So sang Calypso king Lord Kitchener, passenger on the SS Empire Windrush in 1948. And for the next couple of days London is the place for...

Claude Flight's 1925 linocut Speed. The Chemical Brothers (with Bernard Sumner on vocals) jemmied together with Primal Scream (wit...

Vortex by Cyril Power. And a connection to yesterday's postees The Charlatans, whose front man Tim Burgess was invited to sing with...

I was once teaching a class of Year 11 students and we were studying the Cold War- something that having grown up since the collapse of C...

Sonic Boom, him of Spacemen 3 that didn't go into Spiritualized, with a solo single that should get Saturday off to a narcotic start,...

Not strictly rockabilly but it's from Sheffield's premier 50s throwback Mr Richard Hawley, and let's face it, at the moment t...

Claude Flight, linocut artist, dressed in a manner which would surely meet approval from Andrew Weatherall. Who has supplied an hour long...

Some more Vorticist linocuts for you- words I didn't think I'd end up typing when I started this blog. The one above is Henri Gaud...

I remember ages ago mentioning this song (might have been my 2010 round up or something) and DVD left a comment saying 'Aye, No Tears To...

I like this snippet of a radio interview with Joe Strummer while in The Clash, circa 1980/1. There are two parts that I always think shoul...

A taster of The Asphodells- Ruled By Passion, Destroyed By Lust album out first week of February.

Ian McCulloch's got a few hidden gems in his solo back catalogue- this song Proud To Fall being one. There's nothing particularly...

Before Christmas I entered an online competition at Slighter's page , clicking and commenting and being put into the draw. I've p...

Another Public Enemy mash up I re-found recently (I think via Tedloaf and Twitter). Chuck D rages about Arizona, the state who refused to ...

This is Sifters record shop, in Burnage, south Manchester, known far and wide due to Noel Gallagher immortalising Mr Sifter in Oasis'...

A brilliant rocking but also slightly slinky instrumental from The Rumblers in 1963. Named after Link Wray's Rumble they dabbled in s...

Some Weatherall for Friday morning- just what the doctor ordered- and the standout song from Two Lone Swordsmen's Wrong Meeting lp, b...

Ofsted day 2. Yesterday was a long day. All eight episodes of Joe Strummer's BBC World Service London Calling radio show (from betw...

Ofsted- here we go. I don't expect we'll be asking them '...but why are you being so reasonable now?' It's got a bit...