16/06/2024
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An irregular collection of articles on selected nuggets hoarded in my vinyl collection and other stuff ...a collector's diary.
Mr Squirrel was born in the Fifties and likes to collect things. He has never found a place to publish a diverse range of topical thoughts on the things he finds until now. The items displayed in The Squirrel are his alone and he hopes you may enjoy them. A Cabinet of Curiosities that ranges across art, popular music and literature.
10/06/2024
Found this in the cassette version of album I archiving even then.....full story here https://tapeheaven.substack.com/p/skeletons-on-the-roundabout-the-skylarks
10/06/2024
1981 post art college pre working in a nuclear waste bunker (true) I made a wig-out outisder artist classic or maybe not..whatever it still sounds bonkers ..thought I was a cross between Eno and Syd Barrett.....probably still do..
Home Taping 1981 with a 1950s Bush reel to reel
09/06/2024
I love this guy already .....inspirational
https://daily.bandcamp.com/lifetime-achievement/glenn-donaldson-lifetime-achievement
“I’ve always really liked this quote from Robert Pollard—and I’m probably mangling it—where he was like, ‘People should spend less time learning guitar and more time coming up with good song titles and artwork,’” he continues. “I completely related to that.”
"'Can we just talk about one band?’ It’s so much work for you and me.”
09/06/2024
The Reds Pinks and Purples took me back to 1992 literally
A long time ago in Didcot I dreamt of a power-pop band called The Skylarks this all there is of that dream but I still like it ...
09/06/2024
My new favourite band..
Influential US indie record label, keeping it dusty since 1989.
09/06/2024
Happenstance..followed the crumbs from East River Pipe and found this band curently touring UK and if you live close to these venues recommended..for fans of Go Betweens, American Music Club and such like beautiful stuff...
from the album This is Adult Art School
05/06/2024
folk electronica
Watch the official music video for "Mother in the Graveyard" by Anna & Elizabeth, from 'The Invisible Comes to Us' out March 30th, 2018 on Smithsonian Folkwa...
05/06/2024
https://youtu.be/cZ0n_Jc2aQI?feature=shared
In this video I take a look at the story of an unsung hero. Civil rights activist and professional wrestler, Sputnik Monroe. He was instrumental in getting s...
05/06/2024
Another esoteric item from Fac1968 Philips and Flying Dutchman co-release...
05/06/2024
Sunday evening saw the great Otis Gibbs at the Nottingham Angel Chapel. This a perfect setting for as consumate set of songster story-telling songs as I ever seen and I seen a few dudes over years.
Me and friend Terry Humphries now rate him up there with Rod Picott and Slaid Cleaves, Tom Russell and Dave Alvin. Current fave the fabulous Sputnik Monroe song..see below. Sorry we missed last few times you visited our shire we will be there next time oh and for roadside attractions recommend Papplewick Pumping Station :-) https://www.papplewickpumpingstation.org.uk/
02/06/2024
FFSS not FFS...love these old demonstration records for early stereo never seen this EP before finding it ..
22/05/2024
why not..
REMASTERED IN HD!!Official Music Video for Word Up performed by Cameo.
18/05/2024
Jools Holland not only jumpd shark it several fathoms down now....tonight's show is awful usual record company plants (Elbow, Idles, Morton) it time he retired the format is exhausted. Meanwhile there stuff like this...astonishing
Pianist and composer Fazil Say in the Concertgebouw Sessions, playing 'Black Earth'. The composition was inspired by Kara Toprak, a popular song by Aşık Vey...
13/05/2024
New Tape Heaven substack
Analogue Tape Op discussion blog. A place to share nerdy and obscure analogue tape and home recording information. Click to read TAPE HEAVEN, by Shaun Belcher, a Substack publication. Launched 14 minutes ago.
05/05/2024
I never really got Dire Straits too MOR rock but Money for Nothing was funny but this latest EP from 75 old Knopler is just stunning writing reminded me of Joe Henry and Rod Picott...just fabulous seriously..
25/04/2024
https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/the-lrb-podcast/mix-tapes-and-flash-cubes
The LRB PodcastMix Tapes and Flash CubesAndrew O’Hagan and Thomas JonesAndrew O’Hagan talks to Tom about the power of defunct objects, from the life-enhancing gadgets of his childhood to Seamus Heaney’s fax machine, and the role lost things play in fiction.Subscribe to seriesShare on TwitterSh...
23/04/2024
Jansch last LP is beautiful
Provided to YouTube by Drag City RecordsThe Black Swan · Bert JanschThe Black Swan℗ Drag City Inc.Released on: 2006-10-17Auto-generated by YouTube.
21/04/2024
Stunning new LP from Martin Simpson
Skydancers is taken from the new Martin Simpson album of the same name, which is available now: https://martinsimpson.lnk.to/skydancersThanks to Ballet Folk ...
10/04/2024
No words for this...
We love Ken Dodd and we love Snap.Put 'em together though and you have something altogether more whole, more complete. Don't you think?
08/04/2024
One of my favourite bands from 1980s never seen this photo before is a classic..
28/03/2024
Adrianne Lenker performs "Free Treasure" for The Tonight Show.The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Stream now on Peacock: https://bit.ly/3gZJaNySubscribe...
27/03/2024
I do like positive people this beautiful
22/03/2024
The forerunner of the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center was a studio founded in the early 1950s by Columbia University professors Vladimir Ussachevsky and Otto Luening, and Princeton University professors Milton Babbitt and Roger Sessions. Originally concerned with experiments in music composition involving the new technology of reel-to-reel tape, the studio soon branched out into all areas of electronic music research. The center was officially established with a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation in 1959 which was used to finance the acquisition of the RCA Mark II Sound Synthesizer from its owner, RCA.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Music_Center
https://newworldrecords.bandcamp.com/album/columbia-princeton-electronic-music-center-1961-1973
21/03/2024
Denise Weston has just received an image of her at art college in 1985 so to celebrate here us both at art college me in 1980 doing a Edwyn Collins impression adn Denise looking like a member of the Au Pairs :-)
20/03/2024
Thoughtful review of a lost classic...
James Varda released Chance And Time in early 2015, only a matter of months before his death from a rare form of cancer, and the album was conceived, recorded, and completed in the full knowledge o…
19/03/2024
THE SKYLARKS - SKELETONS ON THE ROUNDABOUT - SIDE ONE 1981
https://soundcloud.com/horseshoe-tapes/sets/the-skylarks-skeletons-on-the
19/03/2024
never gets old..
As U.S. record buyers were continuing their intense love affair with British product in mid-1965, England remained a fan of Don and Phil. Well-remembered ove...
19/03/2024
https://youtu.be/BkOCdnqVfnU?feature=shared
Provided to YouTube by Warner Music Group - X5 Music GroupBowling Green (Demo) · The Everly BrothersDown In the Bottom: The Country Rock Sessions 1966 - 1968...
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