Record prices creeping up

This long weekend is costing us money

Did manage to take my wellness hours

Sound on the Motorhead album is super muddy

Running and records

Run stats 18/4/26 - 5'03/K

Still pleased with the new coat

Good day of rugby

Still fixing up old run stats pages

Great weekend with Suede

Oh another thing for the shopping list

Interesting new source of gig history

Pick of the pops chart rundown of 2025

Lovely evening round friends

Great London weekend breakdown day two

I didn't realise I could be doing daily flu graphs

Imagine if I never wrote anything again

I get up when I want @ Camden Underworld 2025

All change in the vinyl value chart

Lovely weekend

Big London day out

Got my Suede vinyl

At last an opportunity to cost me money has been passed up

I was going to Dragon House...

Happy birthday

Suede taking over the Royal Festival Hall

Massive Pixies day out part seven - The actual Pixies @ Brixton Academy 2025

Slept badly again

New Suede straight into my most valuable records chart

I bought all the new music on Record Store Day

Pay day treat arrived

They came, they saw, they rocked @ Portsmouth Guildhall 2025

Will the Eurostar ever stop in Kent again?

Oh yeah stocks are falling

Double eating out

Barely less lazy Sunday

Pleasingly round Beta Band gigiversary @ London Astoria 2025

Got my record player back

Wasted time again this morning on Sonos

Day off

Interesting change in most valuable vinyl

Productive day

Just watched a Stewart Lee special on Amazon

Off to Singapore

AC/DC weekender part four: Bruges @ festivalpark stenehei 2024

Donald Trump is appealing

Back to Parkrun

Discogs rollercoaster

Parkrun 153

No idea what the poster says @ Quarterhouse 2024

Nick Helm @ Quarterhouse 2024

I bought some vinyl singles

As expected

The internets are back

Potential tax problem

After the funeral

Hot day to go to London

Strawbs @ The Tower Theatre Conversion 2023

Slight detour for swans

Holiday 2023 - to Portchester @ Portsmouth Guildhall 2023

Holiday 2023 - birthdays

I get up when I want, except when there's an extreme weather warning

Blur play Hammersmith Odeon @ Hammersmith Odeon 2023

Busy day and the weather is back @ Finsbury Park 2023

Hot parkrun, but no thunder yet

Beer and vinyl @ Wembley Stadium 2023

It's not all bad news though (not for me)

Even slower parkrun

Thought I was not going to complete parkrun today

Football rained off today

Will I achieve anything on my day off?

Bonus day off

Great pirate themed escape room @ The Pullman 2023

Another brick in the wall

Easy go, easy come

Runuary day fourteen

Mad SEO skills

Pay day shopping

Runuary day six

The record player has been promoted upstairs again

Both boys on both consoles does add to the energy usage...

Still would quite like one of these

Packed but relaxing weekend

My record player has been moved downstairs

Trying to find a reason not to go to London tomorrow

I mentioned a new regime

Parkrun 100 and no-one even knew

Insane busy at work but the end is in sight

Guess what another busy day

Worst parkrun in a while @ Leas Cliff Hall 2022

All change on the vinyl value chart

Automated some of the pricing from discogs

All change in the vinyl chart

Absolute result

We did go to the Clarendon

Vinyl value varies

Surprise free afternoon

There is new entry in my valuable vinyl chart

Think I have been to Tesco every day this week

Another week no Parkrun

Now thing one has covid

Covid, day one billion @ Electric Ballroom 2022

No parkrun today

Declutter!

Covid finally caught us

Todo: todo a new todo list

Midlife Eurotour part two - Brussels

Train travel has changed

Extra busy extra chaos London birthday midweek weekender (part two)

Lovely pre-birthday birthday

The XBox uses more energy than I thought

Hottest day of the year?

Plumber instills me with confidence

Chair in, jury out

Four from four

Rained here today

About the hospital

Spoke too soon

We get an official wellbeing hour today

Thinking of getting another record deck

Happy birthday

David Devant gig tonight!

Entirely new format for music

A slow 5k

Time to start exercising again..?

Birthday weekender: Pie and Vinyl

Disappointing day in Canterbury really

This blog will now be updated even when I am not here...

Brief points for today

Updated my record collection with images now

Added my discogs content here

Fast beery weekend in Portsmouth

New bar type place to go to

You can't move for vegans round here these days @ Quarterhouse 2018

TWENTY FIVE years ago today I was at Sheep on Drugs @ South Parade Pier 2018

When Gladiators meets Record Breakers

Remembered I have some more vinyl to pump into discogs.com

Twenty five years ago was the first gig I went to at the Wedgewood Rooms @ Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms 2018

I went out! On a school night! @ The Booking Hall 2017

Is our Mary Ann Rainey actually Mary Ann Kidd?

Started off our pub crawl not in a pub @ Pie And Vinyl 2016

A weekend of trains and booze

Looks like a trip to Portsmouth is on the cards for the weekend

Saturday morning we headed for an early lunch to Pie and Vinyl @ Pie And Vinyl 2016

Twenty years ago today I was at 60ft Dolls @ Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms 2016

No bus for me tomorrow!

Twenty years ago today I was at Cast @ Portsmouth Pyramids 2016

Twenty years ago today I was at Skunk Anansie @ Portsmouth Pyramids 2016

Twenty years ago today: I was at a Perfume gig @ Southampton Joiners 2016

The Tee family at Worlds End @ Chairmakers Arms 2015

Joshua Clarke (1795) in the 1851 census

Vegan cherry chocolate brownies

Hot Salvation coffee + music opens tomorrow (22nd Nov) @ Hot Salvation 2014

Don't tell me I missed the deal on the Sonos sound system!

Best thing about White Stuff in Gunwharf

The Cure doing their first three albums in one show at the Albert Hall @ Royal Albert Hall 2011

Pama International meets Mad Professor Rewired! In Dub on Tour @ Quarterhouse 2010

HUCKLE

Uncle Bob's reunion tickets here @ Highbury Garage 2010

Today's horoscope by email:

Also, vuvuzela.fm

You have until midnight tonight to protest at 6music's closure @ Glastonbury 2010

A bookcase to match our bookcases

RE: Skid Row (Gary Moore) rare vinyl - 12814

Skid Row (Gary Moore) rare vinyl

trying to locate Robert Clarke

'Anchor Baby' Recording Services

Signed "Killing an Arab" promo

The Holloways play Leas Cliff Hall 28th November @ Leas Cliff Hall 2008

Josephine Butler campaigns in Folkestone

Hmm, I might have that on vinyl too

FAREWELL LEAS GIG FOR BATTLESKA GALACTICA @ Leas Cliff Hall 2008

MJ Hibbett's Exciting Life In Rock is off to Edinburgh NOW! @ Medina & Negociants 2008

Stereophonics sales frenzy! @ Leas Cliff Hall 2008

Psst, wanna buy some Stereophonics tickets? @ Leas Cliff Hall 2008

I played at Mick's Flamenco in June July or august 1967 !! @ Pipers Nightclub 2008

Lone Star Comedy moves to the Tower Theatre @ The Tower Theatre Conversion 2008

Hmm, I've possibly lost all the family tree records again

RE: Folkestone and its neighbourhood by S. J. Mackie - 10922

Good luck with these

Family tree home

A festive update from Hibbett

Double history @ Pipers Nightclub 2007

1980s soft rock @ Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms 2007

Be as cool as us

The Lesson Of The Smiths

More Huckles

RE: The only record I have that's worth any money - 10004

Ireland's Memorial Records 1914-18

Couple of Orson tickets up on Ebay @ Leas Cliff Hall 2006

Folkestone and its neighbourhood by S. J. Mackie

The Morning After Girls - Hi Skies

Why's it always Rik Waller?

Trivium are coming to Folkestone @ Leas Cliff Hall 2005

BBC NEWS | UK | England | Regional fire centre site named

Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records

My Life In The Making American Tour

Shawn Harvey

Google map favelet javascript

49 - 51 Earls Avenue

Thanks a lot for this

MAKE SOME NOISE + ELECTRON SOUL RECORDS @ LEGION PRESENTS:

I thought BOSE was ace

Best Before Records

Guns Don't Kill People, Rappers Do

Shed Anthems

Some new things

Free BMD

Late at the Tate, GRATE @ Dingwalls 2004

David Devant and his Spirit Wife @ Dingwalls 2004

Half Man, Half Machine @ Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms 2004

Half snowman, half machine

Download: Stage Three

Blimey, new David Devant single!

Goldie Lookin' Spain

Pet Shop Boys / Turbonegro / Iggy Pop / Barfly

Million Dead

My Coco

Very popular with Shoreditch types

Darkness download! @ London Astoria 2003

Uncle Bob's Christmas Wedding Reception, 10th Birthday Party, Centenary & Farewell! @ Kings Cross Water Rats 2003

Psst, wanna buy a bass?

Pop Factory Awards

Bungalow roof on @ The Lock Tavern 2003

Feeder re-release

Elbow Room @ The Elbow Room 2003

Pioneer Soundtracks

BACK in BLACK

Novelty Single Packaging

Cooper Temple Clause at the Barfly Saturday @ Barfly 2003

Kerrang Awards

SFA Day OK! (part one)

Hens Teeth

It's the vinyl countdown @ Hammersmith Odeon 2003

Electric Six, The Crimea and American Analog Set at the Barfly

Permission To Land

Moco support Electric Six

I'll tell you who's good

The Cognition

Malowski @ Bull and Gate 2003

Craig fromThe Vines & Cooper Temple Clause @ Metro 2002

The Hellacopters and The Datsuns @ London Astoria 2002

Divis are on their way...

ZOMBIES from SPACE!

A new appreciation for Ian Brown

Stuff I have learned about Suede @ Mean Fiddler 2002

The Darkness Debut Single @ Kings Cross Water Rats 2002

Have a Foxy Minky Weekend...

Take Down The Union Jack on May 20

Yeah Yeah Yeahs tickets available still

Competition winners

What's your favourite soundtrack?

Win tickets to Five Night Stand tonight! @ Ocean 2002

Campaign to knock Gareth from the number one slot

Campaign for Proper Indie

24 Hour Party People

Cocks Out!

Devant play Brighton

Abdoujaparov have a new single out

A Right Regal Christmas

The WIAIWYA / Fortuna Pop Christmas Party @ Bull and Gate 2001

Mark

Send Me Bootlegs

Gene DJing this week

Icarus Sister @ Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms 2001

Jon Coghill (Cogsy)

Hang The DJ... @ Yo Below 2001

Who's doing a load of instore appearances?

Barfly Camden presents Captain Soul @ Barfly 2001

Barfly Cardiff presents Seafood

Cornershop/Clinton

King Adora Live

My Vitriol Grounded in Picadilly

shed seven

Album of the week

Know Your Enemy

TCTC Free Single

Sunday Sunday @ The Elbow Room 2001

I should start making use of the facilities

Santa Clause is coming to town @ Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms 2001

The Worlds First "web enabled" single - on vinyl

Suede Carboot Clearout

Filth Finale

What are you looking at?

Tower Records BUSTED for / by FILTH!

Tonight's entertainment...

Free Booze at Tower Records

Norman 'Fat Boy' Cook

Free gig not in London

Like Billy Bragg, but Larger

This week's FREE STUFF!

Brain Holograms: Officially not best @ Bull and Gate 2000

er.. helen

What is the best music format? @ Bull and Gate 2000

Beta Band play some records @ The Elbow Room 2000

Updatarama @ The Scala 2000

Frankie Machine Winners

Something for the weekend @ Barfly 2000

Get your maps out

Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V @ University of Surrey Students Union 2000

Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven

Everybody Loves Urusei Yatsura

Samaritans Part One

Snow Patrol and Belle and Sebastian live tonight

Nightclub V Nightclub ACTION @ Barfly 2000

Yeah Yeah Vote Helen Love

D'ya Ken? @ London Astoria 2000

Professional, Competent, Rocking and Tight

Telegram Spam

Coo, more free stuff

Stars of Tracklist and Field

Helen Love @ Dingwalls 1997

David Devant and his Spirit Wife @ Highbury Garage 1997

Kula Shaker @ Reading Alleycat 1996

Therapy? @ Portsmouth Pyramids 1994

Atom Seed @ The Borderline 1991

Transvision Vamp @ Portsmouth Guildhall 1991

Under Neath What @ The Marquee 1989

Under Neath What @ Southampton Joiners 1989

Under Neath What @ Southampton Joiners 1989

Guns n Roses at the Marquee @ The Marquee 1987

Madonna @ Koko 1983

Miscellanous

My record collection

All my records - A

All my records - B

All my records - 0-9

All my records - C

All my records - G

All my records - D

All my records - F

All my records - E

All my records - H

All my records - I

All my records - M

All my records - J

All my records - K

All my records - N

All my records - O

All my records - Q

All my records - R

All my records - L

All my records - P

All my records - S

All my records - T

All my records - V

All my records - Z

All my records - W

All my records - U