My old band Flamingoes is in this month’s Mojo magazine. ‘Flamingoes and Fountains of Wayne share a taste for Superman/ rabbit mash-ups’. #Therecordisforeverman @mojomagazine.bsky.social @keithcameron2.bsky.social

OTD 40 years ago, 9th October 1985, I watched @waterboysmusic.bsky.social , supported by @delamitri.bsky.social , play a transcendental show at the Town & Country Club (now the Forum). I later wrote about it in my book Memory Songs. #waterboys #waterboysband #80smusic #80sgigs

You say it's your birthday . . . #birthday

Paging Duke @dantjenks.bsky.social What a record. #Redskins '85.

'These things I'll keep until I die'. RIP Brian Wilson #SurfsUp #BeachBoys #MemorySongs

London friends – join me, @annadoble.bsky.social and Mark Rusher talking about the 90s music scene at the Review bookshop Peckham, 7–9, Wednesday 21 May! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/connection...

Now that Flamingoes' Plastic Jewels is on Spotify, some of the album reviews: 'Angels descend to earth when the Flamingoes start to play . . . pristine pop.' Select magazine. 4/5

OTD thirty years ago, 6/2/95, my old band Flamingoes released their debut album, Plastic Jewels. We ticked off some pop dreams - daytime radio one, starred Melody maker reviews, Rolling Stone, MTV… and some (power)pop nightmares: Fountains of Wayne nicked our cover art ...

#NowPlaying So long, Marianne

#NowPlaying #SoundtrackJanuary #soundtracks

January reading. #amreading

Another chance to listen to the Xmas @backlisted.bsky.social
special from 2017, @judecook.bsky.social @iammilliam.bsky.social @johnmitchinson.bsky.social and me, discussing Ian Fleming's OHMSS. And another excuse to post this photo of Blofeld dressing the tree. www.backlisted.fm/episodes/56-...

This is, in places, every bit as insanely enjoyable as its illustrious predecessor #AdventuresInTheScreenTrade

OTD 40 years ago, 29 November 1984, I saw REM play in front around 200 people at Dunstable's Queensway Hall. Here's my account of the night from 'Memory Songs', and the band's autographs. Gold, man . . .

#nowplaying Life in a Northern Town by the Dream Academy. ‘Dedicated to Nick Drake’. #nickdrake

This is ridiculously enjoyable. A @backlisted.bsky.social gem from 2017, it’s making the train journey from London to Leeds fly by.