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Right, I’m off to the Osman Brothers’ derby (fka the Roy Hodgson derby). Thoughts and prayers

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Great music trivia question: which song has been a genuine one-hit wonder for two different bands? (ie number one hit and then no other top forty songs)

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Someone on Reddit just said that the new 6 Music Goth playlist should have been titled ‘I remember when it was all fields (of the Nephilim) round here’

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McCartney’s original demo for Step Inside Love. Gorgeous youtu.be/tO3vnIWDa3g

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Ditto

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Wow, the complete Troy Tate Smiths sessions here…

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I know it’s possibly the least controversial take of all time but Marquee Moon is really a perfect record, isn’t it? Just a glorious little world of its own.

submitted 29 days ago • 8 comments

So inventive and inspiring: Charles Yu’s Interior Chinatown is a really clever examination of Asian-American representation written as a screenplay. Much more fun than it sounds (and the associated TV show is very different but equally good)

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Three hours of Prince TV appearances…. youtu.be/zPs0O9nHxpE

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Recommended by my brother and just spectacularly good. So full of little human details bringing all the protagonists to life

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Truly odd book by a Japanese master. Nominally about a vast underground bunker in a converted quarry, it soon veers off into a comedy of manners full of scatalogical beetles, Benny-Hill-style arse-slapping and oversized toilets

submitted 49 days ago • 1 comment

Shampooed and blow-dried cow

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The intrigue of a Conan Doyle, the terror of a Poe and the wit of an Oscar Wilde, all wrapped up in a delicious Victorian detective drama: fantastic new @paraicodonnell.bsky.social coming in Feb

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New city for 2025. Olá Concepción festivalrec.cl

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Really looking forward to more AI-penned bios like this one of my brother on Heart Radio…

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Christmas book token haul…

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This is GORGEOUS. White Magic For Lovers’ Count the Rings. Pure Beach Boys harmonies. Thanks to @stuartmaconie.bsky.social for playing it this frosty morning youtu.be/qFOZmV0fH_A?...

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Really enjoyed Taichi Yamada’s Strangers, the book that the film All of us Strangers was based on. A neat, modern ghost story, and different enough from the film to keep you guessing

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The HBO Yacht Rock documentary is great. Lots of context, some talking heads with a genuine, non-ironic love of the music (Thundercat is wonderful in this), and tons of stories I’d never heard before. youtu.be/a55pyQsI3GQ?...

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The Royal Free by @rcshuker.bsky.social is strange and wonderful. The minutiae of office politics set against a riot-torn, feral London. Genuinely unsettling, with diamonds strewn among its concrete

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Need sound on.

submitted 85 days ago • 69 comments

Shibuya Crossing in 1953

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They’re selling off all the old London Overground signs that are outdated after the name changes www.ltmuseumshop.co.uk/vintage-shop...

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Can this be true? There are no bridges across the Amazon? www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsi...

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How did I not know that Motörhead covered Bowie’s Heroes? Brilliant, propulsive version. (Thanks to @quantick.bsky.social for posting it) youtu.be/J06yQb4lbPk?...

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Just announced, Suede will be performing at the Movistar Arena in Santiago on 13 March 2025. Tickets go on sale this Thursday 5 December at 12pm local time: puntoticket.com/suede - SuedeHQ

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To the guy in the airport lounge just now, surreptitiously pouring a couple of shots of vodka into an alcohol-free beer, before returning to his (screaming) family, empty bottle on display, I hope your day improves

submitted 88 days ago • 2 comments

One final Clockenflap pic…

submitted 89 days ago • 1 comment

Last show of a two-year album campaign and nowhere I’d rather be than Hong Kong. Best backdrop since Ally Pally and amazing crowd. See you all for album ten.

submitted 90 days ago • 12 comments

Peerless KitKat selection work from the fans at Hong Kong airport #riderwatch

submitted 91 days ago • 6 comments

Just trying something out…

submitted 93 days ago • 8 comments

Love The Moon’s a Balloon, love Backlisted, love Rupert Everett (his How To Fail with Elizabeth Day is a joy too)

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A list of terrible dad jokes told by Bob Dylan on stage www.flycertain.com/index20.htm

submitted 94 days ago • 7 comments

In studio. Have invented new genre: Boy-Band Goth. Current faves: East 17 Seconds, Boy Division and Take That Corrosion

submitted 95 days ago • 19 comments

Guess how they’re ordered…

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I had to research a lot of billionaires’ bunkers for the next novel and I toyed with the idea of doing a non-fiction thing too. I’m glad I didn’t because it would never have been as good as MarkO’Connell’s wise and worrying and darkly funny book

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Our BBC Radio 4 production of Samantha Harvey’s @thebookerprizes.bsky.social winning #Orbital is being repeated 1.45pm Mon-Fri & available as a boxset on BBC Sounds. Read by Anneika Rose, abridged by Sara Davies & produced by Mary Ward-Lowery & @mair.bsky.social #books www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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A five-hour super cut of Verlaine Marquee Moon solos? Yes please. (And if, weirdly, that doesn’t appeal, the first seven minutes - the original demo - are great, you can really hear the Velvets’ influence)

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Just discussing with Tariq Goddard how underrated that Psychedelic Furs comeback record was. And how good the songs that Richard Butler wrote for Depeche Mode are too. Would love to hear the Furs play this youtu.be/iIyrLRixMs8

submitted 96 days ago • 7 comments

There’s nothing quite like Mariana Enriquez’s short stories. Modern horror chock full of ancient terrors. Her best collection yet, I think

submitted 98 days ago • 2 comments

Really enjoyed this, on Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock. Basically a primer on how the American art market was created, and a great introduction to Krasner, whose work is beautiful www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/dea...

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