Photo by Markus Reeves who's down with us this weekend and will be in session
between 1 and 2 on Saturday here...
I'm on my hol's this week - at home. Well, half term innit? so not much time for
the usual bloggings and banterings.
Being in lazy blogger mode, I'm going to play the occasional Re-up card and pitch in
a couple o' home-made comps you may have missed. Two acoustic autumnal mixes of slow burning smokey smoulderers..
It's back to all the regulation rattling and rambling next week
Pitching in with the celebrations and tributes to John Peel's life, legacy and love
of music as part of the Keeping it Peel activities around the web and beyond - tonight's Radio Podrophenia is a Keeping it Peel special.
On the playlist are tracks (and occasional appearances) from JP in his Perfumed
Garden era, fave album tracks, radio session rarities, a demo version of one his
all time top tunes and occasional quotes from Peel himself...
Natter-wise we'd like to know: which acts or tracks did you pick up on from the Peel show. Which heavy
hitters did you catch as absolute beginners, any low level obscurities or heard-once and never forgotten oddities..
Fight,fight,fight - when I had rumble with Rochard
(pronounced roach-ard). Our school year's notoriously handy Judo bloke. It
started when he whipped a few stinging flicks of his school tie at a mate o' mine in the changing rooms - and ended with me having quick a
straightener with him. Although the PE teacher walked in put the handbrake any more fiesty hi-jinx.
In other news, it's a weekend in London at cousin Sylv's
where we call in to see her best mate Nick Saloman (who stopped by the blog
for a guest spot earlier this year) and his legendary record collection.
Including the rare Hot Rods edition of the Damned's debut album and tales about
his childhood chum Stuart Goddard. Dig about and you'll spot Nick's mum making
an appearance in Adam Ant's biog!
The London weekend
Then later - an evening at the pub to see his Nick's band
the Von Trap Family, who had managed to nip a couple of spins on the Peel show, where I wore my dad's old Mothers Pride coat for it and put purple crazy colour in my hair. Would you believe in moment of psychedelic synchronicity Nick Saloman as Bevis Frond has just released a new
album - The Leaving of London
Crazy Horses
And those wild horses are back, busting loose and
running riot through the school grounds.
Although I'm still no clearer who the strange girl is who follows me home. And
sits on the bus!
Records added to collection include: ver Subs - Party in Paris (with Capt Sensible on keyboards), Adam
Ant - Dog eat Dog and The Professionals with Steve Jones doing a B A Robertson barnet..and of course The Von Traps..
Earphones, EQ and every Tuesday at 9! Musically it's Elvis, Eddie and the Hot Rods, Eno and the unlikely alliance of Edwin and The Beatles moulded and mashed into Starr Club companions
Why? Because the 5th edition of our Podrophonic alphabet gets unwrapped and revealed
on Radio Podrophenia, live from 9 on Chance Radio this very evening. Along with the
usual chat, banter and live action natter from the board members and regulars.
Swing by if you're about... or if not you can grab last week's edition here, via iTunes or stream below..
As a last minute switcheroo, getting pitched in under the 'earworm' entry is this golden nugget of delicousness discovered over at Drew's corner of the interweb. You can grab a copy by zipping here
September seems to be the month for horses and house parties - not at the same time obvs!
I say 'parties', they were actually more of a - buy some cider (Triple Vintage/ Merrydown) from the old dear at Unwins and get it down the hatch at a friends house - type tear-ups.
For Hayes's socials, while the parents were out, the top-loader stereo -shaped and weighted like a mahogany block with wooden stalk-like legs - would be lumped down from upstairs for some music to booze to in the front room.
Horses: I'd chosen horse riding as a PE option but couldn't get on with it. The blooming things were typically either rearing up Lone Ranger style, or stopping for a steaming, streaming gusher of a comfort break. For extra curricular activity, we'd nip along to see J. Mowatt and mate Hayley Bill (not her real name, we added the surname for chuckles) daring a ride on Tempest. A flighty nag who was several hands too high for a 'rider' of my casual calibre, and why after being given a giddy-up slap on his back-end, Tempest shot off like a thundercrack, throwing me out of the saddle - but because of one foot still trapped in a stirrup, dragged me behind like a sack of old spuds, bouncing across the tree roots and muddy bumps. I was black and blue for days after.
And photos too, (Michael) Hayes, (Jackie) Calvy and myself (with new bow tie) doing a photo booth squeeze at Southend Bus Depot (27th) - and Ye Olde School Photo taken on the 22nd
M.Hayes - top row, 3rd from left. Me - next row, 5th from left. J.Calvy - bottom row - 4th from left
Records collected this month are: The Plasmatics, The Damned, more Spizz, more Splodgeness and Dead Kennedy's Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables - most which had been ear-wigged from late night listens to John Peel....
A teaser trailer for next month's diary doings - where the entries are expanded in a Silvine notebook..
I haven't a clue who the 'weird girl' that follows me home is, or why I hide in the garage from her. And how about that! LOTR at our school!
I'm a little bit country. I'm a little bit rock 'n roll
Take your partners for a rootin' tootin' tear-up as we go 'Kinda Country' on tonight's live action Radio Podrophenia - where everything from Abba covers to Zydeco stompers get pitched in the pot.
The Elvis back catalogue has been on and off the subs bench all week, as I've been doing some king-size juggling between outtakes and obscurities from the undubbed masters album One Hundred Years From Now and the blue-aired booty Cut Me and I Bleed, which in essence, is Effing and Jeffing with Elvis.
Similarly I still can't decide which way to swing on the offbeat. Either Marlene Webber's Stand By Your Man or the banjo 'n' blue beat bounce of Beverly Hillbilly Ska
And Fi Jacobs from The Railway Hotel drops in for a round up of what's on at Southend's most rock 'n' roll local during October. So buckle up from 9 for a ride around Podrophenia country
Natter-wise I'd like to try and nail look-a-likes for this 'orrible lot. I'm claiming Mr Top Left as David Beckham - but what about the other salty ol' sea dogs..?
This masterclass in nifty-fingered frettery from Albert Lee will be appearing at some point tonight..
If you're not iTuned up - you can load up last week's Radio Podrophenia via this MP3 DL
And don't forget you can grab - Dolly does disco and northern soul here
We posted a pic, some years back - of a buzzed-up teenage me wearing a just-bought muslin shirt (Anarchist Gang design). It was one of three tees bought from the ex-Seditionaries stock being sold off at Boy, while 430 King's Rd was being refitted as World's End. And behold, here's the very date in week two of our holiday (a week spent at home with trips and days out: Clacton, nan's...) 6th August!
After two weeks away, the record buying is back on track with everything from Spizz to Crass, being added to the collection (although I can't seem to find Discharge's (Fight Back). The Damned pitch in with three appearances - look away if you don't want to know the answers: White Rabbit (on import), the Rat Scabies produced Urban Gorilla and the entire band (minus Vanian) backing Magic Michael on Millionaire. We'll have more on this one-off curiosity later (with an exclusive from C Sensible)
But the key 45 here is Adam and the Ants. I'd heard 'Kings' deep into a Peel show one night - it may well have even been the playout track - the disjointed twanging and modal tones of Marco's riff, the clattering war drums and the tribal callback and chants crackling out of my radio at near-to-midnight, made it sound like nothing on earth - and of course I was hooked from the first hearing.
Well really! How's your blooming luck - all those stolen moments of flashes and snatches of free-eyefuls (if you'll pardon the phrase) from LOTR and she only goes and winks at my best mate Whitlow doesn't she (17th). Incredible! Although there's a snip of follow up news (22nd), but I'll leave that for another time...
It's a tune pitched on to tonight's playlist - along with The Sid Presley Experience, The Len Price 3 and Betty Wright (or possibly Lowell Fulson instead) as we roll-out twelve tracks fitted around 'Names' for tonight's Radio Podrophenia - live from 9 on Chance Radio. Where we'll be joined by Gary Fowles all the way from Memphis,Norway - Sweden..
If you've had trouble tuning in or can't do Tuesday's, all back issues are grabbable via iTunes
You can catch the Len Price 3 live at the Half Moon Putney October 14th. Full details are viewable at Retroman's site
And the mystery drummer was....him on the second left. Russ Abbot
