Andy Lewis

There was a bloke who used to turn up to northern soul events I DJd at in the early 90s who danced like this,especially to Astral Trip by The Mystic Moods.His day job was being one of the Royal Ballet’s star dancers. Incredible to watch. Lovely bloke. Patrick his name was.Anyone else remember him?

Today’s the Feast of the Immaculate Reception

An attractive tabby cat sitting on a sun lounger next to a copy of The Pillars Of Hercules by Paul Theroux

A Mallorcan cat enjoying a break from Paul Theroux, as I’m sure we all have from time to time @thecatreviewer.bsky.social

Ha! It does!!

A hotel bed absolutely covered in records. 7” singles, albums, EPs. On prominent view are albums by Georgie Fame, Oscar Brown Jr, Salena Jones, Vince Hill and Tommy Korberg though there are others. The singles are a right random selection of stuff. You can just about make out Indian Rope Man by Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & The Trinity and Call It Pretending by Creedence Clearwater Revival. But there’s loads there. Just out of shot, a packet of garlic flavoured crisps. I can still taste them a year on. Blimus. The most potent flavour crisp ever encountered.

This time last year I was settling in to the Purple Weekender in Leon where I was DJing lots over the course of three nights. I’d brought enough records with me as you can see. I think they all ended up getting played, especially the Vince Hill one.

AH is brilliant. Melancholy among the mistletoe.
I always consider the Kent compilation LP Shoes to be a Christmas album, because I got it for Christmas in 1987 and there's a festive vibe on a lot of the tracks. Patti Austin's Music To My Heart is a secular carol if ever there was one.

I'm prepared to bet the studio is Roundhouse Studios.

With all the caveats about low turnout, this local council seat- not all that far from where my old cat Biggles lived- shows how unlikely it is that Watford’s voters will elect a Reform MP. If Reform can’t win Watford, they can’t win the country.

Late to this because I’m working overseas… but anything that includes the marvel that is Jenny’s Gone And I Don’t Care is worth a listen. Best song Scott Walker never recorded. Absolutely spellbinding.

Speaking as someone who has been a kind of rock star, I bet at no point have any of these economists or philosophers been on a broken down tour bus in upstate New York and had to travel to their next gig in Toronto in a yellow taxi cab with all their gear.

I read an article in Time yesterday that reads exactly like somebody did just that.

I think I am getting better at dealing with people because last night a professional musician I have just met first used Chat GBT to ask about a problem their cat is having, then said they used Suno to allow them to create songs they couldn't write, and I didn't immediately smash them in the face

Hold a Team meeting in a caff. I think that's right?

Said many times that the Stax Volt tour of Europe is one of the gigs, I'd loved to have seen. Otis obv but Sam and Dave too. Plus behind them all the MG's with Dunn and #SteveCropper . The groove they get into is so perfect . Plus I love the crowd shots. www.dailymotion.com/video/x2ztgrh

Fuck, this one hurts, for me the greatest guitarist, a musician in the service of the band and the song, who played on and helped create a wild succession of the finest records ever made. RIP Steve Cropper.

A fast flash passenger of a tune!

It’s ok. It’s just Weller’s old tour manager opening his wallet.

That’s one giant set of steps for mankind

Turns out Magna Carta *did* die in vain after all

It felt like a breath of fresh air on the radio. To think that at one point GLR was hosting shows by him, Chis Morris and Danny Baker.

At the risk of of replying to a rhetorical question, it is definitely a little of both. Bullying is always fun if you're not the one being bullied. Evans was genuinely better on the radio, especially his GLR shows which managed to be a good deal less strident and a lot funnier. Great music too.

Wonderful! This is a more extreme version of the "Fourth Year Singers", a vocal group that entered our annual School Music Competition. When they were called, practically the entire fourth year took to the stage and struck up the Spitting Image Chicken Song. They were disqualified.

The B side of this record may well be the strangest thing ever committed to vinyl. It oscillates between curiously eccentric and utterly terrifying.

Lucky bleeder

Just woken up from a terrible nightmare that I was posting on X.

They're just the right height and don't conduct heat. Perfect things, really. There are four more holding up the SPL valve preamp I've got in the shed. So that's eight luxury desserts I've enjoyed in the name of music production.

My ProTools computer is held up off the desktop to allow air to circulate underneath it and keep it cooler...using four of them. To me they have value beyond price.

He’s fab is Edgar. Can’t wait

His next album will take *even longer*

It starts with Sky News running an off the record (and perfectly reasonable) comment picked up on Gordon Brown’s radio mic, and here we all are.