Andrew Male

No!

Totally, although today was the first day of 2025 with the tang of autumn.

Having now listened to the whole album, I am now desperate to locate a vinyl copy. There don't appear to be any anywhere apart from yours. It's like a jetlagged Wilco playing half remembered 70s Beach Boys tracks. Stunning.

The Kingsbury Manx - Ascenseur Ouvert! (Odessa, 2009)

#NowPlaying HT @nportnell.bsky.social for reminding me of this gorgeous late era Kingsbury Manx LP.

Henry Winkler talks about meeting Paul McCartney in New York.

A nighttime scene from Robert Bressson's Four Nights of a Dreamer 91971) in which Jacques (Guillaume des Forêts) tells Marthe (Isabelle Weingarten) "I see people in turmoil and rage while my dream becomes flat and boring."

A nighttime scene from Robert Bressson's Four Nights of a Dreamer 91971) in which Jacques (Guillaume des Forêts) tells Marthe (Isabelle Weingarten) "I see people in turmoil and rage while my dream becomes flat and boring."

2025 on Bluesky.

An orange poster with psychedelic art of faces reads: Cambridge Free SATURDAY 12 TH SUNDAY 13TH JUNE 12. MIDDAY ONWARDS ADMISSION FREE! CAR PARK-FOOD DRINKS-GLOTHES SWEETS PAPERS RECORDS-CIGS FESTIVAL 1971 ON COLDHAMS COMMON OFF NEWMARKET ROAD

An orange sheet of paper reads: Mr Barrie Hawkins 46 City Road, Cambridge CB1 1DP Tel: (0223) 63308, 62405, 63530 Mr David Constan Director of Leist The Guildhall, Ca Tel: (0223) 5897 PROGRAMME SATURDAY AFTERNOON SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION TRIDENT GNOME SWEET GNOME WAR HORSE MAY BLITZ SATURDAY EVENING U.F.O. TROUP (Ex Skin Alley-Hard Meat) EGYPT HARVEST HE RON GRACIOUS SUNDAY AFTERNOON GRAHAM BOND MAGICK RAW MATERIAL COCHISE HOT COTTAGE JERICO JONES SMILE SUNDAY EVENING BLONDE ON BLONDE RHADNA KRISHNA TEMPLE PAUL BRETT & SAGE COMUS DAVID REES BAND MELTON CONSTABLE (Ex Toby Jug) Announcer: MIKE RODGERSON-SMITH Stage Management Sounds and Lighting: JOHN SAVEGE Thanks to everyone who has made the third annual free pop fest *** ESPECIALLY******: David Constant M.I.M. Ent (Director of Leisure activities) Cambridge City Council Arts and Entertainment Committee and Par Delta Plant Hire for the generators. Miss S. Handley for the All the artists appearing who of course give their services fre managers and agents..... RED BUS COMPANY. ROBERT STIGWOOD ORGANISATION. HORUS AGENCY. PETE HAZELL SMITH. ARNAKATA MUSIC. CLEARWATER AGENCY STUART

Ok because they look legit I'm going to have to upload these too! Thank heavens for Google lens doing the alt-text job!

Happy 70th birthday to the brilliant drummer and percussionist Hamid Drake (📸 Urs Leuenberger)

The Kingsbury Manx - Ascenseur Ouvert! View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2009 Vinyl release of "Ascenseur Ouvert!" on Discogs.

Anyway, if you ever see a vinyl copy of this, grab it. it's one of those albums that never appears on Discogs so the median price is deceptively low. www.discogs.com/release/2119...

And yet…

Buried Treasure is a loaded term that not everyone responds well to.

I very nearly wrote a MOJO Buried Treasure on this but then the band got sniffy and said I should choose a different album.

As far as I'm aware they've not officially split but their last LP was twelve years ago (the brilliant Bronze Age).

Not mine. I'm a Manx cat.

Strong case to be made for all six of their albums. Adore Ascenseur Ouvert!

Truth.

THE FUTURE IS HERE AND EVERYTHING NEEDS TO BE DESTROYED

Amused that it refuses to accept NEOLOGISM.

ICYMI

Not the strongest per se but I always think about. Screening of THIEF that I went to. When “music by Tangerine Daydream” appeared on screen during the opening credits, a lady loudly clapped and went “Yay!”

PARK COIN!

Haha! fair point.

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Without Girls Girls Girls there’d have been no Franz Ferdinand

A ★★★★ review of Pierrot le Fou (1965) His name is Ferdinand. I know this came before Bonnie & Clyde and yet strangely it seems to be parodying it. Almost slapstick in its surreal French New Wave way. I laughed frequently. Those attempting...

PIERROT LE FOU is, in my opinion, good. letterboxd.com/andrewmoxon/...

Yes, and only played for a week in Birkenhead before it was banned there.

Carquake Autodestruction films of the 70s and 80s. I'm not looking for films with one great car chase (The French Connection, Shadows In An Empty Room) but movies in which the whole aesthetic is geared towards...

A related list. With thanks to my older brother, @kmale.bsky.social who took me to see the majority of these at Liverpool and Birkenhead cinemas. letterboxd.com/claxtondog/l...

Debut album suggests the first in a decent run. Threrefore, I have to disqualify The Stone Roses.

YouTube video by Neil Young - Topic Computer Age

Just blew my nose and it sounded like the guitar riff from Neil Young’s Computer Age. #HayFever #Shakey

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A very dapper, small cat seated between two people manages to radiate a vast arc of pure malice.

‘Let me have men about me that are fat; 
Sleek-headed men and such as sleep o' nights: 
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; 
He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.’
#ShakespeareSunday

Best evil cat pic ever by @andrewmale.bsky.social