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Also, I’m not a philatelist but it’s still a thrill receiving mail with almost 50 year old stamps on. Some of these date from 1978-1980. Good work, Phil.

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Also, I’m not a philatelist but it’s still a thrill receiving mail with almost 50 year old stamps on. Some of these date from 1978-1980. Good work, Phil.

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John Kilbride @karnag.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It’s a big honour to be featured in the latest edition of the always beautiful, hand-typeset, underground journal Terrascopædia. Phil’s labour of love is a thing of wonder and thanks to Jamie Etherington of the @fretboardjournal.bsky.social for the interview.

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Ordered a copy of this. Exactly what I want to be listening to right now.

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ARE YOU KIND?, by Mossy Tapes

Joe Harvey-Whyte and I contributed a version of “New Speedway Boogie” to this fundraiser comp from Mossy Tapes. #gratefuldead interpreted by the UK underground. Especially love Sun Drawings’ Attics Of My Life. mossytapes.bandcamp.com/album/are-yo...

mossytapes.bandcamp.com

13 track album

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Bobby Lee @bobby-lee.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I watched a documentary about him recently, and that usually makes me warm to artists I’ve previously had little or no interest in. On this occasion it did the exact opposite. Confirmed my “wacky smart arse” suspicions. I make an exception for Hot Rats too though.

Bobby Lee @bobby-lee.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I’m fascinated by the cult of therapy and how it’s posited as the only route to “mental wellness” and ethical living. I’m sure it works for some, but as an expensive, privatised, privileged form of health care, the all too common chorus of “everyone should have therapy” feels tone-deaf and entitled.

Bobby Lee @bobby-lee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Not 100% sure about Colin but Pete Beer is his real name. He was in Show of Hands.

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Bobby Lee @bobby-lee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I have a feeling “RD” might not be his real name either…

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Bobby Lee @bobby-lee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Picked up this mad looking Brit-Country record yesterday. “Rusty Douch” on pedal steel. Ouch. One for @actualnames.bsky.social I think…

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Bobby Lee @bobby-lee.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

50% off all digital on my Bandcamp again today with code “oct50”. Plenty of other cool $h!+ too; zines, tie dye tees, cheap LPs, casette tapes, bumper stickers…

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Bobby Lee @bobby-lee.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Went to see Shawn Hess and Derek Dames Ohl last night and they were great. Derek does that Blaze Foley talkin’ blues thing and Shawn is classic tears-in-your-beer country-folk in the Lefty/Willie/Townes lineage. Still a couple of chances for London heads to catch them.

Bobby Lee @bobby-lee.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Interesting discussion of just this on the current Private Eye podcast re. fake agents/publishers/PR agencies targeting authors with AI generated scams.

Bobby Lee @bobby-lee.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Jack from the Flying Mojito Bros has this one rolling… open.spotify.com/playlist/4c7...

open.spotify.com

Cod is God: Inauthentic Reggae Jams

You asked for it

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Bobby Lee @bobby-lee.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There’s the occasional oddity which I think can be fun but it’s a hard pass for me usually. Ironically, Johnny Rivers’ LA Reggae LP does not contain such a stab.

Bobby Lee @bobby-lee.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I’m generally of this opinion too, but as a psych/folk-rock/late 60s-early 70s SSW fan, I refuse to sit through the ubiquitous zany old time/trad jazz/music hall pastiche, phoned in 12 bar album filler or misguided stab at reggae, which plague so many records I otherwise love.

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Bobby Lee @bobby-lee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’ve been uncomfortable with the rise of Help For Heroes (and enforced poppy wearing) for a long time. The deification of the military, (who in living memory have only ever been involved in colonial/corporatist wars) is revolting.

Bobby Lee @bobby-lee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

As if service station food wasn’t terrible enough, what the hell is this militaristic flapjack? Weird culture war creep is real.

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Me, pushing the trolley to the Lidl checkout.

Even as an atheist who thinks all religion is poison, this is a wilfully naive take. The orange men are a group of far-right extremists who are aggressively targeting a persecuted minority. To suggest it’s some kind of “both sides are bad” situation is not helpful.

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Also, I think I have a crush on the 90s jazz nerd (left tape) based on their handwriting/letter formation/choice use of upper case/attention to label details. The Ayler fan’s italic capitalisation is mildly threatening.

Just found these amongst a job lot of C90s I bought a couple of years ago. The rest was show-tunes and light opera.

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Outdone myself in cliched Bobby-isms with this one.

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The first couple of Chilliwack albums (before they went AOR) are really oddities and due a reappraisal.

Bobby Lee @bobby-lee.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Mammoth playlist of all the available songs/artists it mentions too… open.spotify.com/playlist/0rl...

Bobby Lee @bobby-lee.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Raced through Daniel Dylan Wray’s Groovy Laidback & Nasty in a 2 day lemsip haze. It managed to be both warmly familiar & a total eye opener to various bands/scenes/sounds which have passed me by. Never read a music book which celebrated both humility & working class creativity so centrally either.

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Bobby Lee @bobby-lee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Haven’t they suffered enough?

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Bobby Lee @bobby-lee.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Headteacher dissected an owl pellet on the overhead projector. Still one of the coolest and gnarliest things I’ve ever seen.

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Bobby Lee @bobby-lee.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A vote here for Sandy Bull’s Inventions from 1965.

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Bobby Lee @bobby-lee.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Ooooof. Didn’t know this about Jimmy Webb.

Got into Dylan’s New Morning again recently and they feel like bedfellows to me.

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Very tired of “aesthetics” and yearn for the days when real subcultures had actually substance rather than a moodboard. Never trust a scene/subculture/“aesthetic” that doesn’t have its own music either.

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Haven’t read any Kerouac for many years but I finished The Dharma Bums earlier, sat on a log in the woods, bathed in early autumn sunshine and it was glorious.

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Weighing this up though, the negative effects of him not knowing and potentially ruining his fucking life with guilt is much more likely. Making a guess that he’s suppressing something based on zero evidence is a helluva gamble. We don’t need to therapy everything.

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Have you read The Magus by John Fowles? Similar themes and genuinely one of my favourites.

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…meaningful working class movement, turning collective action into (toothless) individual gestures, and how the left’s constant, exhausting, self-policing plays into the hands of genuine oppressors.

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I’m not even a chapter into Ash Sarkar’s “Minority Rule” but I’m already punching the air in agreement several times on every page. She articulates so many things I’ve been thinking about over the last decade, especially the way identity politics has been hijacked by the right to splinter any…

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*Northern Soul Police enters the chat*

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determine the parameters of the genre. I don’t always agree 100% with their ratings but the spectrum, sorry, scale is clear. I’m unaware of another genre with such clearly defined criteria. Not everyone wants that, but broader definitions exists too (Soft Rock, West Coast, AM Gold.)

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