“A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS
AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!
LET’S HOPE IT’S THE FIRST ONE
WITHOUT ANDREW NEIL!”

Dear All.

Thanks for your ongoing support.  This tour show took a bit longer than usual to come together but is really working now, sadly partly because the general downward turn of global and national events has helped focus some of the ideas in it. I think it will only get funnier as things get worse.

I don’t know how letting people know about my shows will work in the future as obviously the BBC is no longer an option, much social media has been algorithm-driven to the right, traditional news media no longer has much space for culture comment and review, and I’m not about to trash a lifetime’s dignity and do my own podcast, so if you see the live show and love it please tell your friends.

And please bear in mind, most of any negative stuff you see about me personally on-line isn’t true, but I don’t have the energy to engage and correct it. One battle with the management of Mumsnet was enough for one lifetime.

In the meantime I hope you will check out some of the things I enjoyed this year and please support the artists involved if you like their work.

Have a great 2025.

1.NEW MERCH

Along with WAXFACE’s usual line of Stewart Lee merch there are new for 2025 t-shirts and hoodies on the Man-Wulf theme, all of the highest quality. I’d wear them myself but I’d look arrogant. Waste the money your Nan gave you for Xmas here

wax-face.com/stewart-lee

2.MAN-WULF BY THE PRIMEVALS

Glasgow’s garage punk veterans The Primevals announce a new single as featured in the new Stewart Lee vs The Man-Wulf upcoming U.K. tour.
There are 3 versions
Side a I’m The Man-Wulf
Side b I’m The Man-Wulf (long nail edit)
Plus a 9 minute I’m The Man-Wulf (long nail version) (I LOOOOOVE THIS!!)

Vinyl sides a&b released on a 7” 45 in January.

https://primevals.bandcamp.com

3.BASIC LEE IS ON NOW TV

https://www.nowtv.com/ie/watch/entertainment/collections/ultimate-comedy/asset/stewart-lee-basic-lee…/A5EK6949itCVNKaChrDXN

You’ll have to subscribe though.

Here is a thorough, and not entirely positive, review from a thoughtful young man on Youtube, still better than most pro-critics.
https://youtu.be/kdOYgqCzJ4s?si=1uIZBn8tMWsAiS0h

4. STEWART LEE VS THE MAN-WULF

John Mackay & Sally Homer, in association with Debi Allen/Curtis Brown present
STEWART LEE vs THE MAN-WULF BRAND NEW SHOW
LEICESTER SQUARE THEATRE, LONDON

2 – 17^th January 2025 AND UK TOURING THROUGHOUT 2025

NB: TICKETS FOR THESE SHOWS WILL REMAIN AT THE ADVERTISED PRICE. SURGE PRICING IS IMMORAL AND TICKETMASTER AND OASIS ARE WANKERS, ENCOURAGED BY SUCCESSIVE TORY CULTURE SECRETARIES IN THEIR CRIMINAL ENDEAVOURS.

In this brand-new show, Lee shares his stage with a tough-talking werewolf comedian who hates humanity. The Man-Wulf lays down a ferocious comedy challenge to the culturally irrelevant and physically enfeebled Lee. Can the beast inside us all be silenced with the silver bullet of Lee’s unprecedentedly critically acclaimed style of stand-up.

STEWART LEE vs THE MAN-WULF Opened at Leicester Square Theatre in December 2024 the new show will tour to UK cities throughout 2025.

Leicester Sq Theatre, London 2^nd – 17^th Jan 2025 7pm.

0207 734 2222 www.leicestersquaretheatre.com

STEWART LEE vs THE MAN-WULF 2025 TOUR SCHEDULE

January 2025

Sunday 19th January 2025 – Mayflower Theatre, Southampton – TICKETS
Monday 20th January 2025 – Dorking Halls, Dorking – TICKETS
Tuesday 21st January 2025 – Dorking Halls, Dorking – TICKETS
Wednesday 22nd January 2025 – The Alban Arena, St. Albans – TICKETS
Thursday 23rd January 2025 – The Alban Arena, St. Albans – TICKETS
Friday 24th January 2025 – Symphony Hall, Birmingham – TICKETS
Saturday 25th January 2025 – Symphony Hall, Birmingham – TICKETS
Sunday 26th January 2025 – Symphony Hall, Birmingham – TICKETS
Tuesday 28th January 2025 – Theatre Royal, York – TICKETS
Wednesday 29th January 2025 – Theatre Royal, York – TICKETS
Thursday 30th January 2025 – Theatre Royal, York – TICKETS
Friday 31st January 2025 – Theatre Royal, York – TICKETS

February 2025

Saturday 1st February 2025 – Theatre Royal, York – TICKETS
Monday 3rd February 2025 – Playhouse, Oxford – TICKETS
Tuesday 4th February 2025 – Playhouse, Oxford – TICKETS
Wednesday 5th February 2025 – Playhouse, Oxford – TICKETS
Thursday 6th February 2025 – Playhouse, Oxford – TICKETS
Friday 7th February 2025 – Playhouse, Oxford – TICKETS
Saturday 8th February 2025 – Playhouse, Oxford – TICKETS
Monday 10th February 2025 – The Marlowe, Canterbury – TICKETS
Wednesday 12th February 2025 – Chelmsford Theatre, Chelmsford – TICKETS
Thursday 13th February 2025 – De Montfort Hall, Leicester – TICKETS
Friday 14th February 2025 – De Montfort Hall, Leicester – TICKETS
Saturday 15th February 2025 – Wycombe Swan, High Wycombe – TICKETS
Sunday 16th February 2025 – Wycombe Swan, High Wycombe – TICKETS
Tuesday 18th February 2025 – The Lowry, Salford – TICKETS
Wednesday 19th February 2025 – The Lowry, Salford – TICKETS
Thursday 20th February 2025 – The Lowry, Salford – TICKETS
Friday 21st February 2025 – The Lowry, Salford – TICKETS
Saturday 22nd February 2025 – The Lowry, Salford – TICKETS

April 2025

Tuesday 1st April 2025 – Lyceum Theatre, Sheffield – TICKETS
Wednesday 2nd April 2025 – Lyceum Theatre, Sheffield – TICKETS
Thursday 3rd April 2025 – New Theatre, Peterborough – TICKETS
Friday 4th April 2025 – Palace Theatre, Southend – TICKETS
Saturday 5th April 2025 – Palace Theatre, Southend – TICKETS
Sunday 6th April 2025 – Palace Theatre, Southend – TICKETS
Tuesday 22nd April 2025 – Royal & Derngate, Northampton – TICKETS
Wednesday 23rd April 2025 – Royal & Derngate, Northampton – TICKETS
Monday 28th April 2025 – Playhouse, Nottingham – TICKETS
Tuesday 29th April 2025 – Playhouse, Nottingham – TICKETS
Wednesday 30th April 2025 – Playhouse, Nottingham – TICKETS

May 2025

Thursday 1st May 2025 – Playhouse, Nottingham – TICKETS
Friday 2nd May 2025 – The Mach Arena, Machynlleth Comedy Festival – TICKETS
Saturday 3rd May 2025 – The Mach Arena, Machynlleth Comedy Festival – TICKETS
Sunday 4th May 2025 – The Mach Arena, Machynlleth Comedy Festival – TICKETS
Tuesday 6th May 2025 – Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool – TICKETS
Wednesday 7th May 2025 – Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool – TICKETS
Thursday 8th May 2025 – Playhouse, Leeds – TICKETS
Friday 9th May 2025 – Playhouse, Leeds – TICKETS
Saturday 10th May 2025 – Playhouse, Leeds – TICKETS
Monday 12th May 2025 – Grand Theatre, Wolverhampton – TICKETS
Thursday 15th May 2025 – King’s Theatre, Portsmouth – TICKETS
Friday 16th May 2025 – The Forum, Bath – TICKETS

July 2025

Saturday 5th July 2025 – Royal Festival Hall, Southbank, London – TICKETS
Sunday 6th July 2025 – Royal Festival Hall, Southbank, London – TICKETS
Sunday 6th July 2025 – Royal Festival Hall, Southbank, London – TICKETS
Saturday 12th July 2025 – Royal Festival Hall, Southbank, London – TICKETS
Sunday 13th July 2025 – Royal Festival Hall, Southbank, London – TICKETS
Sunday 13th July 2025 – Royal Festival Hall, Southbank, London – TICKETS

September 2025

Monday 8th September 2025 – Lighthouse, Poole – TICKETS
Tuesday 9th September 2025 – Lighthouse, Poole – TICKETS
Wednesday 10th September 2025 – Hall For Cornwall, Truro – TICKETS
Thursday 11th September 2025 – Northcott Theatre, Exeter – TICKETS
Friday 12th September 2025 – Northcott Theatre, Exeter – TICKETS
Saturday 13th September 2025 – Westlands Entertainment Venue, Yeovil – TICKETS
Sunday 14th September 2025 – Westlands Entertainment Venue, Yeovil – TICKETS
Tuesday 16th September 2025 – New Theatre, Cardiff – TICKETS
Wednesday 17th September 2025 – New Theatre, Cardiff – TICKETS
Thursday 18th September 2025 – New Theatre, Cardiff – TICKETS
Friday 19th September 2025 – New Theatre, Cardiff – TICKETS
Saturday 20th September 2025 – New Theatre, Cardiff – TICKETS
Wednesday 24th September 2025 – Hippodrome, Darlington – TICKETS
Thursday 25th September 2025 – Gala, Durham – TICKETS
Friday 26th September 2025 – Theatre Royal, Glasgow – TICKETS
Saturday 27th September 2025 – Playhouse, Edinburgh – TICKETS
Sunday 28th September 2025 – His Majesty’s Theatre, Aberdeen – TICKETS

October 2025

Friday 3rd October 2025 – Aberystwyth Arts Centre – Great Hall, Aberystwyth – TICKETS
Tuesday 7th October 2025 – Milton Keynes Theatre, Milton Keynes – TICKETS
Wednesday 8th October 2025 – Milton Keynes Theatre, Milton Keynes – TICKETS
Thursday 9th October 2025 – Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford – TICKETS
Friday 10th October 2025 – Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford – TICKETS
Saturday 11th October 2025 – Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford – TICKETS
Wednesday 15th October 2025 – Grand Theatre, Swansea – TICKETS
Thursday 16th October 2025 – Grand Theatre, Swansea – TICKETS
Friday 17th October 2025 – Bristol Beacon, Bristol – TICKETS
Saturday 18th October 2025 – Bristol Beacon, Bristol – TICKETS
Tuesday 21st October 2025 – Storyhouse, Chester – TICKETS
Wednesday 22nd October 2025 – Storyhouse, Chester – TICKETS
Thursday 23rd October 2025 – Opera House, Buxton – TICKETS
Friday 24th October 2025 – Opera House, Buxton – TICKETS
Saturday 25th October 2025 – The Baths Hall, Scunthorpe – TICKETS
Wednesday 29th October 2025 – Cast, Doncaster – TICKETS
Thursday 30th October 2025 – Cast, Doncaster – TICKETS
Friday 31st October 2025 – Harrogate Theatre, Harrogate – TICKETS

November 2025

Saturday 1st November 2025 – Harrogate Theatre, Harrogate – TICKETS
Sunday 2nd November 2025 – Harrogate Theatre, Harrogate – TICKETS
Monday 3rd November 2025 – Tyne Theatre & Opera House, Newcastle Upon Tyne – TICKETS
Tuesday 4th November 2025 – Tyne Theatre & Opera House, Newcastle Upon Tyne – TICKETS
Friday 7th November 2025 – The Anvil, Basingstoke – TICKETS
Saturday 8th November 2025 – Rose Theatre, KIngston – TICKETS
Sunday 9th November 2025 – Rose Theatre, KIngston – TICKETS
Tuesday 11th November 2025 – Brighton Dome, Brighton – TICKETS
Wednesday 12th November 2025 – Brighton Dome, Brighton – TICKETS
Thursday 13th November 2025 – Brighton Dome, Brighton – TICKETS
Friday 14th November 2025 – Brighton Dome, Brighton – TICKETS
Saturday 15th November 2025 – Brighton Dome, Brighton – TICKETS
Monday 17th November 2025 – Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham – TICKETS
Tuesday 18th November 2025 – Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham – TICKETS
Wednesday 19th November 2025 – Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham – TICKETS

5. SNOWFLAKE/TORNADO

Stewart’s 2019 touring show Snowflake/Tornado, which was originally broadcast as a BBC Special in Autumn 2022 is now available to buy or rent “on demand” from www.mediagarageproductions.com

Both shows also appear to be free as part of the current Amazon Prime rosta.

We are currently preparing a physical release of these shows but it’s got delayed as I have been bogged down in picking through a wealth of possible, and very exciting, audio extras, where the material worked much better than in the broadcast show itself.

6. FESTIVAL STAND-UP SETS 2025 (the usual 30 mins greatest hits shit)

24th May 2025 Bearded Theory, Derbyshire

Iggy Pop, The Manics, Thee Sisters O’ Mercy, Yard Act, Left Field, Throwing Muses, The Selecter, The Lovely Lovely Eggs, my pals Asian Dub Foundation, Cool distaff Japanese Ramones Shonen Knife, Beans on Toast, dub legends Zion Train, Angeline Morrison, Miki Berenyi from The Lushes and more TBA.
www.beardedtheory.co.uk.

More TBA

7. OUT OF THE VOID

This book, about the sleeve art of Rocket Records’ releases, with a foreword by me, is out now. https://rocketrecordings.com/products/out-of-the-void

8. A KICKSTARTER FOR THE FINE FOLKIES LISA KNAPP and GERRY DRIVER.

When I was first in London, loads of us lived happy and broke in a lovely big cheap damp old vicarage full of slugs in Tooting. The various housemates’ bands that rehearsed in the spare room represented a successful vision of multiculturalism; unfairly unfamous metal shoegazers Peach (checkout You Lied with me mumbling low in the mix and Tool’s Justin Chancellor on bass); my failed Alt Country effort Dust Harvest; an Afrobeat band run by a Nigerian bloke called Papa J; Simon Munnery’s punk pastiche Alan Parker’s Urban Warriors; Dave Cohen’s Jewish Guns’n’Roses parody Guns’n’Moses; Harry Hill’s Pub Band; and Mike Cosgrave’s world-fusion band Sin e, featuring future percussion superstar Ansuman Biswas and the fiddler Gerry Driver (Their Gentle Art Of Wee Weaving is the drum’n’bass/Irish pub session crossover that never happened). This is where Lisa Knapp, who I worked with years later on the Shirley Collins documentary fundraising circuit, comes in. LISA SAYS – “Advent greetings to you all !! I have a brand new DUO project with my partner and long time musical collaborator, Gerry Diver.  Known, somewhat imaginatively, as ‘Lisa Knapp & Gerry Diver’ (haha!) we’ve been hard at work creating our debut album, HINTERLAND…. but now we need your help to take the next steps, ie, producing the physical formats like CDs and vinyl, a plethora of promo materials and preparing for a proper release. So, we have launched a KICKSTARTER CAMPAIGN.  We’re launching this album independently and so we are asking for help from our amazing community.

B A C K   O U R   K I C K S T A R T E R   H E R E
B A C K   O U R   K I C K S T A R T E R   H E R E
B A C K   O U R   K I C K S T A R T E R   H E R E

We’ve lined up some fantastic rewards for our backers including 🎁 Signed albums 🎁 Exclusive experiences and loads of other surprises.  I am delighted to be offering online folk singing & folk fiddle classes as well as a one day workshop in person with me – time tbc.  As well as that I am offerering to compose a brand new tune from scratch for you or as a gift to a loved one.  Have a wee browse at the offers and please share on your social media, it really helps. NB. Kickstarter is an ALL-OR-NOTHING platform so your help really, really matters and every single pledge counts!! This project is truly a labour of love, and we can’t do it without you. Your support means everything to us and keeps independent music alive and thriving.”

9. SAVE HITCHIN’S CLUB 85

https://www.gofundme.com/f/club-85s-battle-fund

Here’s a go-fund me to preserve the punching-above-its-weight local venue Hitchin’s Club 85, another iconic regional grass roots space, in the town where the Fall recorded half of Hex Enduction Hour and which gave us resilient hippy-punks The Astronauts.

When it’s gone it’s gone, and so is another piece of the patchwork that holds the arts in the UK together in the face of gvt indifference and active hostility from tech-bro’s and the right.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4geeynkklzo

10.I ARROGANTLY RECOMMEND SOME HAPPENINGS

VANESSA BELL – MILTON KEYNES GALLERY –  23^rd Feb 2025

A World Of Form And Colour. Thorough retrospective on the hot Bloomsbury freak. Vanessa Bell (1879–1961) was a pioneering modernist painter and founding member of the Bloomsbury Group, a circle of influential English artists, writers and intellectuals in the first half of the twentieth century. This exhibition – her largest-ever solo show – provides an in-depth overview that includes drawings, paintings, ceramics and furniture. Bell’s pioneering work was at the forefront of British abstraction. At the same time, she helped to create conditions in which artists, including women, could flourish. This involved organising the ‘Friday Club’ for artists to meet and co-founding the experimental design collective, Omega Workshops. Collaboration formed an essential part of Bell’s approach to art, including with her sister, the writer Virginia Woolf, and the artist Duncan Grant. https://mkgallery.org/event/vanessa-bell/

SCENT AND THE ART OF THE PRE-RAPHAELITES – BIRMINGHAM BARBER INSTITUTE UNTIL JANUARY 26TH

https://barber.org.uk/scent-and-pre-raphaelites/

Scent is a key motif in paintings by the artists of the Pre-Raphaelite and Aesthetic movements. Fragrance is visually suggested in images of daydreaming figures smelling flowers or burning incense, enhancing the sensory aura of ‘art for art’s sake’. Scent was also implied in Victorian painting to evoke hedonism – pleasure in exquisite sensations – and a preoccupation with beauty; or to reflect the Victorian vogue for synaesthesia (evoking one sense through another) and the penchant for art, like scent, to evoke moods and emotions.

EVELYN DE MORGAN – W’HAMPTON ART GALLERY – 9^th MARCH 2005

https://www.wolverhamptonart.org.uk/whats-on/edm/

Stew says, “This late Victorian visionary’s work can come across a bit Advanced Dungeons and Dragons ™ ®, but that probably tell us more about how she anticipated, or even influenced, the populist art of the future. I have a real soft spot for her. Her partner William De Morgan, initially of Stoke Newington, was also a proto-science fiction author, and ceramicist, whose decorative tiles pop up in the oddest places – there may be some in a once swanky pub near you.  Anyway, the last time EDM had her own exhibition was 1907 so get on down, and get some lovely Gray Pays & Bacon from the Great Western Pub by W’hampton Station while you are at it”

They says, “Featuring thirty artworks, Painted Dreams reveals De Morgan’s progression as an artist and her technical mastery as one of the most impressive artists of the late Victorian era. Discover De Morgan’s exploration of challenging subjects and painterly responses to enduring social and political issues of the day, such as feminism, inequality, war and pacifism. Painted Dreams revisits the historic 1907 show, reuniting several of De Morgan’s most significant works in Wolverhampton. The original exhibition was a remarkable achievement, challenging Victorian prejudices and the notion that being a professional artist was a male occupation and unsuitable for a woman of De Morgan’s class. Her ability to layer contemporary issues into mythological tales was well received, with one reviewer for the Wolverhampton Express and Star describing the pictures as ‘painted dreams’. Painted Dreams presents De Morgan as a pioneering artist who explored new, challenging subjects that delved into the fundamentals of human existence. The artworks are displayed in chronological order to show the progression of De Morgan’s talent as an artist and demonstrate her painterly responses to enduring social and political issues of the day, such as feminism and inequality, mental health and the impact of war. By recreating De Morgan’s 1907 solo show as faithfully as possible, Painted Dreams highlights a career that has been historically overshadowed by her male contemporaries.  The exhibition is curated by Sarah Hardy, Director of the De Morgan Museum, and Wolverhampton Art Gallery. The exhibition is a partnership between the De Morgan Foundation and Wolverhampton Art Gallery. The Gallery is funded by Arts Council England as a National Portfolio Organisation, and City of Wolverhampton Council.”

TIRZAH GARWOOD: Beyond Ravilious, Dulwich Picture Gallery London, until 26 May 2025. 

https://www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk/about/press-media/press-releases/first-major-exhibition-of-modern-british-artist-tirzah-garwood-among-2024-highlights-at-dulwich-picture-gallery/

The first major exhibition devoted to the artist and designer Tirzah Garwood (1908–1951) since 1952. Best known until now as the wife of Eric Ravilious and as the author of the autobiography Long Live Great Bardfield, Garwood excelled as a fine artist and printmaker. Her diverse and enchanting works are gems of the mid-20th century.

DISCHARGE Black country D-beat deadbeats

JAN 4^th – London 100 Club
FEB 2^nd – Bristol Fleece

THE GENTLE SPRING Former Field Mouse Michael Hiscock returns from his French fastness as The Gentle Spring, semi-acoustic indie-pop in hand.

17 Jan 2025 – Rainham, The Oast
18 Jan 2025 – Brighton, The Brunswick
19 Jan 2025 – London, Betsey Trotwood (Album launch)
23 Jan 2025 – Birmingham, Rock n Roll Brewhouse
24 Jan 2025 – Sheffield, Hallamshire Hotel
7 Feb 2025 – Edinburgh, Leith Depot
8 Feb 2025 – Glasgow, Glad Cafe

THE FALLEN LEAVES Mod-punk veteran assassins

JAN 24^th – Water Rats London,
FEB 28^th Bristol Thunderbolt,
MARCH 1^st Guildford Holroyd,
8^th Brighton Hope & Ruin,
22^nd London Hope & Anchor,
MAY 3^rd Stockton-On-Tees Volume,
4^th N’Castle Billy Bootleggers,
31^st London Dublin Castle,
June 8^th Southsea Edge of The Wedge,
SEPT 27^th London Dublin Castle.

LAURA CANNELL Fenland dronemadchen

FEB 1^st London King’s Place

ITHELL COLQUHOUN – BETWEEN TWO WORLDS Tate St Ives, Feb 1^st – May 5^th. 

Coincidentally, I have a routine about Ithell in the new show!

“The first major exhibition of visionary artist Ithell Colquhoun. One of the most radical artists of her generation, Ithell Colquhoun was an important figure in British Surrealism during the 1930s and 1940s. An innovative writer and practicing occultist, Colquhoun charted her own course, investigating surrealist methods of unconscious picture-making and fearlessly delving into the realms of myth and magic. Colquhoun explored the possibilities of a divine feminine power as a path to personal fulfilment and societal transformation. Her understanding of the world as a connected spiritual cosmos brought her to Cornwall, where she deepened her creative explorations, inspired by the region’s ancient landscape, Celtic traditions, and sacred sites. This landmark exhibition of over 200 artworks and archival materials traces Colquhoun’s evolution, from her early student work and engagement with the surrealist movement, to her fascination with the intertwining realms of art, sexual identity, ecology and occultism. It culminates in a room dedicated to Colquhoun’s interpretation of the Tarot deck – her most accomplished fusion of her artistic and magical practice. Explore Colquhoun’s enthralling, multi-layered universe through writings, drawings, paintings, early theatre projects and mural designs, many of which have never been shown publicly before. The exhibition will debut at Tate St Ives in February 2025, journeying to Tate Britain from June to October 2025.”

THE MAGPIE ARC Fabulous young British country-folk-rock act on the road, augmented by the mighty guitar legend Martin Simpson

FEBRUARY
Friday 7th – International Arts Centre, Leicester Buy Tickets
Saturday 8th – Indoor Festival of Folk, Cecil Sharp House, London
The Magpie Arc, Edgelarks, The Bookshop Band, Sam Carter, Frankie Archer and “The Guv’nor” of folk rock Ashley Hutchings in conversation with Matthew Bannister Buy Tickets 
Sunday 9th – Ropetackle Arts Centre, Shoreham-by-Sea Buy Tickets
Monday 10th – Colchester Arts Centre, Colchester Buy Tickets

APRIL

Thursday 17th – The Glasshouse, Gateshead Buy Tickets
Tuesday 22nd – The Phoenix, Exeter Buy Tickets
Thursday 24th – Chapel Arts, Bath Buy Tickets

RICHARD DAWSON Unmitigated art-folk genius, and funny with it

FEB 14^th London Rough Trade East, 15^th Brighton Resident Music, 17^th Bristol Rough Trade, APRIL 23^rd & 24th M’cr Stoller Hall, 25^th Kendal Brewery Arts, 27^th Leeds City Varieties, 29^th London Clapham Grand, MAY 1^st Cardiff Gate, 2^nd Notts Metronome, 17^th Gateshead Glasshouse, 20^th Edinbro Pleasance, 21^st Glasgow St Lukes, 22^nd L’pool Philharmonic, 23^rd Brighton St Georhe’s , 24^th Folkestone Quarterhouse.

CHUCK PROPHET  Chuck’s last live tour was one of the greatest rock and roll shows I ever saw – real huckster guitar slinger stuff that they don’t make anymore. The Mount Rushmore of sandblasted country noir is on the road here again in 2025. Don’t miss. Honestly.

FEBRUARY
19th – Oxford – The Bullingdon
20th – Leeds – Brudenell Social Club
21st – Manchester – Yes Pink Room
22^nd – Newcastle – The Cluny
23rd – Glasgow – St Lukes
24th – Sheffield – Greystones
25th – Leicester – The International
26th – Nottingham – Metronome
27th – Cambridge – Portland Arms
28^th – Norwich – Arts Centre

MARCH

1st – Hassocks – Mid Sussex Music Hall
2nd – Bristol – Lantern
3rd – Birmingham – Hare & Hounds
4th – Southampton – 1865
5th – London – The Garage

NAPALM DEATH Birmingham’s grindcore godparents

MARCH

4^th – Dublin Academy
5^th – Glasgow Galvanisers’ Yard
6^th – Newcastle Uni Union
7^th – London Electric Ballroon
8^th – Liverpool Academy
9^th – Birmingham Institute

EX-EASTER ISLAND HEAD Groovy mininalists

MARCH 8^th London ICA
APRIL 20^th Colchester Arts

STIFF LITTLE FINGERS Indefatigable punk progenitors

MARCH 11^th Brighton Concorde, 12^th Nottingham Rock City, 14^th M’cr Academy, 15^th N’castle City Hall, 17^th Glasgow Barrowland, 18^th York Barbican,

THE LOFT I never saw Pete Astor’s pioneering indie-folk-rock janglers The Loft, like an English middle class mid-60s Dylan with a post-punk rush, first time around, though I saw the Weather Prophets loads, and regular doses of Astor solo over the decades have been pleasurably unavoidable. But I am thrilled at the possibility of this, and new recordings show the band on great form.  Age suits them it seems.

MARCH

13^th – M’cr Gullivers
14^th – B’ham Castle & Falcom
15^th – Nottingham JT Soar
20^th – Ramsgate Music Hall
21^st – Bristol Thunderbolt
22^nd – London Lexington
23^rd – Brighton Prince Albert
27^th – Leeds Lending Room
28^th – N’castle Cluny 2
29^th – Glasgow Mono

HAWKWIND 2025. Another implausible trip for the psychedelic survivors, Dave Brock still imperious, even from his octogenarian stool.

APRIL
17th – Gateshead Glasshouse
18^th – Guildford G Live
19^th – Bournemouth Pavillion
20^th – B’ham Symphony Hall

MAY
9^th – Aylesbury Waterside
10^th – Liverpool Auditorium
11^th – M’cr Bridgewater Hall
23^rd – Sheffield City Hall
25^th – Cambridge Corn Exchange
26^th – London Barbican

MACHYNLLETH COMEDY FESTIVAL The greatest comedy festival in the world. Book your bell tent now to avoid disappointment. I am doing MAN-WULF 3 times, John Shuttleworth is on, Celya AB etc etc.

May 2^nd-4^th. Once visited, never forgotten. DON’T TELL ANYONE ABOUT IT.
https://machcomedyfest.co.uk

SAMANTHA CRAIN Heart-rending Choctaw country-folk

MAY
19^th Brighton Green Door
20^th London Neon 194
21^st M’cr Gullivers

THE NIGHTINGALES Birmingham post-punk leg-ends hit the road again. When will it end?

MAY
21^ST Leeds Brudenell
22^nd Newcastle Think Tank
23^rd Glasgow Stereo
24^th M’cr Deaf Institute
25^th B’ham Castle & Falcon
27^th Bristol Exchange
28^th Brighton Chalk
29^th Cambridge Junction
30^th London Oslo
31^st Swansea Bunkhouse

LEN PRICE 3 Durable punk-mods

JUNE 18^th – 229 London

MILLIONS OF DEAD COPS / MDC American hardcore heroes

AUG 4^th – New Cross Inn, London

11. MY CULTURAL YEAR 2024 DEC 29 2023 – 30^th DEC 2024

“I haven’t seen any of Stewart Lee’s nasty little lists… but this is dark stuff… a form of bullying, intimidation and shaming that Joseph McCarthy or The Stasi would recognize.” John Robinson, Radio X

This is everything I saw, read and heard this year. I try to write everything down. Somethings get missed off by accident. *****s represent what that work meant to me in that moment and its aftermath. They are not the same as the attempts at critical evaluation I would make for a newspaper or a magazine.

Maybe I was happy because I was drunk, or was reminded of something from my past.
Who knows? The things I have given * to were actually a bit rubbish though.

ONE FILM – Sasquatch Sunset (David & Nathan Zellner)
ONE BOOK – Pariah Genius – Iain Sinclair
ONE TV SHOW – Mr Bates Vs The Post Office (ITV)
ONE PLAY – This Is Memorial Device (David Keenan/Graham Eatough)
ONE COMEDY SHOW – Alfie Brown, Open-Hearted Human Enquiry
ONE GIG – Richard Dawson/Lankum (Hammersmith Apollo)
ONE NEW ALBUM – Jennifer Walshe & Tony Conrad – In The Merry Month of May
ONE EXHIBITION – The Universe Of William Blake (Fitzwilliam, Cambridge)

NEW FILMS (2023/24) (28)

The Three Musketeers: D’Artganan (Martin Bourboulon)
Retribution (Nimrod Antal)
The Holdovers (Alexander Payne)*****
Dream Scenario (Kristoffer Borgli)*****
Anatomy of A Fall (Justine Triett)*****
In The Land of Saints And Sinners (Robert Lorenz)
American Star (Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego)*****
American Fiction (Cord Jefferson)*****
Sasquatch Sunset (David & Nathan Zellner)*****
Late Night With The Devil (Colin & Cameron Cairnes)
Meg 2 : The Trench (Ben Wheatley)*
Loch Ness Horror (Tyler James)*
Road House (Doug Liman) *
Infested (Sebastien Vanicek)
The Royal Hotel (Kitty Green)
Night Swim (Bryce McGuire)
Starve Acre (Daniel Kokotajlo)
Guardians Of The Galaxy 3 (James Gunn)*****
Blink Twice (Zoe Kravitz)*****
Longlegs (Osgood Perkins)*
Speak No Evil (James Watkins)*****
The Last Voyage Of The Demeter (Andre Ovredal)
Little Eden (Rob Curry & Tim Plester)
A Complete Unknown (James Mangold)*****
The Outrun (Nora Fingscheidt) *****
Wallace & Gromit – Vengeance Most Fowl (Nick Park, Merlin Crossingham)*****
The Dead Don’t Hurt (Viggo Mortensen)
La Chimera (Alice Rohrwacher)*****

OLD FILMS

Die Hard (John McTiernan, 1989)*****
Measure for Measure (Dominic Dromgoole/Globe, 2015)*****
Romy & Michelle’s High School Reunion (David Mirkin, 1997)*****
The Thing (John Carpenter, 1982)*****
Magnum Force (Ted Post, 1973)
Barbarian (Zach Cregger, 2022)
Humanoids From The Deep (Barbara Peeters, 1980)
The Unbelievable Truth (Hal Hartley, 1988)*****
Love Thy Neighbor (John Robins, 1973)
Commandos (Armando Crispino, 1968)
Easy Rider (Dennis Hopper, 1969)*****
Paradise Lost (John Stockwell, 2006)*
Prey (Dan Trachtenberg, 2022)*****
Eurocrime (Mike Malloy, 2014)
An American Werewolf In London (Jon Landis, 1981)*****
Howl (Paul Hyett, 2015)
Trust (Hal Hartley, 1990)*****
The Night Of The Devils (Giorgio Ferroni, 1972)*****
Legally Blonde (Robert Luketic, 2001)*****
Wonderboys (Curtis Hanson, 2000)*****
Angel Face (Otto Preminger, 1953)*****
Mickey One (Arthur Penn, 1965)*****
Decision To Leave (Park Chan-Wook, 2022)
Gang War In Milan (Umberto Lenzi, 1973)
The Heroin Busters (Enzo Castellari, 1977)
Othello (Oliver Parker, 1995)*****
Madman (Joe Giannone, 1981)
Christine (John Carpenter, 1983)
Paris Texas (Wim Wenders, 1984)*****
The Vampire Lovers (Roy Ward Baker, 1970) *
Freeway (Michael Bright, 1996)
Meet The Applegates (Michael Lehman, 1990)*****
Round Midnight (Bernard Tavernier, 1986)*****
Another Round (Thomas Vinterberg, 2020)*****
Dead Man’s Shoes (Shane Meadows, 2004)*****
The Boss (Fernando di Leo, 1973)
Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, 1954)*****
The One I Love (Charlie McDowell, 2014)
Blacktop (TJ Scott, 2000)
The Stepford Wives (Bryan Forbes, 1975)*****
Team America, World Police (Trey Parker, 2004)*****
Evil Dead (Sami Raimi, 1982)
Rollercoaster (James Goldstone, 1977)
Street Law (Enzo Castellari, 1974)
Blood & Diamonds (Fernando di Leo, 1977)
Blazing Magnum (Alberto di Martino, 1976)
Violent City (Sergio Sollima, 1970)
Dr Zhivago (David Lean, 1965)*****
The Wolfman (George Waggner, 1941)
Summer In February (Christopher Menaul, 2013)
Once Upon A Time In The West (Sergio Leone, 1968)*****
The Meg (John Turtletaub, 2018)
The Fiend/Beware My Bretheren (Rupert Hartford-Davis, 1972)
Tony Arzenta (Duccio Tessari, 1973)
The Brood (David Cronenberg, 1979)
North By Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959)*****
Theatre of Blood (Douglas Hickox, 1973)*****
Scanners (David Cronenberg, 1981)
Sisu (Jalmari Helander, 2022)*****
Django (Sergio Corbucci, 1966)*****
Moon Of The Wolf (Daniel Petrie, 1971)
The Italian Connection (Fernando di Leo, 1972)
The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock, 1963)*****
Teeth (Mitchell Lichenstein, 2007)*****
Colt 38 Special Squad (Massimo Dallamano, 1976)
The Lives of Others (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 2006)*****
800 Ballas (Alex de la Iglesia, 2002)
Ebirah Horror Of The Deep (Jun Fukuda, 1966)
Spy (Paul Feig, 2015)*****
The Circle (Peter Callow, 2017)
The Stranger & The Gunfighter (Antonio Margheriti, 1974)
The Wicker Man (Robin Hardy, 1973)*****
Piranha (Joe Dante, 1978)
The Lair (Neil Marshall, 2022)
Road House (Rowdy Herrington, 1989)*
Rolling Thunder (John Flynn, 1977)*****
Stan & Ollie (Jon S Baird, 2018)
Get Out (Jordan Peele, 2017)*****
Ondine (Neil Jordan, 2009)*****
The Ritual (David Bruckner, 2017)*****
Mark Of The Devil (Michael Armstrong, 1970)*
Basket Case (Frank Hennenlotter, 1982) *****
Interview With The Vampire (Neil Jordan, 1994)
The Nightingale (Jennifer Kent, 2018)
Mimic (Guillermo Del Toro, 1997)
Star Crash (Luigo Cozzi, 1978)
Hotel Coolgardie (Pete Gleeson, 2016)
Seven Deaths In The Cat’s Eyes (Antonio Margheriti, 1974)
Lone Star (John Sayles, 1996)*****
Monty Python’s Life of Brian (Terry Jones, 1979)*****
Apostasy (Daniel Kokotajlo, 2017)
Fresh (Mimi Cave, 2022)
Showgirls (Paul Verhoeven, 1995)*
Red Sun (Terrence Young, 1971)
A Death Occurred Last Night (Duccio Tessari, 1970)
No, The Case Is Happily Resolved (Vittorio Salerno,1973)
How Did We Find Ourselves Here? (Emile Spoelder, 2022)
Goodbye & Amen (Damiano Damiani, 1977)
The Day Of The Owl (Damiano Damiani, 1968)
The Psychic (Lucio Fulci, 1977)*****
Death Ship (Alvin Rakoff, 1980)*
Tenebrae (Dario Argento, 1982)*
Don’t Torture A Duckling (Lucio Fulci, 1972)*****
Scream (Wes Craven, 1996)*****
The Housesitter (Frank Oz, 1992)
The Antichrist (Alberto Di Martino, 1974)
Limbo (John Sayles, 1999)*****
The Long Days Of Vengeance (Floresto Vancini, 1967)
China 9, Liberty 37 (Monte Hellman, 1978)
The Designated Victim (Maurizio Lucidi, 1971)*****
Four Of The Apocalypse (Lucio Fulci, 1975)*****
Contraband (Lucio Fulci, 1980)* (This film has no redeeming features)
Tales That Witness Madness (Freddie Francis, 1973)
Backbeat (Ian Softley, 1994)*****
Return Of The Living Dead (Dan O’Bannon, 1985)*****
Smile (Parker Finn, 2022)
The Witches (Cyril Frankel, 1966)
Oxide Ghosts (Michael Cumming, 2017)
The Sect (Michael Soavi, 1991)
God Told Me To (Larry Cohen, 1976)*****
Manic Cop (William Listig, 1988)
Unman, Wittering & Zigo (John Mackenzie, 1971)
Hannie Caulder (Burt Kennedy, 1971)*****
The Reptile (John Gilling, 1966)
The Nanny (Seth Holt, 1965)
Alligator (Lewis Teague, 1980)*****
The Brain (Edward Hunt, 1988)
Rising Damp (Joseph McGrath, 1980)
So Sweet … So Perverse (Umberto Lenzi, 1969)*****
The Prey (Edwin Brown, 1982)*
Duck You Sucker! (Sergio Leone, 1971)*****

NEW BOOKS

Robin Ince – Bibliomania
Josie Long – Because I Don’t Know What You Mean And What You Don’t
Iain Sinclair – Pariah Genius *****
Rosie Holt – Why We Were Right
Ted Kessler – To Ease My Troubled Mind
Steve Wynn – I Wouldn’t Say It If It Wasn’t True
Richard Pascoe & Kirstie Hawkes – The Versatile Performer
The Haunted Trail – ed Weird Walk
Jakko M Jakszyk – Who’s The Boy With The Lovely Hair?
Daisy Johnson – Hotel *****
Andrew Michael Hurley – Barrowbeck
Sophie Sleigh-Johnson – Code Damp

OLD BOOKS

Ray Bradbury – Now & Forever (2008)
Brigid Brophy – Hackenfeller’s Ape (1953)*****
Philip Larkin – High Windows (1974)*****
Barbara Comyns – Sisters By A River (1947)*****
Andrew Michael Hurley – Starve Acre (2019)
Daisy Johnson – Fen (2016)

OLD TV

Garth Marenghi’s Dark Place (C4, 2004)*****
Guardians of The Galaxy Holiday Special (Disney, 2022)
Mystery Road S1 (ABCTV, 2018)*****
Mystery Road S2 (ABCTV, 2020)*****
Dark Winds S 1 (AMC, 2022)*****
Mystery Road Origin (ABCTV, 2022)*****
Ghost Stories For Christmas, No 13 (BBC, 2006)

NEW TV

Mr Bates vs The Post Office (ITV) *****
True Detective S4 (HBO)
Baby Reindeer (Netflix)*
Deadloch (Amazon Prime)
Channel 4 Election coverage (C4)
Inside No 9 series 9 (BBC)*****
Joe Rogan – Burn The Boats (Netflix)*
Rivals (Disney +) *****
Charlie Cooper’s Myth Country (BBC3)*
Dark Winds S 2 (AMX, 2023)
Christmas Day Dr Who (BBC1)
Ghost Stories For Christmas, Woman Of Stone (BBC)
Sky news (Sky)

MAGAZINES AND PAPERS

Shindig, Record Collector, Viz, Mojo, Guardian, Machenallia, Faunus, Observer, Guardian, London Review of Books, Weird Walk, Wire, Vala, Larkin About, Shuck, Hellebore, Fortean Times.
Adrian Childs’ Guardian columns
Jay Rayner’s Observer restaurant reviews
Marina Hyde’s Guardian columns
Nesrine Malik’s Guardian columns
John Crace’s Guardian columns

RADIO NEW AND OLD

James O’Brien (LBC) *****
Nick Ferrari (LBC) *
Shelagh Fogerty (LBC)
BBC News esp L Kuenssberg *

INTERNETS, YOUTUBES AND PODCASTS

Backlisted *****
Sonic Fields
Music Maps
Sid Griffin Calling All Coal Porters *****
Looks Unfamiliar
European Cryptids https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6I-Nc4ERr-U

THEATRE/DANCE/RITUAL/EVENTS (18 performances)

Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch’s Nelken – Sadler’s Wells *****
St Piran’s Day Parade, Bodmin
Othello (dir Ola Ince, Globe)*****
This Is Memorial Device (Riverside)*****
Nye (Tim Price, National Theatre)
This Is Memorial Device (Riverside)***** (again)
Mnemonic – Complicite (National Theatre) *****
Mnemonic – Complicite (National Theatre) ***** (again)
Prime Meat (York University, Space, Edinburgh)
The Signalman (Zoo, Edinburgh)
Simon Raymonde & Will Hodgkinson talking (End Of The Road)
Waiting For Godot – dir James MacDonald (Haymarket, London)
Othello – dir. Tim Carroll (RSC, Stratford-Upon-Avon)
Tales of The Weird Event (British Library)
Abney Park Remembrance Sunday Event (Stoke Newington, London)
So Watt! Jazz & Improvisation On British TV 1972-75(Barbican, London)
Dick Whittington  – dir Clive Rowe (Hackney Empire)
All’s Well That Ends Well – dir Chelsea Walker (Globe)*****

COMEDY (30 shows)

Daniel Kitson – First Thing (Summerhall) (2023 omission)*****
Garth Marenghi’s Incarcerat (Leicester Comedy Festival)
Maurice Grumbleweed (Blues Café Bar, Harrogate)*****
Harland Williams (Bill Murray, London)
Henry Morris (Theatre Mwldan, Cardigan)
Rosie Holt – That’s Politainment (Chipping Norton Theatre, days after election) *****
Ben Pope, Alex Kealey, Helen Bauer (Bill Murray, London)
Jo Long, Celya AB,  Athena Kugblenu, Sara Barron (Bill Murray, London)
Barry Ferns, Jon Long, Maddie HW, Archit Goenka, Alex Farrow (Bill Murray, London)
Kevin Eldon (Tommyfield, London) x 4*****
Noncensored Election Special (Museum of Comedy)
John Cooper Clarke (Latitude)
Reece Shearsmith vs Black Shuck (St Mary’s Church, Bungay)
Rosie Holt – Why We Were Right (Underbelly, Edinburgh)
Alfie Brown – Open Hearted Human Enquiry (Caves, Edinburgh)*****
Eliot Steel – Soft Boi Core (Underbelly, Edinburgh)*****
Josie Long, Thanyia Moore, Pappy’s Fun Club (End Of The Road)
Harry Hill, Jon Culshaw, Jan Ravens, Rory Bremner, Ronnie Golden, Steve Coogan, Laura Mvula, Alfie Brown (Steve Brown Night, Savoy) *****
Harry Hill (Tommyfield, London)*****

GIGS (58 events)

What a great year for seeing music, somehow, in between all the nights I worked and couldn’t see stuff. I totally got my mojo back and was rewarded. It was like being in my teens and 20s again, with things I’d never seen before that nailed me, and yet lots of the same acts from my youth suddenly still exploding decades down the line too!!  Maybe seeing some stuff through my kids’ eyes reawakened me as well. I loved being 56 and down the front!

(I have bundled festival acts together by day as one event, against my better judgement, as there was some criticism online of me dividing individual festival performers’ shows up into distinct items, rather than amalgamating them into one ‘gig’.)

Steve Noble, John Edwards & Alan Wilkinson (Café Oto, Dalston)
Rexes Hollow (Butcher’s Arms, Yeovil)
A Covers Guy (Scholar and Gentleman, Birmingham)
Jackdaw With Crowbar (Coventry Belgrade)
Cosse/The Water Chestnuts (Library Pub, Oxford)
Deathcrash/Jesus & Mary Chain (Camden Roundhouse)
Hawkwind (Wulfrun Hall, Wolverhampton)
Lenny Kaye/Rat Scabies/Jim Jones/Dave Tregunna/Brian James/Cheetah Chrome/& two superb go-go dancers, egregiously uncredited by any of the men on stage (The 100 Club, London)*****
Martin Newell (St Mattias, Stoke Newington, London)
Jasmine Minks (Waiting Room, Stoke Newington)*****
Josephine Foster & Lydia Samuels, Monde UFO, Immaterial Possession, Jane Weaver & The Dream Syndicate, Bas Jan, Graham Reynolds, Marta Del Grandi, Kirstin Hersh, Islet, Giant Sand, Giant Syndicate (Earth, Dalston) *****
The Girl With The Replaceable Head (Waiting Room, Stoke Newington)*****
Peter Case/Sid Griffin (What’s Cookin’?, Leytonstone) *****
The Black Keys (Brixton Academy, London)
Ex-Easter Island Head/Dean McPhee (Stoke Newington church, London)
The Bevis Frond (Lexington, London)*****
The Prisoners (Roundhouse, London)
Dexy’s Midnight Runners (Koko, London)
Rain Parade(291, London)*****
The Primevals (Lexington, London)*****
The Shadracks (Lexington, London)
The Fallen Leaves (Lexington, London)
The Cosmic Psychos (Dome, London)
Patti Smith Quartet – (Somerset House, London)*****
Orbital (Latitude Saturday)
Lankum*****, Duran Duran, English Teacher (Latitude Sunday)
Laura Cannell (St Mary’s Church, Bungay)*****
Wreckless Eric/Stiff Little Fingers (Cambridge Junction)
Laetitia Sadier (Lexington, London)*****
Swansea Sound (Lexington London)
David Lance Callahan & Darren Garrat (Lexington London)*****
Islet, Sleaford Mods (Green Man Thursday)*****
Jesus & Mary Chain (Green Man Friday)
Nightingales, Lonnie Holey, New Eves, Tinariwen, Osees (Green Man Saturday)*****
Boca 45, Zalizo, 86TV’s, Idles *****(Bristol Academy)
Secluded Bronte, Eliza Skelton, Alison Cotton, Bevis Frond, Phsyics House Band (Brighton Psych Fest, Komedia)*****
Slowdive (End Of The Road, Saturday)*****
Lambrini Girls, Yo La Tengo, Yo La Tengo acoustic (EOTR, Sunday)
Robyn Hitchcock (Earth, London)
Steve Wynn (Walthamstow Trades Hall, London)
Steve Wynn (Rough Trade, London)
Ride/Bdrmm (St John’s, Hackney, London)
The Long Ryders (291, London)*****
Richard Dawson/Lankum (Hammersmith Apollo)*****
New Eves, Boss Morris, Goblin Band, Daisy Rickman (Earth, Hackney)*****
Jody Stephens’ Big Star (St John’s, Hackney, London)
The Cure (Troxy, London)*****
Bevis Frond Acoustic Trio (Rio, Dalston, London)
The Room – Bar Love (Notting Hill, London)*****
Bob Dylan (Royal Albert Hall, London)*****
North Kent Folkways Revival, Singing Loins & Chatham Singers (Rochester Medway Little Theatre)*****
Yo La Tengo As Little Black Egg (Café Oto, London)
The Chameleons (Shepherd’s Bush Empire)*****
The Lovely Eggs (100 Club, London)*****
The Damned (Roundhouse, London)
Steve Noble, John Edwards & Alan Wilkinson (Café Oto, London, again)*****
The Fallen Women (Lexington, London)*****

RECORDS I LISTENED TO OLD SCHOOL IN ONE SITTING AT A LISTENING DEVICE

NEW RECORDS – 2023/2024 (71)

The Bevis Frond – Focus On Nature *****
Black Bombers – Vive La Revolution
The Smile – Wall Of Eyes
The Pink Fairies – Screwed Up *
The Room – Restless Fate
Drop Nineteens – Hard Light
The Silversound – s/t *****
The Sand Pebbles – The Antagonist
The Rebel – Mublatpecnoc
Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project – The Task Has Overwhelmed Us
V/A – A Tribute To Roky Erickson, May The Circle Be Unbroken
Jesus & Mary Chain – Chemical Animal
Shadow Show – Fantasy Now!
Serious Sam Barrett – A Drop Of The Morning Dew
Alison Cotton – Engelchen
The Bohman Brothers – Room Service
Laetitia Sadier – Rooting For Love *****
Kim Gordon – The Collective
Ex-Easter Island Head – Norther
Hawkwind – Stories from Time & Space
Acid Mothers Temple & Melting Paraiso UFO – Paralyzed Genius Brain
Jasmine Minks – We Make Our Own History
Black Keys – Ohio Players
The Prisoners – Morning Star
Shellac – To All Trains
The Lovely Eggs – Eggsistentialism  *****
Charley Stone – Here Comes The Actual Band *****
The Janitors – An Error Has Occurred
Buffalo Tom – Jump Rope
Jennifer Walshe & Tony Conrad – In The Merry Month of May *****
Rain Parade – Last Rays of A Dying Sun
Rain Parade – Last Stop On The Underground
Dead Pioneers – s/t
Sun Dial – Message To The Mothership
Various artists/Rhodri Davies – Creiriau Y Delyn Rawn/Relics Of The Horsehair Harp
SnarskiCircusLindyBand – I Know I Know *****
The Smile – A Light For Attracting Attention
Idles – Tangk
40 Watt Sun – Little Weight *****
Guru Guru – The Incredible World Of
Kim Gordon – The Collective
Stephen Pastel & Gavin Thompson – This Is Memorial Device
Kosmischer Läufer – Track Club EP
Howe Gelb – Weathering Some Piano
Sid Griffin – The Journey From Grape To Raisin
Steve Wynn – Make It Right
Chuck Prophet with Qiensave? – Wake The Dead
The Girl With The Replaceable Head – Sometimes She Lives In The Dark
Daisy Rickman – Howl *****
Lankum – Live In Dublin *****
Goblin Band – Come Slack Your Horse
Laura Cannell – The Rituals of Hildegard Reimagined *****
Julian Cope – Friar Tuck
The Room – The Telling *****
The Cure – Songs Of A Lost World
The Smile – Cutouts
House of All – Gaudy Pop Sensations
The Octopus Project – Sasquatch Sunset
Lucinda Williams – Sings The Beatles From Abbey Road
New Starts – More Break Up Songs*****
David Lance Callahan – Down To The Marshes *****
Nada Surf – Moon Mirror
Thurston Moore – Flow Critical Lucidity
Wild Billy Childish & The North Kent Folkways Revival – Cape Trafalgar *****
Wild Billy Childish & The North Kent Folkways Revival – The Speech Of Karaktakus
Dave Graney & Clare Moore – Strangely Emotional
Dave Graney & Clare Moore – I Passed Through A Minor Chord In A Morning
Hugo Race – 100 Years
Guided By Voices – Strut Of Kings
Rip Van Winkle – The Grand Rapids *****
Tindersticks – Soft Tissue
Rob Snarski – Waiting For The Bell*****
The Primevals – I’m A Man-Wulf 3 track bandcamp d/l *****

NEW OLD RECORDS – reissues, archive & comp’s

Bardo Pond – Volume 9 (2001?)
Alan Tomlinson – At The Red Rose (2006-7)*****
Sonic Youth – Walls Have Ears (1985)
Can – Live In Paris (1973)
Joe Henderson – Power To The People (1969)*****
The Fall – Slates Live (1980-82)*****
Alice Coltrane – The Carnegie Hall Concert (1971)
Sun – Sun 1972 (1972)*****
The Waterboys – 1985 (1985)
The Telescopes – Growing Eyes Become String (2013)
The Prefabs – Dec ‘77 Before The Wall (1977)
The Shop Assistants – Will Anything Happen? (1983-89)
The Green Pajamas – Live At Terrastock 4 (2000)
Howe Gelb – ZEQE 24.088 (1977-79)
The Desperate Ones – 1906 (2013)
McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson – Forces Of Nature (1966)*****
The Fall – Grotesque (After The Gramme) Live ! (1980-82)*****
V/A – Brown Acid The 19^th Trip (1968-1978)
Miles Davis – Miles In France (1962-3)*****
Children’s Crusade – A Duty-Dance With Death (1984)

OLD RECORDS

Ozark Mountain Daredevils – s/t (1974)
The Allman Brothers Band – s/t (1969)
Canned Heat – s/t (1967)*****
Canned Heat – Boogie With (1968)*****
Canned Heat – Vintage (1970)
Canned Heat – Living The Blues (1968)*****
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band – Bluejeans & Moonbeams (1974)*****
Pure Prairie League – Bustin’ Out (1972)
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band – Safe As Milk (1967)*****
The Byrds – Long Way Back (1974)*****
Chuck Prophet et le Mission Express – Live A Paris (2017)*****
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band – Clear Spot (1972)*****
Nina Simone – Here Comes The Sun (1971)*****
Danny Thompson Trio – Live (1967)
David Soul – s/t (1976)
Seatrain – Watch (1973)
Al Kooper – Act Like Nothing’s Wrong (1977)
Mike Bloomfield – Try It Before You Buy It (1975)
Butterfield Blues Band – Original Lost Elektra Masters (1964)
Head Machine – Orgasm (1970)
Uriah Heep – Very ‘Eavy Very ‘Umble (1970)
The Beat – I Just Can’t Stop It (1980)*****
The Beat – W’happen? (1981)
The Leaving Trains – Fuck (1987)*****
Tom Verlaine – s/t (1979)
Tom Verlaine – Dreamtime (1981)
Richard Hell & The Voidoids – Destiny Street (1982)*****
Dave Alvin – Romeo’s Escape (1987)
Divine Horsemen – Snakehandler (1987)*****
Divine Horsemen – Time Stands Still (1984)
John Doe – Meet John Doe (1990)
V/A – Girls With Guitars Gonna Shake! (1964-9)
Died Pretty – Pre-Deity (1984-5)*****
Died Pretty – Free Dirt (1986)*****
Gentle Assassins – They Knew Too Much (2006)
’68 Comeback – Mr Downchild (2012)
The Fort Mudge Memorial Dump – s/t (1970)
Kaleidoscope – Tangerine Dream (1967)
The Tangerine Zoo – s/t (1968)
Cotton Mather – Kontiki (1997)*****
Tom Verlaine – Words From The Front (1982)
Tom Verlaine – Cover (1989)
The Violent Femmes – The Blind Leading The Naked (1986)*****
The Violent Femmes – Hallowed Ground (1984)*****
The Beach Boys – Surf’s Up (1971)
Bread – s/t (1969)*****
Deviants – Resident Reptiles (2018)*****
Twink – Think Pink III (2018?)
The Nils – Green Fields In Daylight (1983-86)
The Nils – st (1987)
Indian Summer – s/t (1971)*****
Alexander Skip Spence – Oar (1969)*****
Moon Attendant – One Last Summer (2020)
Christian Bland & The Revelators – Pig Boat Blues (2012)
Freedy Johnston – Can You Fly? (1992) *****
Freedy Johnston – This Perfect World (1994)
Jasmine Minks – Cut Me Deep (1984-2014)*****
Chilliwack – s/t (1970)*****
MC5 – Black To Comm (1968)
MC5 – Kick Out The Jams (1969)*****
MC5 – Back In The USA (1970)
MC5 – High Time (1971)*****
Destroy All Monsters – Bored (1978-9)*****
James Williamson & The Pink Hearts – Across The Sky (2018)
Eddie & The Hot Rods – Teenage Depression (1976)
Eddie & The Hot Rods – Life On The Line (1977)
Buzzcocks – Live! (1995)
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band – Doc At The Radar Station (1980)*****
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band – Amsterdam (1980)
Buzzcocks – 30 Live In London (2006)
Buzzcocks – Love Bites (1978)*****
XTC – White Music (1978)
XTC – Go2 (1978)
The Room – Jackpot Jack (1985)*****
XTC – Drums & Wires (1979)
Captain Beefheart – Somewhere Over Egypt Live (1981)
XTC – Black Sea (1980)*****
The Soul Movers – On The In Side (2009)
The Soul Movers – Testify (2017)
Morphine – Good (1993)****
Elvis Costello – My Aim Is True (1977)*****
The Pontiac Brothers – Big Black River (1985)*****
Can – Tago Mago (1971)*****
UFO – Phenomenon (1974)
American Music Club – California (1988)*****
13^th Floor Elevators – Psychedelic Sounds Of (1966)*****
John & Beverley Martyn – Stormbringer (1970)
The Verlaines – Juvenilia (1982-4)*****
The Verlaines – Live At The Windsor Castle (1986)
The Verlaines – Hallelujah All The Way Home (1985)
The Church – Of Skins & Hearts (1981)
The Church – The Blurred Crusade (1982)
The Sound – Jeopardy (1980) *****
Mark Kozelek – Rock ‘n’ Roll Singer (2000)*****
Red House Painters – Old Ramon (2001)
The Master’s Apprentices – Nickelodeon (1971)*****
Buffalo – Volcanic Rock (1973)*****
Kahvas Jute – Wide Open (1971)*****
Levi Smith’s Clefs – Empty Monkey (1969)*****
The Human Instinct – Stoned Guitar (1970)
The Fourmyula – Alive (1970)
Space Waltz – s/t (1975)
Francois Hardy – Soleil (1970)*****
Carson – Blown (1972)
Leo De Castro & Friends – s/t (1971-3)
The Master’s Apprentices – A Toast To Panama Red (1971)
The Church – Séance (1983)
The Waterboys – s/t (1983)
The Violent Femmes – 3 (1989)
Primitons – Happy All The Time (1987)
Elvis Costello – My Aim Is True (1987)*****
Wapassou – Ludwig (1979)
Kostas Tournas – Aperanta Chorafia (1973)
Arthur Jones – Scorpio (1971)*****
Area – Arbeit Macht Frei (1973)****
Balleto di Brozo – Ys (1973)*****
Claudio Rocchi – Essanza (1973)*****
Le Stelle Di Mariano Schifano – Dedicated To (1967)
Blue Phantom – Distortions (1971)
Zarathustra – Zarathustra (1973)
Alan Sorrenti – Aria (1972)*****
Sensations Fix – Fragments Of Light (1974)
Area – Areazione Live (1976) *****
Sensations Fix – Boxes Paradise (1977)
Terje Rypdal – s/t (1971)
Jan Garbarek Quartet – Afric Pepperbird (1971)
Secret Oyster – s/t (1973)
Archie Shepp/Lars Gullin – The House I Live In (1980)*****
Giuseppi Logan Quartet – s/t (1964)
Ellufant – Release Concert (1972)
Shocking Blue – Singles A’s & B’s (1967-74)*****
Cosmic Couriers – Other Places (1996)
Fleetwood Mac – Then Play On (1969)*****
John Lee Hooker – Detroit (1948-49)*****
Colour Haze – Los Sounds De Krauts (2003)
Bevis Frond – What Did For The Dinosuars (2002)*****
Bevis Frond – Hit Squad (2004)
Bevis Frond – The Leaving Of London (2011)
Game Theory – Blaze of Glory (1982)
Samsara Blues Experiment – Long Distance Trip (2010)
Jacques Coursil – Black Suite (1971)
Bauhaus – The Bella Session (1979)*****
Bauhaus – In The Flat Field (1980)
Gene Parsons – Kindling (1973)*****
Terry Melcher – s/t (1974) *****
The Beau Brummels – Bradley’s Barn (1968)
Sun Kil Moon – This Is My Dinner (2018)*****
Johnny Rivers – Rio Fangoso (1969)
Raspberries – Raspberries (1972)
Polvo – Cor-Crane Secret (1992)*****
Naked Prey – Kill The Messenger (1988)
Trembling Bells – Carbeth (2009)*****
Lloyd Cole – s/t (1990)
The Doublehappys – Nerves (1984-5)
Straitjacket Fits – Hail (1990)*****
Art Objects – Bagpipe Music (1979)
Bored! – Chucks (1988-94)
World Party – Private Revolution (1987)
Explosions In The Sky – How Strange, Innocence (2000)
Nanci Griffith – There’s A Light Beyond These Woods (1978)*****
Kris Kristofferson – Kristofferson (1970)*****
John Lee Hooker & The Groundhogs – On The Waterfront (1965)
Sonny Boy Williamson & The Yardbirds – Live (1965)
Lightnin’ Hopkins – Free Form Patterns (1968)
Howlin’ Wolf – The Howlin’ Wolf Album (1969)
Muddy Waters – After The Rain (1969)*****
ZZ Top – La Futura (2012)
John Lee Hooker – Simply The Truth (1969)*****
Lowell Fulson – It’s A Heavy Bag (1969)
John Lee & Earl Hooker – If You Miss ‘ Em(1970)*****
Roedelius – Durch Die Wuste (1978)
Cluster – s/t (1971)
Cluster -Cluster II (1972)
Harmonia – Deluxe (1975)*****
La Dusseldorf – s/t (1976)*****
Michael Rother – Flamende Herzen (1977)*****
Michael Rother – Sterntaler (1978)
La Dusseldorf – Viva (1978)
Mick Hanley & Micheal O Domhnaill – Celtic Folkweave (1974)*****
The Bothy Band – Out Of The Wind Into The Sun (1977)*****
Horslips – Book Of Invasion (1976)
Jakob – Jakob (1999)*****
Graham Parker – Heat Treatment (1976)
Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002)
Jesus & Mary Chain – Damage & Joy (2017)
Jesus & Mary Chain – Psychocandy (1985)*****
Jesus & Mary Chain – Darklands (1987)
Jesus & Mary Chain – Automatic (1989)
Jesus & Mary Chain – Honey’s Dead (1992)
Jesus & Mary Chain – Stoned & Dethroned (1994)
Elvis Costello – Almost Blue (1981)*****
Jesus & Mary Chain – Munki (1998)
Chameleons – What Does Anything Mean Basically? (1985)*****
Billy Bragg – Life’s A Riot With Spy Vs Spy (1983)*****
Hawkwind – Warrior At The Edge Of Time (1975)*****
The Cleaners From Venus – Number 13 (1990)
Red Chair Fadeaway – Curiouser & Curiouser (1991)
Red Chair Fadeaway – Mesmerised (1993)
Razorcuts – The World Keeps Turning (1989)
Millions of Dead Cops – s/t (1982)*****
Ry Cooder – Music By (1980-1995)*****
Bobbie Gentry – Ode To Billie Joe (1967)*****
Slowdive – Just For A Day (1991)*****
Nick Drake – Bryter Later (1971) *****
John Lee Hooker – Endless Boogie (1971)*****
Cocteau Twins – Treasure (1984)*****
Sonic Youth – Sonic Nurse (2004)*****
The Smiths – The Smiths (1984)*****
Cocteau Twins – Head Over Heels (1983)*****
Elliot Smith – X/O (1998)
The Byrds – Mr Tambourine Man (1965)*****
The Byrds – Turn! Turn! Turn! (1965)*****
Pylon – Gyrate (1980)*****
Pylon – Chomp (1983)*****
Hannah Marcus – The Hannah Marcus Years (1993-2004)
Edgar Froese – Stuntman (1979)
Jasmine Minks – One Two Three Four Five Six Seven (1984)*****
Guadalcanal Diary – Walking In The Shadow Of The Big Man (1984)
Tony Joe White – Black & White (1969)*****
Willie Nelson – Red Headed Stranger (1975)*****
The Go-Betweens – s/t (1981)*****
The Go-Betweens – First Five Singles (1978-82)*****
Slobberbone – s/t (1987)
Volebeats – Up North (1994)
Volebeats – Sky & The Ocean (1997)
Westlake – s/t (1987)
Blue Mountain – Dog Days (1995)*****
Blue Mountain – Home Grown (1997)*****
Blue Mountain – Roots (2001)*****
Mr Henry – As Good As The Ground (1995)
The Triffids – In The Pines (1986)*****
Lou Reed – New York (1989)*****
Katie Spencer – The Edge Of The Land (2022)
Oliver Nelson – The Blues And The Abstract Truth (1961)*****
UFO – UFO 1 (1970)*****
The Blackeyed Susans – All Souls Alive (1993)
Possum Dixon – s/t (1993)*****
The Prisoners – A Taste Of Pink (1982)
Trader Horne – Morning Way (1970)
The Prisoners – Thewisermiserdemelza (1983)
My Bloody Valentine – Tremolo (1991)*****
Slint – Spiderland (1991)*****
Jeff Buckley – Cabaret Metro (1995)
The Byrds – Untitled (1970)*****
Dillard & Clark – Through The Morning, Through The Night (1969)
The Byrds – Ballad of Easy Rider (1970) *****
The Byrds – Dr Byrds & Mr Hyde (1969)
Burrito Brothers – The Gilded Palace of Sin (1969)*****
Dick Gaughan – Handful of Earth (1981) *****
Dick Gaughan & Andy Irvine – Parallel Lines (1982)
The Electric Flag – The Trip (1967)
Lawrence Hammond – Coyote’s Dream (1976)
Mad River – The Paradise Bar & Grill (1969) *****
Nanci Griffith – Last of The True Believers (1986)
Suzanne Vega – s/t (1985)*****
Nick Drake  – Five Leaves Left (1969)*****
Dexy’s Midnight Runners – Let The Record Show (2016)*****
The Waterboys – This Is The Sea (1985)*****
The Fall – Room To Live (1982)*****
Scott Walker – Climate of The Hunter (1984) *****
Dexy’s Midnight Runners – Searching For The Young Soul Rebels (1980)*****
Ride – Nowhere (1990)
Sisters of Mercy – BBC Sessions (1982-4)
Sisters of Mercy – Reptile House (1983)
Sisters of Mercy – First And Last And Always (1985)
Sisters of Mercy – Vision Thing (1990)
Rain Parade – Crashing Dream (1985) *****
Catheads – Hubba (1987) *****
Coffee Sergeants – Moonlight Towers (1993)
Glen Campbell – Galveston (1969)
The Waterboys – Fisherman’s Blues (1987)*****
Bettie Serveert – Palomine (1992)*****
The Triffids – Treeless Plain (1983)*****
The Triffids – Raining Pleasure (1984)*****
Lawson Square Infirmary  – s/t (1984)
The Triffids – Calenture – (1988)*****
Felt – The Splendour Of Fear (1983)*****
Felt – The Strange Idol’s Pattern (1984)*****
Arzachel – s/t (1969)*****
Salad – Drink Me (1995)
John Lee Hooker – The Country Blues Of (1959) *****
John Lee Hooker – Travelin’ (1960) *****
John Lee Hooker – House Of The Blues (1952)
John Lee Hooker – That’s My Story (1960)
John Lee Hooker – The Folk Lore Of (1961)
The Catherine Wheel – She’s My Friend ep (1991)
The Catherine Wheel – Painful Thing ep (1991)
The Catherine Wheel – Ferment (1992)
The Catherine Wheel – Chrome (1993)
The Cosmic Psychos – Down On The Farm (1985)*****
The Cosmic Psychos – s/t (1987)*****
The Folk Devils – Best Protection & Peel Sessions (1987)*****
Johnny Rivers – Slim Slow Slider (1970)*****
Johnny Rivers – Home Grown (1971)
40 Watt Sun – Wider Than The Sky (2016)*****
Big Thief  – Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You (2022)
Jeff Buckley – Live At Wetlands (1994)
Red House Painters – Down Colourful Hill (1992)*****
40 Watt Sun – Perfect Light (2020)*****
The Cure – Seventeen Seconds (1980)*****
Del Fuegos – Boston Mass (1985)
Red House Painters – s/t aka Rollercoaster (1993)
Jeff Buckley – Live From The Bataclan (1995)*****
Bert Jansch – Edge of A Dream (2002)*****
Cocteau Twins – Heaven or Las Vegas (1990)
Slowdive – Just For A Day (1991)
Scott Walker – Scott 4 (1970)*****
The Doors – Morrison Hotel (1970)*****
The Smiths – Hatful of Hollow (1984)*****
Sun Kil Moon – Ghosts Of The Great Highway (2003)*****
Echo & The Bunnymen – Ocean Rain (1984)*****
My Bloody Valentine – Loveless (1991)*****
Led Zeppelin – III (1970)*****
The Sugarcubes – Life’s Too Good (1988)
The Doors – s/t (1967)*****
Help Yourself – s/t (1971)
The Doors – Strange Days (1967)
Mazzy Star – So Tonight That I May See (1991)*****
Stiff Little Fingers – Inflammable Material (1979)*****
Stiff Little Fingers – Nobody’s Heroes (1980)
Miles Davis/Bill Laswell – Panthalassa (1969-74)*****
Frank Morgan – Mood Indigo (1989)*****
Frank Morgan – City Nights (2004)*****
Grachan Moncur III – Evolution (1963)
Steve Wynn – Kerosene Man (1990)
Steve Wynn – Dazzling Display (1992)
Steve Wynn – Fluorescent (1993)
Gutterball – s/t (1993) *****
Steve Wynn – Take Your Flunky & Dangle (1994)
Gutterball – Weasel (1995)*****
Steve Wynn – Melting In The Dark (1996)*****
John Coltrane – Live At The Village Vanguard (1961)*****
John Coltrane – Coltrane (1957) *****
Paul Chambers – Chambers’ Music (1957)
John Coltrane & co – Interplay For 2 Trumpets (1957)
John Coltrane & Tad Dameron – Mating Call (1958)
John Coltrane – Traneing In (1958)
John Coltrane –  Blue World (1964)*****
Miles Davis – Steamin’ (1957)*****
Stereolab – Super 45 (1991)*****
Stereolab – Switched On (1992)*****
Johnny Rivers – Road (1974)
Giant Sand – Chore of Enchantment (2000)*****
Eric Quincy Tate – s/t (1970)
Tramp – Put A Record On (1974)
Sonny Rollins – Standard Sonny Rollins (1964)
Sonny Rollins – Alfie (1966)
Dexter Gordon – Our Man In Paris (1963)*****
Idles – Crawler
Dexter Gordon – Soul Sister (1963)
Dexter Gordon – One Flight Up (1964)*****
Dexter Gordon – Montmartre 1964 Live (1964)
Marion Brown – Sweet Earth Flying (1974)*****
Paul Bley Trio – Closer (1965)
Husker Du – Candy Apple Grey (1986)*****
Husker Du – Warehouse (1987)*****
Husker Du – The Living End (1987)
Swervedriver – Raise (1991)
Oasis – Be Here Now (1997)
Oasis – Dig Out Your Soul (2008)
The Loft – Magpie Eyes (1983-85)
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss – Raising Sand (2007)
Oasis – Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants (2000)
Highway – s/t (1971)
Gene Clark w The Gosdin Brothers – s/t (1967)*****
Robyn Hitchcock – Eye (1990)*****
Jimi Hendrix – Woodstock (1969) *****
The Move – Message From The Country (1971)
Carson – On The Air (1973)
Carson – Travelling Highway Blues (1970-73)
Chain – Towards The Blues (1971)
Chain – History of Chain (1970-71)
Felt – Crumbling The Antiseptic Beauty (1982)*****
Jimi Hendrix Experience – Electric Ladyland (1968)*****
The Miracle Workers – Primary Domain (1989)
The Green Pajamas – Lust Never Sleeps (2002)*****
The Green Pajamas – Seven Fathoms Down & Falling (1999)*****
Ten Years After – Stonedhenge (1969)
Naked Prey – Under The Blue Marlin (1986)
Naked Prey – 40 Miles From Nowhere (1987)
Naked Prey – Live In Tucson (1990)
The Wonderful World Of Depressing Country Music – v/a (1940-1965)
Billy Boy Arnold – Checkin’ It Out (1979)
Tom Robinson Band – Power In The Darkness (1978)*****
The Dream Syndicate – The Medicine Show (1984)*****
Bob Dylan – Highway 61 Revisited (1965)*****
Bob Dylan – Blonde on Blonde (1966)*****
Bob Dylan – Self Portrait (1970)*****
Ultravox! – s/t (1977)*****
Ultravox! – Ha!-Ha!-Ha! (1977)*****
The Icicle Works – s/t (1984)*****
Kris Kristoferson – Border Lord (1972)*****
The Psycho Daisies – 30 Milligrams of Your Love (1990)*****
PW Long – We Didn’t See You On Sunday (1997)*****
The Fall – Dragnet (1979) *****
The Fall – Imperial Wax Solvent (2008)*****
The Fall – Fall Heads Roll (2005)*****
Ride – Going Blank Again (1992)
Ride – Smile EP (1990)
The Fall – Grotesque (1980)*****
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band – Will Circle Be Unbroken? (1972)*****
Pure Prairie League – s/t (1972)
Concrete Blonde – Free (1989)
Ry Cooder – The Border (1982)
Pure Prairie League – Live In America (1974)*****
Dumptruck – For The Country (1987)*****
Dharma Bums – Haywire (1988)*****
The Cure – The Top (1984)
The Cure – The Head On The Door (1985)
Suzanne Vega – s/t (1985)*****
Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool (2016)
Bob Dylan – Blood On The Tracks (1975)*****
Bob Dylan – New Morning (1970)*****
Victoria Williams – Loose (1994)*****
Pieta Brown – Remember The Sun (2007)
Pieta Brown – Freeway (2014)
Matthew Sweet – Girlfriend (1991)*****
The Beatles – Revolver (1966)*****
The Beatles – Magical Mystery Tour (1967)*****
Doug Sahm & His Band – s/t (1973)*****
Kathy Dalton – Boogie Bands & One Night Stands (1974)
The Dils – Class War (1977-80)
The Zeros – Don’t Push Me Around (1976-80)
The Dils – Dils Dils Dils (1977-80)
The Nuns – The Nuns (1980)
Bang – Death of a Country (1971)
Jim Ford – Harlan County (1969)
The Jimmy Cake – Dublin Gone Everyone Dead (2015)
Lynched – Cold Old Fire (2015)
Kollektiv – S/t (1973)
Tetragon – Nature (1971)
Chris Foster – Layers (1977)
Boys of The Lough – Good Friends Good Music (1977)
Irene Schweizer Trio – Jazz Meets India (1967)*****
Daisy Rickman – Donsya A’n Loryow (2022)
Randy Burns – The Exit & Gaslight Years (1965-69)
Eliza Skelton – The Lookerer (2023)*****
Kath Bloom – Finally (1987-99)*****
Kris Drever – Black Water (2006)*****
REM – Fables of The Reconstruction (1985)*****
John Coltrane & Alice Coltrane – Cosmic Music (1966-68)*****
Alice Coltrane – A Monastic Trio (1968)*****
Black Uhuru – Sinsemilla (1980)*****
Dragoon – The Offending Party (2010)
The Cure – Bloodflowers (2000)
King Tubby – Meets Rockers Uptown (1976)*****
Fugazi – Fugazi (1988)*****
Llama Farmers – Dead Letter Chorus (1999)
‘O’ Level – A Day In The Life Of Gilbert & George (1977-80)
TV Personalities – And Don’t The Kids Just Love It (1981)*****
X-ray Spex – Germ Free Adolescents (1978)*****
RL Burnside – First Recordings (1968)*****
Rick Roberts – Windmills (1972)
The Desert Rose Band – s/t (1987)
Sonny Stitt & Red Holloway – Live! Legends of The Saxophone (1976)****
Lou Donaldson – Blues Walk (1958)
Drugstore – S/t (1995)
Bob Dylan – My Rough & Rowdy Ways (2020)
Van Der Graaf Generator – The Least We Can Do Is Wave To Each Other (1970)*****
Cubby + Blizzards – Desolation (1966)
The Byrds – Farther Along (1971) *****
The Byrds – Byrdmaniax (1970)
Cubby + Blizzards – Groeten Uit Grollo (1967)
Skip James – Greatest Of The Delta Blues Singers (1964) *****
Skip James – She Lyin’ (1964)
June Tabor & Martin Simpson – A Cut Above (1980)
Martin Hayes & Dennis Cahill – Live In Seattle (1999)*****
Billy Childish & The Chatham Singers – Heaven’s Journey (2005)
Billy Childish & The Chatham Singers – An Image Of You (2008)
J-Jazz Deep Modern Jazz From Japan Vol 1 (1969-84)
Charles Cauldwell – Remember Me (2004)
The Primevals – Disinhibitor (2011)
Delivery – Fool’s Meeting (1968)
The Vapors – New Clear Days (1980)
Tracey Thorn – A Distant Shore (1982)
Warm Dust – And It Came To Pass (1970)
Dry Ice – s/t (1969)
Gin Blossoms – New Miserable Experience (1992)*****
John Parker Compton – Live At Turk’s Head (1968)*****
Wolf People – Fain (2013)*****
The Cure – Three Imaginary Boys (1979)*****
Bjork – Homogenic (1997)
Nico – Venue Edinburgh (1987)
Nico – Do Or Die In Europe (1982)*****
Joe Henderson – The Inner Urge (1966)*****
The Hi-Alerts – Conjure Time (2015)
The Primevals – So Extra EP (2018)
Wall of Voodoo – Call Of The West (1982)*****
V/A – Swedish Meatballs Hard Rock Psyche Underground (1971-7)
Robert Pollard & Doug Gillard – Speak Kindly Of Your Volunteer Fire Department (1999)*****
Keene Brothers – Blues & Boogie Shoes (2006)*****
Jimmy Webb – Land’s End (1974)
Jimmy Webb – And So On (1971)
Jimmy Webb – Letters (1972)
The Undisputed Truth – s/t (1971)*****
The Undisputed Truth – Face To Face With The Truth (1972)
Frankie Armstrong – Lovely On The Water (1972)*****
Frankie Armstrong – Songs & Ballads (1974)
Jan Garbarek & Hilliard Ensemble – Officium (1994)*****
Jan Garbarek & Hilliard Ensemble – Officium Novum (2010)
V/A – Rough Guide To Delta Blues Vol 1
Byard Lancaster – It’s Not Up To Us (1968)
Sunny Murray – An Even Break (1968)
Brigitte Fontaine – Comme La Radio (1972)*****
Eric Andersen – Today Is The Highway (1965)
Tim Hardin – Suite For Susan Moore & Damion (1969)
Tim Hardin – Bird On A Wire (1971)
Tim Hardin – Painted Head (1973)
The Fall – The Light User Syndrome (1996)*****
Gene Clark with The Gosdin Brothers – s/t (1967)*****
The Octopus Project – Sharp Teeth (2013)
The Octopus Project – Fever Forms (2013)
Mississippi Fred McDowell – I Do Not Play No Rock’n’Roll (1969)*****
The Chameleons – Script of The Bridge (1983)*****
Cactus World News – Urban Beaches (1986)
Steeleye Span –  Ten Man Mop (1971)
The Bothy Band – Old Hag You Have Killed Me (1976)
June Tabor – Aqaba (1988)*****
June Tabor & Maddy Prior – No More To The Dance (1988)
Autohaze – Mild Steel Flat (1992)*****
Guru Guru – UFO (1970)*****
Guru Guru – Live In Essen (1970)*****
Guru Guru – Hinten (1971)*****
Ash Ra Tempel – s/t (1971)
Ash Ra Tempel – Schwingungen (1972)
Paul Butterfield Blues Band – s/t (1965)
The Blues Project – Projections (1966)
Ronnie Hawkins – s/t (1959)
Ronnie Hawkins – Mr Dynamo (1960)
Ronnie Hawkins – Folk Ballads (1960)
Ronnie Hawkins – Sings The Songs Of Hank Williams (1960)
Steeleye Span – Below The Salt (1972)
Quickspace – Superplus (1995)*****
Manassas – Pieces (1972-3)
Annie Ross – You And Me Baby (1971)*****
Lankum – The Livelong Day (2019)*****
Bob Dylan – Brandeis University (1963)*****
Paul Butterfield Blues Band – East West (1966)*****
The Damned – Damned Damned Damned (1977)*****
Richard Harris – A Tramp Shining (1968)
Richard Harris – The Yard Went On For Ever (1968)
Glen Campbell – Meet Glen Campbell (2008)
The Groundhogs – Split (1971)*****
The Groundhogs – Thank Christ For The Bomb (1970)*****
Echo & The Bunnymen – Crocodiles (1980)*****
David Westlake – My Beautiful England (2022)
The Hangman’s Beautiful Daughters – Smashed Full Of Wonder (1987)
The Sea Urchins – Stardust (1987-91)*****
Howe Gelb & Lonna Kelly – Further Standards (2017)*****
Maki Asakawa – Live (1971)
The Fall – Slates (1981)*****
Giant Sand – Valley of Rain (1985)*****
The Monkees – s/t (1966)*****

HISTORIC SITES/WALKS

St Giles’ Church, Wrexham
Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral
Liverpool Anglican Cathedral
Leicester Cathedral & Tomb of Richard III
Knaresborough Riverside Walk
Nine Stones Close, Derbyshire *****
Arbor Low Henge, Derbyshire
Gib Hill Barrow, Derbyshire
Brand End Standing Stones, Derbyshire *****
Wappenbury Village Hillfort, Warwickshire
Stanton Drew Stone Circle, Somerset
The Tristan Stone, Fowey
Holy Trinity Well, Rackenford, Devon
Chastleton House, Oxfordshire *****
Godstow Abbey, Oxford
The Grapes Pub, Sheffield
Mary Watts’ Watts Chapel, Guildford *****
Waggoners Wells Wishing Well, Hampshire
Ingatestone, village of concealed sarsens, Essex
Danbury Christian-ised Hillfort, Essex
Norwich Anglican Cathedral
Oakehampton Castle, Dartmoor *****
Devil’s Humps, Stoughton *****
Bury St Edmunds Cathedral
Mettingham Castle, Beccles, Norfolk
Walberswick Marshes Bird Walk (Marsh Harrier, Bittern, Buzzard, Cetti’s warbler)*****
Salisbury Cathedral, Salisbury
Swanage coast path walk, Dorset *****
St Aldhelm’s chapel, St Aldhelm’s Head
Stonehenge, Salisbury Plain *****
Hotel la Louisiane, Paris *****
Montparnasse Cemetery, Paris – Beckett, Tzara, Gainsbourgh, Sartre, De Beavoir
La Coupoule café, Paris
Sainte Chapelle, Paris *****
Café de Flour, Paris
Saint Germain L’auxerrois, Paris
Port Sunlight, Wirral
St Winnifride’s Holy Well, Flintshire
Mitchell’s Fold Stone Circle, Shropshire *****
Shelagh-Na-Gig, St Laurence’s Church, Church Stretton, Shropshire
Skirrid, Hillfort & St Michael’s Chapel (ruins), Black Mountains
Llanthony Priory, Black Mountains *****
St Issui’s Church, Patrishow, Black Mountians *****
St Ishow’s Holy Well, Patrishow, Black Mountains *****
Tintern Abbey, Forest of Dean
The Devil’s Pulpit, Forest of Dean
The Virtuous Well, Monmouthshire *****
The Rollright Stones, Oxfordshire *****
Jeremy Bentham Mummified Corpse Walk, London
Saville Row Apple Beatles gig site
Mason’s Yard, London – ‘60s site of Scotch of St James, Indica, Gered Manowitz Studio & White Cube
Dartington Hall & gardens, Totness
Cantrell stone rows, Dartmoor
Fenton House, Hampstead
Caerwent Roman village and temple, S Wales
Caldicot castle, S Wales
Sudbrook Hill Fort, S Wales *****
Llandaff Cathedral, Cardiff
Hereford Cathedral, Mappa Mundi & Magna Carta
St Mary The Virgin, Capel-y-ffin
Hay Bluff walk
Sugar Loaf, Brecon Beacons
All Saints’, Newland, Forest of Dean (newly restored)*****
St Mary The Virgin & grave of St John Kemble, Welsh Newton
Church of St Peter, Great Livermere, Suffolk
Church of The Holy Innocents, Great Barton, Suffolk
Ickworth House, Suffolk
St Edmund’s Cross, Hoxne
St Mary & All Saints’ Sculthorpe, Norfolk
A Warning To The Curious location, Wells Next The Sea
A Warning To The Curious location, Holkham Beach
Holkham Park Walled Garden, Norfolk
River Titchwell seal colony, Norfolk *****
Blickling House and Estate, Norfolk
Castle Acre Castle, Norfolk
Castle Acre Priory, Norfolk *****
Crickhowell Castle, Crickhowell
St Edmund’s church, Crickhowell
St Wystan’s Church & Crypt, Repton
Painswick Beacon, Gloucs
Blackfriars Priory, Gloucester
St John’s Hackney, London
The Hawk Stone, Oxfordshire
Maen Llia stone, Brecon Beacons
Maen Madoc stone, Brecon Beacons
Creake Abbey, Norfolk
Walsingham Abbey, Norfolk
Walsingham Shrine of Virgin Mary, Norfolk
Warham Camp hillfort, Norfolk*****

MUSEUMS

Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum
Battle – The Art Of British War Comics, Oxfordshire Museum
Musee de Cluny, Paris
Grant Zoology museum, London *****

RECOMMENDED BOOKSHOPS

Foyles, Charing Cross Rd, London
Oxfam Canterbury ***** (always excellently curated)
Oxfam books, Harrogate
Oxfam books, Coventry ***** (superb SF & comics)
Oxfam books, Oxford
The Last Bookshop, Oxford
Oxfam books, Chelmsford *****
Oxfam books, Exeter *****
Shakespeare & Company, Paris *****
Word on the Water, Granary Sq, King’s Cross, London *****
The Poetry Bookshop, Hay On Wye
Brazen Head Bookshop, Burnham Market, Norfolk

RECOMMENDED RECORD SHOPS

Probe, Liverpool’s psychedelic survivor
Room 33, Bodmin, Cornwall – Tha Muthalode!
Harbour Records, Emsworth, Hampshire
Backbeat, Edinburgh – The Legend! *****

ART

Fantasy : Realms of Imagination – British Library
Gwen John – Holbourne Museum, Bath
St Giles Church, Wrexham – Burne-Jones windows, doom painting
Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral – Elizabeth Frink, Ceri Richards, John Piper

Walker Gallery, Liverpool*****; Alexis Harding – Slump; Dan Hays – Harmony In Green; John Hoyland – Broken Bride; Barbara Hepworth – 2 Spheres In Orbit; David Hockney – Peter Getting Out of Nick’s Pool; Lucien Freud – Interior At Paddington; Albert Richards – Sappers Erecting Pickets In The Snow, The Seven Legends; Ceri Richards – Mother & Child; LS Lowry – The Fever Van; Paul Nash – Telecommunications; Duncan Grant – Farm In Sussex; Laura Knight – Spring In St John’s Wood; Bernard Fleetwood-Walker – Amity; Walter Sickert – Summer Lighting, Bathers Dieppe; Elizabeth Forbes – Blackberry Gathering; John Singer Sergeant – Vespers; Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale – The Little Foot Page; Osman Hamdi – The Young Emir Studying; GF Watts – Love & Life, Love & Death, Katie, Hope, Eve Tempted, Eve Repentant ; John William Waterhouse – Echo & Narcissus; Ralph Peacock – William Holman Hunt; Thomas Cooper Gotch – A Pageant of Childhood; Edward Austin Abbey – O Mistress Mine Where Are You Roaming?; John Byam Liston Shaw – Love’s Baubles; Edouard Vuillard – Madame Hessel au Sofa; John Roddam Spencer – Expulsion From Eden; George Clausen – Kitty; William Shakespeare Burton – Auto-da-fe; Evelyn De Morgan – Life And Thought Emerging From The Tomb; Charles March Gere – The Finding Of The Infant St George; Frederic Leighton – Perseus And Andromeda, Elijah In The Wilderness; Maurice Greiffenhagen – An Idyll; Robert Fowler – Ariel; Albert Joseph Moore – A Summer Night; Louis Edouard Fornier – Funeral of Shelley; Philip Hermogenes Calderon – Ruth & Naomi; Stanhope Forbes – To The Fishing Ground, A Street In Britanny; George Clausen – The Shepherdess; Henry Holiday – Dante & Beatrice; Frederick George Cotman – One Of The Family; William Frederick Yeames – And When Did You Last See Your Father?; James Tissot – Catherine Smith Gill & Two Of Her Children; William Holman Hunt – Triumph Of The Innocents; John Atkinson Grimshaw – The Custom House Liverpool Looking South; Briton Riviere – Daniel In The Lion’s Den; Arthur Hughes – As You Like It; Gustave Dore – Flower Sellers; Sophie Anderson – Elaine; Dante Gabriel Rossetti – Dante’s Dream; Edward Burne-Jones – Study For The Sleeping Knights; John Ingle Lee – Sweethearts & Wives, Going To Market; Daniel Maclise – Death of Nelson; John Brett – The Stonebreaker; Ary Sheffer – The Temptation of Christ; James Campbell – The Dragon’s Den; William Davis – The Courtyard At Speke Hall; Paul Delaroche – Napoleon Crossing The Alps; John Martin – The Last Man; Richard Andsell – Dead Pheasants; Samuel Drummond – Death of Nelson; Giacamo De Maria – Death of Virginia; George Stubbs – Lincolnshire Ox,  Gnawpost And Two Other Colts, Horse Frightened By A Lion, Molly Long Legs; Joseph Wright of Derby – The Annual Girandola, The Old Man & Death; Giovani Paolo Panini – Ruins Of Rome

Liverpool Anglican Cathedral – Tracey Emin, Elizabeth Frink, Giles Gilbert Scott

Leeds Art Gallery *****; Edward Armitage – The Siren, Retribution, Return of Ulysses; Francis Bacon – Painting 1950; Lady Elizabeth Butler – Scotland For Ever; Thomas Cooper – Landscape With Sheep & Goats; Alan Davie – In The Face Of The Witch; Ronald Dunlop – Melissa; Jacob Epstein – Modernity; Terry Frost – High Yellow; Anthony Gormley – Brick Man; John Atkinson Grimshaw – Reflections on The Thames at Westminster, Leeds Bridge, Sunday Night Leeds, Iris; Arthur Hacker – Temptation of Sir Percival; Edward Matthew Hale – Mermaids’ Rock, The Drums of The Fore & Aft; Oliver Hall – Interior Of A Wood; Benjamin Haydon – Mary Queen of Scotts When An Infant; Barbara Hepworth – Single Form; Frank Holl – I Am The Resurrection; William Holman Hunt – Shadow of Death; Albert Kindley – Burnham Beeches; Haynes King – An Interesting Paragraph; Leon Kossoff – Fidelma No 1; Jacob Kramer – Rites of Spring; Edmund Blair Leighton – Lady Godiva; Frederic Leighton – Return of Persephone; Daniel Maclise – Noah’s Sacrifice; John Millais – Old Age, Music, Infancy & Manhood; Paul Nash – Circle of The Monoliths, Only Egg; Adelsteen Normann – The Sognefjord; George Bernard O’Neill – Public Opinion, Last Hours of Mozart; Victor Passmore – Girl With A Handbag; John Pettie – Fixing The Site Of An Early Christian Altar; Fiona Rae – Present Party For You; Stanley Spencer – The Sisters, Family Group; William Stott- A Snowstorm; James Tissot – The Bridesmaid; John Tunnard – Davy Jones’ Locker, Painting, Port & Starboard, Red & Black Balance, Yellow Balance; Edward Alexander Wadsworth – Slump, Marseille; Frances S Walker – The Convent Garden; James Whistler – Harmony In White & Blue; JB Yeats – Off The Irish Coast.

Pauline Boty – Gazelli Art House, London
Don Van Vliet – Michael Werner Gallery, London *****
Douglas Gordon – Gagosian, London
Spencer, Lowry, Hockney, Ceri Richards – St Edmund Hall SCR, Oxford
Patrice Moore – St John’s College, Oxford
A Bridget Riley – Wolfson College, Oxford
Matthew Conduit, Land – Sheffield Graves Gallery
Sheffield Graves Gallery – Bridget Riley, Adrian Heath, JMW Turner, Mary Adshead, John Bratby, Frank Brangwyn, Prunella Clough, Roger Fry, Nahem Shoa, John Hoyland and more.
Terry Frost, Flowers Gallery, Cork St, London
Elizabeth Frink – St Edmund, Bury St Edmunds

The Universe of William Blake (Including John Linnell, John Flaxman, Samuel Palmer, John Henry Fuseli, George Richmond, Catherine Blake, Caspar David Friedrich, Philip Oto Runge, Joseph Wright,  – Cambridge Fitzwilliam *****

Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; Alan Beeton – Posing; Vanessa Bell – Portrait of Mrs M; William Blake – An Allegory Of The Spiritusl Conditio Of Man; Ford Maddox Brown – Cordelia’s Portion, The Last Of England; Paul Cezanne – Landscape, Undergrowth; Edgar Degas – At The Café; Alfred Elmore – On The Brink; Harold Gilman – Nude On A Bed;Spencer Gore – The Green Dress; Augustus Edwin John – Dorelia Wearing A Turban; Gwen John – The Convalescent; Stanislawa de Kalowska – Lock On The Canal;  Frederik Leighton – Clytie; John Linnell – William Blake Wearing A Hat; Henri Matisse – Woman Seated In An Armchair; John Everett Millais – The Twins, Mrs Coventry Patmore, The Bridesmaid; Armedeo Modigliani – Portrait Of A Young Woman Seate; Claude Monet – Poplars, Rocks At Port Coton; Charles Fairfax Murray – The Flaming Heart; Paul Nash – November Moon; William Nicholson – Augustus Edwin John, The Girl With The Tattered Glove; Glyn Warren Phillpot – Siegfried Sassoon, The Dog Rose; Camille Pissaro – In The Garden At Pontoise; Pierre-Auguste Renoir – Place Clichy; Dante Gabriel Rosetti – Girl At A Lattice; Walter Sickert – The Glance; Stanley Spencer – Landscape In North Wales, Self Portrait With Patricia Preece; George Stubbs – Gimcrack; Marie Louise Von-Motesicksy – At The Dressmakers, Mother In Bed.

The Lady & The Unicorn – Musee de Cluny, Paris *****

Monet’s Water Lilies – Musee d’Orangerie, Paris *****

Anthony Gormley – Another Place, Crosby Beach *****

Doom painting, St Issu’s church, Patrisow

Lady Lever Gallery, Port Sunglight – Lawrence Alma-Tadema – Favorite Poet; Frank Brangwyn – The Shipbuilders; Gerald Brockhurst – Jeunesse Doree; Ford Maddox Brown – Cromwell on his Farm; Edward Burne-Jones – The Tree of Forgiveness, The Annunciation, The Beguiling of Merlin, Azarias, Ananias; Herbert Draper – The Kelpie; William Etty – The Three Graces, Hesperus, Autora & Zephyr, Bather Left, Bather Right, Andromeda, Prometheus, The Judgement of Paris; Joseph Farquharson – The Shortening Day; Elizabeth Forbes – Blackberry Gathering; Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale – The Forerunner; Edward John Gregory – Boulter’s Lock; Hubert von Herkomer – The Last Muster; William Holman Hunt – May Morning On Magdalen Tower, The Scapegoat; Louise Jopling – Blue & White; Laura Knight – Ballet; Frederic Leighton – Clytie, Fatidica, Psamathe, Daphnephoria, The Garden of Hespidres; George Lesley – Midsummer Morning; John Linnell – Woodcutters, At The Cottage Gate, Woodcutters In A Forest, Woodcutters’ Respast; John Everett Millais – An Idyll of 1745, The Black Brunswicker, Cymon & Iphigenia, A Dream Of The Past; Frederic Morgan – His Turn Next; Alfred Munnings – The Fresian Bull; Dante Rosetti – The Blessed Damozel, Sybilla Palmifera; John Singer Sargeant – On His Holiday; Sydney Vosper – Salem; JMW Turner 0 The Falls Of The Clyde; John William Waterhouse – The Enchanted Garden; G F Watts – She Shall Be Created Woman.

The Last Caravaggio – National Gallery *****

National Gallery Permanent Collection; George Bellows – Men Of The Docks; Paul Cezanne – The Grounds of the Chateau Noir; John Constable – Cenotaph In Memory of Joshua Reynolds, The Cornfield; Honore Daumier – Don Quixote & Sancho Panza; Edgar Degas – Combing The Hair, Ballet Dancers, Eleanor Carafa, Young Spartans; Paul Delaroche – The Execution of Lady Jane Grey; Thomas Gainsborough – The Market Cart, The Watering Place; Lake Keitella – Akseli Gallen-Kallela; Edouard Manet – The Execution of Maximillian, Music In The Tuilleries; Henri Matisse – Portrait of Greta Moll; Claude Monet – Water Lillies, Water Lillies Setting Sun, Beach At Trouvet, Thames Below Westminster;  Pablo Picasso – Fruit dish, bottle & violin; Camille Pissarro – The Cotes des Boeufs;  Pierre Auguste Renoir – The Skiff; Henri Rousseau – Surprised!; Georges Seurat – Bathers At Asnieres, Study for Bathers, The Rainbow, The Morning Walk;  George Stubbs – Sir Peniston & Lady Lamb, Whistlejacket; JMW Turner – Rain Sea And Speed; Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus, The Evening Star, Dido Building Carthage, Sun Rising Through Vapour;  Vincent Van Gogh – A Wheatfield With Cypresses, Van Gogh’s Chair, Sunflowers; Julius Schnorr Von Carolsfield – Ruth In Boaz’ Field; Joseph Wright of Derby – Experiment On A Bird;

Flaming June – Frederick Leighton (Royal Academy)

Ithell Colquhoin – Elemental (Ben Hunter Gallery, London)*****

Llandaff Cathedral, Cardiff; Dante Gabriel Rosetti – Nativity Triptych; Edward Burne-Jones – Altar ceramics; Jacob Epstein – Christ In Majesty; The Bishop Marshall Panel.

National Gallery of Wales; Merlyn Evans – Beechwood By Moonlight; Harold Gilman – The Kitchen; Augustus John – loadsastuff incl Dylan Thomas; Gwen Johns – loadsa stuff; David Jones – Portrait of a Maker, Crucifixion, St Francis, Jeus Mocked, Landscape in kent, Elephant, Siphon & Salver; RB Kitaj – TeDeum; LS Lowry – Six Bells; Monet – Waterlillies, Rouen; John Nash – Plage; John Piper; Ceri Richards; Stanley Spencer – Switzerland; Kyffin Williams; Christopher Wood – Rug Seller.

All Saints’, Newland, Forest of Dean – Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale’s rederos *****

Church of The Holy Innocents, Great Barton, Suffolk -Edward Byrne-Jones’ stained glass

Ickworth House, Suffolk – John Flaxman’s Fury of Athamas

Norwich Castle Museum; lots of John Cotman;  lots of Thomas Lound; Alfred Munnings – Gypsy Horses Grazing and many more; Emma Sandys – Lady In A Yellow Dress; Frederick Sandys; lots of Joseph Stannard; lots of John Thirtle. A great overview tying in Turner w a particular school of East Anglian visionary landscape painting.

St Mary & All Saints’, Sculthorpe, Norfolk – Edward Burne-Jones stained glass

Blickling Hall, Norfolk. Herbet Gunn – Phillip Kerr; Hans Holbein Younger – Henry VIII; Valentine Prinsep – Lisa.

Houghton Hall, Norfolk – Anthony Gormley’s Time Horizon

Houghton Hall, Norfolk, Permanent Collection. Ryan Gander – More Really Shiny Things; Richard Long – White Deer Circle, Houghton Cross, Full Moon Circle, A Line In Norfolk; James Turrell – Houghton Hut; Rachel Whiteread – Hut. *****

ARTWORKS I DIDN’T SEE THIS YEAR AS THEY HAD BEEN WITHDRAWN FROM DISPLAY IN THE GALLERIES I VISITED, OR BECAUSE THEY WERE CLOSED, PERMANENTLY OR TEMPORARILLY.

Buxton Museum and Art Gallery is closed indefinitely (permanently?) due to a wood problem, so I didn’t see Duncan Grant – Farm Buildings (1951); Kiffyn Williams – Pony on LLanddwyn Island; and their lovely Charles Keeping lithograph. Again. Can something be done?

MY FOOD JOURNEY (highlights – this isn’t everything I ate in 2024)

My Corbyn Coddled Eggs
My Year End Vegetable Wellington
Bungay Lemon Chicken
My Stoke Newington Sage Eggs
My Joseph Conrad Bacon Sprouts
My Ermine Street Chorizo Scallops
My Mr Kurtz Vegetable Curry
Cork & Bottle crispy pork
My Shepherd’s Pie Pour Dawson, with Chestnut Chili Sprouts
Gloucester (Westmorland) Services’ chicken shawarma
Duck confit, Wreck Bistro, Liverpool
18yr old Highland Park & Guinness, The Dakota Hotel bar, Leeds
Lamb curry, Kayal, Leicester *****
Lamb madras, Calcutta Club, Nottingham
Lamb chili curry, MemSaab, Nottingham
My Easter Chicken Solitaire
My Timoleon Vieta Vegan Curry
Gray Pays & Bacon, Great Western, Wolverhampton *****
Emsworth Sibling Quinoa
Hare & Hounds, Stoughton, Sunday Lunch
Au Bougnat, Paris, Sausage & Mash
Café de Flore, Paris, boiled egg
My Alchemyst’s Sunday Vegetable Wellington
Naga chili lamb curry, Café la Raj, Chipping Norton
My Baked crusted haddock a la migraine
My Sasquatch Sunset Mushroom Pie
My Crispy Chorizo Stir Fry de Hogan
International Welsh Rabbit Centre, Defynnog, Brecon
Kedgeree, Bircham Stores, Norfolk
My Christmas Day Gray Pays
My Christmas Mushroom Wellington
Ben’s wet onions
Grandad’s steamed Irish gammon
Smoked Canadian friend’s relative’s lake salmon

IN OUR LAMENTATIONS 2024

Tony Oxley (Sheffield’s Sunny Murray, 1938)
John M Burns (His modesty blazed, 1939)
John Pilger (News terrier, 1939)
David Soul (The covered man, an inspiration 1943)
Annie Nightingale (Gateway drug, 1940)
Pitchfork (Signal to noise, 1996)
Mary Weiss (She led the pack, 1948)
Chris Karrer (Archangel’s Thunderbirdman, 1947)
Iasos (Greek space muso, 1947)
Phil Niblock (NY art noise, 1933)
Pluto Shervington (Ram Goat Liver Eater, 1950)
Tisa Farrow (Zombies ripped her flesh, 1951)
Norman Jewison (Rollerball Superstar, 1926)
Neil Kulkarni (Era-enhancing music critic, 1972)
Wayne Kramer (He kicked out the jams motherfucker, 1945)
Steve Brown (He left Avalon and taught the world to sing, 1954)
Christopher Priest (Dorset future-ist, 1943)
Aston “Family Man” Barrett (dub bass headcase, 1946)
Ian Lavender (Don’t tell him, Pike, 1946)
Damon Suzuki (Krautrock witness cuddled me & Noel Fielding, 1950)
John Rotheroe (Shire Book Seer, 1935)
Steve Wright (massive old-skool pro made it look easy, 1954)
Alan Tomlinson (Jazz trombonist, dry northern wit, beatnik, 1947)
Ewen Mackintosh (Office secondary superstar, 1973)
Jenni Nuttall (Chaucerian)
Richard Lewis (Worthwhile American comedian, 1947)
Nick Dimbleby (Sculptor of note, scholar, gentleman, comedy fan, 1946)
Edward Bond (Whitehouse-infuriator, 1934)
Karl Wallinger (Waterboys’ prime period pianist, 1957)
Eric Carmen (Raspberry sensation, 1949)
Wally Shoup (Hard-blowin’ hero, 1944)
The Wye Salmon (pollution-fucked fish)
Paul Brett (Crazy World guitarist, 1947)
Shane Baldwin (Vice Squad drummer and punk scribe, 1963)
John Sinclair (Beatnik, 1941)
Carl Andre (None more brick, 1935)
Graeme Naysmith (Pale Saint)
Marian Zazeela (Eternal Musician, 1940)
Shelley Ganz (Unclaimed but claimed, at last, 1959)
Steve Albini (Big blackhead, 1962)
Dennis Thompson (He also kicked out the jams motherfucker, 1948)
Gary Floyd (Double happy dick punk, 1953)
Roger Corman (King of the Bees, 1926)
Doug Ingle (The Iron Butterfly, 1945)
Gerry Conway (Folk drummer for hire and tool of anti-CND propaganda, 1947)
Nicholas Ball (His house bled to death, 1946)
Larry Page (Wild thingy, 1936)
Francois Hardy (Chanteuse genieuse, 1944)
Arthur Gaps Hendrickson (Selectaman under pressure, 1951)
James Chance (He contorted himself, 1953)
Donald Sutherland (Kilroy was here, 1935)
Dexter Romwebber (Guitar jet, 1966)
Clarence Frogman Henry (Anthropomorphic blues amphibian, 1937)
Randy Fuller (He fought the law also, 1944)
Lucy Rimmer (She fell briefly on a birthday)
Callum The Highland Red Deer (Killed by twat tourists)
Mark Found (Sound recordist and model railway specialist)
Shelly Duvall (She shone, 1949)
Wendy Ritson (Centipede violinist, 1934)
Jean Williams (Complex Feminine bassist, 1951)
Bob Newhart (I ripped him off, 1929)
Toumani Diabate (Mali kora master, 1965)
Jerry Miller (He was purple and lived under the sea, 1943)
John Mayall (Bluesbreaker broken at last, 1933)
Irene Schweizer (German jazznius, 1941)
Jack Karlson (Succulent Chinese meal, 1942)
Catherine Ribeiro (Oh! My heart is broken! An angel! A true star!1941)
Anthony O’Neill (Brú naBóinnearchitect)
Pete Bailey (Josefus/Stone Axe vox)
Brian Trueman (Dangermouseman, 1932)
Rebecca Horn (Concerto anarchist, 1944)
James Earl Jones (He made shit sparkle, 1931)
Dean Roberts (Thela-maturgist, 1975)
Brother Marquis (He had 99 problems and a bitch weren’t one, 1966)
Zoot Money (Ran madly towards Tim Kirkby’s dad’s beach hut, 1942)
Herbie Flowers (He walked on the wild side, 1938)
Pat Collier (He vibrated,1952)
Steve Kille (Dead Dead Meadow Man)
Gavin Webb (Master’s Apprentice,1947)
Alan Delon (Man In A Girl On A Motorcycle, 1935)
Maggie Smith (The grande dame!, 1934)
Kris Kristofferson (The Border Lord, 1936)
Tim Darvill (Cotswold archaeologist, 1958)
Irwin the Malmesbury Emu (He loved cold showers and cuddles)
Glen Hutchinson (Cambridge performance poet)
75% of all animal life on earth since 1974 (1974)
Phil Lesh (Bassful Dead, 1940)
Ron Ely (Ooo-e-o-e-o-e-o-e-oooo!, 1938)
Nick Gravenites (Buttered quicksilver, 1938)
Janey Godley (Street level satirist, 1961)
Lou Donaldson (Hornblower, 1926)
American democracy!!! (1965)
Frank Auerbach (Auerbout a painting of Camden please Frank, 1931)
Tim West (He ate royal jelly and turned into a human-bee, 1934)
Roy Haynes (Snap Crackle Bop! 1925)
Pete Sinfield (Crimson King Courtier, 1943)
Johnny Duhan (Granny’s Intention, 1950)
Richard Andrew (Black Cab Underground Lover)
John Prescott (Mr Punch, 1938)
Jim Abrahams (Rapid fire comedy genius, 1944)
Andy Leek (Original midnight runner, 1958)
Slim Dunlap (Replacement Replacement, 1951)
Jimmy Carter (Peanutocrat peacemaker, 1924)