Rob's Sound & Vision

The new series of Mandy is fab, and the ice cream van episode is one of the funniest 15 minutes of telly ever. I have had a couple of drinks.

YouTube video by Billy Bragg A13 - Billy Bragg - Live in the studio, with Mark Ellen

It starts down in Wapping
There ain't no stopping
By-pass Barking and straight through Dagenham
Down to Grays Thurrock
And rather near Basildon
Pitsea, Thundersley, Hadleigh, Leigh-On-Sea
Chalkwell, Prittlewell
Southend's the end
youtu.be/McCHIK_yBJo?...

thx @writonthewater.bsky.social 👍😊
www.dailymotion.com/video/x8hptxy

Playing now:

Squeeze – Argybargy (A&M) 1980

A recent CD purchase, and a proper rarity. Early Squeeze CDs are surprisingly thin on the ground.

Siouxsie at The Limit, Sheffield, by Pete Hill.

Chrysalis: So Frankie, what do you want to call your new compilation record?

Frankie:

Playing now:

The Band – Northern Lights-Southern Cross (Capitol) 1975

Angus & Hetty MacLise

Velvet Underground (original line-up): L-R: John Cale, Angus MacLise, Sterling Morrison, Lou Reed.

BBC Radio 4 - Artworks, What Happened to Counter-Culture? Stewart Lee explores the story and ideas of counter-culture and its importance today.

Had forgotten about this: on BBC4 talking about Counter Culture www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Playing now:

Earl Bostic – All His Hits (King) 1995

Sebastião Salgado Marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus). Galápagos. Ecuador (2004)

Arts Lab London Performance Poster, 1968.

Playing now - for the first time in 40+ years:

Adam And The Ants – Kings Of The Wild Frontier (CBS) 1980

The first Batmobile (1963)

Roy Lichtenstein - Head with Monocle (1980)

The Beatles Help! Japanese Movie Poster (1965)

Gee Vaucher - Bloody Revolution

Playing now:

David Bowie – David Live (RCA Victor) 1974

Go-Go Shag - it's a 70's Sears carpet ad!

Emily Hoerdemann - Cover Girl No 12 (Playboy) (2025)

Andy Warhol - Marilyn Monroe (1967)

Perfect - thank you!

First on the bill on Sunday is Paul Inder. The only Paul Inder I know is the son of Lemmy, and was born in 1967. Playing Reading at age 11 seems unlikely - anyone know the story?

Photo: Marc Ohrem-Leclef

If you enjoy a music film and you live in or around Leicester, this will be good!

An article on Malcolm McLaren by Pete Silverton in Sounds 26th, July 1980 about Bow Wow Wow. Pictures by Peter Kodick.

Playing now:

Neil Diamond – Tap Root Manuscript (UNI) 1970

Jean-Michel Basquiat - Downtown 81 / New York Beat Movie Music Performance Poster (1980)