Re earlier tweet, '4 records from your parents’ collection.' Pt 2:
[I loved the Bocccherini, it contains Minuetto, that Peter Sellers and the mob 'play' in The Ladykillers.
In my early teens I was in my 'prog phase', Carl Orff was to me like a classical version of King Crimson].

This I like ...
'Post 4 records from your parents’ collection.'
Slightly raised eye-brows all round when my Dad unwrapped the Herb Alpert album, Christmas '66.
And I reckon Mum only bought Revolver so us kids could hear it, bless her ❤️

What a voice...
youtube.com/watch?v=uBCtRg…

*Blushes...

Further to yesterday's Hooverville tweet, more discoveries: more of The Christians' lyrics, from the pages of Smash Hits magazine...
I used to love Smash Hits.
1/ Forgotten Town - 25/1/87
2/ When the Fingers Point - 4/11/87
3/ Ideal World - 27/1/88
4/ Born Again - 23/3/88.

John J Campbell on Top of The Pops April 17th 1986, with me in the background miming (hopefully, reasonably convincingly) the harmonica part on It’s Immaterial's 'Driving Away From Home'.
I'm informed this particular episode of TOTP is being shown on BBC 4 tomorrow at 8pm.

‘You boy, what Tory scandal is it today?’

Just been sent this, from Smash Hits July '87, lyrics to @TheChristians' Hooverville.
Coincidentally, I was in York yesterday with co-writer (& dear friend) Mark Herman; we first met at school when we were 8 years old, & we're still writing together (2 songs on my next album).

Evenin’ all!

So enjoyed my 'Evening With' event last night in Llanfechell.
Tall tales, ramshackle versions of songs old and new, and the odd bit of audience haranguing (here's a pic of me doing the latter).
Thanks so much to all who came down.

Professor Danny Blanchflower economist & fisherman UK is in a perfect storm of unhappiness. A country whose govt pushes plastic patriotism constantly but breaks all the things its citizens need and value, making life for them hard and then urging them to blame the even-more-vulnerable…
Misery wrapped up in a Union Flag bow.

Intimate gigs; things like this happen,when your phone goes off in middle of a song to tell you to take your tablets.
That was 2023; I'm back there in Llanfechell next Sat, for another sold out show - & I'll try and remember to take my tablets beFORE the gig.
#reachingacertainage

Great to see Echo & the Echo & the Bunnymen at a packed Liverpool Empire last night, first time I'd seen them since 2016...Mac & Will on form, and they did 'Over The Wall', so that was me happy.

Ghostly pic of John J Campbell and me on L'Pool Art College Fine Art Dept excursion to Coniston, Lake District, 1976.
If I remember rightly, we'd all been banned from the nearest pub within hours of arriving.
#youthfulhighspirits ?

Nôs da pawb/night all.

Happened to press ‘pause’ whilst viewing an excellent documentary…what a great shot.
Name the band…s’easy!

Great to hear my upcoming April 6th Anglesey 'Evening With' show has now sold out.
Better get rehearsing.
#rehearsing ???

Folk fraternity, why isn’t Alasdair Roberts more well known…every album of his is a gem

Perhaps the first song I ever produced
Done in a day in Bury '91
Headed up there with an autoharp & a few production ideas, nervous as anything
Mac & Mike Mooney on guitars, could be me on piano but it sounds a bit good (all that 'up the dusty end' stuff)youtube.com/watch?v=q_qOjL…

Great meeting up with fellow Liverpool Art College alumni (1975 intake)/former members of Yachts & It's Immaterial (early versions), John Campbell & Martin Dempsey.
Amongst topics on th'agenda: trashy garage/psych songs we covered early on, with both bands.
Songs from these LPs.