Gary Tipp
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Freelance editor/writer/sub. Pompey STH. Author of Prosinecki In Blue. Co-founder of Groovy Times - an online magazine about vinyl (groovy-times.com)
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NEW POMPEY BOOK
Pompey club legend Barry Harris has been linked closely to the club he loves for over 70 years+ and has a few stories to tell
Discover them in his brand new autobiography - available now
#pompey
www.ebay.co.uk/itm/18779766...
Pompey club legend Barry Harris has been linked closely to the club he loves for over 70 years+ and has a few stories to tell
Discover them in his brand new autobiography - available now
#pompey
www.ebay.co.uk/itm/18779766...
True Blue: The Barry Harris Story | eBay UK
Barry Harris is a Portsmouth Football legend. He went to his first game at Fratton Park in February 1952 aged eight. From boy mascot to Pompey sailor’ from youth team physio to assistant kitman and ma...
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December 2, 2025 at 8:46 AM
NEW POMPEY BOOK
Pompey club legend Barry Harris has been linked closely to the club he loves for over 70 years+ and has a few stories to tell
Discover them in his brand new autobiography - available now
#pompey
www.ebay.co.uk/itm/18779766...
Pompey club legend Barry Harris has been linked closely to the club he loves for over 70 years+ and has a few stories to tell
Discover them in his brand new autobiography - available now
#pompey
www.ebay.co.uk/itm/18779766...
NEW POMPEY BOOK
Pompey club legend Barry Harris has been linked closely to the club he loves for over 70 years+ and has a few stories to tell
Discover them in his brand new autobiography - available now
#pompey
www.ebay.co.uk/itm/18779766...
Pompey club legend Barry Harris has been linked closely to the club he loves for over 70 years+ and has a few stories to tell
Discover them in his brand new autobiography - available now
#pompey
www.ebay.co.uk/itm/18779766...
True Blue: The Barry Harris Story | eBay UK
Barry Harris is a Portsmouth Football legend. He went to his first game at Fratton Park in February 1952 aged eight. From boy mascot to Pompey sailor’ from youth team physio to assistant kitman and ma...
www.ebay.co.uk
December 2, 2025 at 8:46 AM
NEW POMPEY BOOK
Pompey club legend Barry Harris has been linked closely to the club he loves for over 70 years+ and has a few stories to tell
Discover them in his brand new autobiography - available now
#pompey
www.ebay.co.uk/itm/18779766...
Pompey club legend Barry Harris has been linked closely to the club he loves for over 70 years+ and has a few stories to tell
Discover them in his brand new autobiography - available now
#pompey
www.ebay.co.uk/itm/18779766...
COMING SOON
Back from the printers later this week hopefully
True Blue
The Barry Harris Story
Back from the printers later this week hopefully
True Blue
The Barry Harris Story
November 26, 2025 at 3:07 PM
COMING SOON
Back from the printers later this week hopefully
True Blue
The Barry Harris Story
Back from the printers later this week hopefully
True Blue
The Barry Harris Story
True Blue: The Barry Harris Story has gone to the printers today
The Pompey stalwart’s autobiography covers his 70+ years association with the club
Soon to be available from eBay, the club shop, and a number of launch events. Barry will also be selling copies in the lounges before home games
The Pompey stalwart’s autobiography covers his 70+ years association with the club
Soon to be available from eBay, the club shop, and a number of launch events. Barry will also be selling copies in the lounges before home games
November 4, 2025 at 6:30 PM
True Blue: The Barry Harris Story has gone to the printers today
The Pompey stalwart’s autobiography covers his 70+ years association with the club
Soon to be available from eBay, the club shop, and a number of launch events. Barry will also be selling copies in the lounges before home games
The Pompey stalwart’s autobiography covers his 70+ years association with the club
Soon to be available from eBay, the club shop, and a number of launch events. Barry will also be selling copies in the lounges before home games
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A rare psych folk album from 1972 is going well on eBay
It was recently unearthed in a Dorset charity shop
They are still out there
#vinyl #vinylrecords
It was recently unearthed in a Dorset charity shop
They are still out there
#vinyl #vinylrecords
November 1, 2025 at 6:58 PM
A rare psych folk album from 1972 is going well on eBay
It was recently unearthed in a Dorset charity shop
They are still out there
#vinyl #vinylrecords
It was recently unearthed in a Dorset charity shop
They are still out there
#vinyl #vinylrecords
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Barry Harris first went to a Pompey game in 1952 - and he had been involved with the club ever since
Here’s a sneaky peek of the back cover of his forthcoming book
I will post details about how you can get a copy over the following weeks
Here’s a sneaky peek of the back cover of his forthcoming book
I will post details about how you can get a copy over the following weeks
October 22, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Barry Harris first went to a Pompey game in 1952 - and he had been involved with the club ever since
Here’s a sneaky peek of the back cover of his forthcoming book
I will post details about how you can get a copy over the following weeks
Here’s a sneaky peek of the back cover of his forthcoming book
I will post details about how you can get a copy over the following weeks
Barry Harris first went to a Pompey game in 1952 - and he had been involved with the club ever since
Here’s a sneaky peek of the back cover of his forthcoming book
I will post details about how you can get a copy over the following weeks
Here’s a sneaky peek of the back cover of his forthcoming book
I will post details about how you can get a copy over the following weeks
October 22, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Barry Harris first went to a Pompey game in 1952 - and he had been involved with the club ever since
Here’s a sneaky peek of the back cover of his forthcoming book
I will post details about how you can get a copy over the following weeks
Here’s a sneaky peek of the back cover of his forthcoming book
I will post details about how you can get a copy over the following weeks
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EMI’s budget label (MFP) piled them high and sold them cheap
Groovy Times digs deep to pick out the spinworthy vinyl gems from Music For Pleasure’s vast back catalogue.
#vinyl #vinylrecords
Click the link for our selection
groovy-times.com/music-for-pl...
Groovy Times digs deep to pick out the spinworthy vinyl gems from Music For Pleasure’s vast back catalogue.
#vinyl #vinylrecords
Click the link for our selection
groovy-times.com/music-for-pl...
Music For Pleasure - Groovy Times
EMI’s Music For Pleasure budget label was responsible for a mountainous stack of flavourless vinyl, but scratch the surface and there are spinworthy gems to be found A quick rifle through the vinyl bi...
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October 16, 2025 at 8:32 AM
EMI’s budget label (MFP) piled them high and sold them cheap
Groovy Times digs deep to pick out the spinworthy vinyl gems from Music For Pleasure’s vast back catalogue.
#vinyl #vinylrecords
Click the link for our selection
groovy-times.com/music-for-pl...
Groovy Times digs deep to pick out the spinworthy vinyl gems from Music For Pleasure’s vast back catalogue.
#vinyl #vinylrecords
Click the link for our selection
groovy-times.com/music-for-pl...
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RIP Danny Thompson (1939-2025). He leaves behind an astonishing discography of wonderful vinyl. Here’s a favourite among many, many favourites that we will be spinning today
September 25, 2025 at 8:21 AM
RIP Danny Thompson (1939-2025). He leaves behind an astonishing discography of wonderful vinyl. Here’s a favourite among many, many favourites that we will be spinning today
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The HARVEST record label’s back catalogue is awash with costly collectable #vinyl
Groovy Times digs through and pulls out the rare, rarer and rarest
groovy-times.com/harvest/
You may need to start saving
Groovy Times digs through and pulls out the rare, rarer and rarest
groovy-times.com/harvest/
You may need to start saving
Harvest - Groovy Times
Harvest made light of its affiliations with straight-laced, big boys EMI to become one of the most loved of the corporate progressive offshoots. A quick inspection of the label’s costliest collectable...
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September 5, 2025 at 9:12 AM
The HARVEST record label’s back catalogue is awash with costly collectable #vinyl
Groovy Times digs through and pulls out the rare, rarer and rarest
groovy-times.com/harvest/
You may need to start saving
Groovy Times digs through and pulls out the rare, rarer and rarest
groovy-times.com/harvest/
You may need to start saving
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For every Human League and OMD there’s a bargain bin counterpart
Groovy Times talks to vinyl curator Philip King about Junkshop Synth Pop, his new compilation, and the 45s the charts forgot
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Zoezopf.bsky.social
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Groovy Times talks to vinyl curator Philip King about Junkshop Synth Pop, his new compilation, and the 45s the charts forgot
Junkshopper.bsky.social
Nightschoolrecords.bsky.social
Zoezopf.bsky.social
groovy-times.com/philip-king
Philip King - Groovy Times
An expertly curated compilation celebrates the beautiful failure of the synth pop artists that chart fame eluded. The wannabe hitmakers who remained working in a cocktail bar Before the availability o...
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August 11, 2025 at 8:12 AM
For every Human League and OMD there’s a bargain bin counterpart
Groovy Times talks to vinyl curator Philip King about Junkshop Synth Pop, his new compilation, and the 45s the charts forgot
Junkshopper.bsky.social
Nightschoolrecords.bsky.social
Zoezopf.bsky.social
groovy-times.com/philip-king
Groovy Times talks to vinyl curator Philip King about Junkshop Synth Pop, his new compilation, and the 45s the charts forgot
Junkshopper.bsky.social
Nightschoolrecords.bsky.social
Zoezopf.bsky.social
groovy-times.com/philip-king
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There’s a pleasing circularity about owning the actual vinyl that turned you onto the music in the first place
What are you bidding on?
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What are you bidding on?
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The John Peel Collection
Auction Details at Omega Auctions
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July 25, 2025 at 8:32 AM
There’s a pleasing circularity about owning the actual vinyl that turned you onto the music in the first place
What are you bidding on?
bid.omegaauctions.co.uk/auction/deta...
What are you bidding on?
bid.omegaauctions.co.uk/auction/deta...
Very close to sending a book about #Pompey legend Barry Harris to the printers
Sailor mascot. Youth team physio. Kitman. Football retriever. Barry’s association with PFC spans 70 plus years and he has many stories to tell
More details about the book and where to buy it on here later
Sailor mascot. Youth team physio. Kitman. Football retriever. Barry’s association with PFC spans 70 plus years and he has many stories to tell
More details about the book and where to buy it on here later
July 24, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Very close to sending a book about #Pompey legend Barry Harris to the printers
Sailor mascot. Youth team physio. Kitman. Football retriever. Barry’s association with PFC spans 70 plus years and he has many stories to tell
More details about the book and where to buy it on here later
Sailor mascot. Youth team physio. Kitman. Football retriever. Barry’s association with PFC spans 70 plus years and he has many stories to tell
More details about the book and where to buy it on here later
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Issue 3 of Groovy Times opens with an interview author David Keenan
He talks first gigs, record reviewing and Volcanic Tongue (record shop, book & compilation)
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@disciples.bsky.social
@unsunghunger.bsky.social
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He talks first gigs, record reviewing and Volcanic Tongue (record shop, book & compilation)
@reversediorama.bsky.social
@whiterabbitbks.bsky.social
@disciples.bsky.social
@unsunghunger.bsky.social
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David Keenan - Groovy Times
The acclaimed novelist, journalist and former record shop owner tells us how his love of outsider music has shaped his work As he recalls in his spectacular collection of music writing, Volcanic Tongu...
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July 19, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Issue 3 of Groovy Times opens with an interview author David Keenan
He talks first gigs, record reviewing and Volcanic Tongue (record shop, book & compilation)
@reversediorama.bsky.social
@whiterabbitbks.bsky.social
@disciples.bsky.social
@unsunghunger.bsky.social
groovy-times.com/david-keenan/
He talks first gigs, record reviewing and Volcanic Tongue (record shop, book & compilation)
@reversediorama.bsky.social
@whiterabbitbks.bsky.social
@disciples.bsky.social
@unsunghunger.bsky.social
groovy-times.com/david-keenan/
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Seen this ad? A denim jacket that proudly displays the album of your choice. It’s got to be the ideal way of showing the world that you own a Nick Drake first press… hasn’t it?
June 27, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Seen this ad? A denim jacket that proudly displays the album of your choice. It’s got to be the ideal way of showing the world that you own a Nick Drake first press… hasn’t it?
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Unearthed a nice Chris Farlowe album. Paint it Farlowe. 1966. On Immediate, bright pink label, produced by Mick Jagger. Canadian press
Just one thing - there’s a hole punched out of the top left hand corner. Is there anything more savage in the world of collecting vinyl than a drill hole deletion?
Just one thing - there’s a hole punched out of the top left hand corner. Is there anything more savage in the world of collecting vinyl than a drill hole deletion?
May 22, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Unearthed a nice Chris Farlowe album. Paint it Farlowe. 1966. On Immediate, bright pink label, produced by Mick Jagger. Canadian press
Just one thing - there’s a hole punched out of the top left hand corner. Is there anything more savage in the world of collecting vinyl than a drill hole deletion?
Just one thing - there’s a hole punched out of the top left hand corner. Is there anything more savage in the world of collecting vinyl than a drill hole deletion?
Found a few copies of my Robert Prosinecki book in a cupboard under the stairs
The book chronicles the Croatian wizard’s eventful season at Fratton Park in 2001-02
It’s still available to buy if you’re curious. You’ll need to search for Prosinecki In Blue on eBay (link far too long to type)
The book chronicles the Croatian wizard’s eventful season at Fratton Park in 2001-02
It’s still available to buy if you’re curious. You’ll need to search for Prosinecki In Blue on eBay (link far too long to type)
May 20, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Found a few copies of my Robert Prosinecki book in a cupboard under the stairs
The book chronicles the Croatian wizard’s eventful season at Fratton Park in 2001-02
It’s still available to buy if you’re curious. You’ll need to search for Prosinecki In Blue on eBay (link far too long to type)
The book chronicles the Croatian wizard’s eventful season at Fratton Park in 2001-02
It’s still available to buy if you’re curious. You’ll need to search for Prosinecki In Blue on eBay (link far too long to type)
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With the remix album on the horizon - Joe Thompson, of Hey Colossus and Wrong Speed records fame, argues that the Cure’s Lost World ought to be available to buy on every high street in the UK
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And who are we to argue?
Click link
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And who are we to argue?
Click link
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Joe Thompson - Groovy Times
Joe Thompson, of Sabbath-heavy psych-rock experimentalists Hey Colossus and Wrong Speed Records fame, is convinced the Cure’s new album ought to be available to buy on every high street in the UK We’v...
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May 14, 2025 at 7:47 AM
With the remix album on the horizon - Joe Thompson, of Hey Colossus and Wrong Speed records fame, argues that the Cure’s Lost World ought to be available to buy on every high street in the UK
@xeaglepissx.bsky.social
And who are we to argue?
Click link
groovy-times.com/joe-thompson/
@xeaglepissx.bsky.social
And who are we to argue?
Click link
groovy-times.com/joe-thompson/
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Groovy Times caught up with UK indie record shop collective Dinked Editions to talk about seven plus years of carefully curated, exclusive vinyl editions
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Dinked Editions - Groovy Times
Rupert Morrison, owner of Totnes music emporium Drift, delves into the history of an indie record shop initiative with deep roots in a love of vinyl Sometime around 2018, in a pre-pandemic world, Rupe...
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May 6, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Groovy Times caught up with UK indie record shop collective Dinked Editions to talk about seven plus years of carefully curated, exclusive vinyl editions
@dinkededition.bsky.social @driftrecords.com
@resident-music.com
@monorailmusic.bsky.social
groovy-times.com/dinked/
@dinkededition.bsky.social @driftrecords.com
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groovy-times.com/dinked/
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Del Day of Union Music Store tells Groovy Times about the time on a packed bus ride home that he surrendered his brain to the riotous world of FREE JAZZ
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Free Jazz - Groovy Times
After experiencing a sonic epiphany on the bus, Groovy Times guest writer Del Day of Union Music Store opened up his brain and allowed the riotous world of free jazz to flood in Somewhat optimisticall...
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May 2, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Del Day of Union Music Store tells Groovy Times about the time on a packed bus ride home that he surrendered his brain to the riotous world of FREE JAZZ
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@unionmusicstore.bsky.social
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RIP David Thomas of Pere Ubu
A great moment on vinyl:
Side 1, track 1: Non-alignment pact
A great moment on vinyl:
Side 1, track 1: Non-alignment pact
April 24, 2025 at 9:36 AM
RIP David Thomas of Pere Ubu
A great moment on vinyl:
Side 1, track 1: Non-alignment pact
A great moment on vinyl:
Side 1, track 1: Non-alignment pact
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Groovy Times quizzed Jon Savage about the fine art of putting a vinyl compilation together - and how the peerless Nuggets changed the game
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Click the link for the full article
https://:groovy-times.com/jon.savage/
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Jon Savage - Groovy Times
Music journalist and cultural historian Jon Savage tells Groovy Times about how he went from making mix-CDs for friends to curating much loved compilations for labels such as Caroline True and Ace Rec...
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April 21, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Groovy Times quizzed Jon Savage about the fine art of putting a vinyl compilation together - and how the peerless Nuggets changed the game
@jonsavage.bsky.social
@acerecords.bsky.social
@jonathanleft@bsky.social
Click the link for the full article
https://:groovy-times.com/jon.savage/
@jonsavage.bsky.social
@acerecords.bsky.social
@jonathanleft@bsky.social
Click the link for the full article
https://:groovy-times.com/jon.savage/
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KALLAX ON FIRE no. 2
Jason Barnard’s house is on fire. Loved ones have been evacuated - but which one of his many records does the Strange Brew podcaster go back into the burning building to save?
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Jason Barnard’s house is on fire. Loved ones have been evacuated - but which one of his many records does the Strange Brew podcaster go back into the burning building to save?
@strangebrewpod.bsky.social
groovy-times.com/jason-barnard/
Jason Barnard - Groovy Times
Strange Brew podcaster Jason Barnard‘s house is on fire. His loved ones have been safely evacuated, but which record does he run back into the burning building to save? Strange Brew is the real deal w...
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April 8, 2025 at 4:08 PM
KALLAX ON FIRE no. 2
Jason Barnard’s house is on fire. Loved ones have been evacuated - but which one of his many records does the Strange Brew podcaster go back into the burning building to save?
@strangebrewpod.bsky.social
groovy-times.com/jason-barnard/
Jason Barnard’s house is on fire. Loved ones have been evacuated - but which one of his many records does the Strange Brew podcaster go back into the burning building to save?
@strangebrewpod.bsky.social
groovy-times.com/jason-barnard/
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The Deram label’s back catalogue is full of weird, wonderful and highly desirable records
Click the link to discover the label’s rare, rarer and rarest vinyl
Anything we missed?
#vinyl #vinylrecords #decca #deram
groovy-times.com/deram/
Click the link to discover the label’s rare, rarer and rarest vinyl
Anything we missed?
#vinyl #vinylrecords #decca #deram
groovy-times.com/deram/
Deram - Groovy Times
The Decca offshoot’s back catalogue contains some weird, wonderful and highly desirable records. Groovy Times seeks out the label’s costliest collectables An in-house imprint of establishment giant De...
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April 2, 2025 at 7:58 AM
The Deram label’s back catalogue is full of weird, wonderful and highly desirable records
Click the link to discover the label’s rare, rarer and rarest vinyl
Anything we missed?
#vinyl #vinylrecords #decca #deram
groovy-times.com/deram/
Click the link to discover the label’s rare, rarer and rarest vinyl
Anything we missed?
#vinyl #vinylrecords #decca #deram
groovy-times.com/deram/