Spot on re: Free Huey. The old Newsstand at Hamilton Square is a belter for me.

Must have forgotten , will hunt it out. And I agree, even though the band don’t seem to rate it. I always think bands/artists confuse how much they enjoyed making a record with how good it actually is when they review their own stuff.

Have you done Kingsize yet? Love that one.

1) Adios Señor Pussycat - Mick Head & The Red Elastic Band
2) Serpent Power - Serpent Power
3) Sundowners - Sundowners
4) The Fernweh - The Fernweh
5) Caravan - Nick Power

On the bench: Meilyr Jones, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, Courtney Barnett
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Cheers Rich!

Love - Forever Changes (Elektra, Mono, 1967)

Have just followed the second side of Love’s Forever Changes with the second side of Love’s Forever Changes.

I really like this one. Possibly his best this century for me, though C&CITB also very good.

In Mind is great. I need to give Daniel another go …

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1) Zilch -Shack
2) The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
3)Viva Hate - Morrissey
4) Psychocandy - Jesus & Mary Chain
5) Private Revolution - World Party

On the bench: Edwyn Collins, James, Housemartins

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Cheers Rich!

Sun is out, temporarily a morning person.

*ill-advised attempts at harmonising not pictured

Keeping up with the Joneses: great set from Edgar last night:

Back in December, I played the Bowery Ballroom in NYC and have finally uploaded clips from the show online.

Here’s the set if you want to check it out:

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I'm calling Chekhov

“Mrs Johnson gets her coat out of the cleaners..”

1)Ballad Of The Broken Seas - Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan
2) Alas I Cannot Swim - Laura Marling
3) Chops - Euros Childs
4) Tower Of Love - Jim Noir
5) The Good, The Bad & The Queen- s/t

On the bench: Hal,The Aliens, Raconteurs, Last Shadow Puppets,The Tears, Pains Of Being…
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You recommended this back then, it’s still great!

“Sometimes the bad guys come out on top,
Sometimes the good guys lose……..

Sometimes the bad days maintain their grip,
Sometimes the good days fade.”

Sunday afternoon Sunstack Jones time: Slow Country

1)Mr Tambourine Man - Byrds
2)Songs of - Leonard Cohen
3)Love-Love
4)Five Leaves Left - Nick Drake
5)Please Please Me -Beatles
On the bench: Dillard & Clark, CSN, Scott Walker, Moby Grape, Hendrix, Neil Young,Velvets, Nancy & Lee, Bo Diddley, Dylan, Who, Stones, Burritos, Skip S
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First gig of the year was pretty special:

* Park, obviously. Thank you, bizarre auto-correct

Love this song. They played it at Hyde Sparky’s for the Olympics thingy in 2012 , which has the audacity to be 13 and a half years ago…

YES!

Blackadder The Third, but all have their merits.

Also discovered/rediscovered lots of great records doing this which are not mentioned below..which is kind of the point really isn’t it.

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Tough one!
1) Suede-Suede
2) The Las - The Las
3) Nowhere - Ride
4) I Could Live In Hope - Low
5) Some Friendly - The Charlatans

On the bench: Verve,Spiritualized, Oasis, Uncle Tupelo, Mercury Rev and lots of my all time favourites with flawed but fun debuts. They would get there

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Great article too.

Re-watched this over the last week. Had forgotten how sad it is. Peter Vaughan incredible. What a cast and great writing.

Our Friends in the North 30 years on from the first episode of this groundbreaking drama, we take a closer look into the programme’s archive to reveal a time capsule of a turbulent era.

It was 30 years ago today that BBC Two transmitted the opening episode of Our Friends in the North - one of the greatest television dramas the BBC has ever made.

For the anniversary, I've been down to Caversham to take a look through the show's files and explore some of the tales they tell...

Listened to this yesterday..still sounds like the future.