Pete Paphides
@petepaphides.bsky.social
It may look to the untrained eye, I'm sitting on my arse all day.
https://www.patreon.com/c/NeedleMythology
https://www.patreon.com/c/NeedleMythology
Reposted by Pete Paphides
It's what he would have wanted.
November 10, 2025 at 9:19 AM
It's what he would have wanted.
Reposted by Pete Paphides
Anyone who's into that will also understand how and why bands like Caravan, Soft Machine and Gong evolved. And then how the French scene started to produce it's own jazz with Sclavis, Texier, Humier, Portal and others. Great period in music, shame it all disappeared.
November 10, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Anyone who's into that will also understand how and why bands like Caravan, Soft Machine and Gong evolved. And then how the French scene started to produce it's own jazz with Sclavis, Texier, Humier, Portal and others. Great period in music, shame it all disappeared.
It's impossible to be too cool for some schools.
Great article Pete. If you can, check out the theme music to 1960s tv series Public Eye youtu.be/WHE18FF4eUY?...
I was lucky enough to see Graham Collier back in 1970 with Harry Beckett at my local school, a great evening.
I was lucky enough to see Graham Collier back in 1970 with Harry Beckett at my local school, a great evening.
1965 TV ~ 'Public Eye' Theme
YouTube video by Hapslein Skoog
youtu.be
November 10, 2025 at 8:24 AM
It's impossible to be too cool for some schools.
A few words in celebration of the first flourishing of British jazz and Richard Morton Jack's incredible, indispensable Labyrinth book. www.patreon.com/posts/britis...
“British jazzers seemed way more fun to be around than my parents. They looked like they had wild parties and drank Chianti in tear-shaped bottles whilst whilst having a fag on the go at all times.” ...
Get more from Pete Paphides on Patreon
www.patreon.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:04 AM
A few words in celebration of the first flourishing of British jazz and Richard Morton Jack's incredible, indispensable Labyrinth book. www.patreon.com/posts/britis...
This afternoon from 2pm, we're going to party like it's, um, 1980 in the heart of London, with all ticket proceeds going to Beauty Banks. What greater incentive to postpone the Christmas shopping?
November 8, 2025 at 11:28 AM
This afternoon from 2pm, we're going to party like it's, um, 1980 in the heart of London, with all ticket proceeds going to Beauty Banks. What greater incentive to postpone the Christmas shopping?
Today, a few words about this frankly devastating performance by Lena Zavaroni.
www.patreon.com/posts/lena-z...
www.patreon.com/posts/lena-z...
Lena Zavaroni's S.O.S. to the world: “When the comforting facade of light entertainment is ripped apart to reveal all the dread and fear that is antithetical to it.” | Pete Paphides
Get more from Pete Paphides on Patreon
www.patreon.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Today, a few words about this frankly devastating performance by Lena Zavaroni.
www.patreon.com/posts/lena-z...
www.patreon.com/posts/lena-z...
I'm on a northbound groovy train* for tonight's launch for Paul McCartney's Wings – The Story Of a Band On The Run at Waterstones. I think my fellow panellist @quantick.bsky.social might be on the same train.
*Peter Hooton from The Farm (not to be confused with Junior's Farm) is also on the panel
*Peter Hooton from The Farm (not to be confused with Junior's Farm) is also on the panel
November 6, 2025 at 2:07 PM
I'm on a northbound groovy train* for tonight's launch for Paul McCartney's Wings – The Story Of a Band On The Run at Waterstones. I think my fellow panellist @quantick.bsky.social might be on the same train.
*Peter Hooton from The Farm (not to be confused with Junior's Farm) is also on the panel
*Peter Hooton from The Farm (not to be confused with Junior's Farm) is also on the panel
Four decades on, I think I find Ted Chippington's Pebble Mill At One performance funnier than ever.
www.patreon.com/posts/well-i...
www.patreon.com/posts/well-i...
“Well, I find that quite shocking actually that you have to say that” – Ted Chippington vs Pebble Mill At One. | Pete Paphides
Get more from Pete Paphides on Patreon
www.patreon.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Four decades on, I think I find Ted Chippington's Pebble Mill At One performance funnier than ever.
www.patreon.com/posts/well-i...
www.patreon.com/posts/well-i...
Reposted by Pete Paphides
Sometimes those records have a bit of magic to them that is really hard to explain. Another example is A Deh Pon Dem by The Soulettes (Rita Marley plus some Wailers I think) made out of The Miracles’ Choosey Beggar. There’s a tone - not melancholy, not sweet - that I don’t think we have a word for.
November 5, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Sometimes those records have a bit of magic to them that is really hard to explain. Another example is A Deh Pon Dem by The Soulettes (Rita Marley plus some Wailers I think) made out of The Miracles’ Choosey Beggar. There’s a tone - not melancholy, not sweet - that I don’t think we have a word for.
Reposted by Pete Paphides
I'm also here with @petepaphides.bsky.social and Peter Hooton: www.waterstones.com/events/water...
November 5, 2025 at 8:36 AM
I'm also here with @petepaphides.bsky.social and Peter Hooton: www.waterstones.com/events/water...
Reposted by Pete Paphides
Nice write up! 👌
Respect also to Sonia Pottinger and Lyn Taitt & The Jets. They recorded some truly unique and beautiful rocksteady.
The 7" has been reissued again. Still available here...
www.dubvendor.co.uk/johnny--the-...
Respect also to Sonia Pottinger and Lyn Taitt & The Jets. They recorded some truly unique and beautiful rocksteady.
The 7" has been reissued again. Still available here...
www.dubvendor.co.uk/johnny--the-...
Johnny & The Attractions - Coming On The Scene / Anything You Want (Gay Feet / Dub Store) 7
Al Here I Am Baby Brown adapts the Senor Soul War title on the same rhythm as Peter Austin s Lonely
www.dubvendor.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Nice write up! 👌
Respect also to Sonia Pottinger and Lyn Taitt & The Jets. They recorded some truly unique and beautiful rocksteady.
The 7" has been reissued again. Still available here...
www.dubvendor.co.uk/johnny--the-...
Respect also to Sonia Pottinger and Lyn Taitt & The Jets. They recorded some truly unique and beautiful rocksteady.
The 7" has been reissued again. Still available here...
www.dubvendor.co.uk/johnny--the-...
Two seemingly contradictory facts about Coming On The Scene by Johnny & The Attractions: 1. Everyone I know who's heard it absolutely loves it & original copies go for up to £850; 2. Almost nothing has ever been written about it. I've been thinking about why that is. www.patreon.com/posts/it-cou...
It Could Have Been A Brilliant Career #2: Johnny & The Attractions | Pete Paphides
Get more from Pete Paphides on Patreon
www.patreon.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Two seemingly contradictory facts about Coming On The Scene by Johnny & The Attractions: 1. Everyone I know who's heard it absolutely loves it & original copies go for up to £850; 2. Almost nothing has ever been written about it. I've been thinking about why that is. www.patreon.com/posts/it-cou...
Reposted by Pete Paphides
Evening! Yes! Johnny & The Attractions!
November 3, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Evening! Yes! Johnny & The Attractions!
Look at all the pretty colours and the beautiful music straining inside them straining to be heard! Let's see how much of it I can release into this evening's Soho Radio show. 6-8pm live.
November 3, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Look at all the pretty colours and the beautiful music straining inside them straining to be heard! Let's see how much of it I can release into this evening's Soho Radio show. 6-8pm live.
When I was 17, the guy who helped start Creation Records moved into the area. And apparently he wanted to meet me.
www.patreon.com/posts/ive-to...
www.patreon.com/posts/ive-to...
“I’ve told them all about you. They want to meet you. And you’d love their flat – there are always bands hanging around there.” The year an indie pop legend moved into our neighbourhood | Pete Paphide...
Get more from Pete Paphides on Patreon
www.patreon.com
November 2, 2025 at 9:33 AM
When I was 17, the guy who helped start Creation Records moved into the area. And apparently he wanted to meet me.
www.patreon.com/posts/ive-to...
www.patreon.com/posts/ive-to...
Reposted by Pete Paphides
It’s a great album! Fine work by @petepaphides.bsky.social and @needlemythology.bsky.social.
November 1, 2025 at 7:45 PM
It’s a great album! Fine work by @petepaphides.bsky.social and @needlemythology.bsky.social.
Reposted by Pete Paphides
I've been streaming this all week, it's utterly beautiful. The songs, the sound of the band, and those incredible harmonies...
I've just ordered this must-have CD.
Do your ears a favour and do the same by clicking here:-
burningshed.com/the-lilac-ti...
I've just ordered this must-have CD.
Do your ears a favour and do the same by clicking here:-
burningshed.com/the-lilac-ti...
November 1, 2025 at 5:03 PM
I've been streaming this all week, it's utterly beautiful. The songs, the sound of the band, and those incredible harmonies...
I've just ordered this must-have CD.
Do your ears a favour and do the same by clicking here:-
burningshed.com/the-lilac-ti...
I've just ordered this must-have CD.
Do your ears a favour and do the same by clicking here:-
burningshed.com/the-lilac-ti...
It's never too late to become a Top 10 Independent Breaker.
November 1, 2025 at 3:20 PM
It's never too late to become a Top 10 Independent Breaker.
Reposted by Pete Paphides
@petepaphides.bsky.social Huge thanks for making this happen. We need @thelilactime.bsky.social’s beauty now more than ever.
October 31, 2025 at 4:09 PM
@petepaphides.bsky.social Huge thanks for making this happen. We need @thelilactime.bsky.social’s beauty now more than ever.
Reposted by Pete Paphides
Nigel Powell's bedroom, according to this old post www.reddit.com/r/progrockmu...
From the progrockmusic community on Reddit: Radiohead were (neo)prog fans in the 80's. look at their posters!
Explore this post and more from the progrockmusic community
www.reddit.com
October 27, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Nigel Powell's bedroom, according to this old post www.reddit.com/r/progrockmu...
Much as I loved Jonathan Dean's Radiohead feature in yesterday's Sunday Times, the thing I keep coming back to is this photo of them as teenagers. The band posters are Iron Maiden, Marillion (from their 1983 tour programme) and fellow prog-rockers I.Q. I wonder whose bedroom this is?
October 27, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Much as I loved Jonathan Dean's Radiohead feature in yesterday's Sunday Times, the thing I keep coming back to is this photo of them as teenagers. The band posters are Iron Maiden, Marillion (from their 1983 tour programme) and fellow prog-rockers I.Q. I wonder whose bedroom this is?
Reposted by Pete Paphides
“Guys, correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe I’m sensing a lack of trust here, and frankly, it hurts my feelings.”
October 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
“Guys, correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe I’m sensing a lack of trust here, and frankly, it hurts my feelings.”
Reposted by Pete Paphides
@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social
This is a story: an act of self-harm and cultural vandalism by the BBC.
cstonline.net/defending-th...
This is a story: an act of self-harm and cultural vandalism by the BBC.
cstonline.net/defending-th...
DEFENDING THE WAC: MARK LEWISOHN LOOKS AT WHY RENEWED APPRECIATION IS URGENTLY REQUIRED
I was asked to write an op-ed piece saying why I think the BBC’s Written Archives Centre (WAC) is a unique and brilliant resource, which I can do because it’s both – and why, therefore…
cstonline.net
October 25, 2025 at 8:41 PM
@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social
This is a story: an act of self-harm and cultural vandalism by the BBC.
cstonline.net/defending-th...
This is a story: an act of self-harm and cultural vandalism by the BBC.
cstonline.net/defending-th...
Reposted by Pete Paphides
Yay. Priceless. The right column at the right time. And a gleefully English two fingers to the haters.
October 25, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Yay. Priceless. The right column at the right time. And a gleefully English two fingers to the haters.
Reposted by Pete Paphides
JUST IN: ‘Looking For A Day In The Night’ & ‘Live’ by The Lilac Time
Folky jangle pop number from the Duffy brothers and co. on Pete Paphides’ Needle Mythology label alongside a Hereford-recorded live release.
More of the latter are incoming.
www.normanrecords.com/artist/11287...
Folky jangle pop number from the Duffy brothers and co. on Pete Paphides’ Needle Mythology label alongside a Hereford-recorded live release.
More of the latter are incoming.
www.normanrecords.com/artist/11287...
October 21, 2025 at 10:28 AM
JUST IN: ‘Looking For A Day In The Night’ & ‘Live’ by The Lilac Time
Folky jangle pop number from the Duffy brothers and co. on Pete Paphides’ Needle Mythology label alongside a Hereford-recorded live release.
More of the latter are incoming.
www.normanrecords.com/artist/11287...
Folky jangle pop number from the Duffy brothers and co. on Pete Paphides’ Needle Mythology label alongside a Hereford-recorded live release.
More of the latter are incoming.
www.normanrecords.com/artist/11287...