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The Pop Art Experience Tune In, Turn On, Trip Out. Be warned this post contains a mix of different music genres from back in the day! It was all packaged up on a simple cassette entitled 'Against The Tide'. I have to say I honestly don't miss cassettes that much, they were usually a bit hit and miss in terms of snagging up and unravelling, they were however, at the time, fantastic to some degree back in the day for…

🎅The Ghost Of Christmas Presents Past So, I was 'avin a sort out downstairs the other week, rummaging around in my baubles and I came upon this in me trinkets.... Now, oooh!, noooo, 'ere, listen, Misssus, titter ye not etc, etc...K-Tel, how fantastic! Kittens On A Ball Of Wool I came upon this whilst sorting out at home, on cassette and surprisingly it is still intact! Unfortunately I don't have a cassette player anymore, still never mind in my memory…

Early Jools Jools Holland and one of his early session piano performances was playing Boogie Woogie on the Wayne/Jayne County song ‘F*ck Off’ from the E.P. ‘Blatantly Offenzive’. The band originally being known as Wayne County and The Electric Chairs. The E.P. was released in the U.K. on the Safari Record label in 1978, it was first released as just a 7" single on the Sweet FA Label a year earlier in 1977. He also played similar style piano for…

Riyadh - Life In Riyadh.... Released in 1986 on the 'Look What's Coming To The Surface Volume One: Home Grown' compilation on the Sick Squid record label. Really struggled to find out anything about this band at all, anyone who can fill me in with some information would be good. I assume this was a one off by them. More information on the track listing at: https://www.discogs.com/de/Various-Look-Whats-Coming-To-The-Surface-Volume-One-Home-Grown/release/1449077 Photo by Safaa Almohandis on Unsplash Video thanks to xxxclaudexxx@youtube

'Avon Calling: The Bristol Compilation', originally released in 1979 on the Heartbeat/Cherry Red Labels. It was re-released in 2005 as a 2 CD Collection and featured the track below by a Bristol based, female fronted band called The Skodas. The Compilation also included one of the B Side tracks called simply 'Mouth'. It also contained other Bristol based gems such a Vice Squad, The Gl*xo Babies and The Stingrays. More information about the album and track listing at https://musicbrainz.org The Skodas…