Leonard Smalls

Straight Edge - Minor Threat

13 for me this year with the punkyfunky beat combo, which is about right - I'd do more if they were more local! However, I've just started a blues jazz funk thang, which may do more nearer to home stuff. And my nearly 40 year old band has finally got round to thinking about releasing a mini LP, so we may even do a gig or two (EEK!) to promote it...

Wake Me Up Before You Cocoa - Wham

Herd it through the Grapevine - The Slits

Mind Transplant - Alphonse Mouzon

One Weak - Deftones

One for the road - the Rumjacks

retrovertigo - Mr. Bungle

Bit more slightly crazy - Geordie Greep at the Mercury Prize with Black Midi

And they play it live!

Love it!

ebeneezer goode - The Shamen

night in tunisia - Dizzy Gillespie

A Lovely Things shop... We sell houseplants, some perennials and bedding plants, pots, gifts, cards, dogging equipment (😁), mats, gloves and much more. There's a chemist a few doors down that has the methadone angle covered, though I suppose a kong dog toy and leash could be used for something other than its intended purpose! Currently playing is MC Solaar, with "Money" by Willie Hutch up next.

See the Charles Berthoud thread! Though all that shows is that one person's supreme entertainment is another's hell on earth....

Black Cat Bone - Albert Collins et al

There used to be an antique shop in Beddgelert that became an excellent restaurant at night.... It took me ages to work out that they were playing 70s rock really quietly - just enough to dispel any silence but only just enough to hear. I remember congratulating the Canadian owner on not piping in the usual MoR cack. He came back a bit later to ask us what we'd like for pud, then he said "and would you like to hear anything in particular with it?". And sure enough, when he came in with our chocolate Vesuvius AC/DC's "If You Want Blood" followed him.

Spellbound - Siouxsie and the Banshees

I made my own playlist to avoid the obvious ones... Some are quite well known like Christmas Rapping, others are classics any time of year, like this:

You'd hear some decent reggae at our shop too! Been enjoying this album today

In our shop I made the playlist - we're currently at 1600 songs (my Mrs took some off!). And now playing is Requiem off the Killing Joke in Dub album, next up is Brother Jack by Jack McDuff... Eclectic and no Wetwetwet...

pump me up! - Trouble Funk

Funnily enough, that's how Franz Liszt became (arguably!) the first rock star! And what about Ravel's left handed piano concerto? Folks have always liked spectacle, which is what Mr Berthoud is providing. And as for his music, I find that far more entertaining than the usual average stuff (me included!) I see at most gigs! Though I rarely sided with those who thought Mozart's music had "too many notes"...

If I Biarritz man - Topol (Fiddler on the Roof)

I remember seeing Mudhoney supported by Hole in 1991... Hole were just appallingly dreadful, it was like they just couldn't play or perhaps had never played together and thought that folks might think they were deep'n'meaningful noiseniks like Sonic Youth. I also found Ms. Love to be annoying and rather too MeMeME!!! but they most certainly fooled this Melody Maker reviewer! Mudhoney were quite a lot better...