Wednesday, 14 February 2018

Toppers Beezers Dandys and an Empire

Recently I was having a clear out of the loft and getting things sorted for a carboot sale, when a came across a rather large pile of old Beezer, Topper and Dandy annuals. I remember being given these books in the 1970s as they belonged to some older cousins and were passed on to me. Flicking though these books I was fascinated be the space/SiFi themed stories. A boy who could travel through time because of a magic patch on his trousers (Could be handy) A boy with a jet pack (I wanted one) A Futuristic Space vehicle with what looked like rolling pins for wheels (Nasa should have thought of that) Two Twins from the land of Whizz????? and the mysterious Planet X.
At the time I loved these stories and upon finding them spent an afternoon reading them all again. It was when reading these that I remembered I once had a large collection of Look and Learn Magazines.The only reason I used to get Look and Learn was for the Trigan Empire (originally called The Rise and Fall of The Trigan Empire) I have to admit was obsessed with these stories for a while. Sadly I only have a few of these left. The intro to the Tragan Empire was this....... In the swamps of Florida a UFO crashed somewhere in the late thirties. The spaceship resisted the impact, onboard men found the dead crew and a collection of books with inside the chronicles of the Trigan Empire. The Trigan Empire ran from 1965 to 1982, dealing with the long-past events on the distant planet of Elekton. The Trigans were twice the average hight of a person from Earth. All this Superbly drawn and written by Mike Butterworth and Don Lawrence. 

Wednesday, 7 February 2018

I’m into C.B.


Sadly not scanned from my own collection, these images are all taken directly from ‘Eyeball Cards: CB Radio Culture’ by William Hogan and David Titlow, published by Four Corners Books, which I picked up on a whim a few weekends ago.

Featuring 200+ pages of prime “internet before the internet” type stuff from the glory days of ’78-‘82, it comes highly recommended.

I found this page particularly touching:

Saturday, 27 January 2018

Thursday, 25 January 2018

CLEAR CHANNEL IV


https://soundcloud.com/wannamarchi-club/clear-channel-iv

Orior - Hollow VI (DDS)
Ka Baird - Oneiric (Drag City)
Kailin - Chatter (Mistry)
Alejandro Jodorowsky - Rainbow Room (ABKCO)
Paul Kelday - Self-Induced Chemical Delusion (Alan Jenkins)
Zero Kama - Atavism Dream (Nekrophile Rekords)
Nocturnal Emissions - Untitled 4 (Earthly Delights)
Sickness of Snakes - The Swelling of Leeches (Soleilmoon Recordings)
László Hortobágyi - Mirage 88’ (Novum Organum)
Delia Derbyshire & Barry Bermange - Falling (Psychic Sounds)
Band Of Pain - Sacred Flesh (Cold Spring)
Bruce Ditmas - Reparto Tortura (Finders Keepers)
Eaves - Agafia (PTP)
S S S S - Just Dead Stairs For Dead Eyes. Pt. II (Hollow Ground)
Alex Menzies - Out of Darkness (OWM)
Robert Aiki, Aubrey Lowe, Ariel Kalma - Mille Voix (Optimo Music)
Maxwell Sterling - Hollywood Medieval (The Death of Rave)
Dean Hurley - Electricity I (Sacred Bones)
Neugeborene Nachtmusik - Last Day Of Winter (Enfant Terrible)
Core - Meander (CoC)
Raison D’être - Ordeal in Chapel (Old Europa Cafe)
Boëthius - Velvet High Heels (unreleased)
Herbst 9 - Bloodmoon Ritual (Loki Foundation)
Sarah Davanchi - Flowers and Other Voiceless Things (Constellation Tatsu)
Current 93 - LAShTAL (L.A.Y.L.A.H. Antirecords)
Horrific Child - H.I.A. (Eurodisc)
Księżyc - Zakopana (OBUH)
Vladimír Hirsch - Catharsis (Ending) (CatchArrow Recordings)
Anthony Child - Over Napoli (Downwards)
Carlo Ascrizzi - Untitled (unreleased)

Wednesday, 24 January 2018

Sunday, 21 January 2018

Glenfield & Kennedy Ltd. - Water Works Fittings Catalogue 1935

Great book I found at indoor car boot this morning in Northwich. My other half bought some later versions at the same stall. All printed in the 30's through to 50's.

Sunday, 7 January 2018

"Watch out guv, 'es got an annual!"

I suspect that some Found Objects partisans might be interested in a set of scans from the 1978 Sweeney annual, which I posted this morning on my own blog, so just thought I'd do a quick post to alert them.

Featuring amongst other things: a photograph of Dennis Waterman being hit in the knackers with a two by four, and a pin-up of an exuberant John Thaw holding what looks like a choc-ice. As is only right and proper.

Saturday, 6 January 2018

CLEAR CHANNEL III


Vatican Shadow - Desert Storm (Waco) (Hospital Productions)
The Chi Factory - The Bamboo Recordings (Astral Industries)
Oliver Coates - Memorial to Hitchens (Prah Recordings)
Ataraxia - Sorcerer (RCA)
Rollo Smallcombe - Inferno (unreleased)
Electric Sewer Age - Moon’s Milk (Waning) (Soleilmoon Recordings)
Rabit - Possessed (Halcyon Veil)
Geinoh Yamashirogumi - Requiem (Milan)
Dao De Noize - Droning Voices From the Past (Lamour)
Death In June - Death of a Man (NER)
Nokuit - Patterns of Instability I (NKT)
Frans Zwartjes - Living (Not on label)
J.G. Biberkopf - Spirit (Knives)
Memotone - Ritual (Black Acre)
Abel Korzeniowski - Exhibition (Back Lot Music)
Fis - Sub Larynx (Loopy)
Jed Kurzel - The Med Bay (Milan)
3.14 - Ironas (Autumn Equinox Edition)
Horoscope - Azabache Necklace Brought to Protect My Daughter (Wharf Cat Records)
Clint Mansell - Waves Crashing on Distant Shores of Time (Lakeshore Records)
Himukalt - Repairing Her Own Space (Angst Records)
Cyclobe - We’ll Witness the Resurrection of Dead Butterflies (Three Moons) (Phantomcode)
Gagarin Kombinaatti - Survos (Sahko Recordings)
Killing Sound - Eight Methods (Blackest Ever Black)
Abigail Mead - Sniper (Warner Bros. Records)
Thomas Nöla et son Orchestre ft. Douglas P. - The Constables (Caciocavallo)
Jason Lescalleet - Nice Ass (Glistening Examples)
Christophe Guiraud - A B E L (Sub Rosa)
Undweld - False Mirages (Perfect Aesthetics)
Dedekind Cut - So Far, So Good (Ninja Tune)