The BBC is reporting that rare footage of Syd Barrett singing with Pink Floyd on the BBC One music show Top Of The Pops has been discovered after more than 40 years. The damaged footage of the band playing See Emily Play has been restored and will now be screened for the first time since its initial 1967 broadcast. Barrett, who died in 2006, left the group a year after it was recorded. The British...
Syd Barrett, "Octopus" This week was like the week I first discovered that I was more like John Lennon than anybody else who ever existed, only a little bit worse. This week was the week when I realized that,...
Further to our “first in there” post about triming up your shed this Christmas. Shed Judge Sarah Beeny has launched a competition to find the most insanely decorated house and after…
A quick Google search and I find that this band aren’t as new to me as I thought; they released their psych-pop on several flexis and contributed to a Syd Barrett tribute album at the turn of the 80s-90s. Then they gave up music until fanatical interest from Spain persuaded them to have another shot. A Spanish club DJ, DJ Gato, has gone to work on ‘She’s Taking Me Down’, which...
After the positive Xmas post yesterday today is a Warning to sheddiesd this yuletide. photo credit: Unhindered by Talent I am member of the cardifffreecycle group and their admin sent this timely…
Mr Hepworth asked this question on his own blog this morning... http://whatsheonaboutnow.blogspot.com/2009/11/what-has-borders-ever-done... ... and he got me thinking because Borders did quite a lot for me. I worked for Borders for over 10 years. There are a myriad of reasons behind them going into administration, some external and some internal (and most of those available to read in the comments...
Sheddie pj slim is featured in this months edition of home cinema choice magazine You can see more pictures of his shed over at readersheds.co.uk of course. Related Posts November 22, 2009 --…
Just announced is Syd Barrett Fund patron Symon Vegro's first book, All That You Touch , which is described by the publishers as an extraordinary and eccentric blend of middle aged musings on life's grand passions set to the exquisite beat of Pink Floyd . With an original cover [click thumbnail, right] designed by the band's artist of choice, Storm Thorgerson (commissioned by Symon after they met at...
Ourself Beside Me is the band formed by Yang Fan, formerly of all-girl garage punk band Hang On the Box. Beginning as a minimalist, jangly, indie-punk outfit several years ago, the Beijing-based trio has evolved into a more psychedelic, expansive, and experimental project. Its self-titled debut album (produced by P.K.14’s Yang Haisong) shows influences as [...]
What happens to artists that get famous? It’s not a situation I have any direct experience of, but with thousands of documented responses, it isn’t hard to piece together a general picture. Fame is an extreme circumstance, one that makes daily tasks most of us take for granted as “doable” well-nigh impossible. Fame is interesting largely because of its extremity; that it sets...
Sometimes I don’t allow certain things to go live on readersheds.co.uk because they are not technically a shed, but this one I allowed as the concept could be turned into…
Often cited as a holy grail of early Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd television footage, the band's performances of See Emily Play on the BBC's Top Of The Pops weekly music programme [click thumbnail, right] have long been missing. The BBC had a disastrous policy of wiping recordings in the earlier days of the corporation, so that they could re-use the tapes as a cost-cutting measure. Many classic performances...
The idea of the band This Mortal Coil is quite ingenious, really. Ivo Watts-Russell, who founded the label 4AD Records (probably past, present or future home of some of your favorite bands) started a band in the early 80s whose original purpose seems to have been to promote his label. The band featured [...]
As the UK is in the grip of X-factor fever, 1Click2Fame reveals the fame capital of the UK is Lancashire producing more superstars per capita than anywhere else in the country.
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