Pete Paphides
@petepaphides.bsky.social
It may look to the untrained eye, I'm sitting on my arse all day.
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I've waited a long long time for a Care album, or even just the three sublime singles to be reissued. Pete and the team at @needlemythology.bsky.social have made my dream come true - this looks amazing. Of course I ordered this immediately.
I bring pop news of great significance and it concerns our latest release. www.patreon.com/posts/forlor...
“The forlorn pop lovechild of Bryan Ferry fronting a new baroque pop vision: The Left Banke in skinny ties and high-waist pleats. Synths from a Teenage Opera.” Behold the 'lost' Care album, Love Crown...
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November 25, 2025 at 6:54 PM
I've waited a long long time for a Care album, or even just the three sublime singles to be reissued. Pete and the team at @needlemythology.bsky.social have made my dream come true - this looks amazing. Of course I ordered this immediately.
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The b sides made collecting the Teardrop Explodes' singles so much fun in the mid 80s.
David Balfe offered his own thoughts and memories of "Strange house in the snow" for my song by song Teardrop Explodes blog...
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David Balfe offered his own thoughts and memories of "Strange house in the snow" for my song by song Teardrop Explodes blog...
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Strange House In The Snow EXTRA
When I published my post on Strange House In The Snow last week, Dave Balfe got in touch to say it was one of his favourite Teardrop Explode...
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November 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The b sides made collecting the Teardrop Explodes' singles so much fun in the mid 80s.
David Balfe offered his own thoughts and memories of "Strange house in the snow" for my song by song Teardrop Explodes blog...
explodingteardrops.blogspot.com/2022/10/stra...
David Balfe offered his own thoughts and memories of "Strange house in the snow" for my song by song Teardrop Explodes blog...
explodingteardrops.blogspot.com/2022/10/stra...
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GREAT NEWS!!!!
I bring pop news of great significance and it concerns our latest release. www.patreon.com/posts/forlor...
“The forlorn pop lovechild of Bryan Ferry fronting a new baroque pop vision: The Left Banke in skinny ties and high-waist pleats. Synths from a Teenage Opera.” Behold the 'lost' Care album, Love Crown...
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November 25, 2025 at 3:46 PM
GREAT NEWS!!!!
I bring pop news of great significance and it concerns our latest release. www.patreon.com/posts/forlor...
“The forlorn pop lovechild of Bryan Ferry fronting a new baroque pop vision: The Left Banke in skinny ties and high-waist pleats. Synths from a Teenage Opera.” Behold the 'lost' Care album, Love Crown...
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November 25, 2025 at 11:13 AM
I bring pop news of great significance and it concerns our latest release. www.patreon.com/posts/forlor...
Just a short read this morning, but two sky-high masterpieces of roots reggae for your delectation: both from 1977; both built on the same instrumental.
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“We’re going to mash down principalities and wickedness!” How The Roots and The Silvertones conjured two classics out of one riddim. | Pete Paphides
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November 25, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Just a short read this morning, but two sky-high masterpieces of roots reggae for your delectation: both from 1977; both built on the same instrumental.
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Lots of artists have been great at B-sides but only The Teardrop Explodes and Julian Cope (albeit perhaps not beyond My Nation Underground) did enough to compile into a stone-cold, no notes, filler-free, ten-out-of-ten, sky-high all-time masterpiece. open.spotify.com/playlist/0ju...
East Of The Equator – The Other Side Of Julian Cope & The Teardrop Explodes
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November 24, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Lots of artists have been great at B-sides but only The Teardrop Explodes and Julian Cope (albeit perhaps not beyond My Nation Underground) did enough to compile into a stone-cold, no notes, filler-free, ten-out-of-ten, sky-high all-time masterpiece. open.spotify.com/playlist/0ju...
Busy work day today so I thought I'd do no exercise and only eat Twirls.
November 24, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Busy work day today so I thought I'd do no exercise and only eat Twirls.
The thing I've noticed with Radiohead over the years. Every time I see them, there's always one song in particular that anchors the whole experience in my memory. www.patreon.com/posts/so-man...
“So many Gen X parents in attendance with their Gen Z kids – whose existential lot in this new century was somehow foretold by so many Radiohead songs.” | Pete Paphides
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November 24, 2025 at 8:42 AM
The thing I've noticed with Radiohead over the years. Every time I see them, there's always one song in particular that anchors the whole experience in my memory. www.patreon.com/posts/so-man...
I added a couple of Pavement/Stephen Malkmus-related things to my site this morning. The first concerns a pre-release copy of Slanted & Enchanted that I received back in 1992 while I was still at uni; the second is an unusually candid interview with SM from 2008. patreon.com/NeedleMythol...
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A place to talk about what we love about the music we love
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November 23, 2025 at 9:57 AM
I added a couple of Pavement/Stephen Malkmus-related things to my site this morning. The first concerns a pre-release copy of Slanted & Enchanted that I received back in 1992 while I was still at uni; the second is an unusually candid interview with SM from 2008. patreon.com/NeedleMythol...
Late to this glorious love letter to the heydayof TV sports themes by @rockingbob.bsky.social, which naturally mentions Johnny "Superstars" Pearson and my own fave, Sportsnight – which sounds like ALL THE SPORTS HAPPENING IN THE SAME PLACE AT ONCE. AFTER YOUR BEDTIME! www.patreon.com/posts/but-fi...
"But first the classified football results with James Alexander Gordon": the wonderful world of sports themes | Bob Stanley's Record Room
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November 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Late to this glorious love letter to the heydayof TV sports themes by @rockingbob.bsky.social, which naturally mentions Johnny "Superstars" Pearson and my own fave, Sportsnight – which sounds like ALL THE SPORTS HAPPENING IN THE SAME PLACE AT ONCE. AFTER YOUR BEDTIME! www.patreon.com/posts/but-fi...
Last night I received a notification that early next year, the Jazz Cafe is hosting a series of gigs by Central Line, Light of the World and a supergroup calling itself The Brit Funk Collective. I pounced quickly. Here's why. www.patreon.com/posts/143837...
How to ace a Top Of The Pops debut with Beggar & Co. | Pete Paphides
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November 18, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Last night I received a notification that early next year, the Jazz Cafe is hosting a series of gigs by Central Line, Light of the World and a supergroup calling itself The Brit Funk Collective. I pounced quickly. Here's why. www.patreon.com/posts/143837...
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New podcast episode: former Times rock critic Pete Paphides talks about his ABBA passion and his writing career from Melody Maker to Broken Greek.
Plus Pete listens to clips from Amy Linden's 1995 audio interview with Stevie Wonder.
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Plus Pete listens to clips from Amy Linden's 1995 audio interview with Stevie Wonder.
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November 17, 2025 at 7:39 PM
New podcast episode: former Times rock critic Pete Paphides talks about his ABBA passion and his writing career from Melody Maker to Broken Greek.
Plus Pete listens to clips from Amy Linden's 1995 audio interview with Stevie Wonder.
www.rocksbackpages.com/Podcast/Epis... #ABBA #StevieWonder
Plus Pete listens to clips from Amy Linden's 1995 audio interview with Stevie Wonder.
www.rocksbackpages.com/Podcast/Epis... #ABBA #StevieWonder
If you have any questions for Oliver and Adrian, now is the time!
Tonight on my Soho Radio show, it's a Beatles Anthology spesh in which I'll be joined by Oliver Murray, producer of the new #Beatles Anthology episode and assistant editor and archive producer Adrian Winter. I'll be on air from 6pm, with Ollie and Adrian joining us from 7pm.
November 17, 2025 at 7:04 PM
If you have any questions for Oliver and Adrian, now is the time!
Tonight on my Soho Radio show, it's a Beatles Anthology spesh in which I'll be joined by Oliver Murray, producer of the new #Beatles Anthology episode and assistant editor and archive producer Adrian Winter. I'll be on air from 6pm, with Ollie and Adrian joining us from 7pm.
November 17, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Tonight on my Soho Radio show, it's a Beatles Anthology spesh in which I'll be joined by Oliver Murray, producer of the new #Beatles Anthology episode and assistant editor and archive producer Adrian Winter. I'll be on air from 6pm, with Ollie and Adrian joining us from 7pm.
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Newly added to the word pile. Remembering the unjustly forgotten folk-soul succour of Jimmie & Vella.
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Lieutenant Uhura helped discover them. James Baldwin championed them. Bobby Womack produced them. They shared a manager with Jimi Hendrix. So why didn't it happen for Jimmie & Vella? | Pete Paphides
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November 15, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Newly added to the word pile. Remembering the unjustly forgotten folk-soul succour of Jimmie & Vella.
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I love when someone points you in the direction of music you've never heard before! The Jimmie & Vella album is lovely. Beautiful & gentle, soulful & funky
Newly added to the word pile. Remembering the unjustly forgotten folk-soul succour of Jimmie & Vella.
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Lieutenant Uhura helped discover them. James Baldwin championed them. Bobby Womack produced them. They shared a manager with Jimi Hendrix. So why didn't it happen for Jimmie & Vella? | Pete Paphides
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November 15, 2025 at 7:20 PM
I love when someone points you in the direction of music you've never heard before! The Jimmie & Vella album is lovely. Beautiful & gentle, soulful & funky
Newly added to the word pile. Remembering the unjustly forgotten folk-soul succour of Jimmie & Vella.
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Lieutenant Uhura helped discover them. James Baldwin championed them. Bobby Womack produced them. They shared a manager with Jimi Hendrix. So why didn't it happen for Jimmie & Vella? | Pete Paphides
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November 15, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Newly added to the word pile. Remembering the unjustly forgotten folk-soul succour of Jimmie & Vella.
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Good morning! I interviewed Mike Joyce in Birmingham last night in a venue opposite the Hippodrome, where 40 years previously, I'd seen The Smiths on the Meat Is Murder tour. I enjoyed this Julian Cope story very much.
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Mike Joyce remembers Julian Cope's mid-gig toilet ambush | Pete Paphides
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November 14, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Good morning! I interviewed Mike Joyce in Birmingham last night in a venue opposite the Hippodrome, where 40 years previously, I'd seen The Smiths on the Meat Is Murder tour. I enjoyed this Julian Cope story very much.
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You know when you're young & you buy a record without hearing it & you go home & play it & you don't like it all that much but you keep it because you've got a feeling that one day, you might? Well I've just played Mathilde Santing's version of We Could Send Letters & after 34 yrs, I got there.
November 12, 2025 at 7:35 PM
You know when you're young & you buy a record without hearing it & you go home & play it & you don't like it all that much but you keep it because you've got a feeling that one day, you might? Well I've just played Mathilde Santing's version of We Could Send Letters & after 34 yrs, I got there.
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This is a wonderful read.
I’m a bit younger than Pete P, but the thing of scanning the credits of records - as well as being a trainspotter about who was standing behind the singer on top of the pops - was one of my major preoccupations as a young teenager in the 90s.
As a budding musician…
I’m a bit younger than Pete P, but the thing of scanning the credits of records - as well as being a trainspotter about who was standing behind the singer on top of the pops - was one of my major preoccupations as a young teenager in the 90s.
As a budding musician…
A few words in celebration of the first flourishing of British jazz and Richard Morton Jack's incredible, indispensable Labyrinth book. www.patreon.com/posts/britis...
“British jazzers seemed way more fun to be around than my parents. They looked like they had wild parties and drank Chianti in tear-shaped bottles whilst whilst having a fag on the go at all times.” ...
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November 12, 2025 at 7:52 AM
This is a wonderful read.
I’m a bit younger than Pete P, but the thing of scanning the credits of records - as well as being a trainspotter about who was standing behind the singer on top of the pops - was one of my major preoccupations as a young teenager in the 90s.
As a budding musician…
I’m a bit younger than Pete P, but the thing of scanning the credits of records - as well as being a trainspotter about who was standing behind the singer on top of the pops - was one of my major preoccupations as a young teenager in the 90s.
As a budding musician…
I note that the Kickstarter campaign is just seven sales off its target with just under two days to go. If you have someone in your life whose interests are adjacent to this era of UK jazz, it would make a sensational Christmas present. And I can’t see there being a further reprint.
A few words in celebration of the first flourishing of British jazz and Richard Morton Jack's incredible, indispensable Labyrinth book. www.patreon.com/posts/britis...
“British jazzers seemed way more fun to be around than my parents. They looked like they had wild parties and drank Chianti in tear-shaped bottles whilst whilst having a fag on the go at all times.” ...
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November 12, 2025 at 7:45 AM
I note that the Kickstarter campaign is just seven sales off its target with just under two days to go. If you have someone in your life whose interests are adjacent to this era of UK jazz, it would make a sensational Christmas present. And I can’t see there being a further reprint.
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It's what he would have wanted.
November 10, 2025 at 9:19 AM
It's what he would have wanted.
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Anyone who's into that will also understand how and why bands like Caravan, Soft Machine and Gong evolved. And then how the French scene started to produce it's own jazz with Sclavis, Texier, Humier, Portal and others. Great period in music, shame it all disappeared.
November 10, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Anyone who's into that will also understand how and why bands like Caravan, Soft Machine and Gong evolved. And then how the French scene started to produce it's own jazz with Sclavis, Texier, Humier, Portal and others. Great period in music, shame it all disappeared.
It's impossible to be too cool for some schools.
Great article Pete. If you can, check out the theme music to 1960s tv series Public Eye youtu.be/WHE18FF4eUY?...
I was lucky enough to see Graham Collier back in 1970 with Harry Beckett at my local school, a great evening.
I was lucky enough to see Graham Collier back in 1970 with Harry Beckett at my local school, a great evening.
1965 TV ~ 'Public Eye' Theme
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November 10, 2025 at 8:24 AM
It's impossible to be too cool for some schools.