Hello, I hope all is groovy. It's busy here and I've spent most of the week up to my neck in sticky fragile tape and in Post Office cues. And if your name is Antony Doggwiler (sic) and you sent me a drawing (looks like in HB pencil) of Kitten Kong up the GPO Tower, you need to email me. It's nothing bad.

The Bedazzled LP has been extremely popular - I had to restrict sales to one per customer. And I've arranged that 100 of the 500 will go to shops aound the UK, the rest have pretty much all gone via the mailing list (there will be a sprinkling available on the site early next week). To be honest a few weeks ago I was under the impression it was a bit of risk even issuing it. Just goes to show I've learnt very little in 20 years of pressing up funny music.

While we are on the subject of funny music and firmly in the Peter Cook domain, I thought the perfect #50pFriday album for today would be his FIRST EVER recording. Yes, all the way from 1959, this is the mythical privately pressed LP of the Cambridge Footlights Revue and is called The Last Laugh. It's the debut of Peter Cook, Eleanor Bron, John Bird and others and came at a time whe Cook was starting to write theatrical productions like Pieces Of Eight (a forthcoming #50pFriday LP). This is earlier, and if you ask me this is the dawn of satire and this very rare historic recording can be found here. 

Yes, I know I've still not cleared up any of the other #50pFriday albums from the 50p page because at the moment I have queues to stand in. But it does mean you can still get Ivor Cutler, Bernard Herrmann, Jim Fassett, Dudley Moore, Singing Dogs etc etc etc all for 50p. Tell your friends.

I think today's odd video moment comes via Mark Pritchard, infamous music maker and DJ. In fact his email stated (and I quote) "I'd put money on it that you've seen this..." and of course I'd never ever come across Cecil And His Musical Hands before. And if you don't like his handjobs, my wife sent me this on Tuesday; meet The Benny Hill Ravers. Stick with it, it's only 40 seconds long. Worth it.

My next trip is to the Post Office once again. I'm really hoping a grumpy pensioner starts having a go at me for having too many parcels again.

Have a lovely bank holiday, and thanks for listening. 

Jonny