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July 28, 2026

A special Gulls Window Circus janglepop show in 2 parts featuring records from the Ontario label The Beautiful Music, the CD ‘Levitation-A South Wales Tribute To Jon Langford’, the Vinyl Japan expanded reissue of ‘All For Art And Art For All’, plus fitting tracks by John Otway, Loveletter, TV21, Eyeless In Gaza and The Serpents (includes many notables such as Will Sergeant of Echo & The Bunnymen).

Collage of CDs played on 26-07-28

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Artist Song Release Label
The Marble Staircase Dark Ages All For Art And Art For All Vinyl Japan
Television Personalities I Know Where Syd Barrett Lives All For Art And Art For All Vinyl Japan
The Yellow Melodies Manchester I Helped Edward Ball Escape! (Episodes 1 & 2) The Beautiful Music
Mike Gale Controversial Girlfriend I Helped Edward Ball Escape! (Episodes 1 & 2) The Beautiful Music
The Mixers Love Hurts All For Art And Art For All Vinyl Japan
Pretty Eyes For Captain America I Hate Ibiza I Helped Edward Ball Escape! (Episodes 1 & 2) The Beautiful Music
James Clarke Five Someone Out There Somewhere Parlour Sounds The Beautiful Music
John Otway With Attila The Stockbroker You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet Under The Covers And Over The Top Otway Records
Loveletter Sun Beethoven Chopin Kitchen Fraud Siesta
Guto Dafis Pill Sailor Levitation-A South Wales Tribute To Jon Langford Country Mile Records
MOG Death Of The European Levitation-A South Wales Tribute To Jon Langford Country Mile Records

Artist Song Release Label
Laughing Apple Wouldn’t You? All For Art And Art For All Vinyl Japan
The Answers If Now Is The Question I Helped Edward Ball Escape! (Episodes 1 & 2) The Beautiful Music
The Marble Staircase Still Dreaming All For Art And Art For All Vinyl Japan
1000 Mexicans The Art Of Love All For Art And Art For All Vinyl Japan
The Che Men Mill Hill Self Hate Club I Helped Edward Ball Escape! (Episodes 1 & 2) The Beautiful Music
Bartholomew Mellowglass Picture Gallery I Helped Edward Ball Escape! (Episodes 1 & 2) The Beautiful Music
Roy Moller Wild Goose Songs From Be My Baby The Beautiful Music
Woog Riots My Andy Warhol Poster I Helped Edward Ball Escape! (Episodes 1 & 2) The Beautiful Music
Give Me Memphis With Andrea Lewis Millionare Levitation-A South Wales Tribute To Jon Langford Country Mile Records
TV21 Shattered By It All Snakes And Ladders (Almost Complete: 1980-82) Rev-Ola
Tetley Big Painting I Helped Edward Ball Escape! (Episodes 1 & 2) The Beautiful Music
One String Loose Nashville Radio Levitation-A South Wales Tribute To Jon Langford Country Mile Records
The Sodamen Blink of an Eye Levitation-A South Wales Tribute To Jon Langford Country Mile Records
Eyeless In Gaza Year Dot Bitter Apples A-Scale Recordings
The Serpents Flowers In The Cellar You Have Just Been Poisoned By Ochre Records

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July 21, 2026

Expansive sounds – both rock and outside of rock – in this week’s Gulls Window Circus, from 2026 CD discover/re-evaluate project digging into the recesses of the past and recent past. Four big names [Robert Fripp, Khruangbin, Koop, and Shuggie Otis] sit amongst a host of lesser-known (though not based on their merit) artists. Even includes a timely Red Sox tribute by Slant 6 & The Jumpstarts.

Collage of CDs played on 26-07-21

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Artist Song Release Label
Aya Ishii Aida Electro Aya Ishii Sonic Plate
Robert Fripp Under Heavy Manners Good Evening, Hippies (Frippertronics, Collaborations And Rarities) Uncut
Paul Levinson Samantha Welcome Up: Songs Of Space And Time Old Bear Records
Khruangbin & Leon Bridges C-Side Texas Sun Dead Oceans
David Barnes Qe3 Terrain David Barnes
Deep Sleep Ops Diamond Cut Eyes Karakoram Electric Fur
Moonrise Nation Demo Day Glamour Child Zinc Records
Koop Baby Waltz For Koop Quango Records
Pollens Close Mister Manufacture Pollens
Professor Genius Kisses Professor Genius Tropical Computer System
Doug Bielmeier Hunters on the Moor Beast of Bodmin Moor Doug Bielmeier
The Blank Attack Seven The Blank Attack UNDOMUSIC
Super-Cannes Head Hunter III not on label
Michael Myrose Panic Attack The Return of M2 M2 Records
Snowden So Red No One In Control Serpents & Snakes
City Of Satellites Machine Is My Animal (Tim Manzano Remix) Remixed Hidden Shoal Recordings
The Megaphonic Thrift Talks Like A Weed King Decay Decoy Sonic Unyon
Dominic Margiotti Canaries The Pearly Gate Parade Custom Fit Records
Quiet Countries Lucky Boy The Ancient Motorcade The Imminent Music Company
Sweet Interference Monday Morning Recital The Falling In & Out Not On Label
Abby Bernstein If You’re Not That Into Me I’m Not Sorry Abby’s Road Music
Seth Swirsky Fading Again Watercolor Day Grimble Records
Slant 6 & The Jumpstarts At The Sox Slant 6 & The Jumpstarts not on label
Molly Sweeney Gold Rings And Fur Pelts Gold Rings And Fur Pelts Syren Songs
We Are Augustines Strange Days Chapel Song Backbeat Turnout
Shuggie Otis Inspiration Information It Must Be The Music Sony Music
Bajofondo Pide Piso It Must Be The Music Sony Music

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July 14, 2026

Leaving the confines of Rock at the door, this Gulls Window Circus rocks in an out-of-bounds non-rock way that sits astride genres such as dancehall, re-edits, experimental/electronic, jazz, funk/soul, electroclash and shoegaze. Every track was strongly vetted both on its own merits and as part of a cohesive set.

Collage of CDs played on 26-07-14

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Artist Song Release Label
Gary Clark Jr. Blak And Blu Blak And Blu Warner Bros. Records
Thoughts Define Character Expression Expression Thoughts Define Character
Shaggy Oh Carolina (Instrumental) Oh Carolina Virgin
Emika 3 Hours Emika Ninja Tune
Tipper Over The Coals MÜ: Myutopia Winter 2003 Sampler Myutopia Recordings
Alan Parsons Featuring Shpongle Antarctica MÜ: Myutopia Winter 2003 Sampler Myutopia Recordings
Disco Romancer 大丈夫か?マイフレンド(なんとなくクリスタルフィスト) Midnight Dancer Sonic Plate
Imagination Just An Illusion (Lindstrom Dub) Just An Illusion Juno Records
Ajello Acrostico Editainment Volume One Demo-Disc
Gui Boratto Beautiful Life Chromophobia Kompakt
Avi Adrian / Haim Mizrahi Acceptance Home Mizrahi and Adrian Productions
Blast Head Ship Your Cup I Sonic Plate
Bim Marx Harlem (TP Love)/Cant Leave You Bim Marx (Edits) Not On Label (Bim Marx)
Mozart’s Sister Lone Wolf Being Asthmatic Kitty Records
Kurt Swinghammer Seagull Vostok 6 Cultural Engineering
The Children of the Plague Atari Holocaustic Heartbreak Holocaust The Children of the Plague
If Not For Dreaming Three Weeks 5-Song Demo self-released
Dave Allison Hologram Hotel (John Fryer Room 64 Remix) Hologram Hotel Custom Made Music

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July 7, 2026

Gulls Window Circus visits a few compilations today [Obscure Independent Classics 1985-1987, Bent 100, Max’s Kansas City] and a bunch of uncovered tracks by unknowns [Telepathe, Idiot Glee, Jacob Thomas, Valentino Epidemic, Cigarbox Planetarium, Carissa Johnson And The Cure-Alls, Liquor Tricks, The Bynars] alongside well-knowns such as Freezepop, Franz Ferdinand, Black Lips, Talking Heads, The Adverts. Also late-period The Mission sounding different than expected, and GD drummer Mickey Hart solo.

Collage of the CDs played on 26-07-07

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Artist Song Release Label
Sensations’ Fix Barnhause Effect Music Is Painting In The Air (1974 – 1977) RVNG Intl.
Telepathe Throw Away This Throw Away This White Iris Records
Freezepop Less Talk, More Rokk The Rokk Suite The Archenemy Record Company
Idiot Glee F O E Paddywhack Moshi Moshi Records
Jacob Thomas What She Do Black, White & Red | Volume II E.P. Jacob Thomas
Valentino Epidemic Being Good Acting Bad Worldwide Cavalierious Music
Mickey Hart Sweet Sixteen The Best Of Mickey Hart – Over The Edge And Back Rykodisc
Cigarbox Planetarium At Sun Two Dogs Cigarbox Planetarium Oh!tonito
Carissa Johnson And The Cure-Alls One Day Talk Talk Talk Fuel Heart Productions
Franz Ferdinand Bullet Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action Domino
Black Lips Do The Vibrate Underneath The Rainbow VICE Music, Inc.
Liquor Tricks Down Comfort Curve Of The Earth
Harry Toledo Knots Max’s Kansas City ROIR USA
John Collins Band The Man In Me Max’s Kansas City ROIR USA
The Mission Just Another Pawn In Your Game The Brightest Light The End Records
Talking Heads Found A Job Live On Tour ’78 Rhino Records
Talking Heads Thank You For Sending Me An Angel Live On Tour ’78 Rhino Records
The Bynars Steal My Sunshine The Bynars The Bynars
Quad 90 Contort Yourself (Dub) Bent 100 Creeping Bent
Alan Vega & The Revolutionary Corps Of Teenage Jesus America Bent 100 Creeping Bent
Adventures In Stereo Nobody’s Scared Bent 100 Creeping Bent
Vic Godard Penny Drops Bent 100 Creeping Bent
The Adverts The Great British Mistake England’s Dreaming Trikont
The Mod Fun I Am With You Past …Forward Get Hip Recordings
Romans Birdbrain You Only Live Once Warning Label
The Cynics Abba Sixteen Flights Üp Get Hip Recordings
Algebra Suicide True Romance At The World’s Fair Obscure Independent Classics 1985-1987 Cordelia Records
Fire Hydrant Men Oh No Not Another Night In NATO Obscure Independent Classics 1985-1987 Cordelia Records
P16.D4 Strauchelnde Saulen A Go Go Obscure Independent Classics 1985-1987 Cordelia Records
The Disco Zombies Where Have Yo Been Lately Tony Hateley? Obscure Independent Classics 1985-1987 Cordelia Records