Dear Covidians of Infectoland

Merry Winterval to ye alle!

Thanks for your patience with rescheduling of dates.
I hope you are all well and have not suffered any loss.
Here I wait patiently to reassume my privileged duties, which I promise to perform henceforth with a greater sense of responsibility, having learned & listened under lockdown.

One day we will all be laughing again in some rooms.
I cannot embrace you all.

Your pal

Stew Art Lee

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1) COMING OVER HERE

Merry Winterval!
Agit-pop stars Asian Dub Foundation sampled an old routine of mine to make a song called Comin’ Over Here.

If you download it, and their many inventive remixes, between Christmas Day and New Year’s Eve you can help make it the Brexit day No 1 the nation deserves!
All proceeds to Kent Refugee Action Network

https://smarturl.it/cominoverhere

 

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2) DAVID JOHNSON

My live promoter for most of this century, David Johnson, died on the 14th of December, aged 60.
David rescued me from total disillusion with the business side of live comedy, and re-illusioned me, making me believe it was possible to operate in a way that was both fair and fun.

If you ever met him – he was a cross between George Melly, Paddington Bear and Uncle Monty – you will never forget his amazing sense of humour and incredible storehouse of old Soho anecdotes.
He will be enormously missed.
The following news story, from the website Chortle’s August 2014 Edinburgh Fringe coverage, gives a great flavour of this fantastic man.

“Theatre and comedy producer David Johnson, whose company promotes the likes of Stewart Lee and the Rubberbandits, received an email request for free tickets for one of his Edinburgh Fringe shows from Peter Evans of Ambassadors Theatre Group, the company that has been widely criticised by the likes of Sarah Millican and Jason Manford for its high booking costs. This was his response…

Dear Peter,

I’ve just been asked whether, in your capacity as ‘Ambassadors Theatre Group – Head Of Operations – Northern Venues’, I would approve your written application for a pair of ‘Arts Industry’ complimentary tickets to Fascinating Aida’s show Charm Offensive at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Why – the hell – should I?

No-one gets a free ride at an ATG theatre – from the audience member charged a booking fee of up to £7 for the privilege of simply buying a ticket – to the performer expected to pay £15 to use Wi-Fi in their dressing room.

ATG recently charged Sandi Toksvig £1.80 for the glass of water she sipped on stage.

Nowadays, no aspect of the ATG experience as audience member/performer/producer is not monetised, priced-up and charged for. Why should you expect your Edinburgh experience to be any different?

If I had my way you would be invoiced for just breathing Edinburgh air and wandering around this fabulous city and its astonishing festival. A festival that is the absolute antithesis of ATG’s current Easyjet/Ryanair mentality.

Once upon a time, not so very long ago, ATG theatres were the first venues written into any decent tour schedule. Sales were high, marketing was efficient and charges were reasonable. Most importantly, theatre manager and producer collaborated.
These things are no longer true. We now book your theatres last – to fill gaps in our calendar. I actively seek out and encourage alternative venues.

To expand your income – instead of broadening your audience – you have decided to exploit the constituency you already possess – the shows, the artists and your regular theatregoers – with ramped-up booking fees, ludicrous bar prices and, for Heaven’s sake, a £15 per day dressing room Wi-Fi charge.

It’s an awful shame. We have a long and happy and collaborative history. ATG has some terrific theatres. But it doesn’t make much sense to tour to them anymore – especially when one has the nasty feeling that everyone’s pocket is being expertly picked.

My company Password Productions and Fascinating Aida are big and busty enough to tell you to pay your way in Edinburgh – or get bent.

But what about the other shows up here at the Festival? The vanguard of new artists and producers who will keep your theatres stocked with talent for years to come? Don’t you think that Ambassadors Theatre Group and its current Private Equity owners might spring the cost of your Edinburgh tickets?
Giving a bit of a leg-up to the shows and artists that have made the huge financial and artistic commitment to be here – instead of shoving out the begging bowl and pestering people for freebies?

Or is that too much to hope?

Do you still want your comps?

Sincerely,

David Johnson – Producer

Published: 8 Aug 2014”

 

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3) MEDIA GARAGE SALE

My trusted sales partner Media Garage has compacted all my available stand-up dvds into one convenient on-line marketplace, with most available to d/load too.

The company operates out of an industrial unit in Southend, run by a man called Colin, who for the whole festive season will be alone and dressed as a Santa while he ships your orders of Xmas laffs worldwide, at top speed!

We have already mailed parcels of fun to Japan, Finland, Switzerland, Germany, France, USA, Canada, New Zealand, and even Latvia! Remember, if you buy here we will pay tax on these purchases, and help with British schools and hospitals, whereas many major physical media suppliers and streaming services have found ways to avoid declaring their profits.

AMERICANS – stop moaning about not being able to see me and visit MEDIA GARAGE!
Please send the link below to your grans when they ask what you want for Xmas.

MEDIA GARAGE | MORE INFO ON THE MERCH PAGE

 

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3) KING ROCKER – MOJO

Our documentary KING ROCKER has been selected for the Sheffield Documentary Festival but didn’t get screened due to Covid.

It has, however, been named by rock-mag MOJO as the second best rockumentary of 2020, and I am now allowed to announce that it will be on newly free-to-air SKY ARTS, which has also recently covered PUNCHDRUNK THEATRE, COLD WAR STEVE and IVOR CUTLER, in the 1st ¼ of next year.

Who would have thought that the weird arts brief of BBC4 would one day be fulfilled by SKY ARTS?

Comedian Stewart Lee and director Michael Cumming (Brass Eye) investigate a missing piece of punk history. Robert Lloyd, best known for fronting cult bands The Prefects and The Nightingales, has survived under the radar for over four decades. Anti-rockumentary King Rocker weaves the story of Birmingham’s undervalued underdog autodidact into that of the city’s forgotten public sculpture of King Kong, eschewing the celebrity interview and archive-raid approach for a free-associating bricolage of Indian food, bewildered chefs, vegetable gardening, prescription medicines, pop stardom and pop art.

I cannot tell you how happy I am to have been involved with this positive and uplifting project, and it has been a mental lifeline this year.

https://www.firerecords.com/films/king-rocker/
https://www.firerecords.com/films/

 

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4) LIVE SHOWS UPDATE

I’m not even bothering with trying to list dates here this month, as so many are in flux. I am sure local venues will contract you BUT…

1) All outstanding shows of the Snowflake/Tornado tour will be rescheduled/are being rescheduled for whenever they are allowed to happen.
The venues have your ticket money and this is helping them not collapse and keep an arts exoskeleton in place for whatever future cultural lives we are able to have.
I will do these shows. Don’t worry.

2) All little socially-distanced club gigs (that I had down for working out new stuff in November, in London, N’castle, E’bro & Glasgow), have been pulled, and will be rescheduled. Again, the venues have your ticket money which is good for them, so take a chill pill daddi-o.

All changes as they occur will be listed on the LIVE PAGE OF THE WEBSITE

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6) My Cultural Year

 

Here is all the culture I consumed from 23/12/19 to 22/12/20. I am sorry if any of it irks you.

MY CULTURE VIRUS YEAR 2020
(from Dec 23^rd 2019 – Dec 22^nd 2020 )

My 5 best cultural things this year were…

FILM Mangrove (Steve McQueen)
BOOK Johnny Rogan – Byrds Requiem For The Timeless Vol 1
TV Ghosts (S2, BBC)
MUSIC Bob Dylan – Rough And Rowdy Ways
RADIO – James O’Brien (LBC)

NEW FILMS (2019/20)

My favourite 10 new films this year were;

The Two Popes (Fernando Meirelles)
Honeyland (Tamara Kotevska, Ljubo Stefanov)
The Color Out Of Space (Richard Stanley)
Bait (Mark Jenkin)
Parasite (Bong Joon-ho)
Days of The Bagnold Summer (Simon Bird)
The Peanut Butter Falcon (Tyler Nilson)
Mangrove (Steve McQueen)
Lovers’ Rock (Steve McQueen)
The Whalebone Box (Andrew Kotting)

But here are all the new films I watched in order

Mirai (Mamoru Hosoda)

Destination Wedding (Victor Levin) ★★★★

The Two Popes (Fernando Meirelles) ★★★★★

The Missing Link (Chris Butler) ★★★★

Honeyland (Tamara Kotevska, Ljubo Stefanov) ★★★★★

David Copperfield (Armando Ianucci)

The Color Out Of Space (Richard Stanley) ★★★★★

20/2/20 THEATRE/PUB SHUTDOWN

Bait (Mark Jenkin) ★★★★★

Parasite (Bong Joon-ho) ★★★★★

Days of The Bagnold Summer (Simon Bird) ★★★★★

Knives Out (Rian Johnson) ★

Fishermen’s Friends (Chris Foggin, 2019)

Mrs Lowry & Son (Adrian Noble, 2019)

Eurovision Song Contest (David Dobkin)

SCHOOLS OPEN

The Laundromat (Stephen Soderbergh)★★★★

1917 (Sam Mendes)

The Day Shall Come (Chris Morris)★★★★

Southern Journey Revisited (Tim Plester, Rob Curry) ★★★★

The Invisible Man (Leigh Whannell)

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Dim Presences (Christopher Thom)

Ghosts Of War (Eric Bress) ★

The Social Dilemma (Jeff Orlowski) ★★★★★

The Peanut Butter Falcon (Tyler Nilson) ★★★★

SECOND LOCKDOWN OVER

Mangrove (Steve McQueen) ★★★★★

Lovers’ Rock (Steve McQueen) ★★★★

Tier 4 London

The Whalebone Box (Andrew Kotting) ★★★★★

OLD FILMS

The 25 best old films I watched this year were

Midnight Run (Martin Brest, 1988) ★★★★★
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (Sergio Leone, 1968) ★★★★★
Juggernaut (Richard Lester, 1974) ★★★★★
Where Eagles Dare (Brian Hutton, 1968) ★★★★★
Milford Graves – Full Mantis (Jake Meginsky, 2018) ★★★★★
‘Round Midnight (Bertrand Tavernier, 1986) ★★★★★
Roman Holiday (William Wylder, 1953) ★★★★★
Duel (Steven Spielberg, 1971) ★★★★★
The Return Of Ringo (Ducco Tessario, 1965) ★★★★★
The Return of Martin Guerre (Daniel Vigne, 1982) ★★★★★
The Fog (John Carpenter, 1980) ★★★★★
Jean De Florette (Claude Berri, 1986) ★★★★★
Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, 1954) ★★★★★
Two Years At Sea (Ben Rivers, 2011) ★★★★★
Brief Encounter (David Lean, 1945)★★★★★
First Blood (Ted Kotcheff, 1982) ★★★★★
Companeros (Sergio Corbucci, 1970) ★★★★★
Cave of Forgotten Dreams (Werner Herzog, 2010) ★★★★★
Taken (Pierre Morel, 2008) ★★★★★
Garnet’s Gold (Ed Perkins, 2014) ★★★★★
Penda’s Fen (Alan Clarke, 1973) ★★★★★
Hot Fuzz (Edgar Wright, 2007) ★★★★★
Gaslight (George Cukor, 1944) ★★★★★
Locke (Stephen Knight, 2013) ★★★★★
Local Hero (Bill Forsyth, 1983) ★★★★★

Here’s all the old films I watched in 2020 in order…

Touching The Void (Kevin Macdonald, 2003)

A Fistful of Dollars (Sergio Leone, 1964) ★★★★★

Midnight Run (Martin Brest, 1988) ★★★★★

For A Few Dollars More (Sergio Leone, 1965) ★★★★★

Downsizing (Alexander Payne, 2017) ★★★★

Sister Act (Emile Ardolino, 1992)

Nuts In May (Mike Leigh, 1976) ★★★★★

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (Sergio Leone, 1968) ★★★★★

Breakheart Pass (Tom Gries, 1975) ★

Juggernaut (Richard Lester, 1974) ★★★★★

Dr Strange (Scott Derickson, 2016) ★★★★

Jaws (Steven Spielberg, 1975)★★★★★

Lone Wolf McQuade (Steve Carver, 1983)

Chasing Trane (John Scheinfield, 2016)

I Want Him Dead (Paolo Bianchini,1968)

Due Date (Todd Phillips, 2010)

Romancing The Stone (Robert Zemckis, 1984)

Birdman ( Alejandro González Iñárritu, 2015) ★★★★

My Horse, My Gun, Your Widow (Juan Bosch, 1972)

Boy (Taika Waititi, 2010)★★★★

The Upside (Neil Burger, 2017)

The Missouri Breaks (Arthur Penn, 1976) ★★★★

I Walk The Line (James Mangold, 2005)

In The Heat Of The Night (Norman Jewison, 1967) ★★★★★

What Lies Beneath (Robert Zemickis, 2000)

Jagged Edge (Richard Marquand, 1985) ★

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Frank Oz, 1988)

Where Eagles Dare (Brian Hutton, 1968) ★★★★★

Galaxy Quest (Dean Parisot, 1999) ★★★★

The Grand Duel (Giancarlo Santi, 1972)

The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah, 1969) ★★★★★

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Django Kill (Guilio Questi, 1967) ★★★★

Fracture (Gregory Hoblitt, 2007)

Swallows and Amazons (Philippa Lowthorpe, 2016)

Milford Graves – Full Mantis (Jake Meginsky, 2018) ★★★★★

Rahsaan Roland Kirk, 3 Sided Dream (Adam Kahan, 2014) ★★★★

Play Misty For Me (Clint Eastwood, 1971) ★★★★★

‘Round Midnight (Bertrand Tavernier, 1986) ★★★★★

Roman Holiday (William Wylder, 1953) ★★★★★

Bird (Clint Eastwood, 1988) ★

Lacombe Lucienne (Louis Malle, 1974) ★★★★★

Duel (Steven Spielberg, 1971) ★★★★★

Deep Rising (Stephen Sommers, 1998)

Contagion (Steven Soderbergh, 2011)★★★★

Duck, You Sucker! (157m extended)(Sergio Leone, 1971 ) ★★★★★

The Others (Alejandro Amenábar, 2001) ★

The Return Of Ringo (Ducco Tessario, 1965) ★★★★★

The Guest (Adam Wingard, 2015)

Deadpool (Tim Miller, 2016)

Lemmy (Greg Oliver, 2010)

A Pigeon Sat On A Branch Reflecting On Existence (R Andersson, 2014) ★★★★

The Big Lebowski (Coen Brothers, 1998) ★★★★

Ocean’s Eleven (Steven Soderbergh, 2002) ★★★★

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (Coen Brothers, 2018)

The Tempest (Julie Taymor, 2010) ★

My Name Is Pecos (Maurio Lucidi, 1967)

The Hangover (Todd Phillips, 2009)

The Return of Martin Guerre (Daniel Vigne, 1982) ★★★★★

The Fog (John Carpenter, 1980) ★★★★★

Cannonball!(Paul Bartell, 1976) ★★★★

Three Identical Strangers (Tim Wardle, 2018) ★★★★

Rain Man (Barry Levinson, 1988)

Up On Poppy Hill (Goro Miyazaki, 2011)

Anaconda (Luis Llosa, 1997) ★★★★

Snakes on A Plane (David R Ellis, 2006)

Misery (Rob Reiner, 1990) ★★★★★

Man, Pride & Vengeance (Luigi Bazzoni, 1967) ★★★★★

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee, 2000)

Edith Walks (Andrew Kotting, 2017) ★★★★★

Jean De Florette (Claude Berri, 1986) ★★★★★

Manon des Sources (Claude Berri, 1986) ★★★★★

The Edge (Lee Tamahori, 1997) ★★★★★

Cinema Paradiso (Giuseppe Tornatore, 1988) ★★★★★

Amelie (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 2001) ★★★★★

Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, 1954) ★★★★★

The Theory of Everything (James Marsh, 2014)

Spotlight (Tom McCarthy, 2016)★★★★

The Imitation Game (Morten Tyldum, 2014)★★★★

The Queen (Stephen Frears, 2006)★★★★

Papillon (Franklin J Schaffner, 1973) ★★★★★

Telstar : The Joe Meek Story (Nick Moran, 2008) ★★★★

Ant Man & The Wasp (Peyton Reed, 2018) ★★★★★

Two Years At Sea (Ben Rivers, 2011) ★★★★★

Brief Encounter (David Lean, 1945)★★★★★

Have A Good Funeral My Friend, Sartana Will Pay (G Carnimeo, 1970) ★★★★

Light The Fuse, Sartana Is Coming (Guiliano Carnimeo, 1970)

First Blood (Ted Kotcheff, 1982) ★★★★★

Falling Down (Joel Schumacher, 1993) ★

Companeros (Sergio Corbucci, 1970) ★★★★★

The Specialists (Sergio Corbucci, 1969)

What We Do In The Shadows (J Clement, T Waititi, 2014) ★★★★

The Mercenary (Sergio Corbucci, 1968) ★★★★

You Only Live Twice (Lewis Gilbert, 1967) ★

Ghost Rider Spirit of Vengeance (Mark Nevildene, 2011) ★

Attack The Block (Joe Cornish, 2011)★★★★

The Cat People (Val Lewton, 1942) ★★★★★

Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958) ★★★★★

Comedian (Christian Charles, 2002) ★★★★

The Power of Grayskull (Randall Lobb, 2017)

Iron Man 3 (Shane Black, 2013) ★★★★

Paranormal Activity (Oren Peli, 2007) ★★★★

The Boy (William Brent Bell, 2016) ★★★★

Age Of Innocence (Martin Scorsese, 1993) ★★★★

Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (Stephen Herrick, 1989)★★★★★

Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey (Pete Hewett, 1991)★★★★

Who Saw Her Die? (Aldo Lado, 1972)

SCHOOLS OPEN

Monty Python Conquers America (Will Yapp, 2008)

Before The Flying Circus (Ian Macnaughton, 2000)

The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock, 1963) ★★★★

Spy (Paul Fieg, 2015) ★★★★★

Midnight Run (again) (Martin Brest, 1988) ★★★★★

Burn After Reading (Coen Brothers, 2008) ★★★★

Deliverance (John Boorman, 1972) ★★★★★

Cave of Forgotten Dreams (Werner Herzog, 2010) ★★★★★

Taken (Pierre Morel, 2008) ★★★★★

Taken 2 (Oliver Megaton, 2012) ★★★★

Hannibal Brooks (Michael Winner, 1969) ★★★★

Elstree 1976 (John Spira, 2015) ★★★★

Doomed! (Marty Langford, 2015) ★★★★

Garnet’s Gold (Ed Perkins, 2014) ★★★★★

Penda’s Fen (Alan Clarke, 1973) ★★★★★

Dr Terror’s House Of Horrors (Freddie Francis, 1973)

Dracula AD 1972 (Alan Gibson, 1972) ★★★★

The Adventures of Tintin (Steven Spielberg, 2011)

I Don’t Feel At Home In This World Anymore (Macon Blair, 2017) ★

Phase IV (Saul Bass, 1974) ★★★★★

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Bourne Identity (Doug Liman, 2002) ★★★★

Wits In Felixstowe (Christopher Thom, 2017) ★★★★

Brexitania (Timothy George Kelly, 2017)

The Bourne Supremacy (Paul Greengrass, 2004)

The Bourne Ultimatum (Paul Greengrass, 2007) ★★★★

Romy & Michelle’s High School Reunion (David Mirkin, 1997)

Jason Bourne (Paul Greengrass, 2016) ★★★★

The Haunting (Jan de Bont, 1999) NO STARS

Sleepy Hollow (Tim Burton, 1999) ★★★★

The Conjuring (James Wan, 2013) NO STARS

Calibre (Matt Palmer, 2018) ★★★★

Toy Story (John Lasseter, 1995) ★★★★

Toy Story 2 (John Lasseter, 1999)

No Go! (Richard Chase, 1973)

Toy Story 3 (Lee Unkrich, 2010) ★★★★

The Ritual (David Bruckner, 2017)

Hot Fuzz (Edgar Wright, 2007) ★★★★★

Gaslight (George Cukor, 1944) ★★★★★

Legend (Brian Helgeland, 2015) This is a 5★ film with a 1★ voice-over

Locke (Stephen Knight, 2013) ★★★★★

Home Alone 2 (Chris Columbus, 1992) ★

Miss Marie Lloyd (James Hawes, 2007)

SECOND LOCKDOWN OVER

What’s Up Doc? (Peter Bogdanovich, 1972) ★★★★

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Superbob (John Drever, 2015) ★★★★

Dog Soldiers (Neil Marshall, 2002) ★★★★

Elf (Jon Favreau, 2003) ★★★★

Horror Express (Eugenio Martin, 1972)

Jumanji : Welcome To The Jungle (Jake Kasdan, 2017) ★★★★

Summer In February (Christopher Menaul, 2013)

Gremlins (Joe Dante, 1984) ★★★★

Local Hero (Bill Forsyth, 1983) ★★★★★

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Central Intelligence (Rawson Thurber, 2016) ★★★★

Play Misty For Me (again)(Clint Eastwood, 1971) ★★★★★

NEW BOOKS

Here are all the new books I read this year in order

Tom Doyle & Madness – Before We Was We ★★★★

Alice Strickland – Laura Knight (biog) ★★★★

Edward Parnell – Ghostland ★★★★

20/2/20 THEATRE/PUB SHUTDOWN

Oliver Double – Alternative Comedy ★★★★★

Jon Hoyle – Landscapes Of The Forest of Dean

Johnny Rogan – Byrds Requiem For The Timeless Vol 1 ★★★★★

Stevie Simkin – What Makes The Monkey Dance?

Who Here’s Lost – Ben Moor ★★★★★

SCHOOLS OPEN

Of Mud & Flame, Penda’s Fen Source Book – Machin/Harle ★★★★★

Hawkwind Days of The Underground – Joe Banks ★★★★★

Galactic Ramble 2^nd Edition – Richard Morton Jack

OLD BOOKS

Oh Yes, Dear! – Angela Morris (2007)

20/2/20 THEATRE/PUB SHUTDOWN

Broadsword Calling Danny Boy – Geoff Dyer (2018)

The Plague – Albert Camus ★★★★★

A Journal Of The Plague Year – Daniel Defoe ★★★★★

Aspects of Norfolk Folklore – Peter Tolhurst

The Folklore of Shropshire – Roy Palmer

The Lore Of The Land – Westwood and Simpson

Old Bungay – Ethel Mann

Tarzan of The Movies – Gabe Essoe (1968)

SCHOOLS OPEN

A Modest Proposal and others – Jonathan Swift (1729) ★★★★

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Ghost Stories Of An Antiquary – M R James (1904) ★★★★★

Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift (1726)★★★★★

Alan Johnson – In My Life (2018)

Hitler – My Part In His Downfall – Spike Milligan (1971) ★★★★★

Rommel? Gunner Who? – Spike Milligan (1974) ★★★★★

Monty – His Part In My Victory – Spike Milligan (1976)

Mussolini – His Part In My Downfall – Spike Milligan (1978)

British Horror Film Locations – Derek Pykett (2008)

COMICS

Eerie Archives vol 15

20/2/20 THEATRE/PUB SHUTDOWN

Prison Pit 6 – Johnny Ryan ★★★★★

Bog Bodies – Declan Shavey/Gavin Fullerton

SCHOOLS OPEN

Fantastic Four ‘60s

Daredevil ‘60s/’70s/’80s

Son Of Satan ‘70s

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Marvel Two In One 1975+

Nick Fury Agent Of Shield ‘60s

TV NEW AND OLD

Worzel Gummidge 2019 (BBC)

Endeavour S1, 2013 (ITV) ★★★★★

After Life S2 (Netflix) ★

Ricky Gervias – Humanity (Netflix) ★

The Kominsky Method S1, S2 (2018, 2019)(Netflix) ★★★★

Curb Your Enthusiasm s1 (2000) (HBO) ★★★★★

Barry (S1, 2018, HBO)

The Mandalorian S1 (2019) ★★★★★

Endeavour S7 2020 (ITV) ★★★★

This Country S3 (BBC)

20/2/20 THEATRE/PUB SHUTDOWN

Columbo S1 (1971-2) ★★★★★

Columbo s2 (1972-3) ★★★★★

Kung Fu s2 (1973-4) ★★★★★

Ozark S3 (Netflix, 2020) ★★★★

Georgia Brown : Who Are The Cockneys Now ?(BBC 1968) ★★★★★

A House In Bayswater – Ken Russell (BBC 1960) ★★★★★

John Hoyland – 6 Days In September (BBC, 1978) ★★★★

Columbo s3 (1973-4) ★★★★★

Unorthodox (Netflix, 2020) ★★★★

Louis Theroux – Gambling In Las Vegas (BBC2, 2007) ★★★★★

When Louis Theroux Met The Nazis(BBC2, 2003)★★★★★

Louis Theroux – Most Hated Family In US (BBC2, 2007) ★★★★★

Louis Theroux – Surviving America’s M H F (BBC2, 2011) ★★★★★

Columbo s4 (1974-5) ★★★★★

Mash Report (S4, eps) – Uncle Provocateur sketch ★★★★★

Columbo s5 (1976) ★★★★★

Columbo s6 (1977) ★★★★★

Columbo s 7 (1978) ★★★★★

Normal People (2020, BBC) ★★★★

Bewitched (Series 1, 1964) ★★★★★

What’s Up With That? (SNL 2013+) ★★★★★

Homeland (S1, 2011) ★★★★★

Homeland (S2, 2012) ★★★★★

Homeland (S3, 2013)★★★★★

Homeland (S4, 2014) ★★★★★

Gale Is Dead (BBC, 1970) ★★★★★

Where Have All The Flowers Gone (BBC, 1978) ★★★★

SAS : Who Dares Wins / Celebrity (C4 2015 +) ★★★★

Homeland (S5, 2015) ★★★★

SAS : Who Dares Wins (C4) ★★★★

Homeland (s6, 2017) ★★★★★

Homeland (s7, 2018) ★★★★

Northern Exposure (S1, 1990) ★★★★★

The Thick Of It
(s4, 2012) ★★★★★

Northern Exposure (s2, 1991)

Queer Eye (s5, 2020, Netflix)

Chernobyl (2019) ★★★★★

Floyd In France (BBC2, 1987) ★★★★★

Mindhunter S1 (Netflix) ★★★★★

Mindhunter S2 (Netflix) ★★★★★

Manhunt – Unabomber (Netflix) ★★★★★

That swearing chef, but in America (C4)

Succession (S1, HBO) ★★★★★

Succession (S2, HBO) ★★★★★

Rockfield The Studio On The Farm (BBC4, 2020)

House Of Cards (s1 , Netflix) ★★★★

House of Cards (s2, Netflix)

The Fall S1 (BBC, 2015) ★★★★★

SCHOOLS OPEN

Big Little Lies S1 (Netflix, 2017) ★★★★★

Sam Kinnison – Family Entertainment (HBO, 1990)

Big Train S2 (BBC2 2002) ★★★★

The Fall S2 (BBC, 2016) ★★★★

Big Little Lies S2 (Netflix 2019) ★★★★★

The Duchess (Netflix, 2020) ★

Des (ITV, 2020) ★★★★

Ghosts s2 (BBC, 2020) ★★★★★

Dave Chapelle – Sticks And Stones (Netflix, 2019) ★

November 13 Paris (Netflix, 2018) ★★★★

Schitt’s Creel S1 (CBC, 2015) ★★★★★

Schitt’s Creek S2 (CBC, 2016) ★★★★★

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Ghosts s1 (BBC, 2019) ★★★★★

Out Of Her Mind (BBC2)

Schitt’s Creek S3 (CBC, 2017) ★★★★

Dead Of Night (BBC, 1972) ★★★★

Election 1974 (BBC Parliament) ★★★★★

Schitt’s Creek S4 (CBC, 2018) ★★★★

Schitt’s Creek S5 (CBC, 2019)

SECOND LOCKDOWN OVER

Schitt’s Creek S6 (CBC, 2020)

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Box Of Delights (BBC, 1984) ★★★★

MAGAZINES AND PAPERS

Shindig, Record Collector, Viz, Mojo, Guardian, Machenallia, Faunus, Observer, Guardian, London Review of Books, Weird Walk

RADIO

James O’Brien (LBC) ★★★★★

20/2/20 THEATRE/PUB SHUTDOWN

SCHOOLS OPEN

BBC Radiophonic Workshop special (BBCR4 extra) ★★★★★

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Natalie Haynes going on about Greek myths on R4 and R3

INTERNETS, YOUTUBES AND PODCASTS

Janie Jones’ David Roback tribute (Balamii internet radio)

20/2/20 THEATRE/PUB SHUTDOWN

Michael Spicer ★★★★★

Erwin Saunders ★★★★★

These Weird Isles – https://soundcloud.com/user-677483473

Pope Longergan Plimpin’ & Lompin’

Ian McPherson’s Hardly A Fit Subject For Levity

Quentin Smirhes ★★★★

The Iain Duncan Smiths ★★★★

SCHOOLS OPEN

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A film of Napalm Death in LA in 2019. Superb!

THEATRE

Gloucestershire Mummers’ 50^th Christmas Play (Gloucs Cathedral)

Touching The Void (Duke Of York’s)

Dick Whittington (Hackney Empire) ★★★★

20/2/20 THEATRE/PUB SHUTDOWN

COMEDY

GIGS

Gloucestershire Morris Men & Guests (Gloucester Cathedral)

The Bellrays (Islington, London) ★★★★

Stale Liavik Solber & John Butcher/Angharad Davies & Max Eastly/Najma Akhtar/Steve Beresford & Sylvia Hallet (Café Oto) ★★★★

20/2/20 VENUE SHUTDOWN

Mike Cooley (Online 8/5/20) ★★★★

Dave Graney &
Clare Moore
(Online 9/5/20) ★★★★

Guided By Voices (online 17/7/20) ★★★★★

SCHOOLS OPEN

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Richard Dawson (Barbican online 25/10/20) ★★★★★

RECORDS I LISTENED TO OLD SCHOOL IN ONE SITTING AT A LISTENING DEVICE

NEW RECORDS – 2019/2020

My favorite 10 new records this year were…

The Dream Syndicate – Universe Inside

Guided By Voices – Mirrored Aztec

Laura Cannell – The Earth With Her Crowns

Bob Dylan – Rough & Rowdy Ways

Shirley Collins – Heart’s Ease

Thurston Moore – By The Fire

Rhodri Davies – Telyn Rawn

Guided by Voices – Styles We Paid For

David Grubbs – October 19 2017

The William Loveday
Intention – 1-8

I appeared on

The Seen – For The Sake Of Joy Of Study Of Oneself Together

Laura Cannell – These Feral Lands

Asian Dub Foundation – Access Denied

So I can’t give them ★★★★★ but they all were

And here’s all the new records I listened to in order…

Robyn Hitchcock & Andy Partridge – Planet England ep

Billy Eilish – When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?

Dinah Brand – Thank You Driver

Sleaford Mods – Stick In A Five & Go ep

Eyelids – Accidental Falls

Stormzy – Heavy Is The Head

Julian Cope – Self Civil War

The Nightingales – Four Against Fate ★★★★

Richard James – Broc Mor

Rich Hopkins & Luminarios – Live At El Lokal ★★★★

Wolfhounds – Electric Music ★★★★

Mura Musa – Raw Youth Collage

The Dream Syndicate – Universe Inside ★★★★★

Wild Billy Childish – Kings Of The Medway Delta ★★★★

Islet – Eyelet

20/2/20 THEATRE/PUB SHUTDOWN

Garcia Peoples – Nublu NYC 2019 ★★★★

Windy & Carl – Allegiance & Conviction ★★★★

The Frees – Live From The End Of The Earth ★★★★

Alan Wilkinson & Douglas Benford – Appointed Views ★★★★

The Lost Brothers – After The Fire

Guided By Voices – Mirrored Aztec ★★★★★

The Heartwood Institute – Tomorrow’s People ★★★★

John Edwards – Just Another Day At Home ★★★★

Adam Bohman & Douglas Benford – Ad Hoc & Words ★★★★

Laura Cannell – The Earth With Her Crowns ★★★★★

Jack Sharp – Good Times Older ★★★★

The Frees – Live To Air ★★★★

The Frees – Lips That Bite ★★★★

Fixed Horizon – Jungle ★★★★

Jon Free – Spiralling ★★★★

Richard Skelton – Border Ballads ★★★★

Howe Gelb – Cocoon ★★★★★

The Primevals – Second Nature ★★★★

Richard Youngs – Vistas ★★★★

Pocket Signs – Signs of The Times

Darren Hayman – Home Time

Eliza Carthy & Ben Seal – Through That Sound

Richard Youngs – Four Verses ★★★★

V/A – Seito In The Beginning Woman Was The Sun ★★★★

Lucinda Williams – Good Souls & Better Angels ★★★★

Bob Dylan – Rough & Rowdy Ways ★★★★★

Billy Sedlmayr – Mean What You Say ★★★★

Shirley Collins – Heart’s Ease ★★★★★

The Pernice Brothers – Spread The Feeling

Alasdair Roberts – The Songs of My Boyhood ★★★★

Boris – No ★★★★

Slum of Legs – Slum Of Legs ★★★★★

Tobin Sprout – Empty Horses ★★★★

Thurston Moore – By The Fire ★★★★★

Rhodri Davies – Telyn Rawn ★★★★★

Charlie Owen – Turn The Light On

Idles – Ultra Mono ★★★★

The Waterboys – Good Luck, Seeker

The Cravats – Hoorahland ★★★★

SCHOOLS OPEN

Belbury Poly – The Gone Away

Anton Barbeau – Manbird

Oddfellows Casino – Burning! Burning!

Alison Cotton – Only Darkness Now ★★★★

Rachel Aggs – Visitations 0202 ★★★★

Garcia Peoples – Nightmare At Wits’ End

Richard Dawson – Republic of Geordieland ★★★★

Deniz Tek & The Godoys – Fast Freight

Shopping – All Or Nothing

Tamikrest – Tamotait ★★★★

Yo La Tengo – We Have Amnesia Somewhere

Koolaid – Holy Sunshine

Hen Ogled – Free Humans

Asian Dub Foundation – Access Denied ★★★★

Chuck Prophet – The Land That Time Forgot ★★★★

Hawkwind Light Orchestra – Carnivorous

Cash Rivers & Sinners – Frankenstein’s New Nut Huggers ★★★★

Guided by Voices – Styles We Paid For ★★★★★

Yo La Tengo – Sleepless Nights

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Dope – Semi Legal On The Edge Of Culture ★★★★

Carlton Melton – Where This Leads ★★★★

David Grubbs – October 19 2017 ★★★★★

White Hills – Splintered Metal Sky

Napalm Death – Throes of Joy In The Jaws of Defeatism ★★★★

The William Loveday Intention – People Think They Know Me ★★★★

The William Loveday Intention – 1-8 ★★★★★

SECOND LOCKDOWN OVER

The Bats – Foothills

Billy Nomates – s/t ★★★★

Alex Rex – Bubble of Paradise ★★★★

Songhoy Blues – Optimisme

Calexico – Seasonal Shift

NEW OLD RECORDS (REISSUES, ARCHIVES, COMPS)

Tim Buckley – Live At The Electric (1968) ★★★★

John Lee Hooker – Black Night Is Falling (1977) ★★★★★

20/2/20 THEATRE/PUB SHUTDOWN

The Heads – Reverberations Vol 1 (2005) ★★★★

Barnabus – Beginning To Unwind (1971) ★★★★

Miracle Legion – 4.20 Live At The Boot (2017) ★★★★★

V/A – Brown Acid The Tenth Trip (1969-74) ★★★★

Creedence Clearwater Revival – Live At Woodstock (1969) ★★★★

John Lee Hooker – Documenting The Sensation (1948-52) ★★★★★

Kevin Rowlands – My Beauty (1999)

Albert Ayler – New Grass (1969) ★★★★

Guided by Voices – Doses of Nonchalance (1995) ★★★★

SCHOOLS OPEN

The Fall – Tech College, St Helens Merseyside (1981) ★★★★★

Linda Hoyle – Pieces of Me (1971) ★★★★

Day Of Phoenix – Mind Funeral (1971) ★★★★★

L7 – Smell The Magic – SubPop (1991) ★★★★

The Fall – Imperial Wax Solvent special edition (2008) ★★★★★

July – Complete (1968-2020)

Guided By Voices – Rara Avis ★★★★★

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Gorgeous Space Virus – Shall We Go Skinny Dipping? (1992) ★★★★

Sume – The Sound of a Revolution (1973-6) ★★★★

V/A – Living On A Hill, Danish Underground (1967-74) ★★★★

Culpeper’s Orchard – Mountain Music (1971-3) ★★★★

Guided By Voices – Freak Anthems (2006) ★★★★

Guided By Voices – Freak Anthems Revisited (2006) ★★★★

Trees –
Trees
Box Set (1970)★★★★★

Steve Wynn – Decade Box Set (1995-2005) ★★★★★

SECOND LOCKDOWN OVER

Neil Young – Return to Greendale (2003) ★★★★★

OLD RECORDS

V/A – A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector (1963)

V/A – Christmas On The Country Side (1949-1963)

V/A – Trojan Christmas Box Set ★

Cocteau Twins – Head Over Heels (1983) ★★★★

Cocteau Twins – Treasure (1984) ★★★★

The Drays – Look Away Down Collins Avenue (2015)

Hey Paulette – Long Ball Into Nowhere (1988-90)

The Sewing Room – Drug Free (1996)

V/A – Brown Acid, The 7^th Trip (1967-1973)

Fleetwood Mac – Blues Jam In Chicago 2 (1969)

Area – Parigi Lisbona (1976) ★★★★★

Dinah Brand – Pale Monkey Blues (2002)

Fleetwood Mac – Heroes Are Hard To Find (1974)

Barbara Manning – Alone In A Room (2018)

Treeboy & Arc – Merge ep (2017)

Mecki Mark Men – Running In The Summer Night (1969)

Mecki Mark Men – Marathon (1971)

Sly & The Family Drone – Live At Café Oto (2015)

Van Der Graaf Generator – God Bluff Live (1975)

Slipstream – Transcendental (2003)

Mecki Mark Men – s/t (1968) ★★★★

Joe Henderson – Canyon Lady (1973) ★★★★

Joe Henderson – Multiple (1973) ★★★★★

Joe Henderson – Power To The People (1969) ★★★★

Joe Henderson – Page One (1963)

Joe Henderson – At The Lighthouse (1970) ★★★★★

v/a – The Sound of Leamington Spa Vol 1 (1986-9)

Joe Henderson – More From An Evening With (1987)

Joe Henderson – The Standard Joe (1991) ★★★★

Lisa Germano – Slide (1998)

Joe Henderson – In Japan (1971) ★★★★

Jeanne Lee – Conspiracy (1974) ★★★★

Steve Wynn – Plays Dylan (2011) ★★★★

Sisters of Mercy – Some Girls Wander By Mistake (1980-3) ★★★★★

Sisters Of Mercy – First & Last & Always (1985) ★★★★

Sisters of Mercy – Floodland (1987)

Nico Fidenco – I Want Him Dead s/t (1968)

Cliff Jordan & John Gilmore – Blowing In (1957) ★★★★

The Fall – The Unutterable (2000) ★★★★★

Lisa Germano – Inconsiderate Bitch (1994) ★★★★

Lisa Germano – Happiness (us mix) (1993) ★★★★

Tubeway Army – Tubeway Army (1978)

The Dream Syndicate – These Times (2019) ★★★★

Buffalo Springfield – s/t (1967)

Buffalo Springfield – Again (1967)

Neil Young – Neil Young (1969)

Neil Young – Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (1969) ★★★★★

Neil Young – After The Gold Rush (1970) ★★★★

Neil Young – Harvest (1972) ★★★★

Neil Young – Time Fades Away (1973) ★★★★

Neil Young – Harvest Moon (1993) ★★★★★

Neil Young – Tuscaloosa (1973)

Neil Young – Tonight’s The Night (1973)

Neil Young – On The Beach (1974) ★★★★

Neil Young – Zuma (1975)

Stills Young Band – Long May You Run (1976) ★

Neil Young – Hitchhiker (1976)

Neil Young – Chrome Dreams (1977)

Bevis Frond – The Auntie Winnie Album (1988) ★★★★

Neil Young – American Stars And Bars (1977)

Neil Young – Comes A Time (1978)

The Fall – The Frenz Experiment (1988) ★★★★

Sam Rivers – Fuchsia Swing Song (1965) ★★★★★

The Beau Brummels – Bradley’s Barn (1968)

Lovecraft – Valley Of The Moon (1970)

Neil Young – Rust Never Sleeps (1979) ★★★★★

The Fall – The < Infotainment Scan (1993) ★★★★★

The Fall – The 27 Points (1995) ★★★★★

Neil Young – The Monsanto Years (2017)

Neil Young – Live At The Filmore East (1970)

Neil Young – Roxy (1973)

Neil Young – Live Rust (1979) ★★★★★

Paul Bley, Furio di Castri & Tony Oxley – Chaos (1994) ★★★★

Game Theory – Supercalifragile (2017)

Opal – Early Recordings (1984 – 86) ★★★★★

Mazzy Star – She Hangs Brightly (1990) ★★★★★

Neil Young – Hawks and Doves (1974-1980)

The Durutti Column – Without Mercy (expanded) (1984) ★★★★

Neil Young – Re-Actor (1981)

Neil Young – Trans (1982)

Neil Young – Everybody’s Rockin’ (1983)

Neil Young – Old Ways (1985)

Mahavishnu Orchestra – Birds of Fire (1972) ★★★★

Neil Young – Freedom (1989)

Neil Young – Ragged Glory (1990) ★★★★★

Neil Young – Weld (1991) ★★★★

Game Theory – Two Steps From The Middle Ages (1988) ★★★★★

V/A – Spaghetti Westerns Vol 1 (1963-76)

Julian Cope – An Audience With The Cope (2001)

Il Baletto di Bronze – Ys (1972) ★★★★

Battiato – Pollution (1973)

20/2/20 THEATRE/PUB SHUTDOWN

Ennio Morricone – Canton Morricone 2 (1963-1971) ★★★★

Fear Itself – s/t (1968) ★★★★

Dexter Gordon – Our Man In Paris (1963) ★★★★

Gib Gilbeau – Toe Tappin’ Music (1978)

Jeffrey Clark – If Is (2010)

Julian Cope – Planetary Sit-In (1996)

Julian Cope – Ambulence (1996)

The Durutti Column – Return Of Thr Durutti Column (1980)

The Durutti Column – Another Setting (1983)

Rainer – Worried Spirits (1992) ★★★★

Calexico – The Black Light (1998) ★★★★★

V/A – Western Music Anthology (1963-76) ★★★★

M Ward – The Transfiguration of Vincent (2003)

Spencer P Jones – Rumor of Death (1994) ★★★★★

Neil Young – Live At the Riverboat (1969) ★★★★

Joe Henderson – Relaxin’ At Camarillo (1979) ★★★★

Fred Anderson – Quintessential Birthday Trio II (2005) ★★★★

Fred Anderson – Black Horn Long Gone (1993) ★★★★

Matt Walker & Ashley Davies – s/t (2005)

Thorsten Schmidt – Hereford Wakes (2016)

Arbouretum – The Gathering (2011)

The Heartwood Institute – All Hallows Eve (2018) ★★★★

The Heartwood Institute – Burgh Marsh (2017) ★★★★

The Heartwood Institute – Barsham Faire (2018)

The Heartwood Institute – All Hallows Eve (2018) ★★★★

American Music Club – Everclear (1991) ★★★★

American Music Club – Mercury (1993) ★★★★

American Music Club – Engine (1987) ★★★★★

American Music Club – California (1988) ★★★★★

Lucinda Williams – Down Where The Spirit Meets The Bone (2014)

Lucinda Williams – Little Honey (2008)

Lucinda Williams/Charles Lloyd – Vanished Gardens (2018) ★★★★

Razorcuts – R Is For (1985-87) ★★★★

Hawkwind w Brian Blessed – Sonic Attack (2014) ★★★★

The Doors – The Soft Parade (expanded) (1969)★★★★

Miles Davis – Miles At The Filmore (1970) ★★★★★

Miles Davis – Bitches’ Brew (1970) ★★★★★

The Doors – Behind Closed Doors (1966-70)★★★★★

Gregory Webster – My Wicked Wicked Ways (1996)

Jody Porter – Close To The Sun (2008)

Il Balletto Di Bronzo – Sirio 2222 (1970) ★★★★

Pescado Rabioso ‎– Desatormentándonos (1972) ★★★★

Tex, Don & Charlie – You Don’t Know Lonely (2017)

The Church – Of Skins and Heart (1981)

The Church – The Blurred Crusade (1982)

Kraftwerk – Computer Love (1981) ★★★★

Bob Dylan – Blonde on Blonde (1966) ★★★★★

The Silence – Metaphysical Feedback (2017)

Chris Whitley – War Crime Blues (2004)

V/A – Tokyo Flashback 1 (1990s)★★★★★

V/A – Tokyo Flashback Psychedelic Speed Freaks (2017) ★★★★★

The Church – Priest = Aura (1992) ★★★★

The Church – Séance (1983)

The Church – Sing Songs (1982)

The Church – Remote Luxury (1984)

The Church – Persia (1984)

The Church – Heyday (1985)

The Church – A Quick Smoke At Spots (1988)

The Church – Back With Two Beasts (2005) ★★★★★

The Church – Operetta (2009) ★★★★★

The Church – Pangaea (2009) ★★★★★

The Church – Jammed (2004) ★★★★★

The Church – Beside Yourself (2004) ★★★★

The Church – Further/Deeper (2014) ★★★★

Velvet Underground – Velvet Underground (1969) ★★★★★

Velvet Underground – 1969 Live (1969) ★★★★★

Velvet Underground – Loaded (1970) ★★★★

John Cale – Fear (1974)

John Cale – Vintage Violence (1970)

Angus & Hetty MacLise – Dreamweapon II (1965) ★★★★

Angus MacLise & Tony Conrad – Dreamweapon III (1965) ★★★★

Nico – The Marble Index (1968) ★★★★★

Nico, Lou Reed & John Cale – Bataclan (1972) ★★★★

The Velvet Underground –
And Nico
(1967) ★★★★★

Nico – Chelsea Girl (1967) ★★★★

Nico – The End (1974) ★★★★★

Lou Reed – Coney Island Baby (1975)

Lou Reed – Transformer (1972)

The Fall – New Facts Emerge (2017) ★★★★★

The Church – After Everything Now This (2002)

The Fall – Light User Syndrome (1996) ★★★★

The Fall – Live In Vienna (1988) ★★★★

The Fall – JBs, Dudley (1979) ★★★★

The Fall – Victoria University, NZ (1982) ★★★★★

The Fall – Out Of The Frost (2012) ★★★★★

The Church – Bastard Universe (1998)

John Lee Hooker – House of The Blues (1960) ★★★★

John Lee Hooker – The Big Soul Of (1963)

John Lee Hooker – It Serve You Right To Suffer (1966) ★★★★

John Lee Hooker – Urban Blues (1968) ★★★★

John Lee Hooker – Live At Soledad Prison (1972) ★★★★

John Lee Hooker – Kabuki Wuki (1973)

John Lee Hooker w Canned Heat – Carnegie Hall (1971)

John Lee Hooker – Boom Boom (1992)

Hammock – Eps, Singles & Remixes (2013)

Bob Dylan – Live At The Gaslight (1962)

Bob Dylan – Live At Carnegie Hall (1963)

Bob Dylan – Bringing It All Back Home (1965) ★★★★★

Bob Dylan – Highway 61 Revisited (1965) ★★★★★

Bob Dylan – Live Paris 1966 ★★★★★

Bob Dylan – The Cutting Edge Collectors’ Edition (1965-6) ★★★★★

Bob Dylan – Self Portrait (1970) ★★★★★

Bob Dylan – Blood On The Tracks (1975) ★★★★★

Bob Dylan – Good As I Been To You (1992)

Bob Dylan – World Gone Wrong (1993)

Bob Dylan – Infidels (1983)

Bob Dylan – Oh Mercy (1989)

Bob Dylan – Time Out Of Mind (1997) ★★★★

The Byrds – Sweetheart of the Rodeo (1968) ★★★★

The Eagles – s/t (1972)

The Dillards – Live!!!! Almost!!!! (1964)

Gene Clark – Firebyrd (1984)

Gene Clark & Carla Olson – So Rebellious A Lover (1987)
★★★★

McGuinn, Clark, Hillman – s/t (1979) ★

McGuinn, Clark, Hillman – City (1980) ★

Manassas – Manassas (1972)

Green On Red – Two Bibles (1981) ★★★★

Green On Red – Green On Red (1982) ★★★★

Green On Red – Gravity Talks (1983)

Green On Red – Gas Food Lodging (1985) ★★★★★

Green On Red – No Free Lunch (1985)

Green On Red – Here Come The Snakes (1988) ★★★★★

Green On Red – This Time Around (1989)

Green On Red – Scapegoats (1991)

Green On Red – Too Much Fun (1992) ★★★★

True West – Drifters (1984) ★★★★★

True West – Hand Of Fate (1986)

True West – Best Western (1986)

Viva Saturn – s/t (1989) ★★★★★

Rain Parade – Demolition (1991)

Absolute Grey – A Journey Through The Past (1984-9)

Barbara Manning – Lately I Keep Scissors (1988) ★★★★★

Steve Wynn – Solo Electric Vol 1 (2015)

The Dream Syndicate – Live At Raji’s (1989) ★★★★★

The Dream Syndicate – Out Of The Grey (1986)

Skip Battin – Navigator (1981)

Skip Battin – Don’t Go Crazy (1984)

Family Tree – Live In Italy (1988)

Woodcocks – s/t (1990) ★★★★

Woodcocks – The Carp Pond (1992) ★★★★

Woodcocks – Microdot (2002)

Caitlin Von Schmidt – Fish (1992)

Giant Sand – Valley of Rain (1985) ★★★★★

River Roses – Each & All (1988)

River Roses – When We Fall (1991)

Luminarios – Personality Crisis (1992) ★★★★

Sidewinders – Cuacha< (1987) ★★★★

Sidewinders – Auntie Ramos’ Pool Hall (1990)

Black Sun Ensemble – Elemental Forces (1992)

Black Sun Ensemble – Sky Pilot (1994)

Rainer And Das Combo – Barefoot Rock (1986)

Naim Amor – Soundtracks (2001)

Underbelly – Mumbly Peg (1992)

Billy Sedlmayr – Charmed Life (2014) ★★★★

Billy Sedlmayr – Harlem River Drive (2018) ★★★★

Billy Sedlmayr – Four From The Family Room (2014)

Chuck Prophet – Homemade Blood (1997) ★★★★

Chuck Prophet – Homemade Boot (1997)

35 Summers – Biblioteca (1995) ★★★★

35 Summers – Bleed Out Loud (1997)★★★★

Friends of Dean Martinez – Shadow Of Your Smile (1995) ★★★★★

The Byrds – Turn Turn Turn (1965) ★★★★★

The Byrds – 5D (1966)★★★★★

Crime & The City Solution – Just South Of Heaven (1985) ★★★★★

The Birthday Party – Junkyard (1982) ★★★★

The Moodists – Engine Shudder (1982)

Lawson Square Infirmary – s/t (1984)

The Moodists – Thirsty’s Calling (1984) ★★★★★

The Beasts Of Bourbon – The Axeman’s Jazz (1984)

Crime & The City Solution – The Dangling Man (1985) ★★★★

Hugo Race – Rue Morgue (1987)

Porcelain Bus – Steel Bros (1987)

Dave Graney – My Life On The Plains (1989) ★★★★★

Simon Bonney – Forever (1992)

Dave Graney – Lure Of The Tropics (1992) ★★★★★

Dave Graney – Night Of The Wolverine (1993) ★★★★★

David McComb – Love Of Will (1994) ★★★★

Spencer P Jones – Rumour of Death (1994) ★★★★★

Dave Graney – You Wanna Be There (1994) ★★★★★

Simon Bonney – Everyman (1995) ★★★★

V/A – Where Joy Meets Sorrow (1997) ★★★★★

Hungry Ghosts – Alone, Alone (1999)

Simon Bonney – Past, Present, Future (1999) ★★★★★

Maurice Frawley – Triple-Skin (2000) ★★★★★

Penny Ikinger – Electra (2003)

V/A – The Songs of Maurice Frawley (2010)★★★★★

Hugo Race – John Lee Hooker’s World (2017) ★★★★

The Birthday Party – Mutiny (1983) ★★★★★

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – From Her To Eternity (1984) ★★★★

The Triffids – Raining Pleasure (1984) ★★★★★

These Immortal Souls – Get Lost! Don’t Lie! (1987)

Porcelain Bus – Talking To God (1988) ★★★★★

Robert Forster – Danger In The Past (1990) ★★★★

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Murder Ballads (1996) ★★★★★

Robert Forster – Warm Nights (1996) ★★★★

Beasts of Bourbon – Gone (1997) ★★★★★

Dan Stuart & Al Perry – Retronuevo (1993) ★★★★

Banco del Mutuo Soccorso – s/t (1972)

Reale Academia di Musica – s/t (1972)

V/A – Mobilisation Generale (1970-76) ★★★★

Ali Farka Toure – s/t (1976) ★★★★★

Sunny Ade – Synchro Chapter 1 (1977) ★★★★

Karlheinz Stockhausen – Stimmung (1968) ★★★★★

Chuck Prophet – Brother Aldo (1990)

Chuck Prophet – Balinese Dancer (1992)

Chuck Prophet – Feast of Hearts (1995) ★★★★

Mazzy Star – She Hangs Brightly (1990)★★★★★

Mazzy Star – So Tonight That I Might See (1993) ★★★★★

Metamorfosi – Inferno (1973)

Circus 2000 – Escape From A Box (1972) ★★★★

Wigwam – Hard ‘n’ Heavy (1969) ★★★★

Alphataurus – s/t (1973)

Crime & The City Solution – Paradise Discotheque (1990)★★★★

Sun Kil Moon – Among The Leaves (2012) ★★★★

Mark Kozelek – Live At The Phoenix Melbourne(2013) ★★★★

Idles – Brutalism (2017) ★★★★

Idles – Joy As An Act Of Resistance (2018) ★★★★

Sun Kil Moon – Ghosts Of The Great Highway (2003) ★★★★★

Maki Asakawa – 1^st album (1970)

The Grapes – s/t (1999)

Haka Yamasaki – 2^nd album (1976)

Maki Asakawa – Maki Asakawa (1970-76) ★★★★

SCHOOLS OPEN

Machina – En Directo (1972)

The Deviants – Dr Crow (2002)

Dorothy Carter – Troubador (1976) ★★★★

The Maytals – Monkey Man (1970)

Maki Asakawa – VI (1974)

Ellen McIlwane – Honky Tonk Angel (1972)

Slowdive – Just For A Day (1992)

XTC – Fossil Fuels (1977 – 1993)★★★★★

XTC – Black Sea (1980) ★★★★★

XTC – Black Sea Demos (1980) ★★★★★

XTC – English Settlement (1982)★★★★

Head Machine – Orgasm (1970)

Ellen McIlwane – We The People (1973)

Budgie – Budgie (1971)

Budgie – Squawk (1972)

Doji Morita – Goodbye (1975)

Shiloh – Shiloh (1970)

Farm – Farm (1971) ★★★★

(Dennis Dragon’s) Farm – Innermost Limits of Pure Fun (1968)

Dave Kusworth – The World Of (1982 – 2017)

The Beloved – Peel Sessions (84/5) ★★★★

Hawklords – Censored (2014)

Genesis (US) – In The Beginning (1968) ★★★★

Made In Germany – s/t (1971-4)

Gravy Train – s/t (1970)

Peep Show – The Secret World Of (1967)

Arktis – s/t (1973)

Hawkwind – In Search Of Space (1971) ★★★★★

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John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers – Bare Wires (1968) ★★★★

Blue Mountain Eagle – s/t (1970) ★★★★

Rain – Norsk Suite (1969) ★★★★

Richard Dawson – The Magic Bridge (2011) ★★★★

Richard Dawson – The Glass Trunk (2013) ★★★★★

Richard Dawson – Nothing Important (2014) ★★★★★

Richard Dawson – Peasant (2017) ★★★★★

Richard Dawson – 2020 (2019) ★★★★★

Aztecs – Live (1971)

Young Flowers – Blomsterpistolen (1968) ★★★★

Cycle – s/t (1971)

The Creation – We Are Paintermen (1967)

Supersister – Present From Nancy (1970)

Master’s Apprentices – A Toast To Panama Red (1971)

Tin House – s/t (1971)★★★★

V/A – Electrified Neptune Staircase (1971-75)

Uriah Heep – Very ‘Eavy, Very ‘Umble (1970)

Uriah Heep – Salisbury (1971)

Aztecs – Live At Sunbury (1972)

The Sound – Heads & Hearts (1985) ★★★★★

The Sound – Shock Of The Daylight (1984)

The Sound – From The Lion’s Mouth (1981)

Nick Cave – Push The Sky Away (2012)

Ultravox – Lament (1984)

Loop – A Gilded Eternity (1990) ★★★★

Cuby + Blizzards – Desolation (1966)

Ray Davies – Our Country (2018)

The Posies – Frosting On The Beater (1993) ★★★★★

The Beat Poets – Totally Radio (1990)

Chain – Towards The Blues (1971)

Chain – Two of A Kind (1973)

Matt Taylor – Straight As A Die (1973)

Matt Taylor – Music (1974)

Cuby + Blizzards & Eddy Boyd – Praise The Blues (1967)

Cuby + Blizzards – Groeten Uit Grollo (1967)

Cuby + Blizzards – Trippin’ Through A Midnight Blues (1968)

Cuby + Blizzards – Live (1968)

Midnight Sun – Walking Circles (1972)

Iron Butterfly – Heavy (1968)

Hawkwind – Live ’79 (1979) ★★★★

Iron Butterfly – Metamorphosis (1970)

Richard Hell & Voidoids – Destiny St (1982) ★★★★★

Napalm Death – Words From The Exit Wound (1998)

Odin – SWF Session (1973)

Leo De Castro – & Friends (1970-73)

Napalm Death – Inside Torn Apart (1997)

Steve Wynn – Melting In The Dark (1995) ★★★★

Steve Wynn – Sweetness & Light (1997) ★★★★

SECOND LOCKDOWN OVER

Fanny – s/t (1970)

Fanny – Fanny Hill (1972)

Joy Division – Closer (1980) ★★★★★

Spencer Davis Group – Here We Go Round Mulberry Bush s/t (1968)

Spencer Davis Group – With Their New Face On (1968)

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Winter Hours – Wait Till The Morning (1986)★★★★★

Yoninbayashi – Hatahi No Genten (1973) ★★★★★

TIER 4 LONDON

The Cure – Disintegration (1989)

HISTORIC SITES

Kimbury Hill Fort, Gloucestershire

Kenwood House, Hampstead

Lincoln Imp and Little Hugh’s tomb, Lincoln Cathedral,

Tomb of Catherine of Aragorn, Peterborough Cathedral

St Anne’s Well, Buxton

St Augustine’s Tower, Hackney

The Rollright Stones, Oxfordshire

Spillers Records, Cardiff

St Phillips Cathedral, B’ham, Edward Burne-Jones windows ★★★★

Trent Park, N London

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Hatfield Forest

Hackney Marshes

Walthamstow Marshes

Cannop Ponds, Forest of Dean

Uffington White Horse, Wiltshire

Waltham Abbey

Churchill Statue, Parliament Sq

Wayland’s Smithy, Wiltshire

Avebury Stone Circle, Wiltshire

East Wood Stone Circle, Forest of Dean

Symond’s Yat Hill Fort, Forest of Dean

Uley Long Barrow, Gloucestershire

Nympsfield Long Barrow, Gloucestershire

The Devil’s Pulpit, Forest of Dean

Blaize Bayley lookout, Forest of Dean

Cyril Hart Arboretum, Forest of Dean

Rough Tor huts and stone circles, Bodmin Moor

Brown Willy, Rough Tor

The Hurlers, Cornwall

Eden Project, Cornwall

Cherhill White Horse & Adam’s Grave, Wiltshire

Overton Hill, Avebury, Wiltshire

Hackpen White Horse, Avebury, Wiltshire

Dad’s Army locations, Thetford, Norfolk

Thetford Iron Age Hill Fort, Norfolk

Thetford Priory, Norfolk

The Druids’ Temple, Swinton, Yorkshire

Fountains Abbey/Studley Royal, Yorkshire

The Devil’s Arrows, Rippon, Yorkshire

Knaresborough Castle, Yorkshire

Mother Shipton’s Well, Yorkshire

Jervaulx Abbey, Yorkshire

Middleham Castle, Yorkshire

SCHOOLS OPEN

Godstow Priory, Oxford

Port Meadow, Oxford

Chequers estate, Buckinghamshire

Pulpit Hill Hillfort, Buckinghamshire

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John Milton’s cottage, Chalfont St Giles

The Thomas Hardy Tree, St Pancras, London

Homes of Joe Orton, Nina Bawden, Angel

Site of 1^st Doodlebug, Tower Hamlets

Graves of King Cole, Roger Crab, Tower Hamlets

Site of Peasants’ Revolt, Stepney Green

Site of Sidney Street siege, Stepney

Blind Beggar Pub, Whitechapel

Hampstead homes of Marx, Nick Drake, Arthur Racham, Henry Moore, Sickert, Hepworth, Ben Nicholson, Mondrian, Ithell Colquhoun, Isokon Flats, Agatha Christie, Arnold Deutsch, Julian Huxley, Orwell, William Empsom, Bomberg, David Devant, Paul Nash, Macneice, Keats, Sitwell, Rosemary Tonks, Muir, Ronald Penrose/Lee Miller, Jim Henson, Golfinger, Flora Robson, Roger Fry, Jaqueline du Pre/William Cory, Priestly, Lawrence, Constable, Crapper + Feldman + George

Finsbury Park/Hornsey homes of Gerald Holton, Bertrand Russel, Empire Theatre, Frederick Seddon, death of Graham Bond, Rainbow Theatre, Campbell Bunk, Don McCullin, John Russell, Heath Robinson, Bob Hoskins, EA Maskelyne & Cassie Bruce, Ho Chi Minh, Konk Kinks, Hornsey Poltergeist,

The Ivy Clad Church, Hornsey

Hornsey Sean Of The Dead locations

Prospect Park, Hornsey

Site of Crouch End Hippodrome

Hornsey Town Hall

Parkland Spriggan

Crouch End Homes of Lillian Harvey, Frank Matcham, Frank Doel, Hornsey College of Art, The Highgate Vampire, Arthur Lloyd

Highbury Homes of Leslie Hanson, Alexander McQueen, Wessex Studios, Joseph Chamberlian, Walter Sickert, John Thaw/Tom Courtenay,

Islington homes of Michael X, Elton John, St Clements Church exorcism, Florence Desmond

Camden homes of Amy Winehouse, Ray Santili, Emily Dimmock, Chalk Farm Studios, Sylvia Plath, WB Yeats

Spiritualist Chapel, Camden Square

St John’s Wood Homes of Theosophical Society, Ronnie Corbett, Katherine Mansfield, Patrick Wymark, Arthur Machen, Laura Knight, Edward Elgar/Beatles, Clarissa Dickson Wright, Billy Fury, Paul McCartney, Barbara Hepworth, Marc Wilkinson, Benjamin Britten, Adam Ant, Nick Saloman, Mickey Most’s RAK, Joanna Southcott

St John’s Wood Burial Ground

Old St Pancras Burial Ground

Stoke Newington Homes of Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Edward De Vere, Edgar Allen Poe, Thomas Day, Barbara Windsor, Daniel Defoe, William de Morgan’s dad, Tofu Love Frogs, Swell Maps, Laura Logic, Young Marble Giants, Crass, Spenser Grove Poltergeist, Mary Wollstonecraft, Pathway Studios, The Honeycombs, George Leybourne, Samuel Liddel Macgregor Mathurs, Moleman, Anna Sewell, Elton Dean, Krays/Roy Shirley, Angry Brigade, Jack The Hat death site, Freddy Demuth, Marc Bolan, Candida Doyle/Bill Steer/Anna Chapman/Pauline Quirke, Abney Park cemetery dead, Sice Boo Radleys, Tin Tone Guitars

Stoke Newington Quaker Cemetery

Holloway homes of John Russell, Don McCullin, Joseph Holbroke, Sex Pistols, GH Chirgwin, Red Rose, Charles Williams, Joe Meek, Edward Lear, Violet Essex, Lottie Collins, Douglas Adams, Kate Greenaway, John Collinson

Stoke Newington Homes of James Smetham, Frederick Evans, Wynne Edwin Baxter, Phillip Twells, Lottie Collins, Herbert Campbell

Gibson Gardens, Hackney

Turnpike Lane Homes of
Arnold Bennet, Joseph Holbrooke, Peter Straub, Carswell Prentice, Ron Moody

Site of Wood Green Empire theatre

The Harringay Passage

Site of Northumberland House Asylum

Gloucester Avenue haunted road

Bloomsbury Homes of Paul Nash, Roland Hill, Percy Byshe Shelley & Mary Shelley and Clare Clairmont, Black Books, WB Yeats, Dorothy Richardson, Charles Dickens, Lenin, Jerome K Jerome, Mary Anne Clarke, Mark Ashton, William Empsom, Emlyn Williams, Kenneth Williams’ barber shop, William Henry Hunt, Charles Forte, TS Elliot, Bob Marley

Tavistock Sq Avebury Sarcen stone

Site of The Field of Forty Footsteps

The Eisenhower Centre

SECOND LOCKDOWN OVER

Bloomsbury Homes of Walter Crane, Kenneth Williams x 4, Laurie Lee, George Jacob Holyoake, Julian Maclaren Ross x 3 , Elizabeth Irving, Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant, Amy Brandon-Thomas, Clive Bell, Lytton Strachey, Andre Gide, Thomas de Quincey, Anthony Powell, Penn Club John Wyndham, Virginia Woolf x I, Wilfred Owen, Mary Anne Clark, Roger Fry x 2, William Cowper, Ralph Waldo Emmerson, EM Forster, Barry Miles, Gertrude Stein, TS Elliot no 2, Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin, Sewell & Leslie Stokes, Arthur Machen x 3, Mary Adshead, WH Davies, Little Titch x 2, Anthony Hope Hawkins, Lady Ottoline Morrell x 3, Cyril Connoly, Adelphi Magazine, Seymour Hicks, George Weedon Grossmith, Frederick Warne, Arthur Conan Doyle, Christina Rossetti, John Everett Milais, Violet Paget/Vernon Lee, Charles Darwin, Elizabeth Maud Edwards, Hylda Baker, Mary Chavelita Dunne Bright/George Egerton, Dr Crippen, Houdini, Joe Orton, Sarah Siddons, Robert Aickman, Charles Dickens, Millicent Fawcett, John Forbes Robertson

Former Imperial Hotel, Bloomsbury, statuary

St George’s Church Bloomsbury & Gin Lane site

Former Matrix Studios

Frank Dutton & Laura Jackson’s Temple of Horos

Fitzrovia Homes of
UFO Club, Duncan Grant x4, Akropolis Restaurant, George Orwell, Coventry Patmore, Charles Laughton, Elysee Restaurant, Alois Hitler, White Tower Restaurant, Ivor Marants, John Constable, David Jason/ANC, John Linnell x2, Wheatsheaf Pub, John Flaxman, William Hazlitt, Black Horse Pub, Torinos, Arthur Machen, Hendrix’s Toucan, Private Eye, site of Beat City, site of Dryden Chambers, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Dante Rossetti x, Thomas Stothard, Fitzroy Tavern, Edmund Burke, Edward Fitzgerald/Bertorelli’s, Adrian Heath x 2, Dante & Christian Rossetti x 2, Annie Elizabeth Cook, Walter Sickert x 5, Charles Dickens, William Holman-Hunt, Dante Rossetti x2, Ford Maddox, Verlaine/Rimbaud, William Powell Frith, Simeon Solomon, Barbara Evans, Guy Richie, Imelda Staunton, James McNeil Whistler, WH Auden, Ian McEwan, Louise Michel, Monty Python office, Virginia Woolf/George Bernard Shaw, Ford Maddox Brown

Soho Sq air raid shelter entrance

Site of Cleveland St Brothel

King & Queen, Dylan’s 1^st UK show

Site of London Free School

Balls Pond Jewish Cemetery Amy Levy

Cedra Court, Krays’ flats

Church of the Ark of The Covenant, Clapton

Canonbury homes of Stella Rimmington, Harry Randall, Thomas Cabbage Cooke, Charles Lamb

Collins Music Hall

Clerkenwell homes of Fenner Brockway, George Cruickshank, Polly Newbury, Merlin’s Cave, Aubrey Beardsley, Joseph Grimaldi, Robert Mudie, Thomas Britton, Triffids’ Born Sandy Devotional, Hatton Garden Heist, Arthur Machen, Charles Sabini, Lenin x 2

Clerkenwell Prison

Priory of St John

Islington home of Mike & Bernie Winters

Fitzrovia Homes of Harry Champion, John Buchan, Wilfred Owen x 2, Arthur Conan Doyle, Dante Rosetti x 2m, Ruth Ellis, Christina Rosetti, Theresa Berkley, Prince Tallyrad, Edgar Fitzgerald, Kenneth Clarke, Alastair Crowley, Michael Ayrton, Harry Dacre, Thomas Campbell, Doris Lessing, Gordon Cumming, Ezra Pound, Doris Lessing, Thomas De Quincey, Edwin Landseer, Henry Fuseli, Harold Gilman, Tom Paine, Thomas Barry, Saki, Edward Lear

West End sites of Apple Offices, EMI, IBS Studios, Tyburn Tree, Langham Hotel ★Wykde , Doyle, ghosts)

West London homes of Frank Brangwyn, Hammersmith Socialists, George MacDonald, Eric Ravillious, Ithell Colquhoun & Toni del Renzio, Lucien Pissarro, Goldhawk Social Club, The Hermetic Order of The Golden Dawn, Frederick Leighton, John Betjeman/Richard Harris/Jimmy Page, Robbie Williams/Michael Winner, James Joyce, Spike Milligan/Eric Sykes, Dion Fortune’s Bayswater Temple, Nina Hamnett’s last address, Tommy Handley, Leonard Plugge/Performance, Dion Fortune’s Temple of Isis, Great Train Robbers’ Star pub, Belgravia Fatberg, William Wilberforce, Harold MacMillan, Jane Austen, Austin Osman Spare’s WWI war art studio, Frank Dobson, Agatha Christie, Mervyn Peak, Syd Barrett & Iggy The Eskimo, Hattie Jacques

MUSEUMS

Imperial War Museum, London

International Bomber Command, Lincoln

Reading Museum

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ART

National Portrait Gallery, London

Bridget Riley, Hayward Gallery ★★★★

Laura Knight- Spring In St John’s Wood (1933), various pre-Raphaelites – Walker Gallery, Liverpool ★★★★

Edward Burne-Jones – The Hours (1882), Richard Long – Delabole Sprial (1981) – The Graves Gallery, Sheffield

Monica Petzel – Dissent and Displacement, Leicester Art Gallery

Elizabeth Frink – Wild Boar (1967)/Nick Sharrock – Peterborough Art Gallery

Duncan Grant – Farm Buildings (1951), Kiffyn Williams – Pony on LLanddwyn Island, Charles Keeping lithograph – Buxton Art Gallery

Ithell Colquhoun – Judgement of Paris, (1828), Eileen Agar – Landscape of a Dream (1984) – Brighton & Hove Gallery

Ithell Colquhoun, Tessa Farmer, Austin Osman Spare – Viktor Wynd’s Museum, London

Young Rembrandt/pre-Raphaelites – Ashmoleon Oxford ★★★★

Laura Knight – The Cornish Coast, various impressionists etc Cardiff National Museum Of Wales

Emmy Bridgwater – Night Work Is About To Commence, Laura Knight – Sennen Cove, Edward Burne-Jones, Pre-Raphaelites, Staffordshire Horde – Birmingham Art Gallery

20/2/20 THEATRE/PUB SHUTDOWN

SCHOOLS OPEN

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Hackney Sharks – Jamie Shorten ★★★★

Elizabeth Frink’s Blind Beggar & Child, Tower Hamlets ★★★★

Mary Wollstonecraft – Maggi Hambling, Stoke Newington

Emily Young – Onyx, Euston

SECOND LOCKDOWN OVER

LONDON TIER 3

Virgin & Child – Jacob Epstein, Cavendish Sq ★★★★

Winged Figure – Barbara Hepworth Holles St ★★★★★

Visitor – David Breuer-Weil Cavendish Sq ★★★★

ARTWORKS I DIDN’T SEE THIS YEAR AS THEY HAD BEEN WITHDRAWN FROM DISPLAY IN THE GALLERIES I VISITED SPECIFICALLY TO TRY AND SEE THEM

1. Laura Knight – Scene In A Dressing Room (1939) – Graves Gallery Sheffield
2. Laura Knight – Three Clowns (1930), Benjamin Marshall – Daniel Lambert (1806) – Walker Art Gallery, Leicester
3. Patrick Heron – Abstract (1955), Elizabeth Frink – Bird (1962), Patrick Heron – Vertical Bands (1957), Roger Fry – Viaduct (1924), Alan Davie – His Last Solo Was In Red (1957) – Peterborough Art Gallery
4. Ithell Colquhoun – Interior (1939), Duncan Grant – The Sofa(1944), Landscape Near Firle (1947), Gluck – The Devil’s Altar (1933), Laura Knight – The Ballet Shoe (1932), William Blake – Adoration of The Kings (1799), Rosetti – Beata Beatrix (1828), Axel Petterson – A Burial (1911) – Brighton & Hove
5. John Bratby – Girl With Coiled Hair (1967), Duncan Grant – Nude (1925) Iris Tree (1915), Michael Ayrton – Dry Landscape (1965) – Reading Museum

FOOD

Street kebab vans, Oxford

Haddock Bap, The Fish Grill, Mevagissey ★★★★★

ON THE PEDESTAL

Samira Ahmed

Greta Thunberg

Mary Beard

NHS Workers

Beth Rigby

Kay Burley

Yvette Cooper

CNN Reporters Minneapolis riots

Dwayne Johnson

Bob Dylan

John Boyega

Ronnie O’Sullivan

Robert Lloyd and his Nightingales

Nesrine Malik

Marcus Rashford

SCHOOLS OPEN

Magwa, the Cambodian landmine detection rat

Richard Dawson

Andy Burnham

Joe Biden

Kamala Harris

2^nd LONDON LOCKDOWN

Dalia Gebrial

Blue whales

Shane MacGowan

IN THE PEDAL BIN

Donald Trump

Dominic Cumming

Mary Wakefield

Grant Shapps

Dominic Raab

Boris Johnson

Matt Handcock

Michael Gove

Richard Branson

Krist Novoselik

Vandals of Doll Tor stone circle

Boris Johnson

Toby Young

Gavin Williamson

Ian Brown

Van Morrison

Stanley Johnson

Priti Patel

Ben Bradley

SCHOOLS OPEN

Charles Moore

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HS2 woodcutters

Lord Kilcooney

Baroness Michelle Mone

Lawrence Fox

SECOND LOCKDOWN OVER

Russell Howard and Matthew McConaughey and Jordan Peterson

Tobias Ellwood

Jacob Rees-Mogg

Beth Rigby

Kay Burley

THE GLORIOUS DEAD

Roy Loney (Flamin’ Groovie) (1946)

Alasdair Gray (author/artist) (1934)

Neil Innes (Bonzo) (1944)

Ivan Kral (Patti Smith bassist) (1948)

Terry Jones (Python) (1942)

Andy Gill (Gang of Four) (1956)

Andrew Brough (Straitjacket Fits) (1963)

McCoy Tyner (jazz pianist) (1938)

David Roback (Rain Parade) (1958)

Albert Uderzo (Asterix) (1953)

Peter Stapleton (Terminals) (1954)

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NHS Workers

Adam Schlesinger (Fountain of Wayne) (1967)

John Prine (outlaw country singer) (1946)

Henry Grimes (jazz bassist) (1935)

Hal Wilner (arranger) (1957)

Tim Brooke-Taylor (Goodie) (1940)

Lee Konitz (jazz saxophonist) (1927)

Matthew Seligman (Soft Boy) (1955)

Millie Small (ska singer) (1946)

Florian Schneider (Kraftwerk robot) (1947)

Bill Rieflin (drummer for hire) (1960)

Hugh McKenna (Tear Gas pianist) (1949)

Steve Weber (Holy Modal Rounder) (1942)

Astrid Kirchherr (photographer) (1938)

Danny Ray Thompson (Sun Ra saxophonist) (1947)

Aubrey Burl (archaeologist) (1926)

Phil May (Pretty Thing) (1944)

The Clacton Fin Whale (circa 2000)

Christo Vladimirov Javacheff (artist) (1930)

Doll Tor stone circle (3300 BC)

Kay Carroll (The Fall) (1948)

Bob the Cat (73 bus) (2006)

Alex Taylor (Shop Assistant – 2005 – no-one knew)

Simon H Fell (jazz bassist) (1959)

Carl Reiner (director) (1922)

Ennio Morricone (architect of sonic dreams) (1928)

Keith Tippett (jazz pianist) (1947)

Jimmy Cobb (jazz drummer) (1929)

Barbara Smoker (Humanist) (1923)

The Nuffield Theatre, Southampton

Tony Elliot (Time Out) (1942)

Judy Dyble (folk singer) (1949)

Peter Green (bluesman) (1946)

Emitt Rhodes (power pop auteur) (1950)

Annie Ross (jazz bohemian) (1930)

Gina Ryan (stand-up poet of old) (1966)

SCHOOLS OPEN

Joe Ruby (Scooby-Doo) (1933)

Craig Weatherhill (folklorist) (1950)

Don Weller (jazz saxophonist) (1940)

Simeon Coxe (Silver Apple) (1938)

Diana Rigg (Avenger) (1938)

Toots Hibbert (reggae soul man) (1942)

Dele Fadele (carry bag man) (1962)

George Jeffrie (man’s-laughter maker) (1964

Dave Kusworth (Brum punk Stone) (1960)

Gary Peacock (jazz bassist) (1935)

Doorkins (Southwark Cathedral Cat) (2005?)

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Spencer Davis (Brumbeat pioneer) (1939)

The Cubbington Pear Tree (1770)

Fungie The Dingle Dolphin (1979)

Jill Paton Walsh (novelist) (1937)

Val Warner (poet) (1946)

SECOND LOCKDOWN OVER

David Johnson (Duke of Soho) (1960)