A ★★★★★ review of Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) A film I haven't watched in oooh 50 years, and having learned a bit about its making since, it CHOC-full of surprises. 1: The Opening. Where are we? The architecture, street furniture etc all look Eur...

First watch in 50 years, and it's... CHOC-full of surprises.

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Outstanding, Robin!

Oh no, I will listen to that as soon as I stop operating heavy machinery!

Yes, I see now. Makes total sense. Oh well, it's still a thing I'd recommend trying to all composers.

Ahhh I know nothing about this, thanks, will investigate...

You're hired! Can you and you family re-locate to Silicone Valley? Or we'll be opening a branch in Tring if that's more convenient.

Tim Robbins as Norville Barnes in The Hudsucker Proxy.

So it looks like I'm taking over from Tim Cook at Apple in September. Tim will be remembered for leading them to be the first Trillion Dollar company. I hope to be remembered for bankrupting them with innovations like Apple Aqua Fags: underwater cigarettes, "Y'know? For Europeans?!"

I think a whole album is a different matter to focusing on one song i.e what do you like about it, what can you ignore, what can you add.

Well that's a start! I was thinking about it the other day, as one of the all time great riffs.

Hymn to Us YouTube video by Transglobal Underground - Topic

Ahhh, Templehead was a classic. I also still play this one an awful lot, pure joy and I love the snare sound.

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All welcome!

I never been there, but Zuckerberg is pretty sucky- uppy to DT isn't he?

Coincidentally, yesterday morning I noticed the bloke sat next to me in Pret in Trafalgar Square, suited and reading a thing on his phone that said RESTORE TRUST UK.

When someone explains something to you for the seventh time and you still don't understand.

I would love to hear/contribute to a (charity?) LP featuring covers by the likes of @warringtonruncorn.com @horrordwarf.bsky.social
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Spending a week or so thinking about and arranging and recording The Walker Brothers ' The Electrician has been a real ear-opener. Shame I can't find my voice but never mind.

I tell you what, fellow electronic music types, doing a cover of a song you really admire is a really interesting exercise/practice, even if no one else gets to hear it.

To me it's so interesting how dull they are. That Jones almost left the group after an all-conquering US tour to be the choir master at Winchester College...

And I still cherish the memory of how lovely, gracious and completely un-scary Percy was when I interviewed him upstairs in a pub in Camden.

Agreed. And I haven't had a smoke in 15 years now.

But I would also propose Bonar Colleano.

One of my top five Cocteaus songs. Never seen a video for it before, thank you.

Why do turds
Suddenly appear?
Every time
You are near?

Ahhhh bugger. Have a brilliant time.

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If, like me, you love the National Trust but hate fascism, then you can tell the world with a lovely little pin badge, courtesy of folk musician Johnny Campbell of the Colne Valley.

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Barrows Boys by... I've forgotten again. It's the story of some almost comically disastrous attempts to find the Northwest Passage.

Genuine LoL on bus!

I still laugh about it. To be fair (to me) it's well worth re-reading!

Thanks. Maybe it's because it sounds to me like it shares a spirit with the Stan Hubbs LP that I thought that.

It made more sense, but was no more enjoyable, when an AD who had worked on a lot of Winterbottom films regaled me with stories of coke intake that would make Tony Montana pause.