The KKK Took My Baby Away - Wikipedia
We had that Mania compilation on cassette for the car (get the kids into the brudders) and this was on it. One of the better later ones.
Ralphadeus. Music movies comics feature in this look at life from Somerset.
Saturday, September 19, 2026
1981 Mandagsborsen Ramones - The KKK Took My Baby Away
We had that Mania compilation on cassette for the car (get the kids into the brudders) and this was on it. One of the better later ones.
The Raveonettes - Love In A Trashcan - 2005
We liked this Danish band - saw them a couple of times. The Raveonettes - Wikipedia
Françoise Hardy - Catch a Falling Star (Rendez-vous avec - Diffusion 05/03/1964)
This is delightful. I have it on an EP of English language songs.
Friday, September 18, 2026
Glaxo Babies - Peel Session 1979
Bristol band playing in Frome (see below). We saw them in 1979 at the Devizes Corn Exchange I think.
Batman inspired Radio
Holy vinyl, Batman!
In January 1966, the Batman TV series unleashed a worldwide craze. For two seasons, the Caped Crusader and Robin invaded television screens, movie theaters, toy stores, comic books, costumes... and, of course, record shops.
This fourth, and most likely final, trip to Gotham City is dedicated entirely to that explosion of Batmania. A journey through the sounds of 1966 and 1967, featuring garage, surf, beat, pop, rhythm & blues, instrumentals, TV oddities, and some of the most unusual recordings inspired by the legendary series starring Adam West and Burt Ward.
You'll find versions of the Batman Theme, tributes to the show's villains, the unmistakable Batusi, international rarities, and forgotten gems born from the television phenomenon that turned Batman into a true pop culture icon.
So fasten your seatbelt in the Batmobile, switch on the Bat-Signal... and enjoy the ride.
See you next week... same Bat-Time, same Bat-Station!
Interesting gig in Frome
Bos says 'Here is the evening gig poster for the event we are putting on Saturday December 5th at the Silk Mill...Market during the day and gig in the evening..The day market is free entry and the tickets for gig are here : https://wegottickets.com/f/27290 '
Paul McCartney & Wings - Wild Life (Live from "The Bruce McMouse Show", 1972)
Wild Life (Wings album) - Wikipedia
I had this album. This is a stand out track. Inspired by a 1966 trip to Kenya.
A cup of tea
Paul and Linda McCartney - Heart Of The Country 1971
Enjoying a book on the early solo and Wings years. Ram (album) - Wikipedia
Thursday, September 17, 2026
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Battle Abbey
In just a few weeks, the Normans and Saxons take to the field once again in a clash to decide the future of England. Don’t miss your chance to experience this unforgettable event. 
Battle of Hastings | 10 – 11 October
Tickets are selling fast - book yours
Gotham Nottinghamshire Batman event
The event in Gotham, Nottinghamshire, is a celebration of the Batman franchise's 70th anniversary, featuring a life-size 1966 Batmobile and a Batman character for photo opportunities. The event will take place on September 19, 2026, between 10am and 1pm, and will be held in the village of Gotham, Nottinghamshire. The first 100 people dressed as Batman will receive a free CORGI Batmobile model. This event is a unique way to celebrate the enduring legacy of Batman and the cultural connection between the fictional city and the real-life village of Gotham. Bat-Signal spotted over Gotham in Nottinghamshire for World Batman Day | InYourArea
Buildings of Bath Bryan Little
Wednesday, September 16, 2026
Youth Wing practice photos by Susan 1978
I don't remember what name we had then - we used to change band names on a fortnightly basis. We played a gig at the Youth Wing. Was great.
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| Ralph Mitchard |
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| Ivan Bojuck |
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| Ralph and Henry |
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| Ralph Kev and Bunce. |
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| Henry - he did the mural |
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| Henry Hutton |
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| Kev Saunders |
Hank Mizell - Jungle Rock (1976)
We used to hang out and practice at the local Youth club. They had a jukebox and this was on it.
Kursaal Flyers - Little Does She Know (TOTP 25.11.1976)
The Kursaal Flyers - Wikipedia This was a band that seemed to come out of the Southend scene, Pub Rock with a current slant.
Eddie and the Hot Rods Writing on the Wall 1976
This line-up was phenomenal. When they had Lew Lewis with them they were perfect.
Today's charity shop purchase
Bough this today. First band I saw live in 1973 supported by Brinsley Schwarz. Wings were quite the counter culture type band.
Tuesday, September 15, 2026
The Merseys - Sorrow (1966)
Sorrow (The McCoys song) - Wikipedia Drums are excellent - by Clem Cattini - Wikipedia
Merrie England Once Again (1929)
MERRIE ENGLAND ONCE AGAIN ! - 1,500 dancers recapture "spirit of Old England" - in great Dance Festival in beautiful grounds of Blenheim Palace."
My parents used to Folk Dance.
Tales from the Country Pub
THE MOVE - 'Flowers In The Rain' (B&W original version) | 1967
Susan likes the Move. I liked Fire Brigade as a kid. Flowers in the Rain - Wikipedia
This is a fun fact
In a promotional stunt for the record – typical of the band's manager Tony Secunda – a postcard was released with a cartoon of a naked then-Prime Minister Harold Wilson in bed with his secretary Marcia Williams. Wilson sued, and the High Court ordered that all royalties from the song be donated to a charity of Wilson's choice. This arrangement, which remains in force, saw royalties go to the Spastics Society and Stoke Mandeville Hospital during the period of the single's chart success. In the 1990s, The Observer newspaper reported the royalties had exceeded £200,000 and that the Harold Wilson Charitable Trust had extended the range of beneficiaries to include, among others, the Oxford Operatic Society, Bolton Lads Club, and the Jewish National Fund for Israel.[6]
Bobby Gentry - Ode to Billy Joe 1967
Ode to Billie Joe - Wikipedia Just played this on BBC Radio Somerset.
Thunderbird ESQ · The Gories 1991
My mate Rich just did a version of this. Very good. The Gories - Wikipedia
Monday, September 14, 2026
Lou Reed - Coney Island Baby - 9/25/1984 - Capitol Theatre (Official)
With Robert Quine of the Voidoids on guitar.
Robert Quine - Guitar Fernando Saunders - Bass, Vocals Peter Wood - Keyboards Lenny Ferarri - Drums
Choc Ice · Lulu And The Luvvers Gonks Go Beat 1964
This would be a great song to cover. Gonks Go Beat - Wikipedia
Amy Winehouse - Back To Black (Live At Glastonbury Festival 2008)
Happy birthday Amy. One of our daughter's hairdresser friends saw her in a bar and said 'is that your hair?' and she replied ' Well I paid for it'.
1953 Willie Mabon - I’m Mad (#1 R&B hit)
Love this one.
Great, round, wonderful, beautiful world
And the wonderful water around the curve
And everything that's in the world
I hops up and marries a glamour girl
I'm mad
Walt Disney's The Old Mill (1937)
Our eldest is at Disneyland at the moment so that has inspired this thread.
Adam & The Ants - Kings of the Wild Frontier 1980
One of my friends went to a book event for Marco Pirroni's new autobiography and enjoyed it a lot. I have the book ordered from the Library (did I tell you I love libraries). I wasn't that keen on this period Ants - not that I said so to them. We had a letter from Adam when they were recording this at Rockfield.
Brigitte
When we first got married not only did we have 2 pinballs we also had Brigitte an African clawed toad (Xenopus). We had her in a large tank. She eventually went to Rode Bird Gardens in their reptile section.
The Land Remains Official Trailer 2026
On Radio Somerset. The Land Remains Screening Tour — Stone Club
The official trailer for The Land Remains by Boris Thompson-Roylance.
The Land Remains places Britain’s renewed interest in folklore and ritual in dialogue with the Bibby Stockholm asylum barge, exploring how land, migration, and belonging shape national identity today. Across a year, director, @deadbeatboris spent a year filming pre-christian traditions and sacred sites across the country. Pagan practices, aligned with the calendar wheel, structured around the solstices, equinoxes, and seasonal thresholds. Alongside this, Boris spent a year documenting the Bibby Stockholm Barge in Portland, Dorset, which housed hundreds of male asylum seekers. The filmmaker saw the Barge as a symbol of the previous Governments hostile environment. The Land Remains examines how folklore and the rising tide of nationalism collide within a divided nation, revealing how belonging continues to shape national identity today. A powerful convergence of two themes - migration, and connection to the land - with a powerful manifesto for divided times "we are a migrant nation". The film features many prominent voices in the folk community, including folk singer and song collector Sam Lee and alchemist and apothecarist Charlotte Pulver.
Sunday, September 13, 2026
Rooty Toot Toot ~ John Hubley ~ UPA ~ 1951 ~ nice copy
Rooty Toot Toot (1951) stands as one of the high points of UPA's output and as one of the most highly-praised seven-minute cartoons ever made. It is in no way a children's film; it deals with strictly adult characters and situations. Gerald McBoing Boing and The Ragtime Bear had performed very well at the box office, so Columbia approved a larger budget for UPA cartoons--they would now be budgeted at nearly $35,000 each. Meanwhile, John Hubley was anxious to make his own definitive statement at UPA (he directed the first Magoo cartoon but would soon hand the character over to others). Hubley took the new budget allowance and ran with it, pulling out all the stops to make a thoroughly Modern and graphically exciting update on the old "Frankie and Johnny" story of jealousy and murder. Rooty Toot Toot would go over schedule and budget, but it earned nearly as much critical and press attention as Gerald.
Hubley brought in a number of interesting collaborators on Rooty Toot Toot. Dancer Olga Lunick was hired to choreograph the ballet-style dance moves. There was no rotoscoping involved; her moves were only referenced by the artists and animators, not slavishly traced. Paul Julian designed the backgrounds and utilized some non-typical techniques; in his essential history of UPA, When Magoo Flew: The Rise and Fall of Animation Studio UPA (Wesleyan, 2012), Adam Abraham quotes Julian on one of them: "'I found a kind of oddly corroded gelatin roller - an ordinary print roller that had been pitted and pocked in some way, chemically.' With this device, he produced distressed-looking backgrounds that suited the sordid tale." In addition, Hubley and the studio brought on jazz musician Phil Moore to write the score. Moore had done orchestrations for many MGM musicals in the 1940s, but uncredited--this would be a rare on-screen credit for the black musician. Legendary animator Grim Natwick also joined the crew. Natwick had been active since the silent era and had designed and animated Betty Boop for the Fleischer Studios. He went on to work on such key films as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) and Gulliver's Travels (1939). For Rooty Toot Toot Natwick animated the memorable shots of Nellie Bly on the witness stand. Producer: John Hubley Director: John Hubley
Animation Mavericks: The Forgotten Story of UPA (2027) - Trailer
"Animation Mavericks: The Forgotten Story of UPA" shows the origins, rise, fall, and legacy of an innovative and iconoclastic animation studio. Through revealing interviews and stylishly animated reenactments of key moments in Hollywood history, this feature-length animated documentary hybrid illuminates a vital, untold chronicle of cinema and the real-life personalities behind it.
Premiering at film festivals in 2027.
Susie, The Little Blue Coupe (1952)
Susie the Little Blue Coupe is a 1952 animated short film produced by Walt Disney Productions and originally released by RKO Radio Pictures on June 6, 1952.
All Tomorrow's Parties - The Velvet Underground & Nico Live 1966
Primary footage is from Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco, California, May, 1966. Secondary footage is from various Exploding Plastic Inevitable shows. Audio is from Valleydale Ballroom, Columbus, Ohio, November 4, 1966.
Philippe Garrel - Le Coffret Nico boxset trailer
Our trailer for Le Coffret Nico, our blu-ray boxset with 5 films by Philippe Garrel featuring the singer/songwriter/actress/poet and Garrel's muse Nico. The majority of these films have been newly restored with close cooperation with our production team and the filmmaker himself, many benefiting from new scanss of the films.
Available here : https://re-voir.com/shop/en/philippe-garre... FILMS LA CICATRICE INTÉRIEURE (1970, 35mm, color, 60 mins) with: Nico, Pierre Clémenti, Philippe Garrel, Ari, Balthazar Clémenti, Daniel Pommereulle (English, French, Japanese, Korean subtitles) LE BERCEAU DE CRISTAL (1975, 35mm, color, mono, 72 mins, 2025 restoration) with: Nico, Frédéric Pardo, Margareth Clémenti, Anita Pallenberg, Dominique Sanda, Philippe Garrel (English dialogue with French and Japanese subtitles) UN ANGE PASSE (1975, 35mm, B/W, mono, 82 mins, 2025 restoration) with: Nico, Laurent Terzieff, Maurice Garrel, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Bulle Ogier (French, English, Japanese subtitles) ATHANOR (1972, 35mm, color, silent, 20 mins, 2025 restoration) with: Nico, Musky (silent film) LE BLEU DES ORIGINES (1977, 35mm, B/W, silent, 12 mins, 2025 restoration/re-edit) with: Nico, Zouzou (silent film) BONUS: LES HAUTES SOLITUDES (5 mins excerpt, 1974). (silent film) Includes 48-page EN/FR Booklet
Nico – No One Is There (Live, 1970)
Rare performance of Nico in 1970 with John Cale on viola. Track taken from “Walpurgisnacht - Raritäten Und Konzerte - Teil II”
Tasmanian Tiger 90 years extinct
Thylacine - Wikipedia
See all available footage All Tasmanian Tiger Footage Ever Filmed - YouTube
I have to add some people including Susan think there are still some out there.
The Peter Potamus Show Intro
The Peter Potamus Show - Wikipedia I don't remember this maybe they didn't show it over here.
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