FIRST SLEEP - James Rigby
Sorry not to have posted too much today but I was still reeling in the shock of hearing about the loss of dear Glen Hansard so we will leave it here with a piece from James called ‘First Sleep'
Wednesday, July 29, 2026
Van Morrison - Beside You (Astral Weeks) | jt1674
Astral Weeks for the longest time perhaps my favourite album of all time and despite recently falling out with the views of an ignorant old man reconstituting old R’n’B and vaunting ignorant insane anti-science views and blaming it on freedom . . . . . this remains
Glen Hansard, Marketa Irglova - Falling Slowly
where it all began . . . for me . . . . . Glen meant a great deal to me since seeing him in the film for which he won the Oscar for this song.
I hadn’t spotted him that I recall in The Commitments where he started proper but since the wonderful ‘Once’ with his partner in song in The Swell Season, Marketa Irglova, their heartfelt song 'Falling Slowly' deserved its oscar for sure and I then followed his six album's worth of work with then band The Frames.
Glen sang at Shane MacGowan’s funeral most lately moving there everyone to tears, a unique and peerless star has gone out, we will not see his like again . . . and out saddest heartfelt best wishes go out to his wife, Maire and family, loved ones, extended family and many countless colleagues
Glen Hansard, Marketa Irglova - Falling Slowly
Luke Cyrus Goetze plays us a bit o’ The Boss
Luke says:
Let’s hope the Boss approves.
Tuning is the usual GBDF♯AD.
Thanks for watching!
What’s not to like . . . . . ?
THE BAND - RAG MAMA RAG!All Star Folk Jam Capitol Theatre, Passaic, New Jersey, June 1984
THE BAND - RAG MAMA RAG!
Richard Manuel, Rick Danko, Levon Helm, Richie Havens, John Sebastian, and Jesse Colin Young performing "Rag Mam Rag" at the All-Star Folk Jam at the Capitol Theater, Passaic, New Jersey, June 1984
Farquhar Throckmorton III presents False Memory Foam | JIM MORRISON OF THE DOORS
Jim Morrison
Mission Statement: to do very little, for very few, for not very long. Disappointing the easily pleased since 1819. Not as good as it used to be from Day One. History is Bunk - PT Barnum. Artificially Intelligent before it was fashionable. Fat camp for the mind! Nothing lasts, but nothing is lost. The Shock of the Old! Often bettered, never imitated. "Wenn du lange in einen Abgrund blickst, blickt der Abgrund auch in dich hinein" - Carrot Top.
An American Prayer - Jim Morrison The Doors
As the country (planet} is on fire . . . .this seemed relevant not to say prophetic!
“What have they done to the earth?What have they done to our fair sister?Ravaged and plundered and ripped her and bit herStuck her with knives in the side of the dawnAnd tied her with fences and dragged her down”
The Doors - When The Music's Over (Official Video) 1968
sonicandvisualsurprises : Love’s A Disease : Y Pants
LOVE’S A DISEASE - Y PANTS
1982
Love hurts.
Y Pants make it sound fun
The symptoms? Spiky guitars, offbeat hooks, and an irresistible urge to hit repeat.
Tuesday, July 28, 2026
Ólafur Arnalds - Þau Hafa Sloppið Undan Þunga Myrkursins | HERBERG DE KELLER
Might bring the day to a close with this Herberg de Kwlswe found it with these guys
who say:
thismustbetheplace-:Ólafur Arnalds - Þau Hafa Sloppið Undan Þunga Myrkursins
This really is damn beautiful. "
Ólafur Arnalds Þau Hafa Sloppið Undan Þunga Myrkursins
HERBERG DE KELLER
Aztec Camera: High Land, Hard Rain 1983 | URBANASPIRINES - A Kostas Special!
Lifelong Roddy Frame fan and sort of appreciated Aztec Camera but Roddy’s solo work is peerless in my belief and have pretty much everything solo. I have mentioned before I am sure but this profile from Kostas over at Urbanaspirines of his time with Aztec Camera in one of their very best albums is most welcome
Enjoy! I did!
Aztec Camera: High Land, Hard Rain 1983
Kostas says:
Aztec Camera were formed in East Kilbride in 1980 by Roddy Frame and drummer David Mulholland after they had left the punk-inspired band Neutral Blue. Eclectic, intelligent, and well-crafted pop from Scotland featuring Roddy Frame and a rotating band of accompanists. Aztec Camera first appeared on a Glasgow cassette-only compilation of local unsigned bands on the Pungent
Records label, affiliated with the Fumes fanzine run by Danny Easson and John Gilhooly. The band's first United Kingdom (UK) single release was sold in a 7" format by Postcard Records—a Glasgow-based independent record label cofounded by Edwyn Collins and Alan Horne—in 1981. The single featured the song "Just Like Gold" and a B-side entitled "We Could Send Letters"; an acoustic version of the latter song appeared on a compilation album, entitled C81, that was released on cassette in 1981 through a partnership between NME magazine and Rough Trade Records. Frame, aged 16 years, met Collins for the first time during the Postcard period when the latter was 21 years old. . . . . . .
Aztec Camera - Walk Out To Winer 9.12 minute extended play version
as Kostas mentions
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