1.THE BIG MIDWEEK

I am the reader of the audiobook of The Big Midweek, Steve Hanley from The Fall’s book about playing bass for two decades in the greatest British band, against twenty years of social change. You can hear it here….

https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/The-Big-Midweek-Audiobook/B0FXBJJD4X?source_code=AUKFrDlWS02231890H6-BK-ACX0-479031

2.THE NERVE

I am now writing 1000 funny words a week for Carol Cadwalladr’s new on-line newspaper The Nerve, run by people who were sacked or quit when Tories took over The Observer. It is immediately ace.
Sign up here and it would also really be great if you could pay them £6.95 a month as the 5 women at the helm sunk all their redundancy money into it. Carol understands that the only story in town is how the tech-bros choose what news we see and how we understand the world, and The Nerve will address this head on. The only news that matters.
Please send the link below and this begging request to anyone you can.

https://www.thenerve.news

This recent piece on enshittification is especially good https://www.thenerve.news/p/cory-doctorow-enshittification-internet-craphound-lyft-political-organising

All my columns are collected here, but please donate

https://www.thenerve.news/stewart-lee

3. ALEXANDRA PALACE LONDON MAN-WULF RUN FEB 3^RD-15^TH 2026

STEWART LEE VS THE MAN-WULF. The unstoppable Man-Wulf show has another London run, having already done 12000 seats at Royal Festival Hall and 12000 seats at Leicester Sq Theatre.
It’s sure to look great in the gothic confines of the Alexandra Palace theatre.

My favourite show to perform and as the world gets worse the basic premise of the show – that the bully boys are taking over in music, comedy and TV cooking shows – only gets funnier. ALEXANDRA PALACE, 3rd – 15th Feb 2026, Tuesday to Saturday at 7.30pm plus Sunday matinees at 3.30pm
Tickets on sale 30^th July.
BOOK HERE: https://www.alexandrapalace.com/whats-on/stewart-lee-vs-the-man-wulf/

4. NEW MERCH

Along with WAXFACE’s usual line of Stewart Lee merch there are new for 2025 t-shirts and hoodies on the Man-Wulf theme, all of the highest quality. I’d wear them myself but I’d look arrogant. Waste the money your Nan gave you for Xmas here

wax-face.com/stewart-lee

5. MAN-WULF BY THE PRIMEVALS

Glasgow’s garage punk veterans The Primevals announce a new single as featured in the new Stewart Lee vs The Man-Wulf U.K. tour.
There are 3 versions
Side a I’m The Man-Wulf
Side b I’m The Man-Wulf (long nail edit)
Plus a 9 minute I’m The Man-Wulf (long nail version) (I LOOOOOVE THIS!!)
Vinyl sides a&b were released on a 7” 45 in January.

See The Primevals live JUNE 27^th London Hope & Anchor, 28^th Preston Ferret.

There’s now a cool arty video for the song too

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yazuiF0OiAI

https://primevals.bandcamp.com

6. BASIC LEE IS ON NOW TV

https://www.nowtv.com/ie/watch/entertainment/collections/ultimate-comedy/asset/stewart-lee-basic-lee…/A5EK6949itCVNKaChrDXN

You’ll have to subscribe though.

Here is a thorough, and not entirely positive, review from a thoughtful young man on Youtube, still better than most pro-critics.
https://youtu.be/kdOYgqCzJ4s?si=1uIZBn8tMWsAiS0h

7. STEWART LEE VS THE MAN-WULF

John Mackay & Sally Homer, in association with Debi Allen/Curtis Brown present
STEWART LEE vs THE MAN-WULF BRAND NEW SHOW

UK TOURING THROUGHOUT 2026

NB: TICKETS FOR THESE SHOWS WILL REMAIN AT THE ADVERTISED PRICE. SURGE PRICING IS IMMORAL AND TICKETMASTER AND OASIS ARE WANKERS, ENCOURAGED BY SUCCESSIVE TORY CULTURE SECRETARIES IN THEIR CRIMINAL ENDEAVOURS.

In this brand-new show, Lee shares his stage with a tough-talking werewolf comedian who hates humanity. The Man-Wulf lays down a ferocious comedy challenge to the culturally irrelevant and physically enfeebled Lee. Can the beast inside us all be silenced with the silver bullet of Lee’s unprecedentedly critically acclaimed style of stand-up.

The show will tour the UK throughout 2026. 

I AM VERY PLEASED WITH HOW THIS SHOW IS SHAPING UP – PRESS IS COLLECTING HERE.

February 2026

Tuesday 3rd February 2026 – Alexandra Palace Theatre, London – TICKETS
Wednesday 4th February 2026 – Alexandra Palace Theatre, London – TICKETS
Thursday 5th February 2026 – Alexandra Palace Theatre, London – TICKETS
Friday 6th February 2026 – Alexandra Palace Theatre, London – TICKETS
Saturday 7th February 2026 – Alexandra Palace Theatre, London – TICKETS
Sunday 8th February 2026 – Alexandra Palace Theatre, London – TICKETS
Tuesday 10th February 2026 – Alexandra Palace Theatre, London – TICKETS
Wednesday 11th February 2026 – Alexandra Palace Theatre, London – TICKETS
Thursday 12th February 2026 – Alexandra Palace Theatre, London – TICKETS
Friday 13th February 2026 – Alexandra Palace Theatre, London – TICKETS
Saturday 14th February 2026 – Alexandra Palace Theatre, London – TICKETS
Sunday 15th February 2026 – Alexandra Palace Theatre, London – TICKETS
Tuesday 17th February 2026 – The Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury – TICKETS
Wednesday 18th February 2026 – The Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury – TICKETS

May 2026

Wednesday 6th May 2026 – The Playhouse, Weston Super Mare – TICKETS
Thursday 7th May 2026 – The Playhouse, Weston Super Mare – TICKETS
Friday 8th May 2026 – Northcott Theatre, Exeter – TICKETS
Saturday 9th May 2026 – Richmond Theatre, Richmond – TICKETS
Monday 11th May 2026 – Playhouse, Leeds – TICKETS
Tuesday 12th May 2026 – Playhouse, Leeds – TICKETS
Wednesday 13th May 2026 – Playhouse, Leeds – TICKETS
Thursday 14th May 2026 – Floral Pavilion Theatre, New Brighton – TICKETS
Friday 15th May 2026 – Opera House, Buxton – TICKETS
Saturday 16th May 2026 – Stockton Globe, Stockton On Tees – TICKETS
Tuesday 19th May 2026 – Palace Theatre, Southend On Sea – TICKETS
Wednesday 20th May 2026 – Palace Theatre, Southend On Sea – TICKETS

June 2026

Monday 1st June 2026 – 3Olympia Theatre, Dublin – TICKETS
Tuesday 2nd June 2026 – Bord Gais Energy Theatre, Dublin – TICKETS
Wednesday 3rd June 2026 – The Tommy Leddy Theatre, Drogheda – TICKETS
Thursday 4th June 2026 – Millennium Forum, Derry – TICKETS
Friday 5th June 2026 – National Opera House, Wexford – TICKETS
Sunday 7th June 2026 – Opera House, Cork – TICKETS
Wednesday 10th June 2026 – Theatre Royal, Waterford – TICKETS
Sunday 14th June 2026 – Cambridge Arts Theatre, Cambridge – TICKETS
Monday 15th June 2026 – Cambridge Arts Theatre, Cambridge – TICKETS
Tuesday 16th June 2026 – Cambridge Arts Theatre, Cambridge – TICKETS
Thursday 18th June 2026 – Alban Arena, St. Albans – TICKETS
Friday 19th June 2026 – Alban Arena, St. Albans – TICKETS
Sunday 21st June 2026 – New Victoria Theatre, Woking – TICKETS
Tuesday 23rd June 2026 – Venue Cymru, Llandudno – TICKETS
Wednesday 24th June 2026 – Lawrence Batley Theatre, Huddersfield – TICKETS
Thursday 25th June 2026 – Grand Opera House, York – TICKETS
Friday 26th June 2026 – Grand Opera House, York – TICKETS
Saturday 27th June 2026 – Grand Opera House, York – TICKETS
Tuesday 30th June 2026 – Mercury Theatre, Colchester – TICKETS

July 2026

Wednesday 1st July 2026 – Mercury Theatre, Colchester – TICKETS
Thursday 2nd July 2026 – Mercury Theatre, Colchester – TICKETS
Saturday 4th July 2026 – The Hawth, Crawley – TICKETS
Tuesday 7th July 2026 – Lyceum, Crewe – TICKETS
Wednesday 8th July 2026 – Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury – TICKETS
Thursday 9th July 2026 – Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury – TICKETS
Friday 10th July 2026 – The Lowry, Salford – TICKETS
Saturday 11th July 2026 – The Lowry, Salford – TICKETS
Monday 13th July 2026 – King’s Theatre, Glasgow – TICKETS
Tuesday 14th July 2026 – King’s Theatre, Glasgow – TICKETS
Wednesday 15th July 2026 – Playhouse, Edinburgh – TICKETS
Thursday 16th July 2026 – Perth Theatre, Perth – TICKETS
Friday 17th July 2026 – Eden Court, Inverness – TICKETS

September 2026

Thursday 3rd September 2026 – King’s Theatre, Portsmouth – TICKETS
Friday 4th September 2026 – Pavillion, Weymouth – TICKETS
Saturday 5th September 2026 – Hall For Cornwall, Truro – TICKETS
Thursday 10th September 2026 – Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool – TICKETS
Friday 11th September 2026 – Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool – TICKETS
Saturday 12th September 2026 – William Aston Hall, Wrexham – TICKETS
Sunday 13th September 2026 – Grand Theatre, Wolverhampton – TICKETS
Wednesday 16th September 2026 – Marina Theatre, Lowestoft – TICKETS
Thursday 17th September 2026 – Marina Theatre, Lowestoft – TICKETS
Friday 18th September 2026 – Castle Theatre, Wellingborough – TICKETS
Saturday 19th September 2026 – The Central Theatre, Chatham – TICKETS
Sunday 20th September 2026 – The Central Theatre, Chatham – TICKETS
Thursday 24th September 2026 – Bristol Beacon, Bristol – TICKETS
Friday 25th September 2026 – Bristol Beacon, Bristol – TICKETS
Saturday 26th September 2026 – Bristol Beacon, Bristol – TICKETS
Tuesday 29th September 2026 – Truck Theatre, Hull – TICKETS
Wednesday 30th September 2026 – Truck Theatre, Hull – TICKETS

October 2026

Thursday 1st October 2026 – The Spa Centre, Scarborough – TICKETS
Friday 2nd October 2026 – Alhambra Theatre, Bradford – TICKETS
Saturday 3rd October 2026 – Alhambra Theatre, Bradford – TICKETS
Tuesday 6th October 2026 – Festival Theatre, Malvern – TICKETS
Wednesday 7th October 2026 – Festival Theatre, Malvern – TICKETS
Thursday 8th October 2026 – Belgrade Theatre, Coventry – TICKETS
Friday 9th October 2026 – Belgrade Theatre, Coventry – TICKETS
Saturday 10th October 2026 – Belgrade Theatre, Coventry – TICKETS
Monday 12th October 2026 – Playhouse, Nottingham – TICKETS
Tuesday 13th October 2026 – Playhouse, Nottingham – TICKETS
Saturday 17th October 2026 – Waterside Theatre, Aylesbury – TICKETS
Sunday 18th October 2026 – Hippodrome, Birmingham – TICKETS
Friday 23rd October 2026 – New Theatre, Peterborough – TICKETS
Saturday 24th October 2026 – Tyne Theatre & Opera House, Newcastle Upon Tyne – TICKETS
Sunday 25th October 2026 – Tyne Theatre & Opera House, Newcastle Upon Tyne – TICKETS
Friday 30th October 2026 – Pavilion Theatre, Worthing – TICKETS

November 2026

Sunday 1st November 2026 – Devonshire Park Theatre, Eastbourne – TICKETS
Thursday 5th November 2026 – City Hall, Salisbury – TICKETS
Friday 6th November 2026 – The Anvil, Basingstoke – TICKETS
Monday 9th November 2026 – Playhouse, Oxford – TICKETS
Tuesday 10th November 2026 – Playhouse, Oxford – TICKETS
Wednesday 11th November 2026 – Playhouse, Oxford – TICKETS
Thursday 12th November 2026 – Chelmsford Theatre, Chelmsford – TICKETS
Friday 13th November 2026 – Chelmsford Theatre, Chelmsford – TICKETS

8. SNOWFLAKE TORNADO / BASIC LEE

Stewart’s 2019-2022 touring show Snowflake/Tornado, which was originally broadcast as a BBC Special in Autumn 2022 is now available to buy or rent “on demand” from www.mediagarageproductions.com

Both shows also appear to be free as part of the current Amazon Prime rosta, but buy them from us to defeat American fascism.

We are currently preparing a physical release of these shows but it’s got delayed as I got pneumonia and have been bogged down in picking through a wealth of possible, and very exciting, audio extras, where the material worked much better than in the broadcast show itself.

9. TEENAGE CANCER TRUST COMEDY NIGHT – ROYAL ALBERT HALL, 24^TH MARCH.

I am on in this with Bridget Christie, Athena Kugblenu, Miles Jupp and more. Robert Smith from The Cure is in charge this year. http://lnk.to/TCT26

10. KEVIN ELDON’S PODCAST

The actor Kevin Eldon has a new podcast called Speakers.

I listened to it.

It is funny and also uses the fact that it is made of sound!!! Find it wherever you find your podcasts. Kevin Eldon is 98 years old.

11. STRONG MESSAGE HERE

I am appearing on BBC podcast with Armando Ianucci. It is ace.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/m0024cp6

12. SKIDS PORTMERION WEEKENDER 13^TH – 15^TH MARCH

I am special stand-up guest of Scottish punk pioneers SKIDS at their weekender at Portmerion Prisoner village in N Wales. Come and see me get booed off by old punks. https://skidsofficial.com/news-1/f/the-absolute-weekend-2026-1 What an amazing life I am having in my late 50s

13. SLEAFORD MODS INTERVIEW

I am interviewing Sleaford Mods in London on Jan 20^th https://dice.fm/event/v3gb76-sleaford-mods-in-conversation-with-stewart-lee-signing-20th-jan-rough-trade-east-london-london-tickets?lng=en and in Nottingham Jan 13^th https://dice.fm/event/6dwx5q-sleaford-mods-in-conversation-with-stewart-lee-signing-13th-jan-rough-trade-nottingham-nottingham-tickets?lng=en

14. FESTIVALS

I will be doing short stand-up sets at the following festivals

BEARDED THEORY 20^TH – 24^TH MAY, CATTON PARK DERBYSHIRE https://beardedtheory.co.uk w Pixies, Damned, Maytals, Au Pairs, Nightingales & Ted Chippington. This is a great, friendly festival that totally feels like it is run for the benefit of the people, and it has a brilliant tent called Convoy Cabaret which is all proper hardcore anarcho-punk and traveller music.

DEER SHED 24^TH – 26^TH JULY, BLADERSBY PARK, N YORKS https://deershedfestival.com Sleaford Mods, Angeline Morrison, New Eves & The Adam Buxton Band. The village fete vibe of indie rock!

More to follow

15. FLIM FLAM 25^TH ANNIVERSARY. Jan 28^th, The Mildmay Club, Newington Green, Stoke Newington, LONDON N16

The mighty Michael Legge used to have a crie de couer every now and again during the Edinburgh fringe – “Let’s sell this gig out!”

Weds Jan 28^th is the 25^th anniversary of my local free jazz pub gig, Flim Flam, which means I’ve been going to see their shows for over half my adult life. I’ll be guest-hosting the show.
The night is run by Alan Wilkinson, whom heads will know as one the top three living saxophonists working in the European Free Improvisation milieu, and whom rock fans will know as that guy who sometimes opens for Spiritualized, and whom comedy fans will know as the saxophonist in the live film of Basic Lee.

Maybe you saw his devastating performance with Steve Noble and John Edwards at my 2016 All Tomorrow’s Parties festival? Alan has pushed the boat out for his quarter century and as usual the bill includes a mix of new talent, low key legends, and people you’d pay much more to see in your local state-sanctioned temple of culture; namely Free Vocalese godmother and queen of all she surveys Maggie Nicols, Birmingham beatmaster Mark Sanders, Welsh drone-witch Angharad Davies, the imperial viceroy of the kit Steve Noble, Alan himself and more, with live jazz art from Gina Southgate. No advance tickets are available so bring £10 cash to the door and the music starts at 8.30.  And it’s where I recorded Comedy Vehicle. Let’s sell this gig out!!!!

16. GARY LE STRANGE.

I love Waen Shepherd’s Gary Le Strange character, and finally he has a new album.

GARY LE STRANGE: CHROMIUM DOCKYARD

HIS CLASSIC LOST ALBUM AVAILABLE NOW, EXCLUSIVELY ON BANDCAMP

https://garylestrange.bandcamp.com/album/chromium-dockyard

Waen Shepherd says: “ Dear Le Strangers. It is my proud privilege to announce the release of Chromium Dockyard, the fourth full-length album by eccentric electro-rocker Gary Le Strange, a full 13 (or 19, or maybe even 22) years in the making [it’s complicated]. Work started on this troubled collection in 2012, before real life got in the way and Gary was forced to abandon it in 2016. Along the way, Gary released the singles Shut Up Mum and Norman (I’ve Dropped My Cup of Tea), both of which remained orphans for over a decade. But now, spurred on by the power of chronic unemployment and having way too much time on his hands, Gary has finally managed to finish his classic lost album, and both singles can take their rightful places in this insanely thrilling selection. A stunning set of eleven pop songs and one experimental documentary, planting itself firmly between the New Romanticism of his early days and the wild experimentation of his psychedelic period, Chromium Dockyard is an eclectic journey through the fractured psyche of an aging British pop star as he grapples with the multiple perils of persecution, hair loss and the end of the world, via the ancient disciplines of synth rock, new wave pop, doomy Gothic ballads and apocalyptic electronica.

The perfect festive gift for that friend of yours who’s really into Gary Numan, that friend of yours who’s a Goth, or that friend of yours who continually complains about how there are never any good comedy songs these days (or that enemy of yours who hates all these things), Chromium Dockyard is simultaneously more ambitious and more accessible than anything Gary has attempted before, and serves as the perfect entry point to the world of Gary Le Strange.

Yours robotically

Waen Shepherd (Gary’s ‘manager’)

waenshepherd.com

TRIGGER WARNING. This album features both direct and indirect references to bullying, suicide, drug use, depression, alcoholism, public intoxication, sexual deviancy, pornography, unwanted touching, prosopagnosia, ADHD, loss of identity, hair loss, tea loss, face loss and extreme unnecessary violence. It also features the words f**k, s**t, c**t, c**k, c**p, p**s, b**bs, a**e, w***y, s**g, p**ck, b*gger, b****cks, k******d, g*****d, f******d, l****r, b****y and m****t, and on at least one occasion tells you point blank that you are going to die. Listen at your own risk.

If you’ve enjoyed this email, you can read more about the album at garylestrange.co.uk 

ABOUT WAEN SHEPHERD Gary Le Strange is the musical alter ego of actor, writer, comedian and composer Waen Shepherd, who won the Perrier Award for Best Newcomer in 2003 (for his show Polaroid Suitcase) and the Chortle Best Newcomer Award in 2004, then did two more Edinburgh shows (2004’s Face Academy and Beef Scarecrow in 2006) before violently somersaulting into obscurity. Each of Gary’s shows was accompanied by a full-length comedy album, all of which are now available to stream or buy on Bandcamp. As a comic actor, Waen might be vaguely recognisable from fleeting bit parts in various comedy shows from about a decade ago, like Hyperdrive (BBC2), Count Arthur Strong (BBC2), We Are Klang (BBC3), The Inbetweeners (C4, as John ‘Paedo’ Kennedy) and Steve Oram’s cult film AAAAAAAAH! You might also have heard his voice in a handful of BBC radio comedies, such as Out to Lunch (BBC Radio 2), The Day the Music Died (BBC Radio 2), The Lucy Montgomery Variety Pack (BBC Radio 4) and 2525 (BBC Radio 4). As a composer, Waen has provided theme tunes, scores and random bits of music for a number of television shows, including Crackanory (Dave), Action Team (ITV2), Mandy (BBC2), Intruder (C5), No Strings Attached (E4) and the BAFTA-winning Murder in Successville (BBC1), plus the highly-acclaimed score for Gareth Tunley’s BAFTA-nominated film The Ghoul. As a writer… well, he wrote this, didn’t he? Chromium Dockyard is Gary Le Strange’s first full-length album since Beef Scarecrow in 2006 and (not counting the previously unreleased tracks in his Complete Bandcamp Discography from 2024), his first new material since the single I Am a Video in 2015. It is Waen’s first album since his original soundtrack for The Ghoul, released in 2020.

17. FOR GOD’S SAKE LET’S GET FOX HUNTING PROPERLY BANNED LIKE IT’S SUPPOSED TO BE ANYWAY

Fox hunting is banned by countless loopholes need to be closed for this to mean anything, and I went to introduce a meeting at Poertcullis House last month to try and help out with this. See

thenewhuntingban.com for all the details, or thenewhuntingban.com/legislative-recommendations for the booklet released at the event.

18. I ARROGANTLY RECOMMEND

EMMA TRICCA I’ve seen Emma Tricca loads in 2025 without even planning to. She became ubiquitous. On stage alone she is in the tradition of the ‘70s singer-songwriter, but on record it gets more trippy and heavier. Here’s some dates. JAN 8^th The Holloway Norwich, 10^th Sheffield House Norwich, 11^th Betsey Trotwood London @ 2pm

ALAN WILKINSON & PETER ZUMMO, KOHRAN FUTACI & FERYIN KAYA  JAN 18^TH, Mascara Bar, Stamford Hill, Stoke Newington, LONDON. Peter Zummo has been a leading figure on the downtown New York Scene since the 70s most notably with Arthur Russell and the Lounge Lizards. Korhan Futaci is a brilliant Turkish musician who relocated to London recently and Feryin Kaya is a Turkish electric bass player luckily in town for this.  The friendly Mascara Bar is located opposite Morrisons on Stamford Hill N16, near Stoke Newington station.

LISA KNAPP & GERRY DRIVER 6 Music folk faves back on the road JAN 29^th Music For Midwinter, Hastings. FEB 7^th Indoor Fest of Folk London, 14^th Belper Meadows, 15^th Trinity Arts Gainsborough; MAY 1^st Turner Sims S’hampton, 2^nd Bristol Folk Fest, 9^th Whitchurch Folk Fest.

DREAM SYNDICATE You must see this enduring American rock institution who impossibly combine free-jazz styled freakouts with classic solid literary songwriting. JAN 30^TH London Garage, FEB 1^st M’cr Band On The Wall.

SLEAFORD MODS It’s easy to take Sleaford Mods for granted, but go and see them live and be reminded what an amazing act this is, as much Beckettian theatre as it is whatever else it is. £1 on every ticket goes to Warchild. FEB 6^th Glasgow Barrowland Ballroom, 7^th Manchester Academy, 12^th Leeds O2 Academy, 13^th Liverpool O2 Academy, 14^th Cardiff Great Hall, 19^th Dublin 3Olympia, 20^th Belfast Limelight, 21^st Cork Cyprus Avenue, 26^th Oxford O2 Academy, 27^th Nottingham Rock City, MARCH 5^th Bristol Bristol Beacon, 6^th Brighton Dome, 7^th London 02 Academy Brixton.

THE NIGHTINGALES King Rocker cats’ annual club circuit FEB 19^th Swansea Bunkhouse, 20^th Southampton Joiners, 22^nd Cambridge Portland Arms, 24^th London Moth, 25^th B’ham Castle & Falcon, 26^th Sheffield Greystones, MARCH 1^st Sunderland Pop Recs

PSYCHEDELIC PORN CRUMPETS Australian prog-psyche FEB 24^th Newcastle Uni, 25^th Glasgow Galvanizers, 28^th Leeds Uni, MARCH 1^st B’ham Digbeth Crossing, 3^rd Southampton 1865, 4^th London Forum

HEAVENLY Suddenly boosted by fleeting Tic Toc fame with Punk Rock Girl, here’s another victory lap for the mould-making indie veterans in 2026. FEB 25^th Coventry Just Dropped In, 26^th London Lexington, 28^th Athens Temple, MARCH 5^th Ramsgate Music Hall, 6^th Paris Petit Bain, 8^th London Lexington all ages matinee, 14^th Oxford Nest, 18^th M’cr Yes, 19^th Glasgow Mono, 20^th Sunderland Pop Recs, 21^st Sheffield Sidney & Mathilda, 26^th Brighton TBC, APRIL 4^th Cardiff Wales Goes Pop

KID CONGO & THE PINK MONKEY BIRDS Cramps/Gun Club/Bad Seeds/Knoxville Girls gunslinger with current combo MARCH 5^th B’ham Hare & Hounds, 6^th Oslo London, 7^th Nottingham Boat Club.

DELINES Cinematic symphonic country rock sophisticates. MARCH 21^st Trowbridge 7 Hills Fest, 22^nd Bury Met, 23^rd L’pool Hangar, 24^th Nottingham Metronome, 25^th Norwich Epic, 26^th London Union Chapel, 27^th Brighton Old Market, 28^th Cardiff Gate, OCTOBER 2^nd Glasgow GUU, 3^rd Gosforth Civic, 4^th Leeds City Varieties

KEIJI HAINO Japanese brain-bending noise improvisor London ICA 17^th March

COSMIC PSYCHOS Australian idiot-savants who have reduced rock and roll, and by association, life itself to its core essentials. Profound. But last time I had to leave ‘cos it was TOO LOUD. APRIL

7^th Nottingham Bodega, 8^th Glasgow Nice’n’Sleazy, 9^th M’cr Pink Room, 10^th London Dome, 11^th Cardf Clwb Ifor Bach, 12^th Brighton Green Door

SUGAR Apparently they’ve reformed MAY 23^rd, 24^th London Forum

TAMIKREST Malian blues-wranglers in snake-charming mode JUNE 8^th Glasgow Rum Shack, 9^th Leeds Belgrave, 11^th Norwich Arts, 12^th Bristol Strange Brew, 13^th London Jazz Café, 15^th M’cr Band On The Wall, 176^th Bristol Hope & Ruin.

OH-SEES Mighty psyche-punk juggernaut. JULY 14^th Leeds Irish Centre, 16^th & 17^th  London Earth.

MILLIONS OF DEAD COPS Hardcore originators. New Cross Inn, London August 10th

19. MY CULTURAL YEAR 2025

MY CULTURAL YEAR 2025 (DEC 30^TH 2024 – DEC 2025)

This year I didn’t read enough and watched hardly any TV. I moved my turntable into the kitchen where I write, accepted that I need my hearing aids even just for listening to music at home, and went into a very rewarding 12 months of three-dimensional sound, rediscovering old faves and finding depths in music I didn’t know I liked. I watched a lot of films, walked a lot of site-strewn moors, saw a lot of art and went to as many live music gigs as I used to when I was young.

It has been a great year for brain-feeding and soul-nourishment.

* means something struck me as bad, but this year I deliberately disconnected Netflix as I was hate-watching a lot of bad stand-up and dumb documentaries and algorhythmicaly awful dramas, which was bad for my brain.

***** means something struck me, in that moment, as extra special.

I’m not offering up an objective judgement. It was just that experience, at that time, in that state of mind. Discharge, for example, arrived at the100 Club in January after the usual New Year depression in the midst of a bout of pneumonia and put a rocket up the ass of my 2025; Loudon Wainwright III, in a little cinema in Paris days before Christmas, calmly and quietly and with great warmth and humour, anatomised and exploded many things that had been troubling me and puzzling me that I hadn’t been able to put names to, for which I will be forever grateful.

“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 recognise.”  John Robinson, golf comedian, Radio X

NEW FILMS (2024/5)

Pauline Black : A 2-Tone Story (Jane Mingay)
Blink Twice (Zoe Kravitz)*****
A Complete Unknown (James Mangold)*****
Heretic (Scott Beck & Bryan Woods)
Becoming Led Zeppelin (Alison McGourty & Bernard McMahon)
One to One : John & Yoko (Kevin MacDonald & Sam Rice-Edwards)
Sinners (Ryan Coogler)
Nosferatu (Robert Eggers)
Deep Cover (Tom Kingsley)
Spinal Tap 2 : The End Continues (Rob Reiner)*
Weapons (Zach Creggar)*****
Derek Bailey: New Sights … Old Sounds (Ian Greaves)*****
Frankenstein (Guillermo Del Toro)*
The Naked Gun (Akiva Shaffer)
Nobody 2 (Ilya Naishuller) *
The Ballad of Wallis Island (James Griffith)*****

OLD FILMS

Dream Scenario (Kristoffer Borgli, 2023)
Paris Texas (Wim Wenders, 1984)*****
Wonder Boys (Curtis Hanson, 2005)*****
And God Said To Cain (Antonia Margheritti, 1970)*****
The Look Of Love (Michael Winterbottom, 2013)
Black Mama, White Mama (Eddie Romero, 1973)
The Good, The Bad And The Weird (Kim Jee-woon, 2008)
A Genius, Two Partners, And A Dupe (Damiano Damiani, 1975)*
The Wild Geese (Andrew V MacLaglen, 1978)
Django The Bastard (Sergio Garonne, 1969)*****
Shango (Edoardo Mulargia, 1970)
A Coffin For The Sheriff (Mario Calano, 1965)
May God Forgive You … But I Won’t (Vincenzo Musolino, 1968)
The Iguana With The Tongue Of Fire (Ricardo Freda, 1971)
The Fifth Chord (Luigi Bazzoni, 1971)*****
Cat O’ Nine Tails (Dario Argento, 1971)
The Witch (Damio Damiani, 1966)*****
The Killer Reserved Nine Seats (Giuseppe Bennati, 1974)
The Bird With The Crystal Plumage (Dario Argento, 1970)
Forbidden Photos of A Lady Above Suspicion (Luciano Ercoli, 1970)
Death Walks On High Heels (Luciano Ercoli, 1971)*
Baba Yaga (Corrado Farina, 1973)
Knife Of Ice (Umberto Lenzi, 1972)
The House With Laughing Windows (Pupi Avati, 1976)
A Quiet Place In The Country (Elio Petri, 1968)
Burnt Offerings (Dan Curtis, 1976)*
Lone Wolf & Cub : Sword of Vengeance (Kenji Misumi, 1972)*****
Lone Wolf & Cub : Baby Cart At The River Styx (Kenji Misumi, 1972)*****
Lone Wolf & Cub : Baby Cart To Hades (Kenji Misumi, 1972)*****
Lone Wolf & Cub : Baby Cart In Peril (Buichi Saito, 1972)*****
Lone Wolf & Cub : Baby Cart In The Land Of Demons (Buichi Saito, 1973)*****
Hitch-Hike (Pasquale Festa Campanile, 1977)
Silver Bullet (1985, Dan Atlas) * This film is absolute shite!
Once Upon A Time In Hollywood (Q Tarantino, 2019)*****
Pat Garret & Billy The Kid (Sam Peckinpah, 1973)
City of The Dead (John Llewellyn Moxey, 1960)
Day Of The Cobra (Enzo Castellari, 1980)
The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman, 1973)*****
Live Like A Man, Die Like A Cop (Ruggero Deodato, 1976)
Bram Stoker’s Dracula (Francis Ford Coppola, 1992)*
Simple Men (Hal Hartley, 1992)*****
Border (Ali Abbasi, 2018)*****
Team America (Trey Parker, 2004)*****
Macbeth (Justin Kurzel, 2015)
Macbeth (Roman Polanski, 1971)*****
Operation Solstice (Gareth Morris, 1991)
Roma (Frederico Fellini, 1972)*****
Penda’s Fen (Alan Clarke, 1973)*****
Cold War (Pawel Pawilovski, 2018)*****
A Fist Full Of Dollars (Sergio Leone)*****
Lenny (Bob Fosse, 1974)*****
Ben & Charlie (Michelle Lupo, 1972)
Who Saw Her Die? (Aldo Lado, 1972)
Rare Exports (Jalmari Helendar, 1996)
All The Colours Of The Dark (Sergio Martino, 1972)*****
Seven Blood-Stained Orchids (Umberto Lenzi, 1972)
Eyeball (Umberto Lenzi, 1975)*
Slap The Monster On Page One ( Marco Bellocchio, 1972)*****
Rulers Of The City (Fernando di Leo, 1978)

NEW BOOKS

Alan Moore – The Bumper Book Of Magic
Alan Moore – The Great Wen *****
Kevin Rowland – Bless Me Father
Ben Wildsmith – Whose Song To Sing?
Damon Krukowski – Why Sound Matters *****
Ben Moor – A Three Thing Day (And Other Things)***** As a live piece the words from this tumbled over me, here they make a micro-masterpiece www.spesh.com/ben

OLD BOOKS

Steve Hanley – The Big Midweek (2014)*****

COMICS

Viz
How To Survive An Affair – Henry Widdicombe***** (https://widdicomics.co.uk)

OLD TV

Twin Peaks S1 (ABC, 1990)*****

NEW TV

The Change S2 (Channel 4)*****
Celebrity Traitors (BBC)
Trainwreck : Poop Cruise (James Ross/Netflix)*
The Room In The Tower (Mark Gatiss/BBC)

OLD TV

Floyd On France (BBC, 1987)*****

MAGAZINES AND PAPERS AND ONLINE

The Nerve *****
Shindig, Record Collector, Viz, Mojo, Guardian, Machenallia, Faunus, Guardian, London Review of Books, Weird Walk, Wire, Idler, Northern Earth.
Adrian Childs’ Guardian columns
Marina Hyde’s Guardian columns
Nesrine Malik’s Guardian columns *****
John Crace’s Guardian columns

RADIO NEW AND OLD

James O’Brien (LBC) *****
Nick Ferrari (LBC)*
Tom Swarbrick (LBC)*
Lewis Goodall (LBC)*****
Shelagh Fogerty (LBC) *
All BBC News especially C Mason & L Kuenssberg *
Dehumidified (Polly Weston, BBC Sounds)*****
Currently Out For Delivery (Polly Weston, BBC Sounds)*****
This Cultural Life – Jeremy Deller (BBC Radio 4, 2023)
Strong Message Here (BBC Sounds)*****

INTERNETS, YOUTUBES, SUBSTACKS AND PODCASTS

Backlisted *****
Sid Griffin Calling All Coal Porters *****
Carole Cadwalladr’s Substack How To Survive The Broligarchy *****
Damon Krukowski’s Substack Dada Drummer Alamanac
Lost Otter’s Pilgrimage Of Food (Bluesky)
The Nerve *****

THEATRE/DANCE/RITUAL

Three Thing Day (read-through) – Ben Moor (Hen & Chickens, London)
Robert Lloyd Parry – M R James’ The Mezzotint (Baskerville Hall Hotel)
Arthur Machen’s The Shining Pyramid (Baskerville Hall Hotel)
A I A I OH! – Will Adamsdale (Barbican, London)*****
Infinity And Beyond – Scene & Heard (Teatro Technis, Camden, London)
The Cuntiad – Martin Rowson (Laugharne Festival)
Three Thing Day WIP – Ben Moor (Machynlleth F Festival)
The Children – Lucy Kirkwood (Tower Theatre, Stoke Newington)*****
An Inspector Calls – J B Priestly (Wimbledon New Theatre)*****
Green Man River Goddess Ritual, Burning Of The Green Man (Green Man, Sunday)
Simon Armitage (Krankenhaus)
The Party Girls – Amy Rosenthal (0xford Playhouse)
Macbeth – dir Tom Morris (Haymarket, London)*****

EVENTS

Andy Votel, Don Leisure, Kev Tame – Sain Sympopsium/Geoff Towns &  Will Hodgkinson on Bob Dylan & Dylan Thomas (Green Man)
Samantha Harvey reads Orbital (End Of The Road)*****
Penda’s Fen : Scene By Scene event w Ian Greaves (Barbican)*****
Shouting Out Loud book event w The Raincoats & Audrey Golden (Rough Trade East, London)
Alice Roberts, Natalie Haynes, Melinda Gebbie, Chelsea Birkby in 9 Lessons & Carols For Curious People (King’s Place, London)

COMEDY

Fascinating Aida (Royal Festival Hall, London)*****
John Shuttleworth (Laugharne Festival)*****
Josie Long (Laugharne Festival)
Marcel LuCont – Whine List (Machynlleth Comedy Festival) *****
Frankie Thompson, Sam Williams, Emmy The Great, Kemah Bob – Sugar benefit (Pleasance, London)*****
Michelle de Swarte (Always Be Comedy, London)
Jazz Emu, Barbara Nice, Josie Long ***** (Glastonbury)
Eliza Frazer, James O’Donoghue & Jon Matthews (Tolpuddle)*****
Celya AB, Huge Davies (End Of The Road)
Ivo Graham, Two Hearts, Alison Spittle, Daniel Kitson (Union Chapel)
John Cooper Clark/Tim Wells (Cadogan Hall, London)

GIGS

Discharge (100 Club)*****
Anonymous country rock covers duo (Hole In The Wall, York)
Unnamed jazz quartet (Eagle and Child, York)
Chuck Prophet (Garage, London)
Rhodri Davies (Café Oto, London)
Steve Wynn (Moth Club, London)
Steve Wynn (Fountain Inn, Laugharne Festival)
Amy Rigby (Fountain Inn, Laugharne Festival)
Swansea Sound (Fountain Inn, Laugharne Festival)*****
Angelina Morrison (Chapel, Laugharne Festival)
Eliza Carthy & Martin Carthy (Chapel, Laugharne Festival)*****
Men of Gwent (Chapel, Laugharne Festival)
Slowdive (Brixton Academy)
Mini-Mekons/Nightingales (Signature, Dalston)*****
Martin Newell/Cleaners From Venus (Bush Hall, London)*****
Martin Simpson w Louis Campbell & Liz Hanks (King’s Place, London)
Sunshine Jazz Band (Machynlleth Comedy Festival)
Darren Hayman (Machynlleth Comedy Festival)
Louis Louis Louis (Domino, Leeds)
Fred Frith/Harvey Parkin-Christie & Hinrik Thorinson (Limpet, Leeds)
Bevis Frond (Lexington, London, Saturday)*****
Anton Barbeau/Bevis Frond (Lexington, London, Sunday)*****
Steven Wilson (London Palladium)
Emma Tricca (A roof in Shoreditch, London)
Dinosaur Jr (Troxy, London)
The Lovely Eggs/Iggy Pop/Culture Shock(Bearded Theory, Saturday)*****
The Selecter/Shonen Knife’s Osaka Ramones/Throwing Muses/Anthrax (UK)/Asian Dub Foundation/Manic Street Preachers/P.A.I.N (Bearded Theory, Sunday)
Hawkwind (Barbican, London)
Waterboys (Roundhouse, London)
Joe McPhee w Susanna Gartmayer, John Edwards & Maria Portugal (Café Oto, London)
Joe McPhee & John Edwards (Café Oto, London)*****
Lucy Gooch (Servant’s Jazz Quarters, London)
Jaap Blonk, Steve Noble, John Edwards, Alan Wilkinson (Ryan’s Bar, London)
Barbican Estate/MSSV (Lexington, London)
Emma Tricca/Chris Eckman (Water Rats, London)*****
Secluded Bronte/David Grubbs (St Pancras Church, London)
Nadia Read, Tift Merritt, Burning Spear, Vieux Farka Toure *****, OhSees*****, Tolstoys, Marching Skaletons, Trojans (Glastonbury Friday)
Sid Griffin’s Bob Dylan show with Paul Carrack & Katya & Hothouse Flowers & Ralph McTell, Neil Young & The Chrome Hearts *****, (Glastonbury Saturday)
The Selecter, Geordie Greep*****, Black Uhuru, Goat *****, Brian Jonestown Massacre *****, Bootleg Beatles, Roy & Nick Harper (Glastonbury Sunday)
Robyn Hitchcock (Golden Hind, London)
Messthetics w James Brandon Lewis (Café Oto, London)*****
Neil Young & The Chrome Hearts (Hyde Park, London)*****
Gina Birch (Rough Trade, London)
Swansea Sound (Lexington, London)
Alan Sparhawk (Green Man, Friday)*****
Boss Morris *****, Broadside Hacks’ Bob Dylan Tribute*****, Rich Dawson ***** (Green Man, Saturday)
Bridget Hayden *****, Beth Gibbons, Cymande ***** (Green Man, Sunday)
Dean Wareham & Sea Power play Galaxie 500 (Krankenhaus Friday)*****
Alison Cotton, Gnod, Rich Dawson, Jane Weaver, Sea Power (Krankenhaus Saturday)*****
Sacred Paws, Dean & Britta, Nightingales , Sexual Objects (Krankenhaus Sunday)*****
Bevis Frond /Lemonheads (Electric Circus, London)
Elephant Room/Laetitia Sadier *****(Tabernacle St, London)
Bridget Hayden, Vieux Farka Toure, Daisy Rickman & Mike Heron & Broadside Hacks Play The Incredible String Band, Lisa O’Neill(End Of The Road Friday)*****
Tropical Fuckstorm, Black Country New Road (End Of The Road Sunday)*****
Iko Cherie (Folklore, Hackney, London)
Howe Gelb (Moth Club, London)
Witney K/Howe Gelb (Rough Trade, Charing X Rd, London)*****
Black Lips (100 Club, London)
The Ex, Hanne de Backer + Terrie Ex + Andy Moor, Kat Ex + Signe Emmeluth + Emma Fischer, Zea + Xavier Charles (Café Oto, London)*****
Belles of London City/Lucy Gooch/Samara/Tree Carr/Daisy Rickman Band (Earth, Hackney, London)*****
Tortoise – Barbican, London
Iko Cherie – Total Refreshment Centre, London
Men Of Gwent/Mini Mekons – Golden Hynde, London
The Saints ’73/’78 — Electric Ballroom, London
StereoLab/Mombojo – Royal Festival Hall, London
Drift – The Waiting Room, London
Stereolab – Brixton Electric, London *****
Derek Bailey Company Tribute Show (Monday) Khabat Abas, Julia Brüssel, John Butcher, Teresa Hackel, Charles Hayward, Petra Haller, Pat Thomas, Matt Wand, Alex Ward, Mark Wastell – Café Oto, London *****
Derek Bailey Company Tribute Show (Tuesday) Khabat Abas, Julia Brüssel, John Butcher, Teresa Hackel, Charles Hayward, Petra Haller, Pat Thomas, Matt Wand, Alex Ward, Mark Wastell – Café Oto, London *****
Mark Wastell, Alan Wilkinson, Thurston Moore – Vortex, London
John Smith – Union Chapel, London
The Gentle Spring/Swansea Sound – Waiting Room, London
Brixton Chamber Orchestra – Stockwell Park Community Centre, London *****
Loudon Wainwright III – L’archipel, Paris *****
Emma Tricca, Darren Hayman, Pete Astor – Waiting Room, London
The Fallen Women – Lexington, London*****

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

NEW RECORDS – 2025/2026
Wild Billy Childish & The Chatham Singers – Step Out!*****
Sean Khan Presents The Modern Jazz & Folk Ensemble – s/t
Chuck Prophet – Wake The Dead
Stereolab – Instant Holograms On Metal Film *****
Richard Dawson – End Of The Middle *****
Rich Hopkins – The Gift *****
The Loft – Everything Changes, Everything Stays The Same *****
Pat Todd & The Rank Outsiders – Keeping Chaos At Bay *****
House of All – House of All Souls
Steve Wynn – Make It Right
Black Country New Road – Forever Howlong
Cameron Winter – Heavy Metal
Hawkwind – There Is No Space For Us
Chris Eckman – The Land We Knew Best *****
Shane 0’Mara – (unreleased) Bert Jansch Project
Iva Bittova – What My Father Sang To Me *****
The Waterboys – Life, Death & Dennis Hopper
Quinie – Forefowk, Mind Me
Sam Grassie – Sandwood e.p
Sam Grassie – Jarabi, The Winter Has Gone e.p
MSSV – On And On
Dean Wareham – That’s The Price of Loving Me
Robert Forster – Strawberries
Howe Gelb – Weathering Some Piano
We Contain Multitudes – Minako *****
The Bags – Swamp Oaf
Robyn Hitchcock – 1967, Vacations In The Past
Sly & The Family Drone – Moon Is Doom Backwards
The Messthetics & James Brandon Lewis – s/t
The Sons of Southern Ulster – Through The Bridewell Gate *****
Neil Young & Chrome Hearts – Talkin’ To The Trees
Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO – Holy Black Mountainside
Poor Creature – All Smiles Tonight
Rún – Rún
Sean Ono Lennon – Asterisms *****
The New Eves – The New Eve Is Rising
Neil Young – Coastal Soundtrack
Bridget Hayden & The Apparitions – Cold Blows The Rain *****
Adrienne Lenker – Bright Future
Earthball – Outside Over There
Gary Louris – Dark Country
Hugo Race & Gianni Maroccollo – The Vigil
Martin Carthy – Transform Me Into A Fish
Laetita Sadier – Rooting For Love ******
Harvestman – Triptych Part I
Maria Somerville – Luster
Rois – Mo Lean
David Grubs & Lauren Connors – Evening Air
Katie Spencer – What Love Is
SnarksiLindyCircusband – What’s Said & What’s Left Unsaid *****
Prolapse – I Wonder When They Are Going To Destroy Your Face
Gwenifer Raymond – Last Night I Heard The Dog Star Bark
The Chameleons – Arctic Moon
Geckos – s/t
Bad Sam – Trauma
Smote – Songs From The Free House
The Bevis Frond – Horrorful Heights *****
The Bevis Frond – Horrorful Offal
Slash – Orgy Of The Damned
Samana – s/t
Lavinia Blackwall – The Making
Jeff Parker – The Way Out Of Easy*****
Dead Otter – The Sentinel *****
The Milk & Honey Band – Songs From Truleigh Hill
Major Stars – More Colours Of Sound *****
Cate Brooks – Prismatics
Guided By Voices –  Thick, Rich & Delicious
Tortoise – Touch
Thee Headcoatees – Man Trap
John Smith – Gatherings
The Beasts – Ultimo
EarthBall w Steve Beresford & Chris Corsano – Actual Earth Music Vol 1 & 2
The OhSees – Live At The Board
The Apartments – That’s What The Music Is For
The Gymkhana – Follyfoot 71-73
Marcel Wave – Something Coming
Me Lost Me – This Material Moment
The New Starts – More Breakup Songs *****
The Sexual Objects – Orangutang
Darren Hayman & His Electric Guitars – Amazing Things

NEW OLD RECORDS – reissues, archive & comp’s

Sonny Rollins – Freedom Weaver, Europe Tour (1959)*****
Gene Clark – No Other Sessions (1974)
Pink Floyd – Live At Pompeii (1972)*****
John Lee Hooker – Standard School Broadcast (1973)*****
McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson – Forces Of Nature (1966)*****
Sonny Rollins & Don Cherry – Home Sweet Home (1962)
Hawkwind – Live Royal Albert Hall (2023) *****
Flying Burrito Brothers – Live (1976)
John Surman & Karin Krog – Electrical Element (2013)
V/A – Spiritual Jazz Behind The Iron Curtain Vol 1 (1960’s- ‘90s) *****
V/A – Spiritual Jazz Behind The Iron Curtain Vol 2 (1960’s – ‘90s)*****
Trevor Beales – Fireside Stories (1971-4)
Gram Parsons – The Last Roundup (1973)*****
V/A – Pyramid Pieces 1, Modal & Eco-Jazz From Australia (1969-79)*****
The Lilac Time – Astronauts (expanded) (2011)
Muddy Waters- The Montreux Years (1972-77)*****
Mario Migliardi – Matalo! s/t (1970)*****
Tezeta – Seventh Place (2015)*****
Pharoah Sanders – Love Is Here (1975)
Derek Bailey & Shoji Hano – Fish (2000)*****
V/A – Pyramid Pieces 2, Modern Jazz Australia (1969-80)*****

OLD RECORDS

Marion Brown – Sweet Earth Flying (1974)*****
Loudon Wainwright III – Fame And Wealth (1983)*****
Loudon Wainwright III – Album II (1971)
The Byrds – Mr Tambourine Man (1965)*****
The Byrds – Turn! Turn! Turn! (1965)*****
The Byrds – Fifth Dimension (1966)*****
The Byrds – Younger Than Yesterday (1967)*****
The Byrds – Notorious Byrd Brothers (1968)*****
The Byrds – Sweetheart Of The Rodeo (1968)*****
The Byrds – Dr Byrds & Mr Hyde (1969)*****
Agitation Free – Last (1974)*****
The Byrds – Ballad of Easy Rider (1969)*****
The Byrds – Untitled (1970)*****
The Byrds – Byrdmaniax (1971)
The Byrds – Farther Along (1971)
Terry Melcher – s/t (1974)*****
Doris Duke – A Legend In Her Own Time (1971)
Doris Duke – Woman (1975)
Doris Duke – I’m A Loser (1970)
Betty Swann – s/t (1968-70)
Bobbie Gentry – Ode To Billie Joe (1967)*****
Johnny Rivers – Slim Slow Slider (1970)
Johnny Rivers – Home Grown (1972)
Gene Clark w The Gosdin Brothers – s/t (1967)*****
Dillard & Clark – The Fantastic Expedition Of (1968)
Rain Parade – Emergency 3rd Rail Power Trip plus (1983)*****
Swervedriver – Raise (1991)*****
Discharge – Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing (1982)
Buffy Sainte-Marie – Little Wheel Spin And Spin (1966)
Buffy Sainte-Marie – Illuminations (1969)*****
Buffy Sainte-Marie – She Used To Wanna Be A Ballerina (1971)
The Dillards – Copperfields (1970)
Andy Bell – The View From Halfway Down (2020)
Lindisfarne – Nicely Out Of Tune (1970)
Lindisfarne – Fog On The Tyne (1971)
Lindisfarne – Roll On Ruby (1973)
Bodkin – s/t (1972)
Eugene Kelly – Older Faster (2003)
Eugene Kelly – Man Alive (2003)
Ski Patrol – Versions Of A Life (1979-81)
Brian Auger Trinity & Julie Driscoll – Jools & Brian (1968)
Brian Auger Trinity & Julie Driscoll – Live On Air (1966-71)
Bros. Landreth – Undercover Brothers (2017)
Adam’s House Cat – Town Burned Down (1990)
Drive-By Truckers – Gangstabilly (1998)
Drive-By Truckers – Pizza Delivery (1999)
Stereolab – Chemical Chords (2008)
Lee Ranaldo & The Dust – Last Night On Earth (2013)
The Fall – Live Oslo Oyafestivalen (2006)
Dinosaur – Dinosaur (1985) *****
Chene Noir – Orphee 2000 (1976)*****
Brigitte Fontaine & Areski Belkacem – L’incendie (1973)
The Band – Music From Big Pink (1968)
Beasts Of Bourbon – Little Animals (2007)
Rob Snarski – Song Gifts (2020)
Tommy Keene – Based On Happy Times (1989)
Dumptruck – For The Country (1987)*****
Dan Penn – Nobody’s Fool (1973)
Angry Samoans – Back From Samoa (1982)
The Band – s/t (1969)
Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (1969)*****
The Opposition – Intimacy (1983)*****
Brigg – s/t (1973)
John Lee Hooker – It Serves You Right To Suffer (1966)
John Lee Hooker – And Seven Nights (1966)
John Lee Hooker – The Real Folk Blues (1966)
John Lee Hooker – More Real Folk Blues (1966)
John Lee Hooker – Live At The Café Au-Go-Go (1967)*****
John Lee Hooker – Urban Blues (1967)
John Lee Hooker – Simply The Truth (1969)*****
Charlie Feathers – Gone Gone Gone (1956)
Pram – The Stars Are So Big (1993)
Broadcast – Work And Non-Work (1997)*****
John Foxx & Belbury Poly – Empty Avenues (2013)
The Bothy Band – Out Of The Wind, Into The Sun (1977)
Michael Nesmith & 1^st National Band – Magnetic South (1970)
Pretty Things – Get The Picture (1965)
True West – Hollywood Holiday (1983)
True West – Drifters (1984)*****
Roger McGuinn – s/t (1973)
The Nightingales – Hysterics (1993)*****
Fred Neil – s/t (1966)*****
David Blue – David Blue (1965)
The Continental Drifters – Live New Orleans Jazz Festival (2023)
The Continental Drifters – Listen Listen (2001)*****
Steve Earle, Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark – Together At The Bluebird (1995)*****
Steve Earle –  Copperhead Road (1988)*****
Freddy Weller – Games People Play (1969)
Billy Joe Royal – Down In The Boondocks (1965)
Bobbie Gentry – Ode To Billie Joe (1967)*****
Dolly Parton – Blue Smoke (2014)
Dom – Edge Of Time (1972)
Popealopes – Kerosene (1990)*****
The Waterboys – All Soul’s Hill (2022)
Eleventh Dream Day – Beet (1989)*****
Eleventh Dream Day – Lived To Tell (1991)
Shocking Blue – At Home (1969)*****
Burnin Red Ivanhoe – M144 (1969)
Joe McPhee Quartet – Underground Railroad (1969)
Byard Lancaster – It’s Not Up To Us (1968)
Saint Just – s/t (1973)
The Saints – I’m Stranded (1977)*****
The Saints – Eternally Yours (1978)*****
Stereolab – Peng! (1992)*****
Stereolab – The Groop Played Space-Age Bachelor Pad Music (1993)
Stereolab – Transient Random-Noise Bursts W Announcements (1993)
The Police – Outlandos d’Amour (1978)*****
The Police – Reggatta de Blanc (1979)
Yeah Yeah Noh – Leicester Square (1983-86)*****
The Weather Prophets – Mayflower (1987)*****
Brilliant Corners – Growing Up Absurd (1985)*****
Tom Robinson Band – Power In The Darkness (1978)*****
Biff Bang Pow – Pass The Paintbrush Honey (1985)
The Police – Zenyatta Mondatta (1979)*
The Police – Ghost In The Machine (1980)*
The Police – Synchronicity (1981)*
Mark Lindsay – Arizona (1970)
Wild Butter – s/t (1970)
Boatclub – s/t (2008)
Popealopes -Slowest Eye (1994)*****
Nanci Griffith – Lone Star State Of Mind (1987)
Nanci Griffith – Little Love Affairs (1998)
Nanci Griffith – One Fair Summer Evening (1998)*****
Nancy Sinatra – Boots (1966)
Nancy Sinatra – How Does That Grab You? (1966)
Matt Piucci – Helenes (2000)
Red Guitars – Good Technology (1982-4)
Ron Davies – Silent Song Through The Land (1970)
New Riders Of The Purple Sage – s/t (1971)*****
Poco – Picking Up The Pieces (1969)
Poco – s/t (1970)
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band – Uncle Charlie & His Dog Teddy (1970)
Hoyt Axton – Saturday’s Child (1963)
Earl Scruggs – Performing With His Family & Friends (1972)
Johnny Rivers – Changes (1967)
Pure Prairie League – s/t (1972)
Bill Fay – s/t (1970)
Bill Fay – Time Of The Last Persecution (1971)*****
Eric Burdon & The Animals – Winds Of Change (1967)*****
Eric Burdon & The Animals – The Twain Shall Meet (1967)*****
Rich Hopkins & Luminarios – El Otro Lado (2010)*****
Rich Hopkins & Luminarios – Buried Treasures (2012)
Xixa – Road Beyond The Valley (acoustic) – (2022)
Morphine – Good (1992) *****
Magnapop – Hot Boxing (1994)
New York Dolls – Lipstick Killers (1972)
Stars of Heaven – Sacred Heart Hotel (1986)*****
Stars of Heaven – Speak Slowly (1988)
The Sewing Room – And Nico (1995)
Steve Wynn – Melting In The Dark (1996)*****
Conflict – The Ungovernable Force (1986)*****
Dan Stuart  – Can O’ Worms (1995)*****
Yard Trauma – Face To Face (1988)
Serge Gainsbourg – Anna (1967)
Catherine Ribeiro & Alpes – Paix (1972)*****
Wishing Stones – The Old Road Out Of Town (1988)
Wishing Stones – Wildwood (1991)
Yard Trauma – Music (1983-86)
Nick Gravenites & John Cipollina – Monkey Medicine (1982)
John Cipollina / Raven – s/t (1980)
Clear Light – s/t (1967)
Pete Astor – Time On Earth (2022)*****
The Bothy Band – After Hours (1978)*****
Black Uhuru – Sinsemilla (1980)*****
Emmet Spiceland – The First (1969)
The Bothy Band – Old Hag You Have Killed Me (1976)*****
The Bothy Band – s/t (1975)
Paddy Keenan – s/t (1975)*****
Johnny Cash – Bitter Tears (1964)*****
Brain Donor – Love Peace & Fuck (2001)*****
Brain Donor – Drain’d Boner (2006)*****
Jessie Mae Hemphill – She-Wolf (1981)*****
UK Subs – Another Kind Of Blues (1979)*****
Charles Caldwell – Remember Me (2002)*****
Psycho-Daisies – 30mg Of Your Love (1990)*****
Alex G – Rocket (2017)
The Beatnik Filmstars – Laid Back And English (1993)
The Groove Farm – Alvin Is King (1984)
Tex, Don and Charlie – Sad But True (1993)*****
June Tabor – Aquaba (1988)*****
Martin Carthy – Out Of The Cut (1982)*****
Brass Monkey – Complete (1983-86)
Martin Carthy – Rites Of Passage (1988)*****
Kristin Hersch – Hips & Makers (1994)*****
Dark – Dark Round The Edges (1972)*****
Vanilla Fudge – Near The Beginning (1969)
Mother Earth – Make A Joyful Noise (1969)
Renee Reed – s/t (2021)
Bob Dylan – Time Out Of Mind (1997)*****
Bob Dylan – Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid (1973)
Stereolab – Dots & Loops (1997)*****
Bob Dylan – Love & Theft (2001)
Various Artists – Acid Jam (1988)*****
Outskirts of Infinity – Scenes From The Dreams Of Angels (1989)
Bob Dylan – Bringing It All Back Home (1965)*****
Various Artists – Doin’ It For The Kids (1988)*****
Rick Roberts – Windmills (1972)
Mudhoney – Superfuzz Bigmuff (1988)*****
Tim Buckley – Goodbye & Hello (1967)
Tim Hardin – Tim Hardin 1 (1966)
Tim Hardin – Tim Hardin 2 (1967)
Tim Hardin – Tim Hardin 3 (1968)
Clint Eastwood & General Saint – Stop That Train (1983)
Ranking Trevor – In Fine Style (1978)
Howe Gelb & Lonna Kelly – Further Standards (2017)*****
Dave Heumann – Here In The Deep (2015)
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band – Gold From Dirt (1967-75)*****
Ohio Players – Honey (1975)
Tom Verlaine – Songs & Other Things (2006)
Walkabouts – Scavenger (1991)*****
The Darkside – All That Noise (1990)*****
Isaac Hayes – Hot Buttered Soul (1969)*****
King Sunny Ade & African Beats – Synchro System (1983)*****
Richard & Linda Thompson – Shoot Out The Lights (1982)
Marion Brown – Duets Vol I (1975)*****
John Coltrane – Live @ Village Vanguard Again (1966)*****
Jimmy Webb – Letters (1972)
Brian Jonestown Massacre – Methodrone (1995)
Brian Jonestown Massacre – Spacegirl & Other Favorites (1995)
Ozark Mountain Daredevils – Men From Earth (1976)
Matthews Southern Comfort – s/t (1969)
Anastasia Screamed – Laughing Down The Limehouse (1990)
Grant Lee Buffalo – Fuzzy (1993)*****
David Blue – Comin’ Back For More (1975)*
Eric Andersen – Blue River (1972)
John McLaughlin, John Surman, Dave Holland – Where Fortune Smiles (1971)*****
Mahavishnu Orchestra – The Inner Mounting Flame (1971)*****
Spontaneous Music Ensemble – Questions & Answers (1966)*****
Satan’s Host – Pre-dating God (2015)
Gene Clark & Carla Olson – So Rebellious A Lover (1987)*****
Don Cherry – s/t (1977)*****
Chris McGregor Septet – Up To Earth (1969)
Herman’s Hermits – Blaze (1967)
Thelma Houston – Sunshower (1969)
Casey Kelly – s/t (1972)
The Fall – Hex Enduction Hour (1982)*****
Keef Hartley Band – Halfbreed (1969)*****
The Alan Bown – Outward Bound (1969)
Alan Bown – Listen (1970)
Paladin – s/t (1971)
T2 – It’ll All Work Out In Boomland (1970)*****
Sonny Criss – Portrait Of (1967)*****
Doug Sahm & His Band – s/t (1973)
Echo & The Bunnymen – Reverberation (1990)
Toad – s/t (1971)
Poco – From The Inside (1971)
The Tragically Hip – Up To Here (1989)*****
Blitz – Second Empire Justice (1983)
King Blank – The Real Dirt (1988)
Lou Reed – New York (1989)*****
JSD Band – Country Of The Blind (1971)
Dick Gaughan – Coppers And Brass (1977)
Homesick James – Home Sweet Homesick James (1980)
JB Hutto – Slidin’ The Blues (1982)
Paul Horn – Inside The Taj Mahal (1968)
Arthur Jones – Scorpio (1971)
Mother Hen – s/t (1971)
Flying Burrito Brothers – Flying Again (1975)
Eddie Harris – Silver Cycles (1966)
Jacques Coursil – Black Suite (1971)
Martyn Wyndham-Read – s/t (1971)
Doug Sahm & Band – s/t (1973)
Sir Douglas Quintet – Together After Five (1970)
Man & Friends – Christmas At The Patti (1972)
Doll By Doll – Gypsy Blood (1979)
Ornette Coleman – Free Jazz (1961)*****
Planxty – Words & Music (1993)
Eddie Harris – High Voltage (1969)
Brandy Clark – Your Life Is A Record (2020)
Planxty – s/t (1973)
Dexter Gordon – Nights At The Keystone (1978)*****
Bob Davenport – Postcards Home (1976)
Nic Jones – s/t (1971)*****
Nic Jones – Ballads & Songs (1970)*****
Dick Gaughan – Kist O’Gold (1977)*****
Nic Jones – The Noah’s Ark Trap (1977)*****
Dick Gaughan – Handful Of Earth (1981)*****
Poco – Rose of Cimarron (1976)
Poco – Deliverin’ (1970)
Mad River – Paradise Bar & Grill (1969)*****
Mick Wills – Fern Hill (1988)*****
Bevis Frond – Focus On Nature (2024)*****
Elle McIlwaine – Honky Tonk Angel (1972)*****
Hawkwind – Warrior At The Edge Of Time (1975)*****
Ant Trip Ceremony – s/t (1968)
Porcupine Tree – On The Sunday Of Life (1992)
Gnidrolog – Lady Lake (1972)
King Crimson – Red (1974)*****
Nic Jones – From The Devil To A Stranger (1978)*****
Flying Burrito Brothers – Cabin Fever (1985)
V/A – Wheels, A Tribute To Gram Parsons & Clarence White (1988)
Earl Scruggs Revue – Vol II (1976)
Earl Scruggs Revue – I Saw The Light (1971)
Earl Scruggs Revue – s/t (1973)
Earl Scruggs Revue – Rockin’ Cross The Country (1974)
Earl Scruggs Revue – Anniversary Special (1975)*****
Earl Scruggs Revue – Live From Austin City Limits (1977)
Ron Carter – Pastels (1977)
John Surman & Karin Krog – Cloud Line Blue (1979)*****
Dusty Stray – Estranged (2018)
Isaac Hayes – Black Moses (1971)
Flying Burrito Brothers – Dim Lights, Thick Smoke (1969-70)*****
Miles Davis – Kind Of Blue (1959)*****
Jeannie C Riley – Jeannie (1971)
Rita Coolidge – s/t (1971)
Anthrax (UK) – Serf’s Out (2021)
Poison Girls – Hex (1979)
John Hartford – s/t (1969)
Steve Wynn – Plays Dylan (2011)*****
Harmonia – Deluxe (1975)*****
Harmonia – Music Von Harmonia (1974)*****
Lou Donaldson – Sweet Lou (1974)
Dream Syndicate – The Universe Inside (2020)*****
Dream Syndicate – How We Found Ourselves… (2018)*****
Danny & Dusty – The Lost Weekend (1985)*****
Kate Village & Wayne Rogers – Quits (2001)
Pink Floyd – Meddle (1971)*****
John Lee Hooker – The Cream (1977)
The Servants – It’s My Time (1989)
Jaques Coursil Unit – Way Ahead (1969)
Rich Hopkins – My Lucky Stars (2001)
People’s Victory Orchestra – The School (1972)
Jeronimo – s/t (1971)
Jane – Together (1972)
Jane – Fire, Water, Earth & Air (1976)
Sonny Boy Williamson – Down & Out Blues (1966)
Bonnie Koloc – After All This Time (1971)
The Bevis Frond – It Just Is (1993)
The Bevis Frond – Sprawl (1994)
Yoshiaki Miyanque – Song For Wes (1969)
King Tubby & Lee Perry – At The Grass Roots Of Dub (1974)*****
Charles Tyler – Sixty Minute Man (1979)*****
John Surman, Pierre Favre, Karin Krog – Such Winters Of Memory (1983)*****
Derek Bailey – Solo Guitar (1971)*****
Archie Shepp & Karin Krog – Hi-Fly (1976)
Flying Burrito Brothers – s/t (1971)
Gene Clark – Firebyrd (1985)
Chief Dan George & Fireweed – In Circle (1973)
Cannonball Adderley – Big Man (1975)
Upsetters – Blackboard Jungle Dub (1981)*****
Howe Gelb – The Coincidentalist (2013)
Howe Gelb – Dust Bowl (2013)
Howe Gelb – Future Standards (2014)*****
Big Dipper – Heavens (1987) *****
Clay Alison – Live At The Electric Banana (1985)*****
Brighde Chaimbeull – The Reeling (2019)
John Lee Hooker & Canned Heat – Hooker ‘n’ Heat (1971)*****
John Lee Hooker – Sings And Plays The Blues (1961)
John Lee Hooker – if You Miss ‘Im, I Got ‘Im/Lonesome Mood (1970)
Koichi Matsukaze Trio – At The Room 427 (1976)*****
Shintaro Quintet – Evolution (1984)
Lee Hazlewood – Woke Up Sunday Morning… (1966/7)*****
Butterfield Blues Band – East-West (1966)*****
Trinity – Three Piece Suit (1977)
Anonymous – Inside The Shadow (1976)
Marion Brown – Porto Novo (1967)*****
Robert Johnson – 20 Blues Greats (1937/38)*****
Tim Hardin – Suite For Susan Moore & Damion (1969)
Ali Farka Toure – Voyageur (1991-2004)*****
The Doors – The Soft Parade (1969)
Lankum – Live In Dublin (2024)*****
Steve Almaas – Beat Rodeo (1982)
Steamhammer – s/t (1969)*****
J B Hutto & The New Hawks – Sideslinger (1982)
Lightnin’ Hopkins – Freeform Patterns (1968)
The Flesh Eaters – Dragstrip Riot (1991)
The Pontiac Brothers – Big Black River (1985)*****
The Grapes of Wrath – Now And Again (1989)
Space Opera – s/t (1972)
Crabby Appleton – s/t (1970)
Life Stinks – You’ll Never Make It (2015)
Bert Jansch – It Don’t Bother Me (1965)*****
The Method Actors – This Is Still It (1981-3)
Tangerine Zoo – s/t (1968)
The Zoo – Presents Chocolate Moose (1968)
Angry Samoans – Back From Samoa (1982)*****
Reet Maff’l – Unofficial Histories Vol 1 (2021)
Badgewearer – John Peel Session (Jan 1995)
Bert Jansch – Jack Orion (1966)*****
Garland Jeffreys – Ghost Wdrunkr (1977)
The Heads – Undersided (2002)*****
Nova Express – One (2002)
Paisiel – Unconscious Death Wishes (2020)
Tremeloes – Master (1970)
Planxty – The Well Below The Valley (1973)
Harsh Reality – Heaven And Hell (1969)
Sonny Rollins – The Solo Album (1985)*****
Sonny Stitt – I Cover The Waterfront (1976)
Sonny Stitt & Hank Jones Trio – Good Life (1976)
Rita Coolidge – The Lady’s Not For Sale (1972)
Mike Nesmith – Loose Salute (1970)
Mississippi Fred McDowell – I Don’t Play Rock‘n’Roll (1969)*****
Mimi & Richard Farina – Celebrations For A Grey Day (1965)
B.O.R.B. – Trailer Full Of Smoke
Jo-Ann Kelly – s/t (1969)*****
Jo-Ann Kelly w John Fahey, Woody Mann etc – s/t (1972)
Jessi Colter – A Country Star Is Born (1970)
Jessi Colter – I’m Jessi Colter (1975)
Jessi Colter – Jessi (1976)
Rich Hopkins – Devolver/Bailey In The Sky (1999)*****
Mississippi Fred McDowell w Jo-Ann Kelly – Standing At The Burying Ground (1969)*****
John Coltrane –  Crescent (1964)*****
McKowski – Notes From The Boneyard (2023)
Steve Wynn – Take Your Flunky & Dangle (1998)
Dream Syndicate – Ultraviolet Battle Hymns & True Confessions (2022)
Brass Monkey – See How It Was (1986)
Bob Dylan -Under A Red Sky (1990)
Ry Cooder – Boomer’s Story (1972)
Furry Lewis – Back On My Feet Again (1961)
John Lee Hooker – Never Get Out Of These Blues Alive (1972)*****
John Lee Hooker – In Person (1974)*****
Homesick James & Snooky Pryor – s/t (1971)
11.59 – This Our Sacrifice Of Praise (1974)
JB Hutto & The Hawks – Masters of Modern Blues Vol 2 (1966)
Al Kooper & Steve Katz – s/t (1970)
Dransfield – Fiddler’s Dream (1976)
Jack Frost – s/t (1990)
The Lovely Eggs – Eggsistentialism (2024)*****
Howe Gelb – Gathered (2019)*****
Sylvie Simmons – Sylvie (2014)
Bob Dylan – Oh Mercy (1989)*****
Bob Dylan – Shot of Love (1981)
Skip James – Greatest Of The Delta Blues Singers (1964)*****
John Martyn – Grace & Danger (1980)
Sonny Boy Williamson – Don’t Send Me No Flowers (1965)
John Fahey – Blind Joe Death (1959)*****
John Lee Hooker – Born In Mississippi, Raised In Texas (1973)
Johnny Griffin & Art Taylor – Live In Copenhagen (1964)*****
Peter Green  – The End Of The Game (1970)
Rich Hopkins & Luminarios – My Lucky Stars (2001)
Eric Von Schmidt – 2^nd Right 3^rd Row (1972)
John & Beverley Martin – Stormbringer (1970)
Sylvie Simmons – Blue On Blue (2020)
Howe Gelb – Gathered (2019)
Colorist Orchestra w Howe Gelb & Pieta Brown – Not On The Map (2021)
Michael Rother – Fernwarme (1982)
Michael Rother – Flammende Herzen (1977)
Michael Rother – Sterntaler (1978)
Harmonia – Musik Von Harmonia (1974)*****
John Coltrane – Live At The Village Vanguard (1961)*****
John Coltrane – Live At The Village Vanguard Again (1966)*****
McCoy Tyner – Atlantis (1975)*****
Herbie Hancock – Maiden Voyage (1965)*****
Nik Turner & The Space Falcons – Interstellar Energy (2020)
Cotton Mather – Kontiki (1997)*****
McCoy Tyner Trio – Reaching Forth (1963)
Roy Haynes Quartet – Out Of The Afternoon (1962)
Hawkwind – Into the Woods (2017)
Hawkwind – All Aboard The Skylark (2019)
Michael Rother – Katzenmusik (1979)
Loop – Array 1 (2015)
Dream Syndicate – Out Of The Grey (1986)
Gene Clark – Two Sides To Every Story (1977)
Sly & The Family Drone – Walk It Dry (2020)
Sly & The Family Drone – Gentle Persuaders (2018)
Damo Suzuki – Arkaoda (2020)
John Coltrane w Eric Dolphy – Nights At The Village Gate (1961)
Pete La Roca – Basra (1965)
Paul Horn & Nexus (1975)
Hawkwind – Somnia (2021)
Smote – Genog (2023)
Telescopes – Taste (1989)
Hawkwind – Into The Woods (2017)
Oracles – Bedroom Eyes (2016)
Husker Du – Warehouse Songs & Stories (1987)*****
Nik Turner – Space Gypsy (2013)
Soft Machine – Drop (1971)*****
Hawkwind – We Are Looking In On You  (2022)
Richard Youngs – Sapphie (1997)*****
Anne Briggs – The Time Has Come (1971)*****
Eddie Ray Porter – When The Morning Falls (1986)
The Great Outdoors – Making Allowances For The Jargon (1986)
Seam – Headsparks (1992)
Joe Ely -s/t (1977)
Joe Ely – From Lubbock To Laredo (2002)
PF Sloan – Raised On Records (1972)*****
Michael Martin Murphey – Swans Against The Sun (1975)
Guy Clark – Old No. 1 (1975)
Oddsocks – Men Of The Moment (1975)
John Coltrane – Live In Paris (1965)*****
Nanci Griffith – Lone Star State Of Mind (1987)
Nanci Griffith – Last Of The True Believers (1986)*****
Paul Brady – Welcome Here Kind Stranger  (1978)*****
The Bothy Band – Afterhours (1978)*****
Angel Bat Dawid & The Brotherhood – Live (2020)
The Fall – Live 1977 (1977)
Oliver Nelson Sextet – Screaming The Blues (1961)
Oliver Nelson w Eric Dolphy – Straight Ahead (1961)
Dexy’s Midnight Runners – Searching For The Young Soul Rebels (1980)*****
Dexy’s Midnight Runners – Too Rye Aye (1982)*****
Dexy’s Midnight Runners – Don’t Stand Me Down (1985)
Chris Cutler, Fred Frith, Thomas Dimuzio – Golden State (2010)
Miles Davis – On The Corner (1972)
The Deviants – Disposable (1968)
Matthew Stevens – Pittsburgh (2021)*****
Kevin Rowland – The Wanderer (1988)
Kevin Rowland – My Beauty (1999)
Steve Earle – Jerry Jeff (2022)
Ian McCulloch – Slideling (2003)
Cocteau Twins – Head Over Heels (1983)*****
Gene Parsons – Kindling (1973)*****
Gene Parsons – Melodies (1979)
Hawkwind – Spacehawks (2013)
Vic Conrad & The 1^st 3^rd – s/t (2000)
Nik Turner – The Final Frontier (2019)
Nik Turner – Life In Space (2017)
Terry Callier – What Colour Is Love? (1973)
Skip Battin – Topanga Skyline (1973)
Flying Burrito Brothers – Gilded Palace Of Sin (1969)*****
Flying Burrito Brothers – Close Up In Washington (1969)
Dean Wareham vs Cheval Sombre – s/t (2018)
Chris Hillman – Bidin’ My Time (2017)
Neil Young – Hitchhiker (1976)*****
Britta Phillips – Luck Or Magic (2016)
Gwenifer Raymond – You Never Were Much Of A Dancer (2018)****
Luna – A Sentimental Education (2017)
Epic Soundtracks – Wild Smile (2012)
Epic Soundtracks – Rise Above (1992)
Epic Soundtracks – Good Things (1996)
Godspeed You Black Emperor – Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend! (2012)
Whitney K – Hard To Be A God (2022)
The Smiths – s/t (1984)*****
The Hollowmen – Sinister Flower Gift (1986)
Black Country New Road – For The First Time (2021)*****
Black Country New Road – Ants From Up There (2022)*****
Black Country New Road – Live At Bush Hall (2023) *****
Tom T Hall & Earl Scruggs – The Storyteller & The Banjo Man (1982)
The Gun Club – A Love Supreme (1982)
Nik Turner – Space Ritual Live (1994)
Sammy Johns – s/t (1973)
Circle – General (2004)
Divine Horsemen – Snake Handler (1987)
Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Toast (2002)
Nik Turner – Past Or Future (1996)
Trees Speak – Post-Human (2021)
Paul B Cutler -Les Fleurs (2023)
Epic Soundtracks – Debris (1995)
Mazzy Star – Among My Swan (1996)*****
Warser Gate – All Of My Hates, All Of My Hang-Ups (1996)
Bob Dylan – Highway 61 Revisited (1965)*****
Cymande – s/t (1972)*****
A Full Cosmic Sound – AFCS (2012-19)
Nik Turner – I Do What I Like (2021)*****
Nik Turner – Space Fusion Odyssey (2015)
Geese – Projector (2021)
Geese – 3D Country (2023)
Luna – Bewitched (1993) *****
Luna – Penthouse (1995) *****
Emmylou Harris – Angel Band (1987)
Nik Turner – The Final Frontier (2019)
Acetone – 1992-2001 (1992-2001)*****
Galactic Supermarket – s/t (1974)*****
Vern Gosdin – If You’re Gonna Do Me Wrong (Do It Right) (1982)
Michael Nesmith – Live At The Palais (1978)
David Wertman & Sun Ensemble – Earthly Delights (1978)*****
Mystery Plane – Still Life (1981)
Big Thief – Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You (2022)
The Nasties – s/t (2006)
Oliver – Standing Stone (1974)*****
Nik Turner – Prophets Of Time (2023)*
Caroline – s/t (2022)
Incredible String Band – Relics (1966-71)*****
Incredible String Band – Changing Horses (1969)
Incredible String Band – Hard Rope & Silken Twine (1974)
The Dandelion Adventure – Puppy Shrine (1989)
Inca Babies – Plutonium (1983-87)
JB Hutto & The New Hawks – Keeper Of The Flame (1979)
Ambitious Lovers – Greed (1988)
Moonshake – Eva Luna (1992)
Incredible String Band – The 5000 Spirits (1967)*****
The Fates – Furia (1985)
Acid Mothers’ Temple – Paralyzed Genius Brain (2023)
Jane Weaver – Flock (2021)
Mammatus – Expanding Majesty (2023)*****
Arcana – The Last Wave (1996)*****
Sleep – Dopesmoker (2003)*****
Chris Cacavas – Love’s Been Re-discontinued (2013)
Prolapse – Pointless Walks To Distant Places (1994)*****
John Martyn – The Church With One Bell (1998)
Brown Spirits – Solitary Transmissions (2023)
Wolves In The Throne Room – Crypt of Ancestral Knowledge (2023)
Tony Joe White – Rain Crow (2016)
King Curtis – Live At Filmore West (1971)
Joe Cocker – With A Little Help From My Friends (1969)
Stereolab – Super 45 (1991)*****
Stereolab – Switched On (1992)*****
Stereolab – Peng (1992)*****
Sterling Roswell – The Psychedelic Ubik (2004)
Sterling Roswell – The Call Of The Cosmos (2014)
Brigid Mae Power – Dreams From The Deep Well (2023)
Brigid Mae Power – Burning Your Light (2021)
The OhSees – Live At Levitation 2012 (2023)
The Telescopes – Altered Perceptions (1989-92)
The Telescopes – Hungry Audio Tapes (2006)
Dave Kusworth – The Bounty Hunters (1986)
Jacobites – s/t (1984)
Jacobites – Robspierre’s Velvet Basement (1985)*****
Jacobites – God Save Us Poor Sinners (1998)
Jacobites – Howling Good Times (1993)
Jacobites – Old Scarlett (1995)
Frankie Armstrong – I Heard A Woman Singing (1984)*****
The OhSees – Carrion Crawler / The Dream (2011)
John Coltrane – The Last Trane (1958)
John Coltrane – Bahia (1958)
Tangerine Dream – Atem (1973)
The OhSees – The Hounds of Foggy Notion (2008)
Landless – Bleaching Bones (2018)
Solar Temple – The Great Star Above Provides (2023)*****
David Grubbs – Prismrose (2016)*****
Suns of The Tundra – Bones of Brave Ships (2014)
McCoy Tyner – The Real McCoy (1967)*****
Jasmine Minks – Revenge Of The (1984-2004)*****
Carlton Melton – Out To Sea (2014)*****
Carlton Melton – Aground (2016)
Carlton Melton – Hidden Lights (2017)
Hawkwind – Space Bandits (1990)
Bobbie Gentry – Windows Of The World (1969)
The Baseball Project – Volume I (2008)
The Baseball Project – Volume II (2011)
Neil Young – Somewhere Under The Rainbow (1973)
Van Morrison – Saint Dominic’s Preview (1972)*****
Van Morrison – Astral Weeks (1968)*****
PW Long’s Reelfoot  – We Didn’t See You On Sunday (1997)*****
Sonic Youth – Anagrama (1997)
TC Lethbridge – Moon Equipped (1994)
Rick Rizzo & Tara Key – Dark Edson Tiger (2000)*****
Essential Logic – Wake Up (1979)
Au Pairs – Playing With A Different Sex (1981)*****
La Dusseldorf – s/t (1976)
The Badgeman – Ritual Landscape (1992)
Bhajan Bhoy – Shanti Shanti Shanti (2022)
The Loft – Once Round The Fair (1982-5)*****
The Loft – Ghost Trains & Country Lanes (1984 – 2015)
The Weather Prophets – Diesel River (1986)
The Weather Prophets – Mayflower (1987)
The Weather Prophets – Judges, Juries, Horsemen (1988)
The Weather Prophets – Temperance Hotel (1989)
The Weather Prophets – Blue Skies & Free Rides (1986-9)
The Caretaker Race – Hangover Square (1990)
The Wishing Stones – Wildwood (1991)
Pete Astor – Injury Time (1989-93)
Hawklords – Six (2017)
Hawklords – Space (2023)
Au Pairs – Sense & Sensuality (1982)
Sonic Youth – Washing Machine (1995)
Hawkwind – Church Of Hawkwind (1982)
Aidan Connell – Griot (2018)
Ulthar – Cosmovore (2018)
The Flamin’ Groovies – ’70 (1970)
Mutilation Rites – Empyrean (2012)
PW Long – God Bless The Drunkard’s Dog (2006)
James Elkington & Nathan Salsburg – Ambsace (2015)
Steve Earle – JT (2021)
Steve Earle – Ghosts of West Virginia (2020)
The Byrds – Byrdmaniax (1971)
Thee OhSees – Help (2009)
Space Art – s/t (1977)
The Charlatans – Playing In The Hall (1997)
Hawkwind – Blood Of The Earth (2010)
Miles Davis – At Filmore : Live At The Fillmore East (1970)*****
Hawkwind – Spacehawks (2013)
Hawkwind – The Machine Stopes (2016)
Milkshakes – They Came, They Saw, They Conquered (1983)
Lil’ Lost Lou – s/t (2016)
Sandy Denny – Gold Dust (1977)
Laetitia Sadier – The Trip (2010)
McKenna Mendelson Mainline – Stink (1969)
The Inn – Psychedelic Schedule (1987)
Tobin Sprout – Carnival Boy (1996)*****
Tommy Keene – Based On Happy Times (1989)
The OhSees – Drop (2014)
Howe Gelb – The Coincidentalist (2014)*****</strong
Monde UFO – s/t (2021)
Glen Campbell – Adios (2017)
Glen Campbell – Ghost On The Canvas (2011)
Gunslingers – Supreme Asphalt Dossier (2023)
1968 – Salvation If You Need It (2021)
John Coltrane – Cosmic Music (1966)*****
Holy Family – Go Zero (2023)
The Cosmic Dead – Psyche Is Dead (2017)
Tarotplane – The Ektachrome Dream (2022)
Green Pajamas – Summer Of Lust (1984)
Neil Halstead – Palindrome Hunches (2012)
Sodomized Cadaver – Morbid Tales Of Mutilation (2020)
Endless Boogie – Vibe Killer (2017)
Byrds – s/t (1973)
McGuinn, Clark & Hillman – s/t (1979)*
McGuinn & Hillman – s/t (1980)*
Roger McGuinn & Chris Hillman – City (1980)*
T2 – It’ll All Work Out In Boomland (1970)*****
Gene Clark – Early LA Sessions (1967)*****
Gene Clark & Carla Olson – So Rebellious A Lover (1987)
Marshall Chapman – Me I’m Feeling Fine (1977)
Bob Dylan – Self Portrait (1970)*****
Serpent Venom – Carnal Altar (2011)
Martin Carthy – Right Of Passage (1988)*****
The Savage Rose – In The Plain (1968)
Shakin’ Street – s/t (1980)
Sonic Youth – Battery Park, NYC (2008)
Lee Ranaldo – Electric Trim (2007)
The Records – Shades In Bed (1979)
Swervedriver – Mezcal Head (1993)
Glitterburst – s/t (2022)
Echo & The Bunnymen – What Are You Going To Do With Your Life? (1999)
Larry Jon Wilson – New Beginnings (1975)
Galileo 7 – There Is Only Now (2019)
Jane Weaver – The Silver Globe (2014)
Redbone – s/t (1970)
Andrew Wasylyk – Hearing The Water Before Seeing The Falls (2022)
Meg Baird – Don’t Weigh Down The Light (2015)
Sham 69 – The Adventures Of The Hersham Boys (1979
Meg Baird – Seasons Of The Earth (2011)
John Lee Hooker – The Healer (1989)
Vic Chesnutt – Is The Actor Happy? (1995)*****
Here The Captain Speaking, The Captain Is Dead – Flux Capacitor (2021)*****
Here The Captain Speaking, The Captain Is Dead – s/t (2018)
Comacozer – Binbeal (2021)
Cloudland Canyon – Lie In Light (2008)
Cobra Family Picnic – Magic Anomaly (2017)
Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan – Interim Report, March 1979 (2021)*****
Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan – Districts, Roads, Open Space (2021)*****
Dexter Gordon – Fried Bananas (1972)
Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan – People And Industry (2022)*****
Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan – The Nation’s Most Central Location (2023)
Marianne Dissard – L’entredeux (2008)
Triona – When I Was A Fair Maid (1975)
Beasts of Bourbon – Little Animals (2007)
Tex Perkins & The Fat Rubber Band – Other World (2023)
Dark – Catalogue Raisonne XIII (1995)
Gene Clark – Under The Silvery Moon (1985)
Kraftwerk – Autobahn (1974)*****
Calexico – Edge Of The Sun (2015)
Calexico – The Thread That Keeps Us (2018)
18 Wheeler – Twin Action (1994)
18 Wheeler – Formanka (1995)
Wipers – The Circle (1988)*****
High Dependency Unit – Higher (2005)
Telstar Ponies – In The Space Of A Few Minutes (1995)
John Lee Hooker – Live At Sugar Hill, Vol 2 (1965)*****
Breaking Circus – The Very Long Fuse (1985)
Nanci Griffith – Other Voices, Other Rooms (1993)
Wicked Lady – Psychotic Overkill (1972)
Tim Buckley – Greetings From LA (1973)
The Byrds – Sanctuary IV (1968)
Lee Perry – The Black Emperor Vol 1 Vocals (1973-79)
Red Chair Fadeaway – Curiouser And Curiouser (1990)
Mark Mulcahy – Smilesunset (2001)
Saint James Society – Babylon Rising (2013)
Johnny Clarke – Dread A Dub (1975?)*****
V/A – Mandarinen Traume (1981-89)
Hopital de la Conception – The Electric Rocking Chair (2016)*****
Acid Mothers’ Temple & The Cosmic Inferno – Pink Lady Lemonade (2008)*****
Simple Minds  – New Gold Dream (81 82 83 84) (1982)
Simple Minds – Sparkle In The Rain (1984)*****
Charles Tolliver & His All Stars – s/t (1968)
Chris Cacavas & Edward Abbiati – Me & The Devil (2013)
Canned Heat – s/t (1967)*****
Eleventh Dream Day – Eighth (1997)****
Weeed – Feng Shui Capital Of The World (2014)
John Lee Hooker – Simply The Truth (1969)*****
John Lee Hooker – Get Back In The USA (1969)
Guided By Voices – Benefit For The Winos (1995)*****
Guiding Star Orchestra – Natural Heights (2023)
Baris Manco – 2023 (1975)
Niela Miller – Songs Of Learning (1962)
Om – s/t (1972)
Arcadium – Breathe A While (1969)*****
Dave Kusworth Group – The Brink (2009)
The Lilac Time – Return To Us (2019)
Lee Perry & The Upsetters –  Build The Ark (1973-79)
Brainiac 5 – Memory Or Dream (2023)
Lee Perry – Disco Devil Volume 5 (1977-79) *****
Lee Perry – Disco Devil Volume 2 (1977-78) *****
Lee Perry – Disco Devil Volume 3 (1977-79) *****
Lee Perry – Disco Devil Volume 4 (1977-79) *****
Pisces – A Lovely Sight (1969)
John Lee Hooker – Black Night Is Falling (1977)
Galaxie 500 – Today (1988)*****
The Fall – Shift-Work (1991)*****
The Fall – Code Selfish (1992)*****
Love Circus – s/t (1984)
Sun Dial – Messages From The Mothership (2023)
Sun Dial – Return Journey (1990)
Makushin – Move Into The Luminous (2023)
Lee Perry – Disco Devil Volume 1 (1977-79) *****
Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & Trinity – Starpower (1970)*****
The Advisory Circle – From Out Here (2014)
The Fall – Peel Session 11/5/87  (1987)
Tex Perkins – Dark Horses (2000)*****
Spencer P Jones – Fait Accompli (2003)*****
Black Uhuru – Chill Out (1982)
Mol – Diorama (2016)
The Rose Garden – s/t (1968)
The Heptones – Night Food (1976)
Orpheo McCord – Recovery Inhale (2018)
Ronnie Scott & The Band – Live At Ronnie’s (1968)
Orpheo McCord – Deep Heaven (2023)
The Great Electric – Harkonen (2020)
Superette – Tiger (1996)
Lucinda Williams – This Sweet Old World (2017)****
Townes Van Zandt – In The Beginning (1966)****
Tony Joe White – Smoke From The Chimney (2021)
Melodien – Theurgy (2015)
Linval Thompson – Ride On Dreadlocks (1975-77)*****
Hawkwind – Sonic Attack (1981)
Hawkwind – Choose Your Masques (1982)
Hawkwind – Palace Springs (1979)
V/A – The Devil’s Music (1976)*****
The Human Instinct – Burning Up Years (1970)*****
Robert Pete Williams – With Big Joe Williams (1972)*****
Green On Red – This Time Around (1989)
Loudon Wainwright III – s/t (1970)
Loudon Wainwright III – Album II (1971)
Loudon Wainwright III – Album III (1972)
Loudon Wainwright III – Attempted Moustache (1973)
Charles Gayle – Touchin’ On Trane (1991)*****
The OhSees – Quadraspazzed (2010)
Kim Salmon – Earnest (2002)
The Outsiders – Songbook (1967)
Irene Papas – Odes (1980)
Melodien – Monad (2021)
Neutrons – Black Hole Star (1974)
Country – s/t (1971)
Vieux Farka Toure & Khruangbin – Ali (2022)
Khruangbin – The Infamous Bill (2014)
Khruangbin – History Of Flight (2015)
Jesse Harper – Guitar Absolution In The Shade Of A Midnight Sun (1968)
Glen Campbell – Live From The Troubadour (2008)
Joe Ely – s/t (1977)
Joe Ely – Honky Tonk Masquerade (1978)
Joe Ely – Down On The Drag (1979)
Eleventh Dream Day – s/t (1987)
John Coltrane – Live In Paris (1965)*****
Psychedelic Porn Crumpets – Night Gnomes (2022)
Porcupine Tree – Voyage 34 (1992)*****
GR – Propel Tension On Polyester Base (2016)
Pau Riba & Om – Dioptria (1969)
Pau Riba – Dioptria 2 (1970)
Rotary Connection – Peace (1973)
Barnstormer 1649 – Restoration Tragedy (2018)
The Fall – Reformation Post-TLC (2007)*****
Dick Farina & Eric Von Schmidt – s/t (1963)
Bag-O-Wire – s/t (1975)*****
Ancient Infinity Orchestra – River Of Light (2023)
Modern Cosmology – Summer Long (2017)
V/A – 1968 Memphis Country Blues Festival (1968)
Glen Campbell – Royal Festival Hall (1977)
Stephen Stills – s/t (1970) *****
Stephen Stills – Stephen Stills 2 (1971)
Stephen Stills/Manassas – Down The Road (1973)
Jan Garbaerk & Hilliard Ensemble – Officium (1994)*****
Can – Future Days (1973) *****
Karin Krog – Don’t Just Sing (1963-99)*****
Fred Frith, GF Fitzgerald, Hans Reichel & Derek Bailey – Guitar Solos 2 (1976)*****

HISTORIC SITES/WALKS

Rollright Stones, Oxfordshire
Hoar Stone, Enstone, Oxfordshire
Watts Chapel, Compton Surrey
St Alban’s Cathedral
St Philip’s Cathedral, B’ham
St Martin-in-the-Bull-Ring, B’ham
Kardomah Café site, B’ham
Grave of Dick Turpin, York
Canterbury Cathedral
Chelmsford Cathedral
Symond’s Yat Hill Fort, Forest of Dean
Symond’s Yat Forest Of Dean Walk
Pen-y-Beacon Stone Circle, Hay-On-Wye
Hay Bluff Summit walk, Hay-On-Wye
Baskerville Hotel, Hay-On-Wye
The Brown Bear, Sheffield * (very poor pub)
Chastleton House, Oxfordshire *****
Shelagh Na Gig, St Stephen’s, Etton, N’hamptonshire
Merry Maidens Circle, Lamorna, Cornwall
Lower Boscawell Fogou, Cornwall
Lower Boscawell Well, Cornwall
Higher Boscawell Well, Cornwall
Pendeen Manor Farm, William Borlase’s birthplace
Land’s End, Cornwall
Drift Stones, Cornwall
St Michael’s Mount, Cornwall
Men-an-Tol, Cornwall
Men Scryfa, Cornwall
Boskednan Stone Circle, Cornwall
Ding Dong Mine, Cornwall
Lanyon Quoit, Cornwall
Zennor church w mermaid chair and Wm Borlase grave
Zennor quoit, Cornwall
Carn Euny village, Cornwall
Boscawen-Un Stone Circle, Cornwall
Treverven Standing Stone, Cornwall
Gun Rith Standing Stone, Cornwall
Tregiffian Barrow, Cornwall
Lamorna Cove, Cornwall
Lyveden New Bield, Northamptonshire
Magdalene College Tower, Oxford
Holborn Head Hill Fort, Scrabster
Stones of Stenness,
Ring of Brodgar, Orkney
Kitchener Monument, Orkney
Broch of Birsay, Orkney
Unstan tomb, Orkney
The Italian Chapel, Orkney
St Magnus’ Cathedral, Kirkwall, Orkney
Grain Earth House, Kirkwall, Orkney
Old Man Of Hoy, Hoy
Dwarfie Staine, Hoy
Skara Brae, Orkney
Cuween Chambered Cairn, Orkney
Broch of Gurness, Orkney
Yesnaby gun emplacements, Orkney
Wideford Cairn tomb, Orkney
Ness Battery, Orkney
Birsay Earl’s Palace, Orkney
St Magnus’ Church Birsay, Orkney
Orkney Brewery
Stone O’Quoybune, Orkney
Taversoe Tuick burial Chamber, Rousay
Blackhammer burial chamber, Rousay
The Long Stone, Rousay
Knowe of Yarso, Rousay
Knowe of Lairo, Rousay
Midhowe burial chamber, Rowsay
Midhowe Broch, Rowsay
HMS Tern, Orkney
Maes Howe, Orkney
The Fish Stone, Crickhowell, Wales
Abergavenny Castle, Wales
Waun Fach, Black Mountains
Munchaster Castle, The Lakes
Mardon Down Stone Circle & cairns, Dartmoor
The Norwegian Church, Cardiff
Cleve Hill Hillfort, Gloucestershire
Belas Knap Long Barrow, Gloucestershire
Eglise St Mary, Paris
Kelvedon Hatch Nuclear Bunker
Waltham Abbey, Epping Forest
Loughton Camp, Epping Forest

MUSEUMS

Scapa Flow Museum, Hoy
Stromness Museum, Orkney
Orkney Museum, Kirkwall

A WORLD OF BOOK SHOPS

The Minster Gate, York, curated curiosity shop
Oxfam books & records, Chelmsford
Birsay Books, Orkney *****
Barter Books, Alnwick, Northumberland *****
Oxfam books & records, Swansea

A WORLD OF RECORD SHOPS, MY 2025 PROJECT

South, Southend On Sea
Honest Jon’s, Portobello, London*****
Waggy’s, Machynlleth
Rob’s, Nottingham*****
Resolution, Bath
Flashback, Crouch End, Islington, Shoreditch, London*****
Alan’s, Finchley, London *****
Merlin Records, Winchmore Hill, London
Rise Above, Archway, London *****
Record & Tape Exchange, Notting Hill, London
Reckless, Soho, London*****
Sister Ray, Soho, London
Kingsland Records, Dalston, London
Kingsland Ites Records, Dalston, London
Recycle Vinyl, Dalston, London
Tome, Hackney, London*****
Atlantis, Hackney, London*****
World of Echo, Brick Lane, London*****
Groove, Kirkwall, Orkney
The Record Detective, Palmer’s Green, London
Record & Tape Exchange, Notting Hill, Greenwich, London
Casbah, Greenwich, London
Music One Vinyl, Abergavenny
Harbour, Emsworth
Dress Code, Southsea, Portsmouth
Boiler Room Records, Poole
Red Rooster, Exeter *****
Hussar, Exeter *****
Kelly’s, Cardiff
The Record Shop, Cardiff
Diggers’, Cardiff *****
Cardiff Record Exchange, Cardiff *****
Spillers, Cardiff
Mint & Sealed, Newport
Kriminal, Newport ***** (lovely place to hang out)
Saxsoul, Darlington
Missing, Glasgow
Avalanche Waverley, Edinburgh *****
Le Freak Records, Dundee
Ad-Astra Records, Leominster
Urban Village Vintage, Henley-in-Arden *****
Expressions of Sound, Shipston-On-Stour *****
Truck, Witney *****
Truck, Oxford
Pop Classics, Reading ***** (delightful couple)
The Sound Machine, Reading *****
Strummer Room, Banbury *****
Spun Out, Northampton
Vinyl Revelations, Luton ***** (free coffee!!)
Collectors’ Records, Guildford
Ben’s Collectors’ Records, Guildford
Vinyl Matters, Petersfield *****
Planet of Sounds, Halsemere
Record Corner, Godalming
Catalyst, Godalming
Tangled Parrot, Swansea
Oxfam, Swansea *****
Prime Cuts, Bristol
Plastic Wax, Bristol *****
Grey ‘n’ Pink, Chester *****
Lizard Inc, Warrington ***** (enthusiastic owner)
Daisy Chain, Elsecar Heritage Centre, Barnsley *****
St John’s Market Upstairs, Scunthorpe
Vinyl Jewels, Scunthorpe (hidden jewels)*****
Riverside Records, Rotherham ***** (two chilled dudes)
Revolution, Rotherham (fun creche for elderly skins)
Vinyl Underground, Barnsley *****
Vinyltap, Huddersfield *****
Evil Eye, Harrogate
P&C Music, Harrogate *****
Pear, Knaresborough
Space, Harrogate
Beatdown, Newcastle *****
RPM, Newcastle *****
586 Records, Gateshead *****
Vinyl Guru, Newcastle
Kemptown Flea Market, Brighton
Vinyl Curtain, Brighton
Wax Factor, Brighton
Snooper’s Paradise, Brighton
Across The Tracks, Brighton ***** (Fall fan man)
Resident, Brighton
Pressing Matters, Hastings ***** (brainy staff)
Printed Matter, Hastings
Wow & Flutter, Hastings ***** (lovely couple)
Bookbuster, Hastings
Platform 2, Bexhill-on-Sea *****
Minus Zero, Bexhill-on-Sea *****
Uptight Records, Hove
Department, Hove
Mrs Canuticacq’s Emporium, Hove (warning – no receipts available!)
Beat The Clock, Hove ***** (v friendly happy shop – a delight)
Upper Gardner St Flea Market stalls, Brighton
Arcade, Monmouth *****
Sound, Stroud *****
Klang Tone, Stroud *****
Vinyl Vault, Cheltenham
Relevant records, Cambridge
Juno mail order, Camden *****
Little Record Shop, Hornsey, London *****
Ballades Sonores, Paris *****
Souffle Continu, Paris *****
Music Avenue, Paris
Crazy Beat Records, Upminster (No stock really on display)
Honest Jon’s, King’s Cross, London

ART

Watts Chapel, Compton Surrey Mary Watts murals *****
Southampton Art Gallery – WOW! *****  Frank Auerbach – JMY1; Michael Ayrton – Minotaur Waking; Wilhemena Barnes-Graham – Glacier Vortex;  Ford Maddoz Brown – Cordelia’s Portion; Edward Burne-Jones – The Call of Perseus; Leslie Cole – Naval Base; Degas – Woman Putting On Stockings; Peter Doig – Girl On Skis; Barry Flanaggan – 3 different hares; Lucien Freud -Bananas; Mark Gerter – Rabbi & grandchild; Harold Gilman – Sylvia Grosse; Anthony Gormley – The Diver; Ducan Grant – Mrs Hammersely, Angelica Playing The Violin; Jean Louis Forain – The Fisherman; Henri Gaudier-Brzeska – Alfred Wolmark;  Maggie Hambling – Katherine Parkinson; Nina Hamnett – Horace Brodzky; Roger Hilton – Figure & Bird; Kurt Jackson – Jay Screech; John Lavery – The Countess of Rocksavage; Christopher Le Brun – Study For Gotterdamerung; LS Lowry – Canal Bridge; Lisa Milroy – Togetherness; John Minton – Rotherhithe From Wapping; Alfred Munnings – After The Race; Christopher Nevinson – Loading Timber; Allegretto Nuzi – Coronation of The Virgin; Chris Ofilli – Two Doo Voodoo; Victor Passmore – Rectangular Motif; Lucien Pissarro – Grey Weather, Louveciennes; Pierre Auguste Renoir – Wihelm Muhlfield; Rodin; Claude Rogers – Miss Lynn; John Singer Sergeant – Major E C Harrison; Cesare de Sesto – St Jerome; George Shaw – Scenes From The Passion; Nahem Shoa – Desmond Haughton; Walter Sickert – Juvenile Lead; Stanley Spencer – The Resurrection;  Phillip Wilson Steer – Digging For Bait; Graham Sutherland – Red Landscape; James Tissot – The Captain’s Daughter; JMW Turner – Fishermen Upon A Lee Shore; John Keith Vaughan – The Singer; Alison Watt – Rosecutter; Gillian Wearing – Peckham; Alfred Wolmark – Self-Portrait; Joseph Wright – Landscape.

Museum Of The Moon, Luke Jerram, St Alban’s Cathedral

BIRMINGHAM PUBLIC SCULPTURE:  Edward Burne-Jones windows, St Philip’s; Edward Burne-Jones window, St Martin In The Bull Ring; Lord Nelson – Richard Westmacott; Bolton, Watt & Murdoch – William Bloye; Iron Man – Anthony Gormley; The River – Dhruva Mistry; Art deco murals, fomer Kardomah Café site.

Barber Institute, Birmingham. Scent and The Art Of The Pre-Raphaelites. Anna Alma-Tadema; Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale – The Lover’s World; John Frederick Lewis – Lilium Auratum; John Everett Millais – The Blind Girl; Evelyn De Morgan – Medea, The Love Potion; Dante Gabriel Rossetti – Proserpine; Frederick Sandys – Medea; Simeon Soloman – A Saint Of The Eastern Church; Roddam Spencer Stanhope – Thoughts of the Past; John William Waterhouse – Psyche Opening the Golden Box, Pandora, The Magic Circle. *****

Barber Institute, B’ham Permanent Collection; Frank Auerbach – Primrose Hill; George Bellows – Nude Ms Bentham; Canaletto – The Logetta; Gustave Courbet – The Sea Arch At Etretat; Edgar Degas – Jockeys Before The Race *****;Maurice Denis – Monsieur Huc; Thomas Gainsbourgh – The Harvest Wagon; Paul Gaugin – Bathers in Tahiti; Master of the Griselda Legend – Alexander The Great; Gwen John – Mere Poussepin; Fernand Leger – Composition With Fruit; Antonio Mancini – The Peacock Feather; Edouard Manet – Carolus Duran;  James Abbott McNeill – Symphony In White III; Camille Pissarro – The Pond At Montfoucaut;  Mattia Pretti – The Martyrdom Of St Peter; Pierre Auguste Renoir – A Young Woman Seated; Joshua Reynolds – Maria Marow Gideon; Sebastiano Ricci – An Allegorical Tomb; Richard Robinson – Joshua Reynolds; Giovani De La Robbia – Virgin & Child; Dante Gabriel Rossetti – The Blue Bower; Mattias Storm – Isaac Blessing Jacob; Vincent Van Goch – A Peasant Woman Digging; Edouard Vuillard – Mdm Vuillard Arranging Her Hair.

Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery. William Bloye – Golden Eagle sign; Cold War Steve – Benny’s Babbies; Gluck – Village Church. A small selection of works was on display but the city’s world-class collection has now been shut away for half a decade or more. While Tufton St’s Taxpayers Alliance encourage the city to SELL OFF THE ART, it is a scandal, and a tragedy. Here’s just some of the art I couldn’t see, again, and neither can you. A generation of Brummie schoolkids has grown up without this resource as the city wastes its treasures.  Here follows a small selection of Birmingham Art Gallery’s Unseeable art 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; 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!

York Art Gallery – William Morris wallpaper exhibition.

York Art Gallery Permanent Collection; Davd Bomberg – The Bath; Henry Gaudier-Brzeska – Alfred Wolmark;  William Etty – loads of male nudes; Harold Gilman – Interior With Nude; Spencer Gore – Balcony At Alhambra; JA Grimshaw – Liverpool Docs at Night; Barbara Hepworth – Surgeon Waiting; Gwen John – Young Woman In Red Shawl; Laura Knight – Early Morning In A Gypsy Camp; Margaret Mellis – Venice Landscape; Paul Nash – Winter Sea; Grayson Perry – Melanie; William Roberts – Young Girl; Henry Scott Tuke – The Misses Santley; Ethel Walker – Decoration Morning, Robin Hood’s Bay In Winter; Rose Wylie – Doodlebug.

Ashmolean Oxford; Robert Bevan – Showing At Tattersalls; 100s of other things. I didn’t write it down this time I am sorry.

Magdalene College Oxford; Edward Burne-Jones; David Wynne

Canterbury Catherdral; Anthony Gormley

Canterbury, The Beaney; Smallfilms collection; John Bratby – The Artist’s Son; Laura Knight – Hop Picking No 1, Granny Knowles.

Leicester Museum & Art Gallery; As for many years now it remains impossible to see any of the permanent collection that I remember from my childhood.

Worst Record Covers In The World – Steve Goldman; Big Difference, Leicester Comedy Festival

National Gallery Permanent Collection; George Bellows – Men Of The Docks; Paul Cezanne – The Grounds of the Chateau Noir; John Constable – Cenotaph In Memory of Joshua Reynolds, The Cornfield; Honore Daumier – Don Quixote & Sancho Panza; Edgar Degas – Combing The Hair, Ballet Dancers, Eleanor Carafa, Young Spartans; Paul Delaroche – The Execution of Lady Jane Grey; Thomas Gainsborough – The Market Cart, The Watering Place; Lake Keitella – Akseli Gallen-Kallela; Edouard Manet – The Execution of Maximillian, Music In The Tuilleries; Henri Matisse – Portrait of Greta Moll; Claude Monet – Water Lillies, Water Lillies Setting Sun, Beach At Trouvet, Thames Below Westminster;  Pablo Picasso – Fruit dish, bottle & violin; Camille Pissarro – The Cotes des Boeufs;  Pierre Auguste Renoir – The Skiff; Henri Rousseau – Surprised!; Georges Seurat – Bathers At Asnieres, Study for Bathers, The Rainbow, The Morning Walk;  George Stubbs – Sir Peniston & Lady Lamb, Whistlejacket; JMW Turner – Rain Sea And Speed; Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus, The Evening Star, Dido Building Carthage, Sun Rising Through Vapour;  Vincent Van Gogh – A Wheatfield With Cypresses, Van Gogh’s Chair, Sunflowers; Julius Schnorr Von Carolsfield – Ruth In Boaz’ Field; Joseph Wright of Derby – Experiment On A Bird;

Manchester City 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 ****

Painted Dreams, Evelyn de Morgan, Wolverhampton Art Gallery

Christina Kimeze, Between Wood & Wheel – South London Gallery

Ithell Colquhoun – Between Worlds, Tate St Ives *****

Penlee House Gallery, Penzance, Cornwall. Lamorna Birch – Artists Painting In A Wood, Lamorna Stream; Frank Bramley – Eyes And No Eyes; Elizabeth Forbes – Autumn Breeze; Stanhope Forbes – A Street In Newlyn; Norman Garstin – A View Of Mount’s Bay; Francl Gascoigne – Heath – A Game Of Cut-Throat Euchre; Edwin Harris – A Pinch Of Snuff; Walter Langley- A Lass That Loves A Sailor, A Newlyn Fishwife, Absent Thoughts; A Reverie, Among The Missing; Eleanor Hughes – A Western Shore, Boleigh Farm x 2; Harold Night – A View of Mousehole; John Piper- Moorland Cottages; Dod Proctor – Aunt Lilla; Ralph Todd – Cornish Fisherwoman; Henry Scott Tuke – Dinner Time

The Shelia Hitchens Collection, St Michael’s Mount, Cornwall;  Harold Harvey – Tulip Pickers; Albert Tayler – Courting Couple; Walter Langley; Stanhope Forbes; Laura Knight.

Leigh Bowery – Tate Modern

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.

Liverpool Anglican Cathedral – Elizabeth Frink, Ceri Richards, John Piper, Giles Gilbert Scott, Sun

De Morgan Museum, Cannon Hall Barnsley – William De Morgan, Evelyn De Morgan

Ithell Colquhoun – Between Worlds, Tate Britain *****

Pier Arts Centre Stromness – Winifred Nicholson & Andrew Cranston

Pier Arts Centre Stromness; Sunlight – Roger Acklin

Stromness – Permanent collection Wilhemena Barnes-Graham – Wreck Warbeck; Stanley Cursiter – Geo At Yesnaby;  Alan Davie – Magic Circles, Symbols In A Landscape, Energy Is Delight; Terry Frost – Red & Blue, Red Black & White, Collage; Nuam Gabo – Linear Construction; Barabra Hepworth – Assembly of Square Forms, Two Heads, December Forms, Opposing Forms; Patric Heron – Small red Square; Roger Hilton – Black & Brown, Brown Yellow & Black, 3 Boats, Red Sea; Peter Lanyon – Box Construction; Margaret Mellis – Anenomes Gone To Seed; Ben Nicholson – 3 Circles, Oct 52, Painting 1935, Still Life 1940; Eduardo Paolozzi – Miennes; Edmund de Waal – oir-thir; Alfred Wallis – Three Ships And A Lighthouse, St Ives Harbour, White Sailing Ship; Sylvia Wishart – A Ship. *****

Ness Battery, Orkney – A R Woods mural *****

Orkney Museum, Kirkwall – Jim Baikie retrospective *****

Skaill House, Orkney – Stanley Cursiter painting

Main St, Ravenglass – Rob St John, Emergent Landscapes

Ithell Colquhoun – Between Worlds, Tate Britain ***** (again)

Andy Goldsworthy – Scottish National Gallery, Ed’bro *****

Frank Brangwyn’s British Empire Mural, Brangwyn Hall, Swansea *****

MY FOOD JOURNEY (highlights – this isn’t everything I ate in 2025)

Camberwell Cod Roe a la chat
Hennighan’s Fish & Chips, Machynlleth
Lentils Cleopatra Wong, Hackney
Chicken Go-Between, Hackney
Scallops and black pudding in lab conditions, Buxa, Orkney
Scallops & black pudding from a van in Ferry Inn carpark, Stromness
Deep fried haggis, The Happy Haddock, Kirkwall, Orkney
Hand-dived scallops from Loki’s Seafood Shack, Stromness
Deep fried Orkney mince pie, The Harbour Fry, Kirkwall
Waun Fach Chicken, Wales
La Cuisine Francais du Londres Sud
Mushroom Wellington Pour Les Souers, London
Gray Pays Stoke Newington, London

20. IN OUR LAMENTATIONS 2025

Barre Phillips (Jazz bassman, 1934)
Bob Grover (Brighton Piranha, 1956)
Riro (Japanese sea otter, 2007)
Nora Orlandi (Spaghetti symphonist, 1933)
Ed Askew (Acid folkie, 1940)
Tony Slattery (The vile blows of the world made him reckless, 1959)
David Lynch (He erased our heads, 1946)
Landy Randerson (Museum access pioneer, 1949)
Garth Hudson (Bandolier, 1937)
Brian Murphy (Instantly aged actor, 1932)
Rab MacWilliam (Hackney historian, 1951)
Barry Goldberg (His flag was electric, 1941)
Peter Yarrow (He left on a jetplane, 1938)
Snowy Fleet (Easybeater, 1939)
Jamie Muir (Absolute fucking rhythmical genius, 1942)
Mike Ratledge (Moon in June Soft Machine man, 1943)
Gabriel Yacoub (Malicorne muso of French folk, 1952)
Bill Fay (Christian mystic songwriter seer, 1943)
Roberta Flack (Made Ewan MacColl sexy, 1937)
Gene Hackman (an actor who knew when not to,1930)
Jay Rayner’s Observer restaurant column (1999)
David Johansen (New York Doll, 1950)
Bill Dare (Even his socks were funny, 1959)
Johnny Green (A gentleman, a dandy, and always a pleasure,)
Ken Parker (The Blue Bender, 1943)
Edweena Banger (Her nose bled, 1959)
John Cassady (Planetary penman, 1971)
Joey Molland (His finger was bad, 1947)
Peter Farrelly (Fruuppster, 1949)
Jesse Colin Young (He got it together, 1941)
Brian James (Lord of The Damned, 1955)
Roy Ayers (Good vibes, 1940)
Bob Rupe (Brilliant Gutterball and Silos bottom end)
Nadia Cassini (Starcrash starlet, 1949)
Nike Arrighi (The Devil Rides Out, 1944)
Bill Smith (Original Corrie, 1936)
DG Hessayon (Garden expert who answered my questions, 1928)
Elliot Ingber (Winged Eel Fingerling, 1941)
Leanne Cowie (Scientific drummer, 1964?)
George Foreman (Meat griller, 1949)
Michael Hurley (He’s gone back to Capistrano, 1941)
Dave Allen (At Home He’s A Bassist, 1955)
Alastair MacKinven (Country teaser and artist, 1971)
Clem Burke (Magic Christian Plimsoul & Elvis Ramone, 1954)
Larry Tamblyn (He loved that dirty water, 1943)
Clive Revill (The Emperor strikes back, 1930)
Amadou Bagayoko (blind bluesman, 1955)
Max Romeo (Wet-dreaming devil chaser, 1944)
Clodagh Rogers (Northern Irish Spider-Woman, 1947)
Pope Francis (Relatively inoffensive pope, 1936)
Eleonora Giorgi (Young, violent and dangerous, 1953)
David Thomas (Ube Pere, 1953)
Mike Peters (He alarmed Wales, 1959)
James Baker (Hoodoo victim of beastly scientists, 1954)
Larry Lee (Ozark Mountain Devil, 1947)
Wizz Jones (The Lazy Farmer, 1939)
David Briggs (He signalled the test of our whistles, 1943)
Kimble Rendall (Hoodoo Guru from year zero, 1957)
Jack Katz (First Kingdom comics guy, 1927)
Ed Smylie (Saved Apollo 13 with sellotape, 1914)
George Wendt (Barfly Freak Fan, 1948)
Peter David (He turned Hulk grey for peanuts, 1956)
Loretta Switt (Hilarious dish of MASH, 1937)
Louis Moholo (S African freedom-drummer, 1940)
Hunt Powers (Spaghetti star, 1929)
Simon House (Hawkstrings, 1948)
Colin Conflict (He could not win a nuclear war, 1963)
David Kaff (He had a good time all the time, 1946)
Daniel Postgate (Together, we held Bagpuss in Totnes, 1963)
Lalo Schifrin (He entered the dragon, 1932)
Brian Wilson (He wished they all could be California girls, 1942)
Junior Byles (His locks be curly, 1948)
Terry Draper (He called occupants of interplanetary craft, 1951)
Jill Sobule (She kissed a girl, 1959)
Terry Manning (Stax to the max, 1947)
Roy Ayers (Coffy percolator, 1943)
Edip Akbayram (Turkish funk soul brother, 1950)
Ozzy Osborne (He married a sociopath and pre-empted grunge, 1948)
Hulk Hogan (Worthless steroid-addled Trump-loving metafiction, 1953)
Tom Lehrer (He poisoned the pigeons, 1928)
Allan Ahlberg (Peepoo understands WWII implicitly, 1938)
Terry Reid (Funky folk bluesman, 1949)
Terry Reid (Funky folk bluesman, 1949)
Graham Green (Oneida and actor, 1952)
Mark Volman (Happy turtle, 1947)
Claudia Cardinale (Human-divine fusion of earth and stars, 1938)
Danny Thompson (He refuted the jazz-folk impossibility, 1939)
David Ball (Soft cell gridsman who remixed Rainer and very nice chap, 1959)
Bob Franke (Coffeehouse Christian, 1947)
Jim Kimball (Blank Lizard drummer, 1965)
Owen Gray (Another Alpha Boys School ska-man, 1939)
Bruce Loose (Flipperman flipped off, 1959)
Renato Casaro (Italian cinema’s painterly poster artist,1935)
Peter Watkins (Genius of British film, prophet of Privilege, 1935)
Jack DeJohnette (Miles’ funky fusionist, 1942)
Joseph Byrd (The field hippie, 1937)
Archie Fisher (Wrote Witch of The Westmorland, 1937)
Mani (We watched Rico together, 1962)
Jimmy Cliff (He crossed a large number of rivers, 1944)
Pam Hogg (She punched me in the face. I deserved it, 1958)
Andrew Lauder (Hippy punk headhunter, 1947)
Rob Reiner (Tap! Harry! Misery! 1947)
Mick Abrahams (Blodwyn Pigman, 1943)
Joe Ely (Taught The Clash country, 1947)
Tetsu Yamauchi (Japanese freeman, 1946)
Steve Cropper (Green onion soulman, 1941)
Loni Anderson (WKRP bombshell, 1945)
Tom Stoppard (Son of Sam, 1937)
Terrance Stamp (Far from the mad man, 1938)
Robert Redford (Sundancer, 1936)
Max Eider (He butchered some jazz, 1959?)
Jon Antrobus (Hack genius of TWTWTW, 1933)
Perry Bamonte (He Cured The Cure and fished for fish, 1960)
Ken White (XTC muralist, 1943)
Katina (Icelandic orca prisoner, 1975)