Hey Kids Rock'n'Roll

Collage of vintage coke bottles and machines, stars of 60s French cinema, Karl Marx and cat legends Betty and Bo.

Delighted to announce new MONKEY’S WANDERING WIRELESS SHOW: THE CHILDREN OF MARX & COCA-COLA. 21 carefully curated cuts from across the decades and continents with a healthy crop of current artists. Music and art as a form of resistance to enjoy and share. ✊🏼🐵🚶🏻‍♂️📻🎭 www.mixcloud.com/markraison12...

Yay! Thank you Cyn! 😊

Hooray! Thank you Matt! 😃
(if you have them, please do send photos of heykidsrocknroll.etsy.com bits on YOUR tree! It brings me much joy 😊)

YouTube video by VimanaRama Stereolab - French Disko

And lastly (as I do have work to do), here's the greatest live music performance ever on British TV.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH3a...

Ah, thank you - yes I'm hoping to resume US shipping next year but it was so uncertain until very recently (and is, even now, a bit of a mixed bag, I think - not to mention quite expensive) I couldn't face having loads of delayed items in the run up to Christmas. Fingers crossed for '26!

Hurrah, my latest @8bitnorthxstitch.bsky.social order has arrived and is cat approved. (No points for guessing what film I re-watched at the weekend.)

That's a lovely thing to hear, thank you - I'm a big fan of your work and it means a lot 😊

<adopts Brian Blessed voice>

TERRRRRRY CHRISTMAS one and all! It’s Day Four of recommending small businesses that we really love. If you want to be the coolest gift giver this Christmas - get to Hey Kids’ Etsy store RIGHT NOW!

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Aw! Terry! Thank you very much 😊

Steve Cropper in the Stax studio, 1968

Soul flag flies at half mast today.

Christmassy things just a'flying off the shelves here at Hey Kids HQ (well, not so much the Sade's - which I'm surprised by)
Treat your tree! heykidsrocknroll.etsy.com

Oh that sounds great! 🙏

Hooray! Thanks Louise, I do really love seeing the Hey Kids decorations up on trees. 😊

A small acrylic painting of two Mari Lwyd with a sunset behind them.

Day 3 of #ArtAdventCalendar is a shameless plug for a piece I have in a charity auction run by @skullsandsheets.bsky.social . There is some brilliant small artwork, including this 13cm x 19cm piece by myself #ArtYear #art

New episode!
YELLOW SUBMARINE (1968) - with Joel Morris
pod.link/1569929507

All aboard the Goon Pod as Beatles tackle Blue Meanies! Could there BE anything more timeless yet still wonderfully Sixties? Joel - @gralefrit.bsky.social - & Tyler explore why this joyous film earns a place on the show!

Been v busy and wanted to post about the 10th anniversary of #DoctorWho - Heaven Sent when I read this article that Rachel shared. This episode screened a year after I lost Becky and I found it incredibly insightful about the nature of grief. So much so, I wrote to Steven Moffat about it (1/n)

Another week of magic begins folks…the shop is bursting with wonderful music and cool stuff! Open midday to 7pm all week…See ya here!! ⚡️🎷💥🚀

We need to stop trying to turn these things from small talk you have with your friends to kill time into things people think have actual right & wrong answers because they’re dull

I've dipped into the Chr*stmas box a few weeks earlier than usual (I'm still not certain I'll put anything out). First to come out are prized possessions made by @8bitnorthxstitch.bsky.social (from whom I ordered two more things last night!). Highly recommend all her bits and bobs.

Heyyyy the @skullsandsheets.bsky.social charity art auction listings hast gone live! Bid! Bid! Bid! If you don't like my submission there's a ton of other pieces to check out 👁️...
ebay.us/m/wz1VQ7

Bidding is now open on my fuzzy felt Mari Lwyd, along with so many other wonderful works of art.
All funds go to domestic violence charities, please do bid if you can afford to and feel able, it would be great to raise as much money as possible🐴💀👻
www.ebay.co.uk/itm/15748996...

Yeah, that's a good one. I think Diana's girlish type voice plays into it too, that (obv. dodgy & unpleasant) 70s trope of mad stalker lady.

Well London…that was a really special night…beautiful venue, beautiful people…Thank you all so much!! See you soon! 🙏🚀❤️

'You Are Everything' (either the Stylistics or Marvin/Diana versions) always suggests somebody having a crisis to me. Woozy claustrophobia and obsessive repetition. I think the Tindersticks should cover it.

Hooray! Thank you AJ 😊 It's the most wonderful time of the year, please do send any pictorial evidence of heykidsrocknroll.etsy.com stock in situ on YOUR Christmas trees (etc) - it's genuinely my favourite thing!

Hooray! Thank you AJ 😊 It's the most wonderful time of the year, please do send any pictorial evidence of heykidsrocknroll.etsy.com stock in situ on YOUR Christmas trees (etc) - it's genuinely my favourite thing!

With bleary, morning eyes I misread the last word of this poem as 'hell', making it substantially more dramatic.

Mini drawings of album covers by… The BBC Radiophonic Workshop x 3 Mogwai My Bloody Valentine 10cc Scott Walker Neil Young and Crazy Horse Queens of the Stone Age Lol Creme / Kevin Godley Godley + Creme Pixies x 2 Suede Echo and the Bunnymen Stevie Wonder Gene Clark George Harrison OutKast Air Love and Pink Floyd.

Here are this week’s small drawings.

The most fun to draw this time were probably the Pixies and Air albums.

The most difficult: Firebyrd by Gene Clark.

Auctions start 12pm tomorrow!!

Original mari lwyd artwork, Mari lwyd goodies and signed folklore related books!

All raising money to support Domestic Abuse charities to help provide services for survivors

FLA 34: Emma Anderson (23/11/2025) As a first-year university student, one of the first songs of the 1990s I cherished was ‘De-Luxe’ by the London-based quartet Lush, who were signed to the independent record label 4AD. I was in the…

NEW! #FirstLastAnything Episode 34: As a big fan of the album Pearlies by Emma Anderson (@emmaandersonmusic.bsky.social), I was delighted that Emma joined me on my music textcast to discuss it, her career in Lush and Sing-Sing, and some favourite recordings. firstlastanything.co.uk/2025/11/23/f...