Morning, I hope all is well. All good here, very busy indeed. A fairly uneventful week in some respects apart from when I thought the house was on fire (smoke everwhere!!!) but it was just Teen One cooking sausages on a high heat. A very high heat. So much for the cookery course.

Also this week I went to see the record collection of the sound engineer Simon Holliday. He worked for great bands like Stereolab on their tours for many years. He died very suddenly in June and left behind a large archive of interesting things. We have bought a few hundred of his amazing LPs back for the Groovy Fayre, where his brother will be manning the stall. Superb pristine LPs from the 80s and 90s (I have never seen anything like it, seriously), superb jazz from the 60s and 70s, some crazy electronics and ambient stuff, plus a stash of unworn 90s Stereolab tees and more. All proceeds to Simon's sons.  

So if you are about on Saturday do come along. It's at The Mildmay Club N16. Two halls of collectors and dealers, records, books, tees / tee shirt transfers, pop-based Xmas decorations, super food, cheap beer, a stange arcade thing, other fun stuff, music being played on a great system upstairs by Audio Gold, music quiz from about 6.30 / 7pm and dancing with excellent DJs into the evening. All free. Unless you come at 9am when it's £5 to get in. I have a massive box of library things and groovy stuff, all priced to sell sell sell. See you there.

Yesterday I was introduced to The Paul Lynde Halloween Special. He was the funky uncle in Bewitched. It's nuts. It even includes the Wicked Witch from The Wizard of Oz, Kiss and a freaky Brady Bunch disco mum thing.  

I'm now off to Spitalfields to tell everyone about the Groovy Fayre again. And then I'm going to lie down as I have to be up tomorrow at 5:30am. 

Thanks for listening as always

Jonny

 

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