I’m a Local Government lifer, Musician and Linux dabbler. This is a large and sprawling disorganised mess - a bit like me really. I’m interested in lots of things at the same time but a LOT of music. I’m not really doing this for any particular purpose other than being an old-ish dog learning some new tricks
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For Pete’s Sake was a Monkees Tune which rolled on the end credits of the TV show. It was written by Peter Tork who was their Bass player and was the beginnings of their fight to write and play their own songs. The Monkees were a manufactured band but then again so were the Sex Pistols and it’s an old a story as time that at some point a Punk rebellion will happen.
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Somewhere in Denge Marsh a group of Aliens have “Gone on holiday by mistake”. A nearby static caravan site of Romney Sands attracted the visitors advertising a thrilling stay. Close to the hum of Dungeness Power station, the aliens take shelter in the abandoned gravel pits next to the concrete acoustic radar dishes. They’ve been stuck there for about 40 years now and are largely unnoticed. They quite like our music and the decent chips from the nearby Pilot pub but there is now a creeping sense of Ennui with the human race and it’s limitless stupidity.
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A selection of magical rocksteady music from one of the masters of the genre…One of the forerunners in Jamaican music from its very beginning, Derrick Harriott, along with a stellar cast, showcases the some superb rocksteady.
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Slightly bored and restless I built a Raspberry Pi Zero powered time-lapse camera from cheap bits.
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Zakia has one of the best radio voices out there and this being read out on BBC6 Music Dreamtime Radio is just bliss..
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Barafundle is the fourth album by Welsh psychedelic folk band Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci, which was released 7 April 1997 in the United Kingdom. The album’s title comes from the name of a beach in Pembrokeshire, Wales.
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East of Eden were a British progressive rock band, who had a Top 10 hit in the UK with the single “Jig-a-Jig” in 1970. The track was stylistically unlike any of their other work. Although some might consider them a symphonic progressive band, others state that their style is mostly jazz-oriented
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Elektrik Karousel It’s an evolution of the Cut-Up experiments of the earlier albums where Julian House developed a musical style that mirrored his collaged design work. House, with help in the studio from Broadcast, Julain House weaves his samples into a rich tapestry of electronics, fuzzed guitar and processed exotic instrumentation together with fractured skipping rhythms and submerged melodies. There’s a weird alchemy at work that manages to distil essences of jazz, psychedelia and soundtracks into something utterly unique. For a clue to its moods, think Czech animation, Italian Giallo, early Radiophonics, HP Lovecraft stories, 1960s underground cinema, Lewis Caroll and baroque psych.
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Caetano Veloso is the third self-titled album by Caetano Veloso. It was recorded in England, when the artist was in an exile imposed by the Brazilian military dictatorship for being subversive. It is mostly sung in English and portrays a sad tone throughout, reflecting his feelings about homesickness and the absence of his family and friends. It was released first in Europe, and then in Brazil, in 1971.
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A companion piece to John Edginton’s documentary “Robyn Hitchcock:Sex,Food,Death…and Insects”. Robyn discusses his songwriting process while trying out four unfinished songs.
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