Five tracks from January
HEARTWORMS - EXTRAORDINARY WINGS
Spitfire obsessive due to release debut album, 'Glutton for Punishment', in the not too distant future.
NIDA, BLOCKDOG, AFRICAN DIPLOMAT - BIABOU 2
Political hip hop, Ivory Coast style. From current EP, Black Label.
GOAT + MC YALLAH...
Went on two whilst at Tideway:
Brighton Libraries - included the main Brighton one plus a couple of days at Saltdean - don't remember anything from that one.
East Sussex County Council in Lewes - spent a week franking letters, rearranging paperclips and counting pencils before the lone male in...
Possibly stay at home sitting on their arses.
For Reform to do well in local elections they will need candidates - they had enough trouble finding 600 odd for the last election. Quite how many they will find willing to put in the hours listening to complaints about potholes, dog mess bins and...
Mosley was interned on 23 May 1940 on the orders of Churchill, about a week after he had visited France and become alarmed about the defeatism of the then French Government and High Command. Virtually all of the high placed administrators of BUF were also interned effectively leaving the party...
In the 1930s Farage may well have been politically in the same boat as Mosley - note his strong support for Russia today and his desire to appease Putin. There are a number of similarities between himself and those from occupied countries who collaborated with Hitler: venality, vanity, obsession...
Following on from albums - a few of my favourite tracks:
Kitsuko - The Policeman Shots
The Pill - Scaffolding Man
First single, Bale of Hay, whilst great, is heavily influenced by Wet Leg - not surprising as this lot are from the Isle of Wight as well. However, this second single changes...
I've been meaning to post on this thread for a while but haven't had the time of late to make the mixcloud compilations I used to do.
Anyway, some long players that have been spinning on the Trees turntables:
Pharmakon - Maggot Mass
Is that a melody I can hear between the guttural screams...
Italia 90 really was an oddity. Football wise it was one of the most turgid competitions in history, I think it still holds the record for the lowest average goals scored across all World Cups - a lot of rules were changed after, most notably the back pass rule to keepers. Other than West...