Kieron Moyles

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Forty years ago today, The Pogues’ second album Rum Sodomy & The Lash was released on Stiff Records. Their commercial heights were to come, but this record produced by Elvis Costello, bottled the band’s trademark energy and rebellious spirit better than any.

#ThePogues #vinyl #album

Danny Kelly’s review of this record and championing of The Pogues changed my life.

I am London Irish and this was the first record me and my old man saw eye to eye on.

After that I realised he’d been right all along.

@dannykellywords.bsky.social

A faded snap of the Pogues rhythm section playing live - they are wearing fancy dress sailors outfits - the Bassplayer is smoking and the drummer is laughing - there may be alcohol involved

Rum, Sodomy, and The Lash was released 40 years ago today! I’m very proud to say it’s one of Tom Waits’ favourite albums 💚 The launch party was on the HMS Belfast, in this pic I’ve no idea how I managed to keep the ash from falling but I hope I won the bet! 🏴‍☠️💚 #music #punk #happybirthday

@rockyo.bsky.social sorry, I’d not realised you were here!
Thank you. Always.

40 years ago today, The Pogues released their second studio album “Rum, Sodomy And The Lash” featuring “A Pair of Brown Eyes" “Sally MacLennane" and “Dirty Old Town"

Credits for the album Rum, Sodomy & The Lash. Including a credit for myself for “wordspreadery”! 🤭

Cait O’Riordan, Shane MacGowan, Jen Finer & Andrew Ranken from The Pogues enjoying a drink in The Devonshire pub, Camden.

Framed UK tour poster of The Pogues. December 1986

40 years ago #ThePogues #RumSodomyAndTheLash was released.
Their 2nd album, my first. It changed my life & set alight my love of music.

Who knows which seminary or cemetery 🪦 I would’ve ended up in by now!

Thank you all @jamesfearnley.bsky.social, @spiderstacy.bsky.social, @jemfiner.bsky.social…

Take a walk with me down by Avalon
And I will show you
It ain't why, why, why
It just is.
Would you meet me in the country
Can you meet me in the long grass
In the country in the summertime
Can you meet me in the long grass…

Summertime In England, Van Morrison

Very good. Very good indeed. Speaks to my campaign to bring back reminiscing about The Shit Old Days.

Works for @teamlabouruk.bsky.social as well.

It’s such a powerful performance, particularly when he really gets the audience involved.

YouTube video by YUNGBLUDVEVO Changes (Live From Villa Park / Back To The Beginning)

I’ve loved ‘Changes’ for years, think the ‘yung’ Yorkshire lad does a great performance of it here at the Back To The Beginning Sabbath gig.

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#BlackSabbath
#Ozzy

YouTube video by Dmitry Artemov Black Sabbath (Back to the Beginning)

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Goodbye Ozzy.
Wow, that’s beautiful timing with that final show in Aston! That’s a way to go.
I watched the Sabbath set & his voice was surprisingly strong. You could see his frustration at not being able to stand, and his need to share the applause with his original band mates.

I really don't want to go through the whole rigmarole of seeing Farage win power and then fuck everything up and have loads of sympathetic voxpops with dismayed Reform voters expressing their regrets when it was extremely fucking obvious what would happen because his platform is incoherent garbage

Trump's approval ratings are underwater, including on immigration, and Farage keeps saying "Great, let's do that here." Right-wing populism is the gospel of spite and stupidity.

Joke of a country

I for one object to this locker room language of economic violence.

I’m a little ray of sunshine.

I firmly hope I’m wrong, but there’s little gives me any confidence anymore.
Far too often the light at the end of the tunnel is an express train.

Sadly I don’t think that’s ever been true go into any pub & eavesdrop. Britain’s a far more intolerant culture than its psyche pretends.

Not just transphobia, as you know homophobia hasn’t gone anywhere.
Racism & religious intolerance are still here.

Then there’s the queasy backview of empire.

Two weeks have passed since this Haaretz article went online and shocked the world:

Let's not forget even for a moment.

Finally completed a piece of work I’ve been struggling with, booked appointment to see new offices, and read the chapter on Jung that I’d assigned myself.
Rewarded myself with walking on the common & a red hot bath.

Until Tebbit is buried at the crossroads with a stake through his heart & garlic at his throat, I’m not buying it…

Tebbit was one of the architects of Section 28 which sought to prohibit ‘the promotion of homosexuality.’ This law emboldened bigots and silenced many librarians and teachers, including some of mine. As a gay kid I was left without official support from my school. It was terrifying and cruel.

Until he’s buried at the crossroads with a stake through his heart & garlic at his throat, I’m not believing it.

Only the good die young

Free Palestine, love from the resistance in Leeds. 💚

Same old same old - understanding interpreted as “encouragement” - we saw all this during Section 28 - books that talked about the existence of lesbians and gay men being considered encouragements to be gay