The interview should have asked "Right, OK... and why should anyone else care?"

zonked out? really?

wow

Tabu Ley - Afrisa Selection. There is a handwritten note on the sleeve. “To Andy. Good souvenir to London for this night.”

Close up of the inscription. “To Andy. Good souvenir to London for this night.”

A letter to Andy Kershaw. Andy Kershaw BBC Radio One Broadcasting House W1 11 Liston Road London SW4 0DG 01-622 0111 6 Oct 1987 Dear Andy I warned you there was more to come. Well here's part of it! sort out a mix-up. time I sent you a white copied from my Fire Family cover. record inside was not the Fire Family. to put in its sleeve, Unfortunately I don't have any details of the tracks by now find that Amayenge. Amayenge. I also enclose a batch of 45's, most of them by Amayange. I saw the group live in Zambia, twice. They are basically a six- piece (drums, bass, two guitars, lead male singer & percussion) plus two girl singers and two boy dancers. The percussionist joins the two boys dancers, doing what used to be called gymnastics when I was at school--flip flops. somersaults, cartwheels--while the band keeps up a very fast beat behind all the action. One of the boys is about nine, and is more or less a contortionist, doubling over backwards until his hands are flat on the floor, and then flipping over onto his feet. All in all, Amayenge would be an entertaining group to play live here; Zambia Airways and a firm called between them to pay for the group's Zamcargo have agreed flights to London and living expenses while they are here. Stuart Lyons is ready them. Naturally, they are itching but to promote to come it's a bit inefficient if there's no record out; over, so I have said i would see if I could find an interested record company. DiscAfrique, Globestyle, and Earthworks would seem to be the most likely, and I am supplying them with samples. Finally, I also enclose the notes prepared by Ben Shumba at Teal Records, which relate to all the records he sent. I plan to send you the rest of the records when you've had chance to work through this batch, but if the notes make you impatient to hear a particular record, let me know and I'll send it/them. Happy listening Call me to fix our get together!

I’ve told this story before, but a decade or so ago I had the opportunity to buy some of Andy Kershaw’s records - though not direct from Andy, via a record dealer friend of his. Some came with little notes and letters. Precious objects.

God speed.

ha, I suppose I mean, maybe not one of the high concept, prestige ones. But the premise is indeed marvellous!

fell asleep during the Mario film from a year or so back - and I was well up for that. Thought Minecraft was great

It’s obviously minor Pixar, but that’s OK, nothing wrong with a fun film about furry guys.

good to hear you liked Hoppers, might give that a go

BBC report on Iran conflict which posits “a long history of US combat search and rescue missions over decades”

Was this first paragraph written by Stormin’ Norman?

Not often you see a gig in Covent Garden...

AI overview of what the famous junglist phrase “31 seconds” supposedly refers to, with no reference at all to Origin Unknown’s “Valley Of The Shadows”

Strong argument against the use of AI right here.

great label

“It is clear Brexit did deep damage to our economy.” glad someone finally said it

Sandwiches tasting of sadness

This new FourFingers plug-in is the cutting-edge

www.soundonsound.com/news/fourfin...

Love the work.

nice!

This story seemed to require live text updates on the BBC News website. I dunno, me neither.

Maybe people enjoyed pissing in a disturbingly tight timeframe in Reading

I never noticed that with the top of buses, but lifts, always.

brilliant concept and photo

Oh! That is for sure a surprise.

heh!

The AI generated hype text that Spotify presents as ersatz sleevenotes to My First Plays On Spotify makes me want to gnaw my own arm off

Picture of AK Blakemore’s book The Glutton (Granta)

Amazing language in this one

you would freaking love it. will see if i can dig out mine for you

wonderful drummer. do you have Notes & Tones?

Dave Davies - I'm Not Like Everybody Else - Live @ Bottom Line, '97 YouTube video by MetaMedia2

1990s Dave Davies a dead ringer for like Rust Never Sleeps era Neil Young

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVQN...

Vexations, by Minze 2 track album

Love this full band version of Vexations, which is like the most crepuscular Slint outtake imaginable cosimapitz.bandcamp.com/album/vexati...

A mate is an ITFC fan, always loved seeming them do well, big Pablo Couñago fan, not so much now