tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704908332243377242024-03-13T10:01:45.528-07:00Between ChannelsBetween Channelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08580333960133302878noreply@blogger.comBlogger155125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-770490833224337724.post-38097353020404034142020-01-16T16:12:00.004-08:002020-01-16T16:25:56.227-08:00Smokey Blue’s Away (and returned)Hullo. I’ve been away for a little sleep and woken up covered in dust with leaves in my eyes. As my young family coughs and snorts abed all around me, what do I see? Well for a start, a country absolutely buggered about by politicians of every hue and a general sense of snarling division and malaise. What else? A seeming growth in the concept known as ‘hauntology’, with ‘ole great books published about how our memories and landscape have reverberated and ricocheted through our consciousness over the years. There’s new music and films and a strain of interest in what him off of the League of Gentlemen has called ‘Folk Horror’. Nothing about covered markets or 70s little old ladies though, mores the pity. But I digress from the real reason for my reanimation.<br />
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This is the only known film of Muffin playing The Sutherland Brothers ‘Smokey Blues Away’, and one of the few surviving clips available from ‘Lift Off with Ayshea’, ITV’s musical show, which seem to have featured a rum collection of artistes who never quite chimes with the record buying public. The clip seems to have been uploaded by Muffin’s bass player, who recorded the performance from his TV on Super 8, and then dubbed the rather groovy music over the top. The only known faded clip of a band appearing on a wiped TV show, playing a song whose tune is based on the Hovis theme (one for you Classical music lovers). If that’s not hauntology, I don’t know what is. Now where’s that book deal? Be seeing you!<br />
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As a regular buyer of the fantastic Shindig magazine, I regularly leave it lying around in the living room for one of my two small children to tidy away. This song was one I often sang to my son as he screamed gently all night as a baby. Picking up the last issue, he squinted at a picture of Flintlock or some such, and asked, “Daddy, is that Smokey Blues?” Nothing ever dies if you keep it’s memory alive.Between Channelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08580333960133302878noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-770490833224337724.post-5862363211657733092017-05-30T02:01:00.001-07:002017-05-30T02:01:08.753-07:00Lost ObjectsHullo.<br />
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What with the pram in the hall being the enemy of buying secondhand magazines, books and records and all that, I don't really do this anymore. Items long-earmarked for posting have been bound up and stored away whilst the nursery gets another shelf unit for between channels junior's books. There are some very beautiful children's books out there at the moment, many of them self-consciously harking back to the 60s and 60s. Anyway, I don't have any more stuff to put on here at the moment is what I'm saying, and my amount of posting has certainly dropped off over the last 3 years!<br />
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Many blogs have transferred to tumblr, which a. I hate and b. Am too old to start trying to like. Others have shut down, like found objects, which was my gateway drug into this world, so to speak. It would be super to know what happened to it, so if anyone knows please drop me a line as I don't have all of the old scans or objects anymore. I'm not deleting between channels but will be investigating something else. There's too much material on it to delete, and I like to think that someone out there is still interested in old shopping centres and 80s grandparents. If anything new pops up I will put it on. If anything new is spawned on the web, you will be the first to know. But that's it for now.<br />
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Be seeing you!Between Channelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08580333960133302878noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-770490833224337724.post-59608749735859477632016-10-30T08:30:00.001-07:002016-10-30T08:30:46.680-07:00Strange Rustlings<a href="https://soundcloud.com/ryanmtodd/il-suono-scuro-6">Ryan Todd il Suono Scuro 6 </a>Between Channelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08580333960133302878noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-770490833224337724.post-30017965025334132942016-02-10T04:39:00.002-08:002016-02-10T04:39:45.558-08:00The Pike!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Great book! Great cover! Especially the banner in the top right-hand corner! No, not 60p, it cost £1.99, the robbing bastards! Soon to be a major film! Surely this would be a great cinematic event, added to the Brit-horror canon of recent years up with Hellraiser and, er, all those films with Craig Fairbrass in them. But sadly, as you (the only reader) and I both know it was never made. Joan Collins never got the chance to bat off a paper-mache pike in Lake Windemere, no matter how much you screw up your eyes and hope it'll happen (I do this when I want to see more of the Clockwork Wizards band in Dr Phibes). There is a little more to be found <a href="http://horrorpedia.com/2014/04/08/the-pike-novel-and-unfinished-feature-film/">here.</a> But what of the author?<br />
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Cliff Twemlow, martial artist, author, straight-to-video auteur - a remarkable man. Library music composer ...<br />
Eh? More soon...Between Channelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08580333960133302878noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-770490833224337724.post-56503266023510605072015-03-22T12:40:00.001-07:002015-03-22T12:42:39.206-07:00between channels on tumblrHello. Amidst the whoop and pulse of oscillators and the clack of teleprinters I neglected to mention that between channels now has a tumblr presence as well, a growing repository for things even flimsier and of less consequence than the blog entries occasionally found here.<br />
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There we are. Be seeing you!Between Channelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08580333960133302878noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-770490833224337724.post-42886699491788714102015-03-22T10:57:00.001-07:002015-03-22T10:57:04.971-07:00It's Photo Action Cards!You might think this is an extract from a set of 35 photographic action cards published in 1977 to be used in schools, but you'd be wrong. This is actually a time capsule - each subject perfectly frozen in time during a boring Easter holiday, doing whatever it is they were doing at the time. Be it eating an apple with a look of nausea, pushing the family's broken-down estate (note the rust speckling on the lower sill of an already new-ish car), skipping in the world's bleakest driveway or just bullying a big-eared boy in the garden, all of these young people are being absolutely natural and normal in their seventies way. I hope it brings back memories, creates false ones and even moulds psychical forces that will help free the subjects from their metaphysical amber.
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Having settled into the new abode, and given that the rain and wind are howling mercilessly, there should be a little bit more activity around here from now on.Between Channelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08580333960133302878noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-770490833224337724.post-56357755698680559632014-06-07T10:08:00.000-07:002014-06-07T10:08:13.561-07:00The Riddley Walker Mixtape on Acid MistThe house move is complete and Summer is acumen in your hair, so I thought it was about time for a quick update. Not here of course (yet), but there is something brewing over at Acid Mist. So click over to the right and enjoy the bucolic sounds of a decaying post-nuclear holocaust society denuded of people and civilisation as we know it, relying only on the scraps of teachings passed down through the collective cultural mind!Between Channelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08580333960133302878noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-770490833224337724.post-54593839115712639992014-03-30T14:42:00.000-07:002014-03-30T14:42:10.534-07:00Acid MistNew! Nieuw! Noveau! Click for information ..
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As an aside, sorry about the vast delays between posting, I've just decided to do other things. Soon I'll be moving house to a far off part of Sheffield which means I'll probably have much more time to do online things and indulge my hobbies (such as watching Jeremy Brett in Supernatural's 'Mr. Nightingale' over and over again) so perhaps I'll be around more. I'm sure I will. And Tom, if you are reading this, 'Mr. Nightingale' is the best piece of old telly ever, especially the scene with the fish. Remember the fish. Speak to you all soon!
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I found this chap reclining by the roadside yesterday. He said he had to be somewhere. I asked him where and a small carrot fell out of his mouth. I waited for a while and asked him again. He bent down, put the carrot back into his mouth and stared at me. I thought better of asking him again, so I said goodbye. As I turned to leave he asked me if I'd got a new bulb for the hallway light. I asked him how he knew we needed one, me and the wife. He said he'd done a lot of jobs in his time and could help me out. He flexed his bicep, making the leeks crack and the spring onions squeak. I said, no you're alright, we can manage. I smiled and walked off. As I walked off I heard him say 'We?' and then he laughed. Honest.Between Channelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08580333960133302878noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-770490833224337724.post-37569623886219271492013-09-13T18:39:00.000-07:002013-09-13T18:39:22.376-07:00I Don't Feel Free<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-TPFuxWNbhrw/UjO-LtzEVOI/AAAAAAAACC0/W5LxAPAnrBA/s1600/cream2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-TPFuxWNbhrw/UjO-LtzEVOI/AAAAAAAACC0/W5LxAPAnrBA/s320/cream2.jpg" /></a></div>Between Channelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08580333960133302878noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-770490833224337724.post-37104429570888583782013-08-01T08:39:00.003-07:002013-08-01T08:39:53.762-07:00Down The Old Fug and RembrandtIt's Summer - and here at between channels we like to spend most of the available holiday daylight in the pub! I recently purchased a batch of photographs which contained these three shots: three different pubs, all of them varying shades of beige, filtered through a honeyed fog of sunlight, Embassy smoke and the vapour that comes off old men's clothes when they start to get warm. So join with me and celebrate that refuge of the pale and bibulous - the British Public House! Incidentally, two of these pictures show how easy it is to leave things behind in the pub, although the striped canvas bag could be an explosive device left <i>on purpose.<i></i></i>
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OK Karen, first of all I don't dig how you're leaving me written instructions about how to look after the dog. I know what to do, and it also gives me this 'master/servant' -type vibe that I don't like.
Secondly, I'd rather put him on his lead. 'Tie dog on rope' exudes a 'Mad Max-meets-Steptoe' feel that also isn't very cool, do you know what I mean?
Thirdly, if he doesn't eat the meat, then he's not eating anything.
Fourthly, 'Porridge (with milk and water)'? I mean, do you think I don't know how to make porridge? Do you expect to come home to see the dog coughing up oats with his muzzle dusted like Al Pacino in Scarface? And me with a big smile, pointing to the dog and giving a big thumbs up?
And finally, all this written on my Rock Follies seven inch, Very Good Plus?? Let's sit down and have a talk.Between Channelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08580333960133302878noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-770490833224337724.post-5404654547400701472013-05-29T09:20:00.001-07:002013-05-29T09:20:16.095-07:00Sheffield Fire and Police Museum Dummies ContinuedMore Autons - sorry, figures encountered in the gloom, I meanmannequins from Sheffield Fire and Police Museum. It is genuinely a great place, and ideal for children (apart from the murder room).
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Between Channelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08580333960133302878noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-770490833224337724.post-35180674278008352662013-05-28T16:05:00.004-07:002013-05-28T16:05:55.870-07:00Sheffield Fire, Police & Dummy MuseumSheffield Fire & Police Museum is a proper museum - things to look at, things to climb on and all of it in premises that are in a genteel state of dilapidation. There is nary an interactive display or 'experience' to be found. There <i>is</i> a room full of murder weapons, some horrific photographs and a massive train set in the roof however. It is well worth a visit, if only to pay for the odd, crepuscular atmosphere and the wide range of uniformed dummies. Try to pick your favourite, but do it with a friend, and not just before bed.
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While Erica knits a flan, a ghastly profusion of needlework grows behind her, like the virus on the Andromeda Strain or a vege-monster on the wall of Westminster Abbey. Check out the Wikipedia entry on Erica (Why not? It's bound to be true). She taught needlework to Mrs. Procter of Procter & Gamble and Mrs. Watson of IBM Watson. Talk about infiltrating the establishment from within! Someone from the FBI was probably teaching the wives of the Firesign Theatre Company and Art Ensmeble of Chicago about buying stocks and shares. But enough of my rubbish ...
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... let's look at some of Erica's. If in doubt, cover everything. Unseen in the corner of the room is what appears to be a draught excluder but is actually a man wrapped from head to toe in long, messy strands of wool (the inspiration for Ray Bradbury's 'The Embroidered Man').
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"It's not just the mirror, it's the cushions."
"Why they're just soft furnishings, darling. Whatever is the matter with them?"
"They have .. faces."
"Flowers darling! All flowers have a face."
"They appear to be .. shouting."
from 'Scratcher' by Nigel Kneale
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It's just chintz - the badminton racquet cover, the handbag, the, err, freestanding wool cylinders. But just look at the thing in the top right hand corner. A creased face of lime velevet, a scaly body and worst of all, a pair of thin, boneless arms ready to pull itself across your bedroom floor at night.
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She wants to be soft furnishings but you make her owls! You can't complain then, if the wool goes hunting.
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It's festival season soon so let's go glamping, needlework style. Listen to Mumford & Son whilst sat on the running board of your vintage car with your dog Rothko, your legs tied together like a giant embroidered maggot.
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Cosmic American Needlepoint (which, retrospectively, is a better name for this post. Edit!)Between Channelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08580333960133302878noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-770490833224337724.post-18273889188923998762013-03-04T14:03:00.001-08:002013-03-04T14:03:13.665-08:00The Methuen Phonic Workshop
More from the escapist world of Methuen phonic blends.
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It was imperative that 70s and 80s children learned prison slang.
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One teenager was injured in the making of this book (this image also features in the 'Ri-' volume, under 'rite').
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Saint Jenny, patron saint of Rollerboogie, who was crucified on a giant radiator at Humberside Ice Arena.
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This picture kind of sums up why I like these books so much. Somewhat inevitably, more to follow ...Between Channelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08580333960133302878noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-770490833224337724.post-21409185397531123612013-03-03T15:51:00.000-08:002013-03-03T15:51:00.092-08:00Fun with PhonicsThese friendly books were made to teach youngsters the basics of phonics, with key words accompanied by cheerful and colourful pictures. Some examples:
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The rhyme at the end was rejected by Paul Giovanni for inclusion on The Wicker Man OST for being 'too disturbing'.
More soon!Between Channelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08580333960133302878noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-770490833224337724.post-3759558921023029802012-12-24T03:29:00.000-08:002012-12-24T03:29:40.718-08:00Nadolig Llawen!Oh, go on then. Welsh books! Merry Christmas!
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Between Channelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08580333960133302878noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-770490833224337724.post-5354708193879164522012-12-24T03:08:00.001-08:002012-12-24T03:08:36.921-08:00Purple Snowflakes!
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It's been a while folks, but work and other things have limited my time online (which is probably a good thing to be honest). So next year I'm going to make a special effort to do a little bit more for your perusal. Anyway, I'm off to the sticks for Christmas now. Have an inert and lethargic Christmas day, and a New Year and all that. And don't open anything tonight, it isn't Christmas yet.Between Channelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08580333960133302878noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-770490833224337724.post-18342014664970942292012-12-15T04:28:00.000-08:002012-12-15T04:28:29.462-08:00Coming Soon ...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Between Channelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08580333960133302878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-770490833224337724.post-24349677962276953412012-10-31T09:21:00.002-07:002012-10-31T09:21:54.890-07:00Happy Halloween, or, Echoes of Terror!The light is dimming outside and the leaves are dancing in the street, excited at what will come when night falls. Yes, it's the between channels Halloween post and served up on a bed of death and worms is a series of plates from Hamlyn's 1980 anthology 'Echoes of Terror'. Unlike many of these volumes it was published as an A4 hardback with copious gruesome illustrations. Fittingly, someone has been at this copy with a knife so when I bought it everything tumbled onto the floor like, er, a sailor's guts. I'm not sure which illustration goes with which story - perhaps you can guess! - and as a result am unsure as to which illustrator penned which picture. Let's just give a severed hand to Les Edwards, Gordon Crabb, Jim Burns, Terry Oakes, Stuart Hughes, Peter Goodfellow, Bob Fowke and George Smith.
Now let's peep through the crooked bits of wood I hammered over the window, enjoy a hedge-meal of rat and henbane and try to figure out what those lights bobbing in the field really are...
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I'm sure Denholm Elliott played Dracula once. Anyone?
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There's something about an A4 scary face propelling itself towards you at great speed.
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Hypgnosis goes horror, and it works.
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I have to admit that this one is quite frightening.
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Poker is much easier in the underworld.
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The Ramblers Association's new logo.
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A cross-breed, unsuitable for families with young children.
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Medieval Jaegerbomb.
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The man himself, give it up for him and rock will NEVER die.
Like much of the country I will spend the evening with kith and kin, watching 'The Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue', Kevin Billington's 1973 Hemmings-fest 'Whispers' and shutting the curtains to pretend nobody is in. Stay safe, and remember that on the night when the invisible membrane between this world and the hereafter is at its thinnest, turn your lights on if you're going for a bike ride. Adieu!
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