Adrian Brown
@adrianbrown.bsky.social
Digital archivist, erstwhile archaeologist, author, hedgehog hotelier, Director of Knowledge & Information at UK Parliament. All views my own.
I first came across Dave Evans through the dazzling fingerstyle guitar of ‘Stagefright’ - plenty more of that to enjoy on his debut, an unassuming slice of contemporary folk which deserves to be better known #5debutalbums7074
December 2, 2025 at 8:06 PM
I first came across Dave Evans through the dazzling fingerstyle guitar of ‘Stagefright’ - plenty more of that to enjoy on his debut, an unassuming slice of contemporary folk which deserves to be better known #5debutalbums7074
Well this is very much something to look forward to in the new year bevisfrondmusic.bandcamp.com/album/horror...
Horrorful Heights, by The Bevis Frond
20 track album
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December 2, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Well this is very much something to look forward to in the new year bevisfrondmusic.bandcamp.com/album/horror...
Splendid, mellow Chicago blues from an often-overlooked master #5debutalbums7074
December 2, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Splendid, mellow Chicago blues from an often-overlooked master #5debutalbums7074
A solid debut, although I do prefer ‘Some Day You’ll Have These Blues’ - worth a listen not least for the anguished riff of the title track #5debutalbums7074
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The Bottom Of The Top
YouTube video by Phillip Walker - Topic
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December 2, 2025 at 7:18 AM
A solid debut, although I do prefer ‘Some Day You’ll Have These Blues’ - worth a listen not least for the anguished riff of the title track #5debutalbums7074
youtu.be/uvVKH0DK_90?...
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November 30, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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#MusicChallenge
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Day 30
Game Of Pricks
Guided By Voices - Tigerbomb (1995)
Arguably their best song - I’ve always preferred this one to the lower-fi ‘Alien Lanes’ version
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Day 30
Game Of Pricks
Guided By Voices - Tigerbomb (1995)
Arguably their best song - I’ve always preferred this one to the lower-fi ‘Alien Lanes’ version
youtu.be/HLINRoC4f1k?...
Guided By Voices - Game of Pricks (Tigerbomb version)
YouTube video by Cristhian R.
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November 30, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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#MusicChallenge
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Day 30
Game Of Pricks
Guided By Voices - Tigerbomb (1995)
Arguably their best song - I’ve always preferred this one to the lower-fi ‘Alien Lanes’ version
youtu.be/HLINRoC4f1k?...
#MusicChallenge
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Day 30
Game Of Pricks
Guided By Voices - Tigerbomb (1995)
Arguably their best song - I’ve always preferred this one to the lower-fi ‘Alien Lanes’ version
youtu.be/HLINRoC4f1k?...
#90sTop30
#MusicChallenge
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Day 29
Rock Music
Pixies – Bossanova (1990)
Your mouth’s a mile away - Pixies at their shoutiest, thrashiest best - from their last great album
youtu.be/vDVpJIidloc?...
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Day 29
Rock Music
Pixies – Bossanova (1990)
Your mouth’s a mile away - Pixies at their shoutiest, thrashiest best - from their last great album
youtu.be/vDVpJIidloc?...
Rock Music
YouTube video by Pixies - Topic
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November 29, 2025 at 9:28 AM
#90sTop30
#MusicChallenge
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Day 29
Rock Music
Pixies – Bossanova (1990)
Your mouth’s a mile away - Pixies at their shoutiest, thrashiest best - from their last great album
youtu.be/vDVpJIidloc?...
#MusicChallenge
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Day 29
Rock Music
Pixies – Bossanova (1990)
Your mouth’s a mile away - Pixies at their shoutiest, thrashiest best - from their last great album
youtu.be/vDVpJIidloc?...
The best album of their partnership - superb guitar even by Thompson’s standards, great vocals from both and, in ‘The End Of The Rainbow’, perhaps the most comically bleak song of his career. A dead cert for my #5debutalbums7074 list
November 28, 2025 at 6:42 PM
The best album of their partnership - superb guitar even by Thompson’s standards, great vocals from both and, in ‘The End Of The Rainbow’, perhaps the most comically bleak song of his career. A dead cert for my #5debutalbums7074 list
Her first and finest solo album, this is chock full of great, mainly original, songs and a strong contender for
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November 28, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Her first and finest solo album, this is chock full of great, mainly original, songs and a strong contender for
#5debutalbums7074
#5debutalbums7074
#90sTop30
#MusicChallenge
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Day 28
Loose Fit
Happy Mondays – Pills’n’Thrills And Bellyaches (1990)
An insistently, trippily danceable, loose-limbed rhythm section, overlaid by a guitar riff which is pure gold
youtu.be/RGVzR1x2y7E?...
#MusicChallenge
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Day 28
Loose Fit
Happy Mondays – Pills’n’Thrills And Bellyaches (1990)
An insistently, trippily danceable, loose-limbed rhythm section, overlaid by a guitar riff which is pure gold
youtu.be/RGVzR1x2y7E?...
Happy Mondays - Loose Fit [12" Version]
YouTube video by London Records
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November 28, 2025 at 8:47 AM
#90sTop30
#MusicChallenge
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Day 28
Loose Fit
Happy Mondays – Pills’n’Thrills And Bellyaches (1990)
An insistently, trippily danceable, loose-limbed rhythm section, overlaid by a guitar riff which is pure gold
youtu.be/RGVzR1x2y7E?...
#MusicChallenge
Vaguely ranked
Day 28
Loose Fit
Happy Mondays – Pills’n’Thrills And Bellyaches (1990)
An insistently, trippily danceable, loose-limbed rhythm section, overlaid by a guitar riff which is pure gold
youtu.be/RGVzR1x2y7E?...
#90sTop30
#MusicChallenge
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Day 27
Goldfinger
Ash – 1977 (1996)
A struggle to choose between this and ‘Oh Yeah’
youtu.be/35hDrzcHnIA?...
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Day 27
Goldfinger
Ash – 1977 (1996)
A struggle to choose between this and ‘Oh Yeah’
youtu.be/35hDrzcHnIA?...
ASH - Goldfinger (Official HD Video)
YouTube video by Ash
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November 27, 2025 at 7:43 AM
#90sTop30
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Day 27
Goldfinger
Ash – 1977 (1996)
A struggle to choose between this and ‘Oh Yeah’
youtu.be/35hDrzcHnIA?...
#MusicChallenge
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Day 27
Goldfinger
Ash – 1977 (1996)
A struggle to choose between this and ‘Oh Yeah’
youtu.be/35hDrzcHnIA?...
#90sTop30
#MusicChallenge
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Day 26
Mount Everest
Teenage Fanclub – Songs From Northern Britain (1997)
A standout track from an album that barely puts a foot wrong
youtu.be/5ou8v2Gd--Q?...
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Day 26
Mount Everest
Teenage Fanclub – Songs From Northern Britain (1997)
A standout track from an album that barely puts a foot wrong
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Mount Everest
YouTube video by Teenage Fanclub - Topic
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November 26, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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Day 26
Mount Everest
Teenage Fanclub – Songs From Northern Britain (1997)
A standout track from an album that barely puts a foot wrong
youtu.be/5ou8v2Gd--Q?...
#MusicChallenge
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Day 26
Mount Everest
Teenage Fanclub – Songs From Northern Britain (1997)
A standout track from an album that barely puts a foot wrong
youtu.be/5ou8v2Gd--Q?...
Reposted by Adrian Brown
Remarkable story, and demonstration of the things engineers grapple with unknown to most of the public. I remember the Northern line being closed for the London Brodge works but had no idea that was helping deal with this unique problem further up the line as well.
The hidden chemical attack that forced the Northern line’s extraordinary repair
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/the...
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/the...
The hidden chemical attack that forced the Northern line’s extraordinary repair
Thirty years ago, an entire section of the Northern line had to be replaced because it was under attack from acid, and hardly anyone noticed that it was happening.
www.ianvisits.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Remarkable story, and demonstration of the things engineers grapple with unknown to most of the public. I remember the Northern line being closed for the London Brodge works but had no idea that was helping deal with this unique problem further up the line as well.
#5debutalbums7074 offers the possibility of going full folk, with options from Anne Briggs, Clannad, Fotheringay, Steeleye Span, Sandy Denny and Richard Thompson (both with and without Linda) 🤔
November 25, 2025 at 7:29 AM
#5debutalbums7074 offers the possibility of going full folk, with options from Anne Briggs, Clannad, Fotheringay, Steeleye Span, Sandy Denny and Richard Thompson (both with and without Linda) 🤔
#90sTop30
#MusicChallenge
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Day 25
A.M. 180
Grandaddy – Under The Western Freeway (1997)
Bleepily addictive
youtu.be/jEtQzQQoZRE?...
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Day 25
A.M. 180
Grandaddy – Under The Western Freeway (1997)
Bleepily addictive
youtu.be/jEtQzQQoZRE?...
Grandaddy - A.M. 180 (Live on 2 Meter Sessions)
YouTube video by 2metersessions
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November 25, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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Day 25
A.M. 180
Grandaddy – Under The Western Freeway (1997)
Bleepily addictive
youtu.be/jEtQzQQoZRE?...
#MusicChallenge
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Day 25
A.M. 180
Grandaddy – Under The Western Freeway (1997)
Bleepily addictive
youtu.be/jEtQzQQoZRE?...
#90sTop30
#MusicChallenge
Vaguely ranked
Day 24
Gee Angel
Sugar – File Under: Easy Listening (1994)
I can’t quite believe I’m actually going to finally see them live next year. This comes from as perfect an opening sequence of tracks as you’ll find on any album
youtu.be/lXFiycUbG3I?...
#MusicChallenge
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Day 24
Gee Angel
Sugar – File Under: Easy Listening (1994)
I can’t quite believe I’m actually going to finally see them live next year. This comes from as perfect an opening sequence of tracks as you’ll find on any album
youtu.be/lXFiycUbG3I?...
Gee Angel by Sugar
YouTube video by piper108
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November 24, 2025 at 7:52 AM
#90sTop30
#MusicChallenge
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Day 24
Gee Angel
Sugar – File Under: Easy Listening (1994)
I can’t quite believe I’m actually going to finally see them live next year. This comes from as perfect an opening sequence of tracks as you’ll find on any album
youtu.be/lXFiycUbG3I?...
#MusicChallenge
Vaguely ranked
Day 24
Gee Angel
Sugar – File Under: Easy Listening (1994)
I can’t quite believe I’m actually going to finally see them live next year. This comes from as perfect an opening sequence of tracks as you’ll find on any album
youtu.be/lXFiycUbG3I?...
#90sTop30
#MusicChallenge
Vaguely ranked
Day 23
Walking In The Great Shining Path Of Monster Trucks
Clutch – Transnational Speedway League (1993)
Here’s a pummelling live version - I could listen to that opening riff pretty much forever
youtu.be/vxdou0Wu69M?...
#MusicChallenge
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Day 23
Walking In The Great Shining Path Of Monster Trucks
Clutch – Transnational Speedway League (1993)
Here’s a pummelling live version - I could listen to that opening riff pretty much forever
youtu.be/vxdou0Wu69M?...
Clutch - In The Great Shining Path of Monster Trucks, Live @ 930 Club 8/3/01
YouTube video by digitaIIive
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November 23, 2025 at 9:12 AM
#90sTop30
#MusicChallenge
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Day 23
Walking In The Great Shining Path Of Monster Trucks
Clutch – Transnational Speedway League (1993)
Here’s a pummelling live version - I could listen to that opening riff pretty much forever
youtu.be/vxdou0Wu69M?...
#MusicChallenge
Vaguely ranked
Day 23
Walking In The Great Shining Path Of Monster Trucks
Clutch – Transnational Speedway League (1993)
Here’s a pummelling live version - I could listen to that opening riff pretty much forever
youtu.be/vxdou0Wu69M?...
Reposted by Adrian Brown
Postbox bollards outside the Post Office. Absolutely delightful.
#WorldBollardAssociation 📮
#WorldBollardAssociation 📮
November 22, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Postbox bollards outside the Post Office. Absolutely delightful.
#WorldBollardAssociation 📮
#WorldBollardAssociation 📮
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This is an exciting find: the remains of the building used by the House of Commons as its temporary chamber between 1835 and 1851. If you want to know what that building looked like, see our short article: historyofparliament.com/2025/09/25/t...
November 21, 2025 at 6:19 PM
This is an exciting find: the remains of the building used by the House of Commons as its temporary chamber between 1835 and 1851. If you want to know what that building looked like, see our short article: historyofparliament.com/2025/09/25/t...
#90sTop30
#MusicChallenge
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Day 22
Los Angeles
Frank Black – S/T (1993)
Probably the highlight of his ‘Teenager’ gig earlier in the year - the coda especially is sublime
youtu.be/fuLllNyfiHs?...
#MusicChallenge
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Day 22
Los Angeles
Frank Black – S/T (1993)
Probably the highlight of his ‘Teenager’ gig earlier in the year - the coda especially is sublime
youtu.be/fuLllNyfiHs?...
Frank Black.- Los Angeles (Official Video 1993)
YouTube video by Subbacultcha
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November 22, 2025 at 9:15 AM
#90sTop30
#MusicChallenge
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Day 22
Los Angeles
Frank Black – S/T (1993)
Probably the highlight of his ‘Teenager’ gig earlier in the year - the coda especially is sublime
youtu.be/fuLllNyfiHs?...
#MusicChallenge
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Day 22
Los Angeles
Frank Black – S/T (1993)
Probably the highlight of his ‘Teenager’ gig earlier in the year - the coda especially is sublime
youtu.be/fuLllNyfiHs?...
Just realised my lot really weren’t very imaginative with their titles…
#5debutalbums1014
#5debutalbums1014
Thanks Richard – another week hasn’t made it any easier, but let’s go with
1: Kvelertak – S/T (5 pts)
2: Tame Impala – Innerspeaker
3: Alvvays – S/T
4: Desperate Journalist – S/T
5: Drenge – S/T
#5debutalbums1014
1: Kvelertak – S/T (5 pts)
2: Tame Impala – Innerspeaker
3: Alvvays – S/T
4: Desperate Journalist – S/T
5: Drenge – S/T
#5debutalbums1014
November 21, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Just realised my lot really weren’t very imaginative with their titles…
#5debutalbums1014
#5debutalbums1014
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Day 21
Quality Of Armor
Guided By Voices – Propeller (1992)
When British Invasion and garage rock collide
youtu.be/7MYbIdZqRtM?...
#MusicChallenge
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Day 21
Quality Of Armor
Guided By Voices – Propeller (1992)
When British Invasion and garage rock collide
youtu.be/7MYbIdZqRtM?...
Quality Of Armor
YouTube video by Guided by Voices - Topic
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November 21, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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Day 21
Quality Of Armor
Guided By Voices – Propeller (1992)
When British Invasion and garage rock collide
youtu.be/7MYbIdZqRtM?...
#MusicChallenge
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Day 21
Quality Of Armor
Guided By Voices – Propeller (1992)
When British Invasion and garage rock collide
youtu.be/7MYbIdZqRtM?...
Another candidate for gig of the year - can’t remember ever seeing a band so obviously having so much fun, or going so hard without pausing for breath throughout…
November 20, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Another candidate for gig of the year - can’t remember ever seeing a band so obviously having so much fun, or going so hard without pausing for breath throughout…
Reposted by Adrian Brown
We installed a new Jane Austen display case in time for Jane's 250th birthday in December. The display is available in the Treasures Gallery (free) at the British Library in London until 15 March 2026. Blogpost: www.bl.uk/stories/blog...
November 20, 2025 at 4:10 PM
We installed a new Jane Austen display case in time for Jane's 250th birthday in December. The display is available in the Treasures Gallery (free) at the British Library in London until 15 March 2026. Blogpost: www.bl.uk/stories/blog...