Penny Kiley

YouTube video by kpartride Partridge Family - "Breaking Up Is Hard To Do" NEW

OK, this was probably the first time I heard a Neil Sedaka song. Sedaka was an excellent songwriter, but Cassidy was cuter! youtu.be/Q5fPDYPk8YE?...

Books: Enshittification by Cory Doctorow, This Ain’t Rock’n’Roll by Daniel Rachel, Seascraper by Benjamin Wood, Everything We Do Is Music by Elizabeth Alker

Book: The Nine by Gwen Strauss

Books read in February. I'm trying to read all the books on the Penderyn Music Book Prize longlist. Front runner so far (apart from Budgie's) is Everything We Do is Music by Elizabeth Alker. I learnt new things and it made me want to listen to the music she was describing.

I hope so! And thank you.

Eric’s, Liverpool, 1977 A sneak preview of my memoir

Want a sneak preview of my memoir Atypical Girl (out next week)? There's one on my latest Substack. This is the pic they used for the book cover - me aged 20. I think that T-shirt is still in the loft.
pennykiley.substack.com/p/erics-live...

Gorton and Denton byelection: Polanski says Greens best party to defeat Reform after Hannah Spencer wins – UK politics live Reform UK finished second and Labour is pushed into third place in bad news for PM Keir Starmer

"This is Manchester. We do things differently here." Nice to see a line penned by @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social in the new Manchester MP's speech. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

OK. Couldn't resist.

Lovely review by Julianne Regan.

ATYPICAL GIRL BOOK LAUNCH WITH PENNY KILEY Punk Rock, Liverpool & Trying To Be Normal. In conversation with Andrew Harrison.

In two weeks:Tuesday 10 March

We welcome @pennykiley.bsky.social to Walthamstow talking punk rock, Liverpool, writing, autism and more with @nndroid.bsky.social
Tickets www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1982185303...

Spent the last few days reading @pennykiley.bsky.social's memoir Atypical Girl. It's about punk, post-punk & Liverpool. But its also about quietness, grief & a sense of frustration (sometimes turned inwards). I liked it a lot

Thank you for that very thoughtful response.

Did you read the interview in the Guardian mag recently? He is way more scary than F*rage.

The government's SEND reform plan: good intentions, progressive instincts – and a terrifying loss of rights The eventual scything-down of Education, Health and Care Plans threatens to leave families stranded

And if you want even more on the SEND reform plan, here's a piece on my (free!) Substack maybeimamazed.substack.com/p/the-govern...

Image shows front cover of Atypical Girl by Penny Kiley, her forthcoming memoir. Photo of Penny in black t shirt against wall with Jonathan Richman poster

Penny Kiley’s Atypical Girl is a brilliant memoir about punk, Eric’s and the search for identity.
I’ll be in conversation with Penny at the British Music Experience
Liverpool, 5 March.
DJ set from Eric’s DJ Norman Killon. @pennykiley.bsky.social Details:
www.britishmusicexperience.com/pennykiley

"You would really have thought the creative sector would always have a space for creative people and ingenuity."

“Ornithological taxonomy is second nature to us birders, so it’s easy to forget that the average person probably only knows the scientific names of a handful of garden birds.” “And gulls, of course.” “Of course.” Even when they’re trying to compensate for it, experts in anything wildly overestimate the average person’s familiarity with their field.

This is fun. Generate your own xkcd2501.

marshdeer.github.io/xkcd2501-gen...

Today's Nice Thing

As soon as I saw that on Channel 4 News last night, I said: that'll be on all the front pages tomorrow.

Photo shows two copies of Ghost Town book, hardback and paperback. The cover is a black and white photograph of two small children in a doorway in the early 1900’s. The children are my grandmother Dorothy and her brother Tom

Today is Ghost Town’s 6th birthday. The children on the cover are my grandmother Dorothy and her brother Tom in the early 1900’s. This book changed my life as did my wonderful publisher @littletollerbooks.bsky.social
More about the book here:

www.littletoller.co.uk/shop/books/l...

YouTube video by BusterPoindexterVEVO David Johansen - Melody (1979 Version)

Sounds like a cue for a song. youtu.be/wu9Wo9scliE?...

Today's Nice Thing. But not just nice - important.

The UK appears to be sinking under the weight of schadenfreude today.

Buy the thing I’m being paid to tell you to buy, says discredited toff.

The question is why @theguardian.com thought a sales pitch was news.

And this is news why?

It's great to see my book starting to appear in the wild. A cat is always a bonus, too.

You're right! But it's aged better than a lot of stuff from that time.

Thank you. And sorry!

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I've just done my first podcast. This is definitely the year of going outside my comfort zone.

It's hilarious that YouTube showed me an advert for pensions before this video. I remember seeing Ash when they were touring with this single and still doing their A levels. They seemed so young, and I felt so old. Still a cracking record though.

Wow! It's not even out for two weeks.