With the weather this weekend going to be scorchio why not come up to the alcoholery between High Littleton & Farmborough, the outside benches have been tested by the team, sit and have your coffee, breakfast, lunch or a cider in beautiful surroundings
Us in a Crop circle with the kids. Early 90s. Wiltshire. Pic by Susan. We used to go around looking for them. There was a magazine the Cerealogist which we used to get. Note baby in the backpack
50 years on from their formation, Mark E. Smith and The Fall are being celebrated with a new Manchester festival: Futures and Pasts.
Taking place from 5–7 June 2026 at Band on the Wall, the weekend brings together live music, films, talks, exhibitions, DJ sets and one-off events exploring five decades of The Fall’s influence and legacy.
The programme includes appearances and performances from Marc Riley, Craig Scanlon, Simon Armitage, Frank Skinner, Grant Showbiz and Jim Moir, alongside Imperial Wax, The Fallen Women, Hey! Luciani, The Dave Bush Tapes premiere, exhibitions, walking tours and more.
Michael Nesmith's rural Texas roots and future musical paths crossed on Michael Martin Murphey and Owen Castleman's brisk ballad "What Am I Doing Hangin' 'Round?" The authors were the Monkees' labelmates at Colgems under the Lewis & Clarke Expedition moniker, and Murphey and Nesmith had actually been acquaintances prior to the Monkees project. There is a discernible Bakersfield flavor to the selection, as Doug Dillard's exemplary banjo picking is coupled with Nesmith's twangy narrative and some effervescently rhythmic contributions from bassist Chip Douglas, together creating a feisty countrified rocker in the vein of latter-era Byrds and/or the Flying Burrito Brothers. This song provides one of the rare post-Headquarters occasions that all four Monkees played on the same studio cut. In addition to solid background vocals from Micky Dolenz and Davy Jones, Peter Tork joins Nesmith on guitar.
Little Richard Live in Paris November 1966. Backed by UK band, Johnny B. Great & The Quotations.
(1) Lucille (2) Good golly miss molly (3) Rip it up (4) Long tall sally (5) Tutti frutti (6)Jenny Jenny (7) Send me some lovin (8) Ready Teddy (9)She's got it (10) Whole lotta shakin goin on
A great gig we saw in Bath was the Dirtbombs. A small subterranean club called Moles. A sadly missed venue. We were right up the front. Sad that our eldest couldn't come as she was working at a bakery so was up dead early so opted out and missed it. I kept shouting for this song and when I had given up they played it. Moles (nightclub) - Wikipedia
Another band we liked through listening to Peely was this band. We saw them live at the Hub in Bath which was great for a while. One of our neighbours was there grooving away. Loop Guru - Wikipedia
Snub TV - Wikipedia Mike Reynolds played this last night on Winchcombe Calling. We had this album on cassette. I guess its experimental blending pop and ancient music. Check it out.
TOOMORROW, 1970, Screenbound Int’l, 94 min. 21 year-old Olivia Newton-John stars, pre-GREASE fame, in this utterly bonkers Mod-Pop / Sci-Fi musical about a multi-racial group of London art college musicians whose songs are the cure to the computer sterility suffered by the alien Alphoids, circling Earth in their crystal spacecraft. "It's the only thing Planet Earth can teach us: the vibrations of Youth," as the androgynous Alphoids, led by veteran British actor Roy Dotrice, tell Olivia & band. A jaw dropping, must-be-seen-to-be-believed combination of “Josie & The Pussy Cats” and THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH, the film is filled with super-groovy Sunshine Pop tunes, student protests and carefree sexual hijinks -- plus aliens. (The Alphoids’ glimmering ship is like Superman’s Fortress of Solitude on ecstasy, one of the film’s highlights.) Directed & written by the great British filmmaker Val Guest (the first two QUATERMASS films, THE DAY THE EARTH CAUGHT FIRE) in his most Pop-friendly, CASINO ROYALE-style, TOOMORROW was produced by James Bond 007 co-producer Harry Saltzman and veteran American music impresario Don Kirshner, who were intent on creating another The Archies/The Monkees style sensation. The other band members include guitarist/vocalist Benny Thomas, fringe-jacket wearing drummer Karl Chambers (who played with Philly-area groups like MFSB and Archie Bell & The Drells), and keyboardist Vic Cooper – but it’s clearly Newton-John with her irresistible smile, blonde locks and dollybird clothes that’s the superstar of the group. (Her slang dialogue of “Not you, you drongo!” is a great throwaway nod to her Aussie roots.) Released for barely a week on its original 1970 run and unseen for decades, TOOMORROW has been restored by the British Film Institute and Deaf Crocodile from the original 35mm negative for the first time.
“Sure, I dig it. We’re too much. We’re Toomorrow.”
Jan & Dean starring in their pilot episode that was not aired in 1966 due to Jan's accident April 12, 1966. This show would possibly have had some crossover with "The Monkees"
Kogar’s Jungle Juice Show #145 is on the loose! 2 hours of wild and crazy (or is it crazy and wild?) records presented (mostly) at 45 RPM! Special tribute set for departed Rock n’ Roll madman Jesse Hector! This show features; The Bob-Chords, The Rangers, The Roemans, The 5 Willows, The Gatorvettes, The Mariners, Tommy Louis, Rudy Green, Terry Dunavan, Tommy Angel, Sanford Clark, Earl Hooker, Lowell Fulson and all sorts of Jesse Hector madness! Full set list over at the Boss Radio 66 and Jungle Juice Blogspots! Sorry, no unique art this week!
This fresh interpretation of Steinbeck’s masterpiece will explore the multigenerational saga of the Trask family, focusing new attention on its indelible antihero, Cathy Ames, played by Florence Pugh. Watch the official teaser here. Coming soon to Netflix.