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On the ferry across the Mersey early 70s, giving some sense of what my family had to deal with
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You in another decade
On the ferry across the Mersey early 70s, giving some sense of what my family had to deal with
Photo of the first two vinyl LPs by The Human League: 1) the back cover of Reproduction with an image of a baby's face and the track listing; 2) the front cover of Travelogue featuring a silhouette of a man sledding across a snowy tundra pulled by a pack of three dogs, with the sun on the horizon in the background.
#WeekendSingles #AlbumAlmanac Formative LPs. Remember exactly where I was when a schoolfriend, Atom Draper, told me about The Human League (walking up the stairs in the main building at Hillside School Borehamwood - he'd just read the 1979 Bowie "future of pop music" quote in the NME).
A flyer listing New York City record stores in the East Village / Lower East Side. Includes: A-1 Record Shop 439 East 6th St Academy Records 415 East 12th St Aeon Books 151 East Broadway Colbo 51 Orchard St Downtown Music Gallery 13 Monroe St Ecoysis 113 Division St Ergot Records 32 East 2nd St Love Not Money 32 Eldridge St (since closed) Paradise Of Replica 297 Grand St #2A Stranded Records 218 East 5th St
Sadly Love Not Money has closed, I think most of the rest of these are still open. Paradise Of Replica acquired a large 7" collection from the owner of Two Boots pizza a year or two ago.
Visions Of Light
Gordon Parks photo
Bernd and Hilla Becher photo
Richard Avedon photos
There are currently FOUR very good photographic shows on in London’s Swanky Mayfair™️:
- Gordon Parks at Alison Jacques
- Bernd and Hilla Becher at Spruth & Magers
- Richard Avedon at Gagosian
- Nan Goldin at Gagosian, Davies St.
All for free. These are, relatively speaking, good times, photo-wise.
Photo of one side of an engraved Zippo lighter from Vietnam. The lid features an image of the head of an elephant in a hat with a human-like left arm and hand giving a thumbs up. The base contains the capitalized text: "When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."
Photo of the front side of an engraved Zippo lighter from Vietnam. The lid features the text "Vietnam Saigon 65-66." The base contains an image of a person wearing a Nón Lá (leaf hat), pedaling a cycle rickshaw with no passengers.
Engraved Zippo lighter from Vietnam, a gift from the activist and writer Anne-christine d'Adesky a few decades ago.
Out March 27 a reissue of Anne Clark’s Our Darkness, an epochal proto-house masterpiece. It’s a singular piece of music: Clark’s lyrics, speak of urban alienation and heartbreak, David Harrow’s production pummels the listener with hydraulic beats and gloom-laced arpeggios. anneclark.bandcamp.com
Can't remember if I noticed the production credit at the time of release, a light touch from Mr. Sherwood.
From bold anti-Nazi posters to an acid-drenched take on Jean Cocteau, a new exhibition, curated by writer Philip Hoare, shows how influential the DIY designs of the 70s and 80s became
Happy #DeLaSoulDay! 3/3 🌼🌼🌼
Celebrate with us at the @npr.org Tiny Desk ☁️🏠⛅️ youtu.be/5AVYDHTOixU?... #TinyDesk #NPRTinyDeskConcert
Photo of the front cover of the 1984 vinyl 12" EP Work In Progress by Robert Wyatt on Rough Trade records, A-side produced by Adrian Sherwood. Covert art by Alfreda Benge with different colored abstract shapes floating in yellowish space, with the word "progress" in red at the center of one of the shapes. Artist and title across the top. The EP contains four tracks: Biko Amber And The Amberines Yolanda Te Recuerdo Amanda The first 1000 copies of the release included a hidden track, You're Wondering Now, but this is the later version.
#12inchTuesday #RobertWyatt A-side label: "An On-U Sound Mix by Adrian Sherwood."
Passed a man earlier with a really quite fed up look on his face, wearing a T shirt that said, in bold capitals, MAKE LOVE YOUR GOAL. In many ways we are all that man.
Fascinating V&A archive of old concert posters etc collections.vam.ac.uk/search/?page...
#BimSherman #MusicSky #OnUSound
Photo of four 7" vinyl singles: 1) 400 Blows – Declaration Of Intent, Spanish promo with a black & white photo of band members Andrew Edward Beer, Tony Thorpe, and Robert Taylor looking suitably industrial in a basement surrounded by bricks and tools; 2) Way Of The West - See You Shake, cover has a graphic design with a black & white grid background and red arm-like shape diagonally across with title and artist on it; 3) Group Therapy - Arty Fact, with a black & white cover photo of a man holding a maybe 8-foot long tactical missile outside a Woolworth; 4) Allez Allez - She's Stirring Up, with what looks like maybe a linocut of an NYC-style cityscape with helicopters and cars traveling on a road bridge.
Photo of the back covers of four 7" vinyl singles: 1) 400 Blows – Declaration Of Intent, with track titles Declaration of Intent and Pressure (radio) plus a Spanish tagline which translates as "The most powerful disco music with an obsessive and tenacious magic"; 2) Way Of The West - See You Shake, with A-side title and B-side title My Own Front Door plus credits; 3) Group Therapy - Arty Fact, with B-side title Drug Chic and credits including band address in Grimsby plus a triptych of drawings showing the image of a man running toward a chalice on a wall, grabbing it and getting zapped, then turning into a skeleton; 4) Allez Allez - She's Stirring Up, with the listing of the dub version B-side and same picture as the A-side: a linocut-looking painting of an NYC-style cityscape with helicopters and cars traveling on a road bridge.
Ran across the lovely copy of the single by @djhistory.bsky.social's band Group Therapy in a Canadian Discogs store #WeekendSingles
FK & DFP - The Nassau Excursion (12")
Out today: Warehouse Trax and Strikes Again, two EPs of previously unreleased acid and house mayhem from Chicago legend K. Alexi recorded 1989-1994. 💥 darkentriesrecords.com/store/music/vinyl/ep/k-alexi-k-a-posse-vinyl-bundle/
Rough Trade West, Talbot Road (the original location until 1982 was on Kensington Park Road)
#RoughTrade was started by #GeoffTravis in February 1976 as a London #RecordStore and began releasing as an independent label in 1978.
Happy 50th birthday 🎉
"It turns out that Matt Restuccia, lead singer of the right-wing oi band Lonewolf and a 211 member, was DJing an after-party at Clockwork on the night of the attack."
Dexter Gordon (February 27, 1923 – April 25, 1990)
Mine too. The lyrics have some relevance to this moment in history.
New & Notable: Week-End Records revives the Jamaican legend's 1988 opus, one of the most transformative, timeless dub albums ever made.
THE DEATH OF LAZARUS oil on canvas 140 x 160cm (2026) a meditation on death and loss and the passing of time..... #bowie #oilpainting #contemporarybritishpainting #alexanderjohnsonart
In all these years I'd never registered that the engineer on The Undisputed Truth - You + Me = Love and many other classics, Learnard Jackson, also engineered The Man Machine mix. Doubtless a big part of why it sounds so good. www.discogs.com/artist/20955...
A May 21, 1974 article in the NYT describing the travails faced by David Mancuso as tenants in his building on Broadway just north of Bleecker St began complaining about his weekly party, The Loft, which established the foundations of modern clubbing. Titled "Weekly Parties for 500 Chill Tenants" and authored by Robert McG. Thomas Jr., the closing para states: Mr. Mancuso refused to discuss any of the specifics of his neighbors' charges during a recent telephone interview, saying, "I won't play their game." Sadly the article is too long to paste fully into alt text.
A June 2, 1974 article in the NYT by Robert McG. Thomas Jr., describing the culmination of efforts to stop David Mancuso from holding his weekly party, The Loft, and evict him from the building at 645-647 Broadway. Text except last two paras below. THE LOFT'S OWNER IS TOLD TO VACATE Action Against Discotheque Follows Noise Complaints David Mancuso, the philosophic young music lover whose weekly parties have become a Saturday night sensation for several hundred devoted followers but a persistent headache for his artistic neighbors, has been ordered by the Buildings Department to vacate his connecting second-floor loft at 645-647 Broadway. Mr. Mancuso's sprawling apartment there has doubled as an after-hours discothèque known as the Loft. The order, which was posted on Friday and took effect immediately, was described by Cornelius Dennis, the department's Manhattan borough superintendent, as a rare and unusually severe response to an "extreme situation." "Most department papers get rubber-stamped, but this one I signed personally, said Mr. Dennis, whose pre-emptive, order cited the "overcrowding" at Mr. Mancuso's parties and the "illegal openings" he had allegedly created in the double-brick bearing wall separating his two second floor lofts. '500 Frenzied Dancers' Six of Mr. Mancuso's fellow tenants had cited these "great huge arches," in a recent protest letter they sent to half a dozen official agencies, expressing fear that the building would collapse from the vibrations of Mr. Mancuso's massive stereo system and the stomping of "300 frenzied dancers." Despite the order to vacate, Mr. Mancuso remained in his loft Friday night, even as policemen from the Sixth Precinct and two building inspectors attempted to enforce it. Finding the doors locked and getting no response to their bell-ringing, the raiding party left at 10:30 PM. after spending a half an hour in front of the five-story, double-loft building near Bleecker Street.
Reporting on the last months of the first iteration of David Mancuso's weekly party, The Loft. #DavidMancuso #TheLoft
Inside pages of Womack & Womack's 1984 UK tour programme with older black & white photos of Cecil & Linda and text about their history by Robbie Vincent (which I can't copy in its entirety into alt text because today's a work day, apologies).
Inside pages of Womack & Womack's 1984 UK tour programme with colour and black & white photos of Cecil & Linda and text by Robbie Vincent featuring quotes from both.
Inside pages of Womack & Womack's 1984 UK tour programme with a black & white ad for Ruby Turner's single Every Soul b/w The First Step on one side, and the Womack & Womack 1984 UK tour dates and band/production information on the other. There were six dates: June 6: Pink Elephant, Luton June 7: The Dome, Brighton June 9: Cliff's Pavilion, Southend June 10: The Dominion Theatre, London June 11: The Dominion Theatre, London June 12: Hammersmith Odeon, London
The back page of Womack & Womack's 1984 UK tour programme featuring an ad for See Bees Jazz Funk T-Shirts.
The remainder of the tour programme. #Womack&Womack #MusickSky
Photo of the front page of Womack & Womack's 1984 UK tour programme. Text states: "Asgard presents the first ever live shows Womack & Womack on their debut UK tour." Main color photo is of Cecil & Linda Womack smiling in purple and blue jackets, respectively.
Inside pages of Womack & Womack's 1984 UK tour programme featuring an ad for their Love Wars LP on one side and an introduction by Radio London DJ Robbie Vincent on the other (along with a photo of Robbie in a fetching sweater with a line across both sleeves and the middle).
Inside pages of Womack & Womack's 1984 UK tour programme with a colour photo of Cecil & Linda in the same outfits as on the cover and additional text by Robbie Vincent describing hearing Love Wars for the first time on cassette and quotes from Cecil and Linda about their reception in he UK.
Inside pages of Womack & Womack's 1984 UK tour programme with black & white photos and text by Robbie Vincent describing Womack family history
More from the tour programme, which features an intro and text by Robbie Vincent. #Womack&Womack #MusicSky
Photo of the front cover of the 1983 UK 12" vinyl release by Womack & Womack, Baby I'm Scared Of You (B-side: ABP). Features a large colour photo of Cecil and Linda Womack facing the camera smiling with their foreheads touching and Linda's hand and bracelet-covered arm on Cecil's left shoulder. There are identifiers from a record store sellotaped at the top and a hype sticker stating: "Includes FREE tour programme." Said programme is for Womack & Womack's first UK tour in 1984.
A photo of the Womack family from inside the programme for their 1984 UK tour, showing family members standing on a beach at sunset: Nicole, Cecil, Harry, Linda, Naomi, Micah, Stacey, Tandlla, and Wayne.
#12inchTuesday #Womack&Womack Digging on @discogsofficial.bsky.social may not be as tactile or fun as the real world, but you can run across things like this - a UK release that came with a copy of the programme for their first UK tour in 1984. Dearly wish I'd had the nous to go see a show.
Admirable subversiveness
