Saturday 29 November 2014

"Tea & Toast & Rock & Roll" - A Small Extract

"Tea & Toast & Rock & Roll" -A Small Extract

Without giving too much away, here's a brief extract from the very start of my new book about going to the Glastonbury Festival in 2014 with my 24 year-old son, for his very first time. This sort of sets the scene for the rest of the book... 




“Are you going to Glastonbury again?”
“Absolutely! Wouldn’t miss it for the world. Can’t wait.”
“Really? Is it that good?”
“Oh, you can’t believe how good it is. It’s like nothing you’ve ever experienced.”
“Hmm. Not sure if I could cope with it all. All those stinky toilets and sleeping in a tent. Not my cup of tea.”
“You’d be fine. The toilets aren’t that bad and it’s not too bad kipping in a tent. It’s only for a few nights and you’d sleep just fine.”
“Don’t think so. Probably just watch it on the telly. You working there again this time?”
“No, we managed to get tickets. Dead lucky.”
“Oh good! You going by yourself or is Amy going with you?”
“No, she can’t go. She’s working in the school so can’t get the time off. But I’m not going by myself again.”
“Jackie going with you then?”
“No. she can’t either.”
“So …who?”
“Thomas.”
“Your Thomas?”
“Yep.”
“Honestly? Really? Your Thomas is going?”
“Oh yeah. Me and Thomas.”
“Is he that much into it? Didn’t think it’d be his sort of thing.”
“Well, he’s not that much into music and he’s never been camping so, dunno really. Should be interesting.”
“So he’s “Not into music and never been camping”? Are you sure you’re doing the right thing? Will he be ok?”
“Think so. Hope so. He does like his home comforts though. And he doesn’t actually like that much music. It’s not as if he doesn’t like music, but he’s just not that big a music fan. He’s more into football and sport y’know, but he’ll be fine. We’ll have a laugh.”
“You mean he’s not a big music saddo like you?”
“Sort of.”
“So, you’re taking him to Glasto, he likes his home comforts and football and isn’t that much into music? He won’t see any football for five days, it’s the middle of the World Cup and you’re sharing a tent with him? What are you going to do if it’s rainy and muddy? He’s not going to have many of his home comforts, is he?”
Silence ensues.

 "Tea & Toast & Rock & Roll" is available as a Kindle e book here 

and now available as a paperback! (should you so wish) here

(NB.The price of the paperback is set by Amazon's CreateSpace. Apologies for this.This is the lowest I can sell it for & I'm making no royalties on it. But should you want a hard copy-and why not?-this is where to go! I'd just like as many people to read it as possible in whatever format. Thanks!)

 

Monday 24 November 2014

"Tea & Toast & Rock & Roll"-My new Glastonbury book!

"Tea & Toast & Rock & Roll"-My new Glastonbury book!

So, it's finally published! The third (and final) book about my Glastonbury trips.

And this time, it's quite close to the actual events, so if you were there then it may bring back some recent memories.

If you weren't, then I hope it would still be an enjoyable read.

This new book covers two years; the first being 2013 when I went solo, and this year, 2014,when I managed to persuade my 24 year-old son to finally come along with me, despite that fact he has a minimal interest in music and wasn't looking foward to all that Glasto entails (sleeping in a tent, Glasto's renowned sanitary facilities etc.)

At the moment the book is only available as a Kindle e book-but of course you don't need a Kindle to read it, as Amazon do free (!) apps that allow the books to be read on Apple devices, Android devices, PCs, laptops and the like. There's a link here: www.amazon.co.uk/gp/feature.html

I will probably publish it as a paperback shortly; but for now, if you are interested, please get hold of the Kindle version as it's miles cheaper! (Amazon do charge authors a fairly steep price to produce a paperback copy.)

Anyway, I'll be posting a few snippets from the book on this blog in the next few weeks & possibly some bits that I cut from the final edit of the book as well.

In the meantime, here's the link to the Kindle book (where you can have a glance at a few pages to get a clue of what it's all about.)  Thanks! http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tea-Toast-Rock-Roll-Glastonbury-ebook/dp/B00Q1UJACC



   

Sunday 16 November 2014

Totally Shuffled extract-Record shops

extracted from "Totally Shuffled-A Year of Listening to Music on a Broken iPod" and in advance of Record Store Day 2016....



June 6th

Foetus Interruptus-Fin-Thaw

Record shops are increasingly becoming a thing of the past. Sadly. They’ll become stuff of legend and myth within the next couple of decades. I’ll be sitting my grandchildren on my knee and telling them tales of hours spent browsing for strange flat, round 12” artefacts just in order to listen to music. They’ll listen wide-eyed and incredulously about the hours wasted in vain attempts to get hold of “rare” songs imported across the ocean from America in numbers of less than the fingers of one hand. They’ll be staggered at the exorbitant prices that used to be paid for just one record and that generally music was so difficult to obtain. Maybe they’ll see recorded music as a bit odd in itself. (Recorded music, after all, is just a blip that’s only been around for 100 years or so. By the end of the 21st century it may be looked upon as a technological and cultural dead-end. Like a harpsichord). 

(Let me tell you a story).

Anyway, I’ve spend many, many happy hours in record shops up and down the U.K. (And many costly hours as well).  I can’t actually remember the last time that I spent any significant period browsing ,but I have a feeling that those days are gone forever. I’ll start from the North and work my way down South in respect of the most memorable record shops that played such a large part in my life.

1. One Up Records, Aberdeen.

This would have been in the early 1980’s when I worked for a while in the Granite City. There was a Virgin store in Aberdeen which was ok, but One Up was a small indie store just off Union Street in the city centre. It was slightly similar to Probe Records in Liverpool (more of that soon), but staffed by dour-as-fuck Scots and therefore a much jollier retail experience than Probe. One Up was, I think, next door to a cafĂ©-which was useful. It must have previously operated as a different sort of shop as all the walls were at weird angles; which wasn’t conducive for housing racks of vinyl records. Having said that, they had a great selection of really indie stuff-lots of records from the USA and post punk singles from around the world. If you’d heard, say a 7” single played on Peel’s show by an unpronounceable Polish hardcore band on a Wednesday night, then One Up would have it ( or know of it and be able to get it for you), via some circuitous route from Gdansk across the North Sea by the following week. There were plenty of singles I got from there purely on the basis that they seemed obscure and therefore which I hoped they would be the next-big-thing. (Never worked out like that). Two other facts; there record bags were cool and if you hung around long enough they’d always make you a cup of tea).

2. Probe Records, Liverpool.


I’ve already gone on at length about Probe so I won’t reiterate things too much. However, it was a little wonderful trove of records in Mathew Street, Liverpool and staffed by the most fucking miserable condescending bunch of know-alls in the whole retail sector. There is an apocryphal story (which rings so true) about a hapless punter who wandered in off the street one day and asked in all innocence, “Do you have Phil Collins’ new album?” “Yes”, came the reply. “Can I have it please then?” “Er, no.”  That just about sums it up. But, for their selection of records, it couldn’t be beaten and that’s why I spent many hours in there browsing away, and many pounds that I couldn’t really afford crossed the counter into their coffers. (Unlike in Aberdeen, you’d never get a brew from them).

3. Penny Lane Records, Liverpool.


Although they must have had a shop in the actual Penny Lane, this one was in the city centre. I think that it’s now an opticians. Maybe bad sight has increased at the same rate as record shops have declined. Penny Lane was up a flight of stairs on the first floor above some sort of fashion shop. It was a bit like Probe (indie shop but not so much indie (music)), but it did have a really good selection of reggae albums, including loads of dub, and what seemed to be the whole ECM catalogue on vinyl. When New Order played the State Ballroom in Liverpool, the only place you could get tickets from was Penny Lane. The shop suddenly closed down-it must have gone bust- one day it was there and the next it was gone. I wonder what happened to all those unsold ECM records.


4. Virgin Records, Oxford Street, London

Not the megastore Virgin, but a strange little Virgin store that co-existed at the same time as the megastore was growing. It was halfway down Oxford Street in a sort of arcade of shops and must have been forgotten about by Branson as it seemed to be a bit of throwback. It only appeared to have in stock weird rock albums from Germany and Japan and obscure old hippy albums although there was a section of industrial oddness- which is where I got hold of the first Foetus album, “Deaf” (which is now worth a fortune and which I sold for buttons ages ago. Grr). I could never have imagined of being able to go into any of the Virgin megastores and being able to buy a Foetus record. 

I wonder what they were thinking of. 



"Totally Shuffled" is available here as a Kindle book (bit of a massive tome; 600 or so pages)


http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00CJYZ3CA



and here as a paperback (Part 1:The First Six Months)


http://www.amazon.co.uk/Totally-Shuffled-Listening-Broken-iPod-/dp/149495687X



This is what it ("Totally Shuffled", the book) is all about:


One track per day for 366 days on a broken iPod. 366 tracks out of a possible 9553.


From the obvious (The Rolling Stones), to the obscure (Karen Cooper Complex).


From the sublime (The Flaming Lips) to the risible (Muse).


From field recordings of Haitian Voodoo music to The Monkees.


From Heavy Metal to Rap by way of 1930’s blues, jazz, classical, punk, and every possible genre of music in between.



This is what I listened to and wrote about for a whole year, to the point of never wanting to hear any more music again.


Some songs I listened to I loved, and some I hated.


Some artists ended up getting praised to the skies and others received a bit of critical kicking.

There’s memories of spending too many hours in record shops, prevaricating over the next big thing and surprising myself over tracks that I’d completely forgotten about.


But with 40 years of listening to music, I realised that I’ll never get sick of it.


I may have fallen out of love with some of the songs in this book, but I’ll never fall out of love with music.







The Full List of all the Artists

Like me, there must be some artists you love, some you don't love and some you've probably not heard of.

Or never want to hear again.


But that's the way it goes with nearly 10,000 tracks to shuffle through at random.


These are the artists in the order they shuffled up on my iPod, starting on January 1st and finishing on December 31st.


January
The Clash/ Half Man Half Biscuit/ Steinski /Carl Smith with the Carter Sisters & Mother Maybelle
Big Star/ The Upsettters / AC/DC /Buddy Holly/Wilco/Joy Division/High Rise
Bulgarian State Radio & Television Female Vocal Choir/Jackie Brenston
William & Versey Smith/Boards of Canada/Randy Newman/The Blue Nile/The Chords
Wire/Steely Dan/Mercury Rev/Sigur Ros/Massive Attack v Mad Professor
Steve Reich/TheSugarcubes/U2/A Sudden Sway/Laura Cantrell/Genesis
Mbuti Pygmies of the Iruti Rainforest/The Sisters of Mercy
February
Holy Fuck/ Swans/The Sundays/My Bloody Valentine/Ja-Man
Charles Wright & the 103rd Street Rhythm Band/Juana Molina/Sparklehorse/ The White Stripes
New Order/Dennis McGee & Ernest Fruge/Beethoven/ You.May.Die.In.The.Desert
Kate Bush/Cabaret Voltaire/Blind Lemon Jefferson/Bill Drummond/Gong
The Hold Steady/Marvin Gaye & Kim Weston/ Sunn O)))/Crass
Jelly Roll Morton/Grandmaster Flash/Led Zeppelin/Status Quo
March
Karen Cooper Complex/Spiritualized/Professor Longhair/Coldplay
Dee Clark/Prince/Teenage Jesus & The Jerks/Jeff Buckley
Young Marble Giants/Rovo/Lazy Lester/She & Him
Voodoo Ceremony in Haiti/Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers/The Woodentops
Tinariwen/Blind Blake/ Arctic Monkeys/Van Morrison/Burial/Boozoo Chavais/Teenage Fanclub
Mogwai/Nirvana/Girls/Skip James/The Lemonheads/Air Traffic Controllers
A Gril Called Eddy/ Aztec Camera/Goldfrapp
April
Evil Gazebo/ The Durutti Column/Cymbals Eat Guitars/Swell Maps/Warren Smith
The Go-Betweens/Fats Domino/Joanna Newsom/Dave Dudley/Fleetwood Mac/Lightnin Hopkins
Neil Young/Chin Up Chin Up/The Jesus Lizard/Mel & Tim/XTC/Faron Young/Electro Hippies
Rev. Gary Davies/ Robyn Hitchcock/Lee Perry/Fuck Buttons/Portastatic/The Jesus & Mary Chain
Blind Willie Davis/The Misunderstood/ The Art of Noise/The Feelies/Francoise Hardy
The Rolling Stones
May
Dracula’s Daughter/American Music Club/Godspeed You! Black Emperor/Echo & the Bunnymen
Link Davis/Television/This Mortal Coil/Elder Curry/Vampire Weekend/Scritti Politti/Battles
Immortal Technique/Pavement/Jad Fair/The Everly Brothers/Impact All Stars
Hambone Wille Newbern/The Zimmermen/Chic/Buzzcocks/Ellis Regina & Toots Theilman
The Silver/Lights In A Fat City/Althea & Donna/Phew!/Eddie & Ernie/Sly & The Family Stone/
The Parliaments/The Ruts/Muddy Waters
June
Captain Beefheart/Emmylou Harris/Jimmy Rodgers/Bob Dylan/Lush/Foetus Interruptus
Johnny Cash/Lattie Moore/Satan Alfa Beel Atem/Freddie Hall/The Ravens/Robert Parker
David Sylvian/The Stone Roses/Charlie Parker/SonnyBoy Williamson/Steve Earle/Tiny Bradshaw
Lonnie Johnson/Blind Alred Reed/Southside Johnny/The Showstoppers/L/Roy Orbison/The KLF
Tony Bennett/The Chantells/The Nightingales/Luciole
July
Some Chicken/The Meters/Kris Kristofferson/Rev A W Nix/The Flaming Lips/Big In Japan/Morphine
The Greenhornes/Ron Sexsmith/DoMaJe/Girls At Our Best! /The Masterdon Committee
Umm Kulthun/Alton Ellis & The Flames/James Brown/Brownsville Station/ The O’Jays
Jimmy Lewis/Tom Archia/Big Youth/The Smiths/The Fuckers/Nat King Cole/The 012/Group Doueh
Louis Prima/Jonsi & Alex/Carolina Buddies/Jerry Lee Lewis/Lori & The Chameleons/Dogie O’Dell
August
Frank Sinatra/Roy Head/Lara & the Trailers/King Solomon Hill/Central African Pygmies
The Beach Boys/The Pixies/ Billy Ward & His Dominos/Shep & The Limelites/The Adverts
Los Campesinos!/Elmore James/”Do you ever have a night when you don’t dream about The Fall?”
Aramic Wedding Chants/Camille/The Anemic Boyfriends/Trinity/Prefab Sprout/Bobby Marchan
The Grateful Dead/A Certain Ratio/The Beta Band/The Bell Rays/ DJ Food/
Booby Saffron & The Postal Bargains/Miles Davis/Anne Peebles/Marvin Rainwater
The Manavishnu Orchestra/Culture/Clannad 
September
Gormenghast/Tammy Wynette/Wah! Heat/Mississipi John Hurt/The Henchman/Elvis Costello
The Velvetones/Mott the Hoople/ Armando/Walter “Kid” Smith /Junior Parker/Sandy Denny
The The/The Pilgrim Travellers/Muslimgauze/The Marvelettes/Elf Power/Ry Cooder
Johnny Burnette Trio/Big Amos/Johnnie Taylor/Ronny Jordan/Brahms/John Coltrane/ O V Wright
The Fall/George Jones/The Gang of Four/Pink Floyd/Mickey Lee Lewis
October
Young Fresh Fellows/ the passage/System Fucker/The Bays/Molton Rock/De La Soul/Muse
Popol Vuh/Schubert/Curtis Mayfield/Joe South/The Beat/Sleepy John Estes/Bruce Springsteen
I Roy/Soledad Brothers/Roshell Anderson/Louis Armstrong/The Nitecaps/The Clovers
Clarence Ashby/Emitt Rhodes/Black Uhuru/Gram Parsons/Chuck Willis/Johnny Fortune/
Blind Willie McTell/Dinosaur Jr./Charles Brown
November
Billie Holliday/Rocketship/Johnny Dove & the Magnolia Playboys/MGMT/Chrome/Blue Angel
Little Axe/The Delgados/Mahler/Novem/Siouxsie & The Banshees/Charlie Mingus/The Monkees
P J Harvey/Riley Puckett/Roger Miller/The Sonics/Louis Jordan/The Raincoats/Paul McCartney
Tampa Red & Georgia Tom/ The Upholsterers/Kristina Bruuk/Green Bailey/The Blue Orchids
Harry Pussy/Shostakovich/The National/Don Covay/K T Tunstall
December
Bill Monroe/Sonic Youth/Electric Light Orchestra/Johnny Adams/The Cocteau Twins/Squeeze
The Latin Playboys/The Cherry Pies/Stevie Wonder/Toussaint McCall/Eva Cassidy
Howling Wolf/Crowded House/Stanley Winston/The Velvet Underground
Pat Metheny/Elbow/Alternative TV /Long Gone Miles/The Pernice Brothers/Paddy McAloon
Al Green/Talking Heads/Radiohead/AMM/Smokey Robinson & The Miracles/
Big Black/Joni Mitchell/Madonna/The Birthday Party/Honeyboy


Friday 14 November 2014

What "Totally Shuffled" is all about.........

"Totally Shuffled-A  Year of Listening to Music on A Broken iPod" 


This is what it ("Totally Shuffled", the book) is all about:



One track per day for 366 days on a broken iPod. 366 tracks out of a possible 9553.
From the obvious (The Rolling Stones), to the obscure (Karen Cooper Complex). 
From the sublime (The Flaming Lips) to the risible (Muse). 
From field recordings of Haitian Voodoo music to The Monkees. 
From Heavy Metal to Rap by way of 1930’s blues, jazz, classical, punk, and every possible genre of music in between. 
This is what I listened to and wrote about for a whole year, to the point of never wanting to hear any more music again. 
Some songs I listened to I loved, and some I hated. 
Some artists ended up getting praised to the skies and others received a bit of critical kicking. 
There’s memories of spending too many hours in record shops, prevaricating over the next big thing and surprising myself over tracks that I’d completely forgotten about. 
But with 40 years of listening to music, I realised that I’ll never get sick of it. 
I may have fallen out of love with some of the songs in this book, but I’ll never fall out of love with music.     

   

The Full List of all the Artists

So, I've been (re) tweeting a track a day in the order they appear in my book and just so they are
here on the blog as well as in the contents of the book, this is what will be coming up for the next year or so.

Like me, there must be some artists you love, some you don't love and some you've probably not heard of.

Or never want to hear again.

But that's the way it goes with nearly 10,000 tracks to shuffle through at random.

These are the artists in the order they shuffled up on my iPod, starting on January 1st and finishing on December 31st.

  

January
The Clash/ Half Man Half Biscuit/ Steinski /Carl Smith with the Carter Sisters & Mother Maybelle
Big Star/ The Upsettters / AC/DC /Buddy Holly/Wilco/Joy Division/High Rise
Bulgarian State Radio & Television Female Vocal Choir/Jackie Brenston
William & Versey Smith/Boards of Canada/Randy Newman/The Blue Nile/The Chords
Wire/Steely Dan/Mercury Rev/Sigur Ros/Massive Attack v Mad Professor
Steve Reich/TheSugarcubes/U2/A Sudden Sway/Laura Cantrell/Genesis
Mbuti Pygmies of the Iruti Rainforest/The Sisters of Mercy
February
Holy Fuck/ Swans/The Sundays/My Bloody Valentine/Ja-Man
Charles Wright & the 103rd Street Rhythm Band/Juana Molina/Sparklehorse/ The White Stripes
New Order/Dennis McGee & Ernest Fruge/Beethoven/ You.May.Die.In.The.Desert
Kate Bush/Cabaret Voltaire/Blind Lemon Jefferson/Bill Drummond/Gong
The Hold Steady/Marvin Gaye & Kim Weston/ Sunn O)))/Crass
Jelly Roll Morton/Grandmaster Flash/Led Zeppelin/Status Quo
March
Karen Cooper Complex/Spiritualized/Professor Longhair/Coldplay
Dee Clark/Prince/Teenage Jesus & The Jerks/Jeff Buckley
Young Marble Giants/Rovo/Lazy Lester/She & Him
Voodoo Ceremony in Haiti/Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers/The Woodentops
Tinariwen/Blind Blake/ Arctic Monkeys/Van Morrison/Burial/Boozoo Chavais/Teenage Fanclub
Mogwai/Nirvana/Girls/Skip James/The Lemonheads/Air Traffic Controllers
A Gril Called Eddy/ Aztec Camera/Goldfrapp
April
Evil Gazebo/ The Durutti Column/Cymbals Eat Guitars/Swell Maps/Warren Smith
The Go-Betweens/Fats Domino/Joanna Newsom/Dave Dudley/Fleetwood Mac/Lightnin Hopkins
Neil Young/Chin Up Chin Up/The Jesus Lizard/Mel & Tim/XTC/Faron Young/Electro Hippies
Rev. Gary Davies/ Robyn Hitchcock/Lee Perry/Fuck Buttons/Portastatic/The Jesus & Mary Chain
Blind Willie Davis/The Misunderstood/ The Art of Noise/The Feelies/Francoise Hardy
The Rolling Stones
May
Dracula’s Daughter/American Music Club/Godspeed You! Black Emperor/Echo & the Bunnymen
Link Davis/Television/This Mortal Coil/Elder Curry/Vampire Weekend/Scritti Politti/Battles
Immortal Technique/Pavement/Jad Fair/The Everly Brothers/Impact All Stars
Hambone Wille Newbern/The Zimmermen/Chic/Buzzcocks/Ellis Regina & Toots Theilman
The Silver/Lights In A Fat City/Althea & Donna/Phew!/Eddie & Ernie/Sly & The Family Stone/
The Parliaments/The Ruts/Muddy Waters
June
Captain Beefheart/Emmylou Harris/Jimmy Rodgers/Bob Dylan/Lush/Foetus Interruptus
Johnny Cash/Lattie Moore/Satan Alfa Beel Atem/Freddie Hall/The Ravens/Robert Parker
David Sylvian/The Stone Roses/Charlie Parker/SonnyBoy Williamson/Steve Earle/Tiny Bradshaw
Lonnie Johnson/Blind Alred Reed/Southside Johnny/The Showstoppers/L/Roy Orbison/The KLF
Tony Bennett/The Chantells/The Nightingales/Luciole
July
Some Chicken/The Meters/Kris Kristofferson/Rev A W Nix/The Flaming Lips/Big In Japan/Morphine
The Greenhornes/Ron Sexsmith/DoMaJe/Girls At Our Best! /The Masterdon Committee
Umm Kulthun/Alton Ellis & The Flames/James Brown/Brownsville Station/ The O’Jays
Jimmy Lewis/Tom Archia/Big Youth/The Smiths/The Fuckers/Nat King Cole/The 012/Group Doueh
Louis Prima/Jonsi & Alex/Carolina Buddies/Jerry Lee Lewis/Lori & The Chameleons/Dogie O’Dell
August
Frank Sinatra/Roy Head/Lara & the Trailers/King Solomon Hill/Central African Pygmies
The Beach Boys/The Pixies/ Billy Ward & His Dominos/Shep & The Limelites/The Adverts
Los Campesinos!/Elmore James/”Do you ever have a night when you don’t dream about The Fall?”
Aramic Wedding Chants/Camille/The Anemic Boyfriends/Trinity/Prefab Sprout/Bobby Marchan
The Grateful Dead/A Certain Ratio/The Beta Band/The Bell Rays/ DJ Food/
Booby Saffron & The Postal Bargains/Miles Davis/Anne Peebles/Marvin Rainwater
The Manavishnu Orchestra/Culture/Clannad
 
September
Gormenghast/Tammy Wynette/Wah! Heat/Mississipi John Hurt/The Henchman/Elvis Costello
The Velvetones/Mott the Hoople/ Armando/Walter “Kid” Smith /Junior Parker/Sandy Denny
The The/The Pilgrim Travellers/Muslimgauze/The Marvelettes/Elf Power/Ry Cooder
Johnny Burnette Trio/Big Amos/Johnnie Taylor/Ronny Jordan/Brahms/John Coltrane/ O V Wright
The Fall/George Jones/The Gang of Four/Pink Floyd/Mickey Lee Lewis
October
Young Fresh Fellows/ the passage/System Fucker/The Bays/Molton Rock/De La Soul/Muse
Popol Vuh/Schubert/Curtis Mayfield/Joe South/The Beat/Sleepy John Estes/Bruce Springsteen
I Roy/Soledad Brothers/Roshell Anderson/Louis Armstrong/The Nitecaps/The Clovers
Clarence Ashby/Emitt Rhodes/Black Uhuru/Gram Parsons/Chuck Willis/Johnny Fortune/
Blind Willie McTell/Dinosaur Jr./Charles Brown
November
Billie Holliday/Rocketship/Johnny Dove & the Magnolia Playboys/MGMT/Chrome/Blue Angel
Little Axe/The Delgados/Mahler/Novem/Siouxsie & The Banshees/Charlie Mingus/The Monkees
P J Harvey/Riley Puckett/Roger Miller/The Sonics/Louis Jordan/The Raincoats/Paul McCartney
Tampa Red & Georgia Tom/ The Upholsterers/Kristina Bruuk/Green Bailey/The Blue Orchids
Harry Pussy/Shostakovich/The National/Don Covay/K T Tunstall

December
Bill Monroe/Sonic Youth/Eltric Light Orchestra/Johnny Adams/The Cocteau Twins/Squeeze
The Latin Playboys/The Cherry Pies/Stevie Wonder/Toussaint McCall/Eva Cassidy
Howling Wolf/Crowded House/Stanley Winston/The Velvet Underground
Pat Metheny/Elbow/Alternative TV /Long Gone Miles/The Pernice Brothers/Paddy McAloon
Al Green/Talking Heads/Radiohead/AMM/Smokey Robinson & The Miracles/
Big Black/Joni Mitchell/Madonna/The Birthday Party/Honeyboy



"Totally Shuffled" is here as a Kindle book (bit of a massive tome; 600 or so pages)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00CJYZ3CA 
and here as a paperback (Part 1:The First Six Months)