Hi there I hope all is groovy, It's pretty groovy here. Just send off more Trunk LPs to get made and even a super hip 7" too! Hell yeah!
I spend a few hours at the Trunk warehouse yesterday going through boxes of things. As a result I have put all straggling tee shirt and sweat shirt discoveries in a new section - Tee / Sweat Sale. There are library tees, Kirchin Tees, Sainsbury's tees, kiddy Squiddy Tees and more, all very reduced.
Also, I took delivery of two all new super tees this week - first up the classic Miles Davis / Mel Calman artwork that was print at Christmas. The print sold out in about two hours. These tees look superb, are officially licensed from Calman's estate and are not limited. I was very wary of making a "jazz tee" but I think I've got away with it. The all new and amazing Miles tee can be found here.
Secondly, the Woolworths "That's Entertainment" design is now on a tee shirt too; in fact I wore it into Iceland in N16 this week and got some very odd double takes / stares from some of the older customers - probably because Iceland is now where the old Woolies used to be. The new fab Woolies tee can be found here.
As for the super duper 50p Friday abum, today it is most interesting - by hip experimental guitarist GP Hall - also known simply as Peter Hall. He made the legendary 1972 Brutalist album The Estates (also owned by Trunk Records and coming to you soon). This 50p album called Manifestations is from a decade or so later, and is intriguingly minimal, and has an odd 80s sound, probably because that's when it was made. Manifestations can be found here along with some other guitar larks and all for 50p.
There is no video today, but there is this article sent over to me last night by Tony Sylvester, style icon and lead singer of Turbonegro. It's from The Great Yarmouth Mercury.
And Great Yarmouth is where I am now headed. I left very early this morning (hence this early email) so I could get there before 9am. I'm going to see a distant uncle who has been just arrived at an unfamiliar care home and apparently is now also showing signs of early onset dementia. It will be a difficult, sad visit I'm sure, but I will be cheering him up with nostagic talk and taking him loads of books about nature and birds and trees, which he will love. Good job he's not into music or tee shirts or Wollies otherwise I'd be boring him to tears.
Thanks for listening
Jonny
One final thing, I was on Late Juntion last night with Lucy Woodward, collector of some 17000 LPs and Test Card Circle heroin. Listen here.