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It's Bandcamp Friday! Please support your favourite artists... Chameleon is an album of library music first released in 1986 and distributed to television and radio production companies. It was made available as a very limited edition CD in 2002...For those who missed out, Bill has now made it available as a digital download on his Bandcamp page!

A 2023 vinyl edition Be Bop Deluxe's classic 1976 release, Sunburst Finish. Cut at Abbey Road Studios, this edition features the Stephen W Tayler mix and replicates the original LP artwork. Pre-order for April 28 release.

In addition to the Christmas singles (free downloads), are there more Bill Nelson songs that directly reference the winter holidays or pick up on traditional holiday music? Also curious about how many songs (with lyrics) are set in wintery scenes, like "Frosty Lawns (Snowballs & Oranges)."

Reading the latest issue of Record Collector, I was surprised to find the excerpt below in the midst of their very large Sex Pistols feature. The interviews, by Johnny Sharp – with Jones, Cook and Matlock as a group and with Lydon unsurprisingly on his own – are a very good read anyway, but this brief bit of back story really got me thinking. If, in 1976, the Pistols’ 20-year-old drummer had enough awareness of Bill’s first production roles on BBD albums and was enough of a BBD/Bill fan to suggest him as a suitable producer for the Anarchy single – and beyond? – what does this say about how Bill was viewed amongst fellow musicians (rather than just by the ‘music industry’)? This is at very least a link I wouldn’t have imagined. Whenever we get to see the surprising number of photos of Bill with the big names of the seventies and eighties – almost always the kind of people that brought some thought and depth to their mega-success (Annie Lennox, Japan, etc.) – I wonder what their view was (and is) of Bill. Am I wrong in thinking that quite a few of them (Billy MacKenzie is a fair example) were not just finding Bill to be good company but actually looking up to him? Clearly, that’s what Paul Cook was doing when he made his suggestions to the Pistols. He clearly indicates that he wanted a ‘proper’ producer, unlike the way other ‘punk’ contemporaries were going. Is the Sex Pistols ‘almost-link’ something that Bill was aware of? What a weird career twist that would have been! Here’s the piece from Record Collector… When you made the Anarchy single, how much did Chris Thomas’ production bring to the band in the studio? Steve Jones: Prior to that we had our sound guy, Dave Goodman, and it all went to his head when we got a deal with EMI. …. He was smoking way too much weed. I’m not kidding – 100 takes and it still wasn’t good enough. …. Then Chris Thomas came along and- boom! We had it in three takes. Because he knew what he was doing. Glen Matlock: It didn’t work with Dave Goodman because Malcolm was in the studio with him, and Dave wasn’t in a position to tell him to shut the f*** up. … And we kind of went on strike. We said, look it’s not working out. We’ve got to find another way. And Paul (Cook) came up with a couple of suggestions: Bill Nelson from Be Bop Deluxe and Chris Thomas. I didn’t even know what a record producer was at that time. Paul Cook: It was such a great stroke getting Chris involved because at that time …. bands [were just] getting their mates in to engineer like The Clash did with their soundman, Mickey Foote.

Does anyone know where this location is?

It's been a while since I have posted here, in fact it's been a while since I last dug out a Bill CD and REALLY listened to it . I have been taking a deep dive into (slightly) strange worlds. Sun Ra, Peter Brotzmann, Art Ensemble of Chicago being current favourites. Decided to come up for air and dig out a fairly old Bill classic this afternoon, and fell back under his musical spell. Perfect listening for a chilled out afternoon of reading and relaxing. It's good to be back ☺️ btw I'm still fully up to date with the releases I just need time to listen to them all!

Hey Bill, I wonder what your process for making album covers is? How do you get the ideas for your covers and what do you normally use to make them?

Released on this day, in 2019. .

A new journal entry which tells of a complete rethink of the album I'm currently planning to release, plus two images to entertain you. Check it out here: https://www.billnelson.com/journal/unfoldings

The gleaming 'Perfect Monsters' CD has become my soundtrack for this October/Halloween season.