🧵Rock's most significant moment?-Beatles on Ed Sullivan? Elvis meeting Sam Phillips?Little Richard and Earl Palmer recording Tutti Frutti?Bobby Gillespie and Country Girl?No.But with what may seem like too much time on my hands I've managed to find official and scientific proof> >It is the 1960 Gene Vincent and Eddie Cochran tour of the UK, and more specifically the tragic crash which killed Cochran and brought that tour to an end. Or did it? Because the coincidences and strange connections splintering from it would shape the future of popular music>

Revolutionary Folk From Scotland.
The original sequel to Big Gold Dream was an attempt to dispel a myth: that rather than being beardy light entertainment,Scotland's folk-music was actually an important and radical part of the foundations of late 60s UK/US counter-culture music.> The film never happened–due to potential contributors shuffling off to the great folk club in the sky. It is returning as a book however so here are some of the more interesting players who,along with the UK's other scenes would play a huge role in creating a musical underground>

Secret Bands:
While listening to The Great Unwashed this morning, who are really NZ's Indie-Pop heroes, The Clean I thought I'd put together a few of my favourite recorded band pseudonyms.
It does not include C/lash, Human League, Stranglers or Cure.
XTC / The Dukes of Stratosphere - Mole From the Ministry. The summer of 1967 pushed even further.

3rd Feb 1959 is often referred to as 'The Day The Music Died'. That's certainly when young Buddy Holly died but in many ways that phrase, when in related to his death, I think should really be the day music was born. On this anniversary, here's a celebration of Buddy Holly > Buddy still casts a huge shadow over all popular music today.He was there at the absolute dawn of Rock and Roll–playing with Elvis and Bill Hailey in 55, and along with them helped form the DNA of all Rock that is played today.Music didn't die with him–he helped give birth to it>

#HollywoodGate Thread 3.5
I spoke to 4 crew members from this production yesterday.The separation of local crew / not local can be calculated in a few ways (attached) so have had various figures. At lowest 70/30 was claimed and at the very, very best it was 50/50, now likely less

https://twitter.com/BBCPolliemac/status/1487718400956809221

What is confusing to me is why Screen Scotland, on record, when asked about the split said "predominately from Scotland, some are from the south, but most are based in Scotland".This statement does not appear to be based on verifiable data and I'd like to know why it was said?>

Sister Albums: An inconsistent premise of my top 10 records that share an element of kinship beyond a single artists natural, chronological output.
No.10 – Iggy Pop's The Idiot and Bowie's Low. The Exemplar! No.9 – The Clash Sandanista and Ellen Folley's Spirit of St. Louis.
While its own thing, Spirit of St. Louis could be considered the 7th and 8th side of Sandinista as it was recorded on completion with the same writing, performing, producing and engineering team.

Eddie Cochran is rightly regarded as one of the absolute pioneers of Rock and Roll. His influence on music is immense, as is his influence on fashion – see attached photo for a blueprint of the 80s PopStar. Less widely celebrated are the equally huge talents of Sharon Sheeley Sharon Sheeley, typical of attitudes facing female musicians in the male dominated Rock world then was most commonly referred to as 'Eddie Cochran's Girlfriend', or worse, simply 'girl'. Who she really was is one of the greatest and most successful songwriters of the 50s and 60s.

Thanks for all the interest about my 'Lord Rockingham' tweet.I dug up a little more that led to all sorts of strange musical twists thanks to 'Google'. I've always been fascinated by those in music who were perhaps not The Beatles but contributed more than they are credited for- -He's certainly one of the interesting shadowplayers but leads to many others – naughty and nice.I thought I'd highlight some of those related connections who helped (or hindered) music from the background.

Rock music and eccentricity often go hand in hand. Mostly, offbeat behaviour is carefully affected PR to help sell records but just sometimes there are the rare few who end up pursuing a music career to further their own quirky ideas. Kimberley Frost was one of the latter... ...Nearing 40 in 1968, while driving somewhere between his central heating business in Glasgow and his home in Sheffield he came to believe he was possessed by the Egyptian God, Ramases and that his life goal was to now spread this message through music...

Despite being one of the most repeated rock myths, The Velvet Underground were actually quite popular in the 60s. Obviously we're not talking Beatles or Stones levels but they certainly had a level of success that brought them into the mainstream. I thought I'd take a look... Brian Eno famously said that everyone who bought a Velvet's album went out and formed a band. Or did he? Nobody actually seems to be able to find the source of his legendary quote - quoteinvestigator.com/2016/03/01/vel…

Top 15 Greatest US 60's Psychedelic albums
A far more complicated affair than picking the best from the UK – wildly varying definitions and far more to choose from. Anyway, here are mine (for today anyway)... 15 – The Monkees – Head. Not just a great psychedelic film but also a great album. Neil Young, Stephen Stills and Leon Russell all play. Top of their game originals and for once, fully cohesive brought in songs. Who could fail to love Porpoise Song!

The Scottish Indie Music Podcast 2 - good guys, Finlay MacDonald and Gareth Perry discuss Teenage Superstars.

“There was a documentary on the BBC. I can’t remember the name of it but it almost had the same sort of feeling to it”....


#teenagesuperstars Well, that film was from a series called 'Rip it Up' and both films have some shared history

I too felt RIU had the same sort of feeling and when I raised my concern regarding the BBC series I was told by the person responsible “none of them feel like Teenage Superstars to me.”