Graham Holliday

A book called "Surrealist Art" by Sarane Alexandrian sitting on some other books on a stool. The cover show the portrait of a woman with moths and butterflies for eyes and mouth and birds for hair.

Ahhh... this was the first art book I ever bought.

I found this copy in a secondhand bookshop in Brussels today. Couldn't resist.

Stuck in small-town England in the 80s, the @thamesandhudson.bsky.social 'World of Art' series was a real education.

Dissection Maps is available on Discogs www.discogs.com/sell/list?ar...

I hear you, digital will suffice. The remixes of Country Tropics on the Meridian Edition are well worth a listen—they push the whole thing a little bit further out there.

People in warm clothes rummaging through a table laden with old photographs, newspapers, magazines, books, etc., at Brussels flea market. Some paintings are leaning against th table in the foreground.

rummage, rummage, scrummage, scrummage

An enormous papier mâché(?) cat entirely covered in postage stamps standing on a taupaulin on cobblestones at Brussels flea market, next to a synthesizer, a box Scalextric, a mirror and other knick-knacks.

A papier mâché cat covered in postage stamps.

Again, not to go on about ai but I have a few thoughts.

1. I've genuinely never seen an actual creative get excited about using it. Someone who has actually made something before. Its people from marketing and finance backgrounds getting excited about a false sensation of making something.

Did rave kill dancing in couples? Stars seen in strange places? Podcast Episode · Word In Your Ear · 11/11/2025 · 40m

Great discussion about how rave 'killed' dancing in couples, worth a listen on many levels.

Also, completely agree with just never liking Patti Smith's Horses. Same goes for Love's Forever Changes, and pretty much everything by The Pixies, Nirvana, or Led Zep.

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Someone in an ape costume stands next to a person on a motorbike

Planet of the Apes set, California, 1967 by Dennis Stock. When eating in the canteen the extras subconsciously segregated themselves, with the orangutans, chimpanzees and gorillas all sitting in groups and not mixing. Like a mirror of society.

Country Tropics - Meridian Edition, by Old Saw 8 track album

I'm presuming you saw the Meridian Edition? Looks like that sold out too. lobbyartrecs.bandcamp.com/album/countr...

Ah, I see you got to the source. Yeah, this one stays with you.

"Where the dive bar meets the divine" is the best description of Old Saw I've heard.

From Country Tropics to The Wringing Cloth, the whole thing is a vision of analogue, avant-garde, Americana.

Unique, uplifting, sometimes dark, ultimately spiritual.

A game in a red box with two heads on the box, one looks 'normal', the other 'sly'. The game is called "MIND MOVER-1 The 'Character Game'". Probably from the 1970s. Found at Brussels flea market.

MIND MOVER-1 The 'Character Game'

A painting of a row of trees, a feminine figure, some lips on a road between the trees, leaning against a table on cobblestones... All a bit mad, really. Seen at Brussels flea market.

Lips, trees, road. Art

When I met Craig he was 13 and homeless. I still thought his life might turn around. I was tragically wrong The long read: I knew he was running away from something. It wasn’t until many years later that I discovered the truth

The life of Craig is well worth a read.

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A red motor racing kart, with a black number 97 badge on a yellow background, on sale at Brussels flea market, sitting on cobblestones with people milling about in the background.

Fancy taking up kart racing?

Rather strange paining, actually REALLY strange painting witha tigers,a naked women, a rifle, a fish, an elephant... and, Ah, probably best you can't see it so well.

Talking of art, this... is really quite something.

A plethora of paintings laid out on cobblestones, and leaning against tables, with people milling about in the background at Brussels flea market

Art gallery

Disco Story LP lying on cobblestones at Brussels flea market

Disco Story

A table laden with secondhand cameras and lenses at Brussels flea market.

A few cameras about.

1000's of garbage for maybe one good find... I gave up that fight some months ago. There is a kind of pro vinyl seller tho.

A Thunderbird 2 toy on a table filled with old cars and the like. All from the 1970s ish, on Brussels flea market.

Back to the 70s again with Thunderbird 2.

A Hillman Minx Service Parts Catalogue, probably from the 1950/60s lying a table at Brussels flea market in front of some old teacups, glasses and bottles.

A little further back in time with this Hillman Minx Service Parts Catalogue.

A boxed Tokyo Sportsman T.V. Game from the 1970s on a table with a mirror and a few knickknacks on Brussels flea market.

Staying in the 1970s, with the latest in gaming tech.

1970s round, plastic, bar-style table with a globe atlas sitting on top. The table is standing on a decorative carpet at Brussels flea market.

Back to the 1970s with this bar table type thing. Totally impractical, but very cool.

A wide array or ornaments sitting on cobblestones at Brussels flea market, some people can be seen be milling around in the background and the facade of a church with a clock.

It's Sunday. There was a #FleaMarket in Brussels.

They are all hand stamped, quite a feat really.

First few gigs, yeah. I left 'due to musical differences'.

Ah... nostalgie... V. glad the first band I ever played in was called The Losers.

@msretroknickers.bsky.social Yup. The 'update' was simply a change in colour, no new content. I think Matthew wanted the cover to match the colour of the lyric booklet that came with the original 1984 cassette.

Forgot to mention... there actually was an idea to keep updating the text with more reminiscences from more people and more places every few years, so the thing would just kind of kept growing by 10-20 pages each time. Other stuff got in the way :\