"Collington Manor, the Middlesex Edward VII Memorial Fund Children's Hostel, which closed in March on the creation of the Greater London Authority, and which has since been sold to a development company." Bexhill Observer 1.1.1966. #Collington #Bexhill #Sussex #ThrowbackThursday #History #1960s

Brigid Dawson will be joining Osees on every tour date of 2026. No festival shows.

This is incredible news! Merry Christmas!

#osees #theeohsees #brigiddawson #deathgodrecords #deathgod #johndwyer #timhellman #danrincon #paulquattrone #tomasdolas

Please entertain my idea for a band playing straight middle-of-the-road soft rock who only perform at experimental music festivals.

Their name: The Control Group.

(Extracted to my blog because I’m rather proud of it and no-one seemed to notice my brilliance.)

Thee Oh Sees - Humans Be Swayed - 2013-05-15 - L'Antipode, Rennes, France

#theeohsees #johndwyer #brigiddawson #peteydammit #mikeshoun #oseesarchive #garagerock

Watford FC Dressing Room, 1953 by Hubert Andrew Freeth (1913-1986).

(Yes, Watford used to have a blue home kit.)

I'm pro-union because I think workers should organize to balance the power that business owners have in various negotiations. It's true that unions have been weakened, but it's not because of multiculturalism. I would argue, it's because people seek to exploit divisions for their material interests.

A busy, bustling half term day at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve. Ringed Plover poo-ee. Lapwings peewit. Wigeons whistle. Black-headed Gulls karr. Sun breaking through cloud.

When I worked in the City of London I regularly had lunch close to where William Blake is buried

‘Close to’ because as the first tombstone says, they didn’t actually know

Well now they do, and I had lunch with Bill yesterday

Fork candles.

Creepy Sci-fi psych animation with a motorik beat from Osees' John Dwyer youtube.com/watch?v=AEJG...

A clean copy of The Fall’s exhilarating performance of Totally Wired, New York 1981. Fabulous!