Pain

I was really please when I heard that Mukatsuku were re-releasing Pain by Little Flint as the original release from 1970, the only release on the Beast label by this studio band from Cincinnati Ohio was always out of my price range at around £400 for a vg+ copy if you could find one. On the b-side is an alternate take sung by Wayne Perry under the guise of The Boys In The Band which has never been released before. A furious piece of soul rock, with some great brass and an organ solo although it lacks the nuance in the vocal of the of the Little Flint version it is still a welcome addition to any soul collection.

The Boys In The Band - Pain  

Black Lives Matter

Public Enemy - He Got Game 

Monday's Long Song

Day one in part two of Dominic Cummings experiment with "herd immunity" in England. Are you ready for your child to be a lab rat? I am livid and I am not even affected by the changes so can only imagine how a lot of people down south are feeling right now when you are being asked to "just get on with it" for the sake of commerce when the infection rate is still higher than when we went into lockdown.

I realise that things have to get going  but I fail to see the point of opening Nandos if it results in a spike of cases and people being too ill to eat the damned stuff. But you will still be able to "spaff" whatever money you do have left at the online bookies and make more money for gambling companies and Baroness  Dido Harding, board member of the Jockey Club and Cheltenham Racecourse, who was in charge of Talk Talk when a data breech occurred resulting in the accessing of 4 million customers personal and banking details by criminals, who is now in charge of the government's  (World Beating*)Track, Test and Trace operation and did I mention the fact that her husband is a Tory MP and her father is the 2nd Baron of Petherton, certainly not a member of any elite then. Oh, and when we are on the Track and Trace thing, the contract was given without tender to SERCO, who were previously fined £19.2 million for fraudulent accounting in relation to the electronic tagging service for the Ministry of Justice and who only a fortnight ago accidentally shared the email addresses of 300 of the people they have employed to perform COVID-19 contract tracing. The CEO just by coincidence happens to be Rupert Soames, brother to ex Conservative MP Nicholas Soames and grandson to Bawjaws hero, Churchill, so again certainly not part of the establishment or elite by any stretch of the imagination. I could go into the dodgy organisations behind the track and trace app but I fear if I typed any more of this there would be a high probability of the laptop being launched out of the very small window in front of me. If you are interested you could look here for a start.

*"World Beating" in the same sense as the UK has the highest number of deaths from Covid-19 by % of the population in the entire world. Tremendous, makes you so proud doesn't it, British Exceptionalism at it's worst.

Anyway, none of that was intended for today's post.

I was out on the bike the other night doing my bit of exercise and this track came on the iPod,  I stopped peddling,  got off the bike,  sat in the fading sun and just listened. One of my favourite things about going to see Greg Dulli in his many incarnations is trying to name the song that the familiar lyrics are from that he randomly drops into some of his own compositions, a bit of the Beatles here, a smattering of Fleetwood Mac there and some Prince or a frustratingly familiar couple of lines from a soul classic elsewhere.  It keeps you on your toes, helps you stay alert, if you will. So listening to this song brought back happy memories of hearing it in this form in Glasgow in July 2014 and it taking me a good 90 seconds to get the song. But then I started to get quite sad as the gig was at the ABC,  the venue next to the Glasgow School of Art which was also extensively damaged in the last fire and is now going to be pulled down as it is not worth saving and just to compile my anguish I was reminded that I was supposed to be seeing Greg Dulli promoting his latest album, Random Desire in March, the first of three gigs that I had lined up that have now been cancelled!

The Afghan Whigs - Faded.

It's Friday . . . Let's Dance

I will never fathom why, Summer Dreams the best track from Skream's debut album was left off of the vinyl version and I must admit I was vexed at the time and still slightly peeved that I have to dig into the cupboard to play it. Small inconvenience for a track this good I know but still these are the petty things I used to fixate upon before the days of a global pandemic and living in a country run by an elite that seem to be intent in killing off all of those that can't contribute to adding to their wealth and if a few of those are killed off too so be it as there are plenty more willing to doff the cap and do as they say, as long as fast food restaurants are open and the Premier League continues to make money for Russian Oligarchs, American Billionaires and Middle Eastern Royalty.

Have a good weekend and stay safe people

Skream - Summer Dreams 

The Society

The Society were a bunch of mid to late teenagers who played covers at dances around Lakewood Ohio in 1966 and 1967. Two members of the group wrote a couple of songs which they intended to record in the hopes of landing a record deal and so in June 1967 the group went to Cleveland Recordings and cut the two tracks. The A-side You Girl was a "fuzzed out blaster" and the much more brooding and moody Lonely on the flip. For some inexplicable reason there were no takers for these two excellent garage tracks which subsequently languished in the vaults until they were unearthed and released as a 7" single on B-W records last September.

The Society - Lonely 

A Day To Be Remembered

A Lovely Day Tomorrow is a collaboration between BSP and the Czech band The Ecstasy of Saint Theresa. The track is one of three tracks on a cd released only in the Czech Republic to celebrate that country's entry into the EU. It was made available in limited quantities in the UK during BSP's 2004 tour and also via the band's website.

The song deals with the story of the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich (Reichsprotektor of Bohemia and Moravia and one of the architects of the "final solution") at the hands of 2 Czech agents on this day in 1942.  The names Joszef Gabcik  and  Jan Kublis should be celebrated by all democrats the world over today.

The cd was limited to 1942 copies for obvious reasons.

British Sea Power Allied With The Ecstacy of Saint Theresa - A Lovely Day Tomorrow

That Hits The Spot

The good people of my favourite record shop Monorail music tweeted this beautiful cover version earlier and it was just what I needed. KC can certainly cover a classic

Monday's Long(ish) Song

I didn't have the inclination yesterday to think about anything for the blog after watching that pathetic excuse of a man that now has the job he has dreamed about his entire life but has found out that he is extremely shit at it,  lie to the nation on TV and spent the rest of the day seething and spotting the ISS and the support vehicles. I missed the shooting star but did catch one last week. The night sky when able to be seen is a joy at the moment what with the ISS passes, Mercury and Venus being visible and the sliver of a crescent moon last night was lovely but I digress.

My rage had abated a bit earlier until I found out that Bawjaws unelected SPAD  who is actually running the UK has decided to address the nation later on today. So it looks like we have now become a lot less than a democracy and are really no better than Russia, Brazil and Venezuela which is ironic as we were told that that is what we would have become with Corbyn in charge. Lucky escape that was, eh?

This clip of Jah Wobble's Invaders of the Heart live on KEXP temporarily brought the blood pressure back down.

Monday's Long Song

Come Down To Us was the third track on the Rival Dealer ep released in December 2013 and was the only release by Burial that year but what a release. The three tracks clock in at 28 minutes in total and all three have an anti-bullying theme running through them. All three tracks are great and ideally should be listened to as a whole but also stand up as single tracks. There really is no one like Will Bevan when it comes to making these atmospheric, dreamlike broken beats tunes that really hold your attention and draw you right into the story.

Burial - Come Down To Us 

It's Friday . . . Let's Dance

I don't have a lot to say as not a lot is happening and it's best not to start on the farce that Scottish Football has turned into when there are no old firm games for the nutters in charge to focus on.

Here's a fine slab of deep Scottish techno to get your lugholes round.

Stay safe and have a good weekend people

Slam - Chasing Shadows

I Never Gave Up

Inspired by a post a couple of weeks ago, I spent the Sunday after listening to the Chumbawamba records that I own and even dug out the early live bootlegs and demos that I found in the cupboard in the middle of the stairs. The records and cds have stood the test of time pretty well and sadly many of the topics that the Chumbas railed against back in the 80 and 90s are still extremely relevant today. The tapes unfortunately I found mostly unlistenable due to their extremely no-fi nature, which is strange as I have memories of playing these often, either my old Panasonic Ghetto Blaster was of superior quality to my current system or my ears weren't so concerned about fidelity back then.

One album that surprised me was Slap! which I thought of all of material that I have would have dated as it was the band's early foray in the use of samples and beats. The album was also a bit of a change in attitude for the anarchos from Leeds in that it was more celebratory than accusatory in tone, especially in the track Rappoport's Testament: I Never Gave Up. I'm not sure that many bands would even attempt to put an account of someone's experiences in Auschwitz but that's exactly what Chumbawamba have done here, Valerio Rappoport was an inmate of the death camp and his testament was captured for posterity in Primo Levi's book Moments of Reprieve, where he states that if Levi survives Valerio then he must tell the world ". . . I did not weep or ask for pity. If I meet Hitler in the next place I will spit in his face and I'll have every right to, because he didn't get the better of me"

Chumbawamba - Rappoport's Testament: I Never Gave Up.

None Of This Was Written In Stone

I was listening to The Book of Traps and Lessons earlier on and although I knew it was coming and was waiting for rush of emotions that the piano and words trigger in me every time, however tonight it nearly finished me.

Surely in the words of another poet from the not to distance past, a change is gonna come. We can but hope.

Betty Wright R.I.P.

21/12/1953 - 10/05/2020

Fuck, another one gone and far too soon.

Betty Wright - Man Of Mine 

Monday's Long Song

London Overgrown is an ambient concept album released in 2015 with the premise that some cataclysmic event has taken place and London is devoid of human life and nature has taken over. I know, the subject matter is a bit off under the circumstances, however the music I find is extremely soothing and not at all angst inducing, especially the opening track, Oceanic II. The album was the third in the series Cathedral Oceans and for me is the best of them, that's not to say that the others aren't worth giving some attention either.

John Foxx -  Oceanic II

Little Richard

05/12/1932 - 09/05/20

2020 is beginning to feel like 2016 on steroids with the amount of deaths in the music business.

I first really became aware of Little Richard when I was twelve or thirteen. At the time I had become quite obsessed with Jimi Hendrix and had taped a documentary that had been aired on BBC2 which I kept returning to. There were a few scenes that stay with me from that documentary, the black and white footage of Hendrix doing a live version of Johnny B Goode, the Monterey Pop footage and the shall we say flamboyant appearance of Richard Wayne Penniman pronouncing "he was a star, when I got him he was a star" at the time I found it hard to get my head around Hendrix playing guitar a for one of the inventors of rock and roll, the music just seemed so different.

Over the years I have learned to appreciate the justfied self proclaimed "Innovator, Originator, Architect of Rock n Roll" (for some reason a lot of folk seemed to be reluctant to acknowledge his contribution) from A Girl Can't Help It, one of the most essential rock n roll songs, especially the slowed down studio re-recording which adds to the sexuality of the track through to the more R&B, Soul recordings for Okeh from the mid 60s but that's about where I stop. His influence can be seen all through music from James Brown and the JBs through the Heavy Metal of the late 70s and early 80s . Bon Scott and the Young Brothers being big fans and I am sure that Freddie Mercury watched quite a few Little Richard performances and made notes and do we even have to mention the sadly departed Prince Rogers Nelson.

Rock and roll and music in general would have been a lot duller without the extrovert from Macon Georgia

Rest easy Richard



Little Richard - Get Down With It  

Two TV Sets and Two Cadillac Cars

After yesterday's post it was inevitable that today I would go back to the source. Rock and Roll was first released on the final Velvet Underground album, Loaded, however it had been played live frequently and  originally put to tape the previous year. Here is the Matrix Tapes version.

The Velvet Underground - Rock and Roll (Live)

Sacrilege?

This came up on the iPod thee other night when I was out for my daily constitutional and I had forgotten just how good it was. I baulked when I first saw this mash up, no way could you mix the Velvet Underground with Christine Aguilera and also throw The Communards into the mix at the end , it would just be a disaster. But my lack of faith was totally unfounded as Mark Vider pulled it off, if you didn't know the individual tracks there would be very little likely hood that you would not believe that this was one composition and not the result of splicing three together.

Go Home Productions - Girl Wants

Monday's Long Song

I really don't want to think about the mistake that I made in 2003 when I foolishly sold a shit load of dance records but I have been going through my much diminished Mo Wax collection over the past week. Two records which I had the intelligence to keep were the La Funk Mob releases on the label, MW 017 and MW 023 both double packs one 12" and 10". La Doctoresse was the lead track on the first of those releases, Tribulations Extra Sensorielles, a laid back groove with a soulful vocal sample and some lovely bongos, standard stuff for Headz back in the day. The blurb on the back of the record  states
"Mo' Wax enters '94 with more hard abstrack musical science via France's top beat headz - La Funk Mob (producers of M.C. Solaars and featured on Jimmy Jay's Les Cool Sessions). This E.P. kicks pure Diggin in the crates instrumentalsbeatz, flavaz, a couple of hard Klub trax, a crazy mad jazz house fusion and a classic mad jazz house fusion and a classic slice of head shit. Anyway just check it! Mo'Wax 'til infinity

I couldn't agree more but wish that they had checked the spelling. I loved all this stuff during the mid to the late 90s.

La Funk Mob would go on to be better known as Cassius.

La Funk Mob - La Doctoresse 

May Day

The Redskins - Keep On Keeping On ( Die On Your Feet mix)

Orange Sky

I don't have anything to say really apart from I really love this song. I first heard this on Jon Richards morning show on KEXP when I was still office based, which feels like ages ago and I suppose 18 years is a long time. I used to tune into the Seattle station,  put my headphones on and block out the rest of the office. Never thought I would ever say this but I miss being able to get up wander across the office and chat to colleagues. Skype and MS Teams is how me and the people I work with keep in touch but I have never considered it a medium for just talking shit to other people, too much like the phone for my liking, something that I have always used very infrequently as anybody know knows me will attest to.

This always had the feel of a lost John Martyn song about it

Alexi Murdoch - Orange Sky 

Monday's Long Song

I have had a bit of an Orb fest over the weekend, digging out some stuff that I haven't played for some time. One of these was the first volume in the Orbsessions series of albums. Volume 1 contains unreleased tracks and collaborations from the very early days until 2005. The first track on the double album Mummie Don't must be from the days when the Orb was a collaboration of Alex Paterson and Jimmy Cauty, although I can't be sure as there are no sleeve notes but you will be able to spot sounds and samples that would be used not only on other tracks by the Orb but also the Space album and KLF records.

The Orb - Mummie Don't

It's Friday . . . Let's Dance

Over the past week or so I have been starting off my post work listening sessions with a mix cd out of the cupboard. The ones that I have got the most pleasure out of have been the ones that aren't squarely four to the floor dance but the more eclectic ones such as the Portishead and David Holmes groundbreaking Essential mixes but the ones that had me transfixed for their duration were the UNKLE ones. James Lavelle knew how to compile a mix did he not. He was also quite adept with the remix. Here is a remix of a DJ Shadow track featuring Roots Manuva from the 2002 released Mashin' On The Motorway double 12" released on where else but Mo Wax.

In other news, there is no other news

Stay safe and have a good weekend people.

DJ Shadow - GDMFSOB (UNKLE Unscensored)

Cinquante et un

'Sake!

Fine Young Cannibals - Not The Man I Used to Be 

My Love Is Your Love, Forever

This track is another one of those that has you thinking "what the fuck were they thinking about at Motown?" as this is another of those absolutely brilliant songs that was never released and languished in the vaults. That statement is not entirely true as My Love Is Your Love, Forever was released in 1972 on an Isley Brothers Music For Pleasure  compilation only available in the Netherlands! A full five years after the group had recorded this gorgeous Stevie Wonder/Ivy Jo Hunter penned track. It was eventually released on  the Richard Searling curated 7" as part of the Motown's 7s Box - Rare and Unreleased Vinyl where it was backed with Something's Wrong by Chris Clarke.

I love this song, one of my favourite Motown tracks ever and also # 13 in my Northern Top 50.

The Isley Brothers - My Love Is Your Love (Forever)

Monday's Long Song

Today's track turned up a couple of times over the past week. Firstly, on the UNKLE mix, Edit Music For A Film and also when sorting out the cupboard pictured above yesterday I found a CTI Records sampler cd which had been previously presumed lost quite a while ago which has the track on it.

Also Sprach Zarathustra by Deodato, is a jazz funk interpretation by Brazilian musician Eumir Deodato of the introduction to the Richard Strauss composition. Not sure why I was surprised to find out that it was released as a single in 1973 but I was even more surprised to find out that it reached number 7 in the UK charts and breached the billboard top 40.

Deodato - Also Sprach Zarathustra

Is It Friday . . . Does Anybody Want To Dance?

In these troubled times it is good to keep in touch with old friends.

Ah, Sturdy Girl, I wonder how she is dealing with lockdown, I hope if she has been able to keep a plentiful supply of Olde English 800 and managing to keep her exercise regime going. 

This piece of electro came out last summer and really appealed to me me with it's old school simplistic beats and obscure film samples. I have no idea who Rogue Filter is/are but he/they have released three hand stamped 12" singles in a similar vein that are all worth checking out.

As far as the football is concerned, there is none or any on the horizon for the foreseeable future. The SPFL have decided to call the leagues in Scotland now and there has been much wailing and nashing of teeth, however I'm not sure that it would have been possible for any other resolution. One thing that has pissed me off is Tam Cowan on Off The Ball, congratulating all of the Motherwell fans who have bought their season tickets for next year and how wonderful they are. Am I the only person who thinks that this is a totally stupid thing to do, buy tickets for a season when you don't know when it is going too start, if it even will start  or what form the league you will be in will now look? And what about those fans that can't afford to buy tickets at present due to living on 80% of their wages or worse and don't see football as a priority at present or would rather wait and see what actually is on offer , are they lesser supporters Mr Cowan? We don't all have the luxury of a salary from the Murdoch press and appearance fees from the BBC. Anyway, I could go on and on about this but mini rant over.

Stay safe people.

Rogue Filter - Bot Wars

The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face

Yesterday I was on a bit of an UNKLE tip, I started off with the |Edit Music For A Film mixes and then went through various albums and Unklesounds mixes and then finished off with the absolutlely beautiful rendition of Ewan MacColl song made famous by Roberta Flack. This single was originally produced as a souvenir of James Lavelle's curation of the Meltdown festival in 2014. I was lucky enough to get a copy of this single from the UNKLE website, however on first play there was a heck of a lot of surface noise on the record but the vinyl looked fine. I contacted the webstore and was duly sent a replacement which sounded the same and noted that on Discogs someone else had complained about the surface noise so it was probably a pressing problem which iss an absolute shame as it's a gorgeous single right down to the white cardboard cover with the Unkle figures in white glitter.

Listening to the track had a rather soothing effect on me last night and I hope it brings you five and a bit minutes of calm today.

UNKLE featuring Keaton Henson - The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face 

Wise Words From The Bard Of Barking

I can't remember which tour it was on, if it was the Talking To The Taxman About Poetry or The Workers Playtime one , I have a suspicion it was the former, but I have never forgotten the words that Billy Bragg used prior to launching into the sheer heartache that is Levi Stubbs Tears, well I have forgotten the actual words but this is the jist of it, no matter how hard things get, get the kettle, make a brew, put on a Four Tops record and all will be fine with the world again.

Good Times

I realise that the title of today's slice of heavy garage is not particularly apt and I'm not trying to be ironic either, it just happens to be in the words of the Swede "a rather splendid racket", a fuzzed out wig out that was presumably heard by very few people outwith the Dallas Texas area on it's limited release in 1968. It was exhumed until earlier this century when a limited number of mint originals were found by some now considerably better off psych/garage crate digger.

Nobody's Children - Good Times 

Monday's Long Song

I know that my posts were pretty infrequent prior to this shitshow starting but like most people I know I am finding it difficult to focus on anything and the blog is not a prioruty at the moment. However saying that |quite often I find myself thinking that's a really good tune I must post that but then the notion disappears and I go back to worrying about,  well everything really . I do find myself listing to lots of longer, mainly instrumental tracks, things that I can get lost in but I have also found myself reaching for some things that in normal times would be inexplicable, last Thursday I found myself playing Grendel by Marillion and last night I managed to last all the way through Supper's Ready and not a Gabriel fronted version but the one from Second's Out and you know what I found neither of these tracks truly awful but do find myself looking for a "cleanser" almost immediately usually something which restores the pure music snob in me, the more obscure the record the better.

I have rediscovered the ambient delights of Pete Namlock whose music back in the mid 90s was pretty hard to come by, I picked up Air and Air II in Fopp in Byres Road and then there seemed to be a release every other week and it was not possible to keep up. A few years back when perusing the CD racks in Monorail, I came across a very reasonably priced boxset of volumes 9 - 11 of Namlook's collaboration with Klaus Schulze, Dark Side of The Moog and very good it is too, however I'm not sure that I will be purchasing Vol 1-4 any time soon as the cheapest copy is tad expensive Vol 5 -8 are available at a much more reasonable price and are on the list but way way down. Posted is the first track from Vol 11, The Heart of Our Nearest Star, Part 1.

Klaus Schulze & Pete Namlook - The Heart of Our Nearest Star (Part 1)

Monday's Long Song

I'm not sure about the rest of you but I have been finding myself turning to a lot of more downtempo, soothing music at the moment, Richard Norris' ambient excursions, FSOL, John Foxx's London Overgrown album (which I expect will feature in the coming weeks) and over the weekend 29 hours of The Dark Outside, Inside which was absolutely wonderful.

Today's track comes from a cd bought on a whim. Arc of Doves was a project by Japanese producer Tetsuya Nakamura and I don't know why I never bought anything further than the debut Impressions as it is a gorgeous set  of ambient(?) Modern Classical(?) pieces, I don't know as someone more eloquent than me put it "all of these are just labels". However it does have the desired affect in that when it's on I forget all about the anxiety of now and get lost in the soothing tones and repetition.

Arc of Doves - Impression

Silence of the Morning

How about a huge slab of fuzzed up heavy psych to brighten up your Thursday in self-isolation?

The Glass Sun were a trio formed in Westland Michigan, originally named the Cyclones but changed their name when the brothers, Bruce and Rick Roll, the guitarist and bassist returned from being drafted to Vietnam in the late 60s but it wasn't until 1971 that they entered the studio to record the first of two singles they released on local Detroit label Sound Patterns. 300 copies of Silence of The Morning/Oh Sandy, both written by Rick while stationed in Vietnam in 1968,  were pressed up and like so many other records of the time failed to make an impression on the record buying public until the internet age when Silence of The Morning was unearthed and shared all over the world by psych and garage heads. The single is now rightly considered a classic of the garage -fuzz genre and would set you back north of £400 if you were lucky enough to source a copy of the 7".

The Glass Sun - Silence of The Morning

The Project Part 4

I have been debating whether to complete this set of posts or not. it seems a bit, well even more self indulgent than normal but didn't want to leave it just hanging.

So here you go, the final instalment.

We left it with the walls drying out and the floor varnished.  By the Tuesday night the walls had dried out and the plastered wall now a blotchy pink colour which Max thought looked "pretty good, I would just leave them like that". Let's just say that Max has less taste than that Llewelyn-Bowan fella that used to be on British TVs for a good few years. Lynn had decided that the fireplace wall would be a navy blue colour, the paint was actually called Sapphire something or other, and the other walls would be white. I have to admit that Lynn does have an eye for colour as when it was finished even I was impressed.

So then it was time to decide where to hang the pictures, move back in the hi-fi equipment and play the first record, the building of the other Kallax unit could wait until the weekend

Bright and early on the Saturday morning I started building the Kallax unit which I hoped would house all of the albums freeing up room in the cupboard that I laughingly call an office. It has been quite telling over the past couple of weeks the grand and very tidy offices some of my colleagues have on show through SKYPE as we join conference call after conference call in this new world of constant remote working. But I digress. I have to admit that i have become quite an expert at building these essential record storage items over the years, 7 of varying sizes at the last count, this onee being the daddy of them all at 5x5.

In under an hour the shelving unit was assembled and then the back breaking but fun job began getting all the records in and filed. The particular job took nearly as long as the painting but was a lot more pleasurable. 

So now the room is finished and I'm pretty pleased with the results. there are about 300 12" singles that are in the cupboard along with the vast majority of the 7" singles but I reckon that it will be a while before Lynn starts moaning about "bloody records all over the place.

The Fall - Paintwork

Camera Obscura - French Navy (Vic Galloway Session 11-05-09)

Monday's Long Song

Is it Monday? I'm having trouble keeping track of the days at the moment. I am still working so I can only guess how those cooped up but unable to do so are keeping track.

One good thing that did occur at the weekend was that Ted delivered the latest album from The Orb, Abolition of The Royal Familia and very good it is too especially the final two tracks, the first couple of tracks have taken a bit of getting used to as they are quite poppy soulful numbers but after a few listens they have grown on me. Like the previous LP, No Sounds Are Out of Bounds there was also an option to purchase a dub cd of the lp. I haven't had a chance to sit and listen to it in it's entirety but did head straight for the The Weekend It Rained Forever In Dub which for me is the centrepiece of the whole album and a rather calming soundtrack for these strange times.

Oh and don't get me started about the Royal Family, when the fucking heir to the throne irresponsibly decides to decant to remote Aberdeenshire with 100 staff when he has symptoms of the disease and against all instructions from the government and police it is time to question why we still support these leeches.

Stay safe people.

The Orb - The Weekend It Rained Fovever in Dub (The Waterbed Experience mix)

Monday's Long Song

I hope everyone is bearing up under the stress of been cooped up either working from home, or home schooling the kids or if you are a key worker then stay safe, take it from me we appreciate each and every one of you that have no alternative to go out there and get on with it. When we get through the other side I hope that you all get the recognition you deserve.

Right, the music, some French Krautrock for you. Moon Tango is the title track of the debut album from the band from Lyon which is a very good trip, one for just sitting and immersing oneself in. Not a bad thing to do at present.

Abschaum - Moon Tango

It's Friday . . . Let's Jump About Like Eejits

This came on, on shuffle this morning and I found myself smiling and for six and a half minutes I forgot what was going on and just listened and sang along.

Stay safe people

Airport Girl - The Foolishness We Create Through Love IS The Closest We Come To Greatness

The Project Part Three

At the end of the second instalment of this mini series we were waiting Kenny to skim coat the walls. Unfortunately this was held up for a couple of weeks due to Kenny having a particularly heavy workload at the time and me telling him that I probably wouldn't be ready until the middle to the end of March. In the meantime I thought I would tackle the exploding Death Star light that I bought from IKEA at least 4 years ago. When I got it home I opened it up saw the amount of bits and thought fuck that, hence it has sat in my office for some time gathering dust since I had a couple of weeks I thought I had time, hopefully to construct the bloody thing. So on the Sunday night after making Leo's piece for school the following day I took a deep breath opened the box and took out the instructions, under ten minutes later I had the globe completed, what I thought was going to be a head wreck was an absolute piece of pish, a lot easier than any of the Lego I have had to build over the years. Next thing was to contact Joe "the spark" and arrange a day for him to fit the light.

On Friday 28th Feb Kenny came and poly-bonded the walls and the following day the plastering was complete and I have to say made an excellent job of it, lovely smooth walls and very little mess. He told me that the walls should be ready by about Wednesday but definitely by the time the walls had gone a pink colour. So in the meantime I thought that I would steam, clean, sand and re-varnish the floor.

So I spent the Sunday, Monday night and Tuesday night doing this. After steam cleaning I got a bit worried that I had buggered up the floor but after a couple of coats of varnish it started to look pretty good and when the third coat was dry I was extremely pleased with it.

Nearly there now, just the painting to go and the furniture and records to move back in.

During all of this I had the ipod on shuffle and blasting out from the portable speaker. 

The Wedding Present - Don't Take Me Home Until I'm Drunk

Monday's Long Song

Last Thursday night at what I suspect will be my last gig for quite a few months, (Greg Dulli's next Sunday night was cancelled the following day) I witnessed something a bit special,  King Creosote with the help of 9 members of the Fence collective performed the music to the film From Scotland With Love which was playing on the big screen behind them. I am not ashamed to admit that I had a watery eye on more than one occasion.

Over the years Kenny Anderson has been rather prolific releasing over thirty albums, quite a few of which are as rare as hens teeth as they came out in small limited runs on cdr. In 2004 he released a rather dark experimental album, Red on Green under the name Kwang Creasite, today's track Jack Shit is the final track on the album.

Kwang Creasite - Jack Shit

* Sorry, I now see that this song has been posted previously not that long ago in this spot. 

Rest Easy Guv'nor

Andrew Weatherall 

06 April 1963 - 17 February 2020

Thank you for all the music, not just your own that you turned me on to.

Mike Garry & Joe Duddell - St Anthony (Weatherall instrumental)

Monday's Long Song

I'm not sure why I haven't bought more stuff by Floating  Points than I have as everything I have heard I have loved. Kuiper was released as a 12" single back in 2016 and is one of those singles that you get your money's worth from, thirty two and a half minutes over two tracks. I'm not sure if the title is referencing the Kuiper Belt, a body in the outer solar system which is similar to the Asteriod Belt but is far larger possibly up to 200 times the size, but it does end up "out there" it builds and builds, with some pretty superb drumming and suitably spacey synth sounds that eventually slows to a chilled conclusion. love it

Floating Points - Kuiper