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Tag Archives: John Peel

Here’s Where The Story Begins: The Sundays’ Reading, Writing and Arithmetic at 25.

In my teens being there mattered. Having, or at least knowing about, the latest album RIGHT NOW was crucial. To my shame I was late to the Cure and late to the Smiths and countless others. But with the Sundays I got there bang on time. As soon as their first album was released in early 1990 I went out and bought it. That made them mine.

January 21, 2015 in Music, Records.

Here’s How Records Give You More Of What You Want

This sleeve is a genuine piece of history, and in it’s own stiff way everything it says about the value of LPs still holds true…

October 20, 2012 in Music, Records.

John Peel’s record collection online

You can now you can explore John Peel’s personal record collection online at this charming site.

May 1, 2012 in Music, Records.

Record Store Day – Here’s to Revolver Records, Bristol.

As a teenager in the eighties my hometown seemed blessed with a surprising variety of record shops, but I always saw Revolver as the one true emporium of cool.

April 15, 2011 in Books, Bristol, Music, Records.

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  • Ad Cochrane
  • Backlisted Podcast
  • Fife Psychogeography
  • Ink Cap Journal
  • Landscapism
  • Lines of Landscape
  • The Cofa's Tree
  • The Lazarus Corporation
  • The Stone and the star
  • The Willowherb Review

Blogroll

  • Hope Not Hate
  • UK Feminista

Bookshops

  • Big Green Bookshop
  • Bookmongers of Brixton
  • Books Are My Bag
  • Bookseller Crow
  • Dulwich Books
  • Kirkdale Bookshop
  • Skoob
  • Topping & Company

Green spaces & environmental projects

  • A people's manifesto for wildlife
  • Adventures in Conservation
  • Camley Street Natural Park
  • Great North Wood project
  • Greater London National Park City
  • Ink Cap Journal
  • Narroways Millennium Green Trust
  • Notes from Near and Far
  • Open Orchard Project

Landscape, place, folklore, history

  • Anatomy of Norbiton
  • Caught by the river
  • Cities and Memory
  • Common Ground
  • Earth Lines magazine
  • East of Elvedon
  • Elsewhere Journal
  • Ephemeral New York
  • Folklore Thursday
  • Ideal-homes: Suburbia in focus
  • Love London Council Housing
  • Municipal Dreams
  • Psychogeographic review
  • Sound Around You – Sound map of Britain
  • Tales of the city
  • The London Sound Survey
  • The Lost Byway
  • The Marshman Chronicles
  • The Midnight Run
  • The Museum of Thin Objects

Prose n' poetry, Art n' photography,

  • Backlisted Podcast
  • Book me book blog
  • Bundle of Books
  • Diana J Hale Blog
  • Frames of Reference
  • My Pinterest boards
  • Poet's Directory
  • Poetry Landmarks
  • Slightly Foxed
  • The Willowherb Review
  • Wormwoodiana

Records and Music

  • British Record Shop Archive
  • Flashback Records
  • For Folk's Sake
  • Friends with both arms
  • John Peel's record collection online
  • My "This is my Jam" selections
  • Plankton Productions
  • The Quietus
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