My reflection today

August 10th 2025 My reflection today

10th, August 2025, Date, Days, Dream Pop, Electronica, Emo, FMS Photo A Day, Indie, Music, Portraiture, Psychedelia, Pump Up, Punk, Selfies, Sunday, , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

My reflection todayMy reflection today – not particularly inspired but there you go.  Bleach the bathroom floor… C a wee bit stressed by the toilet which she is convinced is leaking.

Music

  1. Marshmallow Coast – Antistar
  2. Marshmallow Coast – Vangelis Rides Again
  3. Marshmallow Coast – Marshmallow Coasting
  4. Marshmallow Coast – Seniors & Juniors Strikes Back
  5. Marshmallow Coast – Ride the Lightning
  6. Marshmallow Coast – Marshmallow Coast
  7. Marshmallow Coast – Seniors and Juniors
  8. Marshmallow Coast – Say It In Slang
  9. Marshmallow Coast – Phreak Phantasy
  10. Marshmallow Coast – Memory Girl
  11. Katie Lass – Hypnopomp
  12. Katie Lass – Sunshine1 // Long Window
  13. Is/Ought Gap – SUA
  14. Outer World – Coming Down
  15. Outer World – Who Does The Music Love?
  16. Dahlia Seed – Survived By
  17. Dahlia Seed – Valentine Kid’s Litter
  18. Dahlia Seed – Please Excuse All the Blood
  19. The 17th – Unreleased post-Dahlia Seed project

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Shapes in the clouds

August 3rd 2025 Shapes in the clouds

3rd, Abstract, August 2025, Date, Days, Dream Pop, FMS Photo A Day, Folk, Indie, Music, Photos, Sunday, , , , , , , , , , ,

Shapes in the cloudsShapes in the clouds. Up and prepare a tomato sauce for tonight’s dinner.  Not overly happy with it but it’ll have to do.  Work and it’s not a stellar day.

Music

  1. The Orange Peels – Trespassing
  2. The Orange Peels – Begin the Begone
  3. The Orange Peels – Circling the Sun
  4. The Orange Peels – Dreams Keep Me Awake, Vol. 1
  5. The Orange Peels – Dreams Keep Me Awake, Vol. 2
  6. The Orange Peels – Square³
  7. The Orange Peels – So Far
  8. The Orange Peels – Embers [Single + Remixes]
  9. Allen Clapp And His Orchestra – Mixed Greens (Mastered for Analog)
  10. Allen Clapp And His Orchestra – One Hundred Percent Chance Of Rain
  11. Allen Clapp – Six Seasons
  12. Allen Clapp – Something Strange Happens (Four Track Forecasts by Allen Clapp 1990 2000)
  13. Nick Drake – The John Peel Session EP

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Hidden gem

27th July 2025 Hidden gem

27th, Date, Days, FMS Photo A Day, Indie, July 2025, Mod, Music, Photos, Pop, Psychedelia, Reggae, Soul, Street Photography, Sunday, , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Hidden gemHidden gem

Music

  1. Burning Spear – Creation Rebel: The Original Classic Recordings From Studio One
  2. Michael Stipe – In The Sun EP
  3. Paul Weller – Find El Dorado
  4. Pete Astor – Unsent Letters – Home Recordings 1984-2024
  5. Andy Bopp – Camera
  6. Andy Bopp – Space Camp
  7. Andy Bopp – I Am A Jetfighter
  8. Andy Bopp – Bicycle Parts
  9. Andy Bopp – Wherewithal
  10. Andy Bopp – Time To Rock!
  11. Andy Bopp – Tower City Vol. 1
  12. Andy Bopp – Maker (The Album)
  13. Andy Bopp – King Of The Day
  14. Andy Bopp – AB
  15. Andy Bopp – Blisters And Thorns
  16. Andy Bopp – Maker The Single
  17. Andy Bopp – Push And Pull
  18. Andy Bopp – An Andy Bopp Compendium Reimagined and Compiled by Nick Bertling

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Worn

July 20th Worn

20th, Date, Days, FMS Photo A Day, Indie, July 2025, Music, Punk, Sunday, , , , , , , ,

WornWorn

Music

  1. Voxtrot – Early Music
  2. Voxtrot – Esprit De Cur
  3. Voxtrot – Mothers, Sisters, Daughters & Wives EP
  4. Voxtrot – They Never Mean What They Say
  5. Voxtrot – Cut from the Stone: Rarities & B Sides
  6. Voxtrot – New World Romance
  7. Voxtrot – Another Fire
  8. Voxtrot – My Peace
  9. Voxtrot – Blood Red Blood 7
  10. Voxtrot – L’adieu А L’ete! EP
  11. Voxtrot – Trouble
  12. Voxtrot – Your Biggest Fan EP
  13. Pete Bentham and the Dinner Ladies – Is there life in Rhyl?

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Contrast

July 13th Contrast

13th, Concert, Date, Days, FMS Photo A Day, Indie, July 2025, Music, Photos, Pop, Psychedelia, Sunday, , , , , , , , , , ,

ContrastContrast

Music

  1. X-Machina – Stoat Hall
  2. X-Machina – Gods From The Sky
  3. Childe Roland – Discover An Evil Fetish
  4. Great Plains – Length of Growth 1981-89 (vol. 1)
  5. Great Plains – Length of Growth 1981-89 (vol. 2)
  6. Great Plains – Slaves To Rock N Roll
  7. Great Plains – Corn Flakes
  8. Great Plains – Live at WFMU
  9. Great Plains – Live At The Electric Banana, Pittsburgh, 1985

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Fave corner

July 6th Fave corner

6th, Architecture, Date, Days, Dream Pop, FMS Photo A Day, Folk, Indie, July 2025, Music, Photos, Psychedelia, Streetart, Sunday, , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Fave cornerFave corner

Music

  1. Present Electric – Present Electric
  2. Present Electric – The Continuous Monument
  3. Present Electric – Where Success Means More
  4. Present Electric – In Two Moods
  5. Present Electric – It’s Happening
  6. The Milky Baskets – Native Lands EP
  7. The Milky Baskets – B​ ​sides & Rarities
  8. The Milky Baskets – Paisley Shirts Are In
  9. The Milky Baskets – American Folk Ballads
  10. The Milky Baskets – Infinite Gifts EP
  11. The Milky Baskets – How I Learned to Stop Complaining and Love the Fog

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My mood in object form

29th June My mood in object form

29th, Date, Days, FMS Photo A Day, Food, Indie, June 2025, Music, Photos, Pop, Portraiture, Psychedelia, Sunday, , , , , , , , , , , ,

My mood in object formMy mood in object form… well it had to be didn’t is. Cash in the spotlight points today in preparation for planned camera.  Most of it arrives today, some batteries on Wednesday.  Bit of a bizarre day, lazy start, cold still evident but slightly less knackered than I have been.  Light shop, coffee with C, S and R.  Pasta planned for tea.

Planning a GR III bit of a replacement job for the GR IIID.

Purchase

  1. Batteries x 5
  2. 256GB SD Card
  3. Lens Cap
  4. Camera Case
  5. Paracord Wrist Strap
  6. Molle Bag
  7. Tabletop Tripod

Music

  1. The Third Mind – The Third Mind
  2. The Third Mind – Live Mind
  3. The Third Mind – The Third Mind 2
  4. The Third Mind – East West (Tchad Blake Remix)
  5. The Soft Boys – I Wanna Destroy You / Near The Soft Boys
  6. The Mayflies USA – Kickless Kids
  7. The Mayflies USA – Live at Yep Roc 15 The Mayflies USA
  8. The Mayflies USA – Walking In A Straight Line
  9. The Mayflies USA – The Mayflies USA
  10. Scissor Sisters – Night Work
  11. Scissor Sisters – Ta-Dah

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Too Many Mugs

June 22nd Too many mugs

21st, Date, Days, FMS Photo A Day, Food, Garage, Indie, June 2025, Music, Photos, Pop, Psychedelia, Punk, Shoegaze, Street Photography, Sunday, , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Too Many MugsToo many mugs, there’s always too many mugs.  Back in for the last early of the week and then we have 4 lates before the bliss of 4 days off.  Ash is away this week so Lib’ll step up.

Jump on the bus and the driver let’s it turn itself off, can’t turn the bugger on again so any chance of a grabbed coffee in Wigan has gone. Bugger…

Music

  1. Papercuts – Baxter’s Bliss EP
  2. Papercuts – Can’t Go Back
  3. Papercuts – Covers
  4. Papercuts – Kathleen Says
  5. Papercuts – Life Among the Savages
  6. Papercuts – Mokingbird
  7. Papercuts – Past Life Regression
  8. Papercuts – You Can Have What You Want
  9. Papercuts – You Can Have What You Want Demos
  10. Papercuts – Parallel Universe Blues
  11. Frankie Rose – Interstellar (extended Reissue)
  12. Frankie Rose – Love As Projection
  13. Frankie Rose – Red Museum
  14. Chime School – Coming To Your Town
  15. The Smashing Times – Bloom
  16. The Smashing Times – Come Along With Me
  17. The Smashing Times – Dreams on Union B/W A Changing Letter
  18. The Smashing Times – Mrs Ladyships and the Cleanerhouse Boys
  19. The Smashing Times – Summer Inside
  20. The Smashing Times – This Sporting Life

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Found it like this

June 15th Found it like this

15th, Beat, Date, Days, FMS Photo A Day, Garage, Indie, June 2025, Music, Photos, Sunday, , , , , , , , , ,

Found it like thisFound it like this… after a couple of hours in the oven.  Fathers day apparently, card sent to the ‘rents.  Cal wishes me a happy fathers day and Stephen and Ryan supply beer and chocolate.  C supplies beer.  All of it is much appreciated.

Music

  1. Meme – Blah, Blah, Blah
  2. The Snails – Little Demon
  3. Tracy Bryant – Drag
  4. Tracy Bryant – Parachute / Protect Your Head
  5. Tracy Bryant – Subterranean
  6. Tracy Bryant – Between Us
  7. Tracy Bryant – A Place For Nothing And Everything In Its Place
  8. Tracy Bryant – The Little Things
  9. Tracy Bryant – I’m Not There
  10. Tracy Bryant – S/T
  11. Tracy Bryant & Jeremy Katz – Candy Sky
  12. Jeanines – Demos
  13. Jeanines – Acoustic
  14. Jeanines – Latest Light / After All

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Something suss

May 8th Something suss

8th, Architecture, Date, Days, Electronica, FMS Photo A Day, Funk, Garage, Indie, June 2025, Music, Photos, Punk, Reggae, Sunday, , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Something sussSomething Suss… surveillance culture, me watching you, watching me.  It’s all a bit disconcerting!

Music

  1. Dawn Sev – 55!
  2. Dawn Sev – Tart
  3. The Big Small Boy – Asimov
  4. The Big Small Boy – Time For Sleep
  5. The Big Small Boy – The Watershed
  6. The Big Small Boy – Every Single Both Of Us
  7. The Big Small Boy – Christmas Summer
  8. Lunchbox – Evolver
  9. Peel Dream Magazine – Demos
  10. Peel Dream Magazine – Modern Meta Physic
  11. Peel Dream Magazine – Magic Is Pocketed
  12. Peel Dream Magazine – Rose Main Reading Room
  13. Peel Dream Magazine – Moral Panics
  14. Peel Dream Magazine – Up and Up EP
  15. Peel Dream Magazine – Pad
  16. Peel Dream Magazine – Agitprop Alterna
  17. Dub Narcotic Sound System – Fuck Shit Up

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