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AND NOW FOR A FEW MORE UNUSUAL GUITARS, SOME OLD, SOME NEW, BUT ALL WITH DEFINTE APPEAL TO MYSELF. A HAGSTROM GUITAR, JUST LIKE THIS, WAS IN THE WINDOW OF THE WAKEFIELD MUSIC CENTRE IN THE EARLY '60s. THIS HOFNER SOLID BODY ALSO FEATURED IN THE MUSIC CENTRE'S WINDOW IN THE EARLY '60s. A GORGEOUS MINARIK SEMI-ACOUSTIC. ANOTHER VIEW OF THE MINARIK SEMI. I REALLY LIKE THIS ARCHTOP! A PAGELLI ARCHTOP. THIS IS A FRAMUS 'TELEVISION' MODEL. ANOTHER FRAMUS GUITAR. A VINTAGE GERMAN ARCHTOP. A 1960s BURNS SOLID. WEIRD AND WONDERFUL ! AND ANOTHER WEIRD BUT WONDERFUL GUITAR FROM THE SAME COMPANY. A 'STINGRAY' GUITAR. THIS ONE IS BY THE 'ROADRUNNER' COMPANY. ANOTHER 'ROADRUNNER' MODEL. A STUNNING 'PESCATORE' ARCHTOP. ALL BLUE AND CREAM, EVEN THE FRETBOARD! REMINDS ME OF WALL'S ICE CREAM PACKAGING FROM THE '50s. A NICE OFFSET GUITAR WITH ONE PICKUP AND ONE VOLUME CONTROL. I REALLY LIKE THIS GUITAR, STYLED ON A CELLO SHAPE I THINK. ALL I CAN SAY IS "WOW!" A BEAUTIFUL GIBSON CUSTOM ARCHTOP. ANOTHER CUSTOM GIBSON. AN ARCHTOP MADE BY THE 'BROWN' COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA. NICE COLOUR!

I did see the Crimsworth installation while it was in Nottingham City Library/Gallery (coincidentally about 100 yards from the shop where I I used to buy almost all my Bill Nelson releases!). The exhibition had a lovely mood to it - somehow peaceful and pastoral despite having a strange metallic foil element to the materials used - the light effects created were good but it really needed the music to make it work. The whole thing might have been better in a darker setting than that building allowed. My other link to Crimsworth is that until a couple of years earlier I had been living in Calderdale, West Yorkshire. At one end of the very rural parts of the valley (which are really lovely and oddly 'secret') is Crimsworth Dean - which I knew as a small hamlet/village but had peculiar mini-ripples and woodland areas in the landscape around it. If you like this kind of landscape though, I recommend a visit to Hardcastle Crag, just a few miles closer to civilisation (trendy and flooded Hebden Bridge!) but at least as lovely.

I've listened to 'Tender Is The Night' many times...mainly in my high school years. It was the soundtrack to some crush I had on a girl. I much preferred 'Glow World' instead...with Mick Karn's bassline it just goes down less tender.

Fantastic track. The whole album is flawless and in an elite club of 15 albums that I adore that have no faults. The others: The Cars - The Cars | Candy O - The Cars | Beckett - Beckett | Atomos - A Winged Victory For the Sullen | Futurama Be Bop Deluxe | Quit Dreaming and Get on the Beam - Bill Nelson | Warrior on the Edge of Time - Hawkwind | The Colour of Spring - Talk Talk | Crocodiles - Echo and the Bunnymen | Travelogue - The Human League | Penthouse and Pavement - Heaven 17 | Double Negative - Low | Quark, Strangeness and Charm - Hawkwind | The Love That Whirls - Bill Nelson. All bliss! There are a multitude of others with one so-so track; too many to name!

Part 2 now available on Martin Ware's Site https://anchor.fm/martyn-ware/episodes/EP121-Bill-Nelson-pt-2-e1vouoh

Samples are available to listen to on the album's page in the discography! https://www.billnelson.com/fun-of-the-fair?utm_campaign=590e2d2c-7937-4af9-94c6-15015cb61c95&utm_medium=lp&utm_source=so

Nelsonic Christmas Songs 01 Distant Hill - (Brian Eno) 02 Snowfall 03 The Christmas Gift 04 Little Luminaries – (Channel Light Vessel) 05 Snowing Outside 06 Bakelite (50th Birthday Song) 07 Snow Is Falling 08 A Christmas Cowboy Outfit 09 Cowbot Christmas 10 Variation On The Theme Of A White Christmas 11 Silent Night 12 The Jingler 13 Frost-O-Matic

Thank you Alec, you’re a gent!

Perhaps 'Dazzlebox' might end up as a single CD album and the other instrumental tracks will be issued on an album potentially titled...

Or....maybe not Dazzlebox? Maybe 'Phantom Fuzzbox.' (Probably the most 'avant garde' of my backlog of unreleased albums.) Guaranteed to challenge many listeners...😜😬

I've been offered the chance to hear all of the performances but politely declined. I have too much music yet to make and so little time left to do so. Listening to 15 CDs of 40 something year old performances would be kind of frustrating for me. When John Leckie and I put the original Air Age album together, we trawled through hours of all the live recordings to select the best performances for the album. I hear that there are certain improvised sections of the songs that are slightly different from show to show but it's such a long time ago, I've no idea whether they're good or bad. There's sure to be a certain 'warts and all' quality to many of them, (which may actually interest die-hard fans,) but I don't imagine I'll be so eager to hear them! Nevertheless, I can see the appeal for fans who attended one or another of the shows and who want to nostalgically relive the experience. It may, however, not be quite the same experience all these years later when some of us are slightly more mature!😉

This expanded deluxe reissue has been newly re-mastered from the original master tapes and features an additional 88 tracks, (43 of which are previously unreleased), drawn from stunning new 5.1 surround sound & stereo mixes from the original multi-track tapes by award winning engineer Stephen W. Tayler, previously unreleased out-takes from the album sessions, a BBC Radio John Peel Show session from January 1978, along with a CD of Bill Nelson’s previously unreleased demos for the album, “A Feeling of Playing”. "A Feeling Of Playing", never heard this mentioned before.

I like it.....I like it because it's not a slavish copy..your interpretation is fresh and original and therefor you have 'made it your own', added your identity, whilst it still obviously being 'Maid In Heaven'...Great job with the vocals, especially the little twist at the end. Made In Heaven should have definitely been a No1 hit single for Be Bop Deluxe, a song which many agree, me included, is the perfect pop song (as close as you can get, anyway). BTW, this was released 45 years ago, this year...I can remember buying it as a 15 year old and being sooooooo excited...and Bill's music still gives me that same buzz all these years later. Miss buying 7inch singles though...a bit of magic that was, along with Sounds and NME.

Now that looks like a project. 😂

car coat too

Whoops! Have been copying the correct mixes of the tracks onto a memory stick to take over to Fairview for mastering when John might be available to deal with them, but suddenly realised that the numbering on the track list I posted the other day was wrong. I'd listed two songs as being number 8! I thought the total track count came to 18 as a result;t but now, having spotted the mistake, I realise the track list really comprises 19 songs, NOT 18, so it's even better value!

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In 1964, when I was a guitarist in 'Group 66', I had The Rolling Stones' first album and also their singles 'Little Red Rooster', 'Not Fade Away', and 'It's All Over Now.' Group 66 did covers of many of the early Stones tracks, along with some Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley numbers. The group's singer, Pete Hineghan, shook a mean pair of maracas, just like Jagger too.

Since today is Syd Mead’s birthday… .

That is so DEVO! Smart Patrol!