Back from the last hour or so of the Access festival.
It was a bit crap.

best part was the wonderful "Faceometer"who is a talented and funny singer/songwriter.
Mirfee was there, which gave a fine opportunity to exchange some music.
I now have six more albums to find time to listen to, four of which are by artists I have never heard before:

Artificial Perfect - Ade Fenton
Everything - Tones on tail (Daniel Ash - ex Bauhaus)
(and such a crap name for a band...)
Lord of the Rings - Bo Hansson
(cheesy neoprog? Not sure...I've wanted to listen to this for ages. Widely regarded as a genius of his genre, this 1972 album is supposed to be the best of all the book-inspired albums. Fog on the Barrow-Downs is certainly a moody track...)
Various - Tonto's Expanding Head Band
Comes from the same psychedelic/pre-electro seed as other stuff i really like. Or is it just weird hippy shit. Written by the legend that is Malcolm Cecil though, so worthy of a little more respect

The other artists that I know already of are Amon Duul II Made In Germany and the weird and wonderful Foetus Love whose work I have long admired from a safe distance.

I hereby categorically refuse to get into 'prog'.

And then tonight, by way of a contrast, Kink's partner Dan has just dropped in with a 'unmastered' (???) copy of the first album by his band device called Obstacles and Playgrounds

It was weird having them just pop round for dinner tonight.
Choosing (again) to cam in the Forest rather than stay with us overnight.
there are increasing more times nowadays that I begin to feel like someone's dad