Steve Carr

Haven’t bought it, but listened to the first part a few times (streaming). It bears repeated listens. But I shared the same fears as you. I dare say I can pick it up used one day if I change my mind.

Yeah, Beck playing those records with an orchestra was a bucket list item for me. Wonderful.

1. Radiohead, Bologna
2. Beck, Royal Albert Hall
3. LCD Soundsystem, Brixton
4. Pulp, Glastonbury
5. The Ting Tings, Gibson guitar shop, Denmark St
5: Sensitive album launch, The Social
#chopsfives #topfive #gigs2025

Punk Funk Disco

Happy New Year everyone. If you’re looking for a party playlist, then take your pick (Thread)
Punk Funk open.spotify.com/playlist/2XI...
Disco open.spotify.com/playlist/3qx...
Dancehall open.spotify.com/playlist/0Gp...
Electro open.spotify.com/playlist/6Yf...
Punk open.spotify.com/playlist/1ql...

One of my all time favourite films.

Merry Christmas.
Just found one of my favourite books, The Puffin Book of Improbable Records.
Quentin Blake illustrations and John Yeoman’s text. I think a lot of my sense of humour derives from this book.

Well Kept Secret is perhaps one of only two listenable James Last records. (Ducks for cover). Great pick from your #vinylsanta and an absolute chazza classic!

Wow!

Classic northern soul from R Dean Taylor!

Great selection pack!

I’m a bit late posting my #vinylsanta, but what a selection! Including the all-time greatest Christmas album and a chance to explore Jefferson Starship and Tangerine Dream.
Thank you vinyl Santa!

I think most of the band names sound like they were found in a medical dictionary.

Extraordinary stuff, isn’t it?

The recipient of my #vinylsanta can count themselves very very fortunate (or unfortunate depending on how you look at it) that I didn’t visit Oxfam in Bruges in time.

Currently enjoying the sheer joy of Bruges’ antique shops

Time for a Christmas mash up: The Beatles and Boston: “Christmas in Boston” share.google/9bd2CqB0gHCU...

One chazza find and the rest from the bargain bin at the local shop

Rejoice! Xmas cards are now for sale at www.etsy.com/shop/8bitnorthxstitch There’s something old, something new, something northern & something blue (for the lads): Wham!, John & Yoko, East 17, Slade, Royle Family, Fanny Cradock, Smiths, Spice Girls, Beatles & Ghosts. Something for all the family!

It’s yours? Ha! Superb. Excellent work! 👏👏👏

An excel spreadsheet of a night-by-night breakdown of every Radiohead song being played on the current tour.

I love the nerdiness of the Radiohead fans who are tracking every setlist of the tour on excel spreadsheets.

YouTube video by William Stevens 12Feb1975 Guest Stars 50 Years Later at a Senior Home - Cher, Elton John, Flip Wilson & Bette Midler

youtu.be/UZdMJ_yGQH8?... Cher, Bette Midler, Flip Wilson and Elton John in Cher’s 1975 TV special imagining their lives in 2025…

I saw that! 😂😂

Hey Andy - just wanted to say thanks for sharing this playlist - really good stuff. Appreciated.

This looks quality

If you are a fan of the Ace Records Jon Savage compilations, here’s a playlist of what *didnt* get on the compilations.
Amazing stuff.

Wow. This is phenomenal! Thank you!

Thank you!

A playlist would be a lovely thing to see / hear.
Either way, I have all the CDs and have found them all fascinating and a fantastic introduction to so many different rabbit holes and new sounds, so thank you.

@jonsavage.bsky.social Hey Jon - enjoying listening to the final Ace records comp in your series. (They have all been so good). In the liner notes you mention early house records weren’t available to licence and I was curious if you had a list of records that didn’t make it into the compilations?

This is not my beautiful pub... The strangeness of social media as it stops being a social hub.

Further thoughts on social media stopping being like the pub, and the hollow weirdness of it all.

open.substack.com/pub/joelmorr...