Glimmer 29

April 29 Glimmer 29

Glimmer 29Glimmer 29 on a day that felt like a struggle but got better as the day went on.  Another HBB.

Music

  1. Rats Rats Rats – Bloody Hello
  2. The Wind-Up Birds – The Gristle
  3. The Wind-Up Birds – Desire Paths
  4. The Wind-Up Birds – The Mild Awards
  5. The Wind-Up Birds – Tyre Fire
  6. The Wind-Up Birds – Acting Thick For Money Volume 2
  7. The Wind-Up Birds – Acting Thick For Money
  8. The Wind-Up Birds – Cross Country
  9. The Wind-Up Birds – The Right
  10. The Wind-Up Birds – Poor Music
  11. The Wind-Up Birds – Meet Me At The Depot / Popman
  12. The Wind-Up Birds – The Land
  13. The Wind-Up Birds – Pop Thinking
  14. The Wind-Up Birds – Courage For Tomorrow Will Be Worse
  15. The Wind-Up Birds – Summer Haunts
  16. The Wind-Up Birds – Working Christmas Day
  17. The Wind-Up Birds – The People With The Telly Heads
  18. The Wind-Up Birds – Bar Sadness With Added Racketball
  19. The Wind-Up Birds – Guards
  20. The Wind-Up Birds – The People With The Telly Heads
  21. The Wind-Up Birds – Working Christmas Day
Glimmer 27

April 27 Glimmer 27

Glimmer 27Sunday in, get into Wigan and the police have cordoned off the town centre.  No idea what it was about.  Plan on coffee from Morrisons and the Costa machine, but no coffee there.  Did sort the cream cheese for the next experiment in kidney friendly food.  Glimmer 27 is a ghost sign in town.

Day at work is OK conversion wise, shite value wise.

Swift pint in the Swan and onto the bus.  Ring Cal, he’s ok, seems to be dabbling in stocks and shares.  Ring home, hay fever has struck.

Music

  1. Mad Professor – Beyond The Realms Of Dub: Dub Me Crazy Pt.2
  2. Mad Professor – Dub Me Crazy Pt. 3: The African Connection
  3. Mad Professor – Dub Me Crazy Pt. 5: Who Knows The Secret Of The Master Tape
  4. Mad Professor – Dub Me Crazy!!
  5. Prince Buster – Dance Cleopatra Dance
  6. Prince Buster – I Feel The Spirit
  7. Prince Buster – It’s Burke’s Law
  8. Prince Buster – Pain In My Belly (With The Maytals)
Glimmer 14

April 14 Glimmer 14

Glimmer 14Glimmer 14 and I’m in Kawa’s and taking photos of photos.  Great coffee as usual and the first of a series of lates.  Day goes OK, not brilliantly but you can only deal with what it deals you.

  1. Ska Jazz Messengers – Head Over Heels
  2. Big Boss Sound – Return Of The Loafer
  3. Nine Ton Peanut Smugglers – Pieces Of Eight
  4. Dunstan Bruce – Fucking Expensive
  5. Interrobang‽ – Interrobang‽
  6. I Doris – Not Done Yet (feat. Dunstan Bruce)
  7. New Starts – More Break Up Songs
  8. Mirrored Daughters – Mirrored Daughters
Free Choice

28th Free Choice

Free ChoiceFriday and I’m given a list.  But first its time to sort the panniers on the bike in daylight.  Discover I’d put them on back to front.  Relatively easy to sort.  Pop in the bike locks and job’s a good’un.

Onto the list. First off I am sent to the doctors to fetch blood forms, pots to piss in and to rearrange the time of the telephone consult.  Then to book a bloods appointment, ring the people concerned only to discover I have to book it online.  So online I go.  Next a trip to the post office to send Christine’s birthday card.

Next to sorting the pedals on the bike.  Much easier than I thought it’d be.

  1. Durutti Column – Chronicle
  2. Durutti Column – Tempus Fugit
  3. Durutti Column – A Paen To Wilson
  4. Durutti Column – Fidelity
  5. Durutti Column – Sunlight To Blue… Blue to Blackness
  6. The Come Ons – Come On In
Free Choice 1

27th Free Choice

Free Choice 1Really rather proud of this one, reached the Top 10 of The Big Photo Hunt!

Day was a bit weird, started badly and finished strong.  Job opportunity handed to me but would mess up appointments and things, will mull over and don’t have to give immediate response.

  1. The Dirtbombs – Dangerous Magical Noise
  2. The Dirtbombs – Horndog Fest
  3. The Dirtbombs – Party Store
  4. The Dirtbombs – Ultraglide In Black
  5. The Dirtbombs – We Have You Surrounded
Z

26th February Z

ZA slightly better day, copped out of the cycle to work.  Was too shattered this morning.

  1. Peter Hook & The Light – So This Is Permanence
  2. Peter Hook & The Light – Movement Tour 2013: Live In Dublin (Live)
  3. Joy Division – The Best Of Joy Division
Y

25th February Y

YGenerally feeling like shit today. Don’t know what the fuck is up with me but bottom line is that I’m shattered.  Struggle to focus and things aren’t great.

  1. Spectrum – Feels Like I’m Slipping Away
  2. Panda Bear and Sonic Boom – Reset In Dub
X

24th February X

XLast day off for a wee while and it’s a busy one. Laundrette day, change pedals day, bake custard pie, make mince and potato pie, give the cat her flea and worming treatment. Hoover and clean the oven and kitchen.

So Laundrette had a dryer hog, it started pissing down as I left. Cat avoided the pills. But on the plus side the custard pie seems to have worked. Mince and potato pie is a work in progress.

Feeling really shit, hit the booze to deal with it, not certain that that’s a good idea. That being said I just continue.

  1. The Veras – Spaceman
  2. The Veras – If You Get The Feeling
  3. The Veras – Something To Say
  4. The Veras – Ladies First
  5. The Veras – Get It While You Can
  6. The Veras – V for Veras
  7. Jim Shepherd – The Circle
  8. Fallen Leaves – It’s Too Late Now
  9. Fallen Leaves – Out In A Forest / The Inside Of A Chair
  10. Thee Girl Fridays – Double Crossing Double Agent / Ejector Seat
  11. Nasser Bouzida – The Lynx / The Hapshash Swing
  12. Nasser Bouzida – Cookin’ At The Organ
  13. Lines – Soft Science
  14. Wild Billy Childish & CMTF – Love Comes In Spurts
  15. Jake Thackray – Ideal
  16. Lizzy Mercier Descloux – Press Color
W

23rd February W

WSunday lazy start to the day.  Wash up and make breakfast. Nip to the shop and grab a swift pint.  Weather is foul.  Catch up with the boy in the afternoon, he’s sounding less tin helmety.

Folks seem fine when I ring.  C suffering from neuralgia and preparation for first day back blues.

  1. The Jasmine Minks – We Make Our Own History
  2. The Guy Hamper Trio (featuring James Taylor) – Dog Jaw Woman / The First Creature Is Jealousy
  3. The Guy Hamper Trio (featuring James Taylor) & Wild Billy Childish & The CTMF – 100 Yds Of Crash Barrier
  4. The Guy Hamper Trio (featuring James Taylor) – Cowboys Are Square / It’s So Hard To Be Happy
  5. Big Boss Man – Das Freak
  6. Big Boss Man – Bossin’ Around
  7. CTMF – Traces Of You
  8. CTMF – For Your Love
  9. Wild Billy Childish & The Chatham Singers – Step Out
  10. Wild Billy Childish & The Chatham Singers – Step Out (alt) / Upside Mine
  11. Wild Billy Childish & The Chatham Singers – Troubled Mind / Ranscombe Farm Boogie
  12. Mick Hampshire – From 30,000 Feet
  13. The 5-6-7-8’s & The Masonics – The Japan Tour EP
  14. The Masonics – Talkin’ About…
  15. The Masonics – Lookin’ For…
  16. The Masonics – I Got It All EP
  17. The Masonics – Sursum Tibiam Vestram
  18. Fallen Leaves – Rosalina / Stay
  19. Comet Gain – Only Happy When I’m Sad / Dreams Of A Working Girl
  20. Alvin Purple – Billie
  21. Les Chouettes – Idiomatiques
  22. Les Chouettes – Ha Ha Happiness
  23. Les Chouettes – Fallow of Follow
V

22nd February V

VSaturday, little light shopping, drink with C at the Tom & Gerry which seems populated by geriatric one armed bandit raiders with loud voices.

Home and sort the cat litter and wash up.  Simple food tonight in terms of Haloumi burgers and sweet potato fries.  Making some fruit scones too.

  1. Colonel Mustard & The Dijon 5 – Party to Make Music to Party to Make Music to Party to Make Music to, Pt. 1
  2. Colonel Mustard & The Dijon 5 – Peace, Love & Mustard
  3. The Fleshtones – It’s Getting Late (…and More Songs About Werewolves)
  4. The Fleshtones – The Band Drinks For Free
  5. The Fleshtones – Blast Off!
  6. The Fleshtones – American Beat