RIP deadly Derek. Spin supremo.

C is reading this atm. DduM is not my tea but look at that wonderful Zandra Rhodes cover.

Uploading onto my archive dot org later this week all the early 70s R1 stuff I promised a while back, T Blackburn on Easter Monday 71, Xmas Day Fluff 1972, a Rosko's Round Table Dec 1970 with J Walker & Mike Raven, a David Simmonds Soul Show April 73, more Peel Top Gear etc...

If you've never heard this song before your jaw will hit the floor. It's beyond incredible.
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In amongst everything else that's brilliant about Get Back, what's really fascinating are the little throwaway conversations that The Beatles have about what they were watching on television the night before - some of which are about now lost shows...

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The first cherry 🍒 blossom and the lilac behind it won't be far behind.

Look closely and you can see the first asparagus spears. Early this year but then they did get a good rich winter feed.

New mint patch.

Saw a book about racing pigeons on the market this morning called A Very British Coop. *tips hat*

If you haven't seen the Syd Barrett doc Have You Got It Yet, it's on Sky Arts on Saturday 27th April.

Beautiful recent photo of Grantchester Meadows from Dorina Beke on the Birdie Hop FB page. The Elysian Fields of my youth, my acid arcady, the English evergreens I'm always running to. 'Seven is the number of the young light.' x

NTS just played Who Loves The Sun. It came out as a single in my last year at school and after all the hype I'd read about the VU I thought is that it? This sappy pappy song that sounded like Vanity Fayre or Harmony Grass. That all changed obv...

Word up all you 60s offshore radio devotees. I've just uploaded 8 hours of rare as hens teeth broadcasts from the shortlived Radio Atlanta in May 1964.
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It's Grand Dational Day and time for my annual tweet about the time Des Lynam called Bob Champion Bob Cancer in a live interview.

Unreconstructed 'scouse Macca is still my favourite Macca.

Re-watched To Be A Somebody last night, the Albie episode of Cracker. Still I think the most compelling episode of Cracker and possibly one of the greatest TV dramas ever made.

In my attempt to have an opinion on almost everything today can I just say that in the early 90s when I was drowning in rave and had little time whatsoever for indie grunge or guitar bands I still thought Hole were an absolutely shit hot combo.