wrongtom

ICYMI

The earth is dying and we do not notice it

"Their names will be forgotten in time, no one will remember their work"

One Love for the Mother's Pride

Love it!

Chapter 29: And The Deep Grottos Whisper My Name. Box... Box... Box... In which I seek sanctuary in a box, and share another old mixtape

Another Dubstack, another old mixtape rentparty.substack.com/p/chapter-29...

A tomato orange box in front of some ugly new build flats

Summer

✌🏼

Haven’t done a bus selfie in a while

How Primal Scream’s ‘Loaded’ became Andrew Weatherall’s first masterpiece 35 years since its release, Wrongtom tells the story of Primal Scream and Andrew Weatherall's 'Loaded' with the help of engineer Brian O’Shaughnessy

djmag.com/features/how...

In a roundabout way, this record led to Loaded

A shot from behind the stage MCs Deman and Flinty aka The ragga Twins down the front hyping the crowd. I'm in the middle in black probably making wild sounds with my percussion synth and space echo.

The Wrongtom Meets The Ragga Twins band from left to right... Casper - sax Desta Zion - rhythm guitar Dave - guitar Flinty Badman - vocals Wrongtom - percussion/backing vocals Greg - bass Tom - keys Deman Rockers - vocals

Flinty Badman on the mic in front of the Tangled Woods crows at Boomtown. I think this was early evening on the Sunday and people looked pretty worse for wear. I remember a guy collapsing in the wet mud in front of the jeep which drove us to the stage. There was a lot of katamine going around, from what I recall

Having a touch of Boomtown FOMO so I've dug out these pics from 2014 when we did what I think was the first Wrongtom Meets The Ragga Twins set with the full backing band

📸 Jody Hartley

Hope he can find time between filming all those church-funded tv movies

Yeah, there's a bit of Barefoot In The Head

YouTube video by TheSpionKop Liverpool FC - Anfield Rap (Full version)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kcy3...

YouTube video by Dins and Soundz A Short Film About Chilling

A Short Film About Chilling? www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yIG...

Mentioned it in the piece I wrote about Loaded earlier this year djmag.com/features/how...

A teenage Wrongtom before life broke him, and back when he had aspirations of becoming a filmmaker with his big clunky Ferguson Videostar camera which was outdated at the time, cost about £50 from a secondhand shop, took full size VHS tapes, and had a cool but useless negative effect. I loved that shirt

Somewhere on an old VHS tape is a video I made of a thunderstorm which we could see across the south of England. It's probably mainly darkness, but I hope it still exists.

Pretty sure this pic was taken on the ferry (might've been taken the year before. IOW was our usual "overseas" family holiday)

I was on holiday in the Isle Of Wight when these came out. I just had a vivid flashback of going to the loo in the cottage we'd rented in Cowes while Groove Is In The Heart was playing on the radio

a man with a mustache wearing sunglasses adjusts his glasses Alt: Alessondro Alegré as "The Chief"

Or my dub mix of Beastie Revolution by The Beastie Boys.

Still makes me laugh that I wasn't allowed to play this on my Spiky Dread special on 6 Music because the queen had died

Love the story about Johnny McElhone telling RZA the strings he'd sampled for the Say What You Want remix were in the wrong key, and RZA looking back at him like "key?"

I’d have muted Ms Frizzle’s class WhatsApp group before the first half term

The magic school bus school would have a terrible Ofsted rating.

Apparently 10 years ago I was on NTS chatting with Chris P Cuts

Pun intended?

This led me to look up Leadbelly. Apparently this cover is from 1939

Harry Belafonte appeared on almost all of his LP covers, including Calypso in '56 which was supposedly the first album to sell more than a million copies

Earlier than Ella though, I'm not sure. Think I have something with a pic of Chick Webb on the cover from the turn of the 40s. I think LP sleeves were introduced around 1938, and mostly for classical in the early years with fine art on the covers

There's definitely late 40s pressings of Ella's debut with her pic on the cover. Interestingly it was the UK Decca release which didn't feature her. Plenty of black female artists appeared on covers between that and Young Gifted and Black. Here's Nina's debut from 59, and Maya Angelou from '56

If you see this, QTP with your favorite Arnold Schwarzenegger film that’s not THE TERMINATOR 🎥

A still of Sadie Sink as Max in Stranger Things with a subtitle which reads "dire synth music playing"

Anyway, I can't squander my day on here. I have a remix to finish 👋