Paul Kay
roughguide1960.bsky.social
Paul Kay
@roughguide1960.bsky.social
MD Ant. West Ham fan (enough of the laughing at the back). Avoiding politics on this site.

"Oh, and I remembered something you once told me
And I'll be damned if it did not come true." Gram Parsons
Superb review. Also check out the other chapters on Ogun Records on the blog including the Introduction, there are links to downloads where available. Great writing about some extraordinary music.
Ogun Records blog update - Ovary Lodge, with Keith & Julie Tippetts, Harry Miller and Frank Perry, recorded in Lambeth nearly 50 years ago and one of the most powerful albums ever to emerge from the British free improvisation scene:
ogunrecords.blogspot.com/2025/01/ovar...
OVARY LODGE - Ovary Lodge
(OG 600)   Track listing: Gentle One Says Hello/Fragment No. 6/A Man Carrying A Drop Of Water On A Leaf Through A Thunderstorm/Communal T...
ogunrecords.blogspot.com
January 13, 2025 at 5:30 PM
#NowPlaying Tired Lion - Breakfast for Pathetics (2020). Described at the time by NME as 'gloriously grungy anthems of personal growth,' Brisbane based frontwoman Sophie Hopes plays everything bar the drums, she even manages some whistling on an album full of hooks and memorable lyrics.
January 13, 2025 at 4:38 PM
#NowPlaying Sylvie Kreusch - Comic Trip (2024). Belgian singer/songwriter Sylvie Kreusch's second album, you can play spot the references, from Stereolab to Morricone via The B52's on an album that is engaging throughout.
January 13, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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We all knew this story was coming from the bits and pieces that have already been out there, but however you parse it (and I believe the women, obviously), he seems like a thoroughly odious and abusive individual. I'm always wary of self-declaring feminists.

www.vulture.com/article/neil...
There Is No Safe Word
How the best-selling fantasy author Neil Gaiman hid the darkest parts of himself for decades.
www.vulture.com
January 13, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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'The Roundabout', Hampstead (1923) by Stanley Spencer

(Tate)
January 13, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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For anyone who missed last night's upload and for Ivor Cutler fans in general. A treat.
January 13, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Final series of Bump airs tomorrow and will be available on iPlayer. It's been some journey from that toilet cubicle.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC One - Bump, Series 5 - Episode guide
All episodes of Series 5
www.bbc.co.uk
January 12, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Beatrice Romaine Bradford - married surname Brooks - had a quite extraordinary life, it reads like something out of a Bradford Taylor Bradford novel awaiting adaptation by ITVX.
Una, Lady Troubridge (1924) by US born painter Romaine Brooks #womensart
January 12, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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the complete recipe in the image's ALT text description.
#foodsky #recipes #cooking #recipeOftheday #cookies #breadsky
January 12, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Ulla Stina Wikander, Swedish designer who uses household appliances and cooking tools as the base to her cross-stitched sculptures #womensart
January 12, 2025 at 1:01 PM
#NowPlaying Bad Bunny - Debí Tirar Más Fotos (2025). @djpunctum.bsky.social was right, this really is a very good album.
January 12, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Watched this last night, absolutely engrossing film featuring a very engaging Keith Jarrett. He's asked at one point what he got out of playing with Miles Davis, "I saw him happy," he replies. No longer on iPlayer so here's a YouTube link.

youtu.be/_fB5YXgNX-w?...
Keith Jarrett - The Art of Improvisation
YouTube video by inthelawn
youtu.be
January 12, 2025 at 9:19 AM
This is very sad news, Dean Windass is so relatively young. The phasing out of heading in youth football is the first step, earlier testing for professionals is a must, the Football Brain Health Fund needs serious funding from the sport.

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
Dean Windass: Former Hull and Bradford striker diagnosed with dementia
Former Hull, Bradford and Middlesbrough striker Dean Windass is diagnosed with stage two dementia.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 11, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Online restaurant reviews are as random (as our daughter would say) as Amazon reviews, except they never go as far as saying 'I had the cod and chips which I ate for a friend.' How can so many people eat at the same place at the same time and be at polar opposites?
January 11, 2025 at 1:48 PM
How do you get a huge imbalance between following and followers numbers without ever having posted anything? I'm not a bear with a small brain but to borrow from Elton John, 'All this science I don't understand.'
January 11, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Farewell to the great Sam Moore, one half of the legendary soul duo Sam & Dave. variety.com/2025/music/o...
Sam Moore, Half of Sam & Dave Duo That Rose to Fame With ‘Soul Man’ and ‘Hold On I’m Comin’,’ Dies at 89
Sam Moore, who sang 'Soul Man' and 'Hold On I'm Comin' as half of the '60s soul duo Sam & Dave, died Friday at 89.
variety.com
January 11, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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Grooming Scandal Latest: "He lured me in, promised me money and then abandoned me"

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January 11, 2025 at 11:47 AM
One of those 'weekend away' articles suggests a B&B which charges £225 a night. I think at that price I would have to stay awake all night rolling back and forth across the sheets to feel I had got VFM. Having not had a holiday for a long time I appear to have lost touch with prices.
January 11, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Stunning.
Photographer Alegra Ally accompanied the Nenets seasonal migration, to show the lives of indigenous women in the Siberian Arctic #WomensArt
January 10, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Francesca Woodman (1958-1981), critically acclaimed US photographer known for her mysterious self portraits #womensart
January 10, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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'Oxford Circus Underground Station' (1905) by Maxwell Ashby Armfield

(Government Art Collection)
January 10, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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For those old ether heads who missed this last night. Also at 12mins, apropos, Peel plays the newly released Gris-Gris for the first time. It drops like a voodoo bomb and sounds like nothing else in the Underground.
The penultimate of my Nightride uploads. I hope you've enjoyed them. Poet Carlyle Reedy on here was later involved with John Latham's Flat Time House project. Interesting Mick Farren chat too, his larynx not yet coarsened to a croak by whisky and fags.
archive.org/details/nigh...
John Peel's Nightride 3.4.68 : Rob Chapman : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Including sessions from Mabel Greer's Toy Shop and poet Carlyle Reedy and a two part interview with Mick Farren of IT and The Social Deviants. Plus records by...
archive.org
January 10, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Somebody referring to a punch up as a 'fray-kiss,' is my linguistic highlight of the week so far. Brouhaha doesn't allow much in the way of mispronunciation, on second thoughts...
January 10, 2025 at 11:36 AM
I have an old (well I'm old) book on West Ham that states with some pride that we had only five managers in our first 88 years. Our new appointment will be our sixth in 8 years and he has signed a contract for eighteen months. Nothing changes quicker than the job expectancy of a football manager.
January 9, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Rupert Soames defending Jess Phillips against Ketamine Karen wasn't on my 2025 bingo card. Well done sir.
January 9, 2025 at 12:17 PM