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Random Play: Goldfrapp
Goldfrapp's Black Cherry album was a huge album for my wife and me. It pretty much soundtracked our first six months to a year together. It was the only new album I'd bought that year. At the time I...
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All At Sea
There's been something in the air this week; people I know seem to be feeling the same. Like we're all adrift, being taken by the tides. Flotsam and jetsam.I guess when everything is uncertain you...
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JB's All Stars
Here's The Specials drummer John Bradbury, with his Northern Soul revival band JB's All Stars, on The Tube back in late 83, early 1984. I can remember this performance, but I must admit to forgetting...
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Paul Haig Day
It's Paul Haig Day on the blogs. Go to the good man JC's pages here at the Vinyl Villain for information.My little tribute to Paul is from a different angle today, because one of my favourite records...
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Incredible String Band
I've been, and continue to be, very busy at the moment. The clock is ticking down until we meet our new arrival. It's not long now. So posts may start to become sporadic for a little while.Meanwhile...
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Something Soulful
I know next to nothing about this one. Cynthia Sheeler and "I'll Cry Over You".Cynthia was from New Orleans, the record was on the JB's label; and that's the next to nothing.Oh and it's lovely.Anybody...
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Sunday Soothers
I've just had a monumentally busy week, the kind of week that leaves you feeling like your brain is melting. The kind of week that leaves you wanting to drift away on a gentle breeze come the weekend....
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Frazzled Sunday
I'm still overloading this week, so writing isn't really a priority. Have some lovely Sunday tunes to relax and unwind to. Then pop over to Rol's pages for a whole load more.Happy Sunday.Nick Drake -...
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Relax
Bank Holiday Weekend. Now we're into May the clock is ticking. I'm finding that I'm actually quite calm, but I can't really focus on anything, hence the lack of posts this week, even though the...
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Random Play: Generation X
Generation X's version of Shaking All Over today; a fantastic song and Gen X do it justice. In fact Billy Idol was probably born to perform it and it's filled with some great guitar work too. All of...
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Random Play: Madness
Sunday, scrambled eggs, Joss Whedon's Firefly, toys made out of socks, good coffee and a hint of sunshine through the blinds. And some Madness best played loud.Madness - On The Beat Pete
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Random Play: Sneaker Pimps
Here's a tune from the mid 90s, Sneaker Pimps and their major hit 6 Underground. I loved this tune: this version is the album mix, which isn't as concise as the single mix. I think I've about 5 or 6...
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It's A Boy!
The drinks are on me. I'm completely blown away. I love my wife so much. And now my little man.
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Pssst....
.....The new Madness album The Liberty Of Norton Folgate....it is superb. Easily the best album they've made, but also one of the best 'London' albums I've heard in a while. Cracking songs, including...
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Paternity Leave
Just to let you know, I'm still alive, although I look today like I've gone through a war. Little Alfie is a joy so far, fingers crossed it stays that way!! Music calms him when he is stressed, and...
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Blow Away The Cobwebs
I've been in a little bubble for a little while now, months maybe. I'm going to be exposed to the real world on Monday, none of this purified air any longer, only other peoples germs and bad moods. I...
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The Moment: Live!!
One of my all time favourite bands, covered in these pages last summer, The Moment, are reformed and playing live in London this Wednesday July 1st, at The Fiddlers Elbow in Camden Town. Go to this...
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Flying Pigs
Well, I appear to have flu. And, in a borough of London that has a high Swine Flu count, there is the possibility that I too have become one of the many statistics they quote on the news. I think the...
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Still Alive
I had a message asking if I was still alive this week. Well, I am!It wasn't swine flu in the end, but it was a particularly nasty infection with some symptoms that were very flu-like. A couple of weeks...
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Giant Steps etc....
Out of all the big events of the 20th Century, the one my mum talked about most was the moon landing. Apparently on that night she held me up to the sky to look at the moon and told me all about the...
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London Bridge Is Falling Down
I've been looking around myself this past year. So many things have changed as I turned 40, before and after. I'm not looking at the same landscape I was last summer. New arrivals, big changes at work,...
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Guest post by accident....;)
For those of you who don't read the comments.... well sometimes you really should, you're missing the best bits......Courtesy ofdickvandyke"Ah Primary School. It was the late 60s for me, but the...
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Somewhere else
Well August came and went. And with it came a fairly big house move; one that took me somewhere else. I've been offline for nearly three weeks as well, thanks to the joys of getting anything done...
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Les Petits Visages
Or something.Some blog tennis with those lovely people Ally and Davy.I love those Small Faces guys. Steve Marriot is one of my favourite singers ever, and I just love the sound, that crunchy guitar,...
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Moving House
I'm shifting from Blogger to Wordpress.You can find me here:http://thesongsthatpeoplesing.wordpress.com/So make sure you update your links!! Unless of course you don't want to. In which case I'll...
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