hello, I hope all is groovy. Pretty groovy here but I did go out with the Ghost Box lot last night and have left my brian, I mean brain, at The Barbican. 

But, even with a hangover I have managed to cobble together a 50p Friday offering. This is a cockney-based album, made by Eric Siday, one of the electronic pioneers of the early 1960s. I imagine he realised there was no bees (bees and honey = money) in making electronic music so he went down the rubber (rubberdub-dub = pub) for a good old singalong and came out with an idea for a new album of cockney classic. It's actually a good album with some rare songs, well performed and well recorded. Eric Siday's Cockney Corner can be found right here for just 50p me old china (china plate = mate).

This week I have been very busy, I've sent two LPs off to get made and even had time to read quite a lot of Robert Evan's biography. He was the actor / producer involved with classics like Chinatown, Rosemary's Baby and The Godfather. I've got to the bit where he's just met "The Smile" - a young actor called Jack Nicholson, and cast him in  a soon to be massive flop called On a Clear Day You Can See Forever. This reminded me of a very fine bit of film with Nicholson and Kubrick together on the set of The Shining, which went on to be the opposite of a flop.

I've now got to scarpa (scarpa flow = go) to a meeting in posh Fulham with a posh lady to talk about things that are anything but posh.

Thanks for listening

Jonny