Richard Phillips-Jones

As we run up to #Halloween, submitted for your approval are a few suggestions for your movie playlist at @spookyisles.bsky.social #SpookyIsles First up, this makes a good entrée - not perfect, but certainly entertaining: Lisa Frankenstein (2024) Read more at www.spookyisles.com/lisa-franken...

No #WeekendSingles from me today - it's been a Scott 4 kind of Sunday. Must be the clocks going back and all that. #AlbumAlmanac

More from Manfred Mann mark 2: Picture sleeves were not the norm in the UK then, but Fontana forked out for these two, likely to promote the releases on the rear. Note the new fangled Musicassette format! #WeekendSingles

I've a very soft spot for the mark 2 line-up of Manfred Mann, including these four. You can just about make out that Mighty Quinn is signed by Mike D'Abo, Mike Hugg and Tom McGuinness. Their Fontana LP's are absolutely, brilliantly bonkers, especially Mighty Garvey. #WeekendSingles

Go to your camera roll and search "boat" and then post a picture of a boat you like. 📷

Public Service Announcement. Bundle of 4 #Chameleons LP's , deluxe versions, 8 records in total, currently £95. We've just treated ourselves - I think one or two of my #WeekendSingles compadres might be interested? thechameleonsofficialonlinestore.bigcartel.com/product/viny...

Four from The Fortunes: their first mid 60's successes at Decca, then their second wind at Capitol in 71/72. "Here Comes That Rainy Day Feeling Again" was a US hit, but flopped here while "Storm In A Teacup" did the reverse. Both perfect pop singles for me. #WeekendSingles

One for #Shocktober, and worth adding to your #Halloween watchlist 🎃

Dammit, all this #INXS talk has made me pull the album out... 😂 Special UK gatefold edition of Listen Like Thieves, which came with a free copy of previous LP, The Swing. #WeekendSingles #AlbumAlmanac

Continuing with #Shocktober, I'm over at @spookyisles.bsky.social as Boris Karloff plays the creator, not the creature, in Frankenstein 1970 (1958). Read more at www.spookyisles.com/frankenstein... #BorisKarloff #Frankenstein #SpookyIsles #Halloween 🎃

Gathering my senses after Saints Vs Pompey, with a couple I dug out from Gin Blossoms: Mrs. Rita on deep pink 12", and Hey Jealousy is... well, 8 inches square and green. #WeekendSingles

The #INXS related post from @vinylgeek.bsky.social earlier prompted a trip down memory lane for me: these three were all pulled from the Listen Like Thieves LP, before they finally broke through in the UK - This Time still has its press release inside. #WeekendSingles (reposted to fix hashtag!)

"Let's look in the Sunday Market at the Ox", she said. "We probably won't buy anything", she said... #Poole #Dorset

Next for #Shocktober, another Australian chiller: The Dreaming (1988) - bit of a hidden gem, this one.

Starting our #Shocktober in earnest - a bonkers Australian horror from 1981, Alison's Birthday 🎃

RIP Eva Marie Saint, aged 102. Naturally, this is now my earworm... youtu.be/gSc46sEZdl4?... #EvaMarieSaint #LloydCole

Latest from me over at #SpookyIsles Looking back at a fusion of 80's teen movies and Mary Shelley, in Lisa Frankenstein (2024) #Frankenstein #HorrorMovies www.spookyisles.com/lisa-franken...

End of the road for The Mamas & The Papas - they split up, Cass heads off to her solo career. Have a great week, everyone 🙂 #WeekendSingles

The next four from The Mamas & The Papas. Twelve Thirty unaccountably failed to hit the UK top fifty, but remains a favourite of mine. #WeekendSingles

Working through the brilliant run of singles unleashed by The Mamas & The Papas for Sunday's #WeekendSingles. Here's the first four...

The chazza I was just in had the radio on, playing Mary's Boy Child by Boney M. In September. 🤬 Anyway... I did pick up this brilliantly mental stereo test LP from 1967, so the trauma was worth it. #WeekendSingles #AlbumAlmanac

This week's #WeekendSingles finds: A post-apocalyptic ditty from Tim Rose and a classy soul number from The Moments, both on my want list for ages. On the #AlbumAlmanac front, 2 lovely Creedence Clearwater Revival records, UK Liberty 1st press - they wipe the floor with the US Fantasy originals.

Greeting from #Dorchester Borough Gardens. After a long day yesterday (all that record shopping is exhausting, you know) we're having a bit of a chill out. #Dorset

I came, I saw, I shopped - at #VinylVan in #Dorchester. Couple of long sought #WeekendSingles and a couple of Creedence LP's 😁

Last #WeekendSingles from me, and it's more soulful stuff to get the feet moving: The Contours, Donnie Elbert, The Isley Brothers and Isaac Hayes. I need a rest after these four... #MusicSky #VinylSky

Some choice instros from the soul boxes for #WeekendSingles: The Mohawks, Willie Mitchell, Booker T. & The M.G.'s and Al Kent Orchestra. If one wasn't so arthritic, one would be shaking one's booty, let me tell you. #MusicSky #VinylSky

Signs of #Autumn #Poole #Dorset

33 years in remission from #HodgkinsLymphoma 🎉 Just spreading the word that today is World Lymphoma Awareness Day... #WorldLymphomaAwarenessDay #Lymphoma lymphomacoalition.org/world-lympho...

Perfect day for gathering conkers (matron). #Poole #Dorset #Autumn #Conkers

Some of Bob Dylan's early UK successes on that minimalist design classic, the orange CBS label, with accompanying company sleeve. #WeekendSingles #BobDylan

I sometimes find it strangely therapeutic to play this very loudly. I suspect the rare and unusual RCA company sleeve is worth a lot more than the actual record... The Archies - Sugar Sugar (1969) #WeekendSingles

Random 60's hits from the L to M box: Roger Miller (as covered by The Proclaimers), Los Bravos, Marmalade's finest moment and Colin Blunstone moonlighting as Neil MacArthur and revisiting The Zombies. #WeekendSingles

Post a WITCH 🧹

Slim #WeekendSingles pickings today, but I picked up The Church's first UK LP from 1982 (with She Never Said + The Unguarded Moment), and Space's Magic Fly from 1977, which I wasn't allowed as a child due to an iffy track title on side 2 so had to settle for the single for 49 years... #AlbumAlmanac

You may not know his name, but if you're of a certain age you know his shows: Robin Of Sherwood, Children Of The Stones, Into The Labyrinth, Sky, King Of The Castle... Patrick Dromgoole remembered, at @spookyisles.bsky.social www.spookyisles.com/patrick-drom... #HTV #FolkHorror #70sTV #80sTV

You may not know his name, but if you're of a certain age you know his shows: Robin Of Sherwood, Children Of The Stones, Into The Labyrinth, Sky, King Of The Castle... Patrick Dromgoole remembered, at @spookyisles.bsky.social www.spookyisles.com/patrick-drom... #HTV #FolkHorror #70sTV #80sTV

Working out of #Swanage today. #Dorset

On the matter of 21st century albums: we do enjoy some Lovely Eggs. #WeekendSingles #AlbumAlmanac #MusicSky #VinylSky

Not had the #WeekendSingles out this week, but I did unearth these brilliant NME playing cards, circa 1991. You had to collect them over multiple issues, if I remember rightly. Mark E. Smith had to be a Joker, obviously.

I had vague thoughts of filing some stuff today, until I opened the first box and decided I couldn't be arsed. Came across this (very) random lot, though: The Motors, Neil Diamond, Julian Cope and the always welcome Françoise Hardy. #WeekendSingles #MusicSky #VinylSky

Can't get to the #WeekendSingles while the last of the Kallax from IKEA is being assembled, so I'm having an audience with the Cope instead. Saint Julian (1987) #AlbumAlmanac #JulianCope #VinylSky #MusicSky