Marc Chagall's beautiful painted windows at All Saints' Church in Tudeley, Kent, installed between 1967 and 1985. The sad story behind their creation is here www.tudeley.org/Groups/36384...
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Marc Chagall's beautiful painted windows at All Saints' Church in Tudeley, Kent, installed between 1967 and 1985. The sad story behind their creation is here www.tudeley.org/Groups/36384...
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Today’s other bargain find for 50p - an overlooked but classy slice of disco soul by Howard Kenney from 1978.
A) Save Some For The Children produced by Johnny Pate (Impressions etc)
▶️ youtu.be/JZMfcABL0qc
B) Can't Wait To Make You Mine produced by Larry Blackmon (Cameo etc)
▶️ youtu.be/fuGZgatEbLI
And at the start of the month, I found this single in a shop just round the corner from where I discovered today’s LP. Probably not a coincidence? (THREAD)
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Ha! Good point
28.02.2026 16:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
On Tuesday, I was lucky enough to stumble across this beauty (THREAD)
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It’s been a fab four weeks for finding cool and collectible covers of songs by The Beatles. Today’s treasure is this 1967 LP by The London Jazz Four, picked up for just 50p. Includes a great version of Things We Said Today (THREAD)
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Ha! I’d learned that lesson by the following year
28.02.2026 11:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It’s a bit stretched TBH, but I’m happy having four versions of Love Cascade and four mixes of Cashflow!
28.02.2026 10:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Love Cascade is great. Have you seen/got the Leisure Process double CD retrospective on Cherry Red? Worth checking out. I’ve added the connection to the thread
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All these singles appear in one form or another on Gary Crowley’s brilliant Lost 80s Vol 2 box set. Its accompanying booklet features my pics of Clare Grogan, Nick Heyward, Sade and Blancmange, along with these other bits and pieces from my archive
www.demonmusicgroup.co.uk/catalogue/re...
#WeekendSingles 12 inch gems by Leisure Process, Heaven 17, Blancmange, Win, Thompson Twins, Funkapolitan, TreacherousThree, Monochrome Set, Kid Creole, Working Week, World Famous Supreme Team, Klaxon 5, Kane Gang, Human League, and Valentine Brothers. There’s a connection…
28.02.2026 09:52 — 👍 78 🔁 1 💬 11 📌 0
Happy birthday to Cindy Wilson
youtu.be/swBDlOk0V6Y
Always a joy to hear this
27.02.2026 22:24 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
27 April
London
Tickets www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1982687851...
Tour starts Thursday! Shame I can’t bring the Gas ‘n’ Air band over from Mexico, but the Balloon acoustic trio is sounding equally fab, plus there’s @timkeegan.bsky.social and @dannythechamp.bsky.social to enjoy. Londons sold out but tickets for other shows via the bio or linktr.ee/balloontheband
27.02.2026 20:46 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0TBH I hadn’t played it for ages, but it is really good. I must have played it loads when it was first released as I remembered all of Mark’s ad-libs!
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Spot the Fall singles on Rough Trade’s wall #FallFriday
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Found this old photo of the space being used in its day-to-day role as a cafeteria for the halls of residence. A nondescript venue for Joy Division’s final concert (THREAD)
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The Utopia Strong are returning to The Lighthouse in Deal on 16 May. Here's my video filmed the last time they played there
youtu.be/sHHkOebKK7s
Tickets thelighthousedeal.co.uk/tc-events/th...
#FallFriday Celebrating Rough Trade’s 50th birthday with The Fall’s first record for the company
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Sad to hear that Weaver D's Delicious Fine Foods is closing today. Here’s a photo I took on our R.E.M pilgrimage to Athens, GA in 1999 #AutomaticForThePeople
26.02.2026 22:33 — 👍 47 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0That wasn’t me. This was my one and only attempt at putting on a concert. I was only 18 and I’m not sure how I managed to make it happen - I didn’t even have a landline in my flat! I just did club nights afterwards as they weren’t so demanding.
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I’m launching my new collection of short stories BOOMERANG PROCESS in London.
Tuesday 17th March
ICMP Queen's Park Campus London, NW6 6PA • £12.50
Hosted by Ted Kessler
Tickets: www.tickettailor.com/events/insti...
It was a smallish, very ordinary space that was a cafeteria during the day and hosted a few occasional concerts. In my three years at Birmingham, I can only remember three concerts there - Way of the West supported by Blancmange, Aztec Camera, and the show I promoted
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Ha! You can see the same light fittings in my pics. The room was the student cafeteria where we ate daily
26.02.2026 20:39 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
High Hall (on the right in my photo from 1982) has since been demolished and replaced by Chamberlain Tower (THREAD)
26.02.2026 20:34 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Sadly not. It was before I moved to Birmingham
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Less than two years earlier, Joy Division played their last ever concert in the same High Hall cafeteria (THREAD)
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Hey - I’m partly responsible for their name! It’s my only claim to fame!
26.02.2026 20:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
And here’s Sandie Shaw with The Smiths performing Hand in Glove on German TV in 1984
youtu.be/Idg8hsFo2K4
