Alan Boon

Just finished a weeklong binge of all 3 series of Here We Go. Very much recommended for fans of awkward comedy.

Like, can we not have a tiny part of it where we can respect people a little bit? They can even put a fence round us!

This fucking cuntry, am I right?

There's a certain irony that Yvette Fielding disliked Biddy Baxter so much, yet she's the only Blue Peter presenter who can still hear from her.

Gigs, too

Join me for two hours of cartoon-inspired fun!

At my wedding, my sister thought it would be a great lark to get the DJ to play it and make me dance to it, knowing I loved the song. Joke was on her because I don't mind showing that love in public. Joke was on me because the DJ played the Geri Halliwell version.

Good lads!

Besties in the World!

Christ, Joel

The M in M People stands for Mute Button #TOTP

A tweet from David East that reads: "starting to think that the rest of the world was actually fine in Children of Men and Britain just chose to be like that"

I am once again contemplating this banger.

I won’t need to tell anyone who’s ever been to @justdroppedin.bsky.social where to put their vote but you should all do it anyway…

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The Cat* for International Cat Day

(*government name Amber)

The anti-trans movement eagerly supported by the Labour government is beginning to sound a lot like how Black people were treated in the South pre-Civil Rights...

Seeing Lemonheads next week.... 😬

And then Teenage Fanclub - who now look like their own dads, as do we all - made me remember why I fell in love with them all those years ago, not that I could ever forget but it’s good to be reminded every now and then ❤️

Support came from oddly-named Norwegian Selma French (and her cousin Anja), all harmonies and loveliness, underpinned by Korg notes…

I was at @bedfordesquires.bsky.social tonight for the second of Teenage Fanclub’s two-night stand, their return to the venue after 35 years and almost 35 years to the day that I first saw them at the Barrell Organ in Digbeth…

Going to see Teenage Fanclub tonight, nine days short of 35 years since the first time I saw them ❤️

Homophobic, too

(Incidentally, if anyone has any contacts with any of the acts played in the second half of tonight's show, please tell them to do a reunion all-dayer...)

To finish tonight, a much-missed duo that should still be releasing brilliant albums if there was any justice in this world:

Broadcast - Echo's Answer

Just one more to go in tonight's show, and I hope you've had as much fun as I hve. I'm back on Noisebox next Wednesday at 8pm with an hour of EXOTICA from 1959 and the ACID JAZZ label's output from 1992!

Stay tuned for BANDWIDTH after this last song for some 80s TV goodness!

Avrocar - Fega

(from the Black Country but I'll allow it)

San Lorenzo - Before They Made The City

Grover – ...Like A Bunny

I was just saying in the chat, that’s the best thing about doing a show like this, introducing people to those obscure tracks that they then take to heart

Jameson - Eraser

L'Augmentation – Cartoon Strip