hello, I hope all is groovy. What with May Day and all I am consumed with retrospective visions of 1) issuing The Wicker Man OST 21 years ago and 2) meeting my wife to be 20 years ago. A joyous day indeed.

Initially I was going to hold news of the new Trunk LP back until the end of the week, but people have already found it and are already buying it (I put it up for sale on the Trunk website late yesterday afternoon), so I thought I'd tell you today. 

To put it simply, it's all in the album title: Spider Jazz: KPM Cues Used In The Amazing Animated Series We Are Not Allowed To Mention By Name For Legal Reasons. So yes, it's all the classic and now suprisingly rare KPM cues used in the second and third series of the amazing 1960s animated TV series that I am really not allowed to mention for legal reasons. Stars a bloke in a spider suit. Classic low budget brilliance from Ralph Bakshi, so low budget they sacked the composers from series one and then went for KPM cues. The album includes legendary cuts such as "The Hellraisers" and "Walk And Talk" by Syd Dale, with other awesome composers including Hawkshaw, Hawksworth, Lindup and Mansfield. Many of the tracks also went on to be used by the NFL in their clip shows throughout the late 1960s and 1970s. The initial run is in blue and red spider splatter vinyl (and on unrequested 180gr) and look pretty darn cool but have come in at at least two times what I thought they would cost, so they are a bit more expensive that the standard black vinyl. Demand will be quite high on this, esp in the USA, the black will be repressed, the splatter will not. 

All info, pictures and tracklist can be found here, where you can buy them too. So swing in to action.  

In other news, a local chum of mine, journalist Craig Mclean, is having his monthly music quiz upstairs at the Red Lion in Church Street this Wednesday - 8pm. I'm mentioning it because the prizes are ace but also special guest is world famous groupie and GTO band member Pamela Des Barres. Well I'm going. 

Thanks for listening. 

Jonny