Disco Diamonds

Gregg Diamond - what a disco talent. He died of gastrointestinal bleeding in 1999 at the young age of 49.

I spent the weekend dancing to songs like this through a heavy fog. Both tracks are off his 1978 album Starcruisin' which is temptingly affordable on discogs.

Gregg Diamond - This Side of Midnight

Gregg Diamond - Fancy Dancer

Lets get Physical

For those amongst you who don't fancy creatine how about a spot of aerobics? Help yourself out with Olivia NJ as channeled through Fil OK in the early noughties (from Peckham with Love...)

Fil OK vs. Olivia Newton John - Lets Get Physical

Or alternatively, something a little more exotic, lose weight and learn English at the same time with the Zuiikin girls.



Yamasuki were a French pop group who released a psychedelic-Japanese-themed-concept-album in 1971, complete with screaming Samuris, clattering woodblock percussion and a slightly atonal choir of Japanese children. Ideal background music for an aerobics class, or a death cult. 

Yamasuki - Yamasuki

HATE MUSCLE

Nitzer Ebb - Join in the Chant

LOVE MUSCLE

Remember boys and girls, it's never too late in the summer to start taking creatine. Say goodbye to rainy June and July....say Hello to Hot August with a Hot Body.



Vanessa - Upside Down

Underwater Moonlight

My favourite bit of Glastonbury this year was seeing Robyn Hitchcock and his Invisible Band playing on the Spirit of 71 stage to a near invisible audience of 40-odd hippies and me through a fog of marijuana. He did a costume change halfway through, and came back wearing an almost identical shirt but with a slightly larger polka dot. I think he was trying to mess with our heads. He played lots of songs off Underwater Moonlight, love songs - like these.


The Soft Boys - Insanely Jealous

The Soft Boys - Tonight