Rockmother

suits you!
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This man definately beat Pink Floyd Shirt man hands down.

pink floyd shirt man
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Well, each to their own but I couldn’t resist a shot of this man on the left – the one wearing a complete copy of the Pink Floyd album cover Dark Side of The Moon on his shirt. I am ashamed to say we smirked quite alot which was really quite pathetic as we have a combined age of 84 between us (I am the younger and evidently more childish one!!). Any die hard fans – you get them from here and they are £33.99 incl. vat!!

fishermans postbox
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Saw this on the quayside at Padstow. I think it might be a post box for fisherman. Something to do with declaring how many fish caught/how many hours been fishing as part of some bizarre EU directive? Not entirely sure. Any ideas anybody? Reminded me of something you would see in an Ealing comedy film.

our sandcastle
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In tune with the solstice we found ourselves in an unspoken Close Encounter style frenzy and created a sandcastle with a difference. Just as we left the beach a toddler ran up and sat on the main arch and knocked over half of it much to the rage of our four year old. Oh well…henge rage in Cornwall lives on.

cornwall
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Been in Padstow, Cornwall for six days – thankfully the six hottest days of the year so far. Gorgeous. London is filthy. Rick Stein is boring. There are a lot of fat people eating icecream at the seaside. More later.

mix tape
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Continuing this week’s theme of the audio cassette – this site is for serious audio cassette buffs. Project C90 is a beautifully curated on-line museum dedicated to the C90 cassette. Truly fabulous and worth a look. The picture is one of mine – I need to check what’s on it as it didn’t originally belong to me. My ex-boyfriend left it when we split up – I don’t know who scribbled out the title.

1984 mix tape
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I recorded this when I was eighteen. As you can see I was getting much more organised. I recorded this off my own records. More coming soon…..

1980 cu kiss tape
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Here’s another one – this was taped off the radio – UK rapping/human beatbox championships. It was cool.

our van mascot
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Been very busy trying to get ahead in the world of documentary lately. Things are going well although all will be revealed next week as I find out shortly whether I am going to get one of my ideas on telly by Sept or not. I’m not saying or thinking about it anymore in case I tempt a rubbish dump of unwanted fate at the end of the telephone sometime soon. It is an interesting project and involves another blogger…..

Anyway, this is our van mascot – he sits on the dash and stops us from crashing and helps us find good parking spaces. My son calls him Banana Head but he is only four so he’s allowed. I put the picture up because I like it.

Anyone remember World Of Twist? A fabulous band – they were hailed as the Roxy Music of the Nineties but disappeared as quickly as they appeared. Such a shame. Quality Street was a brilliant album but one which unfortunately hailed the beginning of their demise. For a start it was produced by The Grid who recorded it at half volume. I always wondered why I had to turn it up to at least 40 to hear it. They were doing copious amounts of coke and E in the studio and smoking skunk for breakfast which apparently according to ex-singer Tony Ogden meant that they had a few problems communicating with each other. That struck a chord with me as years ago I used to work for a company called Music Box making er…music programmes. We used to have an indie show and would bus around the country each week interviewing bands. We went to Manchester to interview the band when they were recording Quality Street and I remember thinking what hard work and how incommunicative they all were. Now I know why!! It then went from bad to worse – the reviews were undeservedly terrible mainly due to the fact it was recorded quietly – music journo’s you should all be ashamed of your whinging selves for that! The band folded and Tony Ogden spent the next few years on smack watching third reich war films (because the good guys won – make of that what you will – he said it not me). He has been glimpsed now and again around Manchester and has just released a 4 track demo from his new band Bubblegum. I bet it’s brilliant.