Dazed And Confused - Yardbirds French TV 1968

 Yardbirds perform Dazed And Confused on Baton Rouge French TV show March 09,1968.

This song was to be part of the repertoire of Led Zeppelin and Jimmy Page was taken to counrt by the original composer. See wikipedia.

PJ Harvey and Harry Escott - An Acre of Land (Official Video)

 This is for those of you who thin my music choices too raucous. This is for them. Music for a film I watched last night called 'Dark River'. 

Quick Joey Small The Mud dogs 2006

 Filmed in our garden many years ago. Done off the cuff. Sue had a new camera and Rich turned up so we filmed a song. A duo we mostly played in Rich's kitchen but we did a few gigs. We won the Kilmersdon Village Day busking competition in 2000. We played a wedding and cleared out the Hall - they all went over to the pub. Very bad.  Played the Tyning a few times. 

Carmel - More More More 1984

 Directed by Lindsay Anderson. Another great video and song.

Last Chance To Turn Around Gene Pitney (1965)

 Encountered this first when the Fall covered it. Also known as the Last exit to Brooklyn. 

Celia's Place - a comic shop in Midsomer Norton

 

My daughter has a hair salon 'Celia's Place' on Midsomer Norton High Street that also doubles up as a comic shop. Posters, action figures fanzines and an ever-changing selection of comics. Drop in to see. It doesn't smell bad like a hairdressers as Celia does not use awful-smelling chemicals. So whether you like Marvel, DC, Tank Girl or anything else drop in. 

Here is Sue outside 

Red Dawn Trailer (1984)

 Such a great film. In a not serious way of course. I remember getting my son to watch it as I knew he would love it what with Harry Dean Stanton and Patrick Swayze in it and all that. If you have never watched it its up in parts on Youtube. 'AVENGE ME!' I really like John Milius' work though and you can't say it's not a  good film. Wiki

Billy Boy Arnold & The Aces ~ She Fooled Me

 The Devil's Music - a BBC series from about 1976 - very big deal for me as it was the first time I had seen or heard some performers. This was one of the best clips. Stellar backing band.

BBC

Scars - All About You (1981)

 Another Edinburgh band we liked were the Scars. They got on the OGWT and we saw them live but they never quite made it. Their finest moment was the debut 45 Horrorshow/Adult-ery on Fast. 

Hey! Elastica This Town/Eat Your Heart Out

 Another 80s band that we liked was this band from Edinburgh. They were on Virgin. One of our friends worked at Virgin so we used to get free records. They got on the Oxford Road Show (a TV show for youths) in about 1982. Never made it like many others but we still have their records. 

RIDE the SOMERSET & DORSET line in 1963

 Radstock is about at 4.40. You see a glimpse of Lower Writhlington colliery. 

Heinz - Live it Up 1963

 Some clips from the 1963 movie Live it Up with the Smart Alecs, featuring Heinz Burt, David Hemmings, Steve Marriot and John Pike. Another song from the below film. Shame no film exists of Heinz doing 'Just like Eddie'.  Watch Live it Up here

Temptation Baby, Gene Vincent 1963

 Gene from the film 'Live it Up' musical director Joe Meek. Traction engine is the Iron Maiden apparently. 

Carmel - Willow weep for me 1984

 I used to really like this band at the time though Susan wasn't so keen. This video is really good - set in a hair salon and there is a cameo by the great Orlando. Directed by Derek Jarman too. Carmel also had a video by Lindsay Anderson -  will post that another time.

The Trip / 1967

 Interesting movie. Music Electric Flag. 

The Trip (1967) is a counterculture-era psychedelic film released by American International Pictures, directed by Roger Corman, written by Jack Nicholson, and shot on location in and around Los Angeles, including on top of Kirkwood in Laurel Canyon, Hollywood Hills, and near Big Sur, California in 1967. Peter Fonda stars as a young television commercial director named Paul Groves.

The Leather Boy 'Shadows' 1967

 

This is a record by the Leather Boy, It's a great spooky bit of garage.  Early American Gothic rock.  Hear his hits I'm a Leather Boy and On the Go if you don't know them. 

Anna Karina "Sous le soleil exactement"

Anna | ORTF | 13/01/1967

Anna Karina's birthday today so let's play one of her best. 

White Riot UK Official Trailer | In Cinemas 18 Sept

 Rubika Shah’s award-winning and energising film charts a vital national protest movement. Rock Against Racism (RAR) was formed in 1976, prompted by ‘music’s biggest colonialist’ Eric Clapton and his support of racist MP Enoch Powell.

White Riot blends fresh interviews with queasy archive footage to recreate a hostile environment of anti-immigrant hysteria and National Front marches. As neo-Nazis recruited the nation’s youth, RAR’s multicultural punk and reggae gigs provided rallying points for resistance. As co-founder Red Saunders explains: ‘We peeled away the Union Jack to reveal the swastika’. The campaign grew from Hoxton fanzine roots to 1978’s huge antifascist carnival in Victoria Park, featuring X-Ray Spex, Steel Pulse and of course The Clash, whose rock star charisma and gale-force conviction took RAR’s message to the masses.

Jimmy Reed I'm Gonna Ruin You 1954

 'Send you to get butter, you bring me lard - woman what makes your head so hard'.

Veejay record A-side. A Carter-Reed composition. Magic.

How Green was My Valley 1941 Full Movie in HD

 One of the best films ever made. Made in California but set in Wales.

Wikipedia

The script was written by Philip Dunne. He later recalled reading the original novel "in horror, turgid stuff, long speeches about Welsh coal miners on strike."^[7]

William Wyler, the original director, saw the screen test of McDowall and chose him for the part. Wyler was replaced by John Ford. Fox wanted to shoot the movie in Wales in Technicolor, but it was impossible to do so during World War II. Instead, Ford had the studio build an 80-acre authentic replica of a Welsh mining town at Brent's Crags^[6] (subsequently Crags Country Club) in the Santa Monica Mountains near Malibu, California.^[8]

The cast had only one Welsh actor, Rhys Williams, in a minor role.^{[citation needed]}