Latest project, Trick Shot.
This one is called We got the night. Im not singing so thereās that about it!
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Never heard this before this morningā¦love itā¦video is brilliant tooā¦
Going back over some Lemon Twiggs stuff I missed in recent years. This is fuckinā Guitartasticā¦ 
I love this Canadian bandā¦incapable of making a bad albumā¦
I shamefully missed their 2019 album, āA Blemish in The Great Lightāā¦catching up now.
The opening track of that albumā¦
Next month it will be 50 years since I saw Roxy Music perform this at the Gaumontā¦Thursday 12th April 1973 to be precise. How fuckinā cool was Brian Ferry! Turn it up to 11 for Enoās soloā¦
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What about the Top Rank, October 72 when Virginia Plain was in the charts? I appreciate that you OAPās wouldnāt notice us 14 year olds in the front row, but I was there.
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Listen to the music in the links in this article- what a voice.
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Not sure why I didnāt see that gig but did see Focus at the Top Rank about that timeā¦
ā¦she has a very Ella lilt to her voiceā¦beautiful. I have something in my eye.
Thanks.
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Bit a blast from the past today.
Dirt, by Alice in Chains. Great album. Havenāt heard it for years.
The Beths finally make it to the Tiny Deskā¦
Iāve had a musical accompaniment to my morning dog walks recently. I have several hundred albums on my phone which I stream through my hearing aids. I set the music app to play individual tracks on shuffle so I get to play the game, āWTF is this oneā.
This was an easy one, an old favouriteā¦one for @scotty.
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Ah, an old friend indeed. 
Oddly enough, I heard the first one very recently, being used as the accompaniment to the immersive Dali exhibition. Haunting melodies.
I was talking to the concert pianist on the Ventura in 2019. Heād played Satieās Gynopedies slightly faster than Pascal Rogeās version which is not surprising as Satie never included any time signals. He knew and had played concerts with Pascal on several occasions. Iāve had that album for nearly 40 years.
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I may have posted this before, but I was pointed towards this yesterday.
The Motors, still in Ducks Deluxe pub-rock mode before their smoother Airport/Forget About You phase. Thatās how you build a track up, I wish Iād seen this lot live.
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That took me back Scotty, I really did love the whole pub-rock scene. Never saw The Motors live, but I did see Ducks Deluxe at the Marquee, also The Tyla Gang a couple of times, once in Southampton I recall, at the University I think. Sean Tyla was a really good front man, very charismatic. A few members of The Ducks went on to have very successful careers, notably in Graham Parkerās band, The Rumour, who were right up there as one of my favourite live musical experiences ever. They were a tremendous live band, unforgettable even after all these years.
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I know itās a bit late to be topical but it came up on shuffle this morning, itās an epic track.
I always imagine little kids having a great time with cake tin drums, descant recorders and a squeaky choral parts. Quite brilliant the way it undergoes a note by note metamorphosis into a much loved song in the last halfā¦
They were excellent, and also my first ever paid job. 1979, Derby Assembly Rooms, supported by The Sports (Australian band.) Both had Yamaha stage pianos (CP80s), both needed tuning and the booked tuner had died the previous day. So the college being not too far from Derby, and me being the 2nd year hotshot tuner, I got sent in a taxi to the venue. First lesson of concert tuning incoming, the roadies showed me the two pianos, told me what pitch they needed, I asked āhow long have I got on them?ā Replyā¦āten minutes, maybe fifteen.ā Fucksake. 
Stayed for the show (squeezing out sparks tour) , they gave me a copy of the album and sent me back to my digs in another taxi with fifteen quid in my pocket. Lot of money to a student in those days.
Edit, actual photos of the show, taken by Graham Parkerās brother.
https://www.grahamparker.net/Derby_Assembly_Rooms_3-28-79.html#7
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Killa story!! Those are the types of anecdotal tales that keep us musos in the business!
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