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On a darker note… Holy shit.

This is one of those books I don’t want to end. I want the 6-episode documentary version, the podcast remake, the limited edition cassette with 151 extra tracks. It’s a flawless tribute to Richey’s epigram (‘music and words came first’). Bravo @keithcameron2.bsky.social 🙂 #manicstreetpreachers

Yes! The best stink bomb trick was to burst one on a shopping centre escalator so the stench just kept travelling around and around. Optimal emanation.

I know what you mean but some things just catch you. And he sort of rewrote it with Late Night, Maudlin Street which is a monster.

Phew. Nicely done! But I’d put in a strong shout for Back To The Old House (acoustic from HoH). It’s a bit soppy yeah but that acoustic guitar is gorgeous, and that line still catches me - ‘When you cycled by/Here began all my dreams/The saddest thing I’ve ever seen’.

He never really knew what drugs weEre.

Ohhhh yes. Quite a joy to get two iconic football moments in the space of four days. (Along with Rio).

YouTube video by 3Disco GARY NUMAN - Music For Chameleons (Jim'll Fix It, 20.03.1982)

Finally, one of the weirdest music TV clips - as discussed in our episode with @simonprice.bsky.social - has resurfaced.
Gary Numan on Jim'll Fix doing Music For Chameleons while a haunted child circled him slowly in an electric car with torches for headlights.
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The Beatles’ Let It Be film is back and as depressing as ever — even if this time it’s for different reasons It's here at last: Let It Be the motion picture, dead duck of the canon, unavailable for more than half a century, to no one's great dismay. On its original release, this dim and rickety film, which n...

"Soon the Beatles will pass from living memory, and everything they did for the post-war world will seem obscure and irrelevant, having to be explained to children like the jokes in Shakespeare."

Wow. Taylor Parkes never misses. This is great.

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Nice. :) The RedMen TV live-watch is a beauty. (“He’s a child and he’s scored the winner!”)

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Bravo, sir! I want to have your babies for this. I’m sure Mr Neil K would approve too…

Thanks for the review @sandramangan.bsky.social Glad you enjoyed it. :)

Now we head to the Peak District in Northern England where a twisted killer is burying his victims alive...
Creepy Crawly by @andrewlowe.bsky.social reviewed. A must-read book for anyone who loves dark police procedurals.
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Professor Scott Galloway is right

“Without widespread theft, my industry can’t survive” is an argument against your industry surviving, and is not an argument for allowing widespread theft

A dark, compelling crime novel set in the stunning Peak District, #CreepyCrawly is the first book in the DJI Jake Sawyer series and is published today by Vinci Books

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A killer who won’t forgive. A detective who can’t forget. A reader who is looking for their next dark and twisty book? 🤔

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I love music, but I hate dancing. It's so embarrassing. There's always so much pressure to dance at social occasions. I've tried to dance like no one is watching, feel the rain on my skin etc but I can't, I hate it and I hope I never have to do it again.

Imagine President Harris taking $10 trillion out of the global stock markets in the first 80 days of her residency what the Fox News people would be doing right now!!!!

Tony Benn was born 100 years ago today. A hero of mine, he was steeped in the English radical tradition while maintaining an internationalist outlook. As we struggle to defend democracy against those who seek to avoid accountability, his five questions to ask the powerful are worth remembering

Walk Of Life - Dire Fucking Straits

This is a *very* good thread. Clarifies some really tricky issues. Not least why some English politicians insist that they cannot actually be English.

@willmac23.bsky.social Broken Veil is brilliant. I’ve only heard the first episode so far but I think you’ll find it’s Blue Jam meets The Parapod. And it made me want to go on a fan visit to a roundabout.

BBC Sounds - Stalked - Available Episodes Listen to the latest episodes of Stalked on BBC Sounds.

This is a brilliantly written, presented and produced podcast that intersects with the current terrors over data as power, the end of privacy, AI, manosphere… Depressing but utterly essential. Brilliant work from @carolecadwalla.bsky.social

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Jeff Minter’s Llamatron. :) Destroy it and it explodes in a blizzard of deadly turds.