“The earth is degenerating today. Bribery and corruption abound. Children no longer obey their parents, every man wants to write a book, and it is evident that the end of the world is fast approaching.” – Assyrian tablet, c. 2800 BC

T-SHIRT FRENZY

STEWART LEE 100% PEAR T-SHIRTS. Thrill your friends, and your own body, in 2023! Relive the glory days of 2008/9 by wearing a t-shirt with a line from Stew’s If You Prefer A Milder Comedian tour, from back when he was still good, rather than simply complacent and reliable. 100% pear! 100% PEAR CIDER Tee Shirts.
Two versions in Navy Blue or Purple on Anthem Organic Tee Shirts.
A UK based ethical Tee Shirt Manufacturer. £20.00 each plus shipping. https://wax-face.com/stewart-lee

TV SNOWFLAKE TORNADO

Snowflake and Tornado are both on the BBC iplayer now.

Snowflake is here. & Tornado is here.

BASIC LEE

The new stand-up show, BASIC LEE hits the road and the Royal Festival Hall.

January 2023

Saturday 21st January 2023 – Festival Theatre, Chichester – TICKETS
Monday 23rd January 2023 – Royal & Derngate, Northampton – TICKETS
Tuesday 24th January 2023 – St. David’s Hall, Cardiff – TICKETS
Wednesday 25th January 2023 – St. David’s Hall, Cardiff – TICKETS
Thursday 26th January 2023 – Symphony Hall, Birmingham – TICKETS
Friday 27th January 2023 – Symphony Hall, Birmingham – TICKETS
Monday 30th January 2023 – Playhouse, Oxford – TICKETS
Tuesday 31st January 2023 – Playhouse, Oxford – TICKETS

February 2023

Wednesday 1st February 2023 – Playhouse, Oxford – TICKETS
Thursday 2nd February 2023 – Playhouse, Oxford – TICKETS
Friday 3rd February 2023 – Playhouse, Oxford – TICKETS
Saturday 4th February 2023 – Playhouse, Oxford – TICKETS
Monday 6th February 2023 – Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham – TICKETS
Tuesday 7th February 2023 – Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham – TICKETS
Wednesday 8th February 2023 – Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham – TICKETS
Thursday 9th February 2023 – DeMontfort Hall, Leicester – TICKETS
Friday 10th February 2023 – DeMontfort Hall, Leicester – TICKETS
Saturday 11th February 2023 – Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool – TICKETS
Sunday 12th February 2023 – Grand Theatre, Wolverhampton – TICKETS
Wednesday 22nd February 2023 – Belgrade Theatre, Coventry – TICKETS
Thursday 23rd February 2023 – Belgrade Theatre, Coventry – TICKETS
Friday 24th February 2023 – Wycombe Swan, High Wycombe – TICKETS
Saturday 25th February 2023 – Palace Theatre, Southend On Sea – TICKETS
Sunday 26th February 2023 – Palace Theatre, Southend On Sea – TICKETS
Tuesday 28th February 2023 – Grand Theatre, Swansea – TICKETS

March 2023

Wednesday 1st March 2023 – Northcott Theatre, Exeter – TICKETS
Thursday 2nd March 2023 – Northcott Theatre, Exeter – TICKETS
Friday 3rd March 2023 – Theatre Royal, Plymouth – TICKETS
Saturday 4th March 2023 – Theatre Royal, Plymouth – TICKETS
Monday 6th March 2023 – Rose Theatre, Kingston – TICKETS
Tuesday 7th March 2023 – Rose Theatre, Kingston – TICKETS
Wednesday 8th March 2023 – Milton Keynes Theatre, Milton Keynes – TICKETS
Thursday 9th March 2023 – Milton Keynes Theatre, Milton Keynes – TICKETS
Friday 10th March 2023 – Opera House, Buxton – TICKETS
Saturday 11th March 2023 – Opera House, Buxton – TICKETS
Monday 13th March 2023 – Eden Court, Inverness – TICKETS
Tuesday 14th March 2023 – Tivoli Theatre, Aberdeen – TICKETS
Wednesday 15th March 2023 – Tivoli Theatre, Aberdeen – TICKETS
Thursday 16th March 2023 – King’s Theatre, Glasgow – TICKETS
Friday 17th March 2023 – King’s Theatre, Glasgow – TICKETS
Monday 20th March 2023 – Theatre Royal, York – TICKETS
Tuesday 21st March 2023 – Theatre Royal, York – TICKETS
Wednesday 22nd March 2023 – Theatre Royal, York – TICKETS
Monday 27th March 2023 – The Lowry, Salford Quays – TICKETS
Tuesday 28th March 2023 – The Lowry, Salford Quays – TICKETS
Wednesday 29th March 2023 – The Lowry, Salford Quays – TICKETS
Thursday 30th March 2023 – The Lowry, Salford Quays – TICKETS
Friday 31st March 2023 – The Lowry, Salford Quays – TICKETS

April 2023

Saturday 1st April 2023 – The Lowry, Salford Quays – TICKETS
Monday 3rd April 2023 – Hippodrome, Bristol – TICKETS
Thursday 13th April 2023 – Theatre Royal, Newcastle Upon Tyne – TICKETS
Friday 14th April 2023 – Theatre Royal, Newcastle Upon Tyne – TICKETS
Saturday 15th April 2023 – Theatre Royal, Newcastle Upon Tyne – TICKETS
Tuesday 18th April 2023 – Forum Theatre, Malvern – TICKETS
Wednesday 19th April 2023 – Forum Theatre, Malvern – TICKETS
Thursday 20th April 2023 – Westlands, Yeovil – TICKETS
Wednesday 26th April 2023 – Brighton Dome, Brighton – TICKETS
Thursday 27th April 2023 – Brighton Dome, Brighton – TICKETS
Friday 28th April 2023 – Brighton Dome, Brighton – TICKETS
Saturday 29th April 2023 – Brighton Dome, Brighton – TICKETS
Sunday 30th April 2023 – Brighton Dome, Brighton – TICKETS

May 2023

Tuesday 2nd May 2023 – Mercury Theatre, Colchester – TICKETS
Wednesday 3rd May 2023 – Mercury Theatre, Colchester – TICKETS
Thursday 4th May 2023 – Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford – TICKETS
Friday 5th May 2023 – Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford – TICKETS
Saturday 6th May 2023 – Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford – TICKETS
Friday 26th May 2023 – Playhouse, Nottingham – TICKETS
Saturday 27th May 2023 – Playhouse, Nottingham – TICKETS
Saturday 27th May 2023 – Playhouse, Nottingham – TICKETS
Sunday 28th May 2023 – Playhouse, Nottingham – TICKETS

June 2023

Wednesday 28th June 2023 – Royal Festival Hall, Southbank, London – TICKETS
Thursday 29th June 2023 – Royal Festival Hall, Southbank, London – TICKETS
Friday 30th June 2023 – Royal Festival Hall, Southbank, London – TICKETS

July 2023

Saturday 1st July 2023 – Royal Festival Hall, Southbank, London – TICKETS
Sunday 2nd July 2023 – Royal Festival Hall, Southbank, London – TICKETS
Sunday 2nd July 2023 – Royal Festival Hall, Southbank, London – TICKETS

BENEFIT SHOWS

SUNDAY 28^TH JAN Stand Up For Ukraine, Leicester Sq Theatre, London
Line up includes; Stewart Lee, Seann Walsh, Amy Gledhill & Flat and the Curves. More acts to be announced! All proceeds go to the Red Cross. £27.50, 7pm.

https://www.leicestersquaretheatre.com/stand-up-for-ukraine/

SUNDAY FEB 19^TH Resofit, Bloomsbury Theatre, London. A benefit for arts radio station Resonance 104.4 FM “the best radio station in London” (The Guardian) with Matthew Highton, Rosie Holt, Stewart Lee, Ania Magliano, Shazia Mirza, Simon Munnery, and Bilal Zafar. MC: Daniel Kitson. 7pm £25/£20. – https://tickets.ucl.ac.uk/bloomsburytheatre/website/ChooseSeats.aspx?EventInstanceId=335314&resize=true

A PODCASTS I AM IN

I talk about Bob Dylan LISTEN HERE

6.I ARROGANTLY RECOMMEND SOME 2023 HAPPENINGS/THINGS

ALAN WILKINSON, STEVE NOBLE, JOHN EDWARDS TRIO Free jazz trio JAN 4^th London Café Oto

JOHN BUTCHER Artful saxophone improvisor JAN 6^th London Cafe Oto, 25^th London Iklektic, 28^th Brighton Prince Albert, 29^th London Café Oto

SARAH GAIL BRAND/MARK SANDERS/STEVE BERESFORD/JOHN EDWARDS Brilliant free jazz trombonist and friends JAN 9^TH London Café Oto

DISCHARGE Hardcore ‘77 survivors.
JAN 9^th London 100 Club,
APRIL 7^TH Newcastle Anarchy Brewery,
8^th Edinburgh Bannermans,
28^th Swansea Bunkhouse,
29^th Corby Clubhouse,
MAY 5^th London Desertfest,
DEC 23^rd B’ham Castle & Falcon

BIG JOANNIE – Distaff black British post-punks JAN 8^th Southampton Joiners, 10^th Oxford Bullingdon, 11^th London Garage

EX-EASTER ISLAND HEAD Liverpudlian No-Wave holy minimalists JAN 13^th Cambridge Unitarian Church, 14^th/15^th London Café Oto

JOHN RUSSELL TRIBUTE NIGHT The free jazz guitarist remembered JAN 18^TH London Café Oto

LUCINDA WILLIAMS Grande-dame of hard-bitten alt country JAN 21^st London Barbican, 22^nd M’cr Ritz, 25^th Dublin Vicar St

THE FALLEN LEAVES Gentleman mod-punks JAN 21^st London Escape, FEB 11^TH Brighton Prince Albert, 25^th Guildford Holyrood Arms, MAY 13^th Camden Dublin Castle, SEP 9^th Camden Dublin Castle.

HARRY HILL Big collared loon, and one of thee great live comics, makes a rare excursion beyond his badger-filled bathroom.
JANUARY 2023
23^rd
Liverpool Philharmonic,
24th –Guildford GLive,
25^th Bournemouth Pavilion,
27th – Cork Opera House,
28th Belfast Waterfront,
29th – Dublin Vicar Street

BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE The ‘90s American psychedelic band that sounds like an ‘80s British psychedelic band hit the road.
JAN 28^th Falmouth Princess Pavillion,
29^th Bristol SWX,
30^th-31^st Brighton Concorde 2
FEB 1^st Brighton Concorde 2,
2^nd Norwich Epic,
3^rd B’ham Academy 2,
4^th M’cr Ritz,
5^th Glasgow Barrowland,
6^th Edinbuirgh Bell Angelle,
7^th N’castle Riverside,
9^th Dublin Academy,
10^th Belfast Limelight,
11^th Liverpool Camp & Furnace,
12^th Nottingham Rock City,
14^th Leeds Stylus,
15^th London Forum

THE BEVIS FROND One off from Hendrix-fronts-Wipers combo JAN 31st London Lexington

ALAN DAVIE – PAINTING MUSIC FILM The artist and musician remembered FEB 2^ND London Café Oto

SOFT MACHINE Prog-jazz monument, heard through the doorway at Pizza Express last year on my way to a gig and sounding good. FEB 3^rd London New Cross Inn, 9^th Falmouth Princess Pavilion, 15^th M’cr Band On The Wall, 16^th Kinross Green Hotel, NOV 19^TH Exeter Phoenix

ELIZA CARTY/MARTIN CARTHY Wellsprings of English folk music FEB 4^TH London Barbican, APRIL 28^th Sevenoaks Otford Village Hall

CELYA AB I saw this stand-up in Edinburgh and she was really good, a deceptively strange world-view wrapped in a disarmingly reasonable persona. FEB 8^TH-11^TH London Soho Theatre

PETER BROTZMANN German free jazz sax pioneer FEB 10^TH/11^TH London Café Oto

SIMON MUNNERY The Peter Cook of our generation of comics, but better.
FEB 11^th LEICESTER, Firebug,
23^rd LONDON, Leicester Square Theatre,
25^th – LIVERPOOL, Royal Court Theatre,
26 – SALFORD, The Lowry,
28 – EDINBURGH, Monkey Barrel,
MARCH 1 – GLASGOW, The StanD,
2 – NEWCASTLE, The Stand,
11 – CAMBRIDGE, Junction,
16 – BRIGHTON, The Old Market,
23 – BRISTOL, Hen & Chicken,
11 – NORWICH, Arts Centre,
13 – BATH, Rondo Theatre,
18 – LEEDS, The Old Wollen,
JUNE 9 – ALDERSHOT, West End Centre

https://www.simonmunnery.com/tour-dates

DRY CLEANING Sing-speak post-punks tour difficult second album FEB 14^th Dublin Vicar St, 15^th Belfast Mandela Hall, 17^th Glasgow Barrowlands, 18^th Leeds Uni, 20^th Liverpool Invisible Wind, 21^st Nottingham Rock City, 22^nd Sheffield Academy, 24^th M’cr Albert Hall, 25^th B’ham Academy, 26^th Bristol Academy, 28^th Cardiff Tramshed, MARCH 1^st Brighton Chalk, 3^rd London Academy

LEN PRICE 3 Punk-mod beatniks FEB 18^th London Lexington

ROBYN HITCHCOCK Psychedelic troubadour FEB 25^th London Alexandra Palace, 28^th Liverpool Philharmonic.

THE BLACK ANGELS Austin’s avatars of acid rock FEB 25^th Bristol SXW, 26^th Liverpool Invisible Wind, MARCH 1^ST Glasgow QMU, 2^nd M’cr New Century, 3^rd London Shepherd’s Bush Empire

ALFIE BROWN is woke-as-fuck whilst at the same time interrogating the thinking behind his values. Sensitive Man. A brilliant stand-up FEB 27^TH – MARCH 4^TH LONODN Soho Theatre

ROSIE HOLT Satire’s Rosie Holt will be satirising the shit out of shit at the following places in 2023;
MARCH 2^nd Maidenhead Norden Farm,
3^rd Salisbury Arts Centre,
9^th Cambridge Corn Exchange,
16^th Sheffield Leadmill,
17^th B’ham Old Rep,
22^nd London Leicester Sq Theatre,
24^th Southend On Sea Palace,
25^th Swindon Wyvern
APRIL 29^th Ipswich Corn Exchange,
30^th Leeds City Varieties,
MAY 4^th & 5^th Bristol Hen & Chicken,
May 7^th Salford Lowry,
JULY 1^st Oxford Festival Marquee

BRIDGET CHRISTIE A cluster of delayed covid-era reschedules of the acclaimed Who Am I? show from the soon-to-be-televised comedian and writer
MARCH 4^th Leeds City Varieties,
5^th Basingstoke Haymarket,
12^th Wavendon Stables,
17^th and 18th Cambridge Junction.

DREAM SYNDICATE/RAIN PARADE Unmissable double header of Paisley Underground Survivors – Dream Syndicate are currently magnificent!
MARCH 7^th Bristol Fleece, 8^th L’pool District, 9^th Leeds Brudenell, 10^th/11^th Glasgow Hug & Pint, 12^th N’castle Cluny, 14^th M’cr Band On The Wall, 15^th London Lexington, 16^th London Colours

MARK EITZEL American Music Club songwriter returns MARCH 10^th London St Pancras Old Church.

ONEIDA Krautrockin’ Brooklyn hipsters MARCH 11^th Bristol Crofters, 12^th London Studio 9294

ROBERT FORSTER The silver fox of Australian indie rock MARCH 11^th Strathaven Frets, 12^th Edinburgh Mash, 14^th York Crescent, 16^th W’hampton Newhampton Arts, 17^th Oxford Bullingdon, 20^th London Lafayette, 21^st Brighton Komedia, 23^rd Belfast Empire, 24^th Dublin Button Factory

ROB AUTON Gifted poet/stand-up MARCH 13^TH – 18^th London Soho Theatre

KIM NOBLE – LULLABY FOR SCAVENGERS Rend your heart and mind once again with more of Noble’s art-comedy genius
MARCH 15^TH – APRIL 8^TH London Soho Theatre

ORBITAL Rave era visionary architects of sound
MARCH 16^th Limerick Big Top, 18^th Belfast Mandela, 28^th Glasgow Galvanisers, 29^th Newcastle NX, 30^th M’cr Albert Hall, 31^st Bristol Academy, APRIL 1^st London Brixton Academy, 5^th Leeds Academy, 6^th Cambridge Corn Exchange, 7^th Nottingham Rock City, 8^th Brighton Centre.

TONY BUCK AT 60 Drummer’s birthday celebration with guests MARCH 21-23 London Café Oto

THE WAVE PICTURES Indie classicists
MARCH 22^nd Edinburgh Voodoo Rooms, 23^rd Sheffield Yellow Arch, 24^th Preston Ferret, 25^th Southampton Joiner, 26^th Lewes Con Club, 30^th Cardiff Clwb Ifor Bach, APR 1^st Stowmarket John Peel Centre.

THE POPGUNS 80s indie-popsters return MARCH 31^ST London 229

THE DAMNED/THE NIGHTINGALES 2 punk era legends of wildly differing levels of fame in one double bill.
MARCH 31^ST Cardiff Great Hall, APRIL 1^st Southend Cliffs, 4^th Nottingham Rock City, 5^th Liverpool Academy, 7^th Newcastle NX, 8^th Glasgow Academy, 10^th Leeds Academy, 11^th M’cr Albert Hall, 13^th B’ham Town Hall, 15^th Norwich Nick Rayns, 17^th Brighton Dome, 18^th S’hampton Guildhall, 20^th/21^st London Alexandra Palace,

ALASDAIR ROBERTS Songwriter re-wiring Scottish folk tradition
MARCH 28^th London Sutton House, APRIL 1^st Cambridge Blue Moon, 6^th W’chester Hyde Tavern, 7^th Oxford Florence Park Community Centre, JUNE 23^RD London West Hampstead Arts, 24^th London Barbican

ALASDAIR BECKETT-KING – The Interdimensional Alasdair Beckett-King.
I saw this sharp absurdist show in Edinburgh and it is brilliant.
APRIL 8^th Bath Rondo,
13^th Oxford Glee,
14^th Birmingham Glee,
20^th Aldershot West End,
21^st New Milton Forest Arts,
22^nd Brighton Komedia,
27^th Norwich Arts Centre,
28^th Bristol Comedy Box @ Hen & Chicken,
29^th Tiverton Community Arts Cent
MAY 5^th Maidstone Hazlitt,
6^th Cambridge Junction,
11^th Fareham Ashcroft,
12^th Winchester Arc,
13^th Swindon Arts,
16^th Newcastle Stand,
17^th Edinburgh Stand,
18^th Glasgow Stand,
19^th Belfast Limelight,
20^th Derry/Londonderry Nerve,
27^th M’cr Home,
28^th Leeds Wardrobe
JUNE 27^th London Leicester Sq Theatre

YO LA TENGO Gods of American indie APRIL 10^TH Dublin 3Olympia, 12^th M’cr New Century, 13^th Bristol SWX, 14^th London Palladium,

SHONEN KNIFE Distaff Japanese Ramones
APRIL 12^TH Guildford Boileroom, 13^th Reading Sub69, 14^th Cambridge Portland Arms, 15^th London Garage, 16^th Lewes Con Club, 18^th Nottingham Rescue Rooms, 20^th Edinburgh Summerhall, 21^st Newcastle Cluny, 22^nd Carlisle Brickyard, 23^rd Hull Adelphi, 25^th Leeds Brudenell, 26^th Cardiff Moon, 27^th B’ham Hare & Hounds, 28^th M’cr Night & Day, 29^th Bristol Exchange, 30^th Bedford Esquires

JAYHAWKS Alt country originators APRIL 14^th London Shepherd’s Bush Empire

GOAT Psychedelic Scandinavian shamans APRIL 15^TH Bristol SWX, 16^th B’ham Digneth Mill, 17^th Leeds Brudenell, 18^th Glasgow Garage, 19^th N’castle Boiler Shop, 20^th M’cr Gorilla, 21^st Brighton Chalk, 22^nd London Electric Ballroom

TONY! Tony Blair rock opera by Harry Hill and Steve Brown.
APRIL 15^TH – MAY 21^ST London Leicester Sq Theatre

IMPRESSIONS OF JOHN COLTRANE w Alan Skidmore, Dominic Lash
APRIL 21^ST London Café Oto

RICHARD DAWSON Genius art-folk-noise songwriter
APRIL 25^th M’cr New Century, 26^th Glasgow St Luke’s, 27^th L’pool Tung, 28^th Leeds City Varieties, MAY 3^rd Cardiff Gate, 5^th London Barbican

BLUE AEROPLANES Bristol beat poets APRIL 28^TH London Electric Ballroom

SWELL MAPS C21 Surviving Swell Maps augmented w celebrity guests APRIL 29^TH London Café Oto

OTOBOKE BEAVER Japanese noise-girls
MAY 2^nd London Electric Ballroom,
4^th M’cr Club Academy,
5^th Glasgow St Luke’s,
7^th Belfast Empire,
8^th Dublin Button Factory,
10^th Bristol Fleece

LAUREN CONNORS & ALAN LICHT – Lucid guitar duo MAY 5^TH/6^TH London Café Oto

LONG RYDERS Alt country pioneers return, again
MAY 19^th Leamington Assembly,
20^th London 229,
21^st Leeds Brudenell,
22^nd Glasgow Oran Moor,
23^rd L’pool Cavern,
25^th Brighton Patterns

GAVIN BRYARS never failed us yet MAY 15^TH/16^th London Café Oto

LOOP Heavy psyche survivors
MAY 20^th Dublin Wheelans, 21^st M’cr Deaf Institute, 22^nd Glasgow Room 2, 23^rd Leeds Brudenell, 25^th London Garage, 27^th Norwich UEA

AMON DUUL II ‘70s originators of commune krautrock. Can they really still rock?
MAY 29^th London Jazz Café, 30^th M’cr Blues Kitchen

CHUCK PROPHET Chisel-cheeked Alt Country guitar-slinger
MAY 31^st London Garage
JUNE 2^nd Nottingham Metronome,
4^th Oxford Bullingdon,
6^th Leeds Brudenell,
7^th Glasgow St Luke’s,
10^th N’castle Cluny,
12^th B’ham Hare & Hounds,
13^th Bristol Fleece,
14^th Southampton 1865

LAURA CANNELL Hypnotic fenland dronemadchen JUNE 17^th London King’s Place

THE CHAMELEONS Most convincing line-up for years of the always emotionally edifying Big Music should-have-beens.
JUNE 20^th Leeds Old Woollen,
21^st L’pool Hangar 34,
22^nd N’castle Riverside,
23^rd Edinburgh Liquid Room,
24^th Glasgow Garage,
26^th Aberdeen Lemon Tree,
28^th Norwich Epic,
29^th Cambridge Junction,
30^th Leamington Assembly,
JULY 1^ST London Islington Assembly,
3^rd Bristol Fleece,
4^th Brighton Chalk,
7^th Castleton Devil’s Arse,
8^th Holmfirth Picturedrome

MUSIC FROM SUMMERISLE Various artists play the Wicker Man s/track, including Magnet (!), and Alasdair Roberts JUNE 24^th London Barbican

BMX BANDITS Also-beens of classic Scottish indie JUNE 30^TH Edinburgh Voodoo Rooms

ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN Another tilt at the infinite horizon from the cosmic scallies SEPT 12^TH Nottingham Royal Concert Halls, 14^th Edinburgh Usher Halls, 16^th L’pool Bank Arena, 18^th London Royal Albert Hall

7. IN OUR LAMENTATIONS 2022

Sydney Poitier – woke actor (1927)
Magwa – woke Cambodian landmine hunting rat (2013)
Burke Shelley – bass Budgie (1950)
Ronnie Spector – woke Ronette (1943)
Rachel Nagy – Detroit Cobra (1975)
Robin Le Mesurier – Womble (1954)
Andy Ross – Disco Zombie/nice man of Britpop (1956)
Barry Cryer – King Of Comedy (1935)
Norma Waterson – Mighty Folk Matriarch (1939)
John Nolan – man Behind The Magnolia Curtain (1966)
Betty Davis – She Might Get Picked Up! (1944)
Ivan Reitman – He was not afraid of no ghost! (1946)
Mark Lanegan – Screaming Tree rehabilitee (1964)
Bruce Anderson – MX-80 man (1950)
Anna Karen – ‘70s public transport icon (1936)
Sam Lay – Howlin’ Wolf/Paul Butterfield/Dylan drums (1935)
Mikey Chung – Reggae session regular (1950)
Fred Van Hove – Belgian free-jazz stringbender (1937)
Ian McDonald – Crimson saxophonist King (1949)
Gary Brooker – Synesthesiac Hackney musician (1945)
Nicky Tesco – Suburban soundman/comedy fan (1956)
Dallas Good – Sadies guitar slinger (1974)
Philip Jeck – Art Noiseman (1952)
Margaret Curtis – Callanish visionary (1942)
Jordan – punk fashionista (1955)
David McKee – Then the shopkeeper appeared (1935)
Chris Bailey – Lordly protopunk, wit, raconteur (1957)
Gilbert Gottfried – That ‘Too Soon’ guy (1955)
Audrey Henshall – Scottish Neolithic expert (1927)
Eric Chappell – Rising Damp (1933)
Klaus Schultze – Tangerine Joker (1947)
Neal Adams – Woke progressive comics creator (1941)
Judy Henske – Greenwich psych-folkstress (1936)
George Perez – Best Avengers artist ever (1954)
Don Craine – deerstalking Downliner (1945)
Richard Polodor – acid rock engineer (1936)
Gavin Martin – music rag wit (1962)
Fred Ward – Worm Warrior (1942)
Vangelis – Apocalypso-Maestro (1943)
Bob Neuwirth – Gelb/Dylan adjacent beatnik (1939)
Cathal Coughlan – Microdisney Man (1960)
Rick Price – Move bassist (1944)
Ric Parnell – Tap/Rooster drummer & gardener
Alan White – Ono drums (1949)
Ray Liotta – has let himself go (1954)
Ronnie Hawkins – Canadian rock wellspring (1935)
Harrison Birtwistle – When Things Fall Over (1934)
Grachan Moncur – Jazz trombonius (1937)
Ray Hill – anti-Nazi mole (1939)
Paula Rego – pastel radical (1935)
Julee Cruise – Peak voice (1956)
Bruce Kent – God’s peacenik (1929)
Jean-Louis Trintignant – mute spaghetti hero (1930)
James Caan – Rollerballbearing and Elf-father (1940)
Barbara Thompson – saxophonist whose time I wasted (1944)
Chris Broderick – singing loin
George Kinney – Golden Dawn (1946)
Alan Grant – Bat-Scot (1949)
Bernard Cribbins – Who Hole (1928)
David Warner – Your ominous Montreal compatriot (1941)
Nichelle Nicholls – interracial kisser (1932)
Raymond Briggs – hilarious genius of the tragi-comic (1934)
Drummie Zeb – Aswad Vox-pulse (1959)
Nicholas Monro – The great lost pop artist (1936)
Mark Astronaut – resilient Hitchin micro-punk (1954)
Vittorio De Scalzi – New Troll (1949)
Philip Drucker – Savage Republican (1959)
Van Christian – Naked Prey’s desert rock pioneer (1960)
Anton Fier – Feelie Palomino (1956)
Hilary Mantel – Wolf of the Hall (1952)
Pharoah Sanders – cosmic jazzman (1940)
Joe Bussard – ‘78 king (1936)
Sacheen Littlefeather – Native American Voice (1946)
Loretta Lynn – birth control balladeer (1932)
Bobby Sutliff – largely undigitized paisley windbreaker
Angela Lansbury – gaslit socialist Clanger cousin (1925)
Rustic Rod Goodway – Ethereal counterbalancer (1946)
Irene Papas – Aphrodite’s voice (1926)
DH Peligro – Dead Dead Kennedy (1959)
Patrick Haggerty (Lavender cowboy, 1944)
Justin Gosling (Principal philosopher-poet, 1930)
Mark Long (post-punk in Opposition, 1955)
Mimi Parker (Low’s modest heartbeat pulse, 1967)
Gal Costa (Brazilian beatnik, 1945)
Kevin O’Neill (precision imagineer gentleman, 1953)
Garry Roberts (Boomtown guitar, 1954)
Mike Bryson (Bogshed bass and savage penman)
Nik Turner (Hawk horn, 1940)
Keith Levene (PIL popster, 1957)
Wilko Johnson (Feelgood stargazing Anglo-Saxon scholar, 1947)
Christine McVie (Fleetwood Shack, 1943)
Ralph Levene (Hackney Beatnik, 1932)
Hamish Kilgour (Clean drummer, 1957)
Jet Black (Drum strangler, 1938)
Ruth Madoc (Morning Campers!, 1943)
Victor Lewis-Smith (Satire and ting!, 1957)
Angelo Badalamenti (Lynch pin, 1937)
Manuel Gottsching (Lord of the Tempel, 1952)
Tony Hill (Misunderstood High Tidesman, 194?)
Martin Duffy (Felt the keys for Felt, 1967)
Mike Hodges (Get Carter/Morons From Outer Space, 1932)
Terry Hall (Horace Wald, 1959)
John Bird (satirist, 1936)
Danny Kalb (Blues Projector, 1942)
Colin Irwin (Folk chronicler, 1951)
Brian Blessed (a cat that looked like Brian Blessed)

MY CULTURAL YEAR 2022 (from JAN 1^st 2022 – 29^th Dec 2022)

Here is a list of everything I experienced this year, and some things I planned to experience but was unable to, in order.
I only flagged up things I thought were utterly exceptionally good, or dispiritingly poor, as there simply isn’t space for microtonal clarification.

“I haven’t seen any of Stewart Lee’s nasty little lists… but this is dark stuff ….. a form of bullying, intimidation and shaming that Joseph McCarthy or The Stasi would recognize.”

NEW FILMS (2021/22)

The best new film I saw this year was Philip Barantin’s Boiling Point.

Free Guy (Shawn Levy) *
Red Notice (Rawson Marshall Thurber) *
Munich The Edge Of War (Christian Schwochow)
Boiling Point (Philip Barantin) *****
Doctor Strange In The Multiverse of Madness (Sam Raimi) *
Thor Love & Thunder (Taika Waititi) *
Blacklight (Travis Block) *
Memory (Alex Lewis)
Everything Everywhere All At Once (Kwan & Scheinert)*****
Candyman (Jordan Peele)
Bullet Train (David Leitch)
Glass Onion (Rian Johnson)

OLD FILMS

The Wicker Man (Robert Hardy, 1973) *****
The Amazing Spider-Man (Marc Webb, 2012)
Have A Good Funeral My Friend, Sartana Will Pay (Guiliano Carnimeo, 1970)
The Edge (Lee Tamahori, 1997) *****
Battle of Britain (Guy Hamilton, 1969)
The Big Gundown (Sergio Solima, 1967) *****
Little Joe (Jessica Hausner, 2019) *****
Wonder Boys (Curtis Hanson, 2000)*****
Villain (Michael Tuchner, 1971)
A Simple Plan (Sam Raimi, 1998)
Jean de Florette (Claude Berri, 1986) *****
Manon des Sources (Claude Berri, 1986) *****
Satanic Rites of Dracula (Alan Gibson, 1973)
The Tough Ones (Umberto Lenzi, 1976)
The Talented Mr Ripley (Anthony Minghella, 1999)
Iron Man 3 (Shane Black, 2013)
Enter The Dragon (Robert Clouse, 1973)
Free Hand For A Tough Cop (Umberto Lenzi, 1976) *
The Damned (Joseph Losey, 1963)
The Courier (Dominic Cooke, 2020)
Red Hill (Patrick Hughes, 2010)
Invasion Of The Bodysnatchers (Philip Kaufman, 1978)
Sweet Country (Warwick Thornton, 2017)
Ballad of Shirley Collins (Tim Plester/Rob Collins, 2017)
The Englishman Who Went Up A Hill … (Christopher Monger, 1995) *
The Kid (Vincent D’onofrio, 2019)
Brimstone (Martin Koolhoven, 2016) *
Westworld (Michael Crichton, 1973)
Alan Partridge – Alpha Papa (Declan Lowney, 2013)
Round Midnight (Bertrand Tavernier, 1986) *****
It’s Complicated (Nancy Meyers, 2009)
Death Wish (Michael Winner, 1974)
The Omen (Richard Donner, 1976)
Colette (Wash Westmoreland, 2018) *
Darkest Hour (Joe Wright, 2017) *
Rollerball (Norman Jewison, 1975) *****
Bande A Parte (Jean Luc-Goddard, 1964)*****
Simple Men (Hal Hartley, 1992)*****
Dirty Harry (Don Siegal, 1971) *****
Jeremiah Johnson (Sydney Pollack, 1972)
Magnum Force (Ted Post, 1873)
The Enforcer (James Fargo, 1978)
The Gauntlet (Clint Eastwood, 1977)
100 Rifles (Tom Gries, 1969)
Comes A Horseman (Alan J Paluka, 1978)
Bone Tomahawk (S Craig Zahler, 2015) *****
The Ballad of Tam Lin (Roddy McDowell, 1971) *****
Starter For Ten (Tom Vaughan, 2006)
Bury Them Deep (Paolo Moffa, 1968)*
The Appointment (Lindsey C Vickers, 1981)
Lair of The White Worm (Ken Russell, 1988)
The Holy Mountain (Alejandro Jodrowsky, 1973) *****
The Wicker Man (Robert Hardy, 1973) ***** (again)
The Stendhal Syndrome (Dario Argento, 1996)
The Men Who Stare At Goats (Grant Heslov, 2009)
Shaft (Gordon Parks, 1971)
Ondine (Neil Jordan, 2009)
The Wages of Fear (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1953) *****
And Frankenstein Created Woman (Terrence Fisher, 1967)
High Crime (Enzo G Castellari, 1973) This seemed like it was an above average philosophical Italian Crime movie and then the end just fell apart. So I asked the Internet. The new Studio Canal DVD inexplicably cuts a final ten minute scene that would have made explicit how Fernando Rey’s crime boss had been playing on cop Franco Nero’s weaknesses. Doesn’t someone check these things before they get mass-produced? It’s not like this film isn’t full of famous talent. No. They don’t. What an insult to the people involved. My dvd went in the bin. Pointless.
See No Evil, Hear No Evil (Arthur Hiller, 1989)
Green Room (Jeremy Saulnier, 2016)
The Blood On Satan’s Claw (Piers Haggard, 1971)
Once Upon A Time In The West (Sergio Leone, 1968) *****

NEW BOOKS

The best new book I read this year was Ashes To Admin by Evie King

Lucy Newlyn – The Craft Of Poetry *****
Tim Key & Emily Juniper – Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush
Cornish Horrors – ed Joan Passey
Ashes To Admin – Evie King *****
Jowe Head – Swell Maps 1972-1980
Simon Kuper – Chums
Steve Beresford & Christian Marclay – Call & Response
Alan Moore – Illuminations *****
Jarett Kobek – Motor Spirit *****
Jarret Kobek – How To Find Zodiac *****
Melt It – Anthony Irvine & Robert Wringham *****
Literary Hauntings – RB Russell, Rosalie Parker, Mark Valentine *****
Marlowe’s Revenge – Dan Stuart *****

OLD BOOKS

Thomas Hardy – Complete Poems (1898-1928)*****
Rosemary Tonks – Businessmen as Lovers (1970)*****
Rosemary Tonks – The Bloater (1968) *****

OLD COMICS

Baffling Mysteries
Thor Stan Lee/Jack Kirby c 1967
Fantastic Four Stan Lee/John Buscema 1970-72

NEW COMICS

Steve Aylett – Hyperthick *****

GREAT YOUTUBE CLIPS OF TAP DANCING

Roy Castle/Buddy Rich/Sammy Davis Jr – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqFSfTP3t8c
Derek Bailey & Wil Gaines – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASF4GIN1PtM
Will Gaines on Arthur Haynes show – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AegiTlU0jY

OLD TV

Battlestar Galactica Miniseries (2003)
Peaky Blinders S1 (BBC) (2013)
Peaky Blinders S2 (BBC) (2014)
Peaky Blinders S3 (BBC) (2015) That’s enough Peaky Blinders – ed.
Kung Fu S3 (1975) *****
Limmy’s Show S1 (2010)
Limmy’s Show S2 (2011) *****
Father Ted S1 (1995) *****
Kevin Turvey The Man Behind The Green Door (BBC) (1982)*****
Whistle & I’ll Come To You (BBC, Jonathan Miller, 1968) *****
Stigma (Lawrence Gordon-Clark, 1977)

NEW TV

The best new TV I saw this year was Hugo Blick’s The English
Toast of Tinseltown (BBC2, 2022)*****
Zen Motoring (BBC3) (Youtube version much better, sadly)
After Life S3 (Netflix) *
After Life S3 Bloopers reel (Netflix) *
Taskmaster (s13) *****
Ricky Gervais – Super Nature (Netflix) *
Pistol (Danny Boyle, Disney)
Sherwood (BBC)
Bill Burr Live At Red Rocks (Netflix) *
Ghosts S4 (BBC)*****
The Lovebox in Your Living Room (BBC) *****
Cabinet of Curiosities (Netflix)
The English (BBC) *****
Get Back (Disney) *****
Ghost Stories For Christmas – Count Magnus (BBC2)
Inside No 9 Xmas Special (BBC2) *****
Ghosts Xmas Special (BBC1) *****
Detectorists Xmas Special (BBC2) *****

MAGAZINES AND PAPERS

Shindig, Record Collector, Viz, Mojo, Guardian, Machenallia, Faunus, Observer, Guardian, London Review of Books, Weird Walk, Wire, Idler
&
Adrian Childs’ Guardian columns
Jay Rayner’s Observer restaurant reviews
Marina Hyde’s Guardian columns
Nesrine Malik’s Guardian columns
Jim Crace’s Guardian columns

RADIO NEW AND OLD

James O’Brien (LBC) *****
Gideon Coe (BBC 6Music) *****
Marc Riley (BBC 6Music)*****
Eddie Mair (LBC) *****
Tom Robinson (BBC 6Music) *****
Nick Ferrari (LBC) *
Shelagh Fogerty (LBC)*****
Ivor Kallin’s Ambrosia Rasputin(Resonance 104.4 FM) *****
Beckett’s Last Tapes (BBCR4, 2019) *****

INTERNETS, YOUTUBES AND PODCASTS

Rosie Holt’s Youtube characters *****
Ogmios School of Zen Motoring *****
Limmy’s review of After Life *****
The Exploding Heads
Matt Green on Twitter *****
Alasdair Beckett-King’s various things *****
VonViddy (TikTok)
Eleanor Morton – Jack The Ripper (but shot in portrait!?)
Paddy Young – Posh actor in Northern Film
Dan March – British Tourism films
Tom Little
Sam Boskovic – middle class parent
Michael Fry – Liam Payne’s Oscars interview but it’s Celtic folk
Raj Patel – sandal vs mom self-defence class. Timing!
Grunge Frasier
Simon Brodkin – UK Immigration control (NB Avalon client)
Sooz Kempner’s Nadine Dorries (Twitter)
Peter Stefanovic (truth telling seer)
Grievewatch (Twitter account)
Oliver’s Knits (Neil Oliver knitting advert)
Alistair Green (actor who can’t believe this is their life)
Paul Sinha’s Unilad bit
Sir Michael Take

THEATRE

The best theatre I saw this year, by some distance, was the Edinburgh Fringe show of David Keenan’s novel This Is Memorial Device
Hansel & Gretel (Humperdink) (Royal College of Music) *****
Lion (Assembly George St)
An Evening Without Kate Bush (Assembly Garden)
Afghanistan Is Not Funny (Gilded Balloon)
Police Cops (Assembly studio) *****
Medea – Liz Lochead (EIF Hub) *****
Famous Puppet Death Scenes (Roxy)
Eulogy (Summerhall) *
The Tragedy of Macbeth – Flabbergast Theate (Roxy)*****
The Road To Ballina (Gilded Balloon/Museum)
Church Of The Fall (Surgeon’s Hall)
Fata Morgana – Margherita Remotti (EICC) *****
Aberdeen – Cassie Workman (Tonic) *****
Eve – All About Her (Gilded Balloon)
This Is Memorial Device (Wee Red Bar) *****
Shannon Matthews The Musical (Just The Tonic)
Twelfth Night (Canonbury Tower)
Jack & The Beanstalk (Fisher Theatre, Bungay)
Mother Goose (Hackney Empire)

COMEDY

The best comedy I saw this year was Josie Long’s Edinburgh show.

Earl Okin’s 75^th Birthday (Holborn Pizza Express)
Harry Hill, Barry Humphries etc (Lyric, Barry Cryer night) *****
Jonny & The Baptists (Assembly Studio)
Fascinating Aida (Assembly George Sq) *****
Alastair Beckett-King (Pleasance) *****
Marvellus (Just The Tonic)
Paul Currie (Just The Tonic) *****
Tim Vine (Pleasance)
Eleanor Tiernan (Gilded Balloon)
Thom Tuck & Tim FitzHigham’s Macbeth (Underbelly) *****
Rosie Holt (Pleasance)
Jo Neary (Stand)
Omid Djalili (Freemason’s Hall)
Paul Currie again (Just The Tonic) *****
Eleanor Morton (Monkey Barrel)
Amy Gledhill (Monkey Barrel)
Mark Silcox (Monkey Barrel)
Kiri Pritchard-Maclean (Monkey Barrel)
Alfie Brown (Monkey Barrel)*****
Laura Davis (Monkey Barrel)
Dima Watermelon & Pavlo Voytovych (Counting House)
Moni Zhang (Three Sisters)
Lydia Hirst (Burrito ‘n’ Shake)
Paul Sinha (George St Theatre) *****
Janeane Garofalo (Gilded Balloon) *****
Seymour Mace (Stand)
War Of The Worlds On A Budget (Space)
Flat & The Curves (George St Theatre) *****
Spank – Bronwyn Sweeney & Flat & The Curves (Underbelly)
Abby Wamburgh & Bronwyn Sweeney (George St Theatre)
John Cooper Clarke/Fascinating Aida/Luke Wright/Ronnie Golden (Playhouse) *****
Celya AB (Pleasance)
Josie Long (George St Theatre) *****
Flat & The Curves (again) (George St Theatre) *****
Fatiha El-Ghorri, Fern Brady, Fin Taylor (Hackney Empire)
Garth Marenghi’s Terrortome (Leicester Sq Theatre)

GIGS

The best gig I saw this year – in a very good year for live music for me – was The Bevis Frond supported by David Callahan and Darren Garrat at The Lexington, in Angel, London.

Wet Leg/Idles (Brixton Academy)
Echo & The Bunnymen (Shepherd’s Bush Empire) *****
Van Der Graaf Generator (London Palladium)
Large Plants (Oslo, Hackney)
Motion Picture (White Lion Hotel, Weston)
The Girl With The Replaceable Head/Hurrah (Lexington)
The Smile (Roundhouse) *****
Robots of Abba (Abba Arena)
Stiff Little Fingers (Gloucester Guildhall) *****
Mr Wilson’s Second Liners (Bluedot)
Stealing Sheep / Radiophonic Workshop (Bluedot)
Osamu Sangre (Bluedot)*****
Bjork (Bluedot)
Treeboy & Arc, Natalie McCool, The Mysterines (Deer Shed)
Samantha Crain (Deer Shed) *****
Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard (Deer Shed)
The Bug Club (Deer Shed)
Bucketboy (Royal Mile)
Herbie Hancock (Edinburgh Playhouse)
Bucketboy (again) (Royal Mile)
Captain’s Bar Session 15/8 (Captain’s Bar, Edinburgh)
Charlie Wild Trio (B-Bar, Edinburgh)
Martin Hayes & The Common Ground Ensemble (Leith Theatre)
Orange Claw Hammer (Bannermans, Edinburgh)*****
Dean Owens & The Sinners (EICC)
Blueswater (Surgeon’s Hall, Edinbro)
Captain’s Bar Session 21/8 (Captain’s Bar, Edinburgh)
Blueswater (again) (Surgeon’s Hall, Edinbro)
Martin Kershaw/Colin Steele Quintet (Jazz Bar, Edinburgh) *****
Camile O’Sullivan/Fascinating Aida (George Sq)
The Heads/Mudhoney (Electric Ballroom)
Starry Eyed And Laughing (Betsey Trotwood) *****
Year 11 Musicians (St Mary’s Church, Islington)
Open Mic Night (Prince Of Wales Feathers, London)
Thurston Moore Group (Dingwalls) *****
Come (Café Oto)
Dream Syndicate (Lafayette) *****
David Lance Callahan & Darren Garrat(Garage) *****
Pavement (Roundhouse)
Neil Metcalfe & Olie Brice/Dirk Serries & Alan Wilkinson/Sothiac w Paul Jolly & Terry Day (Flim Flam)
Damned/Skids (Hammersmith Apollo) *****
Folk session 3/11 (Auld Shilelagh)
Jemma Freeman and The Cosmic Something (Lexington)
Sigur Ros (Brixton Academy)
The Nightingales/Tymon Dogg (Dome)*****
Hackney Songworks & Morris Folk Choir (Abney Park Cemetery)
Bevis Frond/David Callahan & Darren Garratt (Lexington)*****
Stereolab (Earth) *****
The Fallen Women (Lexington)*****
Lessons & Carols (St Michael’s Church, Beccles) *****

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

NEW RECORDS – 2021/2022

The best new record I heard this year was Maggie Nicols’ Are You Ready?

Howe Gelb & Colorist Orchestra ft Pieta Brown – Not On The Map
Neil Young – The Barn
Iva Bittova – For Joy
Kamura Obscura – 4AM Diary
Jetstream Pony – Misplaced Words
The Delines – The Sea Drift *****
Lucinda Williams – You Are Cordially Invited
Mdou Moctar – Afrique Victim
Gnod – La Mort Du Sens
Pan-American – The Patience Fader
V/A – Highway Butterfly, The Songs Of Neal Casal
FKA Twigs – Caprisongs
Trees Speak – Vertigo of Flaws
Guided By Voices – It’s Not Them, It Couldn’t Be Them etc
Laura Cannell – Antiphony of the Trees
Wet Leg – Wet Leg
Subway Sect – Moments Like These *****
Large Plants – The Carrier
Riding The Low – The Death of Gobshite Rambo
Glenn Jones – Vada Mecum
Tanya Tagaq – Tongues
John Smith – The Fray Variations
David Tattersall – On The Sunny Side Of The Ocean
The Smile – A Light For Attracting Attention *****
The Waterboys – All Souls’ Hill
Justin Hopper & Sharon Krauss – Swift Wings
The Order Of The 12 – Lore Of The Land
The Kunts – Prince Andrew is a Sweaty Nonce, many mixes
Wave Pictures – When The Purple Emperor Spreads His Wings *****
The Utopia Strong – International Treasure
Julie Tippets & Martin Archer – Illusion
Alison Cotton – The Portrait You Painted Of Me
Oliver Ray – Out Passed Nowhere
Drive-by Truckers – Welcome To Club XIII
Taj Mahal & Ry Cooder – Get On Board
The Dream Syndicate – Ultraviolet Battle Hymns
Guided By Voices – Tremblers and Goggles By Rank
The Silos – Family
William Loveday Intention – Paralyzed By The Mountains *****
Cowboy Junkies – Songs Of The Recollection
Alex G – God Save The Animals
Rob Snarski – Searching For The Heart Of It All *****
Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard – Backhand Deals
H Eldritch – Trouble Enough Will Find Us
Robert Pollard – Carry On Bag
Julian Cope – England Expectorates
Brim – California Gold
Robyn Hitchcock – Shufflemania
Oumou Sangare – Timbuktu
Swansea Sound – Live At The Rum Puncher
Fixed Horizon – Concreature
The Sadies – Colder Streams
John Doe – Fables In A Foreign Land
Tarotplane – Aeonium
Billy Nomates – Cacti
Sairie – The Cinder Sheet
Kikagaku Moyo – Kumoyo Island
Chris Forsyth – Evolution Here We Come
Oneida – Success
The Black Angels – Wilderness of Mirrors
Josiah – We Lay On Cold Stone
Dan Stuart – A Little Guitar And A Little More
Hawkwind – We Are Looking In On You
David Lance Callahan – English Primitive II *****
Vieux Farka Toure – Les Racines
The Nightingales – The Last Laugh *****
Grant-Lee Phillips – All That You Can Dream
Angeline Morrison – The Sorrow Songs
Gemma Freedman & The Cosmic Something – Miffed
Gina Birch – I Play My Bass Loud
Big Joanie – Back Home
Vieux Farka Toure et Khruangbin – Ali
Lisa O’Neill – All Of This Is Chance
Oxbow & Peter Brotzmann – An Eternal Reminder of Not Today *****
Alan Wilkinson, Alex Ward & Jem Douton – s/t
Stephen McCarthy & Carla Olson – Night Comes Falling *****
Eliza Carthy – Queen Of The Whirl
Henry Dagg & Evan Parker – Then Through Now
Maggie Nicols – Are You Ready *****
Guy Hamper Trio w James Taylor – All The Poisons In The Mud
Desperate Journalist – Live At JT Soar

NEW OLD RECORDS – reissues, archive & comp’s

The best new old record I heard this year was Miracle Legion live in 1989 on No Flags

Dream Syndicate – What Can I Say? (1986)
Mike Nesmith – Different Drum, Lost Recordings (1970-73)
Noah – Brain Suck (1967-72)
Bobbie Gentry – The Delta Sweete (1968) *****
Sammi Smith – Looks Like Stormy Weather (1969-75) *****
Mandy Morton & Spriguns – After The Storm (1974 – 1983)
Brix Smith & Marty Wilson Piper – Lost Angeles (1997)
Splinters – Inclusivity (1972) *****
Groundhogs – Live from Richmond to Pocono (1969-70)
The Betterdays – Hush Your Mouth (1964-1994)
V/A – Unseen Post-Punk Birmingham (1978-82)
Bis – Low Level (A Return To Central Companion) (2001)
V/A – Strum & Thrum : American Jangle Underground (1983-87)
Barney Wilen – Zodiac (1966)
Broadcast – Microtronics Volumes I & II (20030
Broadcast – Maida Vale Sessions (1995-2003)
Hawkwind – Dreamworkers of Time, The BBC Recordings (1985-1995)
Pentangle – Live In Oslo (1968)
Tir Na Nog – Live (1970-71)
Status Quo – Live In Europe (1970-71)
Felt – Crumbling The Antiseptic Beauty (1982) *****
Felt – The Splendour of Fear (1983) *****
Derek Bailey – Domestic Jungle (1994?) *****
Status Quo – Live In Europe (1970-71)
The Heads – Undersided (2002) *****
Various Artists – Ticket For Doomsday (1970-75)
Biff Bang Pow! – A Better Life (1984-1991)
McCoy Tyner/Freddie Hubbard Quartet – Live At Fabric (1986)
Miracle Legion – No Flags (1989) *****
Neil Young – Citizen Kane Jr Blues (1974)
Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Toast (2001)
V/A – Rough Guide To Memphis Blues (1927-35?)
Vinegar Joe – Finer Things box (1972-3)
Wire – Not About To Die demos (1977-8) *****
Oliver – Standing Stone (1974)*****
Man – On The Road Live On Air (1972-1983)
V/A – Before The Day Is Done, Folk Heritage Records (1968-1975)
Norma Tanega – In The Sky (1964-71)
Roland S Kirk – Live At Ronnie Scott’s (1963)
Bachdenkel – Rise And Fall (1973-82)
Tall Dwarves – Unravelled (1981-2002)
Stereolab – Pulse Of The Early Brain (1992-2008)*****
Neil Young & Promise Of The Real – Noise & Flowers (2019)
Jackie Leven – The Mystery of Love Is Greater Than … (1994)
Blossom Toes – We Are Ever So Clean (1967)
Blossom Toes – If Only For A Moment (1969)
Rustic Hinge – Tea On The Lawn For Three (1970)
Renaissance – s/t (1969)
Renaissance – Azure D’or (1978)
Hard Meat – The Space Between (1969-70)
Julie Driscoll – 1969 (1969) *****
Scenic – Incident At Cima (1995) *****
Shiva Burlesque – Mercury Blues (1990) *****
Masahiko Togashi – Song Of Soil (1979)
Bogshed – Bog-Set (1984-87)
Pentangle – Through The Ages : 1984-1995
Bert Jansch – At The BBC 1966-2004 *****
Jimi Hendrix Experience – LA Forum 1969 *****
Guided By Voices – Scalping The Guru (1993-4) *****
V/A – Mojo’s Heavy Nuggets v 6 (c1970/1)
V/A – Brown Acid 14 (1969-75)

OLD RECORDS

Bailterspace – The Aim (1992)
Kohsuke – Mine First (1970) *****
The Delines – Colfax (2014)
John Martyn – London Conversation (1967) *****
John Martyn – The Tumbler (1968)
John & Beverley Martyn – Stormbringer (1970)
John & Beverley Martyn – Road To Ruin (1970) *****
John Martyn – Bless The Weather (1971)
John Martyn – Solid Air (1973) *****
John Martyn – Inside Out (1973) *****
John Martyn – Live At Leeds (1975) *****
John Martyn – Sunday’s Child (1975)
The Delines – The Imperial (2019)
John Martyn – One World (1977)
John Martyn – Grace & Danger (1980)
John Martyn & Danny Thompson – Germany 1986 (1986)*****
The Passage – Pindrop (1980)
John Martyn & Danny Thompson – Kendal Brewery (1986)
The Beatles – The White Album (1968)*****
V/A – American Folk Blues Festival Paris (1962)
The Fall – 50,000 Fall Fans Can’t Be Wrong (1978-2004) *****
The Kinks – Ultimate Collection (1964-84) *****
Radiohead – Kid A (2000) *****
Radiohead – In Rainbows (2007) *****
Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool (2016) *****
Hamlet Gonashvili – Hamlet (1997)
Echo & The Bunnymen – Meteorites (2018)
Echo & The Bunnymen – The Fountain (2009)
Tohru Aizawa Quartet – Tachibana (1975)
The Rolling Stones – England’s Newest Hitmakers (1964)
The Rolling Stones – 12 x 5 (1964)
The Rolling Stones – No 2 (1965)
The Rolling Stones – Out Of Our Heads (1965)
Guided By Voices – Kit Kat Acoustic (1997) *****
v/a – West Coast Down Home Blues (1948-51)
The Rolling Stones – December’s Children (1965)
The Rolling Stones – Aftermath (1966)
The Rolling Stones – Between The Buttons (1967)
The Rolling Stones – Their Satanic Majesties (1967) *****
The Rolling Stones – Beggar’s Banquet (1968)
V/A – The Rolling Stones’ Rock ‘n’ Roll Circus (1968)
The Rolling Stones – Let It Bleed (1969) *****
The Rolling Stones – Sticky Fingers (1971) *****
The Rolling Stones – Get Your Ya Ya’s Out! (1970)
The Rolling Stones – Exile On Main Street (1972) *****
Starless – Earthbound (2020)
The Rolling Stones – Goat’s Head Soup (1973) **
The Rolling Stones – It’s Only Rock And Roll (1974) **
The Rolling Stones – Black & Blue (1976)
The Rolling Stones – Some Girls (1978)
The Rolling Stones – Emotional Rescue (1980)
The Rolling Stones – Tattoo You (1981)
The Rolling Stones – Undercover (1983)
The Rolling Stones – Dirty Work (1986)
The Rolling Stones – Steel Wheels (1989)
The Rolling Stones – Stripped (1995)
The Rolling Stones – Voodoo Lounge (1995)
Bis – Slight Disconnects (2018)
Miles Davis – Kind Of Blue (1959) *****
Pentangle – Pentangle (1968) *****
Pentangle – Sweet Child (1968)
Radiohead – Amnesiac (2001)
Radiohead – Hail To The Thief (2003)
Chris Bailey – Bone Box (2005)
The Saints – (I’m) Stranded (1977) *****
FKA Twiggs – Magdalene (2019)
The Replacements – Sorry Ma, Forgot To Take Out The Trash (1981)
The Replacements – All Shook Down (1990)
The Replacements – Tim (1985)
Paul Westerberg – Eventually (1996)
Gwenifer Raymond – Strange Lights Over Garth Mountain (2020)
V/A – Songs For Slim (2013)
The Rolling Stones – Bridges To Babylon (1997)
The Vampires of Dartmoore – Dracula’s Music Cabinet (1969)
The Rolling Stones – A Bigger Bang (2005)
St Maybe – Things As They Are (2012)
Blind Teddy Darby – Bootleggin’ Ain’t Good No More (1929-37)
The Rolling Stones – Blue & Lonesome (2016)
Keith Richards – Main Offender (1992)
Tractor Sex Fatality – Black Magic, White Pussy (2010)
Biffy Clyro – Opposites (2014)
The Go-Betweens – Very Quick On The Eye (1981)
The Go-Betweens – Send Me A Lullaby (1981) *****
The Go-Betweens – Before Hollywood (1983) *****
The Go-Betweens – Spring Hill Fair (1984)
Robert Forster – Danger In The Past (1990)
Grant McLennan – Watershed (1991)
Stiff Little Fingers – No Going Back (2014) *****
The Go-Betweens – Liberty Belle etc (1986)*****
The Go-Betweens – Tallulah (1987)
The Triffids – Treeless Plain (1984) *****
The Triffids – Raining Pleasure (1985) *****
The Triffids – Bright Lights Big City 12″ (1985) *****
Carla Bley – Sextet (1987)
Miranda Lambert – Wildcard (2019)
Steve Cropper, Pops Staples, Albert King – Jammed Together (1969)
Working Week – Working Nights (1985)
Dexter Gordon – Live At Carnegie Hall (1976) *****
The Triffids – Born Sandy Devotional (1986) *****
The Triffids – In The Pines (1986) *****
Sonny Criss – Portrait of Sonny Criss (1967) *****
The Triffids – Calenture (1987) *****
Thelonious Monk – Olympia March 6^th (1965) *****
Dexter Gordon & Slide Hampton – Day In Copenhagen (1969) *****
Lucinda Williams – Lucinda Williams (1988) *****
Lucinda Williams – Sweet Old World (1992)
Lucinda Williams – Car Wheels On A Gravel Road (1998) *****
Lucinda Williams – Essence (2001)
Lucinda Williams – World Without Tears (2003)
Lucinda Williams – Live @ Filmore (2005)
Lucinda Williams – West (2007)
Lucinda Williams – Little Honey (2008)
Lucinda Williams – Blessed (2011)
Lucinda Williams – Down Where The Spirit Meets The Bone (2015)
Lucinda Williams – The Ghosts of Highway 20 (2016)
Lucinda Williams – This Sweet Old World (2017) *****
Charles Lloyd & Lucinda Williams – Vanished Gardens (2018)
Abba – Best Of *****
Radiohead – OK Computer (1997) *****
Radiohead – Amnesiac b-sides comp (2001)
Radiohead – Amnesiac live comp (2001)
Hugh Mundell – Africa Must Be Free By 1983 (1978)
Augustus Pablo – Africa Dub (1978)
Felt – The Strange Idol’s Pattern (1984) *****
Denim – Back In Denim (1992) *****
Aimee Mann – Whatever (1993)
The Damned – Strawberries (1982)
The Status Quo – Picturesque Matchstickable Messages (1968)
The Status Quo – Spare Parts (1969)
Status Quo – Ma Kelley’s Greasy Spoon (1970)
Status Quo – Dog of Two Head (1971)
Status Quo – Piledriver (1972)
Status Quo – Hello (1973)
Status Quo – Quo (1974)
Status Quo – On The Level (1975)
Status Quo – Blue For You (1976) *
Mighty Baby – Mighty Baby (1969) *****
Big Star – No 1 Record (1972) *****
Big Star – Radio City (1974)*****
The Cars – The Cars (1978)
Herbie Hancock – Sextant (1973) *****
Stone The Crows – Ode To John Law (1970)
Starry Eyed & Laughing – Live At Rockpalast (1976)*****
Herbie Hancock – Fat Albert Rotunda (1969)
V/A – Mixed Up Minds 3 (1968-72)
Felt – Poem Of The River (1987)
Herbie Hancock – Headhunters (1973)
UFO – Phenomenon (1974)
UFO – Electric Ballroom Atlanta (1974)
UFO – Force It (1975)
UFO – UFO 1 (1970) ****
UFO – UFO 2 Flying Spacerock (1971) *****
UFO – Live (1971)
Herbie Hancock – Thrust (1974)
V/A – Blow Up Soundtrack (1966)
Sleaford Mods – Retweeted (2007-12)
The Cure – 17 Seconds (1980) *****
Cowboy Junkies – All That Reckoning (2018)
Dexter Gordon Quartet – Live In Chateauvallon (1978) *****
Herbie Hancock – Maiden Voyage (1965) *****
Jeff Buckley – Grace (1994) *****
My Bloody Valentine – Loveless (1991) *****
Car Seat Headrest – Twin Fantasy (2018)
Dexter Gordon Quartet – Live In Tokyo (1975)
John Coltrane – Seattle (1965)
John Coltrane & Tad Dameron – Mating Call (1957)
The Fall – Reformation Post TLC (2007)
The Beatles – Magical Mystery Tour (1967) *****
Prefab Sprout – From Langley Park To Memphis (1988)
Gary Numan – Telekon (1980)
Pretenders – Pretenders (1980) *****
Pretenders – Pretenders II (1981) *****
Simple Minds – New Gold Dream (1982)
Simple Minds – Sparkle In The Rain (1984) *****
Lloyd Cole & Commotions – Rattlesnakes (1984) *****
Lloyd Cole & Commotions – Easy Pieces (1985)*****
Nancy Harrow – Wild Women Don’t Have The Blues (1961)
Nancy Harrow – You Never Know (1963)
Carla Olson – Have Harmony Will Travel Vol 1 (2013)
Carla Olson – The Best Of 1981-2000
Silver Jews – The Natural Bridge (1997)
Bennet Wilson Poole – s/t (2018)
The Textones – Back In Time (1990)
The Damned – Damned Damned Damned (1977) *****
Mudhoney – Morning In America (2019)
Mudhoney – Digital Garbage (2018)
Simple Minds – Life In A Day (1979)
Simple Minds – Reel To Reel Cacophony (1979)
Karin Krog – We Could Be Flying (1975) *****
Sonny Rollins – Live At The Village Vanguard (1958) *****
Art Blakey & Jazz Messengers – A Night In Tunisia (1961)*****
Lee Morgan – The Cooler (1958) *****
Samantha Crain – A Small Death (2020) *****
The Damned – Evil Spirits (2018)
Samantha Crain – Under Branch & Thorn & Tree (2015) *****
Bunny Lee – Dubbing In The Front Yard (1982)
Bunny Lee – Conflict Dub (1977)
Carla Olson & Mick Taylor – Too Hot For Snakes (1990)
Carla Olson & Mick Taylor – The Ring Of Truth (2000)
Emma Swift – Blonde On The Tracks (2020)
Samantha Crain – Kid Face (2014)
Blodwyn Pig – Ahead Rings Out (1969)
Samantha Crain – You Understood (2014)
Samantha Crain – Songs In The Night (2008)
UFO – No Heavy Petting (1976)
Ahmad Jamal Trio – The Awakening (1970)
Gabor Szabo – 1969 (1969)
Widowspeak – Almanac (2013)
Blodwyn Pig – Getting To This (1974)
Moonshake – Big Good Angel (1992)
Swervedriver – Raise (1991)
Swervedriver – Mezcal Head (1993)
Miles Davis – On The Corner (1972) *****
Starry Eyed & Laughing – s/t (1974)
Starry Eyed & Laughing – Thought Talk (1975)
Guy Clark – Guy Clark (1978)
Guy Clark – The South Coast Of Texas (1981)
Starry Eyed & Laughing – To Try For The Sun (1973-76) *****
Pharoah Sanders – Pharoah’s First (1964) *****
Jackie Leven – Forbidden Songs Of The Dying West (1995)
Guy Clark – Old Friends (1988)
Carla Olson – Have Harmony Will Travel Vol II (2020)
The Pooh Sticks – Million Seller (1993)
CCS – CCS (1970)
Serfers – rarities (1980)
Green On Red – Two Bibles (1981)
Green On Red – Green On Red (1982) *****
Green On Red – Gravity Talks (1983)
Moonshake – Eva Luna (1992)
Green On Red – Gas Food Lodging (1985)
Green On Red – The Killer Inside Me (1987)
Eddie Taylor – In Session (1953-57)
Fields Of The Nephilim – Dawnrazor (1987)
Spliff – 85555 (1982)
V/A – Job Centre Rejects V1 (1978-1982)
Green On Red – Here Come The Snakes (1989)
Green On Red – This Time Around (1990)
Green On Red – Scapegoats (1991)
Green On Red – Too Much Fun (1992)
Green On Red – BBC Sessions (1989-1992)
Dan Stuart – Can O’ Worms (1995) *****
Joe Henderson – Barcelona (1978) *****
Joe Henderson – Relaxin’ At Camarillo (1979) *****
Joe Henderson – Canyon Lady (1973)
Joe Henderson – If You’re Not Part Of The Problem… (1970)*****
Dan Stuart – Live At Café Belgique (2016)
Guy Clark – Workbench Songs (2006)
Guy Clark – Boats To Build (1992)
Guy Clark – Dublin Blues (1995)
The Damned – Damned Damned Damned (1977) *****
Skids – The Saints Are Coming (1977-1981)*****
Grant-Lee Phillips – Ladies’ Love Oracle (1999)
Grant-Lee Phillips – Mobilyze (2001)
Grant-Lee Phillips – Virginia Creeper (2004)
Grant-Lee Phillips – Nineteeneighties (2006) *****
Grant-Lee Phillips – Strangelet (2007)
Stan Ridgway – Black Diamond (1996)
Grant-Lee Phillips – Little Moon (2009)
Charles Tyler – Autumn In Paris (1986) *****
Low – I Could Live In Hope (1994)
Low – Long Division (1995) *****
Grant-Lee Phillips – Walking In The Green Corn (2012)
Grant-Lee Phillips – Lightning Show Us Your Stuff (2020)
Bob Dylan – Highway 61 Revisited (1965)*****
Bob Dylan – Blonde on Blonde (1966) *****
Lynn Castle – Rose Colored Corner (1967)
Alex Chilton – Free Again (1970)
Caitlin Rose – Dead Flowers (2008)
Caitlin Rose – Own Side Now (2010)
Johnny Shines – The Blues Came Falling Down (1973)*****
Johnny Shines/Robert Jr Lockwood – No Name Blues (1951-55)
Joe Henderson – Power To The People (1969)
Johnny Shines – Too Wet To Plow (1977)
Houston Stackhouse – Big Road Blues (1967-1976)
Mairead ni Mhaonaigh & Frankie Kennedy – Ceol Aduaidh (1983)
The Fall – Hex Enduction Hour (1982) *****
Carla Olson & Todd Wolfe – Hidden Hills Sessions (2019)
Samantha Crain – You Had Me At Goodbye (2017)
Lowell Fulson – The Final Kent Years (1967-78)
Elmore James – Blues After Hours (1955)
Freddy King – Blues Guitar Hero (1961-64)
Mississippi John Hurt – Live (1965)
Joe Henderson – Sunrise In Tokyo (1974)
Dexter Gordon – Candlelight Lady (1974)
Johnny Shines – Live Acoustic & Electric (1970)
Lee Morgan – The Sidewinder (1963)
Lee Morgan – Search For The New Land (1964)
Lee Morgan – Tom Cat (1964)
Lee Morgan – The Rumproller (1965)
Low – Double Negative (2018)
Bob Dylan – Blood On The Tracks (1975) *****
Lee Morgan – The Gigolo (1965)
Lee Morgan – Cornbread (1965) *****
Laetitia Sadier & Source Ensemble – Finding Me Finding You (2017)
V/A – Chicago The Blues Today! (1965)
Swans – White Light From Inside The Mouth of Infinity (1991)

HISTORIC SITES/WALKS

New Year’s Day West London walk – homes of Frederic Leighton, Robbie Williams/Michael Winner, John Betjeman/Richard Harris/Jimmy Page; Holland Park; homes of James Joyce, Max Beerbohm, Wyndham Lewis; office of Spike Milligan, Frankie Howerd, Galton & Simpson, Eric Sykes; Dion Fortune temple; Lenister Gardens façade; Hyde Park.

Oxford Walk – Martyrs’ memorial, Sheldonian Theatre, Bodleian Library, Bridge of Sighs, Queens Lane, St Edmund Hall, Merton College apocalypse carving, Meadows walk, The Bear Inn tie collection, The Turf tavern.

Minster Lovell Hall & Dovecote
St Kenelm’s, Minster Lovell
Manchester Cathedral
Newport underpass mosaics
Coventry Cathedral/s
Bidford On Avon Roman Legion river crossing
Malvern Priory
St Nicholas Chapel, St Ives
Home of Alfred Wallis, St Ives
Prideaux Castle Hill Fort, Cornwall
St Guidel’s Holy Well, Menacuddle
The Tristan Stone, Fowey. Ensnared by housing development.
St Bartholemew’s Cemetery & Catacombs, Exeter
St Candida’s Well, Dorest
Nine Stones, Dorset (sad, neglected & ruined but once lovely site)
Arbor Low Henge, Derbyshire (Here someone has carved ‘Twat’ and a swastika onto one of the central stones, which, though now incumbent, have survived largely undamaged for the previous 6000 years.)
Swansea Castle
Nottingham Castle
Chester Cathedral
Plas Newydd House and Garden, Anglesey
Plas Newyn burial chamber, Anglesey
Bryn Celli Ddu passage grave, Anglesey
Caer Leb ancient settlement, Anglesey
Bodowyr passage grave, Anglesey
Castel Brynn-gwyn defensive settlement, Anglesey
Llys Rhosyr mediaeval court, Anglesey
Barclodiad-y-Gawres passage grave, Anglesey
Ty Mwar standing stone, Anglesey
Trefignath chambered tomb, Anglesey
Gellert’s grave, Bedgellert
Bert Kwouk Memorial plaque, Bedgellert
Sling burial chamber, Mynedd Llandegai … or was it?
Great Orme Copper Mine, Llandudno
St Tudno’s Church, Llandudno
Glyder Fawr/Glyder Fach walk, Snowdonia
Llechwedd Slate Mine, Snowdonia
Dinas Dinlle hill fort, N Wales
Penarth burial chamber, N Wales
Church of St Bueno, Clynnog Fawr, w appropriated sundial stone
Portmeirion village, N Wales
Pistyll Rhaeadr waterfall, Wales
Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant standing stone
Lake Vyrnwy/Lyn Efyrnwy
Kingston King Stone
Derby Cathedral
All Saints Church, Weston, Cheshire
Holmfirth, Last Of The Summer Wine town
York Minster, incl The Cuthbert Window
Bradford Cathedral
Durham Cathedral, tombs of St Cuthbert & Bede
Limnerslease, home of GF & Mary Watts
Watts Chapel, Compton, Guildford
St John The Baptist, Peterborough
The Music Wall, Wolverhampton – a rubbish wall
The Saxon Cross, Wolverhampton
The Mount Hotel W’hampton, bizarrely mangled Edwardian mansion
Empty Edward Coulston plinth, Bristol
All Saints Church, High Wycombe
North Leigh Roman Villa, Oxfordshire
The Thor Stone, Taston, Oxfordshire
The Hoar Stone, Enstone, Oxfordshire
Harvard House, Stratford-Upon-Avon
Coughton Court, Warwickshire
Guild Chapel Of The Holy Cross w Doom Murals, Stratford-Upon-Avon
Truro Cathedral
Veryan Green Stone, Cornwall
Castilly Henge, Bodmin Moor
Tolborough Standing Stone, Bodmin Moor
Greyfriars Burial Ground, Perth
St John The Baptist, Perth
The Macbeth Stone, Perthshire
Sunhoney Stone Circle, Aberdeenshire
The Balblair Stone, Aberdeenshire
Midmar Kirk Stone Circle, Aberdeenshire
Corsefield Cattle Rubbing Stone, Aberdeenshire
Deacon Hill Hillfort, Hertfordshire
Long Man of Wilmington, Sussex
Wilmington Priory, Sussex
Seven Springs Holy Well, Gloucester
Harold’s Stones, Forest of Dean
The Virtuous Well, Forest of Dean
Tintern Abbey, Tintern
All Saints Church, Newland, Forest of Dean
St Philip’s Cathedral, Birmingham
St Martin In The Bull Ring, Birmingham
St Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh
St Nicolas Cole Abbey, City of London
Church of St Peter, Great Livermere
St Michael’s Church, Beccles
St Edmundsbury Cathedral, Bury St Edmunds

MUSEUMS

Imperial War Museum North, Salford
Coventry Music Museum
Brighton & Hove Museum
Herefordshire Museum (underfunded cabinet of curiosities)
Kelvingrove Museum, Glasgow (good dark ages/prehistory)
Weston Gallery, Nottingham – Editing of D H Lawrence exhibition
Northampton Museum – Viking burials exhibition
Crawley Museum
British Museum – The World Of Stonehenge exhibition *****
Wolverhampton Museum – Black Country Beats
Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro – prehistoric section
Perth Museum – some good archaeology
The Foundling Museum, London
Birmingham Museum
Imperial War Museum, London

RECOMMENDED BOOKSHOPS

Stoke Newington Bookshop (spacious biblio-boutique)
Church St Books, Stoke Newington (used book nook)
Black Gull books, Camden (ever shifting stock of finds)
Mega City Comics, Camden (good back issues)
The Last Bookshop, Oxford (hidden room with Ruralist rarity)
Oxfam Bookshop, Oxford (great knowledgeable staff)
The Broadway Bookshop, Broadway Market, London (acutely curated)
Donlon Books, Broadway Market, London (occult specialities)
Moss Books, Cheltenham (disordered trove)
Clarendon Books, Leicester (helpful man in cramped room)
The Malvern Bookshop, Malvern (hidden mysteries, helpful owner)
Nostalgia & Comics, B’ham (limpet-like ‘70s survival)
Hurley Books, Mevagissey (concealed treasure, ebullient owner)
Shrew Books, Fowey (2^nd hand Denys Val Baker selection)
Dave’s Comics, Brighton (back issues bonanza)
Chaucer Books, Canterbury (storied and circuitous)
Oxfam Bookshop, Canterbury (punching above weight significantly)
Oxfam Bookshop, Swansea (lots of rare American beat poetry)
Edinburgh Books, Edinburgh (Art pamphlet pot-pourri)
Stella & Rose’s Books, Tintern (Children’s books of the past and more)

RECOMMENDED RECORD SHOPS

Truck Store, Oxford (hipster caffeine hangout)
Riverman, Oxford (jazz vinyl Eldorado w Miles artwall)
Badlands, Cheltenham (old school pan-genre boutique)
Loros, Leicester (avant-jazz-cd-stuffed charity shop)
Carnival Records, Malvern (friendly vinyl-horde)
Resident Records, Brighton (comprehensive modern outlet)
Sounds Records, Canterbury (great jazz and blues vinyl)
Music From Big Blue, Glasgow (immaculate art-pop time capsule)
Jumbo, Leeds (vast emporium w intelligent display system)
Recollections, Llangollen (stash of dumped grunge-britpop era cd’s)
Rebound, York (great jazz and Americana CD racks)
Ben’s Records, Guildford (chaotic swamp hides American jazz truffles)
Music Nostalgia, Truro (Western outpost)
Probe Records, Liverpool (psychedelic shack of Walking Seed)
Backbeat Records, Edinburgh (reality-defying art installation)
Ray’s Jazz, Foyle’s, London (still groovy outpost)

ART

The Morris Window – Edward Burne-Jones (St Edmund Hall, Oxford)
St Ann’s Church M’cr, – Frederick Shields’ Stained Glass
Wave & Weeping Willow – Tom Piper/Paul Cummins – Imperial War Museum North
Brighton Beach Flint Grotto – Rory McCormack

Manchester Art Gallery Ben Nicholson – 1932 Au Chat Botee; LS Lowry – St Augustine’s Church, Waiting For The Shop To Open, An Island, St John’s Church; Barbara Hepworth – Theatre Group no 3*****; Gwen John – The Student; John Waterhouse – Hylas and The Nymphs; George Watts – A Greek Idyll; Frederick Shields – The Annunciation; Arthur Hacker – Syrinx; John Everett Millais – Death of Romeo & Juliet; Annie Louisa Swynnerton – Montagna Mia *****; Edward Burne Jones – Sibylla Delphia; William Holman Hunt – Light of The World, Hireling Shepherd*****; Lady Elizabeth Butler – Balaclava*****; John Linnell – Hampstead Heath; Frederick Sandys – Vivien; John Lewis – The Coffee Bearer; John Constable – View From Hampstead Heath; William Blake – Poet’s heads ****

Coventry Cathedral – Basil Spence (incl Swedish Windows – Einar Forseth; Christ In Glory – Graham Sutherland; Sanctuary Candlesticks – Hans Coper; Gethsemane Chapel Relief – Steven Sykes; Lectern Eagle – Elizabeth Frink; Calligraphy/Font – Ralph Beyer; Sculptures – Jacob Epstein; Great West Screen – John Hutton; Baptistry Window – John Piper/Patrick Reyntiens; Chapel of Unity – Margaret Traherne/Einar Forseth; Nave Windows – Lawrence Lee/Geoffrey Clarke/Keith New; Kneelers – Anthony Blee/John Piper) *****

Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry – Interior Coventry Cathedral 1940 – John Piper; Figure 1964 – Barbara Hepworth; Lady Godiva’s Prayer – Edwin Landseer; Siegfried & The Magic Bird – Charles Ricketts; Yehudi Menuhin – David Wynne; Woman Taken In Adultery – William Holman Hunt; Stretching Girl – Betty Rea; Godiva – John Collier; The Fount – Frank Dobson; Untitled 1929 – Jacob Epstein; The Wise & Foolish Virgins – Charles Shannon.

Tate St Ives – Alfred Wallis – Blue Ship, Voyage To Labrador, The Hold House, Schooner Under The Moon; Margaret Mellis – Number 35; Peter Lanyon – Clevedon Bandstand, Porthleven; Marlow Moss – Balanced Forms 1956-7, Composition In Yellow Black And White, White & Yellow, Untitled; Sandra Blow – Vivace 1988; Ithell Colquhoun – ? Trees; Eileen Agar – Bum & Thumb Rock; Paul Nash – Totes Meer; Terry Frost – Winter 1956; Mark Rothko – Untitled 1950-2; Barbara Hepworth – Hollow Form with White, Sun Setting; Piet Mondrian – Composition w Yellow Blue & Red; Patrick Heron – Green & Purple Painting; Francis Bacon – 2 sketches for reclining figure; Roger Hilton – Oi Yoi Yoi; Frances Hodgkins – Loveday & Ann; Tacita Dean – various ships; Pauline Botty – The Only Blonde In The World; Bernard Leach – some pots; Denzil Forrester- Cottage Lover; Ben Nicholson – 1934, Paros Tree; Victor Passmore – Spiral Motif; Zoe Williams – Small Fish Head Acid Vision; Gillian Wearing – Self Portrait As My Sister; *****

Barbara Hepworth’s house, St Ives – Infant, Three Forms, Pierced Form, Two Forms, Fallen Images, River Form etc etc *****

Brighton & Hove gallery – Ithell Colquhoun – Judgement of Paris; Eileen Agar – Landscape of a Dream; Harold Gilman – The Coral Necklace; Charles Ginner – Leicester Square; Spencer Gore – The West Pier; Eric Ravilious – various pottery; Robert Bevan – The Cab Yard; Edward Wadsworth – Light Sections; Edward Lawrenson – Moonrise; Frank Brangwyn; Wyndham Lewis; Salvador Dali – sofa;

Helen Slater – Artwave West, Dorset

Young Gallery, Salisbury – Perched above a ‘60s concrete library, with no indication outside of the quality of the works within, this unheralded and unassuming space, its walls pinpricked and in need of whitewash, includes works by artists like Paul Nash and John Piper, a cabinet of etchings and lithographs by David Jones, and a comprehensive overview of a number of impressive post-war British abstract artists that I had never heard of, but you have to walk un-signposted through a number of unexplained large empty rooms to get to any of this, having reasonably assumed the whole place was actually derelict. The website gives little idea of what you might find there, but it is a superb discovery. ****

Herefordshire Museum and Art Gallery, Hereford – Tragically and distressingly the entire art collection – including some Laura Knights, a Duncan Grant, the whole Brian Hatton (Hereford WWI artist) collection, a sketch by Mervyn Peake and an Alfred Watkins (The Old Straight Track) archive – has been put into storage indefinitely by the underfunded council. Two significant works survived unnoticed in the museum section itself – a small landscape of the Malvern Hills by Hatton, and a print by John Piper. All very sad. In the Ukraine people were trying to move their artworks from public view into safety, so they can display them again when they are free. Destroying their art is a deliberate process of Russia destroying their identity. We do it to ourselves with no help.

Swansea Glynn Vivian Art Galley. Another small town surprise. Permanent collection, Frank Brangwyn – British Empire mural sketches; Barbara Hepworth – Curved Form w Inner Form, Project; Elizabeth Frink – Standing Figure; Augustus John – The Tutor, L’Hermitage Martigues, Arenig Mountain; Stanley Spencer – Garden At Whitehouse; Fred Uhlman – Welsh Farm; Kiffin Williams – Tre’r Ceiri, Mountainous Landscape, Snowdon From Near Harlech; Evan Walters – lots; Henry Scott Tuke – On The Beach; Austin Andrew Wright – Silent Five; Paul Nash – Landscape of The Bagley Woods; David Jones – 2 Still Lifes; Graham Sutherland – Bees; Denis Mitchel – Veryan; John Piper – Ottery St Mary; Lucien Pissarro – Cefn Bryn; Gwen John – Woman With Coral Necklace, The Nun, sketches. Not Without My Ghosts was an excellent touring Exhibition of spiritualist/automatic art, William Blake; Ann Churchill, Ithell Colquhoun, Madame Fondrillon, Madge Gill, Barbara Honywood, Georgina Houghton, Anna Mary Howitt, Augustin Lesage, Pia Lindmann, Andre Masson, Grace Pailthorpe, Austin Osman Spare. ****

Kelvingrove Art Gallery, Glasgow. Why have I never been here?
It’s amazing, and growing up with the culturally-biased collections in B’ham and London I discovered a massive blindspot for two Scottish movements of obvious significance – The Scottish Colourists, The Four and The Glasgow Boys.
Anyway – the permanent collection included Frank Auerbach – Head of EOW, Mornington Crescent; George Braque – Dish of Fruit; Edward Burne Jones – Danae; Anthony Caro – Table Piece; Paul Cezanne – Star Ridge, Overturned Basket; Harry Clarke – The Coronation of the Blessed Virgin; Constable – Hampstead Heath; Walter Crane – The Briar Rose tryptich; Salvador Dali – Christ of St John The Cross; Andre Derain – Blackfriars Bridge; Evelyn Dunbar – WAAF Store; Jean Fleming – Self Portrait; Keith Henderson – Pilot & Navigator; Wyndham Lewis – Artist’s Wife; Lowry – VE Day, The sea; loads of (The Four) Margaret MacDonald Mackintosh and Frances Macdonald w Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Herbert Macnair; Louis Marcoussis – Still Life Balciony; Henri Matisse – Woman In Oriental Dress, Pink Tablecloth; John Everett Millais – The Ornithologist; Claude Monet – Ventimiglia, Vetheuil; Albert Moore – Reading Aloud; Picasso – The Flower Seller; Pissaro – The Tuileries; loads of John Quinton Pringle; Renoir – Mdm Renoir, Mdm Valentine, The Painter’s Garden; Dante Rosetti – Regina Cordium; George Seurat – Boy Sitting, House, Riverbanks; Vincent Van Goch – Alexander Reid; Edouard Vuillard – The Table, The Drawing Room, Woman In Blue; lots of The Scottish Colourists – JD Fergusson, Samuel John Peploe, George Leslie Hunter, Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell – and The Glasgow Boys – David Young Cameron, Joseph Crawhall, David Gauld, James Guthrie, George Henry, E. A. Hornel, James Whitelaw Hamilton,William Kennedy, John Lavery, Harrington Mann, Arthur Melville, Stuart Park , James Paterson, Alexander Ignatius Roche, E A Walton. A great showcase of specifically Scottish art movements that I hadn’t really understood before. *****

Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow. Most of the permanent collection was in storage while the galleries were refurbished, but the following were visible; JD Fergusson – Les Eus; David Gauld – Music; Edward Hornell – The Brook, Two Geisha Girls, The Fan Girls; Robert McGregor – The Turnip Field; George Henry – The Hedge Cutter; Henry Fantin-Latour – Roses; Alfred Sisley – L’eglise de Moret-sur-Loing; James Whistler – 4 standing portraits, Ariel, Annabel Lee; some JQ Pringle; a whole room of Jean Eardley incl Sweetshop Rotten Row; and The Mackintosh house w works by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh, Frances Macdonald and Herbert McNair. Outside there were sculptures by Eduardo Paolozzi, Charles Rennue Mackintosh and Anthony Caro.

Tuille House Gallery, Carlisle. This was excellent, with three rooms of amazing Pre-Raphaelite relics, principally a massive stash of Edward Burne-Jones but also Arthur Hughes, Simeon Soloman, George Howard, William Morris. Also… Winnifred Nicholson – Easter Monday, Bonnie Scotland, L’aloue, Hallbankgate, Bathtime; Stanley Spencer – Cookhan; Wyndham Lewis – Pensive Head; Lucien Pissarro – Rue de Poulfenc; John Duncan – The Messenger of Tethra, Edward Burne-Jones – The Battle of Flodden Field, Helen a Mermaid; Ford Maddox Brown – The Baptism of St Edwin; Arthur Hughes – Madeleine, A Rift With The Lute. Also the volunteer there talked so enthusiastically about a William James Blacklock, and specifically The Terrace Haddon Hall, Catbells and Causey Pike Derwentwater, The Rookery and On The Banks Of Derwentwater, that I left utterly fascinated by this overlooked near visionary, a kind of symbolist/outsider artist trapped in a Victorian landscape tradition. *****

Nottingham Castle Art Gallery. David Bomberg – The Moorish Wall; Alan Davie – Bouquet for Croquet; Jacob Epstein – Girl from Baku, Bust of a Child, Self-portrait, Sun Goddess; Augustus John – Yvonne; Harold Knight – The Manicure; LS Lowry – The Arrest; Christopher Nevinson – Thameside; Ben Nichollson – Bistre 11; Victor Passmore – Green Landscape; John Piper – Brittany Coast; William Patrick Roberts – Return of Ulysses; Dante Rosetti – Marigolds; Stanley Spencer – Landscape Cookham; Laura Knight – Elsie on Hassan. And the exhibition Laura Knight & Caroline Walker, A Female Gaze which included dozens of Knights, many from private collections, and was absolutely superb, a once in a lifetime opportunity to see these amazing pictures. *****

Laura Knight – Lamorna Birch and his daughters. This massive canvas, a bequest from Knight, now hangs with no explanation of what it is in the café next to Nottingham University archaeology dept, just beneath a small bright round window, which means you have to squint at it and shield your eyes from the sun while trying to take it in. On the plus side you can get a coffee and sit in the radiance of this masterpiece for as long as you like. I was delighted to have seen it. *****

Northampton Art Gallery. Two Edward Burne-Jones sketches, and one a piece by LS Lowry and Henry Moore. The potential of the many interesting works Northamptonshire owns is not being unleashed.

Plas Newydd, Anglesey – Rex Whistler portraits, mural and sets
Coventry Cathedral – Jacob Epstein ****
Tate Modern – Surrealism Beyond Borders incl Gluck, Eileen Agar, Ithell Colquhoun
Reading Museum & Art Gallery. A few sculptures from the permanent collection were on display, including… Maggie Hambling – Wilde At Night; Michael Ayrton – Demeter Pregnant; Jacob Epstein – Rebecca.

Derby Cathedral – Ceri Richards’ Stained Glass; Peace Doves – Peter Walker/David Harper; Poppies – Paul Cummins, Tom Piper.
All Saints Church, Weston, Cheshire – William Morris stained glass
Beyond Bloomsbury – York Art Gallery. Dora Carrington, Roger Fry, Duncan Grant, Paul Nash, Nina Hamnett, Vanessa Bell, Roger Fry *****
Bradford Cathedral – Stained glass by William Morris, William de Morgan, Dante Rosetti, Ford Maddox-Brown, Edward Burne-Jones; sculpture by John Flaxman. *****
Durham Cathedral – Paula Rego – St Margaret; Fenwick Lawson – Pieta;

Watts Gallery Artists Village – Evelyn De Morgan (loads incl) Boreas & Oreithyia; William De Morgan – Loads of ceramics; GF Watts (loads incl) Apollo & Diana, Found Drowned, Time Death & Judgement, The Irish Famine, A Dedication, A Wounded Heron, Endymion, Eve triptych, The Death of Cain, Hope, Progress, Satan, The All-Pervading, Orpheus & Eurydice, Paolo & Francesca, Ophelia, After The Deluge, Thetis, Arcadia, Tennyson, Walter Crane, Ellen Terry, Frederic Leighton. The Court Of Death, Green Summer, Love Triumphant, The Good Samaritan, Sunset on The Alps; Mary Watts – The Watts Chapel murals & exteriors; Pre-Raphaelite Treasures Exhibition – (loads incl) Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward Burne-Jones, Elizabeth Siddal, Arthur Hughes, William Morris, Simeon Solomon.

Plymouth Council Bldg, disused – Mary Adshead mural glimpsed through window, though later in the year the cork board obscuring it was moved

Wolverhampton Art Gallery – Henry Anthony – Nature’s Mirror; Peter Blake – Costume Life Drawing, Beach Boys; Henry Fuselli – The Apotheosis of Penelope Boothby; Richard Hamilton – Adonis In Y-fronts; William Luker – The Halt In The Desert; Eduardo Paolozzi – BASH; Ary Scheffer – The Vision.
All Saints Church High Wycombe – N E Window of Women by Caroline Charlotte Townshend and Joan Howson
Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro – small unnamed Lamorna Birch painting; pottery by Bernard Leach, William de Morgan, Terry Frost; AG Sherwood Hunter – Jubilee Procession in a Cornish Village; Godfrey Kneller – Anthony Payne The Cornish Giant; Esther Moore – At The Gates Of The Past.

Perth Art Gallery – Sin: Cranach The Elder – Venus & Cupid; Jan Steen – The Effects Of Intemperance; Marinus Van Reymerswale – The Tax Gatherers; Giacomo Galli – Christ Displaying His Wounds; Ron Merc – Youth; Master of St Giles – The Mass of St Giles; Rembrant – The Woman Taken In Adultery; JD Fergusson – Etude de Rhythm; David Prophet Ramsay – My Model; Caravaggio – Prometheus. Joan Eardley – The Sea and photos.

The Foundling Museum – Henry Nelson – A Mother Depositing Her Child; Emma Brownlow – The Foundling Restored, The Christening; Tracey Emin – Baby Things; William Hogarth – March Of The Guards To Finchley, Captain Thomas Coram, Moses Brought Before Pharoah’s Daughter; George Lambert – Landscape With Figures; Thomas Benjamin Kennington – The Pinch of Poverty; Andrea Casali – Adoration of The Magi.

The Munnings Museum, Essex – Loadsa Alfred Munnings

All Saints Church, Newland, Forest of Dean – Triptych of the Virgin and Child with Saints – Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale.

Hall of Memory, Birmingham – William Bloye tableaux

St Philip’s Cathedral, Birmingham – 4 Edward Burne-Jones windows

Nelson Monument, Richard Westmacott, Birmingham

St Martin In Bull Ring, Birmingham – Edward Burne-Jones window

Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery – Most of the art here has been put in a cellar until 2024, but it was possible to see a dozen or so works including Jakob Epstein – Lucifer; Stanley Spencer – Rock Gardens; John Byam L Shaw – Boer War; Cold War Steve – Benny’s Babbies.

King Kong Park, B’ham – Nicholas Monro – King Kong 2

St Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh – Windows by Edward Burne-Jones and Douglas Strachan

Alan Davie – Dovecote Studios, Edinburgh *****

Raphael – Dovecote Studios, Edinburgh *

Imperial War Museum, London Bernard Meninsky – Victoria Station; Paul Nash – Battle of Britain; Laura Knight – The Nuremberg Trials; Stanley Spencer – Clyde Beending The Keel Plate, Shipbuilding on the Clyde; Bruce Maclean – Broadside.

Eduardo Paolozzi – Pimlico Tube Station vent.

The Clore Gallery Loads and loads of JMW Turner: Loads a Rothko.

William Blake Mosaics Lambeth train tunnels

Tate Britain. Hew Locke – The Procession – *****.
Francis Bacon – Three Studies…Crucifixion; Peter Blake – Self Portrait; Terry Frost – Khaki & Lemon; Patrick Heron – Horizontal Stripe; Roger Hilton – September ’61; David Hockney – A Bigger Splash; Oskar Kokoschka – Polperro II; Peter Lanyon – Zennor Storm; Paul Nash – Totes Meer; Chris Ofili – No Woman No Cry; Stanley Spencer – Double Nude Portrait; Graham Sutherland – Black Landscape; Christopher Wood – Church At Treboul;

The Horror Show – Somerset House, London – Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard; Noel Fielding; Mark E Smith; Jamie Reed; Helen Chadwick; Pam Hogg; Leigh Bowery; Chapman Bros; Dennis Morris; Matt Holness; Stewart Home; Derek Jarman; Michael Landy; Steve Pemberton; Nic Roeg; Scanner (Robin Rimbaud); Adam Scovell; Reece Shearsmith; David Shrigley; Iain Sinclair; Gavin Turk’ Rachel Whiteread;
Leonora Carrington; Linder; Alice Lowe. *****

St Nicolas Cole Abbey, City of London – Keith New, stained glass triptych

Tate Modern – Cecilia Vicuna

St Edmundsbury Cathedral – Crucifixion, St Edmund – Elizabeth Frink

ARTWORKS I DIDN’T SEE THIS YEAR AS THEY HAD BEEN WITHDRAWN FROM DISPLAY IN THE GALLERIES I VISITED, OR BECAUSE THEY WERE CLOSED, PERMANENTLY OR TEMPORARILLY.

Elizabeth Frink – Risen Christ (1964) Our Lady Of The Wayside, Solihull. Closed to the public.

Keeble College, Oxford Light Of The World – William Holman Hunt III) The Walker Art Gallery, Leicester.
Following works remain withdrawn this year, Laura Knight – Three Clowns (1930); Benjamin Marshall – Daniel Lambert (1806) and many more.

• Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry. The following were among the works not available to view; Christ Seated – Graham Sutherland; Princess Elizabeth Opening The New Broadgate – Laura Knight;, The Bridge – John Tunnard; Miss Ashwandan In Cookham – Stanley Spencer; Dame Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth – Reginald Eves; Hill Farm In Merioneth – Kyffin Williams; Summer – Henry Baynton; Stackyard – Paul Nash; Hippies – Neville Watts.

1. Brighton & Hove Museums. Lots of stuff is up but where are… Ithell Colquhoun – Interior; Duncan Grant – The Sofa, Landscape Near Firle; Gluck – The Devil’s Altar; Laura Knight – The Ballet Shoe; William Blake – Adoration of The Kings; Rosetti – Beata Beatrix; Axel Petterson – A Burial?
2. Herfordshire Museum & Art Gallery, Hereford. The entire collection has been put away indefinitely in storage due to insurance costs cause by a broken lift, including – Kiffin Williams – Talsarn, Mynydd Bonafon; John Bratby – Thunderstorm Passed Over; Laura Knight – George Bernard Shaw, Gypsies At Ascott; many works by WWI artist Brian Hatton; Duncan Grant – Harbour Toulon; Mervyn Peake – Girl’s Head; the archive of folklorist Alfred Watkins. And many more.
3. Frank Brangwyn Murals, Brangwyn Hall, Swansea. Not open to public

• Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow. Refurbishment denied me…. Ithell Colquhoun – Gouffres Amers; William Crosbie – Deshabille; Alan Davie – Sea Devil’s Watchtower; Alasdair Gray – Edwin Morgan; Augustus John – Montgomery; Bruce McLean – The Arrival; John Everett Milais – Principal John Caird; Alfred Munnings – Bungay Races; Walter Sickert – Clodgy Point, Shop in Dieppe; Stanley Spencer – The Visitation; Sidney Starr – Figures On A Beach; George Stubbs – A Blackbuck; Beatrix Whistler – Loads; James Whistler – loads;
• Tuille Gallery, Carlisle. Excellent place w brilliant staff, but the following (i think) not on display; Vanessa Bell – Flowers; Sandra Blow – Abstract 18; Phoebe Anna Traquair – Girl Playing Violin, Reception, Annunciation; Stanley Spencer – Red Magnolia, Washing Peter’s Feet; Edward Calvert – A Dryad; Dante Rosetti – Found; John Linnell – Baptism of The Eunuch; John Martin – The Prophesy.

1. Church of St Martin, Brampton, Cumbria. Edward Burne-Jones windows. Locked with no advice on opening times.
2. Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate. All the permanent collection is in storage and all you could see was some drawings of people going to spas. The staff know nothing about the whereabouts of the paintings. So I missed, amongst others, Eileen Agar – Miss Terry; John Craxton – Girl In A White Scarf; Paul Nash – Cactus; David Bomberg – Old Man; Walter Sickert – The New Bedford; John Atkinson Grimshaw – A Yorkshire Home; George Watts – Lilith; Dorothea Sharp – Girl In A White Frock.
3. Northampton Art Gallery/Council owned. Pretty much nothing was on display. Michael Ayrton – Afternoon; Jacob Epstein – Portland Mason; Paul Gaugin – La Petite Parisienne; Auguste Rodin – Tete de jeunne femme; a number of Frank Brangwyns, somewhere; a Dorothea Sharp; a Kyffin Williams. Where are they all? Sold off?

• Reading Museum’s Art Gallery room was being used for a display of stupid football memorabilia that only arseholes would like, so I was unable to see…. John Bratby – Gloria With Coiled Hair; Terry Frost – Red, Black & White Construction; Duncan Grant – Nude, Iris Tree; Michael Ayrton – Dry Landscape; Stanley Spencer – Self Portrait By Gaslight; David Bomberg – Flowers Evening Gold; John Piper – Abstract Composition; Augustus John – Professor Wheatley; Christopher Nevinson – View Of The Weald; Paul Nash – Edge Of The Wood. None of the staff seemed very interested in the art.
• Plymouth Council Bldg. Appears permanently closed, the Mary Adshead mural in the lobby just visible if you lie on the pavement to look under a noticeboard. What else is rotting away in there? (The noticeboard has since been moved so it is possible to see the mural through the window.)
• All Saints Church, Cambridge. I failed two days running to get in, at the times the website said the church was open, to see works by Edward Burne-Jones, William Morris & Ford Maddox Brown

1. Peterborough Art Gallery 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), Walter Sickert – The 3^rd Republic, GF Watt – Dr Thomas Walker. I got as far as phoning to ask about all this this year and the man said there were no plans to display any of the collection at any point in the forseeable future.

• Wolverhampton Art Gallery Very little of the collection was on display and works I didn’t see included Henry Anthony – Stonehenge; Peter Blake – Cigarette Pack; Frank Brangwyn – St Bennet’s Abbey, Still Life, Ancona; Patrick Cauldfield – Tandoori Restaurant; Elizabeth Forbes – The Edge of The Woods; Mary Gibson – Angel; Duncan Grant – Penns In The Rocks; Laura Knight – Sundown; Roy Lichenstein – Purist Painting w Bottles; John Linnell – Feeding The Chicks, My Garden; Jock McFayden – loads; Henry Moore – Winter Gale In The Channel, Southborough Common, Choppy Day In Channel; Alfred Munnings – The Ford; Henry O’Neill – Queen Isabella, Tintoretto; Sara Page – Whisper of Spring, Adromeda; John Piper – Welsh Landscape; William Roberts – Kit; Frederick Shields – Ezekiel, Noah, Isiah, Enoch, Elias, Malachi, David; Stanley Spencer – Chessnuts; John Tunnard – Pink Composition; Joseph Wright – Darwin, Boy Blowing A Bladder
• The Royal Cornwall Museum Truro was, in June, displaying hardly any of its art, meaning I didn’t see Lamorna Birch – Lamorna Cove, Morning Fills The Bowl, Woodland Scene, Stream With Boulders; William Blake – An Allegory Of Peace; Ithell Colquhoun – Dark Fire, Landscape With Antiquities; John Constable – Hampstead House In The Trees; Cranach The Elder – Study of Three Girls’ Heads; Stanhope Forbes – Against Regatta Day, Study For The Carter; Anthony Frost – Green Mind; Norman Garstin – Her Signal, A Steady Drizzle,

Frank Gascoigne Heath – Gulls, Peter Lanyon – Orange & Blue Fishing Boat; Frederick Leighton – Boy Holding Vase; Henry Scott Tuke – Seascape, Boy Rowing Out, The Boy Jacka, The Run Home, Barque In Full Sail, Harry, After The Bathe, Green Waters; Georgio Vasari – Six Tuscan Poets; Annie Walke – St Christopher, Preaching From The Hill; Christopher Wood – Green Hills

XIV) Perth Art Gallery. Due to the collection being moved to a new building, currently under refurbishment, it was not possible to see any of the paintings, apart from those in the Sin exhibition. So I couldn’t see …. David Young Cameron – Wilds of Assynt, Shadows of Glencoe, Winter Near Liberton; William Crosbie – Kneeling Nude, Hate Poem, La Vie Distraite; Joan Eardley – Children Playing, The Fireplace; Eric Gill – Mother & Child; Duncan Grant – Elms And Poppies; Alec Grieve – Ploughman and Crows; George Henry – The Green Hat, In A Tokyo Garden; E A Hornel – Apple Blossom, A Woodland Scene With Children & Goats; Laura Knight – Circus Matinee; John Lavery – Portrait of A Girl In White; William York MacGregor – The Mill Pond; Bessie MacNicholl – Young Woman In A Sun Bonnet; J Stirling Malloch – Riddling Potatoes, Maple Leaves, Autumn On The Tay, Inchyra Fishing Station, Maggie Keiller; John Maxwell – Floral Queen, Wall Vase; William McTaggart – After The Storm Loch Tay; John Everett Millais – Waking, Effie Gray, Robert Pullar; Francias Henry Newbery – The Shepherd’s Star; SJ Peploe – Farm Yard, Roses; George Pirie – A Hard Run Texan Cow-Horse; David Prophet Ramsay – Beatrix, A Studio Tea Party, Rosalie, Betty, The Artist’s Wife, Robina McCash, Venetian Canal, Vera, Beatrice Hewat, Beatrice Cautley, Self `portrait, Robina Ramsay; Anne Redpath – Ubeda Spain; Anne Estelle Rice – Cote d’Azur; Cecile Walton – Reverie; E A Walton – Sweetheart Abbey; GF Watt – Robert Hay Robertson.

1. XV) Birmingham Art Gallery – All the art has been locked away until 2024, including Francis Bacon – Figures In Landscape; Lamorna Birch – A Cornish Stream; David Bomberg – Bab-es-siq, Carnival, Hezekiah’s Pool, Self Portrait; Frank Brangwyn – Enrico Canziani, The Bridge; Georges Braque – Pichet; John Bratby – Courtyard w Washing; Emmy Bridgwater – Night Work Is About To Commence; Ford Maddox Brown – Wycliffe Trial, Work, Boy, Pretty Baa-Lanbs, Tristram, Last Of England; Kate Elizabeth Bunce – Musica; Edward Burne-Jones – King & Other Mourners, Peleas, Pygmailion x 4, Psyche x7, Wheel of Fortune, Zephyrus, Annunciation, The Wizard, Study of Oblivion, Troy Triptych; Edward Calvert – Pan, Ulysses, Artemis; Patrick Caulfied – Red & White; Degas – Beggar Woman; Jacob Epstein – Rock Drill, Euphemia Lamb, Tagore, Einstein; Fuseli – Hotspur etc; Spencer Gore; Duncan Grant – Boats @ Twickenham, Dancers, On The Table; Terry Frost – Black & Lemon, Black & Dust Pink; Gluck – Village Church; Barbara Hepworth – Sun & Moon, Cosdon Head, Prelude 1; Maggie Hambling – Max & Me; Richard Hamilton – Whitley Bay, Patrick Heron – Portheor, Standing Figure; Howard Hodgkin – Venice Sunset, Gardening, Room W Chair; William Holman-Hunt – Lantern Maker, Finding Of Saviour, Valentine; Arthur Hughes – Amy, Young Poet, Annunciation, Nativity, Lost Child; Augustus John – Canadian Soldier; RB Kitaj – Desk Murder; Harold Knight – Barry Jackson; Laura Knight – Autumn Sunlight, Les Sylphides; Peter Lanyon – Offshore; John Frederick Lewis; John Linnell – Sheep Drive; LS Lowry – An Industrial Town; Bruce McLean – Spoon 2; John Millais – 3 Sword Hilts, Widow’s Mite, Waiting, Second Sermon, Enemy, Mrs Joseph Chamberlain; Henry Moore – Warrior W Shield; Desmond Morris – Jumping; Alfred Munnings – Barry Jackson, In Cornwall, Epsom Downs; Ben Nicholson – 1950, 1944/5 Scarf; William Nicholson – Pink Still Life; Victor Passmore – Straw Hat, Spiral Motif; John Piper – Ruined Cottage; Renoir – Mdm Renoir; George Richmond; Bridget Riley – Cherry Autumn; William Blake Richmond; Dante Rosetti – Beata Beatrix, Proserpine; Emma Sandys – Lady Holding Rose; Frederick Sandys – Autumn, Medea, Morgan Le Fay; Walter Sickert – Rue Notre Dame, Dieppe Races; Simeon Solomon – Babylon, Bacchus; Joseph Edward Southall; Stanley Spencer – Resurrection, Old Tannery Mills, The Psychiatrist; Graham Sutherland – Edward Sackville West; JAMES SMETHAM (of Queen Elizabeth Walk, Stoke Newington)- THE MANY WINTERED CROW; Henry Tonks – The Orchard, Hat Shop, China Cabinet, Crystal Gazers; Henry Wallis – Chatterton; GF Watts – Little Red Riding Hood; JB Yeats – Dublin Night, An Old Car Driver; and many more!

FOOD

Daim bars
Ikea instant mashed potato.
My slow cooked beef w carrots
Lamb doner kebab, Saloman’s kebab van, St Giles, Oxford.
A baked potato w tuna mayo I made in my Airb’n’b in Yeovil.
My Welsh rarebit pie
A Nandos ½ chicken in Leicester
Sally’s Warwickshire poached egg and sourdough bread
Highland Park whisky 18 yr old
Doom Bar on draft in a pub in Mevagissey
My paneer dhal pie
Tandoori Platter, Curry Leaf café, Brighton
BBQ Chicken, Saint Smokey’s BBQ House, Canterbury
A boiled egg above the Devil’s Kitchen, Lyn Idwal, Snowdonia
A nice steak at Y Cyfnod Café, Bala, Wales
A pork chop from Cigydd butcher, Bala, Wales
My Delia Smith recipe Easter nut roast
My cauliflower dhal with nuts
Chili eggs w bacon at Jones and Sons, Dalston
Tuna potato @ Nora Batty’s Wrinkled Stocking, Holmfirth
Lamb Achari Shuka Gosht, Bombay Brasserie, Peterborough
A Wimpy breakfast in Peterborough, served promptly in tranquil calm
Lamb & Mushroom chili balti, Hussains, Stratford-Upon-Avon
Crazy Bastard Sauces
Vegetable curry, Mosque Kitchen, Edinburgh
Special fish w salad, Blue Lagoon, Perth, though bread never arrived
Salmon, crayfish tails, scallops etc Sutton & Sons, Stoke Newington
Sabi’s Kitchen, B’ham, Lamb curry & mango lhassi
Octopus & mayonnaise balls, Koyama, Edinburgh
Some beef, The Magdalen Arms, Iffley Rd, Oxford
Argentinian beef and Spanish omelet, Poster Haus, Stoke Newington
My lentil sweet potato curry that I made
My chorizos and Sutton & Sons scallops w chilis & garlic & mayo
My creamy spinach and courgette pasta
Auntie Lucy’s apple crumble
Chilli eggs with bacon, Jones & Sons, Daslton
My chilli sauted kale
Some lentils with mayonnaise mixed into them by a loony
Some hazel nuts I dry roasted and then threw hot spices all over
Full English at The Broken Egg, Harleston, Norfolk
My fried sprouts with chestnuts, bacon and chilis

BAD FOOD

A pizza I cooked very badly in N Wales
A Nandos ½ chicken that never came in Leicester, order lost
A 3 cheese & mushroom sauce I made that sickened my child
A phaal I made that sickened an economist
Breakfast at the Bell hotel, Peterborough, the order never taken
A ‘phaal’ on Rose St, Edinburgh (hence Toby Young use of ‘’)
A Steak & Guinness Pie I made

ON THE PEDESTAL/IN THE PEDAL BIN

To clarify, all M-eye inner-est judgements herein are based on activities in the last 12 months, and do not reflect historic actions, good or bad.
Entities are not in the pedal bin because they gave m-eye a ** review 9 years ago, or tweeted something foolish in 2017.
The judgement of Mye Sauronic Eye reflects these entities’ contributions during the last twelve months only. Thus it is possible to move from pedal bin to pedestal, or vice versa, in the space of a year, and even to appear in both in the same year.

In order to avoid disingenuous exploitation of the list’s intent by bad faith actors in the media and the cybersphere, a suggestion of the various entities’ crimes and virtues have been briefly appended, where possible, in case it is helpful. Thus have Eye spoken!
Eye have commanded this list to be made!! Hwaet!!!

ON THE PEDESTAL

Michael Sheen (woke not-for-profit actor)
The Colston Four (woke statue smashers)
A BBC lift that trapped Michael Gove (woke elevator)
The Woke Brigade (woke brigade of the woke)
Angela Rayner (woke northern powerhouse)
Terry Christian (top of the range woke irritant)
Professor Jonathan Van-Tam (woke ex-public health official)
The Twyford Ditch figurine (woke cross-dressing ditch figurine)
Wilfred Johnson’s slide (innocent woke casualty of No 10 wine culture)
Mike Pitts (woke psychedelic archaeologist & ditch-figurine expert)
Her Majesty The Queen (woke Euro-hatted icon of dignity)
Channel4 (woke national treasure, still gobbing in the face of its captors)
Idles (woke positive-vibes post-punks)
Kier Starmer’s window-glimpsed beer (woke window-glimpsed beer)
Tea (woke leaf)
The Royal Navy (woke Priti-resistant non-migrant-murderers)
Ghana (woke Priti-resistant non-migrant-incarcerators)
Viz (enduring belatedly-woke satirical comic)
250ml Cans of gin and diet tonic (woke drink)
Susie Boniface (always apposite woke woodland-dwelling columnist)
Wind (woke energy source)
Pippa Crerar (woke TV personality and party-gate investigator)
Nesrine Malik (woke seer and political prophet)
Neil Young (woke anti-Spotify Canadian primitive)
Steve Hanley, Paul Hanley & Marc Riley (3 Wise Punkies)
Joe Lycett (woke prankster)
Crisps (nighttime friends)
Joni Mitchell (woke anti-Spotify Canadian jazz-folk-elf)
Earl Okin (75 years old human trumpet, still a-blowin’ hard)
Crosby, Stills and Nash (woke silver-haired Spotify-battlers)
Fascinating Aida (The Crosby, Stills and Nash of woke musical comedy)
Stonehenge in Winter sunlight (woke lunar temple)
Eddie Mair (for losing his woke rag w Culture Dept spokesman Jan ‘22)
James O’Brien (woke radio irritant)
Kurt Zouma’s cat (woke animal)
Net Zero (woke emissions target)
The sea (woke body of water)
Pigs (woke casualties of Brexit lies, tasty wastes of meat)
Volodymyr Zelenskyy (top woke Ukrainian comedian)
The “Russian Battleship, go fuck yourself!” guys (woke sailors)
Anonymous (woke cyber-warriors)
Chris Bryant MP (tenacious woke policeman)
Paddington Bear (woke immigrant bear)
Yvette Cooper (tenacious woke politician)
Carol Cadwalladr (belatedly vindicated woke investigator)
Theo Usherwood (trusted woke news analyst)
Dan Rhodes (author-postman)
Volunteers at decimated Herefordshire Museum (woke volunteers)
Windfarms (woke energy source)
Louise Haigh MP (woke Transport shadow)
Peter Stefanovic (woke explainer)
Marina Ovsyannikova (woke Russian News saboteur)
Lambs (woke sheep)
Red squirrels (woke vermin)
Otters (woke mammals)
Tebay services, M6 (woke service station)
Dan Stevens (woke actor & One Show truth-teller)
Eddie Marsan (woke anti-Turds actor)
Marina Purkiss (tenacious daytime TV woke factspreader)
Justin Wokeby, Wokebishop of Wokebury (woke troublesome cleric)
St Cuthbert (woke Otters dried his woke feet)
Jack Monroe (woke chef)
Scunthorpe
Nottingham After Life ‘bench of hope’ vandal (woke vandal)
Kunt & The Gang (woke-adjacent subversive scatological satirists)
Zarah Sultana (woke Coventry MP)
Jubilee Johnson Boo Crowd (woke Monarchists)
Barnstaple
Darlington
Mick Lynch (woke ‘70s throwback and Lexit twat!)
Peter Oborne (woke-adjacent prophet of centre right)
Anand Menon (woke theorist)
Feargal Sharkey (Water Wokeman)
Deer Shed Festival crew and organisers (woke festival)
Dave Simpson (Fall scribe and facilitator)
The Lionesses (woke female footballers)
Samantha Crain (right time, right place for this woke woman)
Loki The Scottish Rapper (wokey the Scottish wrapper)
Baby ruining a Matt Forde show (woke baby of deferred justice)
Alfie Brown (woke/anti-woke comedian)
La Torre-La Janera (woke megalithic site near Huelva, Spain)
Margherita Remotti (fearless Nico avatar)
Johnny Green (punk fixer and raconteur)
Flat & The Curves (woke avatars of glamedy)
Sangita Myska (woke-adjacent LBC centerist)
Steve Bray (screaming woke beacon of deranged hope)
The RSPB (woke bird charity)
The National Trust (woke history charity)
Steve Wright (in the afternoon no more)
Celia Richardson of National Trust (woke administrator)
Rachel Shabi (woke funnel of rage)
Starlings (in their glorious murmuration)
Anna Soubry (woke Tory)
Just Stop Oil (woke paint-splashers)
The Anti-Growth Coalition (non-existent woke coalition)
Iranian women protesters (woke women)
Iranian world cup team (woke footballers)
Nurses (woke carers)
Ambulance Drivers (woke drivers)
Stokey Cats and Dogs (woke animal fans)

IN THE PEDAL BIN

Nick Ferrari (baffled populist-in-retreat)
Kirstie Allsop (Toby Young-adjacent conscience-stricken Tory)
All GBNews presenters, staff, guests, advertisers and viewers
All TalkRadio presenters, staff, guests, advertisers and listeners
All Tory MPs, party members and voters
All Daily Mail readers, advertisers and writers esp S Vine
All Daily Telegraph readers, advertisers and writers
All Spectator readers, writers, cartoonists and advertisers
All Spiked readers, contributors and financial backers
All BBC news staff, tools of creeping fascism
Cressida Dickless (emasculated police non-investigator)
Lord Geidt (flat non-investigator and Tory fist-puppet)
Turds Johnson
Carrie Simmonds
This (It’s deeply regrettable that this took place at a time of national mourning…)
That (… and No 10 has apologised to The Palace for that)
David Brownlow (Tory peer, curtains for cash)
Winston Marshall (alt right anti-woke banjo-billionaire)
Harry Coles (clearly conflicted Sun politico and Carrie-ex; collaborator)
The anti-woke Common Sense Group and their anti-woke supporters
Matt and Dan England of Pestfix (VIP lane Covid beneficiaries)
Tim Horlick and Ayanda Capital (VIP lane Covid beneficiaries)
Lord Moylan (“Turds made a sincere and convincing apology”)
Henry Bolton (anti-woke UKIP twat)
Colonel Bob Stewart (disappointingly de-compassed Turds apologist)
The Police & Crime Bill
Downing St £142 Wine Fridge (anti-woke fridge)
Wilfred Johnson’s slide (ruined symbol of privilege)
Wine-time Fridays
Iwerne Trust (anti-woke boy-beating elitist evangelists)
Ricky Gervais’ Benches of Hope (Netflix’s Benches of Cynicism)
Ricky Gervais (delusional bench-donating anti-woke populist-narcissist)
Netflix (value-absent algorithmic pseudo-archaeological cash-converter)
Ryan Reynolds, Dwayne Johnson & Liam Neeson (whores of Netlfix)
After Life (9 hour crying wank)
After Life cast, crew and viewers (cry-wankers)
The Environment Agency (powerless public pollution body)
Russia (anti-woke superpower)
Mark Spencer (animal-hating chief whip farmer-blowhole)
Lulu Lytle (cake-cutting accidental Turds’ birthday celebrant)
Eton school (Chthonic gateway to future anti-woke evil)
Loads of people talking to me all at once in noisy rooms
Boris Johnson’s birthday cake (lockdown-breaking baked good)
Gervais’ use of Bob Dylan’s Not Dark Yet in After Life S3 ep 2
Crisps
Wine
Burglars
Prince Andrew (sex-svart)
Spotify
JCB’s
Daylesford Foods
Fraudsters
“Toby Young” (“identifies” as “fan” of “inverted” “commas”)
Jordan Petersen (meaty anti-woke meat bag)
Philip Schofield (brainwashed crying at After Life weakling)
Bread
Tony Parsons (anti-woke columnist)
Guto Harri (woke Hyrdo Industries lobbyist/anti-woke Turds apologist)
Kurt Zouma (unwoke West Ham cat-kicker)
Carol Midgley, James McMahon, Abby Robinson, (enablers of After Life)
Fishermen
The open packet of crisps on Turds’ Christmas quiz party desk
Brexit, still and all Brexit voting twats
Bin Bath Wheelie Bin Co (Coventry road hogs)
HS2 railway line (pointless ongoing ancient landscape desecration)
Fracking
Coal mines, for fuck’s sake
Flying debris
Prince Charles (cash for honours jug-head)
Anti-vaxers
Chips
Batter
Wet Wipes in the sea
Biscuits
Blepharitis
Nuclear weapons
Piles
Drips
Stains
Wars
Vladimir Putin (anti-woke topless war-monkey)
Farmers (and non-farmers)
Russia Today
Sputnik News
Donald Trump
Alexander Lukashenko (Belarusian svart)
Laurence Fox (Not a real fox)
Tucker Carlson (Foxy Putin fan)
Steve Bannon (multi-shirted Putin fan)
Nigel Farage (jar-imbibing Putin fan; binocular clutcher; gin twat)
Roman Abramovich (football’s Putin)
Lubov Chernukhin (£7000000 Tory donor & Truss dinner date)
Aaron Banks (Bad Boy of Putin Fandom)
Alexander Temerko (£37500 Russian Tory donor)
Sergey Pechinin (Russian Tory influence greaser)
Gennady Timchenko (Mogg-friendly oligarch)
Super-Yachts
Ben Eliot (Tory chairman and oligarch groomer)
Oligarchs
Slaps (legal actions)
Slaps (of children, in NI, Wales & Scotland)
Eugenie Lebedev (Lordly Turds handler and KGB-adjacent playsvart)
Richard Tice (tweet-deleting Brext svart)
Isabel Oakeshott (self-distancing Russia-adjacent Brexit svart)
Daniel Kawcyzynski (Shropshire Tory svart)
Giles Coren (obviously)
The Home Office
English Chelsea Fans (this is your last game)
Conservative Friends of Russia (collaborators)
Paul Staines (collaborator)
Lebedev’s showbiz Xmas Party guests (Collab’s, useful idiots, male slags)
Russel Brand (alt-right pandering, egomaniac, anti-vax internet twat)
Disney (homophobic corporate mouse-molesters)
Steve N Allen (Lord Haw Haw)
The Privatised Water companies
Rishi Sunak’s wife (tax-leaper, Putin-enabler)
Mumsnet (fool hive)
Bad noises
Some smells, but not all of them
Tom Harwood
Lies
Maggots (but not in a wound)
Edwina Currie (presumed-dead revivified Turds-loyalist)
Alex Deane (Turds-apologist and blind loyalist)
Mr Tumble (Swindon show-saboteur)
Roger Daltrey (still-blethering Brexit moron of innate gifts)
The Times of Tunbridge Wells (bullshit clickbait on-line hatespaper)
Dan Hodges (teat-squeezing farmhandmaiden of hate)
Dillin then Dog (anti-woke dog)
Durham Police (twat police, tools of Daily Mail)
Andrew Neil (indestructible news cockroach; wheat-head)
Brew Dog
Tinnitus
Emily Carver (dissembling Think Tank Tory twat)
A man wiping mucous off his hand onto a door handle in Peterborough
The MET Police (corrupt Johnson-fluffers)
Chris Mason (pathetic BBC government mouthpiece)
The audience for the recording of Ricky Gervais’ Super Nature
Joanna Lumley (Royalist mouthpiece, Johnson bridge propagandist)
Rowan Atkinson (Netflix’s anti-woke geriatric rubber-face)
Boris Johnson’s septum (ruined cavity wall)
Kay Burley (anti-workers Tory mouthpiece, soiling herself in public)
Richard Madeley (anti-workers Tory mouthpiece, soiling self in public)
The V&A Museum (Tory fund raiser-hosting values-vacuum)
Piers Morgan (Murdoch-twat)
Dairy Crest/Cathedral City (sewage cheese)
Thomas Corbet-Dillon (Thom-arse Cockfart Dickhole)
Sebastian Coe (running twat)
Stephen Robinson (Daily Mail energy company shill)
Christopher Hope (Daily Telegraph climate-change denial arse)
Vandals of Dinas Dinlle
Rishi Sunak (car-fraudster, Corbyn obsessive, feeder of the homeless)
Martin Daubney (footie porno-feminist, egg-faced GBN announcer)
Geri Halliwell (Tory Spice)
Heart disease
Skin
Lungs
Liberal Critics of Jerry Sadowitz
Right wing Defenders of Jerry Sadowitz
Baby ruining a Matt Forde Show (anti-social baby)
Michael Portillo
Restore Trust (Tufton St wankers)
Policy Exchange (Tufton St wankers)
Taxpayers’ Alliance (Tufton St wankers)
Greg Gutfield (grunge fascist)
Men who like the group Cock Sparrer, but not the group itself
Flies that lay their eggs on a sick stray cat that is now probably dead
Ricky Gervais Fans (snowflakes)
Bankers
Alex Bellfield (Voice of Reason)
Cashew Nuts (nut enemies)
Jack Dee & John Cleese (grumpy old men)
House sparrows (in the wrong place)
Steps
Bones
Gravity
Ears
55 Tufton St
Spitting Image
Hertfordshire Police and Crime Commissioner David Lloyd
Graham Hancock (Netflix fake-archaeology twat)