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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4th January – Morning Light

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FMS_morninglight26So here we go 2,3,4… plan was to nip to the Tom and Gerry, have a coffee, retrieve some extra change, nip to the allotment passing the laundrette proving it was open and back via the laundrette whereupon the laundry would be done.  Along the way there was to be photo’s of the morning light.  The reality was it starts to snow, the geezer who owns the laundrette had failed to turn up, I managed to start driving down a one way street.  On the plus side I did fetch change, grab coffee and take morning light photos.  Rearranged plan, once I’d turned round on a back alley was off to the laundrette at Haydock.  Got there and the place was rammed.  A 30 minute wait for the washing machine, a 20 minute wait for a dryer.

Allotment skipped, but I’m off on Thursday so off to the allotment then.  If the laundrette is open will zap a wash through.  Why?  Just to get on top of the mountain of washing that has mounted up.  We just can’t get the drying done.

Home and it’s time for the dec’s to come down, all done in advance of tomorrow’s twelfth night.  ‘Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon ’em.’

Review #4 – The Incredible Sucking Spongies – The Incredible Sucking Spongies

Instrumental surf plus from an Antwerp based band.  Think country & western, sixties classics, mysterious exotica, jazz and obscure TV tunes, all combined to an exciting Surf Cocktail.  An interesting listen.

Music

  1. The Incredible Sucking Spongies – The Incredible Sucking Spongies
  2. The Kryng – Baby, What You Want – 7″
  3. The Kryng – I Don’t Dig These Modern Tymes
  4. The Kryng – Don’t Dig These Modern Tymes
  5. The Kryng – Baby You’re The One
  6. The Kryng – So Many Girls EP
  7. The Kryng – So Many Girls
  8. The Kryng – So Many Girls vol. 2
  9. The Kryng – Twelve Hymns To Syng Along
  10. The Kryng – You Were On My Mind
  11. The Kryng – Going Nowhere
  12. The Kryng – Keep Her In Mind b/w Twenty two
  13. The Kryng – V
  14. Los Robots – Standoff At Planet ‘T’
  15. Los Robots – The Fascinating World Of…
  16. Los Robots – Project World Control
  17. Los Robots – Big Trouble In Outer Space
  18. Los Robots – The Sound Of The Middle East
  19. Los Robots – Do The Robot
  20. Los Robots – 12 Favorites From Planet Earth
  21. Los Robots – Exploring the Boundaries of the Multiverse
  22. The Breadmakers – The Breadmakers
  23. The Breadmakers – Thee Cha Cha Chas Split Tour 2019 EP
  24. The Breadmakers – Night of the Cobra
  25. Child Of Panoptes – Un Petit Morceau De Buvard
  26. Beebe Gallini – Dusty
  27. Beebe Gallini – Pandemos
  28. Beebe Gallini – Beebe Gallini & Cindy Lawson
  29. Beebe Gallini – East Side Story EP

Movies

  1. The Aviator
  2. Hot Tub Time Machine
  3. Hot Tub Time Machine 2
  4. Jurassic World

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An object out of place

June 14th An object out of place

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An object out of placeAn object out of place

Music

  1. The Surfers – Surf Party!
  2. The Surfers – Tiki & Time Machine
  3. I. Jeziak and The Surfers – On The Beach
  4. I. Jeziak and The Surfers – The Breeze bw Free As the Ocean
  5. I. Jeziak and The Surfers – Mummy Walk
  6. I. Jeziak and The Surfers – Free As the Ocean
  7. The Boo Tikis – In Stereo
  8. The Screaming Seagulls – Beyond The Claw EP
  9. The Screaming Seagulls – Wet ‘n Wild
  10. The Screaming Seagulls – Hypnic Jerk bw Snow Surfer
  11. Shoreline Dreamers – Mild Peril!
  12. Shoreline Dreamers – Surfer Spirit
  13. Shoreline Dreamers – Euro Dancer
  14. Shoreline Dreamers – The Heist
  15. The Space Agency – Purple Power
  16. The Space Agency – Galactic Guitars
  17. The Space Agency – The Celestial Sounds Of The Space Agency
  18. The Space Agency – The Devil’s Saddle/Tiger Paw
  19. The Space Agency – Tanchozuru
  20. The Space Agency – Istangull
  21. Los Coyote Men – Bad Penny
  22. Los Coyote Men – Please Take Me Home
  23. Tits Up – Greatest Tits
  24. The Sci-Flies – Something Gnarly
  25. The Sci-Flies – Summer Moon
  26. The Sci-Flies – Josie’s Revenge
  27. The Jack Cades – Something New bw Chasing You
  28. The Jack Cades – Infectious Covers
  29. The Jack Cades – For Your Love
  30. The Jack Cades – Perfect View
  31. The Jack Cades – The Night Before
  32. The Jack Cades – Run Paulie Run bw And Pretend
  33. The Jack Cades – Music For Children
  34. The Jack Cades – Something New
  35. The Caezars – Heartache Overload b/w Back In The Jungle
  36. The Caezars – The Caezars
  37. The Caezars – Even The Graveyard’s Dead
  38. Dactyl Terra – Dactyl Terra
  39. Dactyl Terra – Fee Fi Fo Fum
  40. Filthtones – I Hate You
  41. We Love Surf – Dune Buggy Cover Oliver Onionsbud Spencer Terence Hill Film
  42. We Love Surf – Up and Riding
  43. We Love Surf – Peachy Keen
  44. We Love Surf – Holiday EP
  45. We Love Surf – Jellyfish
  46. We Love Surf – Why Should I Not Go
  47. We Love Surf – What A Ride!
  48. We Love Surf – Go!
  49. We Love Surf – Time To Surf
  50. Mark Malibu & the Wasagas – Summer Of Frightenstien EP
  51. Mark Malibu & the Wasagas – Hip Shake Go Go Baby
  52. Mark Malibu & the Wasagas – Haunted Hotrod Beach Party
  53. Mark Malibu & the Wasagas – Hellbent For Speed EP

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Oopsie daisy

June 13th Oopsie daisy

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Oopsie daisyOopsie daisy … it’s Friday the 13th.

Music

  1. Various Artists – Mark Malibu Presents Surfin’€™ Kitty Xmas
  2. Various Artists – Mark Malibu Presents Surfin’€™ Kitty Xmas 2
  3. Various Artists – Mark Malibu Presents Surfin’€™ Kitty Xmas 3
  4. Various Artists – Mark Malibu Presents Surfin’€™ Kitty Xmas 4
  5. The Chesterfield Kings – Psychedelic Sunrise
  6. The Chesterfield Kings – The Mindbending Sounds of The Chesterfield Kings
  7. The Chesterfield Kings – Live Onstage… If You Want It
  8. The Coolies – Uh Oh! It’s… The Coolies
  9. The Coolies – King Of Confusion
  10. The Contrast – Perfect Disguise: Introducing The Contrast
  11. The Contrast – God of Malfunction
  12. Game Theory – Lolita Nation
  13. Game Theory – 2 Steps From The Middle Ages
  14. Game Theory – Blaze Of Glory
  15. Game Theory – Dead Center
  16. Game Theory – Real Nighttime

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In my pocket

June 11th What’s in my pocket?

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In my pocketWhat’s In My Pocket?…. Quite alot as it happens.

Music

  1. The Beach Boys – U.S. Singles Collection – The Capitol Years 1962-1965
  2. Brian Wilson – Smile
  3. Game Theory – Supercalifragile
  4. The Unclaimed – You Never Come
  5. The Pandoras – Hey! It’s The Pandoras

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Shouldn’t Be Here

June 4th Shouldn’t be here

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Shouldn’t Be HereShouldn’t be here, yep that’s how it felt, a slightly better day but still shit!

Music

  1. Mark Malibu and The Wasagas – Return of the Wasagas
  2. Mark Malibu and The Wasagas – Crash Monster Beach
  3. The Leaf Library – Monuments I-V
  4. The Leaf Library and Firestations – Lines Composed A Few Metres Above The Earth (live at Sublimate)
  5. The Leaf Library – Hissing Waves (radio edit)
  6. The Leaf Library – Tired Ghost
  7. The Leaf Library – Tomorrow Is The Morning Of The World
  8. The Leaf Library – Bird Sounds
  9. Various Artists – Distraction Paths Remixes By The Leaf Library Volume One
  10. The Leaf Library and The Scattered Orchestra – Quiet House
  11. The Leaf Library – The Greater Good / Goodbye Four Walls
  12. The Leaf Library – The Celebration
  13. The Leaf Library – Different Activities, Similar Diversions
  14. The Leaf Library – Swim Variations
  15. The Leaf Library – Building Better Worlds
  16. The Leaf Library – Walking Backwards / Magical Breath
  17. The Leaf Library – Pattern Grammar
  18. The Leaf Library and Steven Adams – The Shipping News From Languard Point
  19. The Leaf Library – Losing Places / Losing Places (Isan remix)
  20. The Leaf Library – Activity / Carousel

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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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In My Hand

May 26th – In my hand

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In My HandIn my hand, a post work pint, keeping the spirit of Nick Lamb alive!  So a weird day, yesterday we get told that we’re due in at 11, this morning a panicky message at 9.00 that we need to be like yesterday.  On the plus side the day went well, a couple of HBB and good conversion.

Music

  1. The Kneejerk Reactions – The Indestructible Sounds Of …
  2. The Masonics – The Masonic Machine Turns On You
  3. The Masonics – Live In London
  4. The Masonics – In Your Night Of Dreams And Other Foreboding Pleasures
  5. The Masonics – Outside Looking In
  6. The Masonics – Silently By Night
  7. The Masonics – Obermann Rides Again
  8. Mickey And The Salty Seadogs – Salt Water And Whisky
  9. Wild Evel & The Trashbones – Berlin On Fire
  10. Wild Evel & The Trashbones – Let´s Go Right Now / It´s A Monster
  11. Wild Evel & The Trashbones – The Mess I´m In / I´m Gonna Cry
  12. Wild Evel & The Trashbones – Digging My Grave
  13. Wild Evel & The Trashbones – Tales From The Cave
  14. Wild Evel & The Trashbones – Why Can´t We Be
  15. Wild Evel & The Trashbones – Motorbiene
  16. Das Clamps – Bad Taste
  17. Das Clamps – Shit Music For Shit People
  18. Das Clamps – Quahog Stomp

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May 25 – Calm

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CalmCalm and it’s back to work.  Bus is late which stresses the fuck out of me.  In the end it all worked out was third in with Kat.  A better day but still a shite week.

Music

  1. The Jukeez – Transylvanian Twist
  2. The Jukeez – White Liquor
  3. White Liquor – Shattered Diamonds
  4. Various Artists – Robot Parade Vol. 1
  5. Various Artists – Superstarlet AD Original Soundtrack
  6. The Mourning After – Put On A Smile
  7. The Mourning After – DIT 013 You’re No Good / How Do I Know
  8. The Mourning After – Do Your Thaang (the Weemeenit Sessions)
  9. The Mourning After – The 10th Century
  10. The Mourning After – Dit 057 Introducing The Mourning After
  11. The Mourning After – Tall, Dark & Gruesome
  12. The Mourning After – Can Ya Feel My Pain
  13. The Mourning After – Dit 020 Every Single Day Double EP
  14. The Mourning After – The Mourning After
  15. The Mourning After – Diggin’ Your Own Grave
  16. The Jukeez – More Fuzz !
  17. The Jukeez – Sick
  18. The Jukeez – What’s Wrong
  19. The Jukeez – Dig them crazy cats
  20. MFC Chicken – Bear-size Skeeters
  21. MFC Chicken – Goin’ Chicken Crazy
  22. MFC Chicken – Fast Food and Broken Hearts
  23. MFC Chicken – (Get Outta The) Dj Booth
  24. MFC Chicken – Music For Chicken
  25. MFC Chicken – Lake Bears
  26. MFC Chicken – Solid Gravy!
  27. MFC Chicken – It’s … MFC Chicken Time!

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