Another toon for the dark season, Hammer Horror by the one and only Kate Bush. https://youtu.be/XR4KnfcgLm0?si=gpyLctfBjD5WkxMv Do you like...

As All Hallows Eve looms ever closer and Monster Base's house band is raising hell in New Jersey, I thought I'd play a few creepy tr...

Introducing the latest member of Monster Base House Band! I couldn't find a scale drum kit, so Creech is going to keep the beat with his...

Recently I saw a big doll on a stall. Clearly from the Sixties or Seventies, the unusual feature was the key at the back. It was musical and...

Discussing droids among us earlier in the month I recalled some songs about futuristic machines. The earliest I remember is the fabulous Mem...

 Awaiting for Evri to arrive and collect my daughter's Sindy sales, I'm currently listening to an old fave LP, Band on the Run, by W...

It was today in 1970 that heavy metal was born with the release of Sabbath's eponymous album. No-one can argue with this. What can be pi...

I found this music video on You Tube, an instrumental, by a group called The Ghastly Ones (there was a movie called The Ghastly Ones, direct...

This year's resolution is doctor's orders. Get fitter! So with that in mind the Missus and me headed to picturesque Hebden Bridge in...

  This is a picture of the Rosedale electronic organ just like the one I had as a kid. I adored this thing and couldn't get enough of it...

I watched A-Ha's old 1984  Take on Me video today. Its one of Moonbase Junior's fave songs. I couldn't help noticing how the fin...

 The Moonbase Missus and me have just got back from an overnight stay in our new fave town, Barton Upon Humber in North Lincolnshire. An hou...

After the glory of our childhood toys came the fizz and gleam of modern music. It did for me and I guess for many as the crazes of infancy g...

Hi                 Just found this on You Tube (no, I was not looking for it), a Top of the Pops appearance by the British group Lieut...

A complete aside from all things toys as is my occasional want here are some recent observations of the musical persuasion. Thick as a Brick...

Hi, Here is a most unusual little 'model', which I picked up second-hand a few years ago in a model shop.  It is a wooden replica of...

I'm a sucker for a beautiful wail. Currently my two favourite wails, both female, are, one a rock song and two, a single based on a sci-...

Hi Woodsy thought this might be of interest. There's numerous scientific papers written about the cross colonisation of culture. This vi...

I picked this LP up in a charidee shop whilst on my hols, one I'd not seen before: Pops in Space. Its by John Williams and the Boston Po...

Having always been a nerd I have always been interested in sub-divisions of things: plants, animals, books, films, toys and music to name a ...