Gary Tipp

COMING SOON

Back from the printers later this week hopefully

True Blue
The Barry Harris Story

True Blue: The Barry Harris Story has gone to the printers today

The Pompey stalwart’s autobiography covers his 70+ years association with the club

Soon to be available from eBay, the club shop, and a number of launch events. Barry will also be selling copies in the lounges before home games

A rare psych folk album from 1972 is going well on eBay

It was recently unearthed in a Dorset charity shop

They are still out there

#vinyl #vinylrecords

Barry Harris first went to a Pompey game in 1952 - and he had been involved with the club ever since

Here’s a sneaky peek of the back cover of his forthcoming book

I will post details about how you can get a copy over the following weeks

Barry Harris first went to a Pompey game in 1952 - and he had been involved with the club ever since

Here’s a sneaky peek of the back cover of his forthcoming book

I will post details about how you can get a copy over the following weeks

Music For Pleasure - Groovy Times EMI’s Music For Pleasure budget label was responsible for a mountainous stack of flavourless vinyl, but scratch the surface and there are spinworthy gems to be found A quick rifle through the vinyl bi...

EMI’s budget label (MFP) piled them high and sold them cheap

Groovy Times digs deep to pick out the spinworthy vinyl gems from Music For Pleasure’s vast back catalogue.

#vinyl #vinylrecords

Click the link for our selection

groovy-times.com/music-for-pl...

Pentangle’s 1968 double album, Sweet Child

RIP Danny Thompson (1939-2025). He leaves behind an astonishing discography of wonderful vinyl. Here’s a favourite among many, many favourites that we will be spinning today

Harvest - Groovy Times Harvest made light of its affiliations with straight-laced, big boys EMI to become one of the most loved of the corporate progressive offshoots. A quick inspection of the label’s costliest collectable...

The HARVEST record label’s back catalogue is awash with costly collectable #vinyl

Groovy Times digs through and pulls out the rare, rarer and rarest

groovy-times.com/harvest/

You may need to start saving

Philip King - Groovy Times An expertly curated compilation celebrates the beautiful failure of the synth pop artists that chart fame eluded. The wannabe hitmakers who remained working in a cocktail bar Before the availability o...

For every Human League and OMD there’s a bargain bin counterpart

Groovy Times talks to vinyl curator Philip King about Junkshop Synth Pop, his new compilation, and the 45s the charts forgot

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There’s a pleasing circularity about owning the actual vinyl that turned you onto the music in the first place

What are you bidding on?

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Cheers Glenn - very kind of you

Very close to sending a book about #Pompey legend Barry Harris to the printers

Sailor mascot. Youth team physio. Kitman. Football retriever. Barry’s association with PFC spans 70 plus years and he has many stories to tell

More details about the book and where to buy it on here later

David Keenan - Groovy Times The acclaimed novelist, journalist and former record shop owner tells us how his love of outsider music has shaped his work As he recalls in his spectacular collection of music writing, Volcanic Tongu...

Issue 3 of Groovy Times opens with an interview author David Keenan

He talks first gigs, record reviewing and Volcanic Tongue (record shop, book & compilation)

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groovy-times.com/david-keenan/

Seen this ad? A denim jacket that proudly displays the album of your choice. It’s got to be the ideal way of showing the world that you own a Nick Drake first press… hasn’t it?

Unearthed a nice Chris Farlowe album. Paint it Farlowe. 1966. On Immediate, bright pink label, produced by Mick Jagger. Canadian press

Just one thing - there’s a hole punched out of the top left hand corner. Is there anything more savage in the world of collecting vinyl than a drill hole deletion?

Found a few copies of my Robert Prosinecki book in a cupboard under the stairs

The book chronicles the Croatian wizard’s eventful season at Fratton Park in 2001-02

It’s still available to buy if you’re curious. You’ll need to search for Prosinecki In Blue on eBay (link far too long to type)

Joe Thompson - Groovy Times Joe Thompson, of Sabbath-heavy psych-rock experimentalists Hey Colossus and Wrong Speed Records fame, is convinced the Cure’s new album ought to be available to buy on every high street in the UK We’v...

With the remix album on the horizon - Joe Thompson, of Hey Colossus and Wrong Speed records fame, argues that the Cure’s Lost World ought to be available to buy on every high street in the UK

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And who are we to argue?

Click link
groovy-times.com/joe-thompson/

Dinked Editions - Groovy Times Rupert Morrison, owner of Totnes music emporium Drift, delves into the history of an indie record shop initiative with deep roots in a love of vinyl Sometime around 2018, in a pre-pandemic world, Rupe...

Groovy Times caught up with UK indie record shop collective Dinked Editions to talk about seven plus years of carefully curated, exclusive vinyl editions

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Free Jazz - Groovy Times After experiencing a sonic epiphany on the bus, Groovy Times guest writer Del Day of Union Music Store opened up his brain and allowed the riotous world of free jazz to flood in Somewhat optimisticall...

Del Day of Union Music Store tells Groovy Times about the time on a packed bus ride home that he surrendered his brain to the riotous world of FREE JAZZ

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groovy-times.com/free-jazz/

RIP David Thomas of Pere Ubu

A great moment on vinyl:

Side 1, track 1: Non-alignment pact

Jon Savage - Groovy Times Music journalist and cultural historian Jon Savage tells Groovy Times about how he went from making mix-CDs for friends to curating much loved compilations for labels such as Caroline True and Ace Rec...

Groovy Times quizzed Jon Savage about the fine art of putting a vinyl compilation together - and how the peerless Nuggets changed the game

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Click the link for the full article
https://:groovy-times.com/jon.savage/

Jason Barnard - Groovy Times Strange Brew podcaster Jason Barnard‘s house is on fire. His loved ones have been safely evacuated, but which record does he run back into the burning building to save? Strange Brew is the real deal w...

KALLAX ON FIRE no. 2

Jason Barnard’s house is on fire. Loved ones have been evacuated - but which one of his many records does the Strange Brew podcaster go back into the burning building to save?

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groovy-times.com/jason-barnard/

Deram - Groovy Times The Decca offshoot’s back catalogue contains some weird, wonderful and highly desirable records. Groovy Times seeks out the label’s costliest collectables An in-house imprint of establishment giant De...

The Deram label’s back catalogue is full of weird, wonderful and highly desirable records

Click the link to discover the label’s rare, rarer and rarest vinyl

Anything we missed?

#vinyl #vinylrecords #decca #deram

groovy-times.com/deram/

Thanks very much @unspunheroes.bsky.social for the mention - issue two of Groovy Times out really soon