Marc Bolan's deathday today.
Ralphadeus. Music movies comics feature in this look at life from Somerset.
Wednesday, September 16, 2026
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.
Saturday, September 12, 2026
SONNY BOY WILLIAMSON II - THE KEY TO YOUR DOOR
You know I called you yesterday, a quarter after nine
I called you yesterday, a quarter after nineBut the landlady told me, "Sonny boy, that
Woman gon' cause you to lose your mind"
Kleenex - 'Beri Beri' + 'Nice' (1978)
Regula Sing (vocals)
Marlene Marder (Marlene Marti, guitar, vocals) Klaudia Schiff (Klaudia Schifferle, bass, vocals) Lislot Ha (Lieselotte Hafner, drums, vocals)
Mo-Dettes - WHITE MICE / WHITE MOUSE DISCO 1979
Saturday Night Selection. I thought we could have some girl punk. We saw them at Corsham Art College about the time this single was fresh. Mo-dettes - Wikipedia
She Moved Through the Fair SINEAD O'CONNOR - 1996 - Michael Collins
She Moved Through the Fair - Wikipedia
Michael Collins (film) - Wikipedia This movie we liked. Worth watching along with the Wind That Shakes the Barley.
A pocket history of the 1916 Rising The story of Ireland's Independence
This book we liked. Got it for a pound but worth it. Simplistic but this makes it very readable. I am interested in Irish history.
Ladies and Gentlemen the Fabulous Stains (1982) Official Trailer
Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains - Wikipedia I haven't seen this but it looks good.
Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains is a 1982 teen musical drama film about three teenage girls, played by Diane Lane, Laura Dern and Marin Kanter, who start a punk band. The film also features acting roles by real-life punk musicians including Steve Jones and Paul Cook of the Sex Pistols, Paul Simonon from the Clash, and Vince Welnick and Fee Waybill from the Tubes.
The Stains are depicted suffering the derision of male audiences and peers, but their dedication—and the fiery public persona of lead singer Corinne Burns—gains them a strong female fan base that ultimately eclipses their antagonists. The last scene is a triumphant MTV-style professional music video, which indicates the band finally achieved rock stardom.
The War Lord (1965)
The War Lord - Wikipedia. Not many films about the Normans but this is a good one. This year is the 960th anniversary of Hastings. Battle of Hastings at Battle Abbey | English Heritage
To Sir With Love - Lulu {Stereo} 1967
To Sir with Love (song) - Wikipedia Best selling single of 1967 in the US.
The Wurzels 'Don't Look Back In Anger' OFFICIAL video!
Andy Bennett on Radio Somerset who we like just played this. This is a better version as he commented.
Mark E Smith - Vinyl Justice, The Adam & Joe Show 06.12.97
This was good but it's not MES' house it is a stand-in. Still good though.
Friday, September 11, 2026
Otis Spann (with Eric Clapton) - Pretty Girls Everywhere 1964
Just read about this in the autobiography.
Thursday, September 10, 2026
The Wedding Present - Sticky 1992
My fave of theirs. It was hard to not like them as Peely played them a lot.
The Game, 50 Cent - Hate It Or Love It (Official Music Video) 2006
Hate It or Love It - Wikipedia This I was digging 20 years ago.
Bayeux book
I got a couple of books from our favourite charity shop. One was an Eric Clapton autobiography and this one on the Bayeux tapestry. Funnily enough I already have a book on the subject but this is more in-depth. I saw it as a youth on a school trip to Normandy. I intend to only read some of the Clapton book. Life is too short to read about his later life.
Larry Williams Marie, Marie 1957
Another one Steve Stack played. It's a lovely rocker that went unreleased until the 90s.
Count Five Double-decker bus 1966
Today I applied for my old person's bus pass. This one is just great.
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