blogs are so 'last year', but then again Fruits de Mer is so last century it's as close to cutting-edge as we're ever likely to get (unless the monkey gland injections start to kick in)...so this is the FdM blog and you're very welcome to it.
(it's all supposed to be related to music but sometimes I lose the plot, with typically uninspiring results)
HOUSE OF FOUR
A very nice Christmas surprise from my old mate Craig - a four-track 10" of Pretty Things covers
QUADROPHENIA
A pretty dull Christmas for TV is suddenly looking a lot brighter as I sit down to watch a re-run of one of the best rock films ever made...I've already seen Timothy Spall and Gary Holton making early acting appearances!
HO, HO, HO...
Stolen from X, Twitter or Bluesky...
NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL A BOX-SET
The Beatles' finest, in my book...and a fine, inevitably overblown, vinyl box-set; £165 from Amazon UK but less than half that from Amazon Germany and postage about the same as in the UK.
NOW that's what I call my Christmas present to myself.
RED ALERT
Codex Seraphini at the Hope & Ruin - a great set, very intense; we nearly got them to play at Dr. Sardonicus Festival a few years ago - maybe one day...
MERLIN TONTO
A new band for me, and they played down the pecking order at the Hope & Ruin's 'Cupboard House Party' all-dayer in Brighton, but I'd rate them as definitely worth checking out - krautrock meets electronica?
C'MON, FEEL T'NOIZE
Somewhere, in a galaxy far, far away...Noddy comes from Yorkshire and doesn't plug his guitar in; hang on, it was Lewes and Slade UK...
IT'S CHRISTMAS!!!
Maybe not yet, but this should be a good crack on Friday the 13th, and a nice warm up for...
IT'S CODEX SERAPHINI!!!
on...Saturday the 14th, the Hope & Ruin in Brighton are running the Cupboard Music House Party, an all-dayer with loads of bands I've never heard of - but Codex Seraphini are headlining, so it's bound to be good (that said, with my lad Chris and Kev & Steve from the FdM stall in Cardigan in-tow, things could get pretty blurry)
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