Richard Phillips-Jones

Indeed - bit choppy on here this morning...

New route to work - waiting for the ferry...

The last of this week's #WeekendSingles finds, plus a couple I picked up a while ago but got misplaced in the move:

Françoise Hardy, The Fascinations, Georgie Fame and The Newbeats

#MusicSky #VinylSky

Indeed - here with She Trinity, on the left. 😎

Quite a story - more at blog.musoscribe.com/index.php/20...

More #WeekendSingles swag: Rufus Thomas, Chicken Shack (when Christine McVie was still Christine Perfect), Lovin' Spoonful (already had a copy, but not on US Kama Sutra) and She Trinity (fun fact: their bass player, Pauline Moran went on to play The Woman In Black!)

#MusicSky #VinylSky

Next up from my #WeekendSingles swag bag: two gorgeous Immediate releases from #PPArnold and #ChrisFarlowe and two I've wanted for ages, #TradeWinds brilliant 1965 Beach Boys knock-off (US Red Bird!!!) and a cracking #Searchers flop from 1967, when they couldn't get arrested.

#VinylSky #MusicSky

Sunny (if breezy) in Dorset.

I remember when New Fast Automatic Daffodils were hotly tipped as the next big thing. Never quite worked out for them.

First from my #WeekendSingles swag this week: Couple of Derams, couple of Polydors

#TheMove (massive upgrade on my existing copy), #Cream, #FrijidPink, and a weird #BeeGees number, even by their late 60's standards

#MusicSky #VinylSky

Wow, it's warm enough for the beach! Enjoy it while it lasts!

At Branksome Dene Chine

#Poole #Dorset

Just visited a fantastic store in Moordown, if any of you #WeekendSingles types are visiting Dorset: Rocket Records.

Top Tip: the convenience store over the road sells amazing vegetable samosas.

Delighted to say that my singles drought well and truly ended today.

I'll reveal all at the next #WeekendSingles...

My old home patch, until I defected over the border to Dorset 😂

Yes, hoping to head back over and see it. Looks good.

Tyrell & Green's department store used to be on the site of the gallery. Got my first computer from there...

Remember that time when it looked like #Mansun might be massive?

Remember when 7-inch singles were 99p in HMV?!?

#WeekendSingles #MusicSky #VinylSky

I know it's not #AlbumAlmanac week but it's tipping it down in Dorset, so it's definitely a day for battening down the hatches and putting #Lush on. And since Gala compiles the early singles, I'll plead for leniency.

#WeekendSingles #MusicSky #VinylSky

I've heard it was a pseudonym for Throbbing Gristle but I can't confirm that rumour...

But seriously, folks - a lot of those Transacord records are collectable now, very desirable to train enthusiasts.

Peter once offered to buy my wife a drink. She politely declined. She didn't realise he was in a band, until he took the stage with his Test Tube Babies a bit later...

(We'd not met at this point)

Nothing's landed in the local chazzas this week, so here's four corkers from the vaults, from 1964-65: The Searchers, The Mamas & The Papas, Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs and possibly The Beach Boys' most underrated release.

#WeekendSingles #MusicSky #VinylSky

Our season of "only watching them on the actual date" continues, with the "but where is Jason?!?" entry in the franchise...

#FridayThe13th Part V: A New Beginning

Chimera 1991 TV REVIEW | Spooky Isles Shades of Frankenstein and Quatermass meet in Stephen Gallagher's Chimera. RICHARD PHILLIPS-JONES looks back on director Lawrence Gordon Clark's return to the genre with ITV's 1991 adaptation.

I'm over at #SpookyIsles, taking a look back at 1991's Chimera.

From the #StephenGallagher novel, it marked #LawrenceGordonClark 's return to the genre.

@spookyisles.bsky.social

#Horror #BritishHorror

www.spookyisles.com/chimera-1991...

Hello by Lionel Richie has been withdrawn as, apparently it may cause infertility.

You couldn't make it up

#SaintEtienne, playing quite literally a two minute walk from our front door?

Booked.

This afternoon I am mostly reclining with my feet up, drinking black coffee and playing Françoise Hardy records. What a poseur I am.

Bumper helping of Donovan, part 2.

#WeekendSingles

Finally unpacked some #WeekendSingles, and it's a Donovan blitz for Sunday.

Early sign of spring.

#AshleyCross #Poole #Dorset

I love Sunflower with every ounce of my being and I will die on this hill.

Since we're hammering the new Damned album today, here's three numbers they've brilliantly interpreted for it: R. Dean Taylor, Pink Floyd and The Lovin'Spoonful.

#WeekendSingles #MusicSky #VinylSky #TheDamned

This week, we are mostly playing The Damned's new album. Rather good it is too.

Quick selection of 10-inchers for #WeekendSingles: Kirsty MacColl, Levellers, New Model Army and Doves.

(The 7's are all under the bed at the moment and the bedroom is a work in progress so I can't be arsed getting them out just yet 😂 )