Just showed this to C. She said 'he should certainly be thrown into fashion jail prison for those trousers '.

She was trying to get some feeling in her fingers in the photo I posted earlier. Fair turn out though despite the dismal weather. It was probably warmer at Bickershaw. One for the oldsters there. We're in a caff thawing out now.

She shooed me way. C has some better ones. I'll upload one when I get home.

Band stand roof. We're bloody frezz though.

Loads of that stuff was wasn't it? All those Vertigo albums that go for shedloads now. All in the Boots or WH Smiths sale with
35p further reduced yellow stickers over the 70p ones.

Man, the stuff I got from that 10p rack. Butterfly Dance Kevin Ayers, October 26th Pretty Things, all the late 60s Kinks Pye singles from their didn't sell period, Wonderboy, Shangri La etc.

The sleeve? No idea. Maybe My Mind is on Picnic. Another unsettling taster from the same album. Genuinely weird band.
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Not a nudge but likewise this. With a track on the same Harvest comp as S&D too. Picnic. Do you know it? Genuinely one of the weirdest turn of the decade records I know.

By the same token they'd recorded Magical Mystery Tour and Baby You're A Rich Man before Sgt Pepper came out. In RITH I Mac marks that as the beginning of part 3 'Coming Down'. That's bollox. There is no phase 3. It's all a continuum. Everything happens all at once. See also the Get Back film.

Thank you. I spent a very pleasant summer writing it. I had originally intended to write something about the 10th anniv of PAOC and how its critical reception (largely tumbleweed) ended me as a publishable long form music writer but I decided this would be a far more productive way to spend my time.

In those days yes!

I first heard the first Stone Roses on cassette too. And 3 Feet High & Rising. Ah, first mixtapes you say. We still got it. #keepsake