10th January – Out The Window

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Back into work today.  Get up late.  Drive in.  Meet Henry and Kat on the way in.  Great day for verticals and Easy Leads!  Managed to add some data to my car spreadsheet. It now gives a much more realistic view of the costs of running the car per mile.

Day went OK but bit discombobulated by the late start.  C gave me the fright of my life when she called on the way home.  Blue and Me works well in the car.

Make soup as soon as I get in, takes it’s time but relaxing chopping the veg and getting things going.  Finish off with steam pudding.  Must remember to find peppers on the way home for tomorrows Enchiladas.

C has cleaned out and tidied my shit.  With a view to getting rid of some stuff.  Not overly happy about it, things work as they were.

Bit of a relax and TV time, get a film in and jobs a good ‘un.  Back is painful end up grabbing one of C’s cocodamols to help me get to sleep and reduce the amount of pain.

Review #10 – The Fadeaways – The Fadeaways

Consistently fiery, high-energy Japanese garage rock, blending raw ’60s punk energy with tight, fuzzy production, it’s infectious, no-frills sound that’s both classic and powerful. Reminiscent of very early The Pretty Things or The Gruesomes. The drums are lovingly blown-out, as are the vocals, and the fuzz is there but not so shaggy as to get in the way of tightly-arranged tracks that get to the core of what’s still satisfying about rock’n’roll all these decades in.

Music

  1. Various Artists – We Can Fly: Psychedelic Obscurities From The 60s And 70s
  2. Various Artists – Make More Noise! Women In Independent Music UK 1977-1987
  3. The Fadeaways – The Fadeaways
  4. The Fadeaways – Dirty Water EP
  5. The Fadeaways – 50years From ’66!
  6. The Fadeaways – Uncle Jazz Records Single 2023
  7. The Fadeaways – Rack My Mind
  8. The Fadeaways – Pretty Wild

Movies

  1. Kelly’s Heroes

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9th January – A shadow

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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

 

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8th January – A good start

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Day off, plan is to get shit done.  I kinda achieve some of that but do catch a kip.  Didn’t get to the allotment, didn’t get the fridge sorted.  But did fetch meds and get the laundry done.  Big changes at the laundrette, various dryers have been ripped out, but they were the ones nobody ever used.  Bring in the new chromebook and realise I have a whole heap of photoshop learning to do.  Never say never!

Managed to grab pics as I fetched change for the laundrette and grabbed some breakfast.  Weather is driech which helps.  See photos from Aberdeen looks like snow is heavy up there so lord knows what it’s like up near Cal.

Pick C up and we watch Masters of Air.  Then head over to Farm Foods for chips to feed S.  Need to sort car tomorrow and have a car hoover coming which is as well as the carpets are bogging.  Need to wash it too!  Will attempt to get to the allotment tomorrow, failing that it’ll be next Wednesday.

No sign of the bin I ordered.  Not overly impressed am hoping that is the thing that needed an additional £2.50 postage.

Review #8 – The Pussycats – The Pussycats EP

All  four studio tracks from The Pussycats on a single EP. raw and driving, like good garage should be. It’s got great horns and pace, stomping percussion and stinging guitar, and of course those femme fatale vocals….innocent yet sultry, and even soulful!  What’s not to like!

Music

  1. The Pussycats – The Pussycats EP
  2. The Low Spirits – Can’t Love You Back b/w Treatin’ Me Bad
  3. The Low Spirits – Time Will Tell / No More Mistakin’
  4. The Low Spirits – Gonna Make You Cry b/w Shadows Of Your Mind
  5. The Low Spirits – You Lied b/w Never Said I Need You
  6. The Reverberations – Move Along E.P.
  7. The Reverberations – Mess Up Your Mind
  8. The Reverberations – Changes
  9. The Reverberations – Palm Reader b/w Under Your Spell
  10. The Reverberations – Are Outtasite! (West Coast Tour Tape)
  11. The Reverberations – Dreamcatcher
  12. The Reverberations – Lost In Time E.P.
  13. The Reverberations – Half Remembered Dreams
  14. The Reverberations – Yeah Alright
  15. The Sound Reasons – The Sound Reasons (Self Titled EP)
  16. The Sound Reasons – Walk with My Shadow
  17. The Baron Four – Shut Your Mind (Single)
  18. The Baron Four – Outlying
  19. The Baron Four – Yes I Do (7″Single)
  20. The Baron Four – Silvaticus
  21. The Baron Four – Walking Out 7″
  22. The Baron Four – Out Of The Wild Come…
  23. The Baron Four – She Said Yeah (7″Single)
  24. The Baron Four – I Don’t Mind 45

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7th January – Something inspiring

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So today was a bit of a strange one. Systems went down. A HBB and laugh as the systems played up and a heap of cancellation.

Get home and C is on the warpath with Barclay’s.  3 agents in and two dropped calls because I was making the delicate little flowers uncomfortable.

Think Barclays may be getting an introduction to the OED definition of final.

Hare up to the bank and pay off the little buggers on the interest they did not tell us about when giving us a final settlement figure.  Bring back dead thing that I really don’t do justice to.  On the plus side it is done… until they invent something else.

Meanwhile I’m behind on some things I  promised myself I’d try and achieve this year.  Catch up tomorrow.  Nip for a quick pint at the Tom and Gerry, served by my fave barman, Sam.

Review #7 – The Violet Mindfield – Hello Darling

Lots of variety in terms of the feel and mood of the tracks on this album, the album flows as it goes along bringing fuzzy and jangly delight.  Was a great accompaniment to doing the laundry!

Music

  1. The Violet Mindfield – Your Mind On Violets
  2. The Violet Mindfield – Mammals in Love and Ambivalence
  3. The Violet Mindfield – Odds & Ends
  4. The Violet Mindfield – Stranger In The Mirror
  5. The Violet Mindfield – Hello Darling
  6. The Violet Mindfield – California Burning
  7. The Violet Mindfield – Distorted Portrait
  8. The Violet Mindfield – The Forgotten Streetlamps of Time
  9. The Violet Mindfield – Tell Me / Moonlight Love
  10. The Violet Mindfield – After Before
  11. The Violet Mindfield – Orange EP
  12. The Violet Mindfield – Hard Times, Easy Love / Gimme, Gimme Single
  13. The Violet Mindfield – The Violet Mindfield
  14. The Violet Mindfield – Beautiful Nightmare – Single
  15. Mooon – Safari
  16. Mooon – Hurtin’ My Heart b/w How I Learned (To Say Goodbye)
  17. Mooon – Mooon’s Brew
  18. Mooon – III
  19. Mooon – Mary You Wanna / She Makes Me Feel EP
  20. Mooon – MOOON – EP

 

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Soft focus

15th August Soft focus

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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

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Something that’s changing

13th August Something that’s changing

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Something that’s changingSomething that’s changing – always the light. R canned.  More stress.  Another day of poor value.

  1. The All Seeing I – Pickled Eggs & Sherbet
  2. The All Seeing I – Walk Like A Panther EP
  3. Primal Scream – Reverberations (Travelling In Time) BBC Radio Sessions & Creation Singles 1985-86
  4. Echo & The Bunnymen – The John Peel Sessions 1979-1983
  5. Echo & The Bunnymen – The Killing Moon – The Singles 1980-1990
  6. Big Flame – Peel Sessions 84-86
  7. Big Flame – Rigour 1983-1986
  8. Adult Mum – Natural Causes

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A tiny detail

12th August A tiny detail

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A tiny detailFirst of the earlies, bit of a stressful week beckons. A tiny detail – value is shite for the day.

  1. The No Ones – All The Stupid Days
  2. The No Ones – A Christmas Voice I Don’t Want To Bring You Into This World
  3. The No Ones – My Best Evil Friend
  4. The No Ones – The Great Lost No Ones Album
  5. Peter Case – Doctor Moan
  6. Peter Case – Let Us Now Praise Sleepy John
  7. Peter Case -Wig!

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In my hand

August 4th 2025 In my hand

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In my handIn my hand – coffee to start the day at Kawa’s.  Well that was a revealing day, won’t quite look at Rachel in the same way!

Music

  1. The Vultures – Good Thing EP
  2. The Vultures – Sad Song Demo Version
  3. The Vultures – Something New Demo Version
  4. The Vultures – PRE 051: THE VULTURES – Liz Kershaw session 16.06.88
  5. Robert Sekula – PRENEW 5: Asyd Mouse
  6. Tossing Seed – When You Come Around
  7. Tossing Seed – PRENEW 7: Stars In Your Eyes
  8. Tossing Seed – Fall Of Sweet Pea
  9. Josie – PRENEW 4: Still Time
  10. The Dentists – Demo Aug 95 (Live Red)

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Shadows

31st July 2025 Shadows

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ShadowsShadows

Music

  1. Darling Little Jackhammer – Fifth Grade Bicycle Accident EP
  2. Joseph Hooligan – An Unmarketed Product
  3. Nicole Yun – Tropical Robots
  4. Vida En Marte – Flunky Minnows
  5. Strapping Fieldhands – Jupiter Spin
  6. She Bee Vee – Billy Wire
  7. Sleepy Kitty – Blue Babbleships Bay
  8. Brown Company – The Browning Element
  9. Various Artists – A Very Bert Dax Christmas, Volume One
  10. Various Artists – A Very Bert Dax Christmas, Volume Two
  11. Various Artists – A Very Bert Dax Christmas, Volume Three
  12. Various Artists – A Very Bert Dax Christmas, Volume Four
  13. Various Artists – A Very Bert Dax Christmas, Volume Five
  14. Various Artists – A Very Bert Dax Christmas, Volume Six
  15. Various Artists – A Very Bert Dax Christmas, Volume Seven
  16. Various Artists – Frankie Is A Killer & Crazy (On You)
  17. Various Artists – Bunnygrunt / Trauma Harness Split
  18. Various Artists – The Northerns Meet Bunnygrunt
  19. Various Artists – Collapse The Collectors
  20. Various Artists – Cool English Jumpsuit
  21. Various Artists – Poor Substitutes A Tribute To Ricked Wicky (Supergroup)
  22. Various Artists – A Very Bert Dax Halloween
  23. Various Artists – Keep It In Motion: A Tribute To Guided By Voices Circa 20 Something And 12

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Folded

30th July 2025 Folded

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FoldedFolded

Music

  1. The Relationships – Phase
  2. The Relationships – F for Fake
  3. The Relationships – Waiting
  4. The Relationships – Christmas Song
  5. Kill Morrissey – Where do these crazy people go again with all their jingle jangle?
  6. Various Artists – Doug Gillard / Bunnygrunt Split
  7. Bunnygrunt – Seasoned Freaklings Thirty Years Of Holiday Hits By The Grand Elves Of Midwest Twee Core Bunnygrunt
  8. Bunnygrunt – Vol. 4
  9. Bunnygrunt – The Covered In Shawn EP
  10. Bunnygrunt – In The Valley Of Lonesome Phil
  11. Bunnygrunt – Down By The Racetrack
  12. Bunnygrunt – Live! 03/30/1994 At Bastille’s
  13. Bunnygrunt – Christmas Is Over When We Say It’s Over

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