02/10/16 - A combination of two posts from the same event: ]Duncan saves the day and plays a blinder and [i]Early season's greetings, I think[/i]. Two pics from the BYO vinyl do at the Kings Head in Adelaide. If I recall, one of the needles broke and Duncan had to run home and fetch his before playing his set of Northern Soul. The picture of Charlotte and Mark shows what a boozy affair this was. There were also two short videos of me and Charlotte playing tunes, but I can neither work out how to download from Insta or find the originals at this stage,
02/10/2016 - I suppose I can give no higher praise to these dumplings than to say I can still remember eating them. We'd popped into Star Dumplings in Adelaide's China Town on our way to the pub.
02/10/16 - Op shop dig from yesterday. Interesting version of In The Year 2525. #cratedigging👌👌
I used to take chances on op-shop records like this, until experience taught me that it's rarely worth it and I might as well save my money. I rarely even look at op shop records any more.
Nothing much funky at all about this LP and I reckon I'm having to dig deep (no pun intended) to say something positive about it at the time. Suffice to say, it's not been out of its sleeve since this picture was taken.
Another pic posted to Insta on 02/10/16. A bit of new-app energy, I suppose. This time a rather delightful close-up of beans on toast. What's not to like about that? I like this picture very much.
02/10/16 - The first IG post I ever made was a shot of some Cumbia 7" singles. ('Fat stack of cumbia ready to be spun this afternoon #disocfuenteslabel')
I was planning to spin them at a local BYO vinyl afternoon session. I'd bought a handful of singles from someone in Venezuela (I think), and they were all fantastic.
I'd got into Cumbia in the eighties, when I'd been walking through Camden Market and heard the tune off the coffee advert (La Colegiala), and picked up a Discos Fuentes compilation tape as a result.
Years later, on the radio show, we used to play a lot of the electronic stuff, including that made by Melbourne's Cumbia Cosmonauts and we had a fantastic afternoon at one of their parties once. Never really understood why Cumbia doesn't have the reach of, say, Ska, in the anglosphere - not being sung in English, I suppose.
