreaming, Scheming!
  2. Jeanines – How Long Can It Last
  3. The Seeds – Bad Part Of Town
  4. Chook Race – About Time
  5. Chook Race – Cheap Split
  6. Chook Rice – Chook Race