I Can See You - by Paddy Summerfield c. 1986

Friday, October 02, 2026

Cara Delevingne: Crazy, Baby [Not Normal] | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

 So we looked at young Cara playing guitar on the Jimmy Fallon and we wondered . . .. . . so here’s the answer and yes, gall can PLAY!

Cara Delevingne: Crazy, Baby | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

16 PINS - THE MISTAKES | sonicandvisualsurprises

 16 Pins 

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16 PINS - THE MISTAKES 

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1981

A brilliant little collision of punk attitude and pop instincts

The Mistakes were an all-female Oxford band whose brief recording career left behind this wonderfully catchy 1981 single. 

Judy Parsons played drums and sang backing vocals in The Mistakes, before moving on to The Bodysnatchers and later The Belle Stars.



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Pop Flash Back!

Band picture of the day!? 
THE CURE 1982

young young young

Friday you say?

Well heck time to get ready to go dancin’ fo’ sure 


Hey, Hey!

Thursday, October 01, 2026

Brian Eno - Spirits Drifting [Another Green World] | jt1674

  . . . . .with great cover Art by Tom Phillips (yes yes another hero!) . . .so I might sign off the day with this from a favourite Eno Album

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The Levon Helm Band Newport Folk Festival, Fort Adams State Park, Newport, RI, 8-3-2008 | Albums That Should Exist

 

Newport Folk Festival, Fort Adams State Park, Newport, RI, 8-3-2008 - The Levon Helm Band

Paul says: Here's another album from the 2008 Newport Folk Festival. This time, it's a set by the Levon Helm Band.

Levon Helm is best known as the main lead singer and drummer for the Band. But since the Band first broke up around 1977, he's had a long solo career as well. Unfortunately though, by the time of this concert, he was showing signs of physical decline, which can be heard in his voice. He would die four years later, in 2012, at the age of 71. He still generally sounded like you'd expect here, though. And he spread the lead vocals duties around a bit, letting some other members of his band sing a couple of songs, including one by his daughter Amy Helm. Generally, the songs were a mix of those from his solo albums, plus some classics by the Band.

As usual for this festival, the sound is excellent, while everything is unreleased. However, there was a problem with the first song, "The Same Thing," since the first thirty seconds or so were missing. I found another concert from the same year, at the Bonnaroo Festival, and used that to patch in the missing bit. That's why that one song has "[Edit]" in its title. 

This album is an hour and six minutes long. 

01 The Same Thing [Edit] (Levon Helm Band)
02 Ophelia (Levon Helm Band)
03 talk (Levon Helm Band)
04 Fannie Mae (Levon Helm Band)
05 talk (Levon Helm Band)
06 Love Played a Game (Levon Helm Band)
07 talk (Levon Helm Band)
08 Long Black Veil (Levon Helm Band)
09 talk (Levon Helm Band)
10 Got Me a Woman (Levon Helm Band)
11 Ashes of Love (Levon Helm Band)
12 Anna Lee (Levon Helm Band)
13 talk (Levon Helm Band)
14 Deep Elem Blues (Levon Helm Band)
15 Rag Mama Rag (Levon Helm Band)
16 The Shape I'm In (Levon Helm Band)
17 Chest Fever (Levon Helm Band)
18 talk (Levon Helm Band)
19 The Weight (Levon Helm Band with Gillian Welch & David Rawlings)


The Levon Helm Band - Ophelia - 8/3/2008 - Newport Folk Festival (Official)


The Levon Helm Band - Got Me A Woman - 8/3/2008 - Newport Folk Festival (Official)
(In fairness I did post this the other day but heck, I can’t resist it - Levon and band are having SUCH fun!


The Levon Helm Band - Fannie Mae - 8/3/2008 - Newport Folk Festival (Official)

I think pretty much the entire Newport 2008 set is on YouTube but heck you wanna download the whole lot you can’t better’n Pauls here!

Gillian Welch & David Rawlings - Newport Folk Festival, Fort Adams State Park, Newport, RI, 8-3-2008 | Albums That Should Exist

 Newport Folk Festival, Fort Adams State Park, Newport, RI, 8-3-2008 - Gillian Welch & David Rawlings

Paul he say: Here's another album from the 2008 Newport Folk Festival. This time, it's a set by Gillian Welch and David Rawlings. Technically, it was billed just as a Gillian Welch performance, but David Rawlings played a prominent role. Since they have usually been billed a duo in the years since, I did that here to be consistent with other albums I may post from them.

As usual, the music here is unreleased and the sound quality is excellent. However, there was a problem with the last song, "Jackson." I was able to patch the problem though. That's why that one song has "[Edit]" in its title.

Speaking of "Jackson," it's one of two cover versions here. The other one is "Gone at Last."

This album is an hour and one minute long.

01 talk by emcee 
02 Look at Miss Ohio 
03 talk
04 I Want to Sing That Rock and Roll
05 talk 
06 Lawman 
07 talk 
08 My First Lover
09 talk 
10 No One Knows My Name 
11 talk 
12 Throw Me a Rope 
13 Gamblin' Man 
14 talk 
15 Red Clay Halo 
16 talk 
17 Knuckleball Catcher 
18 talk 
19 Sweet Tooth
20 Orphan Girl 
21 talk 
22 Gone at Last 
23 talk 
24 Jackson [Edit] 

(all tracks Gillian Welch & David Rawlings)

Gillian Welch & David Rawlings - Red Clay Halo - 8/3/2008 - Newport Folk Festival (Official)

The Levon Helm Band + Gillian Welch David Rawlings & friends - The Weight @ The Newport Folk Festival (Aug 3, 2008)

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David Byrne Newsletter October 2026 {Portugal}

I first heard the music of  Cape Verde through the majestic voice of Cesaria Evora the first time I went to New York. Sidling into a chic little bar in Manhattan a short walk from my hotel I heard this extraordinary sound and had to ask the bar person what on earth was the music . . . . it was Cesaria and as soon as I went home I bought all I could find. Magical, soulful danceable and so somehow effortlessly beautiful 


Portugal commended a world straddling empire. As often happens with colonies and empires, the colonized end up colonizing the colonizer. Well, culturally, to some extent. So artists from Sao Tome, Cabo Verde, Angola and other places around the world have either moved to Lisbon or had a profound influence on the music of the former colonizer. 

What we think of as local Portuguese music isn’t without roots of influences either - I can hear traces of Arabic music in vocals and the trills of the Portuguese guitar. 

There is also a younger generation who grew up in this melting pot and takes for granted that it is all Portuguese music. I have a personal connection with some of them - Bia Maria opened for us on our Portuguese show, and the late Waldemar Bastos was on Luaka Bop for a while.

(I have left the biggest colony of all out- Brazil- needless to say Brazil gets its own playlist)

- David Byrne

 

Listen to this month's playlist on:

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My new book SLEEPING BEAUTIES is out Oct 6th! 

+ NEW BOOK TOUR DATES added

More Info HERE

For these events I'm doing a one-hour talk with slides that will include a few of the sleeping beauties stories from the book and, as a bonus, a few newly written-up stories that are not in the book but are just as surprising. The process of putting this talk together has inspired me. I'm beginning to see what the implications of this lost and found process are

– David Byrne

"Who Is The Sky?" Deluxe Edition - is now available on all streaming platforms - LISTEN HERE


Paul McCartney & Wings - Junior’s Farm (One Hand Clapping) | jt1674

 

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