carryonsidney 18th Apr 2023 | | Live MusicThe Monochrome Set @ The Old Woollen | ticket info
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carryonsidney 6th Apr 2023 | | Vinyl AlbumRainbow - Down To Earth | My copy is clear vinyl, not sure if they were all like that though?
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carryonsidney 3rd Mar 2023 | | Live MusicThe Who @ Torquay Town Hall | This gig is listed in the book "Eyewitness The Who".
Poster for the gig can be seen here.
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carryonsidney 3rd Mar 2023 | | Live MusicThe Tony Meehan Combo @ California Ballroom | At this point the band had already changed their name to The Who, however they were wrongly billed on the night.
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carryonsidney 12th Feb 2023 | | Vinyl AlbumNoël Coward And Gertrude Lawrence - Noël And Gertie | Ist issue also has a flipback sleeve with a curved cutaway in the flaps.
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carryonsidney 2nd Feb 2023 | | Music MemorabiliaBuster Somers Express - Promotional Hand Bill | Apparently the guitarist was one John Thomas and originally hailed (along with the rest of the band) from Blackburn in Lancashire.
www.lancashire telegraph
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carryonsidney 25th Jan 2023 | | Vinyl AlbumStan Kenton And His Orchestra - Stan Kenton's Milestones | Capitol [uk] was originally run by Decca at the beginning and then swapped hands to EMI in 1956. Therefore the purple EMI label & sleeve pictured here are post 1956. The black label typesetting is a Decca arrangement so I would guess that is the first press. My copy has a purple label with nearly the same design as the purple one above but made by Decca, my sleeve is Decca printed as well with a printers date of C.P. 56.6 (June 1956) so must be in the last batch before the switch. Its curious how EMI have duplicated Decca's layout instead of using Parlophone or Columbia as a base image?
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carryonsidney 14th Jan 2023 | | Vinyl AlbumThe Pretty Things - Get The Picture? | I suspect this 1965 issue was Mono only, the album was reissued again in 1967 in the Netherlands with a different title and Mono/Stereo versions.
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carryonsidney 20th Dec 2022 | | Vinyl AlbumMari Wilson With The Wilsations - Showpeople | The calender insert as mentioned on the sticker on the sleeve, is a triptych, each side being 10" square, the first 2 sheets is the (picture) calender and the 3rd sheet is an order form for merchandise. When you open it out flat the reverse side is blank.
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carryonsidney 4th Dec 2022 | | Live MusicThe Prisoners @ Royal Function Rooms | A bit cross I couldn't get to any of these gigs as all my mates were going too, they did actually livestream the Saturday gig but the tickets for that were up to £35. Hopefully at some point the the whole gig might appear on YT but in the meantime various fans have posted vids to YT & FB and here is a taste:
[YouTube Video]
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carryonsidney 26th Nov 2022 | | Live MusicSaxon @ Barbican Centre | Set start times were:
Untamed Silence 7:30pm
Diamond Head 8:10pm
Saxon 9:15pm
Saxon played to about 11pm so nearly 2 hour show.
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carryonsidney 25th Nov 2022 | | Live MusicFields [UK] @ Van Dike | I have appended all 3 bands with something relative, coincidently none of them lasted very long anyway.
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carryonsidney 24th Nov 2022 | | Live MusicFields [UK] @ Van Dike | Possibly the same band that had one single out on CBS in 1971? see here
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carryonsidney 19th Nov 2022 | | Vinyl AlbumPrivate Eye - Private Eye Presents Golden Satiricals | I have the other insert for this which doubles (triples) up as an inventory of details for the flexis - a spoof Private Eye issue and also the Promotional bit hence I can add the release date for this record.
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carryonsidney 17th Nov 2022 | | 78 RPMJohnny Luck - Play Rough / Buzz, Buzz, Buzz | This film has just been on the telly today (talkingpics) starring David McCallum and Stanley Baker amongst other well known faces. I only caught the last 20 minutes or so but it seemed to be a quality flick for the time. Interestingly I think the tune was playing over the end credits withits own title credit stating in brackets that it was due for release on Fontana. I'm surprized a UK 45 hasnt turned up yet?
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carryonsidney 10th Sep 2022 | | Vinyl AlbumCarl Perkins - Dance Album Of Carl Perkins | I paid a fiver today for a very beaten up original copy of this because it is so rare. I can just tell it had the usual London/Decca flip back sleeve with curved cutaways. The front is laminated the back isnt. Printers note is McN10.59 (October 1959), old style London logo, plum labels.
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carryonsidney 12th Aug 2022 | | Vinyl AlbumBill Haley And His Comets - Live It Up! | I have now moved the german labels to here
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carryonsidney 10th Aug 2022 | | Vinyl AlbumVarious Artists - First Rock 'N' Roll Party | I have seen a Pye advert in a museum this week, dated for January 1957 so it was obviously selling well.
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carryonsidney 4th Aug 2022 | | Live MusicCreedence Clearwater Revival @ Royal Albert Hall | I think this must be a mistake as most internet sources seem to agree that CCR played their debut on 14th +15th only ?
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carryonsidney 2nd Aug 2022 | | Vinyl AlbumThe Clique [90's] - Self Preservation Society | Red vinyl copies would be worth twice the black vinyl, at least I think.
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carryonsidney 17th Jul 2022 | | 78 RPMHowlin' Wolf - Passing By Blues / Crying At Daybreak | New label images supplied by HistorianUSA.
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carryonsidney 6th Jun 2022 | | BookMick Wall - Like A Bat Out Of Hell | ReviewNot a very good biography.
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carryonsidney 28th May 2022 | | Live MusicPart Time Punks @ Wharf Chambers | 3:30 open
Set times were:
4:30 Nervous Twitch
5:15 All Ashore!
6:00 The Dirt
6:45 The Red Stains
7:45 Crumbs
8:30 Duck
9:15 The Anderson Tapes
10:00 Diablo Furs
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carryonsidney 23rd Feb 2022 | | 78 RPMJazz At The Town Hall Ensemble - You'se A Viper / That's My Desire | ReviewThe recordings made at Birmingham Town Hall (UK), 30th March 1948 and issued on Esquire were among the very first made of British Be-Bop jazz.
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carryonsidney 29th Nov 2021 | | Vinyl AlbumVarious Artists - Jazz At The Philharmonic | Circa early 1950's?
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carryonsidney 28th Nov 2021 | | 12" SinglePeter And The Test Tube Babies - Key To The City | This record has been ID'ed as a 12" single and not an album.
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carryonsidney 22nd Sep 2021 | | Vinyl Album[no artist listed] - Hot Hits 3 | Contains a superb sound a like version of "WAR", but also an unintentionally hilariously terrible version of "WU BAY TUESDAY"!
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carryonsidney 25th Jul 2021 | | Vinyl AlbumBing Crosby - Le Bing | Printers date as February 1954.
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carryonsidney 25th Jul 2021 | | Vinyl AlbumVarious Artists - Faces Of Jazz | Gatefold sleeve.
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carryonsidney 6th Jul 2021 | | Vinyl AlbumThe Stooges - The Stooges | Seemed to have picked up this - everything looks the same except its on a yellowy orange colour vinyl?
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