A plant that’s trying

June 19th A plant that’s trying

19th, Date, Days, FMS Photo A Day, Indie, June 2025, Mod, Music, Photos, Psychedelia, Punk, Soul, Street Photography, Thursday, , , , , , , , , , , , ,

A plant that’s tryingA plant that’s trying early start to the day with the end of the earlies.

Music

  1. The Seeds – Back To The Garden
  2. The Seeds – Singles As U Bs 1965-1970
  3. Various Artists – Paul Weller Presents That Sweet Sweet Music
  4. Pere Ubu – Trouble On Big Beat Street
  5. Pere Ubu – 20 Years In A Montano Silo
  6. The Coolies – Dig..?
  7. The Coolies – Doug
  8. The Cure – Mixes Of A Lost World
  9. Lime Spiders – Live At The Esplanade
  10. Lime Spiders – Nine Miles High 1983 – 1990
  11. Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts – Talkin To The Trees

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Makes no sense

June 12th Makes no sense

12th, Date, Days, FMS Photo A Day, Garage, June 2025, Music, Photos, Pop, Portraiture, Punk, Thursday, , , , , , , , , , ,

Makes no senseMakes no sense… the desire of the cat to explore a box… any box.

Music

  1. Let’s Active – Cypress / Afoot
  2. The Muffs – The Muffs
  3. The Muffs – Happy Birthday to Me
  4. The Muffs – Whoop Dee Doo
  5. The Muffs – Kaboodle
  6. The Muffs – Alert Today, Alive Tomorrow
  7. The Muffs – Hamburger
  8. The Muffs – No Holiday
  9. The Muffs – Blonder and Blonder
  10. The Muffs – Really Really Happy

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Something suss

May 8th Something suss

8th, Architecture, Date, Days, Electronica, FMS Photo A Day, Funk, Garage, Indie, June 2025, Music, Photos, Punk, Reggae, Sunday, , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

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

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The laundry I ignored

June 6th The laundry I ignored

6th, Beat, Blues, Date, Days, Electronica, FMS Photo A Day, Friday, Garage, June 2025, Krautrock, Mod, Music, Photos, Pop, Psychedelia, Pub Rock, Punk, Still Life, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

The laundry I ignoredThe laundry I ignored… on a day off.  Catch up on sleep, do a bit of housework.

Music

  1. Various Artists – Time! Gentlemen! Pub Rock Rhythm ‘n’ Grooves: Classic Cuts And Rarities 1974-1982
  2. Various Artists – Electric Junk (Deutsche Rock, Psych And Kosmische 1970-1978)
  3. Various Artists – Get Ready For The Countdown: Mod, Brit Soul, R&B & Freakbeat Nuggets

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From The Car

30th May – From the car

30th, Beat, Date, Days, FMS Photo A Day, Friday, Garage, Indie, Landscapes, May 2025, Music, Photos, Punk, Reggae, Surf, , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

From The CarFrom the car – well to be precise the bus. Friday and first day off.

Music

  1. Feargal Sharkey – Listen To Your Father (Extended Version)
  2. Feargal Sharkey – Feargal Sharkey
  3. Feargal Sharkey – Wish
  4. Feargal Sharkey – Song From The Mardi Gras
  5. Damian O’Neill – An Crann
  6. Damian O’Neill – Palestine
  7. Damian O’Neill – Más o Menos EP
  8. The Despondents – The Despondents
  9. The Monsters – Rock Around The Tombstone
  10. The Monsters – M
  11. The Monsters – Youth Against Nature
  12. The Monsters – The Hunch
  13. The Monsters – Pop Up Yours
  14. The Monsters – The Jungle Noise Recordings
  15. The Monsters – I See Dead People
  16. The Monsters – You’re Class I’m Trash
  17. The Monsters – Birds Eat Martians
  18. The Monsters – Du Hesch Cläss, Ig Bi Träsch
  19. The Monsters – Masks
  20. The Monsters – I’m A Stranger To Me
  21. Black Market – Dojo/Black Market
  22. Black Market Meets Mired & Wise Owl – Black Market Meets Mired & Wise Owl In The… Twighlight Zone
  23. Lovejoy – Remixes From and It’s Love
  24. Theatre Royal – A Change Of Weather
  25. Les Sardines – Paranoia
  26. The Masonics – Nothin’ Shakin’ But… EP
  27. The Masonics – Some Other Guys EP

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Messy

29th May – Messy

29th, Beat, Date, Days, FMS Photo A Day, Garage, Indie, May 2025, Music, Photos, Portraiture, Psychedelia, Punk, Thursday, , , , , , , , , , , , ,

MessyMessy, the contents of my pockets. Last late and a final HBB. Value is the thing?

Music

  1. Sweet Juice – Milson EP
  2. Sweet Juice – Sweet Juice
  3. Sweet Juice – Sweet Juice
  4. The Great Electric – Harkonen EP
  5. The Great Electric – The Greater Electric
  6. The Great Electric – The Great Electric
  7. The Great Electric – Recognizer
  8. The Great Electric – Agamemnon Counterpart
  9. These New Puritans – Inside The Rose
  10. These New Puritans – Crooked Wing
  11. These New Puritans – Beat Pyramid
  12. These New Puritans – Field Of Reeds
  13. These New Puritans – Expanded Live At The Barbican
  14. These New Puritans – Hidden
  15. The Standells – Try It
  16. The Standells – The Hot Ones!
  17. The Standells – Dirty Water
  18. The Standells – The Live Ones!
  19. The Standells – Why Pick On Me Sometimes Good Guys Don’t Wear White
  20. The Standells – The Very Best Of The Standells

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My Happy Place

28th May – My happy place

28th, Architecture, Beat, Date, Days, FMS Photo A Day, Food, Garage, Indie, May 2025, Music, Photos, Punk, Wednesday, , , , , , , , , , , , ,

My Happy PlaceMy Happy Place, start the day at Kawa’s.  Then onto another late, another HBB and I’m stressing about value.

Music

  1. Ye Nuns – Don’t Worry / I Don’t Want To Do This Again
  2. Shrag – PRE 046: Shrag Huw Stephens session 09.12.10
  3. Shrag – Pre 047: Shrag€“ Marc Riley Session 21.03.12
  4. The Martial Arts – I Used To Be The Martial Arts
  5. The Martial Arts – Getting Stranger By The Month
  6. The Martial Arts – Do It Riot Grrl
  7. The Martial Arts – No Victory (2015’s Version)
  8. The Martial Arts – In There Like Swimwear
  9. The Martial Arts – No Victory (2024’s Version)
  10. The Martial Arts – Your Sinclair
  11. The Martial Arts – Christmas With The Martial Arts
  12. The Martial Arts – Not Coming Down

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Something Square

27th May – Something square

27th, Abstract, Beat, Date, Days, FMS Photo A Day, Garage, Indie, May 2025, Mod, Music, Photos, Punk, Reggae, Rockabilly, Surf, Tuesday, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Something SquareSomething square, much debate about this one, ended up with a light at work.  Another couple of HBB, what the fuck is going on?

  1. Black Market Dub – Remain In Dub
  2. Black Market ft. Wise Owl & Dub Robot – Thin White Dub
  3. Black Market Dub – Complete Clash
  4. Black Market Dub – Plan 9 From Outer Space
  5. Black Market Dub – The Clash – Give ‘Em Enough Dub
  6. Black Market & Dub Robot – Batman 66
  7. Black Market ft. Dub Robot – The Beach Boys
  8. Black Market Dub – Bowie in Dub
  9. Black Market & Wise Owl – Blondie
  10. Black Market – The Beach Boys – Summer Dub
  11. Black Market Dub – United Federation of Dub
  12. Black Market – The Beach Boys – Endless Dub
  13. Black Market – David Bowie – The Next Dub
  14. Ludella Black With The Masonics – The Skull Of A Man EP
  15. The Masonics – When You Cry At Night EP
  16. The Satelliters – Lost In Time
  17. The Satelliters – Unknown State (of Mind)

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Starts with T

May 23rd – Starts with T

23rd, Beat, Date, Days, FMS Photo A Day, Friday, Indie, May 2025, Mod, Music, Pop, Psychedelia, Punk, Surf, , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Starts with TStarts with T, the tiny toes of Elsie! First of two days off. Start the day fetching chicken and salad from the chicken shop.  Grab breakfast at Hels Kitchen.  Fetch gloss paint and a brush.  Back home and paint the window sills and steps.

Bit of playing with metadata and cleaning the Fridge before heading to the bus stop to meet herself.  Pint in the Lickers and then a light shop in the Lidl.

Music

  1. Curlee Wurlee – C’est Destructif
  2. Martin Carthy – The Carthy Chronicles
  3. Martin Carthy – Martins4 (With Martin Simpson, Martin Taylor & Juan Martin)
  4. The Act Ups – Something To Forget
  5. The Strollers – In Or Out
  6. The Mants – Bug Rock Invasion
  7. The Mants – I Smell… Woman!
  8. The Mants – The MANT from U.N.C.L.E.
  9. The Mants – Do The Dummy
  10. The Mants – Destroyed By Fuzz
  11. Jack Oblivian and The Sheiks – Every Little Thing Goes Wrong
  12. The Brooms – Freakin’ Out
  13. Mad Mojo Jett – Partyville
  14. The Jackets – Shadows Of Sound
  15. The Jackets – Pie In The Sky / Misery Of Man
  16. The Jackets – Queen Of The Pill
  17. The Jackets – Stuck Inside
  18. The Jackets – Way Out

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Something tiny

22nd May – Something tiny

22nd, Beat, Date, Days, FMS Photo A Day, Garage, Indie, May 2025, Music, Photos, Portraiture, Psychedelia, Punk, Rockabilly, Surf, Thursday, , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Something tinySomthing tiny… the nose of the cat!  Last of the set of three earlies, back in on Sunday, then a run of 4 lates.  Value is terrible, a bit better today as I finally sold a HBB.  Retrieve Jo from the station.

Music

  1. The Thingz – In The Age Of Giant Moths
  2. The Thingz – From A To Z
  3. The Thingz – Dressed In Rags
  4. The Flaming Sideburns – In loving memory of Robert Dahlqvist (Hellacopters)
  5. The Flaming Sideburns – Soulshaking
  6. Gary Wilde – Keep On Walking
  7. King Salami & The Cumberland Three – Howlin’ For My Woman
  8. King Salami & The Cumberland Three – Bayou Fever
  9. The Maharajas – Opposites Attract
  10. The Maharajas – Ride The Wylde Mammoths
  11. The Maharajas – Floor Killers
  12. The Maharajas – Rock’n’Roll Graduates
  13. The Maharajas – Black Box
  14. The Sellwoods – House Rockin’ Party Tonight With…
  15. The Sellwoods – Two Stroke Smoke
  16. The Sellwoods – Dressed In Rags / Zombie Rats

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