Great train song heard on Boss Radio 66.
Ralphadeus. Music movies comics feature in this look at life from Somerset.
Friday, June 20, 2025
T. Rex New York City 1975
This came out today 50 years ago. Something of a comeback single if I remember rightly. Pic from Marc Bolan King of the Rumbling Spires Facebook.
Hal Blaine - Dance With The Surfin' Band 1963
This is probably my fave surfing song. The drummer ace Hal Blaine goes surfing with his own composition produced by Lee Hazlewood. The Young Cougars were actually The Blossoms featuring Darlene Love.
Somerset - the Millenium book
Picked this one up today from our friednly neighbourhood charity shop. Has some good images but I liked the cover especially.
At the Chip Inn Midsomer Norton 2023
Photo Susan. Lots of takeaways in Norton but this is our favourite. When it reopened after the pandemic we were straight down there.
Thursday, June 19, 2025
The Fall British People in Hot Weather (1990)
I remember Peel playing this at Glastonbury when it was scorchio.
The Who My Generation 1965
What is the best song from 65? Possibly this one or Satisfaction by the Stones.
Jaws anniversary
So the film is 50 years old. I don't think I saw it at the cinema. I was staying in Cornwall with my Uncle and Auntie and the tourists were obsessed with sharks.
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This weekend we are celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Jaws at the scene of the crime...on Martha's Vineyard! Catch us at the Wharf Pub, Oak Bluffs Harbor Fest, The Ritz, and Martha's Vineyard Museum
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David Fisher Radstock 1805
Our ancestors were here then already mining. The canal didn't last long and eventually the railways came. This was about the time when on their way to Waterloo and fame the Scots Greys stopped here on the way to Southampton. Officers in the inns. Subsequently named Waterloo road.
Hoagy Carmichael - Memphis In June (Johnny Angel)
They played the Nina Simone version on the radio (Riley and Coe) last night. Audio version of the Hoagy original.
Hoagy playing the song Memphis in June from the 1945 film Johnny Angel from director Edwin Martin. The song was written by Hoagy and Paul Francis Webster.
Wednesday, June 18, 2025
Planxty- The Bonny Light Horseman
Oh, Napoleon Bonaparte, you're the cause of my woe
Since my bonny light horseman to the wars he did go Broken hearted I'll wander, broken hearted I'll remain Since my bonny light horseman in the wars he was slain
Martin Carthy sings "The Eighteenth of June" in "The Battle of Waterloo" (1983)
Thanks to Warwick for this
Here are a couple of brief clips of Martin Carthy singing "The Eighteenth of June" from the 1983 BBC production of Keith Dewhurst's "Battle of Waterloo". This TV play was transmitted live from BBC Pebble Mill studios in Birmingham on 13 February 1983.
Waterloo Road Radstock before the railways
Tuesday, June 17, 2025
Journey Back: the Lost Mines of Mendip 1980
Has Radstock footage of course - shows how the notorious Guss and Crook worked plus an interview with Herbie Loader. 20 minutes.
Clockwork Orange (1971) Alex visits a record shop
I didn't see this in the 70s. I read the book though.
The filming location for the record shop scene was the basement of the Chelsea Drugstore on London's Kings Road which was designed by architect Antony Cloughley and designer Colin Golding.
Tyrannosaurus Rex / Marc Bolan - Sarah Crazy Child recorded live Middle Earth 1967
Starts with John Peel. He was a big fan of the band at that time. I like this period Bolan.
Monday, June 16, 2025
Bob Dylan Lyrics
Got this last week in our chazza. I used to borrow my sister's copy of the lyrics book back in the day.
Bob Dylan and the Band Basement Tapes 1975
50 years old. I bought it though I didn't like the Band tracks I used to skip them. Wiki
Little Brother Montgomery - No Special Rider (LIVE VIDEO - Berlin 1974)
with Ikey Robinson gtr + Red Sanders dms
Night of the Demon • 1957 • Theatrical Trailer (US)
We watched this for about the 11th time last night. Still good.
Doctor Zhivago - Original Theatrical Trailer 1965
A film that is 50 years old this year. A great film.
Visiting a British Pub
In 1943, the American OWI helped create a film that they showed to all those who were to be stationed in Great Britain. This is an excerpt from the US Military Training film "How to Behave in Britain." Burgess Meredith, of later fame as the Penguin in the Batman series (he did a great deal of other stuff as well and much of it quite good), takes the American GI through the ins and outs of the British pub as it existed in wartime Britain.
Casting the Runes 1979
Supernatural drama, as part of ITV's Playhouse series. Starring Iain Cuthbertson, Jan Francis, Bernard Gallagher and Joanna Dunham. A television producer mocks a female author on witchcraft, and soon regrets it.
Sunday, June 15, 2025
The Who - The Magic Bus (1968)
"Magic Bus" is a song recorded by the English rock band the Who. It was written by their guitarist Pete Townshend during the time that their debut album My Generation was being recorded in 1965. However, it was not recorded until 1968, when it was released as a single on 27 July 1968 in the United States and Canada, followed by its release in the United Kingdom on 11 October 1968.[2] It has become one of the band's most popular songs and has been a concert staple, although when released, the record only reached number 26 in the UK and number 25 in the United States.[3] The song was included on their 1968 album Magic Bus: The Who on Tour.
SUMMER HOLIDAY - Official Trailer
Take a double-decker London Transport bus - across France, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, Yugoslavia and into Greece on the most unforgettable summer holiday ever. Cliff and his friends are bus mechanics who launch a scheme for 'holidays on wheels' by trying it out themselves - after converting a London bus into a luxury mobile hotel. The venture gets off to a good start when they crash into a rickety old car driven by three pretty girls and they decide to take them all the way to Athens. SUMMER HOLIDAY | 1963 | Director: Peter Yates | Starring: Cliff Richard, Lauri Peters, Melvyn Hayes, Una Stubbs
Furthur (Bus)
Furthur is a 1939 International Harvester school bus purchased by author Ken Kesey in 1964 to carry his "Merry Band of Pranksters" cross-country, filming their counterculture adventures as they went. The bus featured prominently in Tom Wolfe's 1968 book The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test but, due to the chaos of the trip and editing difficulties, footage of the journey was not released as a film until the 2011 documentary Magic Trip.
Magic Trip (2011 of 1964 film Footage)
Wiki on the film. MAGIC TRIP: KEN KESEY’S SEARCH FOR A KOOL PLACE (2011)—FOR HISTORY BUFFS OF THE 1960S!!! This is a recent documentary from film footage from long ago—the trip from San Francisco to New York and back again in 1964 and 1968, with a detour to Mexico. This film is of the 1964, to visit the World's Fair in New York City. The famous writer Tom Wolfe (1930-2018) joined them on the second trip—He wrote a book about this trip: “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test” (1968), a book, at least for me, that is nearly unreadable today—it was a crude imitation of Jack Kerouac’s masterpiece (they brought professional filming equipment and learned how to use it on the way). Remember, LSD was legal in California until 1966. In fact, the trips were a self-conscious attempt to replicate Jack Kerouac’s (1922-1969), On the Road (1957). Kerouac had spent two-years hitchhiking from the East to the West coast and back again. He wrote the classic novel in just three weeks, at a feverish pace, working day and night, imitating a spontaneous jazz orchestration. To keep his pace at a high level, he bought a huge roll of paper at an office supply store so he could type non-stop (Kerouac also makes a brief appearance in the film, in New York City, as does Allan Ginsberg).
Repulsion (1965) trailer
Directed by Roman Polanski. With Catherine Deneuve, Ian Hendry and John Fraser.
BFI posted
Made at the height of the swinging 60s, this chilling psychological thriller transforms ordinary cityscapes into a haunting reflection of its main character’s unravelling mind. We went in search of the real locations that shaped Repulsion’s claustrophobic atmosphere.
Read more: https://theb.fi/3HAa8hv
Adam and the Ants Plastic Surgery (Jubilee 1978)
Well I enjoyed the book 69 Exhibition Road. Full of insights into the Ants, Monochrome Set, Sex Pistols, Rema Rema and Throbbing Gristle. If you like those bands and like punk memoirs this is something you should get.
For Father's Day
This was when my Dad - John MItchard from Radstock though we were living in Frome then - contested the North Somerset constituency. I am on the left of the picture. I can remember that campaign well, we had an office on Wells hill up from the Shambles, and I remember driving around the constituency. Occasionally we would see the sitting MP Paul Dean doing the rounds too in his Land Rover. We went to some public meetings at Victoria Hall and places like that and I am pretty sure we went to Lower Writhlington colliery to canvas the workers coming out. I was very young and I was certain we were going to win - everyone seemed on our side but it was not to be but it was great fun. Met some great people and had our moment in the spotlight
Saturday, June 14, 2025
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