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RABlack Art @rablackart.bsky.social · 3d

Here are my mini drawings of what I listened to this week.

I enjoyed drawing most of them but the most fun was Leonard Cohen.

(The most difficult was Beck.)

Little drawings of albums by…

Pixies
Leonard Cohen
Beck
10cc
Super Furry Animals
The Go-Betweens x 3
Richard Thompson
The Fall
Curtis Mayfield
Sparklehorse
Bob Dylan
Can
and
Tortoise.

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RABlack Art @rablackart.bsky.social · 4d

I can only identify about four of these myself but I’m sharing this post because they’re such good designs.

Sean Coleman @colemandesign.bsky.social · 5d

WIN a set of postcards of TV crime series as Penguin book covers. Simply guess which series is depicted on each cover. The earliest was broadcast in 1969. All originated on TV (so no Morse, Marple etc). Email [email protected] & I'll pick three from a digital deerstalker. Deadline: 10 Oct.

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RABlack Art @rablackart.bsky.social · 5d

Richard Thompson
(guitar, vocal)

One of the best things about living in Sutton in the early 2000s: so many excellent CDs the library were selling off.

I’d not heard this for years & I’m seriously enjoying it: a really well judged mix & the unreleased stuff is easily up to the standard of the rest.

Richard Thompson
(guitar, vocal)
1989 CD from Hannibal Records
Originally released by Island in 1976
Sold by Sutton Library in c. 2004

Cover concept by Richard Williams.
Design by Bloomfield/Travis.

RABlack Art @rablackart.bsky.social · 6d

I had a little look online and it looks like her name was sometimes spelt Jacquey Chappell and she later starred in Evita for a while in the 80s.

Not much more than that as far as I could see.

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RABlack Art @rablackart.bsky.social · 6d

… no Twiggy!

I wonder what became of Jackie Chappell?

Owing to the indisposition of
TWIGGY, the part of Cinderella will be played at this performance by
JACKIE CHAPPELL

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RABlack Art @rablackart.bsky.social · 6d

An irresistible charity shop item I bought today.

A 1974 panto programme… what a cast! I’d have been particularly thrilled to see Roy Kinnear, and of course Lenny the Lion.

But…

Programme for Cinderella at the Casino Theatre.

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RABlack Art @rablackart.bsky.social · 8d

I’ve just listened to this lovely creation from @mulgraveaudio.bsky.social and I think it’s really something to treasure. Sandra Kerr’s music is so perfect.

Thanks to everyone involved.

My hand holding the 10 inch vinyl record of Patchwuff performed by Valerie Singleton with music by Sandra Kerr.

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RABlack Art @rablackart.bsky.social · 9d

My little drawings from last week.

Including a few albums featuring Danny Thompson on the bass.

I most enjoyed drawing Bob and the Band’s ‘Basement Tapes’, and the Fall’s ‘Code: Selfish’.

I think I’ve made the Radiohead man look much happier than usual.

Mini drawings of albums by…

Grandaddy
Tom Waits
Chris Bell
Bob Dylan and the Band
Bob Dylan
10cc
The Fall
Pentangle
Kate Bush
Peter Gabriel x 2
Genesis
Talk Talk
John Martyn
Air x 2
UNKLE
The Go-Betweens
Steeleye Span
Van Dyke Parks
A Camp
Queens of the Stone Age
The Strokes
and
Radiohead

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RABlack Art @rablackart.bsky.social · 9d

The Gabriel albums were a treat to hear again - I think his second LP is my favourite.

Not so sure about Genesis… lots to enjoy but I found the keyboards a bit grating!

RABlack Art @rablackart.bsky.social · 9d

My little drawings from last week.

Including a few albums featuring Danny Thompson on the bass.

I most enjoyed drawing Bob and the Band’s ‘Basement Tapes’, and the Fall’s ‘Code: Selfish’.

I think I’ve made the Radiohead man look much happier than usual.

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RABlack Art @rablackart.bsky.social · 9d

Excellent podcast about an excellent series.

World of Telly @world-of-telly.bsky.social · 13d

A new episode of World of Telly is available now wherever you get your podcasts. This week we travel back to 1960 as we explore The Strange World of Gurney Slade. The video version of this podcast will be released later this weekend.

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Peter Ormerod @bowiegod.bsky.social · 12d

I was lucky enough to be the first member of the public to see these notes. It was quite a thing

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Notes on God, by David Bowie

What I found at the V&A East Storehouse

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RABlack Art @rablackart.bsky.social · 13d

Nathan investigates a hoover.

Giant cardboard stand of David Bowie as Nathan Adler, promoting the 1.Outside album. Looking at the hoover.

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RABlack Art @rablackart.bsky.social · 13d

As it is Nathan Adler’s 30th birthday I thought I’d let him have a look around the house and a little play in the garden.

Giant cardboard stand of David Bowie as Nathan Adler, promoting the 1.Outside album. Having a look around the kitchen for art crimes.

Giant cardboard stand of David Bowie as Nathan Adler, promoting the 1.Outside album. Popping up from behind a sofa in the garden.

Giant cardboard stand of David Bowie as Nathan Adler, promoting the 1.Outside album. Enjoying the fresh air.

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RABlack Art @rablackart.bsky.social · 14d

I really want to record a cover of this.

ChinnyVision @chinnyvision.bsky.social · 14d

From Border Television and a studio that is clearly too small to accommodate a piano and an audience, Tony Hatch and Jackie Trent perform "Emmerdale Farm".

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RABlack Art @rablackart.bsky.social · 16d

I agree with this:

Frank Collins @cathode-ray-tube.bsky.social · 17d

Well, @andreworton.bsky.social’s Black Archive on Castrovalva is cracking. Layers of stuff about mathematics (Gödel, Escher, Bach!), ontology, Borges, Bidmead’s use of science within a morality play, a brilliant chapter on television studio space and storytelling. An absolute must read! #DoctorWho

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RABlack Art @rablackart.bsky.social · 17d

Here are my little drawings from the last week.

I enjoyed drawing the New Order and Vetiver records.

I LOVED listening to Big Star.

Mini-drawings of records and CDs by…

Curtis Mayfield
The Fall
Big Star x 3
Heidi Berry
David Bowie x 2
The Stone Roses
10cc
New Order x 2
Scott Walker
PJ Harvey and John Parish
Bad Lieutenant
Kevin Armstrong
The Divine Comedy x 3
Vetiver
Sleater-Kinney
Sly and the Family Stone
Ralph McTell
Robert Wyatt
and
The Go-Betweens x 2

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RABlack Art @rablackart.bsky.social · 18d

Last night I dreamt that I was Christmas shopping with my mum. We noticed there was a new Mr. Men book:

MR. BECK-AND- CATCH
by Roger
Hargreaves

As seen in my dream.

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RABlack Art @rablackart.bsky.social · 17d

Here are my little drawings from the last week.

I enjoyed drawing the New Order and Vetiver records.

I LOVED listening to Big Star.

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RABlack Art @rablackart.bsky.social · 17d

MR. BECK-AND-CATCH.

RABlack Art @rablackart.bsky.social · 18d

Last night I dreamt that I was Christmas shopping with my mum. We noticed there was a new Mr. Men book:

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RABlack Art @rablackart.bsky.social · 18d

I was also unimpressed with the small white character and the way they were partly blocking Mr Beck-and-Catch’s leg.

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RABlack Art @rablackart.bsky.social · 18d

I thought “Beck-and-catch? I don’t think I’ve ever heard of that… what does it mean?”

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RABlack Art @rablackart.bsky.social · 18d

Last night I dreamt that I was Christmas shopping with my mum. We noticed there was a new Mr. Men book:

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RABlack Art @rablackart.bsky.social · 18d

Art by Lee Sullivan from Nemesis of the Daleks.

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Phil Norman @mrphilnorman.bsky.social · 19d

Week 52 brings a demonic Peter Egan, an all-powerful Robert Morley, a Shavian Billy Connolly and a thoroughly mediocre Saturday morning.
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Week 52: 24th – 30th September, 1983

“I have every confidence in you.”

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