Television Personalities

Crayola (Mr Sarandon) has put together a compilation of the covers that the super ace Sarandon recorded and has uploaded it for free download. There's 8 covers, including a great version of "And Don't The Kids Just Love It". Other artistes covered include Swell Maps, the June Brides and the Membrane...

Belated birthday wishes Daniel.

I'm currently reading Sebastian Faulk's "Engleby". I bought it from a charity shop recently as the "make weight" in a 2-for-1 deal.

AC Acoustics - Victory Parts (reissue)

Temples - Sun Structures (LP)

Dream The Sweetest Dreams

Love the slide guitar. Reminds me of Syd Barrett's playing.

And a Merry Christmas to all our readers!

Ten years ago (gulp) I started pulling together some information for the site which, amongst many other things, documented the records where Dan appears as a guest artist. I never finished the article but perhaps now it's time to resurrect it and finish it off, especially since there's been a few ad...

Mos Eisley - The Get-Up Set Their debut - and only - LP from 2003. A group that I remember from listening to Peel in 2001 - 03. Spunky indie rock / pop similar to Ash or the Futureheads. Great tunes. I listened to a Peel show at the weekend containing their second Peel session so tracked this down o...

It's been out 2 years now so I'm a bit late on it, but you can download this track free from the Labrador label site:

http://www.labrador.se/dan/

Responding to a query I received, can anyone help date an appearance of the TVPs at the Marquee Club in London? This was after the club moved premises to 105 Charing Cross Road in 1988. The date may be in 1988 or it could be the early 90s. If anyone can find evidence in a gig listing, it would be mu...

The Fall - Re-Mit

Kitchens of Distinction - Folly

Thanks Lee!

The next question then is, what happened to those new songs that Ed had put up on Myspace back in 2008? Did they ever come out properly?

I went to see Wire at the New Continental in Preston last night (Friday 16th August). It was ferociously hot inside, but that didn't affect the band, who were on fine form.

Here's a clip of how they sounded. I can see myself two people behind the bloke at the front wearing the hat:

Here's footage of Germany's Woog Riots at the Indietracks festival in July, covering The Times "My Andy Warhol Poster" in the church stage:

She's My Yoko

A thing of late beauty.

Where has Ed Ball gone? It seems that he's just disappeared from the internet. His Myspace pages haven't been accessed since 2008, the Facebook pages he set up were taken down a year or two ago and the email address I had for him now gets the mail bounced back. Now and again I get messages via the T...

Three CDs by Milky Wimpshake:

Lovers Not Fighters
Popshaped
My Funny Social Crime

Three for £10 from the Fortuna Pop merchandise stall at this weekend's Indietracks festival.
Bargain? Not 'arf!

The Besnard Lakes - Until in Excess, Imperceptible UFO