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Musician (Swimmers Jackson) Studio Floor Manager/Sound Event MC/Speaker Unrequited waver Bookings: niallcjackson@gmail.com

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Really great to get back playing live with the band again last night. Next one is in the cellar bar of Hopscotch on April 10th. Limited tickets available soon.

01.03.2026 12:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
β€œThe purpose behind the release of herbicide on the villages remains unclear.”

β€œThe purpose behind the release of herbicide on the villages remains unclear.”

Israel has been dumping herbicides throughout southern Lebanon as part of a concerted ecocide campaign to render the region uninhabitable. This has been going on for months with Lebanese journalists & environmentalists regularly reporting on it.

The BBC: we don’t know why the Israelis are doing it

22.02.2026 08:37 β€” πŸ‘ 4112    πŸ” 2031    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 90

Hurghada

20.02.2026 09:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Packing for Egypt listening to The Bangles 'Walk Like An Egyptian' on repeat while dancing around the room with the good wife. Too on the nose?

Gerrup outta dat! It's perfect. πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡¬

19.02.2026 21:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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My Funny Vailintíns 🌹

14.02.2026 14:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ever.

12.02.2026 20:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Christ why did I very show my mother how voice notes work?

I text, she talks.

It's twice the guilt too 'cos half my pals would give anything to hear their mam say "OKAYYYYYY" even once more, as opposed to me stopping everything I'm doing 25 times a day to hear it.

12.02.2026 20:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Pop fact. The girl who sings "Gimme Gimme" in the worst Weezer song of all time (Beverly Hills) , is married to the current bassist in Maroon 5.

That was released with an even worse video yet the side project of the late Greg Brown (Cake) with Rivers Cuomo and Matt Sharp remains unheard.

09.02.2026 13:02 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I was desperately trying to get to London show on Thursday. Work conspired against me.

08.02.2026 23:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Do people discuss new Irish music anywhere on BlueSky?

08.02.2026 19:26 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Who the fuck is gonna tell Keif what to think now? #McSweeney

08.02.2026 14:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The final album mixes are back. The week where you can unapologetically listen to your own music and dare I say, enjoy it..before releasing it to the world and never hearing it again.

Live rehearsal in The Sparrowhawk I Crystal Palace on Saturday 28th February. Free Entry!

02.02.2026 11:07 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Video killed the radio star until radio started to visualise podcasts, killing what made all 3 formats special in one foul swoop. ©️

30.01.2026 15:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I've had two days off work in a row with my boy in nursery. Genuinely didn't know what to do with myself for those hours.

Day 1: List need to Vol I of the Neil Young Archives (1967 - 1976) for 7 hours 52 minutes.

Day 2: Watched every single Weezer music video.

Fantastic!

29.01.2026 22:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Pointed at a dog and said "BIG DOG" while smiling before remembering I'd just dropped my son off at nursery.

28.01.2026 09:56 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Two upcoming full band London gigs. Both in Crystal Palace. Slight date change for the second one.

Sat 28th Feb: The Sparrowhawk FREE
Fri 10th April: Hopscotch Bar
Β£10

Come along, help us dust the rust off ahead of Album 3 #LondonGigs #CrystalPalace

26.01.2026 21:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Two upcoming full band London gigs. Both in Crystal Palace

Sat 28th Feb: The Sparrowhawk FREE
Fri 20th March: Hopscotch
Β£10

Come along, help us dust the rust off. #LondonGigs #CrystalPalace

21.01.2026 12:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The lady is not for turning, Marc. I'm with you though. Gets chilly I'm humming Autumn Sweater, if I cry my brain sings Tears Are In Your Eyes, if I'm happy same brain sings the "ba-bap-bah-bah-baaah" part of You Can Have It All.

But the real question is, who are the band YOU should love but don't?

20.01.2026 09:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Yo La Tengo don't have to be your favourite band but they are always there with a solid album of loveliness. As much as I love Pavement I get that one a little more. As for me, The Who & Pink Floyd never did anything for me but I should also LOVE Guided By Voices and don't. Think I just missed 'em

19.01.2026 21:48 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

RΓ³nΓ‘n!!! I thought I knew you

19.01.2026 21:40 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Blair and Rubio among names on Gaza 'Board of Peace' The former UK prime minister and US secretary of state will sit on the

No Women, No Palestinians and No Muslims on this β€œGaza Board of Peace,” deciding the fate of Palestinian Gazans. Exploitative Western Colonialism still going strong in the 21st Century.

Blair, Kushner and Rubio among names on Gaza 'Board of Peace' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

17.01.2026 13:43 β€” πŸ‘ 43    πŸ” 29    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1
Bouts - Allies
YouTube video by boutsmusic Bouts - Allies

This song was playlisted by TXFM (formerly PhantomFM) just as I left Ireland and the band kind of spread our wings away from the joyful slog of being in an independent band.
The video by Eoin Heaney is so good and I think the track holds up really well 10 years later
www.youtube.com/watch?v=znRv...

17.01.2026 10:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

2016 was the year of Brexit and Trump, so I'm not so sure what we're supposed to be so misty eyed about. A decade since we lost the fucking plot?

16.01.2026 22:24 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The UK has declined a new Elbit Systems contract, leading Palestine Action prisoners to end the hunger strike that had three of them on the brink of death. The Tesco worker suspended for refusing to handle Israeli goods has been reinstated and will no longer have to handle them. We can and will win

15.01.2026 07:43 β€” πŸ‘ 555    πŸ” 211    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 4

I think @deanvannguyen.bsky.social writes for them occasionally. Maybe he can help. Great news on the AI ban.

14.01.2026 18:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

YES! @bandcamp.com YES!

14.01.2026 15:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The mixes are slowly coming in for album 3 and so too is every good speaker of every description I have, out in the house. 4 tracks back so far, easily the most exciting part of the process. JG is a genius. #Album3

14.01.2026 00:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Young V&A - The Children's Museum. Free Entry ❀️ #London

12.01.2026 23:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Imprisoned hunger striker linked to Palestine Action tells friend: β€˜I’m dying’ Francesca Nadin visited Heba Muraisi, 31, in a Wakefield prison at the weekend and says β€˜her body is shutting down’

The government sits and watches as Heba dies. It's heartbreaking, horrible, almost impossible to compute. Didn't people vote in the hope (however forlorn) of ending the Tories' psychopathic mode of government? Yet on it goes, under Keir Starmer. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

12.01.2026 17:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1087    πŸ” 550    πŸ’¬ 60    πŸ“Œ 30
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Amazingly, Zahawi only got round to deleting the below after the press conference announcing his defection to Reform.

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