Tuesday, August 25, 2026

Promise This Cheryl Cole 2010

This popped into my head. Remember it?

 Promise This - Wikipedia

Dolly Parton Live In London 1983 Down From Dover

 Goodbye Dolly. 

Rocket From The Tombs Sonic Reducer

 I love thia. All the album is pretty good. Rocket from the Tombs - Wikipedia

John Lee Hooker - "Hobo Blues" from the American Folk Blues Festival, 1965

 

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

Drought leaves 'barely any apples' to make cider

 Somerset cider makers left with very few apples after heatwaves - BBC News

Under The Boardwalk - Drifters 1964

In Frome


 

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

 Château-Gontier - Wikipedia

50 years ago I was participating in a French exchange. Frome was twinned with C-G. I stayed with a nice French family. i still remember their breakfasts. They let me have the use of a moped and I was able to drive it around town. I drank a lot but the family didn't mind. Once I got back and was sleeping on the front path and the mother came out and woke me up and brought me in. I went to a lot of parties and in the day hung out at an open air swimming pool. I visited a French family for a meal and got on really well but draank too much wine and threw up in their hallway. I remember going to a party in a 2 CV with about 9 people in it. Compared to my German exchane which was hell and resulted in me beating up my host this was really pleasant. 

     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.

Bob Dylan - Visions Of Johanna (Live 1966) [HD FOOTAGE]

 Thought we ought to make Blonde on Blonde.

Conservation Success for White-clawed Crayfish | Zoo Update

 This is interesting.

From A Somerset Camera 1914-1945 by Chris Howell.

 


When You Walk In The Room Jackie DeShannon 1963

 Jackie DeShannon - Wikipedia

Pickettywitch - Baby I won't let you down 1970

 Pickettywitch - Wikipedia

Pickettywitch - Wikipedia

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'.

The Modern Lovers - "Roadrunner" (1972)

 The Modern Lovers (album) - Wikipedia

Satlford Manor near Bath

 Saltford Manor (built around 1148) is the oldest continuously inhabited house in the UK


Vigon Harlem Shuffle (Scopitone 1967)

 

The Delicates - Black and White Thunderbird (1959)

 

Sunday, August 23, 2026

Terry Dactyl And The Dinosaurs - Sea Side Shuffle 1972

 Just heard this on the radio for the first time since the 70s.

Roxy Music - Re-Make/Re-Model (Live At The Royal College Of Art)

 Another of her best 70s LPs is this by Roxy Music. Re-Make/Re-Model - Wikipedia

T Rex Mambo Sun (1972)

 Susan also counts the album Electric Warrior as pretty important, maybe her fave. 

ESCARGOT - SOMERSET STYLE

 Known as wall fish or wall fruit miners used to cook them on their shovels.

Dr Feelgood She Does It Right 1975

 We were listening to Sounds of the Seventies and he was talking about choosing your album of the 70s - Susan chose Reproduction and \I would choose Down by the Jetty

Music video by The Human League performing Empire State Human 1979

 Susan likes the Human League - not the version that made it big with the girl backing singers but the Reproduction/Travelogue period band. We saw them twice about that time.

Harold Burrage And His Band - I Cry For You

 Such a great song.

Cornershop - Lessons Learned from Rocky I to Rocky III (original & official) 2002

 Great video and song. Handcream for a Generation - Wikipedia

Hoagy Carmichael -- Baltimore Oriole

 Baltimore Oriole (song) - Wikipedia

Earl's Boogie - Earl Hooker 1969

 

Saturday, August 22, 2026

John Lee Hooker - Burning Hell (1959)

 

Crayfish

 Susan has got interested in Crayfish. She keeps seeing them in the brook. She is determined to get a photo of one. We don't know whether they are the invasive Crayfish or the domestic type. I used to catch them as a kid in Vallis Vale which is a lovely river on the edge of Frome.


Gravure ecrevisse 1642/ Engraving crayfish 1642

Swallow My Pride The Ramones February 1977 with lyrics

 Saturday Night Selection. Leave Home - Wikipedia

Too Young to Die (Original Version) · Sonny Boy Williamson II

 Amusing lyrics in this one.

Kenneth Williams - The Ballad Of The Woggler's Moulie

 

Protein Protection (Early Version) · The Fall 2003

 The Real New Fall LP (Formerly Country on the Click) - Wikipedia

MES night

 


John Lee Hooker performs "Maudie" at the 1960 Newport Jazz Festival

 Such a great performance and song. Happy birthday John Lee Hooker - Wikipedia

Al Green Love and Happiness Live Performance

 Love and Happiness - Wikipedia

Jackie Wilson Said (I'm In Heaven When You Smile) (1972)

 

Friday, August 21, 2026

1966 HITS ARCHIVE: Whispers (Gettin’ Louder) - Jackie Wilson

 A great song from 66. Jackie was backed instrumentally by The Funk Brothers and vocally by The Andantes on this pop & R&B hit.


Jackie Wilson - You’ve Got Me Walking (1972)

 I know I spin this a lot but it is so good. I love it. Jackie Wilson discography - Wikipedia

Theme from S-Express 1988

 This we liked. I was allowed a radio at work and enjoyed it.

Theme from S-Express - Wikipedia

Dusty Springfield - Summer Is Over

 1964 rereleased 74. When I post this usually Susan objects but this year she said 'yes it's definitely changed'.

Somerset at War Mac Hawkins

 Got this book today for a quid. About 8 mentions of Radstock. My mother's father was an officer in the Home Guard. Kept a bren gun in a wardrobe. One fact I didn't know was that Clark Gable was billeted in Midsomer Norton for a while and attended football matches. Joe Louis did an exhibition match at Welton Rovers our local team.




 


Bobby Bland Shoes

 A Northern Soul favourite. Love it. Bobby Bland - Wikipedia

My Side of the Mountain trailer (1969)

 Susan fancies watching this film about a boy who trains a peregrine falcon.

My Side of the Mountain (film) - Wikipedia

Thursday, August 20, 2026

Manfred Mann - Semi-Detached Suburban Mr. James [1966]

 Another song inspired by Atlantic tunnel

Semi-Detached, Suburban Mr. James - Wikipedia

Dave Clark Five When 1965

 Feature debut of John Boorman. Well worth watching. Catch Us If You Can (film) - Wikipedia. Partly filmed in Bath, Salisbury Plain and (this one) the Mendips. 

Cat Stevens I Love My Dog France, 1967

 Cat Stevens - Wikipedia

Cat Stevens - Matthew & Son (1967)

 Just heard on Atlantic Tunnel which is on WFMU> Susan and our son like Cat Stevens. 

Matthew and Son - Wikipedia

Peter Sarstedt - Where Do You Go To My Lovely (1969)

 Just heard on Atlantic Tunnel. Remember it.  This got to number 1 I believe. Where Do You Go To (My Lovely)? - Wikipedia

Marvin Gaye - Hitch Hike 1962


Detroit Cobras It's raining

 This would be good to karaoke. 

Open The Boxoctosis #2 · The Fall 2003

 The Real New Fall LP (Formerly Country on the Click) - Wikipedia

WHALEFALL Official Trailer 2 (2026) Josh Brolin

 Susan was most impressed by this trailer.

Whalefall (film) - Wikipedia

A scuba diver searching for his father's remains in the ocean is swallowed by a sperm whale, leaving him an hour to find a way to escape.

Robert Nighthawk / Lula Mae

 Killer. Not sure of the date. Mid sixties.

Tomorrow Sandie Shaw 1966

 Susan was a fan back in the day.

Van Morrison - Wavelength - 2/1/1979 - Belfast

 We have had some rain so I thought we could have this classic.

Wednesday, August 19, 2026

Animal Farm (1954). George Orwell. HD Cartoon

 Animal Farm is a 1954 British-American animated drama and propaganda film commissioned by the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). It was directed by both John Halas and Joy Batchelor, and produced by Halas and Batchelor, based on the 1945 novel of the same name by George Orwell.

A successful farmyard revolution by the resident animals vs. the farmer goes horribly wrong as the victors create a new tyranny among themselves.

1962 HITS ARCHIVE: Cry To Me - Solomon Burke

 This is another song for doing karaoke. I always sing along when it comes on.

Solomon Burke - Wikipedia

Behind the Counter · The Fall 1994

 For all those in retail.  Whole LP is great. Middle Class Revolt - Wikipedia

Billy Preston - Summertime (1972)

 

Rock Follies - episode 1 - starring Charlotte Cornwell, Rula Lenska and Julie Covington (1976)

 Rock Follies - Wikipedia. I didn't watch this but Susan did and enjoyed it. Probably because

The songs were written by Andy Mackay, a founder member of Roxy Music. 

Music video by Shakin' Stevens performing Give Me Your Heart Tonight. (C) 1982

 I used to play this a lot back then. Give Me Your Heart Tonight (song) - Wikipedia