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Damn … just after I’d booked the cinema

Weller asked Jim Lea to play violin on Equanimity (from On Sunset) as he was looking for that style of violin sound on the track.

Slade had three singles enter the charts straight in at number one. Come On Feel The Noize Skweeze Me Pleeze Me Merry Xmas Everybody The next band to do that was The Jam with … Going Underground A Town Called Malice Beat Surrender The first two bands I saw live … both in 1977.

November 2017 … never too early for Merry Christmas Everybody 🥳

Two screenings at the moment …

The burp on Darling Be Home Soon is just so Noddy Holder.

Second album for me too after Old New Borrowed and Blue. Edit: actually it must have been the other way round as Old New Borrowed and Blue came out in ‘74. I bought Slade Alive second hand for 50p - advertised in the Christchurch Times. 50p might not be sound a lot but back then - around 72/73...

I've been up in the loft this morning ...

I’ve just booked Worthing Connaught 👍

Very good 😂

It’s a really mixed bag. A few covers including Lennon and McCartney’s ‘Martha My Dear’ and 3/4 Lea/Holder compositions. But does include Born to be Wild which was a big live favourite. Agree that Play it Loud is great 👍 Mrs PGTip’s gran (Naomi Blakemore) was sister to Noddy’s gran (Martha...

Where did you see it? I was reading about it earlier today. I also saw the original release in 1975.

You’re probably thinking of Play it Loud as that’s the image on the album cover. But the year before they had an album out called Beginnings under the name Ambrose Slade. I’ve got both on vinyl - although Beginnings was a cheap re-release. Although before posting I did a search and this looks...