Welcome to the RPM Record Club Seven Day Soundtrack, week ending Friday 13th August and certainly not unlucky if you wrap your ears around these sounds, as chosen from the listening of RPMers. Over to.....

Nina -

"Hi folks. Hope everyone's well. Camping with my sis & niece this week, ie. Mainly dancing to poptastic cheese as well as playing games & having fun on the river Wensum. Time for intense duets when it's late & the campfire's glowing...Take care, everyone. Hasta lluego"

Piers -

"From the age of thirteen when the first Beatles singles were released, I was, am, still I guess, a huge fan of The Beatles but, although I certainly heard the live recordings from Shea Stadium etc., way back when. I never bothered to check out all the bootleg live material that used to surface from time to time.

Until relatively recently I thought that the 'Holy Grail' of bootleg material must be unreleased Beatles tracks…. I was really surprised to find that there are loads of them! Some are a bit (!) sub standard but... it's The Beatles!"

"Not really a bonus track, but I will include this link just as information for anyone that is interested... These have been knocking about for a while in various mixes and formats. Relatively interesting even if, as is usually stated, it is John playing bass…

The Beatles - "The Palace Of The King Of The Birds"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4gq15Fpzp8

There is also an interesting FM Radio interview called ‘Yellow Matter Custard’ on You tube."

Tony -

"Getting this to you before I disappear for a couple of days...Best wishes to you all."

Morra -

"My feeling Irish 3."

Jayne -

"Hi RPM friends - it is so good to meet up in this safe space. Here are my three for this week."

John -

"Hi everyone, hope you're all keeping fit and well. Here is a selection of what I've been listening to this week."

Alan -

"Sticking with more 'recent' stuff for another week, here's three slices of 'indie' from the vaults."

"Stay safe, keep the goodies coming in (loved last week's Nirvana/Astley mash up!!!)"

Jean -

"I’ve just seen that there’s to be a concert in New York at the end of the month. I thought I would play three of the headliners. Keep well everyone. Enjoy the music."

Philip -

"Greetings to all from Swanton Morley. This week I am again going to select tunes from a recent acquisition, namely the new Los Lobos album "Native Sons," which is a tribute to the music of L.A., including the Hispanic elements. I could choose anything from it really, as it has long been my contention that Los Lobos are one of the great American bands, deserving to be held in equal esteem to The Band or Creedence Clearwater Revival for example. I'll go for 3 of the less obvious covers."

Dave -

"Hi RPMers, hope all is well with you all. Here’s my 3 favs this week."

Tim -

"Not a huge quantity of listening this week; just a few albums which I've been listening to repeatedly."

Brainstorm (Jam) by Hawkwind - "When I discovered Hawkwind in about 1981, there were a number of hard to find and therefore mythical recordings of the band from the 70s which we NWOBHM chaps continued to look for in back street record shops and second hand emporiums. Glastonbury Fair was one (only a single HW track but whole sides for Pink Fairies and Gong), Watchfield Festival was another (don't bother; terrible recording) and the Greasy Truckers Party recorded at the Roundhouse was the third. The original Greasy Truckers LP was a compilation of live recordings from a benefit concert in February 1972, featuring not only Hawkwind, but Man, Brinsley Schwarz and Magic Michael...all very 70s underground, in other words. Byzantium were also due to perform, but, due to one of those common at the time power cuts, never actually appeared. There were only 2 HW tracks taking up the whole of side 4 and a wait of 35 years followed until a CD release in 2007 emerged of the whole event. Now, whatever you might think of Record Store Day, the good thing for HW fans this year is the RSD release of the complete Hawkwind Greasy Truckers set as a double vinyl LP package, the recording's true spiritual home...and very nice too. The track I've gone with here is the kind of noise vibe impov that was one of the attractions Hawkwind held for me at the time...and in fact, still does. It's a work in progress which the band are grappling with in the live environment before nailing the definitive version 7 months later on the Doremi Fasol Latido opus. Turn the lights off, the strobes and oil wheels on...and if you really wanna go wild, light a joss stick, perhaps."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kI5wdq_O-8I

...'Til Next Time.