Nick Portnell

@nportnell.bsky.social

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England seemed to him to be nothing but horrors and misery now. The very shapes of the trees were like frozen screams.

Screenshot of my weather app showing a current temperature of 37°C in Reading.
Alice Cooper - Love it to Death (Warner Brothers 1971).
Various Artists - Choctaw Ridge (Ace Records 2021)
A very average photo of the eclipse.
Poly Styrene wearing an army helmet with what appear to be massive goggles wrapped around them.
A supposedly new track from the mostly deceased Pretty Things.
A McDonald's box with the words 'Big Arch WITH BACON' written on it. The kids are having this for tea because we are terrible parents.
Angel Olsen - My Woman (Jagjaguwar 2016).
Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Sauce
Cromarty. Off his gourd.
The Cramps - Off The Bone (Illegal Records 1983).
A bus shelter advert that is a mock-up of The Sun newspaper front page. It says 'IT'S A SCORCHER!' above a headline reading EVERYONE IS DEAD. There is a drawing of a skull next to two deckchairs on a beach.
Screenshot of a podcast called Intrigue: Lockerbie on the BBC Sounds app.
A handwritten sign stuck to the back windscreen of a car that reads 'WEDDING CAKE IN TRANSIT'.
Wendy & Bonnie - Genesis (originally released on Skye Records in 1968, this is the 2008 triple LP Sundazed reissue).
The same dog in four different shots getting his hair cut into a terrible bowl cut.
A Venus fly trap in a little pot on our kitchen windowsill.
Brigitte Fontaine - Est Folle (a gorgeous 2025 reissue by the always excellent @movedbysounds.bsky.social.
Moby Grape - Moby Grape (Columbia 1967). This is a reissue (the sleeve was slightly altered because Don Stevenson was giving the middle finger on the original).
T.Rex - Electric Warrior (Fly Records 1971).
Headz. A soundtrack of Experimental Beathead Jams (Mo' Wax 1994).
Woosh, order. Whoever has got it, I hope they choke on. I can't get to the shops needed fruit etc and had to phone Tesco as said delivered and it hasn't to me. So enjoy the fruit hope. It chokes you Scum.
Baby Nina in 2009.
Beautiful dark clouds dropping sweet sweet rain onto me and my garden.
Bill Oddie - Distinctly Oddie (Polydor 1967)
Mott The Hoople looking pretty daft to be honest.
A spooky out of focus shot of a young boy walking along a towpath with a low winter sun in the background.
Three police cars parked up near Jackson's Corner. The light is a really odd shade of red.
The Clean - Anthology (Merge Records 2003).
Marty Di Bergi asking Nigel Tufnell why he doesn't just make 10 louder.
Getchen Peters - The Songs of Mickey Newbury.
A defiant black cat casually sprawled out on a surface that he shouldn't be on.
Michel Polnareff - Polnareff's (AZ Discs 1971). This is a 1979 reissue on the same label.
The Pretty Things - Parachute (1970).
Bill Fay - Time of the Last Persecution (Deram 1971)
A terrible drawing of some people looking surprised having opened their front door.
Kenneth Cope in Carry On At Your Convenience (1971).
Fairport Convention - Heyday (Hannibal Records 1987).
Kevin Keegan in his Newcastle United days.
Eternal Journey - The Arrangements & Productions of Charles Stepney (BGP 2026)
Me and my boy 16 years ago.
Debut album. Fucking great hair.
Graham Chapman smoking a pipe and drinking possibly a whisky & soda.
A photo taken in 1963.
Anita Kerr & Rod McKuen - The Sea, The Earth, The Sky (Arco 1967).