Ralphadeus. Music movies comics feature in this look at life from Somerset.
Sunday, August 30, 2026
Terraplanes Evil Going On 1981
At Bristol. Susan with me playing harmonica. Yo La Tengo used to cover this and we got to see them do it. Surreal.
Sonny Boy Williamson II - live [Colourised] 1964
My hero and inspiration for the harmonica.
The one and only Sonny Boy Williamson II recorded live Sept 1964 and broadcast as part of the series 'Jazz Gehört und Gesehen' by Südwestfunk" (SWF), Baden-Baden.
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Tin Sandwich - a harmonica documentary
50 years ago I was playing harp so I thought we could have this film to celebrate. BBC documentary from 2008.
Documentary which reveals how the humble mouth-organ has been bent to different forms of music-making, featuring interviews and demonstrations from the world's leading players.
THE WHITE BUFFALO (1977) | Official Trailer | Amazon MGM
At the closing of 1874 a haunted, dying Wild Bill Hickok teams up with a grieving Crazy Horse to hunt a murderous albino buffalo.
The White Buffalo (1977) Directed By: J. Lee Thompson Screenplay By: Richard Sale from his Novel "The White Buffalo" Cast: Charles Bronson, Jack Warden, Will Sampson, Clint Walker, Slim Pickens, Stuart Whitman, and Kim Novak as Poker Jenny Rated PG Watch now on Digital, Streaming, Blu-Ray and/or DVD.
The Maytals & Toots - Bam Bam - 1966
Notting Hill Carnival is celebrating 60 years so I thought we could have some reggae from 1966. Not that it was called Reggae in 66.
The Maytals 1968 single "Do the Reggay" was the first song to use the word "reggae", coining the name of the genre and introducing it to a global audience.[6][7][8]
Saturday, August 29, 2026
DAVID GATES (1966) - "Saturdays Child" (Original Demo)
Covered that same year by The Palace Guard and The Monkees, and then Herman's Hermits the following year).
Count Bishops - Beautiful Delilah 1975
Saturday Night Selection. 50 years ago this was what I wanted to sound like for our Frome R&B band. This seemed to be perfection to me. Chuck Berry song. Incidentally I am reading Chuck's autobiography at the moment. The Count Bishops - Wikipedia
Adam & The Ants - Fall-In (Decca Demos 1978)
At the Screen on the Green.
Co-written by Lester Square, at the time with Adam in the fledgling group The B-Sides, soon to depart for The Monochrome Set.
Train Fare Home Blues - Muddy Waters 1968
Muddy Waters – guitar & vocals
James ‘Pee Wee’ Madison – guitar Luther “Snakeboy” Johnson – guitar Otis Spann – piano Paul Oscher – harmonica Sonny Wimberley – bass S.P. Leary – drums Copenhagen Jazz Festival October 27, 1968
The Nerves - Hanging On The Telephone 1976
From The Nerves EP
The Nerves were a mid-'70s power pop trio based in Los Angeles, California, featuring guitarist Jack Lee, bassist Peter Case, and drummer Paul Collins. All three members composed songs and sang. They managed a national tour, including a few dates with The Ramones, but they lasted just a short time and self-released only one self-titled four-song EP in 1976, featuring the songs "Hanging on the Telephone" (Lee), "When You Find Out" (Case), "Give Me Some Time" (Lee), and "Working Too Hard" (Collins). The EP was distributed by independent Bomp! Records.
The Buzzcocks Live Screen On The Green 29-08-76 (Audio Only)
Breakdown / Friends Of Mine / Time's Up / Orgasm Addict / Peking Hooligan / Lester Sands (Drop In The Ocean / Oh Shit! / You Tear Me Up / Love Battery / I Can't Control Myself / I Love You, Big Dummy
The Clash audio Screen on the Green London 1976
One of the first gigs to be performed by The clash. It includes songs that were not released!
1: Deny - 1:06 2: I know what to think about you - 4:57 3: I never did it - 9:25 4: How can I understand the files - 11:25 5: Janie Jones - 14:20 6: Protex blue - 17:25 7: Mark me absent - 20:08 8: Deadly serious - 22:26 9: What's my name - 23:55 10: Sitting at my party - 25:57 11: 48 hours - 27:50 12: I'm so bored with you - 29:36 13: London's burning - 32:14 14: 1977 - 34:18 Interesting fact: They had another guitarist (Keith levene) and I'm so bored with you has the same tune as I'm so bored with the U.S.A just with different lyrics.
Friday, August 28, 2026
Medicine Head - One and one is one 1973 (Official Music Video HD)
Remember this? John Peel was a fan. Medicine Head - Wikipedia
George Thorogood - I'll Change My Style | Live at Capitol Theatre (1984)
Jimmy Reed song. I was in someone's car and this song came on and he said something like 'we'll skip this one it's crap'. I was thinking it wass one of the better ones.
The Pushbike Song - The Mixtures 1971
The Pushbike Song - Wikipedia I was attending Milk Street school when this was out. They let us bring in 45s on Friday afternoons and we would play them.
Thursday, August 27, 2026
Tenpole Tudor - Swords Of A Thousand Men 1981
We bought this 45 and its follow-up Wunderbar. It was filmed before we got involved in reenactment but I think the promo used reenactors. Swords of a Thousand Men - Wikipedia
Ralph 40 years ago. Photo Richard Ellis
This is what we were doing in the 80s. I am 2nd from the right. Devereux's Regiment. They had a Frome Garrison that used to meet up Wednesdays for miniature wargames.
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The Golden Age of Video
We used to frequent this shop in Bath. It was so good. Foreign films, family films, arthouse, it was a film buff's dream. You could get 5 films for a fiver for a week - ideal for school holidays. The Golden Age of Video Stores in Photos: When Renting a Movie Was an Event - Rare Historical Photos
ELVIS PRESLEY & Kitty White - Crawfish ( New Edit ) 4K
Movie: King Creole - 1958
Written by Fred Wise & Ben Weisman
Crayfish by Susan
Unfortunately it's a Signal type. Susan has got really interested in Crayfish. Our son and his family coincidentally are holidaying where there is a colony of the white-clawed variety.
THE CRAMPS-BIKINI GIRLS/MULE SKINNER BLUES-THE LATE SHOW-BBC 2- 26.FEB.1990
This was so good. Taped it we did. Everyone is Cramp crazy at the moment.
Billy Fury My Advice
From the Sound of Fury. Played this last night on the Wednesday Night Rocking Party.
Wednesday, August 26, 2026
Queen Of The Night 1982 (2004 Digital Remaster) · Michael Nyman
In the 80s we really liked Michael Nyman's music.
Adam Ant - Man Called Marco (Slapdash Eden Video Mix)
Have you read Marco's autobiography yet? He's done an audio version too. This one we used the play a lot during the Vallis Road years. 'Ello. I'm Marco. Allow me to introduce you to my Firebird 7.'
Launch of the Mini 1959
The Mini was officially announced to the public on 26 August 1959. Some 2,000 cars had already been sent abroad and were displayed that day in almost 100 countries.[39]
Tuesday, August 25, 2026
Rocket From The Tombs Sonic Reducer
I love thia. All the album is pretty good. Rocket from the Tombs - Wikipedia
Dr Feelgood Boom Boom 1975
The show based on Wilko's life is touring. Get all the details here.
Wilko: Love and Death and Rock 'N' Roll | Discover Wilko Johnson’s story – Book Your Tickets Today
The Rolling Stones - Fool To Cry TOTP 20.05.1976
This song reminds me of my French trip. Fool to Cry - Wikipedia
Château-Gontier 1976
The worst part was a postscript. I gave my address to two French bikers - a lot older than me - and they actually turned up on my parents' doorstep while I was at school. My folks put them up reluctantly. They were a handful - they asked me to get them LSD and organise a fight for them. I just took them up the Hexagon suite and let them get on with it. Terrible. My folks eventually passed them onto the twinning committee.
Monday, August 24, 2026
VIRGINIA WOOLF'S NIGHT & DAY — Official Trailer (2026)
A passionate astronomer Katharine Hilbery does everything she can to avoid romantic love and marriage. Fun and contemporary in tone, this refreshing film showcases an ensemble of humourous performances against the ravishing backdrop of London in 1910, advances in science and technology and crumbling Edwardian patriarchy. Virginia’s story is as relevant to today as it ever was: women balancing romantic love with careers!
© Quiver Distribution, 2026 Cast: Haley Bennett, Elyas M'Barek, Jack Whitehall, Lily Allen, Sally Phillips, Jennifer Saunders and Timothy Spall
Kinky Afro Happy Mondays 1990
Kinky Afro - Wikipedia Just heard it on the radio. We bought the album on cassette. We used to get cassettes to play in the car as our house walls were very thin you could blast it out in a car.
Adam And The Ants - Plastic Surgery (film version)
Adam And The Ants - Plastic Surgery (film version)This version has a different drummer - sould be Dave Barbarossa but it's the Banshees drummer.
Adam & The Ants - 'Lou' (BBC Session 1978)
Of course this was very memorable when we saw them at Corsham. Some hippy with bare feet leapt on the stage during it - stage is too polite a term, it was tables. We spoke to them after the gig - they were waiting outside a caravan classroom which was presumably their dressing room. We thanked them for a great gig. Susan and me were right up the front. Crazy dancing was going on behind us. Antfans were already following band - young punks.
‘It brings me joy’: how young people are making CDs cool again
‘It brings me joy’: how young people are making CDs cool again | Music industry | The Guardian
Compact discs are back, with searches for players up 96% at John Lewis and popular models sold out online
Adam & The Ants - It Doesn't Matter (BBC Session 1978)
Recorded 23 January 1978. First broadcast 30 January.
When I first saw the Ants for the first time in 1978 this song stood out to me. I think as it was a 12 bar I could 'get' it. Plastic Surgery also was memorable.
Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers - New England • TopPop
He recorded with his band a TopPop TV special on 16 September 1978.
Among the songs he recorded was his no. 1 hit 'Egyptian Reggae' and 'New England'.
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