Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 11hIn what might be an occasional series - more labels on record labels. Glad this one made its long 60 year journey from the Bronx to the UK. No music store there now - just a boarded up pharmacy. 081
Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 13hReefer Jacket out today for the first time since April - refuse to call it a pea coat. 0141
Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Wondering if this was her - even better first name. RIP Peaches, the records live on! 030
Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Purists who want mint copies be damned! I promise the marvellously named Peaches Lipscomb that I’ll take care of her copy of Tracks of my Tears. 1102
Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 04/10/2026A quartet from the batch of 45s I picked up in Thailand. Particularly pleased with the slightly dodgy Thai Supremes release that is most definitely not endorsed by Motown. The Toho 45 is the theme to some Japanese tv show - I have relatively high hopes for it… 050
Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I got this. Which is reassuring and also didn’t require 200+ questions. 031
Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Now thats what I call a custom paint job. 170
Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 25/09/2026From London to Bangkok - where it is absolutely pissing down. Still better than the day job. 160
Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Went for a walk to where the Small Faces used to live all together in Pimlico last night - disappointingly no huge blue plaque. But Battersea Power Station looked impressive on the way back. 2182
Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Battersea Bardot come down to the station… 020
Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Just dropped by Tate Britain for an hour or so - they’ve got a Scopitone showing Agnes Varda films of 50’s Cuba! Thats 3 unexpected delights in one. So much better than the Whistler exhibition. 0101
Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Quite enamoured by the exterior of the Ibis in Amsterdam. Won’t be staying there - although I’m sure it’s better than the one by the Pompey ground. 120
Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 13/09/2026View from the room in Amsterdam tonight - not too shabby. 2141
Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Billy Bragg tried that a while ago, and you’re right. But we’re swimming against the tide now I fear. It would help if politicians/media called them out as fascists, as bullies, as the heirs of the NF/BNP, unequivocally with no regard to future votes, I live in hope. But while they don’t we can. 020
Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Not much use condemning something the day after. Also, not ‘costumes’ but paramilitary uniforms, not protestors but organised intimidation. This is a lousy response from all concerned. 110
Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Jimmy’s, Greek restaurant on Frith Street - mentioned by Clive James in his memoirs. More personally memorable - the waiter once pointed out a photo of me and a girlfriend on the wall there, taken the previous week…but that wasnt who I was there with that night… frosty kleftiko all round… 271
Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 02/09/2026This has finally arrived a few weeks after ordering it - the question is, will it sound as good as it did on first hearing or will it be that cynical exercise in milking the family name as some have suggested? Anyway, Womack Sisters, I’m going in! 030
Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Life from a window, I’m just taking in the view… 160
Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 27/08/2026The afterlife is about to get weirder. Have fun Yayoi! 020
Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 19/08/2026That rain seems to have brought out the butterflies. 050
Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Always good to he here on a Friday night. 150
Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Lovely ! Mine was the basic metallic blue with very hot vinyl seats. Speedo was one of these - approximate at best. 030
Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Just seen this in the garden - should I be worried? 340
Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Best thing about an eclipse is it really fucks with the seagulls. 060
Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Given the eclipse, meteor shower and all that, I thought I’d make the same joke as everyone else here - but in German. 000
Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Big Sis, somewhere in the Swiss Alps on a school ski trip about 1968. No fancy gear, my mum knitted that orange jumper. Later unravelled it and knitted one for me with the same wool… 050
Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 06/08/2026The most psychedelic flowers in the garden. 270
Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Surely you must already have this one? 3231
Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 04/08/2026And leaving her out in the rain like this is why the rust took hold…. 110
Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Then you’re probably talking about Rod Liddle 070
Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Weekend nearly here. Spending it deep in the underground West Country punk, cider and badger scene. One day it’ll be as big as Northern Soul and you’ll all say you were there. 020
Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Brick Lane for dinner tonight- consider it compensation for having to spend the day in glamorous Dagenham tomorrow. 060
Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Without saying your age, what is your fave film from the year you turned 18… 100
Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Normally a modern art type, but it’s hard not to love a Caravaggio - even when it’s copied onto a wall. This one just outside the church where the original is (which turned out to be closed…). 000
Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Siracusa tonight. I do love this place. 010
Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Lovely little feller - Italian green wall lizard - hanging out in the sublime ruins of Neapolis today. 070
Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 10/07/2026In Sicily - The Greek theatre holding up remarkably well after two and a bit thousand years. They knew how to do a view too. 030
Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Dolce and Gabbana apparently. Nice but bet neither of them have ridden it. 040
Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Ten hours on a sleeper and finally made it to Sicily - Etna still smoking away, but considerably calmer. A day of wine, sun and nothingness ahead. Ciao! 0100
Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Campaign for decent toy shops in the uk! 251
Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 06/07/2026So no trip to Sicily today - sitting in Bristol instead. Rebooked for tomorrow to Napoli then a ferry down the coast to get there. Turning into quite to a bit of an adventure. Bloody volcanoes - what’s the point of them ! 040
Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 05/07/2026This record, everything it introduced me to, that woman’s jumper and haircut on the sleeve, a lifetime of going down deeper soul related rabbit holes, the scratches and clicks - it was America to me for so long. 1204
Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Nice Jazz Festival, a brilliant event, cut down to 3 days this year. Not the biggest deal in the scheme of things, but it’s completely down to the newly elected far-right mayor having ‘other priorities’ - the right are threatened when people come together and enjoy themselves. 0101
Absolute Beginner @leaderofthesect.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Looks good - but they missed one of Europe’s key progressive policies. 010