Hidden gem

27th July 2025 Hidden gem

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Hidden gemHidden gem

Music

  1. Burning Spear – Creation Rebel: The Original Classic Recordings From Studio One
  2. Michael Stipe – In The Sun EP
  3. Paul Weller – Find El Dorado
  4. Pete Astor – Unsent Letters – Home Recordings 1984-2024
  5. Andy Bopp – Camera
  6. Andy Bopp – Space Camp
  7. Andy Bopp – I Am A Jetfighter
  8. Andy Bopp – Bicycle Parts
  9. Andy Bopp – Wherewithal
  10. Andy Bopp – Time To Rock!
  11. Andy Bopp – Tower City Vol. 1
  12. Andy Bopp – Maker (The Album)
  13. Andy Bopp – King Of The Day
  14. Andy Bopp – AB
  15. Andy Bopp – Blisters And Thorns
  16. Andy Bopp – Maker The Single
  17. Andy Bopp – Push And Pull
  18. Andy Bopp – An Andy Bopp Compendium Reimagined and Compiled by Nick Bertling

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From above

July 18th From above

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From aboveFrom above – feet in the chippy.  C feeling dreadful the TN is back with a vengeance so it was off to the chippy for me.

Bit of a mixed day off, breakfast at the Tom, little light shopping and then back.  Day was a mix of showers and sun.

Lunch with herself.  Then a kip.

Music

  1. Swansea Sound – Oasis v Blur
  2. Autocamper – What Do You Do All Day
  3. Stereolab – Pulse Of The Early Brain (Switched On Vol. 5)
  4. Stereolab – Miss Modular (UK Version)
  5. Various Artists – Saint-Germain-Des-Prés Café: The Best Of
  6. Various Artists – Saint-Germain-Des-Pres Cafe: The Must-Have Cool Tempo Selection From Paris (Vintage Mix By Bart & Baker)

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Smells weird

June 18th Smells weird

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Smells weirdSmells weird. A dead pigeon beyond smelling.

Music

  1. Humdrum – Every Heaven
  2. Humdrum – Superbloom
  3. Humdrum – Wave Goodbye
  4. Various Artists – Gotta Get A Good Thing Goin’ (Black Music In Britain In The Sixties)
  5. Torrey – Torrey
  6. Torrey – Something Happy
  7. Torrey – Screens
  8. Torrey – 90’s Look
  9. Torrey – Recording 119
  10. Torrey – Sister

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Something suss

May 8th Something suss

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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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From The Car

30th May – From the car

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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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Something Square

27th May – Something square

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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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Morning light

May 17 – Morning Light

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Morning lightSo away into Wigan in the morning light so C can cancel her standing order to sort an issue. She’s dead chuffed.  We bump into Stue on the way back to the bus station.  We go in with surgical precision, into Nationwide and back to Ashton having found the Little Kitchen has closed.  Brekkie at the Tom and Gerry’s it is.  Then a light bit of shopping in which we find a clock that ticks and chimes (Muggins here pays for the bugger!)

Music

  1. The Eyeberries – The Eyeberries Ep 2017
  2. The Eyeberries – Deadly Christmas
  3. The Eyeberries – Live In Clawbar (Moscow) 20.10.2017
  4. The Eyeberries – The Spy And His Romantic Date
  5. The Eyeberries – Stampede
  6. The Eyeberries – Don’t Blink
  7. Various Artists – Zombie Catchers bw Halloween Twist
  8. Los Kosmos – Los Kosmos
  9. Los Kosmos – Abandoned Land
  10. Los Kosmos – Unhappy End
  11. Various Artists – Motor City Is Burning (A Michigan Anthology 1965-1972)
  12. Various Artists – Moving Away From The Pulsebeat: Post-Punk Britain 1977-1981
  13. Various Artists – Trojan Skinhead Reggae Box Set

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Fresh

May 8 – Fresh

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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

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My favourite mug

May 1 – My favourite mug

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My favourite mugLate and it’s last of the series so tea from my favourite mug is a must.  We’re clearly in a puckish mood as a team and the banter is flying.

Music

  1. Dead Or Alive – It’s Been Hours Now (EP)
  2. Dead Or Alive – I’m Falling
  3. Dead Or Alive – Number Eleven
  4. Dead Or Alive – Sophisticated Boom Boom
  5. Yachts – Suffice To Say – The Complete Yachts Collection
  6. Yachts – Complete – Singles Collection
  7. Mad Professor – Adventures Of A Dub Sampler: Dub Me Crazy Pt. 7
  8. Mad Professor – Schizophrenic Dub: Dub Me Crazy Pt. 6
  9. Mad Professor – Dub Me Crazy 4: Escape To The Asylum Of Dub
  10. Mad Professor – Science & The Witchdoctor: Dub Me Crazy Pt. 9

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Glimmer 27

April 27 Glimmer 27

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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)

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