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  • Robyn Hitchcock, Groovy Decay, 1982 on Albion.

    Robyn Hitchcock, Groovy Decay, 1982 on Albion.

    Robyn Hitchcock, Groovy Decay, 1982 on Albion (original UK pressing). Hitchcock’s second solo album with Sara Lee from Gang of Four and Anthony Thistlewaite from the Waterboys, produced by Steve Hillage

  • Various Artists, The Old Grey Whistle Test Take Two, 1976 on Super Beeb Records.

    Various Artists, The Old Grey Whistle Test Take Two, 1976 on Super Beeb Records.

    Various Artists, The Old Grey Whistle Test Take Two, 1976 on Super Beeb Records. Follow up to the Old Grey Whistle Test sampler I posted a while back. Take Two is divided into a Great Britain record and United States of America record The UK one includes Dave Mason and Genesis but also Widowmaker, Camel,…

  • Mike Bloomfield, John Paul Hammond, Dr. John; Triumvirate; 1973 on Columbia.

    Mike Bloomfield, John Paul Hammond, Dr. John; Triumvirate; 1973 on Columbia.

    Mike Bloomfield, John Paul Hammond, Dr. John; Triumvirate; 1973 on Columbia. My copy is a UK pressing but it was out in the US at the same time. Great funky blues bayou combo – kind of an alternate universe supergroup in the model of Cream or Blind Faith. At their best on a standard like…

  • Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Organisation, 1980.

    Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Organisation, 1980.

    Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Organisation, 1980. Mine’s a 1986 UK pressing on Virgin sublabel Dindisc. Via Dyno Records in Newburyport (pre-covid). “Enola Gay, you should have stayed at home yesterday . . . ”

  • UB40, Signing Off, 1980 on Graduate Records.

    UB40, Signing Off, 1980 on Graduate Records.

    UB40, Signing Off, 1980 on Graduate Records. Opens with “Tyler” (about Gary Tyler, sentenced to death at 17 in Louisiana, who served 41 years before being released in 2016), and includes: King (a tribute to MLK), Burden of Shame (“bloody deeds have been done in my name”) and Billie Holiday’s Strange Fruit. Resonating with me…

  • The English Beat, Wha’ppen, 1981 on Sire.

    The English Beat, Wha’ppen, 1981 on Sire.

    The English Beat (or as they were known in the UK, The Beat), Wha’ppen, 1981 on Sire. Went through a mod phase in the early eighties – you just can’t go wrong with the English Beat This album cover makes an appearance in Sam Mendes’ film Empire of Light

  • Thompson Twins, Set, 1982 on T Records

    Thompson Twins, Set, 1982 on T Records

    Thompson Twins’ second album. In the US we didn’t get A Product Of and Set but instead got In the Name of Love, which was most of this album plus a few songs from the former.

  • Pointless, Action-Free, and Totally Mesmerising

    Pointless, Action-Free, and Totally Mesmerising

    (via ze frank) – “pointless, action-free and totally mesmerising” (as described on b3ta) video shot with a high-speed camera from a fast-moving train in Bath. Every 7 seconds of video you watch represents 1 second of actuality. more info.

  • Vegan London, continued – Blue Elephant

    Vegan London, continued – Blue Elephant

    On our last night in London, we made our way over to Fulham for Blue Elephant Royal Thai Cuisine. It’s in a very unassuming part of Fulham, near the Fulham-Broadway tube station (map). It’s a dark, low building and you can’t really see any of the interior from outside. Inside, it’s a whole different world.…

  • Vegan London – Mildred’s in Soho

    Vegan London – Mildred’s in Soho

    While in London (photos here) we had dinner at a local institution – Mildreds in Soho, a vegetarian restaurant for the last 17 years. We knew right away dinner was going to be great – the lines waiting for tables were flowing well out into the street. (Image via Ewan Munro via CC-BY: https://www.flickr.com/photos/55935853@N00/2254351187 )…

  • Positively Vegetarian – DeMuths, in Bath

    We spent a night in Bath, on our way to Bristol airport to fly over to Dublin. Bath’s a great town – we could have spent another couple of days there easily. We had dinner at Demuth’s Vegetarian Restaurant, whose owners . . . aim to make Demuths the best vegetarian restaurant in the south…

  • Vegan Cotswolds

    Vegan Cotswolds

    My wife and I recently spend a week and a half in the UK and Ireland. This post is the first in a series about the vegan goodness we found on our trip – hope it helps other travellers. Our trip started essentially in the Cotswolds (photos here), a region west of London, more or…

  • There has to be a better way

    There has to be a better way

    There just has got to be a better way to get access to content from good UK-based music magazines! Subscriptions to the “rest of the world” are incredibly expensive: For Mojo and Q, that’s roughly $300 USD / yr, or $25/month. (In the UK, the same subscriptions would be about $150 USD, or $12.50/month. Why…