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Mainly music, data, tech, football, and dogs. PhD Popular Music Studies. Recovering humanities academic now doing data/tech stuff, + a few music projects. Views my own. Chords generally nicked off The Bee Gees. See my work here: www.popmusicresearch.org
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The clue with Yurtel was always in the name: The ‘Yurt’ part triggers ancient ‘Never Trust A Hippie’ response mechanisms in the hypothalamus; Should that fail: the e-commerce suffix alerts the more recently developed ‘Never Trust a Tech Bro’ areas of the brain. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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My mind has been blown this morning by @paulmcgee.bsky.social, who informs me that the person behind the stone cold classic Flux Trax compilation was….Feargal Sharkey. I have dug out my beloved copy of Flux Trax.

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Everyone’s laughing at Ian Rush over his AI-generated musical, but it will have been Kenny Dalgliesh who typed in the prompt. Rush will have just hit the enter key.

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The staff at the Estadio de San Mames in Bilbao have done a brilliant job preparing for the Spurs v Manchester United Europa League final on Wednesday. The arena is looking magnificent.

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It will be interesting to see whether criticism of detentions holds firm once we reach the line “…and then they came for Bono”

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Great read. Terri Coverley’s useless ass being based on UK Arts sector lifers is 🤌 www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

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#avfc

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A stressful afternoon watching other teams, but Villa’s situation has marginally improved. Forest fail to beat Chelsea & Newcastle lose to Everton (or City lose one, draw one), and that 94th minute Bruno Fernandez penalty equaliser at OT next week won’t matter. #avfc

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Forest winning is an excellent result for Villa, and - as everyone knows - that’s the only thing that matters in football. Arsenal fans will be pleased to know that the next 90 minutes are for once all about them. #avfc

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Before voting begins, I would like to remind everyone that Germany is the largest net contributor to the EU budget 🤝☝️☝️

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If this was a Conor Oberst solo project you'd all be eating it up #eurovision

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Mott the Spaghetti Hoople

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Latvia have gone for clever, interesting and pretty good. Huge mistake. #eurovision

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"Mum can we have Nirvana?" "We have Nirvana at home in Lithuania" #eurovision

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A song so boring that even people on social media are temporarily unwilling to discuss Israel. #eurovision

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Spare a thought for Noel Gallagher, who faces seven more uncomfortable and disappointing afternoons at Wembley this summer.

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In a world first, millions of people know there has been some illegal handling by a football club employee - which has inexplicably gone unpunished by the authorities - and as a result Manchester City *don’t* win a trophy. #FACup #FaCupFinal #CPFC #MCFC #thefootball (Congrats to Crystal Palace!)

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I had some ‘quick errands’ to run today. Long story short: 10:30am to 16:15pm in the car on Birmingham’s Free Jazz roads, punctuated by dozy, waddling morons in shops, on pavements, etc. 🫥. What the fuck is wrong with people? I did however find a nice vinyl copy of Gene Clark’s Roadmaster.

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Last time at Vila Park this season. We’ve come good in the end, but damn those iffy draws earlier in the season. But, CL is alive going into the final game, so it ain’t over until the inevitable 94th minute Bruno Fernandez penalty next week. #avfc

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As a Brummie, I view this not as a manifestation of some ‘Greater Wales’, but rather “The Birmingham on Sea” transport network. All roads lead to Rome, and all that.

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I would pay very, very good money to see Nicholas Cage play Alan Partridge in a Sundance-bait movie reboot of series 2, the one in the Travel Tavern.

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A thread on The Many Achievements Of King Unai of Emery. And he’s just getting warmed up. #avfc

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Coming up from Arsenal fans: We drew with Liverpool but only had 10 players and they had 11 and so we are the real Champions.

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Villa needed multiple snookers last week, now - *if* we win our remaining games: Chelsea v Forest draw Or Chelsea fail to beat Man U Or Arsenal pick up only 1 point Or Newcastle pick only 2 Or City only 3 All of those things are possible, and only one has to happen, and we’re home and hosed. #avfc

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Lovely Leicester #avfc

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Manic Street Preachers announce a new LP. “Ceasefire Negotiations”, out in July.

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That was nervy AS FUCK but bloody hell we’re giving it a good old go. #avfc

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Come on the Villa boys. It’s shit or bust today 😬 #avfc

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Enjoying the spring sunshine with an old favourite playlist: Marvin Gaye's Clueless Ass.

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A hill I will gladly die on is that Paolo Nutini's Sunny Side Up is one of the great pop records of the modern era. open.spotify.com/album/6phMKM...

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I wonder if Howard Lutnick is aware that the US will receive a container ship full of deep fried potatoes if they order chips from the UK.

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