Chris Coleman
@chrisseventeen
Husband | Grandfather | Dog Walker Music | Books | Coventry City FC #MDANT | #PUSB
When people wonder how Daleks get upstairs, do not forget how difficult they find it to navigate tactile paving at pedestrian crossings. Smith Street, Warwick a few minutes ago.
Nikki Sudden. Taken on the stairs of the Palm House at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London in the summer of 1986. Today, 19th July 2026, would have been Nikki’s 70th birthday.
Always good to come across a Bill Forsyth/Bill Allerton (Plastic Passion/Minus Zero/Stand Out Records www.eccentricsleevenotes.com/minus-zero-s...) related anecdote. This from the latest @mojomagazine.bsky.social 13th Floor Elevators piece. #TheTwoBills
A fanzine I published just over 45 years ago, signed by the 4 members of a then up and coming boy band…..partially defaced by one of them.
Summer morning stroll with the hound, at Hatton Locks, just outside Warwick. Pretty much as English as it comes. And very lovely it is.
Just arrived, from the mightily munificent wallytbm.bsky.social #NowThatsWhatICallACarePackage! Thanks Wally. You just gotta support this man’s undying support of independent Pop music. thebeautifulmusic.com
No #GlastonburyFestival this year of course but here, from my sister Lys, is some trader information for 1990’s the 20th Anniversary Festival. “We are still allergic to telephone calls especially at the Farm” 😀
Today marks 20 years since Nikki Sudden died in New York. To remember him I wrote something which ended up being mostly about his parents Trevor and Lois. open.substack.com/pub/chrissev...
I’ll confess to a personal bias as #DaveTwist has been, for over 40 years, largely responsible for the design and graphics on most #SeventeenRecords releases (#TVEye, #TheHawks, #TheLastBanditsInTheWorld et al) but DO NOT MISS OUT on this fabulous book. easyaction.co.uk/product/glit...
I’m at a stage in life where, though the memories are fond it kind of frightens me as to how long ago they happened. 34 years ago - just over half my lifetime - I saw the Manic Street Preachers play in Birmingham. (Black eye-liner may have been applied) youtu.be/3DzjQ1qG00Y
Should anyone ask about my musical journey I tend to say it started with glam rock. But that’s not strictly true. 1972, 11 years old and I heard #BuddyHolly for the first time. Soon after I owned this very cassette. Not, for me at least, the day the music died.
Hard to believe it’s 10 years since we lost Ohio musician Kevin Junior. If you admire his work with The Chamber Strings and with Epic Soundtracks as much as I do, I’m sure his family would love to see you leave a message. www.legacy.com/us/obituarie...
My dad, who died in July 2024, would have been 91 today. Here he is, in 1949, preparing supper at scout camp. Fair to say my two younger sisters Sue and Lys, my younger brother Nik and I all miss him like billy-o* (* “billy-o” - adverb UK old-fashioned informal)
Away for a couple of days over Christmas so we paid a slightly early visit to Warwick Cemetery to lay a wreath in memory of brothers Nikki Sudden and Epic Soundtracks, as well as their parents Lois and Trevor. #ChristmasMorning #TheLastBandits #SwellMaps
Flicking through the pages of the end of year edition of Mojo in a nearby newsagent, I glanced at the best reissues of 2025. One thing I’m sure of is that Swell Maps’ Epic Soundtracks would be pleased to see his band in the same list as Laura Nyro.
For a couple of years in the early 1980’s I produced a fanzine called Stringent Measures. I decided to “design” some stickers to promote it. They were simpler times for sure, the early 1980’s.
For my late father, modern music ended in 1962 with Acker Bilk’s “Stranger On The Shore”. Never downloaded any music in his life. Yet looking at his iPad I found this - and only this. Reminded me of Apple’s controversial 2014 decision to send the new U2 album to ALL customers.
Thanks Graham. We allowed ourselves to be talked out of what we thought would probably have been a more “appropriate” (commercial) cover though….
Nope, early planning stages apparently. Only heard about it from the journalist a couple of weeks ago. I also sent him the sleeve notes from our Cogs Of Tyme album which touch on those early days.
Daniel Kitson tonight at The Rep in Birmingham for a reading of his “Maybe A Ghost Story”. Sublime yet hilarious.
Never met Bob - tho’ I think he was playing drums the one time I saw Steve Gibbons way back when - but I’m sure Stephen’s reading of the man is spot on. Without him - and SD’s careful curation of cassettes of the songs Bob recorded - we wouldn’t have had “Obviously 5 Believers” by The Hawks.
I’m a big fan of #UglyThings magazine but IMHO nobody did that kind of thing better than (the late) Billy Miller and Miriam Linna at #Kicks magazine. Hanging onto the hope that the long-awaited issue #8 hits the streets before too much longer.
The jeopardy of sitting beneath a horse chestnut tree, watching conkers fall within feet of you, knowing it could be you next….
Clearly a (fellow) fan of Alex Chilton and Chris Bell’s band setting today’s #Connections quiz!!