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I recently took a winter visit to a place I haven't been to for at least 25 years up in North London N8 called Crouch End, I hopped the over ground train from Wanstead Park to Gospel Oak, I had to jump off at Blackhorse Road as the particular train I was on wasn't going as far as I wanted to, so I waited a couple of minutes, got the next one and jumped off at Crouch Hill station and…

What is it about Portsmouth? they seemed, back in the day to punt out such great garage rock/psychobilly bands, some of them are featured on this website at the link 'Garage Rock'. This is another of those fantastic garage style bands from sunny Portsmouth with an infectious riff and a cool garage style you could die in garage rock heaven for. Portsmouth Southsea: Photo by Peter Chiykowski on Unsplash Could Be? The band were called The Mild Mannered Janitors and…

Rocking that whole Kinks 'So Tired Of Waiting'/'All Day & All Of The Night' riff, The Milkshakes aka Thee Milkshakes (and many other variants) with the track 'It's You' released on their own 'Milkshakes' Record Label from 1982. Another one of those no-surname bands that I love so much!😉 Thee Milkshakes were part of the Medway Scene, the Medway being a river in Kent and the 'Medway Towns' surrounding are places such as Rochester, Gillingham, Chatham and Strood, the areas…

Well, it's that time of year again for outdoor explosions (that drive my dog nuts bless him!). Yes in the UK on 5th November it is 'Fireworks Night' preceded also by Diwali celebrations which kicked off on 24th October which also involves a bit of a 'firework-fest'. I have a small feeling with the current economic situation here that local councils may be spending out on as many organized firework displays and also generally most people may 'tone it down'…

Three versions of the same song first by The Strangeloves, The Count Bishops and finally Bow Wow Wow.... The song 'I Want Candy' was originally recorded way back in 1965 by The Strangeloves, a band created by a New York based song writing team. They were: Strangely in the day they pretended to be brothers from a Sheep Farm in Australia, evidently their British Accents weren't much cop! I can only guess that the British and Australian 'invasions' of music…