Sunday, August 23, 2026
Sound Techniques, Chelsea: film, book and podcast | Pete Paphides, Andrew Scheps, Rose Simpson
We were talking (well my old pal Phil was telling me! He is a life long Chelsea fan - warning:football reference!) and knew full well where the studio was (being a top muso too!) and developed an interest as to what they were up to - of course) ) about the soon to be published Sound Techniques book about the historically legendary recording studio and I was happy to stumble across this
Sound Techniques, Chelsea: film, book and podcast
Pete Paphides loves the ladies of Sound Techniques! This week Pete talks about Pentangle and in particular the voice of Jacqui McShee on the two albums they recorded at Sound Techniques, Chelsea.
Soundtechniques: film, book and podcast - Facebook page
https://soundtechniquesmovie.square.site/
Last week we had Pete Paphides on his favourite Nick Drake album. This week we have Andrew Scheps (Red Hot Chili Peppers, Jay-Z, Beyonce, Adele) on his favourite Nick Drake album, 'Pink Moon'.
Rose Simpson (The Incredible String Band) talks about how she saw the role of producer Joe Boyd working with Mike Heron and Robin Williamson at Sound Techniques.
Birthdays: Edwyn Collins
Happy birthday to Edwyn Collins born in Edinburgh on this day in 1959.
Orange Juice - A Girl Like You
Live at TFI Friday, 1994
The Be Good Tanyas : “The Littlest Birds” 25th Anniversary edition (sic!) I know right!? on the way | Blue Horse
BETTER EVERY DAY posted a nice picture
So . . . . .
“The Littlest Birds” 🐦From the original music video, all these years later.Blue Horse (25th Anniversary Edition) coming soon . . . . .
IN MEMORIUM | FRANK BEARD - from John French La Grange [IN RUSSIAN!] SARAYUSHKA!
Drumbo posted this extraordinary track!
TURN IT UP!
Crazy Backwards Alphabet from s/t album, 1986: Sarayushka ('La Grange' in Russian)
"In memory of Frank Beard. I went over to listen to CBA in a session, and they talked me into sitting on on this Russian version of La Grange. Swedish drummer Michael Maksymenko sang it, but he didn't have a "feel" for shuffles and asked me if I'd give it a go. They ran down the sections and we did one take, as I recall. I'd never played anything by ZZ Top before. It was a fun afternoon. Frank Beard held the groove down incredibly well. R.I.P."
JOHN FRENCH
BUSTED! This month in Rock History
Paul McCartney and Linda McCartney getting arrested in Gothenburg, Sweden, 10 August 1972.
Photo by Joe Stevens.
Looks like Linda’s about to sort them ALL out!
Remembering the blues legend John Lee Hooker (August 22, 1912 or 1917 – June 21, 2001) | Don’s Tunes
Remembering the blues legend John Lee Hooker (August 22, 1912 or 1917 – June 21, 2001)
“You can’t handle success if you ain’t paid some dues. Some of them get the big heads, the ego-trip — you can’t talk to ’em. If you got it the hard way, you know how you got it. You appreciate the people that put you there at the top. You look at your public. They is the one that put you where you is at. That’s why I’m always takin' time out to talk to my fans, have a little drink with them or whatever”
(NME, 1976)
Photo courtesy of Getty Images
John Lee Hooker & The Groundhogs perform I'm Leaving (The Beat Room, Oct 05, 1964)
Saturday, August 22, 2026
Favourite scene in a Movie Number ONE: Withnail Hamlet’s Soliloquy
Withnail and I... Hamlet Soliloquy
I have of late, but whereforeI know not, lost all my mirthand indeed, it goes so heavily with my disposition;that this goodly frame the Earth, seemes to me a sterrillPromontory; this most excellent Canopy the Ayre,look you, this brave ore-hanging firmament,this Majestical Roof,fretted with golden fire: why,it appeares no other thingto me, then a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.What a piece of work is a man,How noble in Reason, how infinite in faculties,how like an angel in apprehensionhow like a God !the beauty of the world,the paragon of animals. and yet to me,what is this quintessence of dust?Man delights not me; no,nor Woman neither;
—The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (Act II, Scene ii, 285-300)
Richard E. Grant and Bruce Robinson on WITHNAIL AND I
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