Welcome to the RPM Record Club Seven Day Soundtrack, week ending Friday 8th November 2024.....nope, still don't get how that happened...here's some music to divert a confused mind...over to...

Jayne -

"Thank you RPMers for your contributions last week. I’ve not been listening to much music this week but I have been checking out Jenny Sturgeon and Louis Abbott (from Admiral Fallow) as Perce and I are embarking on a seafaring, song-writing workshop off the west coast of Scotland next year, led by these two very different singer-songwriters; should be interesting…."

Jean -

"Here's my choices."

John -

"Hi Everyone, here are my three for this week."

Nina -

"Hi folks...3 as an homage to my journey round parts of the UK in early October."

Dave -

"Hi RPMers, hope you all had a good week. Here’s my 3 tunes this week."

Tony -

"Here's my 3 for the week with best wishes to all as ever."

David -

"Greetings to all RPMers, in a week when music seemed at the same time both less and yet more important to me, I could not help but start without a comment on it. ( I hope this is acceptable Tim.) "

"I was lucky enough this week to see both the David Murray Quartet at Ronnie Scott's and Jochim Cooder at Greystones in Sheffield. Two excellent shows."

Piers -

"It is a gloomy dark day and what with Trumps win I found myself with a little time on my hands. I didn't really notice that I had just sat and typed - hope I haven't run on too much...

I’ll leave it to others to celebrate the long life of Quincy Jones and start with what has been a wonderful ear worm for the past 45 years, which I believe was once used in cinemas as a backing track for adverts featuring kaleidoscopic patterns made with peanuts and popcorn."

"And there is almost another tenuous cinematic connection to my next one...  for a few weeks during the summer of 1964 I slept on a LiLo on the kitchen floor my older brother’s flat in Chiswick.  He didn’t mind what I got up to and I had a little spare cash as I had a very part time job washing up and clearing tables during the day, in a cafe next to Kew Bridge. One Saturday night after catching the early screening of the recently released  ‘A Hard Days Night’ I wandered over the bridge to Eel Pie Island. I remember that after paying the 1/- entrance fee I only had enough money to buy one bottle of dä glo green Fanta pop (only a bit cheaper than the scrumpy). It wasn't a huge crowd but Ken Colyer and a sax player, (possibly his brother) climbed up out of the mid summer, duffel coated audience to play a few solos with Aker Bilk (still a big name at the time). Bowler hatted Aker and his band (who all seemed pretty ancient to fourteen year old me) were the supporting act for T-Bone Walker. But although by then T-bone would have been in his mid 50s and much older he was a far more dynamic showman and definitely the real thing. With his sharkskin suit, his amplifier and his blonde Gibson he was nothing less than fabulous.  In dawn's early light I had to walk back from Twickenham as I didn’t have enough change left to catch the bus. A year or so later, on the juke box at the Capri Coffee House (Mod dive caff) I discovered a cover version of one of T-Bone's songs on the back of the slightly surfy ‘Your’e my girl’  by 'The Rockin' Berries'. It was years later that I tracked down the original when it was  rereleased on 'Charlie Records'. (Hurrah for Charlie Gillet!). As a result it was their version that I subsequently played over and over to try to learn how to play my first blues shuffle…  (‘Brother Bill’ was far better than the A side!) But given the choice I won’t subject you to ‘The Berries’."

"But enough of the olden days... after managing to buy several kilos of Harina from lidl I have spent some of this afternoon making 500grams of fresh Nachos… they are a perfect, crunchy snack and comfort food, but not great if you are trying to loose weight as they beg to be accompanied by salsa, guacamole and soured cream…  As I flipped them in the scorching pan I felt a touch of Tejano appropriate. (Even more so in the face of the act that  ‘the cousins’ have committed in the last few days!)"

Kevin -

"Hi guys. Here are my three contributions to the weekend amusement."

Tim -

"This week, more revisited 80s neo prog, an Old Time tune which was new to me, and some remastered/remixed space rock."

'Til Next Time -