Morning, I hope you are well. All well here. The big event this week was Teen One doing his own laundry. All went well until he washed his duvet cover without removing the leftover chips from the night before. Currently drying downstairs is the duvet cover with odd starchy patches.

Many thanks to everyone who turned up for the Groovy Fayre, it was amazingly busy (and groovy) all day and all night, great atmosphere, lots of fun, lots of records being bought and sold, a full quiz, a packed dancefloor in the evening and we even broke the record for the most beer drunk in a single day / night at the club since 1888. I very much look forward to the same event next year! 

Also because the people at the180 Studios really enjoyed my horror records session on October 31st, they have asked me back to do a few more nights. The first is a special evening of Italian Music. This will be film music and library music by the "maestros" of those scenes and will sound really quite beautiful in their special hi-fi listening room just off The Strand, It's on November 13th next week, there are two separate 90 minute sessions and tickets can be found here. Basically I select an LP, talk briefly about the LP or the track, then play the track and everyone drifts away into a dreamy and warm musical mind space. It's great.  

Some sad new this week, Ron Forbes, the genius music teacher and creative force behind the Cults Percussion Ensemble has passed away. Rest in peace Ron. 

Quick rewind to the early 1970s now - here is a film shot by Richard Loncraine with James Burke talking about office toys, most of which were designed and manufactured by Loncraine. I know this as I met him a couple of weeks ago at the launch of the new Loncraine Broxton office toy book. He went on to shoot Slade in Flame!!! 

I'm now off to The Mildmay Club to meet a joiner, to see if we can get all the old broken chairs at the venue fixed properly. And no, they were not broken as a result of one of my wild groovy nights.

Thanks for listening as always.

Jonny 

 

New Pateron Show drops today. Quincy Jones of course...