Off-topic Sunday. Not very Christmassy, but there's plenty of that elsewhere out there... I was listening to the internet radio station, WFMU Ichiban. It plays a mixture of '60s garage punk, rock and roll, early country (think Hank Williams and Wanda Jackson) and more (Brenda Lee, Sweet Nothin's is playing right now). Every now and then there's a presenter, but 99% of the time I tune in it's continuous music interspersed with the odd archive advert or radio ident from the 196

I first read Hunter S Thompson when I was 17, riding a Vespa PX125 (with a 180cc big bore) on learner plates around Leeds and beyond. I was introduced to his books by Matt Heslop, who ran a record shop in the back of a goth and alternative clothes shop on Call Lane in Leeds. The shop was pure goth, with a bit of Liquid Gold poppers thrown in, but the record shop sold garage punk, shoe gaze, hardcore punk, riot grrrl, grebo, goth and Nick Cave, then grunge when that came along

I can't believe I have never posted this before. This is one of my favourite garage tunes, and it's rare to find footage of these lesser known '60s bands playing the songs from those eras, especially not with go-go accompaniment. Liar, Liar was recorded by Minnesota band, The Castaways, in 1965. A local hit first, like many US pop songs back then, it grew to reach number 12 in the Billboard charts, and was a textbook one-hit wonders. This recording is from the B-movie, It's a

UPDATE - The original video above was taken down by YouTube, so I found another. The woman in the video above is actually Lady Bo, not the Duchess, but the post still stands. Off-topic Sunday. On a Sunday! There I was listening to one of Billy Childish's many bands' version of You Can't Judge A Book. I love the song, knew it was a Bo Diddley original and I'd heard Bo's version of it, but I had a really tight deadline to avoid, so I spent a while looking it up on YouTube (the