Very proud that All The Young Droids is number 35 in The Wire's Archive Releases Of The Year.

At Tate Britain seeing the Lee Miller exhibition yesterday.

Friday morning fry up.

It was a war zone!

At the T&C in 1991 I saw someone sleep through the You Made Me Realise onslaught. I hate to think what he'd taken.

I see that Eyes Wide Shut has just been reissued by Criterion. During my very short time as a film extra in the late '90s I actually turned down Kubrick - as I was offered the - fnar fnar - very small part of a naked waiter at an orgy in Eyes Wide Shut.

It certainly looks like there were a lot more people at the My Bloody Valentine show at Wembley Arena last night than when Biff Bang Pow! supported them on a rainy Saturday night at Chatham Town Hall in January 1988. Alan McGee and Dick Green from Creation signed them to the label that very night

Certainly a bigger crowd than at Chatham Town Hall in 1988 when Biff Bang Pow! supported them - and Alan and Dick signed them to Creation after seeing them play that night.

Wow, congratulations.

Enjoyed that a lot. x

Get ya transparent green vinyl copies of All The Young Droids. Available on November 29th - just in time for Christmas pressies : www.roughtrade.com/collection/c...

Thanks to Rough Trade for making All The Young Droids no 4 in their Comps & Reissues Of The Year list. You can pre-order the repressing in lovely transparent green which will be shipping at the end of the month.https://nightschoolrecords.com/

I always had that problem with It's A Knockout too.

We didn't even have a Portacabin as a dressing room. Shocking!

We did once they realised that none of our amps were mic-ed up and there was lots of running around to do so.

Very pleased that my Lush tour film is now available for all to see.

And here is my evidence...

Wizzard was my first gig.

Wizzard was my first live gig - at Sutton Granada in 1973.

On Parkside? Jet Records was based there - and I guess Don Arden (& Sharon Osbourne) lived there too?

Very proud that ‘All The Young Droids’ is the Compilation Of The Year in the Review Of The Year 2025 issue of Uncut - which is out today.

YouTube video by Bevinyl online record store V/A - All The Young Droids: Junkshop Synth Pop 1978-1985 (2LP)

Nice round up of acts on All The Young Droids. The repress will be out in September - if you don't have a copy already : www.youtube.com/watch?v=1R8_...

Viv Prince RIP. When The Pretty Things played in Porto in 2016 I DJ-ed at the show - and went for dinner with them beforehand. Phil May told me that he once went on the bizarrest double date with Viv Prince in the Sixties - Phil and Rudolph Nureyev - and Viv and Judy Garland!

YouTube video by Mario DiGiulio Artist Management According To Flo & Eddie

Mark Volman from The Turtles RIP. Love this explanation by him and Howard Kaylan of The Turtles of the various managers they got through - and the payouts and lawsuits ensued. I remember showing this on the tour bus on the Lush reunion US tour. Oh how we laughed : www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdBG...

I am going to be interviewing Peta Lily - and showing some videos she appeared in - Buggles 'Video Killed The Radio Star', Duran Duran's 'Planet Earth', Ultravox's 'Vienna' and John Foxx's 'He's A Liquid' - at the Sound Effects night at the Old Blue Last in Brighton next Wednesday, if you fancy it?

There's orangey.

The Gang Of Three...and a half.

The Subway Sectless

Bring on the Droids.

YouTube video by Aulis Productions Knights Electric (1980) – best viewed in HD

Short film "Knights Electric" (1980) features a group of rowdy teenage boys interacting with girls and causing trouble in an amusement park. Music by Blondie, John Foxx, Madness, Gary Numan, The Pretenders, Martha and The Muffins and many more. None more 1980 : www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD_L...