Well friends, I can die happy. Tonight in Liverpool I saw the Lemon Twigs encore with How Do You Do It? and Anytime At All. đĽ
INSTANT CALMER! I made a playlist of notable female vocalists - Barbra Streisand, Nina Simone, Shirley Bassey et al - tackling John Lennon at his most primal, political, plastic and Ono-inspired. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4LOE2rkSXlwR7ocvBMiiCI?si=428a15d5bfb64a6e
Youâve been kidnapped. The characters from the last tv show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who is coming to save you?
And about time too.
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Remember youâre a Womble.
Sheet music for Fancy by Bobbie Gentry, 1969.
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Yes. Also, seeing a clip of Dan Wootton on GB News describe one of these guilty keyboard warriors as âa political prisonerâ made me bark.
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Rage in my DMs.
Reveal your age by posting a picture of a poster advertising a film that, as a child, you watched in a cinema.
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One day in and already September is 31 times better than every day of the previous month combined AKA August.
If you have a spare copy of this âSwinging London-sploitationâ novel, or even a PDF, I would love to read it. My DMs are temporarily open. @BacklistedPod
(As noted elsewhere, it should have been called Twigula but never mind.)
Sunday quiz, no cheating. Identity this 70s concept LP about celebrity, prod. Kim Fowley, with contributions from Dorothy Ashby, Curt Boettcher, Bernie Leadon, Stevie Wonder. Clue: âThis album is dedicated to the public, who bought my first nine albums and have made this, my tenth album, possible.â
Announcement, with immediate effect. Henceforward, in all correspondence Coco Pops MUST be referred to as Coco Pops (sic) OR Cocoa Populars.
Please donât put your life in the hands
Of a ticketing scam
And throw it all away.
#Oasis
@louisebrown.bsky.social Stumbled on this fabulous track, thought of you. https://open.spotify.com/track/7kNz2vzryzfxa2nJMfpoyi?si=Jm5igp76Q7ipzLkqzGW2WQ
Not for nothing, but Haircut 100 released a new single today, their first for 40+ years. https://youtu.be/lTqEEzTmsyc?si=q3Zdrs4fwFSN3CI5
Given this Monkees LP features a song entitled Donât Listen to Linda, hats off to whoever it was at Northbrook Secondary School who in 1969 decided to award this LP as a piano prize to Linda Smith.
Letâs just ban pub gardens and have done with it.
30 years ago yesterday, on the morning after the Reading Festival 1994, a Bank Holiday Monday, I bought three albums and one single. I still listen to three of them.
âFor those of a certain age and sensibility, Lawrence is our Peter Pan, our Ziggy Stardust, our Taylor Swift.â Me on Will Hodgkinsonâs fabulous new book Street-Level Superstar for the Spectator. https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-greatest-british-pop-singer-who-never-made-a-hit-single/
Unbelievably terrible article. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/29/sleepy-town-few-people-my-age-new-elderly-friends-wellbeing
One of those days when nothing is interesting.