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Phil Wildcroft
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Programmer, dog servant, perennially novice guitarist
At first I thought the dog was drinking from a long wavy straw rather than just sitting next to an Eames chair.
November 10, 2025 at 9:54 PM
At least they spelled Jimi's name correctly.
October 27, 2025 at 12:53 AM
There's a Stradivari guitar in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. My understanding is that it is playable, but the museum never lets anybody play it.
September 30, 2025 at 9:33 PM
The band that visitors to Woody Creek mentioned most often was Cowboy Junkies.
Cowboy Junkies - Misguided Angel (Official Video)
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September 29, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Somebody sent me this exact postcard a long time ago. It's New College, Oxford.
September 29, 2025 at 3:35 PM
It's permanent steps you can see outside rather than seating. This is visual effects wiz Bernard Wilkie being interviewed on Pebble Mill At One.
September 22, 2025 at 10:44 AM
The sleeve designer probably liked the vibe of that photo. Maybe he thought "One" was 1am?
September 22, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Given that it's dark outside, it seems more likely to be Saturday Night At The Mill which was the late night spinoff from Pebble Mill At One. They quite often had musical acts in the courtyard and talky segments in the glass walled foyer. This could be a Christmas toy drive?
September 22, 2025 at 9:57 AM
The Museum Of London is between homes at the moment so I suspect they've given it back to Paul.
September 20, 2025 at 11:10 AM
He used to regularly take the train from Bath to Weston-super-Mare to go swimming in the lido.
September 16, 2025 at 7:14 PM
That was the start of his exile in Bath. There's a guided tour of his house every Sunday, with optional vegan Caribbean lunch.
September 16, 2025 at 6:44 PM
I once worked with a guy called Neil Young and that was never not weird.
September 16, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Alexis Petridis suggested recently that it was Bowie's realisation that he couldn't ditch that past which led to his embracing of it and thus the creation of his own personal archive, which is now the core of the V&A collection.
September 15, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Codpiece
September 14, 2025 at 10:51 PM