Sunday, June 30, 2024

Saturday, June 29, 2024

Primal Scream Rocks 1994

 Here. Saturday Night 🌙selection. Hard to believe this is 30 years old. Kind of reminds me of Glastonbury a bit too. Wiki


King Coal | Official Trailer | POV | PBS

 


Watch trailer here

A lyrical tapestry of a place and people, King Coal meditates on the complex history and future of the coal industry, the communities it has shaped, and the myths it has created. The film reshapes the boundaries of documentary filmmaking and transcends time and place, untangling the pain from the beauty, and illuminating the innately human capacity for imagination and change.

King Coal will make its national broadcast premiere on the award-winning PBS television series POV on Monday, June 24, 2024, at 10pmET/9C (check local listings) on PBS, pbs.org, and the PBS App.

The Darts (U.S.) Hang Around official video

 Here. This band seem good. Watch them do Pour Another here. They are playing Bristol Crofters Rights October 4.  Garage Rock. 


Bob and Earl Harlem Shuffle 1963

 


Listen here. Read about this classic here

Friday, June 28, 2024

ABC Poison Arrow 1982

 Here. Just heard this on Mickey Bradley. We bought this 45 and a couple of their other 45s. Never bought the album though. 

It's on this forthcoming compilation on Cherry Red. 

Bruton Somerset

 This Somerset town of a few thousand people was dubbed by Vogue as the new Notting Hill. I went to school there so I know it as it was in the 70s. Local hard man was called Rocky Stone. Pic from here


Blowzabella Death in a Fen/Bruton Town/Our Captain Cried 1988

 Wiki. Mike Reynolds just played this band. Mike knew one of the hurdy-gurdy players in the English Civil War Society.


From a Richer Dust. Here. A folk band that we liked. Saw them at the Bridgwater Arts Centre in about 1988.

Do the Clam Elvis 1965

 Grab your barefoot baby by the hand. From Girl Happy. 


Here. Brilliant clip and song. Wiki. Written by Dolores Fuller. 

Cavegirl and the Neandergals

See them playing Psycho Bitch in Leeds a few weeks ago here This album is out on Western Star in a couple of weeks. We tuned into Bernie Keith this morning to hear an interview with Sunshine Cave (her real name)  the singer and stand up bassist. They are getting a lot of favourable interest. Recorded at the Paulton (Western Star are our friendly local label). On 10 inch vinyl. Music is rockabilly with a kick. Visually they are aiming for One Million Years B.C.. So they said. Good luck with the record. 



Cruiser's Creek the Fall (extended version) 1985

 One of their best 45s. Always like hearing this. 

There's a party going down around here

Cruiser's creek now
Watch the shirt-tails flapping in the wind
Sidewalk running
See the people holding from the back
Hat-boaters tilting
There's a party going on around here
Cruiser's creek now
Cruiser's creek yeah
Cruiser's creek

Here

Big Toy Vote

 As you know it's election time in the U.K. and many schools are closed for the day due to schools being used for voting. The Entertainer toy retailer has a vote in store choosing trucks dinosaurs mermaids or unicorns. Let them have their say. 


Thursday, June 27, 2024

Mamie Van Doren

Wiki  She starred in the awful teen flick Untamed Youth watch it here

Wiki on the movie here

Magazine The Light Pours Out of Me 1978

 Here. Saw them about this time. Bought this single. Good bass.



Here (2024)

 


Watch trailer. Susan is a Tom Hanks fan and I think she will enjoy this movie. Wiki

The Swinger (1966)

 Watched this movie today. It's OK. I like Ann-Margret but it wasn't brilliant. A vehicle for her skills apparently it is from a trilogy of vehicles which includes Vive Las Vegas and Bye Bye Birdie. Wiki


Glastonbury gates open.


 Are you going? Where we used to live used to go really quiet over the Glastonbury weekend as a lot of people would go down. We only went once in 92 and finished up camping with our neighbours in the Green Field. Was hot and drinks were expensive. I took a folding bike and enjoyed cycling around the site in the morning before people woke up. Saw the Fall. And the Orb. Wasn't in a rush to repeat it - it was a rich man's game. Morrissey was on the bill but cancelled. There were lots of Morrisey lookalikes walking about.

The Honeys Shoot the Curl 1963

 


Here. Just heard on Boss Radio 66. 

Tuesday, June 25, 2024

The Endless Summer 1966

 Here. 

Wiki on the movie. Tom Hanks just mentioned this.

Beach Boys I Get Around 1964

 Here

America's response to the British invasion. Wiki

(1951) Modern 809-A ''Little Boy Blue'' Walter Horton (Mumbles)

 A classic record that should be more well known than it is. 

''LITTLE BOY BLUES'' Composer:- Robert Lockwood Jr

Walter Horton - Vocal & Harmonica Joe Hill Louis - Guitar, Percussion Willie Johnson - Guitar Unknown Tap Dancing effect Other Musicians Unknown

PRODUCER AND RECORDING ENGINEER - SAM C. PHILLIPS

Monday, June 24, 2024

Start the Revolution without me (1970) trailer

 I remember watching this on the telly as a child. My Mum ironing. A comedy. Wiki


Here

Nosferatu official teaser trailer in theatres December 25

 Here

He is coming. NOSFERATU. A Robert Eggers picture. Only in theaters this Christmas. Robert Eggers’ NOSFERATU is a gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake.

The KKK took my baby away the Ramones 1981

 When the children were young we used to have a cassette of Ramonesmania in the car. This one was on it. Watch here


Most of the later songs which we didn't know we're rubbish but this track was good. The kids did grow up to like the Ramones naturally. 

Clothing and Landscape by Rachel Worth

 Recommended by Anthony L. Dawson.

At the beginning of the Victorian period, most of England's population lived in the countryside; by its end, the balance had tipped towards living in urban and suburban spaces. In the context of this rapidly changing world, Rachel Worth explores the ways in which the clothing of the rural working classes was represented visually in paintings and photographs and by the literary sources of documentary, autobiography and fiction, as well as by the particular pattern of survival and collection by museums of garments of rural provenance. Rachel Worth explores ways in which clothing and how it is represented throws light on wider social and cultural aspects of society, as well as how 'traditional' styles of dress, like men's smock-frocks or women's sun-bonnets, came to be replaced by 'fashion'. Her compelling study, with black & white and colour illustrations, both adds a broader dimension to the history of dress by considering it within the social and cultural context of its time and discusses how clothing enriches our understanding of the social history of the Victorian peri


Sunday, June 23, 2024

Eye of the Needle (1981) trailer

 Here.


Do you remember this spy story with Donald Sutherland in. They have audio book of the original novel by Ken Follett.


Tell em I'm surfin' the Fantastic Baggys 1963

 Wiki on the band. A classic Boss Radio song. New label Surf. About 8 posts


Here to listen. 

Battle of the Beanfield 1985

 


This happened in June 85. Wiki I remember sitting in my parents' garden with our baby in the sun and my Mum (who was a Justice of the Peace) knew there was a big police operation going on and was listening on the Police radio. Vans and vans of police went by. Our friend Duncan was there and was arrested. He was at that time part of the traveller community. 

The Fall Lay of the Land 1984 OGWT

 Album on Spotify released October 84


Here. TV was November 40 years ago. This was a time when I wasn't very interested in punk music but I remember Duncan raving about this performance. The Wiki on the album claims the chanting is derived from the Quatermass Conclusion. I remember this show. Quatermass is set in a near future in which large numbers of young people are joining a cult known as the Planet People who gather at prehistoric sites, believing they will be transported to a better life on another planet.

Lay
Lay
Lay
Armageddon
This beautiful tree
Boo hoo
Give up living
Ample
Eye
They give in
On The Buses, up the stair
By the television
Pretend to learn
Where's the lay of the land
My son
Where's the lay of the land
My son
What's the lie of the land
My son


Fall Peel session 1993

Here

 The complete session recorded by The Fall on 28 February 1993 for the John Peel show on BBC Radio 1 and broadcast on 13 March 1993.

Tracklist: 1. Ladybird (Green Grass) (0:38) 2. Strychnine (5:23) 3. Service (10:17) 4. Paranoia Man in Cheap Shot Room (14:16)

Men without hats Safety Dance 1982

 This song I completely missed when it came out. We discovered it when it was introduced to us by our hosts when we visited Denmark. These young Goths loved it and we had to agree. Filmed in Wiltshire (not too far away from here) the video was. Hit in 83. Apparently written after being thrown out of a club for pogoing.

Earliest photo of Radstock

 Mining was already established by the 1860s when this photo was taken. This is before the railways came. In the distance you can see the Waldegrave arms which is still there but renamed the Radstock hotel. 


A fine smock

 Before mining started in Radstock in 1763 it was a typical Mendip village with sheep being farmed. We have a bridge called sheep wash bridge from those times. 


Saturday, June 22, 2024

"Haymakers" by George Stubbs, c. 1785.


No smocks. A bit early for Haymaking. I did it once as a lad. Sweaty work. Moving haybales about into a trailer then into a barn.

The Warts (The Seeds) - Pushin' Too Hard (T.V. cameo)

 Great quality clip of The Seeds infamous T.V. appearance from 1968.

Friday, June 21, 2024

Germinal (1993) trailer

 Here. One of my favourite films. Story of a miner's strike


Somerset smock

 

19th century West Country (probably Somerset) shepherd's cream linen smock

19th century West Country (probably Somerset) shepherd's cream linen smock, full length, with full sleeves and front pockets, smocking to the bodice front and back, flanked by panels of embroidery, and above the cuffs, 

Also see this article

Somerset Smocks Martyn C. Brown

 


Article on this subject. Worth a read. 

Clifton House Mystery (1978)

 See my post on the Bristol Riot here


Wiki Watch it here (it's about 2:15.02)

This is an HTV children's ghost story which has a connection with the Bristol riots of 1831. A ghost based on  Thomas Brereton who commanded the King's forces during the riot and was made a scapegoat and killed himself during the court martial.

Just ordered this from the library.


New Kogar

 


Here is Jungle Juice show #68! 2 hours of wild and crazy rekkids to put you in the Jungle Mood! This show features our tribute to music and wrasslin’ fan, Scott Cornish, who left us far too soon! 2 hours of wild and crazy toons preeesented at 45 RPM, the way the jungle gods intended! This show features artists like; The Nite Cats, The Vibro-Sonics, The Lamplighters, the Champions, T. Valentine, Alton and Jimmy, Tiny Fuller, The Stompin Riff Raffs, Bloodshot Bill, The Mummies and the A-Bones!  Full set list available over at the Boss Radio 66 blogspot!

https://www.bossradio66.com/2024/06/kogars-jungle-juice-show-68.html

or

https://www.mixcloud.com/Kogar/kogars-jungle-juice-show-68/

Show 67 Was #1 Doo Wop and Rhythm and Blues, 2nd Instrumental, 3rd in Rockabilly and 3rd in Garage Rock!