Garage – KDIL.ME

10th January – Out The Window

Jan 10, 2026Kieran Lamb10th, Abstract, Beat, Cameras, Date, Days, FMS Photo A Day, Garage, Indie, January 2026, Kelly's Heroes, Mod, Music, Photos, Pop, Punk, Ricoh GRIIIx, Saturday10th, Abstract, Beat, Cameras, Date, Days, FMS Photo A Day, Garage, Indie, January 2026, Kelly’s Heroes, Mod, Music, Photos, Pop, Punk, Ricoh GRIIIx, Saturday

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

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

Movies

Kelly’s Heroes

9th January – A shadow

Jan 9, 2026Kieran Lamb9th, Abstract, Beat, Blitz, Cameras, Date, Days, FMS Photo A Day, Friday, Garage, January 2026, Mod, Movies, Music, Nuremberg, Photos, Pop, Portraiture, Psychedelia, S249th, Abstract, Beat, Blitz, Cameras, Date, Days, FMS Photo A Day, Friday, Garage, January 2026, Mod, Movies, Music, Nuremberg, Photos, Pop, Portraiture, Psychedelia, S24

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.

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

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

8th January – A good start

Jan 8, 2026Kieran Lamb8th, Architecture, Beat, Blues, Cameras, Date, Days, FMS Photo A Day, Food, Garage, January 2026, Mod, Music, Photos, Pop, Psychedelia, Ricoh GRIIIx, Thursday8th, Architecture, Beat, Blues, Cameras, Date, Days, FMS Photo A Day, Food, Garage, January 2026, Mod, Music, Photos, Pop, Psychedelia, Ricoh GRIIIx, Thursday

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

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

7th January – Something inspiring

Jan 7, 2026Kieran Lamb7th, Beat, Cameras, Date, Days, FMS Photo A Day, Garage, January 2026, Mod, Music, Photos, Pop, Psychedelia, Punk, S24, Still Life, Surf, Wednesday7th, Beat, Cameras, Date, Days, FMS Photo A Day, Garage, January 2026, Mod, Music, Photos, Pop, Psychedelia, Punk, S24, Still Life, Surf, Wednesday

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

The Violet Mindfield – Your Mind On Violets
The Violet Mindfield – Mammals in Love and Ambivalence
The Violet Mindfield – Odds & Ends
The Violet Mindfield – Stranger In The Mirror
The Violet Mindfield – Hello Darling
The Violet Mindfield – California Burning
The Violet Mindfield – Distorted Portrait
The Violet Mindfield – The Forgotten Streetlamps of Time
The Violet Mindfield – Tell Me / Moonlight Love
The Violet Mindfield – After Before
The Violet Mindfield – Orange EP
The Violet Mindfield – Hard Times, Easy Love / Gimme, Gimme Single
The Violet Mindfield – The Violet Mindfield
The Violet Mindfield – Beautiful Nightmare – Single
Mooon – Safari
Mooon – Hurtin’ My Heart b/w How I Learned (To Say Goodbye)
Mooon – Mooon’s Brew
Mooon – III
Mooon – Mary You Wanna / She Makes Me Feel EP
Mooon – MOOON – EP

6th January – My Shoes Day

Jan 6, 2026Kieran Lamb6th, Beat, Cameras, Date, Days, Dream Pop, FMS Photo A Day, Garage, January 2026, Krautrock, Mod, Music, Photos, Portraiture, Psychedelia, Punk, S24, Tuesday6th, Beat, Cameras, Date, Days, Dream Pop, FMS Photo A Day, Garage, January 2026, Krautrock, Mod, Music, Photos, Portraiture, Psychedelia, Punk, S24, Tuesday

Tuesday and the first day of driving C to work. The roads are truly horrible, icy and bits of snow. On way to the school we discovered the boot was open. Pulled in sorted it. Was tbh a bit stressed by road conditions and the unknowns of getting to work on time (turned out reet!)

Day was ok but full of numptiness. Home and takeaway tonight because we had suddenly moved to three for tea rather than the pair of us.

Food Plan

Pie and Mash
Leek and Potato Soup
Meatballs

Working the weekend so will need to plan food for then, but at least I have a plan for the next couple of days.

Review #6 – L.A. Witch – Octubre

Spookily moody and with a bit of a psych post-punk vibe. Very reverb, could come out of Eric’s but is from the States. One for dark early winter mornings or winter nights.

Music

L.A. Witch – Your Ways (Demo)
L.A. Witch – Play With Fire
L.A. Witch – Octubre
L.A. Witch – L.A. Witch
L.A. Witch – Kill My Baby Tonight (Single)
L.A. Witch – Doggod
L.A. Witch – Drive Your Car
Various Artists – One Way Or The Highway
Shadow Show – Silhouettes
Shadow Show – Contessa (Remix)
Shadow Show – Silhouette Acoustic
Shadow Show – The Machine
Shadow Show – What Again Is Real (Acoustic)
Shadow Show – What Again Is Real? b/w Is This a Dream?
Shadow Show – Glass Eye
Shadow Show – Radiant Hue
Shadow Show – Fantasy Now!

5th January – A Quiet Moment

Jan 5, 2026Kieran Lamb5th, Beat, Cameras, Date, Days, FMS Photo A Day, Garage, January 2026, Landscapes, Mod, Music, Photos, Psychedelia, Ricoh GRIIIx, Tuesday5th, Beat, Cameras, Date, Days, FMS Photo A Day, Garage, January 2026, Landscapes, Mod, Music, Photos, Psychedelia, Ricoh GRIIIx, Tuesday

Yay a HE. Felt good, job was a good ‘un and a phone sale out of it too which I’ve not coded. Brief dusting of snow, the weather is best described as brass monkey’s. Driving continues to be OK, getting a wee bit more confident. Home via Aldi to pick up bread products.

Am back on the sertraline full time right now, struggling a bit mentally right now. Feel a bit more level as a result.

Other than that it’s a quiz night on TV. Just chill with herself.

Review #5 – The Mike Bell Cartel – The Cartel and I

Fuzzy psych, with organ accents. Bits remind me of 13th Floor Elevators and any number of Texas Punk bands of the 60’s. or maybe The Electric Prunes are a better comparison. Think it’s the vocals that are vaguely Ericksonesque. Some nice Byrdsy 12 string too. Well worth a listen and fab to drive to.