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Author/editor/'cultural historian'/carer, S Wales, probably autistic: NEW BOOK!: Into the Groove, OUT NOW. Textcast archive: https://firstlastanything.co.uk/about/ (new eps on Sundays) Email: whenisbirths@yahoo.com ko-fi.com/firstlastanything
For the dozen or so of my 2.8k followers who are interested in club culture and dance music history and who may have missed this posting y/day evening here's something I wrote in the late 90s and early 00s. Read the rest of the thread if you have time too. "Between thought and expression."
A very happy publication day to @grindrod.bsky.social and a revelatory book about extraordinary people in ordinary places. I think it's his best yet.
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Bit of a long shot but does anyone have a scan of TV Times for the Southern region (or any neighbouring region) for 11th - 17th September 1975?
It seems very on brand that i should spend the morning tentativrly suggest great Britons who have neveŕ got near the back of a banknote. So here's a few starting with.....
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Woo...
A review into “over diagnosis” is not what the autistic and ADHD community needs from this government. Sign the petition to get the review scrapped and make the government focus on actual support. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...
Ruth Madoc's pop career, for so long ignored by mainstream podcasts, is covered in this month's all-new PantoSplaining
Linktr.ee/PantoSplaining
New picture. An owl. Sort of.
Good turnout at TransMission Live…
In 1989, Renault chose to advertise their new Renault 21 with this frankly incredible homage to Scarred for Life Year Zero programme The Prisoner. Enn Reitel stands in for Patrick McGoohan's voice at the end. They tried to get the man himself, and I can imagine how well that conversation went...
From this distance, looks like it might feature all the roads and railways as well.
Political rhetoric currently so often a cross between the worst stand-up you ever saw and some best man speeches.
‘The £5 will, in a twist, though, stay the same as well’ a spokesman said.
Design, size and colour of £10 note to change to design, size and colour of £5 ‘for a laugh’, say Bank of England
Churchill insurance dog on a banknote, press send.
Like they’d been listening to the Manics through a paper cup pressed against a wall.
Were they all NME, I knew one was.
Seen relatively few bad gigs but that was one. Not that I went to see them, as such, it was indie night (1991, so it was varied fare) and they interrupted it.
Good lord, I saw this lot as a student and I swear you could distantly hear dogs laughing.
Singing Boeuf Bourguignon to the tune of Since You Been Gone by Rainbow
I always want the Go West outro to last a bit longer than it does.
I'm sixty today, and weirdly I've never been happier. So my gift to YOU is my best work, with artwork by the amazing @happytoast.co.uk
It would make for a lovely present if you'd have a listen, ideal for driving, or some light dusting. xx
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The perfect version was the one on the CD single which was a combination of the single mix and the mad outro from the extended version. They played it one week on the R1 top 40.
God I love LRB. Resubscribed end of last year, so glad I did. Intimidatingly good writing, if you're a writer. Everyone else can just enjoy it.
I will never not be a bit startled when someone I’ve heard of but don’t know starts following.
I have to reason that people are some days just in a bad mood, because god knows, I can be at times.
Both interesting to read so that was the loss there.
Two blockings I regret from that Twitter. One, a film critic. Another, a veteran comedy writer who’d been following and everything, and the only thing I can think in both cases is that possibly I’d been a little irreverent about someone they knew personally.
I do love showbiz biogs when they reflect a bit at times and go, 'Hmm, you know what? I was wrong/misguided/stupid about that.' Doesn't really happen in this one.