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Jo Kendall
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Hengemaker, cake eater, uke destroyer, Associate Ed Prog Mag, contrib for Classic Rock, Record Collector and Electronic Sound, lecturer at BIMM London. Mixtape elf, Radio 5 Live-er, infiltrator to Woman's Hour, she/her. More on linktr.ee/jokendall
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The winner of ‘we’ll say the word spooky but do f all extra for this’ award goes to this distinctly underwhelming Halloween campaign ad by Tesco

It’s literally just pizza, waffle fries and a dip.

Ooh, it’s really wound me up 😆
An advert that has a regular pepperoni pizza, regular waffle fries and a garlic dip shown with four small autumn leaves and the slogan ‘Helping you make Halloween SPOOKY’. It’s utter rubbish.
October 31, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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ICYMI: So honoured to have my obituary for Rick Davies make up part of the cover feature in the new Prog magazine, alongside excellent pieces by Chris Roberts and Daryl Easlea. It’s also got my weird sh*t column and Cardiacs review in 💜 www.magazinesdirect.com/uk/prog-164-...
Prog magazine cover featuring a black and white photograph of Rick Davies singing at his keyboard. The cover line says ‘The Ballad Of Rick Davies & Supertramp’ The opening spread of my Rick Davies feature with the title ‘Goodbye Stranger’. The top of my Experimental Prog Column which has my headshot on it and a snippet from a review of Kev Hopper’s XiX release. The top of my Cardiacs review, featuring the record sleeve and the sell ‘Long-awaited lysergic final album from the maverick masterminds’
October 26, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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primary school shot
Baby sheep looking cute against a black background
October 13, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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Just a last few tix left for our Pentangle Listening Party with Jacqui McShee tomorrow afternoon at the Half Moon in Putney. Thanks to Jennie Bellestar for some promo at her fab Give Me Love vintage shop in Camden 💜

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Jennie Bellestar in a hat and motorcycle jacket holding up a flyer for the camera A great colourful pop art mural of George Harrison outside Jennie’s Give Me Love shop A wider angle shot of the shop Give Me Love which has rails of clothes outside and more psychedelic decoration above the shop windows Our Pentangle flyer on a table with a Solomon’s Seal button badge.
October 10, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Helene, I was wondering if you and Pete would like to come to our little Pentangle Listening Party with Jacqui McShee on Saturday afternoon in Putney? It's a small celebration, thought it would be up your alley xx
Flyer and Solomon's Seal button badge advertising A Pentangle Listening Party at the Half Moon in Putney on Saturday October 11.
October 7, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Bluepals, on next Saturday me and Mike Barnes will be at the Half Moon in Putney with Jacqui McShee, chatting about her fave Pentangle album Solomon's Seal - reissued this week via Cherry Red - and having a listen together to the full LP, loud.

Doors are 1p-4pm, tix here tinyurl.com/Pentangle-tix
A photo of some of our event flyers on an orange tiled coffee table (very 70s). The flyers are royal blue with yellow text and feature the cover art to Solomon's Seal, images of Jacqui McShee, myself and Mike in black and white. There's also a Solomon's Seal button badge in the photo. Event details are here: Our Pentangle Listening Party takes place at the Half Moon in Putney from 1pm-4pm and celebrates the remaster and reissue of Pentangle's 1972 album Solomon's Seal, their last LP featuring all original members Jacqui, Bert Jansch, John Renbourn, Terry Cox and Danny Thompson, who sadly passed away two weeks ago. In 2014, Danny commemorated his 75th birthday at the Half Moon with a week of gigs - he was not short of a guest or two as he's played with pretty much everyone. We'll have a long chat with Jacqui, share some memories of Danny, then a listen to Cherry Red's remaster in full, loud. After we'll have a mingle to a 1972 playlist put together by Jacqui. Tickets are £12 in advance and £8 concessions (student, NHS, Blue Light, seniors) and includes a free Solomon's Seal button badge.
October 4, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Totally agree. I’ve had some banging Ploughman’s in the last year including this beauty - for two people to share - from The Hole In The Wall, Bowness-on-Windermere, the Lake District
Superb Ploughman’s lunch - a wooden board with sliced red apple, black grapes, cucumber, home made crusty bread, pickled silver skin onions, coleslaw, apple chutney, hummus, loads of cold cuts of meat, slices of pork pie, veg crudités and spicy carrots, massive chunks of cheddar and Wensleydale
August 26, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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I'm a late substitution for the #MidnightMixtape on BBC Radio 5 Live tonight with Johnny I'Anson, and the theme is buildings! It's not too late to get your suggestion in - text 85058 or WhatsApp 08085909693 :) See you on the air in 30 peeps!
A picture of vintage 7 inch singles with text over that says Johnny I'Anson asks... Which songs have a connection to buildings? Listen On Sounds. The image is branded by BBC Radio 5 Live
August 21, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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A good post day today, Spiral Galaxy from Steve Krakow in Chicago and All The Young Droids from Night School records in Glasgow ✌️
A 12-inch LP of Spiral Galaxy by Spiral Galaxy which had a blue and yellow psychedelic graphic on the cover and features Jean-Herve Peron and Ryley Walker, on the excellent Cardinal Fuzz label, and Phil King’s All The Young Droids junk shop synth pop 1978-1985 compilation on CD. The black and white cover is a photo of New Zealand musician Alastair Riddell posing with a TV set, which has the same picture of him with a TV set repeated in a Droste effect.
August 15, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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And if anyone likes a little-known artist called Kate Bush, I've written the cover feature about the making of Hounds Of Love for Prog, out today 🎶

Get a copy here: shop.magazinesdirect.com/.../prog-162...

📸 Jeff Cooper
Prog magazine issue 162 with Kate Bush on the cover, in her glam mode with hair up, purples and pinks in her make-up, wearing a black jacket and red-bronze scarf. A free A4 art card has her in in a bright yellow suit jacket with rolled up sleeves, she is smiling and has her eyes closed. All images by Guido Harari from 1985. The feature is about the making of the Hounds Of Love album, which is 40 years old in September. There are other articles on Mike Oldfield, a tribute to Dave Cousins, Bioscope (featuring Steve Rothery), modern Canterbury Scene bands and Michael Giles.
August 1, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Which reminds me...
A blue and white sign in the Princess Of Wales hospital in Bromsgrove. It has a black cat silhouette with a red circle and strike through in the top left corner. The sign says: A Polite Notice. Can we ask people not to allow the cat access into the building. Thank you. Matron, Health and Safety Team and IPC. A mackerel tabby cat happily sat in a pale blue hospital chair
July 19, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Wow wow wow, a beautiful big peacock butterfly sunning itself in the garden. I've not seen one for years! There seem to be more butterflies around in general atm, or is it just in my little patch in 'Ampshire?
A peacock butterfly on a fence panel. Its wings are fully stretched out and you can see the lovely colours; mainly a rusty red with brown jagged fringes then what looks like two eyes on the top wing-tips. These are red, yellow, black, blue and purple. There is one visible 'eye' on the wing below, tucked underneath the big wing. The body is brown and furry, there are two delicate straight black antennae.
June 28, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Finally! A true description for my body type.
the label to some M&S jeans that says 'Relaxed Barrel'
June 27, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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Hold on, I forgot Derek Smalls
Me and Prog editor Jerry Ewing with Derek Smalls from Spinal Tap
May 13, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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Surprisingly, no. I've lost the one with Bill Oddie, which was taken on a fun afternoon. Some of my 'bigger' interviews were on Zoom (like with Ice-T and Alex Lifeson, not at the same time!). I did interview Joan Armatrading recently tho! I have me & Barry Cryer, and me w/ David Suchet somewhere...
Me in a cream-coloured stairwell with Joan Armatrading. She is wearing a long-sleeve black top with a punky white flag/cross design and wearing a wide smile. I am in a navy blue jacket with a purple bag, also beaming.
May 12, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Thought we might have heard a bum note during the fanfare for the king today at Westminster Abbey, but could be mistaken
May 8, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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🎶 Every morning you greet me 🎶
A brown box containing a ‘Table Vise’
May 2, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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Fab stuff about #Floyd in the latest Classic Rock mag (and I also have features in with The Damn Truth, and spoke with Alex Lifeson and Maiah Wynne from Envy Of None). Off to see Pompeii at the weekend in the bustling metropolis that is Basingstoke...
Classic Rock magazine on my 70s orange-tiled coffee table. The cover image is a still from Pink Floyd Live At Pompeii, a silhouette of a member on a ridge against a sunset about to hammer a huge gong. The cover quote says 'It's the father and mother of Dark Side Of The Moon'. The issue comes with a free A1-sized Pompeii poster and an A5 laptop sticker that says Pink Floyd. Pompeii in white stencil writing Canadian four-piece rock band The Damn Truth posing in a forest by a lake. They have a vintage 60s/70s psychedelic, longhair bohemian rockstar style with frontwoman/guitarist Lee-la in an animal print halter-neck top and trousers, styled with bangles, big belt, loads of necklaces. Very cool. The alt.rock/electronic quartet Envy of None shot against a white backdrop. Alex, Alf and Andy are in jeans and t-shirts (Alex has a black leather jacket, Alf has black-framed glasses and Andy has a beige pork-pie type hat), Maiah is in a black satin bustier top and iridescent skater-style skirt with a thick waistband, and she is wearing black mesh cocktail gloves studded with rhinestones. Her dark hair is swept back into a pony tail.
April 25, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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🎶 Christmas time ~
A screenshot of the words from an email subject header 'Ecru & Lime'
April 24, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Easter Sunday view, curious jackdaws not in shot. Wishing you all a peaceful day ✌️
April 20, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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But more, much more than this, I did it
A station sign for Five Ways
April 18, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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If you didn’t think Creme Eggs needed a little crocheted jacket, well, they do, and I’ve just bought these smashers from the Alexandra Hospital coffee shop in Redditch. Happy Easter, loves! 🐣
Three Creme Eggs housed in crocheted covers, standing up. There is a one that is a white top with multicoloured bottom with a pink satin ribbon rose at the summit, a lilac one with a coral coloured top and turquoise rose, and a peach coloured one with multicoloured bottom and a yellow rose. The eggs are on a green graphic 70s floral table cloth. Three Creme Eggs housed in crocheted covers, lying down. There is a one that has a white top half with multicoloured bottom half with a pink satin ribbon rose at the summit, a lilac-bottomed one with a coral coloured top and turquoise rose, and a peach coloured one with multicoloured bottom and a yellow rose. The eggs are on a green graphic 70s floral table cloth.
April 18, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Aha!
The travelogue Wogan’s Ireland, which features Terry Wogan on the cover leaning on some decorative red ironwork that leads to a garden and mountains. He’s wearing brown slacks and a chunky cream-coloured roll neck jumper, with his left hand casually in his pocket. He has a winning smile and a roguish glint in his eye. Definitely an inspiration for Alan Partridge.
April 16, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Clem Burke, no! One of the most exciting drummers I’ve ever seen, or heard. Was lucky to catch him with the Lust For Life gang at the Lexington in 2023. Still mod, and absolutely effervescent 💜
Clem Burke playing drums onstage with Lust For Life featuring Kevin Armstrong, Katie Puckrik and Glen Matlock at the Lexington venue in Islington in March 2023
April 7, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Accidental new piece of art from the oven… #oops
A chrome grill shelf from a gas oven with its handle laid over the top, the black plastic part melted on to it. The item from the other side. You can see the melted plastic gripping the shelf’s chrome bars.
March 8, 2025 at 10:46 AM