Andy Lewis

Play the B side. It's one of the greatest things they ever did. Why Can't I Touch It, it's called. youtu.be/ed1704QRKh4?...

Blimey. They've all bought some equipment for the show. That Rickenbacker bass looks like it's still got the price tag on it.

The demo version of Daughter Of The Sun- piano, bass & drums- is the best record Julie Driscoll never made.

I believe they will come second in a lot of places, including where they already have MPs.

Oh yeah, maybe that too!

Reform are like the USS Gerald Ford. Look more impressive than they actually are. Full of shit. A busted flush. Depending on a lot of things going right to make any headway. Carrying a lot of people who’d jump ship at the first opportunity. Commanded by has beens.

- Anyway, it’s job done for Reform really. They blame their loss on something other than being less popular than they think they are, and start proposing outrageous policies that have idiots and racists going yeahhhhgh. Meanwhile the press lap it all up.

- My timeline is full of the news that Reform are going to restrict the vote to British citizens if they form a government. Well, I’m going to restrict Shirley Bassey to only singing Yes and Jezahel if I get to be her musical director, which is about as likely. -

Again for those at the back, Reform’s job in that latest by-election wasn’t to win. They’d no chance. I knew this as soon as they chose that Matt Goodwin as the candidate. No, their job was to lose, and blame their loss on things that keep the hate pot boiling. Which is what’s happened. -

YouTube video by Beatshakerclub Jigsaw - seven fishes

A propos of the last repost, I've now got this on my mind. I've got it on their album Leatherslade Farm which is hard enough to get hold of, but have never seen the 7". youtu.be/vXIcgE1gdtY?...

🎵You’ve blown it all Sky High
By selling me a pie🎵

Absolute genius Jigsaw reference.
As an aside, they're a band that crashed every scene going between 1966 and the early 80s. Sky High is only a small part of it. For what it's worth, they actually did a track called Seven Fishes*. Maybe there's a Seven Fishes chippy somewhere.
(*it's amazing)

YouTube video by Twee Lovers Club Tynal Tywyll - '73 Heb Flares

Happy St. David's Day! youtu.be/0z8VfymHwH4?...

I bloody hope not.

Mark R was so close to being on the receiving end of a forcefully thrown bread roll at some awards do we were both at. The only reason it never made contact is that I was discreetly asked to put it down. I always regret complying with the request. I've never liked the fame-hungry pillock.

I first learned about 15 minute cities (or something very similar) doing geography a level in the 1980s, and it was a positive thing! How this has become a reframed as an assault on personal freedom and liberty would make a fascinating case study for such a course.

- They should be love-bombing places that feel marginalised and ignored, not hate-bombing minorities and immigrants. Again.

- The UK government and the Labour Party should get the fuck off Twitter/X and stop worrying about people who will hate them anyway if they're serious about staying in office. They are already pursuing policies that Green voters will approve of, that can benefit everyone. -

-can reap the benefits of every day. Did you know that the UK is the world's leader in offshore wind generation? Every day, you and I will be using electricity that's almost entirely been made that way. Stuff like this ought to be on the lips of every government minister. But it ain't. -

- The only positive I can gather from recent news is that Reform got stiffed in that recent by-election. The Green Party might not be to everyone's taste, but they're a good deal more palatable than the nihilistic hate-fest on offer from Reform. And "Green" politics is something that most of us-

-of our own media literacy deficiency for at least the last ten years.

Meanwhile, the grifting pot-stirrers and the techbros are the only people who seem to be getting richer. And you wonder why people are looking for more radical solutions than are presented by old politics and old politicians.-

- And here we all are, dissecting the news about a completely avoidable series of military strikes in the Middle East brought about in part because a cohort of American voters have been unable to distinguish between actual facts and the prattling of mad people, having lived with the consequences-

- Of course, some people would think up a conspiracy theory to cover that, if it happened. "That's what they want you to think!" etc. It's utterly hideous how the the promise of the Information Revolution has been, to coin a phrase, murdered by the hand of the inevitable.-

A random chat with a neighbour turned into them ranting about "Fifteen Minute Cities" based on a YouTube video they'd watched and anecdotal advice about their daughter getting a traffic fine for driving in a bus lane in Oxford. There needs to be a crash course in media literacy for everyone.-

Musicland Records in Watford (iirc) was on the site of what became the "bottom" Our Price store (as opposed to the "top" one up by the Pond).

If you like The Time Goes By by Funkapolitan, the new Night Trains release, out in a week or so, will be right up your street.

God, and other 1980s album titles Friends of Hell and the Mona Lisa’s Sister – ALWYN TURNER’s favourite album titles of the 1980s.

From Let It Bee to Filth Hounds of Hades, the eighty best/worst British album titles of the 1980s.
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Eddie Piller from Acid Jazz records! He probably bought that shirt with money I made him. No, on second thoughts, I never made him that much money.

YouTube video by Neil Sedaka - Topic Cardboard California

Now THIS is a song. Bravo, Mr Sedaka. Thank you for everything youtu.be/W0jolmovwDU?...

A LIME! A LIME!