Phil Aston
@philaston.bsky.social
Founder & Editor at Now Spinning Magazine. love music, became a YouTuber & Podcaster in my 60s. Partner at Genius Loci Media - Blogs from the beach @nowspinninguk.bsky.social | https://www.nowspinning.co.uk | https://www.geniusloci.co.uk
I spent today preparing and contributing to a new major book on Black Sabbath which will be published in 2026.
Celebrating with one of their very much misunderstood album ‘ Forbidden’ from 1995.
This is the 2025 remix which really brings the guitars and drums to the fore.
Celebrating with one of their very much misunderstood album ‘ Forbidden’ from 1995.
This is the 2025 remix which really brings the guitars and drums to the fore.
November 12, 2025 at 10:30 PM
I spent today preparing and contributing to a new major book on Black Sabbath which will be published in 2026.
Celebrating with one of their very much misunderstood album ‘ Forbidden’ from 1995.
This is the 2025 remix which really brings the guitars and drums to the fore.
Celebrating with one of their very much misunderstood album ‘ Forbidden’ from 1995.
This is the 2025 remix which really brings the guitars and drums to the fore.
From Gods to Time Machines — The Ultimate Cats in Space Documentary Series is Coming!
youtu.be/Y-0-j0nEbrg
youtu.be/Y-0-j0nEbrg
July 20, 2025 at 6:08 PM
From Gods to Time Machines — The Ultimate Cats in Space Documentary Series is Coming!
youtu.be/Y-0-j0nEbrg
youtu.be/Y-0-j0nEbrg
Dave Cousins : Tribute
Remembering Dave Cousins from The Strawbs
Recommended listens - Lay Down from ‘Bursting At The Seems’ and ‘Two Weeks Last Summer’ especially the track ‘Blue Angel’.
Phil Aston | Now Spinning Magazine
Remembering Dave Cousins from The Strawbs
Recommended listens - Lay Down from ‘Bursting At The Seems’ and ‘Two Weeks Last Summer’ especially the track ‘Blue Angel’.
Phil Aston | Now Spinning Magazine
July 14, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Dave Cousins : Tribute
Remembering Dave Cousins from The Strawbs
Recommended listens - Lay Down from ‘Bursting At The Seems’ and ‘Two Weeks Last Summer’ especially the track ‘Blue Angel’.
Phil Aston | Now Spinning Magazine
Remembering Dave Cousins from The Strawbs
Recommended listens - Lay Down from ‘Bursting At The Seems’ and ‘Two Weeks Last Summer’ especially the track ‘Blue Angel’.
Phil Aston | Now Spinning Magazine
Mick Ralphs Tribute Part 2
Extract from an interview with Mick Ralphs from Beat Instrumental in October 1976.
What a lovely down to earth guy he was.
Phil Aston
Extract from an interview with Mick Ralphs from Beat Instrumental in October 1976.
What a lovely down to earth guy he was.
Phil Aston
June 25, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Mick Ralphs Tribute Part 2
Extract from an interview with Mick Ralphs from Beat Instrumental in October 1976.
What a lovely down to earth guy he was.
Phil Aston
Extract from an interview with Mick Ralphs from Beat Instrumental in October 1976.
What a lovely down to earth guy he was.
Phil Aston
Khan : Space Shanty : 1972
One of my favourite albums featuring Steve Hillage from the ‘Searching For The Spark’ Box Set
One of my favourite albums featuring Steve Hillage from the ‘Searching For The Spark’ Box Set
May 5, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Khan : Space Shanty : 1972
One of my favourite albums featuring Steve Hillage from the ‘Searching For The Spark’ Box Set
One of my favourite albums featuring Steve Hillage from the ‘Searching For The Spark’ Box Set
Rock n Roll Haircut of the Week : 1980
Taken in Munich Germany while at the beer festival
I was probably thinking about seeing Ozzy Osbourne at the Birmingham Odeon that coming Sunday. His first solo tour with Randy Rhoads.
Phil
#hair #heavymetal #nwobhm #philaston #nowspinning #80s
Taken in Munich Germany while at the beer festival
I was probably thinking about seeing Ozzy Osbourne at the Birmingham Odeon that coming Sunday. His first solo tour with Randy Rhoads.
Phil
#hair #heavymetal #nwobhm #philaston #nowspinning #80s
April 25, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Rock n Roll Haircut of the Week : 1980
Taken in Munich Germany while at the beer festival
I was probably thinking about seeing Ozzy Osbourne at the Birmingham Odeon that coming Sunday. His first solo tour with Randy Rhoads.
Phil
#hair #heavymetal #nwobhm #philaston #nowspinning #80s
Taken in Munich Germany while at the beer festival
I was probably thinking about seeing Ozzy Osbourne at the Birmingham Odeon that coming Sunday. His first solo tour with Randy Rhoads.
Phil
#hair #heavymetal #nwobhm #philaston #nowspinning #80s
Pink Floyd : One Of These Days / Fearless
Italian Picture sleeve single bought from WH Smiths in the 70s
Italian Picture sleeve single bought from WH Smiths in the 70s
February 10, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Pink Floyd : One Of These Days / Fearless
Italian Picture sleeve single bought from WH Smiths in the 70s
Italian Picture sleeve single bought from WH Smiths in the 70s
Doris Henderson & John Renbourn
There You Go : 1966
From the John Renbourn Unpentangled Sixties Albums Box Set
There You Go : 1966
From the John Renbourn Unpentangled Sixties Albums Box Set
February 8, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Doris Henderson & John Renbourn
There You Go : 1966
From the John Renbourn Unpentangled Sixties Albums Box Set
There You Go : 1966
From the John Renbourn Unpentangled Sixties Albums Box Set
Starting the day with ‘The Band’
In memory of all them now as Garth Hudson has also sadly left us.
Across The Great Divide : 3CD Deluxe Box set : 1994
In memory of all them now as Garth Hudson has also sadly left us.
Across The Great Divide : 3CD Deluxe Box set : 1994
January 25, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Starting the day with ‘The Band’
In memory of all them now as Garth Hudson has also sadly left us.
Across The Great Divide : 3CD Deluxe Box set : 1994
In memory of all them now as Garth Hudson has also sadly left us.
Across The Great Divide : 3CD Deluxe Box set : 1994
Birmingham Town hall UK - April 1970
If you had a Time Machine who would you go and see?
My top 3 choices would be
1.Deep Purple
2. Taste
3. Taj Mahal & Rare Bird
Phil :)
If you had a Time Machine who would you go and see?
My top 3 choices would be
1.Deep Purple
2. Taste
3. Taj Mahal & Rare Bird
Phil :)
January 17, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Birmingham Town hall UK - April 1970
If you had a Time Machine who would you go and see?
My top 3 choices would be
1.Deep Purple
2. Taste
3. Taj Mahal & Rare Bird
Phil :)
If you had a Time Machine who would you go and see?
My top 3 choices would be
1.Deep Purple
2. Taste
3. Taj Mahal & Rare Bird
Phil :)
Jethro Tull : Thick As A Brick : 1972
Having played the 1972 original mix yesterday today I went for the 1997 remaster and and then the Steven Wilson Remix.
Now I’m enjoying the 5.1 surround version!
Totally immersive, like sitting in the middle of the room as they play around you.
Having played the 1972 original mix yesterday today I went for the 1997 remaster and and then the Steven Wilson Remix.
Now I’m enjoying the 5.1 surround version!
Totally immersive, like sitting in the middle of the room as they play around you.
December 7, 2024 at 7:39 PM
Jethro Tull : Thick As A Brick : 1972
Having played the 1972 original mix yesterday today I went for the 1997 remaster and and then the Steven Wilson Remix.
Now I’m enjoying the 5.1 surround version!
Totally immersive, like sitting in the middle of the room as they play around you.
Having played the 1972 original mix yesterday today I went for the 1997 remaster and and then the Steven Wilson Remix.
Now I’m enjoying the 5.1 surround version!
Totally immersive, like sitting in the middle of the room as they play around you.
Saturday’s has always been about visiting record shops. However before dedicated shops like Virgin appeared every high street store seemed to sell records. I remember buying singles and albums from Woolworths, WH Smith’s, Boots The Chemist, John Menzies and The Midland Educational.
#recordshops
#recordshops
November 23, 2024 at 11:52 AM
Saturday’s has always been about visiting record shops. However before dedicated shops like Virgin appeared every high street store seemed to sell records. I remember buying singles and albums from Woolworths, WH Smith’s, Boots The Chemist, John Menzies and The Midland Educational.
#recordshops
#recordshops
Don’t clip the wings of your imagination…
November 18, 2024 at 10:47 PM
Don’t clip the wings of your imagination…
Full rainbow this afternoon during our walk to Mousehole from Penzance in Cornwall.
November 17, 2024 at 6:11 PM
Full rainbow this afternoon during our walk to Mousehole from Penzance in Cornwall.
Once you create from the heart there is no competition.
November 17, 2024 at 10:05 AM
Once you create from the heart there is no competition.
That looks heavy Rocky!
Are you sure that’s what you want to listen to?
Are you sure that’s what you want to listen to?
November 16, 2024 at 4:49 PM
That looks heavy Rocky!
Are you sure that’s what you want to listen to?
Are you sure that’s what you want to listen to?
My favourite PROG books - anyone else have these?
November 16, 2024 at 2:04 PM
My favourite PROG books - anyone else have these?
Yoga is very important to me and has been the key for physical and mental health. This was taken in September 2019. I was 60 in the photo. I’ll admit this posture is currently beyond my reach but I’m now working my way back to it ( very mindfully )
November 16, 2024 at 1:53 PM
Yoga is very important to me and has been the key for physical and mental health. This was taken in September 2019. I was 60 in the photo. I’ll admit this posture is currently beyond my reach but I’m now working my way back to it ( very mindfully )
This is Perranuthnoe Beach in Cornwall where I live. I walk here most days and many of my Music & Mental health videos are filmed here. If you stop and listen you can hear music in nature. There is rhythm in everything but also space for your own ideas to surface. Phil
#mentalhealth
#mentalhealth
November 16, 2024 at 1:40 PM
This is Perranuthnoe Beach in Cornwall where I live. I walk here most days and many of my Music & Mental health videos are filmed here. If you stop and listen you can hear music in nature. There is rhythm in everything but also space for your own ideas to surface. Phil
#mentalhealth
#mentalhealth
I will be interviewing ‘Leslie Mándoki’ on November 25th. This is a wonderful and uplifting album.
November 16, 2024 at 12:00 PM
I will be interviewing ‘Leslie Mándoki’ on November 25th. This is a wonderful and uplifting album.
Possibly the most yellow vinyl ever! Warren Haynes : Million Voices Whisper. Just beautiful music and I am going to be interviewing Warren very soon - so excited!! Phil :)
November 15, 2024 at 8:01 PM
Possibly the most yellow vinyl ever! Warren Haynes : Million Voices Whisper. Just beautiful music and I am going to be interviewing Warren very soon - so excited!! Phil :)
Emerson Lake & Palmer… during the 70s, 80s, 90s I just didn’t get it… and then I did. #nowspinning
November 14, 2024 at 7:46 PM
Emerson Lake & Palmer… during the 70s, 80s, 90s I just didn’t get it… and then I did. #nowspinning
#nowspinning Steven Wilson and looking back at The Dandy from 1969
November 14, 2024 at 3:13 PM
#nowspinning Steven Wilson and looking back at The Dandy from 1969
Good choice Rocky Aston !
November 14, 2024 at 1:42 PM
Good choice Rocky Aston !
