Barry Davis

Oddity Archive: Record Ripoffs - YouTube

This collection of videos has kept me sane throughout the heatwave, although the amount of times I've winced in pain at some of the examples may make onlookers think otherwise.

Gym / shower / Loop

Sunday morning with agua fresca and Ra.

Lads night in.

Trane day.

YouTube video by cookingvinylarchive Pere Ubu - Final Solution

The run from Heart Of Darkness to Song Of The Bailing Man (despite Art Of Walking being meh), then the run from Raygun Suitcase to St Arkansas (plus the first three solo albums). Never a dull moment in the big lad’s career of Chernobyl-esque garage rock, but this is the one for me.

RIP Mr Thomas

Celebrated after-dinner speaker J Mascis?

There wasn’t much at the record fair today (no sign of Bacdafucup or Cranked Up Really High) but got these so all’s well.

Despite one being an artiste heavily engrossed in one’s work, I still had time to make fried cauliflower in homemade BBQ sauce, plus lemon and herb potato salad on the side. It’s a generous portion because I skipped lunch.

A - all the way

Griefer On The Eselt, by Magic Ghost 9 track album

I had to take 10 days of annual leave, so in order to stop myself going mad, this is the result...80% of it anyway (a bit of tidying and two more tracks were added this weekend). A bit of melody, a bit of fuzz, a bit of drone and plenty of farting about with electronics. Only a fiver.

Don't let those Monday blues get to you. Remember that raccoon dogs and cloud rats exist.

“OH MR EGGMAN!”

Who says Sundays have to be calm and relaxing? Why not dive deep into a transgressive double bill of Successive Slidings Of Pleasure (directed by Alain Robbe-Grillet) and The Image (based on the novel by Catherine Robbe-Grillet). Let’s push boundaries while others are chilling.

YouTube video by Cult Cinema Classics The Fatal Glass of Beer (1933) Comedy, Western Short Film

“Won’t consider me rude if I play with my mits on, will ya?”

Wahey! It’s arrived! Stephen Thrower’s soundtrack to a film directed by David McGillivray and written by ‘a noble gentleman of the stage and screen with a fondness for tight bottoms in corduroy’. One spin of this and the pulsating electronic rhythms won’t be the only thing throbbing ;)

It’s been a busy week, food-wise: antipodean mushroom and lentil pie, falafels with quinoa and avocado, and chikar cholay with peshwari naan.

Today is a day of heavy riffs in celebration of the mintness of Brian James. All killer, no filler.

Brian James wrote pretty much all of the first two Damned albums. For "New Rose" alone his place in history would be huge. I met him at a punk anniversary event at Brighton Museum once and he was lovely. Very self-deprecating, and amazed I'd heard of his other band, Lords Of The New Church.

R.I.P.

Neither was The Egyptian.

YouTube video by ITV Channel Television Benest's of Millbrook - Chipsteaks 1977

Bergerac is being reimagined for the telly, eh? Let’s go further and make this year Channel Island-tastic…bring back the Benest & Milbrook ads! That buff lad who got his nob out in Normal People would be ideal.

WARNING: This post contains extreme levels of punk rock! Extreme listening session and an ultra-hardcore double bill of antisocial thuggery! You have been warned!

Kevin Lloyd started out as a cherubic bit-player (Don’t Open Until Christmas, Auf Wiedesehen Pet). When The Bill came calling, he grew a ‘tache for Tosh, spent his dosh on slosh, then bish-bash-bash, Death wields a cosh (3/3)

My maths teacher Mr Crawshaw went from mild-manned Eric Sykes lookalike to shouty, angry beast when he ditched the razor (2/3)

Pre-work thought: the negative effects of a moustache.

When James Brown grew one in the mid 70s his music started to suck (1/3)

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Lentil Koftas with Tomato Curry Coconut Sauce I am a big fan of spices, curry and making my own patties. So these mixed Lentil Koftas with Tomato Curry Coconut sauce were a joy to make. I use mixed

This is how they should look: theveganlarder.com/lentil-kofta...

Hmm…while a few of them didn’t survive the complete process, these lentil koftas with coconut/tomato curry sauce taste phenomenal. The sauce kinda obscures the nice fried brown goodness hiding beneath but only in this picture.

Jerk jackfruit (that’s not code) with rice and peas (well, rice and kidney beans). Bursting with flavour, I may have finally been won over by this previously unmalleable fruit.