in & out

i do hope you'll forgive me dear hearts for rattling on about our 99p soul whatsit so but i do like a bit of dance and it's most awful nice having a little chunk of these here doings living in the great outdoors too really sort of real like. it's just a bit of a worry that you might feel like you're getting bothered into coming or that you'll be in trouble if you don't or there'll be tutting or even worse sighing but that's really not what i meant to happen at all. i just like the idea that there's a do there and a do here too (and over the facebook thing) so that everyone can sort of join in wherever they are. is that alright? i do hope so. have a ball whererver you are duckies

arnold blair - trying to get next to you




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zhooshed

...well i say zhooshed what i mean is completely and utterly flapped frazzled unprepared unready un oh everything... four days to go and i'm a disgrace. oh for raymond of mayfair

save me

almost all i know fer sure is this is my first record of the once it's got going a bit bit of the night but i would warn against your actual lying down or candles. health and safety and all. you know.

melanie - lay down


with huge thanks to dane over at all eyes and ears for reminding me what a folk funk anthem of a record this is. thankyou dearie

now take it away raymond...

TWO TONE HAIRSTYLES (aka RAYMOND)

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rocking steady

just cos it's a wonder and i've never heard a phyllis dillon record i didn't adore

phyllis dillon - perfidia


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goodbye tea rooms

took a usual diversion round museum street today to pay respects at the ghost of the holborn tea rooms to find the poor dear old thing has finally given in to drab office blackness after lord knows how many years it is now of slowly fading and flaking. what a darned shame. i'd watch this lovely film again but it had me in floods the first time and i'm in no state now neither but perhaps you're feeling braver my friends. i shall be raising a cup and remembering




where are all the dreams that we knew...

sharon tandy - now that you've gone


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ps

the classic cafes tribute is worth a revisit too...

pps

more sharon tandy from the fabe folk at ace here

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countdown

ten days to go heartfaces and the lovely mister rob has woooshed over another little lovely to get us in the mood and what a toasty warmer upper it is too...

glowing

fantastic mainstream - let's be friends



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torment tuesday

for the most tormentedest of tuesdays. we'll be dancing with tears in our eyes

barbara lewis - ask the lonely


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happy viewing

if you'd not noticed tonight is the start of the bbc4 reggae britannia season and if it's anything like as bloody marvelous as all their other lot it'll be super bloody marvelous. for the staying uppers there's a specials show on after too. please be on the iplayer pleeeease....

to get you in the mood

laurel aitken and the soulmen - never you hurt




ps

the photos are from the building site hoarding opposite our bijou lattie well worth a vada if you're trolling about these parts

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