Off-Topic Sunday. The SFO Museum, in San Francisco's International airport (SFO is the airport's code) has a temporary exhibition focussing on surf music through the ages. One exhibit caught my eye, the double-necked guitar and bass drum skin from San Francisco band The Phantom Surfers. They were part of the Estrus, Mummies, Budget Rock universe of the late-80s, early-90s I loved so much. I saw them play London, when travelling from Leeds to London for a gig was still quite a

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

Off-topic Sunday! Dave Taylor, regular Sideburn event DJ, Eastern Bloc vehicle enthusiast and sometime burlesque patron sent me a a video today with the accompanying line, 'Have a bit of that...' The video was of go-go dancers backed by a '60s band. The song was Linda by The Starfires. Such was the skills on view it took me a minute or so to realise the band weren't playing the song that was coming out of the laptop speakers. I looked through the inane comments below, then f