8th January – A good start

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
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
A list

8th July A list

A listA list… back to Remember The Milk.

Music

  1. Paul B. Cutler – Les Fleurs
  2. The Wolfmanhattan Project – Summer Forever And Ever
  3. Tam LinTam Lin
  4. Tam LinTam Lin II
  5. Tam Lin – Across A Snow flecked Mountain Valley
  6. Kevin Robertson – Yellow Painted Moon
  7. Martha – Standing Where It All Began – Singles and B-Sides: 2012-2025
Something suss

May 8th Something suss

Something sussSomething Suss… surveillance culture, me watching you, watching me.  It’s all a bit disconcerting!

Music

  1. Dawn Sev – 55!
  2. Dawn Sev – Tart
  3. The Big Small Boy – Asimov
  4. The Big Small Boy – Time For Sleep
  5. The Big Small Boy – The Watershed
  6. The Big Small Boy – Every Single Both Of Us
  7. The Big Small Boy – Christmas Summer
  8. Lunchbox – Evolver
  9. Peel Dream Magazine – Demos
  10. Peel Dream Magazine – Modern Meta Physic
  11. Peel Dream Magazine – Magic Is Pocketed
  12. Peel Dream Magazine – Rose Main Reading Room
  13. Peel Dream Magazine – Moral Panics
  14. Peel Dream Magazine – Up and Up EP
  15. Peel Dream Magazine – Pad
  16. Peel Dream Magazine – Agitprop Alterna
  17. Dub Narcotic Sound System – Fuck Shit Up
Fresh

May 8 – Fresh

FreshFresh coffee as soon as I arrive at work.

Music

  1. Porridge Radio – Clouds In The Sky They Will Always Be There For Me
  2. Porridge Radio – 7 Seconds
  3. Porridge Radio – The Machine Starts To Sing EP
  4. Prince Fatty – Dub Battle For Seattle
  5. Hot 8 Brass Band – On The Spot
  6. Various Artists – Middle Earth – The Soundtrack Of London’s Legendary Psychedelic Club 1967-1969
  7. Fabio – Lindo Sonho Delirante
Glimmer 8

April 8th Glimmer 8

Glimmer 8Glimmer 8 got picked in the Fab Four. Always find it a valediction of the photography.

Music

  1. The Men with The Golden Gonads – Play The Men with The Golden Gonads And Other Misses…
  2. The Singing Loins – Jazzy Angels
  3. Various Artists – Chapter 1 : From The Ashes
  4. Proper – Meant To Say Something
Detail

8th March Details

DetailLazy start to another day off, not up till 9.40’ish.  Wander into Wigan with C who is looking for shoes.  First port of call is the market where she deems the shoes too frumpy.  A brief coffee as I scarf the rest of my tabs.  Then into the Grand Arcade.  Shoezone (no wide fit), Clarks (too frumpy) fail to provide.  In desperation it’s Schuh and we find some Doc Marten’s she loves, Klarna makes them affordable.

Nip into The Raven in search of lunch, first time we’ve been in since it changed hands and was refurbed.  Unimpressed we don’t stay.  So we wander into Gallimore’s (later learn it is shutting down on Sunday) and have another of their superb steak baguettes.

Home and a cuppa before wandering off to Lidl.  Pint in the Lickers on the way back and bake scones and cook pancakes for tea.  Wash up and watch old films with herself.

  1. Dead Mint – Dead Mint
  2. Dead Mint – Dreamers
  3. Palooka 5 – Drive You Around Space Mix
  4. Palooka 5 – Drive You Around
  5. Palooka 5 – Alien Grace
  6. Palooka 5 – Rough Magic
  7. Palooka 5 – Ultra Marine
  8. Palooka 5 – Radio Telescopes EP
H

8th February H

HDay Off

  1. Fay Hallam – Propeller
  2. Fay Hallam – The House Of Now
  3. Fay Hallam – Corona
  4. Fay Hallam – Window
  5. Fay Hallam – Modulations
  6. Fay Hallam – Greenhouse
  7. Il Senato – Pure Love
  8. Il Senato – Zibaldone
  9. Il Senato – King’s Of The World
  10. The Incredible String Band – The Incredible String Band
  11. The Incredible String Band – The Hangman’s Beautiful Daughter
  12. The Incredible String Band – Wee Tam
  13. The Incredible String Band – The Big Huge
  14. The Incredible String Band – Changing Horses
A Favourite Place

A Favourite Place

A Favourite PlaceAn early start and it’s into Wigan in search of today’s photo.  Return to the big giant head!

Arrived a t’mill and was first in, sorted my shit and chilled.  Not a great day tbh, 1-2-1 with Jess pm.  It was ok.

Home to tea and Carry On movies.  Could be worse.  Now off till Sunday next week and can chill for a bit.

Still feeling a bit down.

 

 

 

Music

  1. Blondshell – Blondshell
  2. Round Midnight – Dexter Gordon
  3. Bright Lights – Susanna Hoffs
  4. The Deep End – Susanna Hoffs
  5. Someday – Susanna Hoffs
  6. The Essential Jim Bob – Jim Bob
  7. Together All The Way – Levellers