Ok, I'm not posting anything new here and I would imagine almost every forum member has probably seen this interview. However, for anyone that hasn't and any people new to Bill's overall work, past and present, then this interview with Bill Nelson and Mark Powell of Esoteric Recordings/Cherry Red, is a cracker! It's a brilliant interview all round, great structure and good questions and an absolute pleasure to see Bill reminisce those events/times, and colour in the picture. There's no 'awkwardness', due mainly to Mark Powell knowing his stuff, and Bill ofc, which obviously puts Bill at ease from the off, resulting in a wonderfully relaxed and insightful interview = great stuff!😎 It's Bill Nelson weekend again at our house, on the music front and were playing a mixed bag, old and new. I picked out Futurama, as one of the 'oldies', as it was the first Be-Bop album I bought back in 1975, as a 15 year old, which blew my socks off at the time and made me an instant, and indeed lifelong, fan and really opened my eyes to music. I continue to this very day, with a similar excitement and enthusiasm I had back then, buying and listening to new Bill Nelson recordings, as I would imagine most of us do here, and long may it continue. Anyway, I watched this YT video again, a little after midnight and thoroughly enjoyed it. I could listen to Bill reminisce like this, all night long...magic!

Restored and colorized film footage, with a specially created sound-design added, of Trafalger Square, Picadilly Circus and wonderful footage from the train station...It's quite extraordinary and absolutely fascinating to watch, just as if you actually have stepped back in time. To see how smart and elegant everyone looks is a joy, even people who had very little money, made an effort to look their best when out in public. The majority of people back then had pride in how they looked and conducted themselves...Although this is footage of the more affluent West End, people of all classes made much more effort in that era on the sartorial front, which actually continued through the 1950s, 60s and indeed the 70's...I have some wonderful photographs of my Mum and Dad from the 1950s and they both look knockout, just like film stars really...I love 1950s fashion, so stylish and elegant. Anyway, I hope you enjoy this short film restoration of 1930s London, as much as I did.

I've actually thought about this one or two times before and my question follows a similar train of thought, raised by drastic mark, a few posts back. Firstly, this is just a suggestion and I'm not trying to tell you what to do, but, why on earth don't you post all your new music posts into one dedicated thread?...You could for example, call it 'Vlad's Music Vault' and every new piece of music you post would go into that dedicated thread...Rather similar to wadcorps 'Potential Bill Nelson album covers' thread, that I regularly post in. This is just one thread, with over 1200 posts in it!, or Head Gardener's thread, just one thread, with 189 posts in it...Doing it this way keeps everything neat and tidy and concise and doesn't spam the whole forum, as your posts are doing. Basically, the first four pages of The World And His Wife are mostly all your posts/threads, and every time you make a new thread, it does push everything down one place and eventually pushes threads that don't get used too much right back to pages 4, 5, 6, whatever, where they have little chance of being viewed again, let alone having people interact with them. So as well as it keeping things orderly, it also show a respect, courtesy and consideration to other forum members who post here, or on any forum, just a common decency and doesn't dominate the board with one persons threads....Can you imagine if all the 'Potential Bill Nelson album covers' had all been separate threads, it would be ridiculous..In fact it would cover over 40 full pages on this forum...but as it is, it just takes up one nice, compact and concise thread, and as a result is so much easier and nicer to view...and of course your new total music thread and The Bill Nelson Album covers thread and Head Gardeners thread and other popular threads would all stay on the first page! Anyway, that's just a suggestion from me, it is purely just that, meant with no malice or anger, but just seems to make so much sense, so, all the best.

Yet another great guitarist leaves planet earth. I only just found out...he died on 13th May. Probably most famous for playing with David Bowie and Iggy Pop. He played guitar on Bowie's Low album, alongside Carlos Alomar (and Bowie, ofc) and Pop's Lust For Life, both in 1977. He suffered a long illness with Parkinson's disease.

The Listeners By Walter de la Mare ‘Is there anybody there?’ said the Traveller, Knocking on the moonlit door; And his horse in the silence champed the grasses Of the forest’s ferny floor: And a bird flew up out of the turret, Above the Traveller’s head: And he smote upon the door again a second time; ‘Is there anybody there?’ he said. But no one descended to the Traveller; No head from the leaf-fringed sill Leaned over and looked into his grey eyes, Where he stood perplexed and still. But only a host of phantom listeners That dwelt in the lone house then Stood listening in the quiet of the moonlight To that voice from the world of men: Stood thronging the faint moonbeams on the dark stair, That goes down to the empty hall, Hearkening in an air stirred and shaken By the lonely Traveller’s call. And he felt in his heart their strangeness, Their stillness answering his cry, While his horse moved, cropping the dark turf, ’Neath the starred and leafy sky; For he suddenly smote on the door, even Louder, and lifted his head:— ‘Tell them I came, and no one answered, That I kept my word,’ he said. Never the least stir made the listeners, Though every word he spake Fell echoing through the shadowiness of the still house From the one man left awake: Ay, they heard his foot upon the stirrup, And the sound of iron on stone, And how the silence surged softly backward, When the plunging hoofs were gone.

Astrophobia (J)...I miss you mate! This place has never been the same since you left. If by some chance you happen to read this, I hope you are well and doing good, and keeping floating above all the world negativity and seeming freefall downwards. Your pal, Nick.

It's an album I don't see mentioned too much here in Dreamsville..Jon, Alec, Steve and myself have given it praise, and that's ok to all the others that have not (and apologies to those that have, that I haven't mentioned)..it's all about personal connection. The reason I mention this?..well, my very favourite BN albums include Sailor Bill(#1), Golden Melodies, Stereo Star Maps, Dreamland To Starboard, Dazzlebox, Gleaming, Return To Jazz Of Lights, Rosewood(1), Mazda...I'd better leave it there, or there will be a list of 20, lol....But, I find myself going back to Lamplighter, time and time again. I'm listening right now...my family are all safely sleeping, I'm still up burning the candle, habit of a lifetime, understanding and forgiving woman in my life (I'm so lucky), totally relaxed, a few Jonnie Walker Green Labels, all's well with the world...at least until we watch the news tonight. Point is, the more I listen to this wonderful album, the more I fall in love with it...It's actually competing with Sailor Bill😲.....sometimes I think it might be my favourite Bill Nelson album. ...And!...any Be Bop fans that haven't jumped into Bill's solo recordings, well, that's fine too, but if you're looking for mind-blowingly fabulous guitar work, please try this album...Fantastically haunting, always touching the melancholy, reaching back to something we once knew, but definitely a firm message for the here and now!............gloriousness...It's superb!! Any thoughts???