Incredibly Strange Music

Tonight i walked down to the Oxfam shop in Western Road for Stephem's Strange Music evening between 6 - 8 pm to listen to loads of curios to wonder at, from the humorous,wierd and "utter crap so bad it must be good" type of vinyl records. The selections included a Bruce Forsyth "I'm Backing Britain" 7", a Morse Code teaching LP, a Budgie Singing LP,a lovely cha cha record on a French 7" single,a single by a singing busman, a flexi disc about Danish bacon,and loads more unclassifiable stuff - basically the detritus of the vinyl world. Some items were incredibly obscure . They will eventually be listed on his LJ site anyway. Fascinating all the same.

Talking of Oxfam bought one LP and a CD from the Kensington Gardens branch today - "Ocho" by Ocho (Soul Jazz LP) and Barry Adamson "Soul Murder" (Mute CD) - both less than £2 each.

I was going to go back to boring Crawley to finish the job from yesterday but my heart wasn't in it - so i will have to try to muster enthusiasm for a trip tomorrow.Still got a week almost to complete it but the cut-off date falls on next Friday for pay claims to be in the paid on the 15th of the month pay run - so no slacking in geeting it finished.

Picked up a copy of Record Collector,a magazine i rarely read,but sometinmes the occassional issue does have articles of merit.

Borderline (where i bought the Belly Dance double LP) has some tasty Trikont CD collections and Ennio Morricone reissues that i am absolutley salivating over - all under a tenner.

Lottery win please!!

Thursday's Terrific Thumping Tunes

OH YES playlist time again -

1/ Ocho - Ocho (Soul Jazz LP)
2/ Joanna Newsom - Ys (Drag City CD)
3/ Mohammed El Bakkar & His Oriental Ensemble - Music For A Belly Dancer (Dagored LP)
4/ Joao Basco - Galos de Briga (RCA LP)
5/ Barry Adamson - Soul Murder (Mute CD)
6/ David Borden / Mother Mallard - Migration (Cuneiform LP)
7/ Various Artists - All Tomorrow's Parties curated by Matt Groening (ATP CD)
8/ Sonic Youth - Goodbye 20th Century (SYR Records CD)
9/ Bullet - The Hanged Man (Contour LP)
10/ Anamaria & Mauricio - No No No ... Estamos Na Nossa(Gravacoes LP)
11/ Brian Auger's Oblivion Express - Straight Ahead (Castle CD)
12/ Lonnie Smith - Afrodesia (Grooive Merchant LP)
13/ Various Artists - Working Man's Soul (Licorice Soul CD)
14/ Various Artists - Music In The Margin (Sub Rosa CD)
15/ Captain Beefheart - Dropout Boogie (from "Safe As Milk")

Talking of Mr Bosco there is a nice discography of him at http://www.slipcue.com/music/brazil/bosco.html

My Taste in Music? Hmm ,Let Me See..

Trawling through my friends pages i found this little quiz below. The choices they have though are just too mainstream for me - i clicked on four options from the list - and this is the result it gave me. The most surprising aspect is a low influence of prog-rock on me. What? I grew up with prog-rock and things like the Soft Machine, Van der Graaf Generator,King Crimson etc etc. A load of tosh - but give it a go anyway.

Your Taste in Music:

90's Alternative: Medium Influence Classic Rock: Low Influence Progressive Rock: Low Influence 80's Alternative: No Influence 80's Pop: No Influence

How's Your Taste in Music?

Petula - Long Time No See

Spoke to Petula Stevens the other day on the phone after securing her telephone number from the Fieldshare website. She lives in Lydd in the deepest out of the way part of Kent. She use to be a supervisor for the EB but they fell out (as many people do) and no longer on good terms. (No surprise there).

Damn ,just thought, i could have brought a mystery guest to our Xmas gathering in Haywards Heath on the 15th - Pet no less - that would surprise the EB as much as Dave Bennett turning up with GC. Anyway i digress.
She no longer supervises and is back in a "proper job" (her words,not mine), but still does the occasional market research, and it emerged through our chat that Jill Lonsdale is still going but under a new business name,address and telephone number,since many years back i did quite a few surveys for her company. Anyway any work from Jill is filtered to the lovely Eve Reilly - so i shall call Jill and see if i can fill my diary.

I bet you anything that EB pissed off Jill as well - as i use to get work from Jill Lonsdale via the bloodsucking beast of Haywards Heath.

Can't wait to our Xmas shindig at the Chinese on the 15th hosted by that daughter of Dracula. Knives drawn out perhaps?? (oh just to remind you what the EB Looks like below).

Limericks,Don't You Just Love Them

Limerick time -

Beware, beware ,of the fearsome Bloodsucking beast
That lurks around sleepy Haywards Heath.
She is like some dreadful doppelganger
with a face like a clapped-out old banger
Oh,and just be careful of her vampire teeth.