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03.10.2025 11:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@basilatwork.bsky.social
Scotsman. Guitar player with Butcher Boy, Glasgow’s best least successful chamber pop group. Country music turns me on.
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03.10.2025 11:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0REVEALED: Donald Trump has picked Tony Blair for central role in Gaza ‘peace plan’…
…but in our inaugural investigation for @thenerve_news, we reveal extensive previously unreported links to Israeli defence, media & tech. 🧵
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www.thenerve.news/p/tony-blair...
Here’s the Bad News film. Bizarrely and unfairly erased from the general consciousness since Spinal Tap. youtu.be/dRwy79DHA6o?...
24.09.2025 08:15 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0As noted in the podcast, it’s rare to hear Farage get properly grilled. Not seen any coverage of this hearing anywhere else.
23.09.2025 08:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Fantastic. Not seen that before.
15.09.2025 08:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I need to check some of these.
13.09.2025 10:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Give Tenniscoat’s ‘Waltz for Dubby” a spin. A beautiful reductive version that may help. The whole album is fantastic.
11.09.2025 21:27 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Lessons from 1933 Germany
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Breaking all the eggs means no more omelettes! Thanks for sharing.
21.08.2025 08:39 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Still looks pretty impressive.
28.07.2025 11:49 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Yeah, Trump is always wishing people well. He’s a well wisher. Well known for wishing well.
22.07.2025 21:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0You’re not? 😲
22.07.2025 07:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Worth a listen.
21.07.2025 20:18 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 01993 - the year I graduated as a half-educated mature student.
18.07.2025 10:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Lovely weather for it.
05.07.2025 08:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Came back to say that I took a while to find Sky Arts on my smarter-than-me-TV, but got there in time for the broadcast. Loved your film.
05.07.2025 08:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The replies to this are fantastic. Funny, poignant, occasionally icky, they are a window into social history, product branding, and surprisingly often, how we memorialise the past. Well worth your time.
03.07.2025 09:42 — 👍 279 🔁 72 💬 7 📌 4The IDF is the group targeting little kids sleeping in tents in Gaza using thermal imaging armed drones, but Bob Vylan and Kneecap are the problem? Got it.
01.07.2025 12:45 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Oh, that is brutal. But yes, the writing is very good.
24.06.2025 13:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Trump has never had a neighbour.
20.06.2025 15:11 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0fake congas 0:00 snare enters 0:15 stiff funk bass 0:29 arpeggiated synth line 0:48 arpeggiated synth bass fades in 0:50 bass riff and wall of synth strings 1:17 strings jump an octave 1:24 double clap 1:35 "I know you know we believe in a land of love" underpinned with roller coaster bass 2:01 slappy syncopated guitar and punctuating bell 2:16 cheeky reference to masturbation? 2:56 unusual melody jump on "often thought he WAS deranged" 3:06 vocal growl on "HAVE some fun" 3:13 "now I know the perfect kiss is the kiss of death" 3:54 latin cowbell/percussion blocks 3:59 gritty synth bludgeons in 4:13 space blaster FX and warm pad breakdown 4:59 frogs 5:13 Gillian's majestic synth stack 6:12 Hooky noodling 6:26 windmill guitar chords 6:56 bass descends into nothing 7:47 brake squeal and car crash ending 7:56 other (please specify)
Over on ILX there's a new thread called "Let's determine the best moment of New Order's The Perfect Kiss on Substance" and these are the options in the poll and 1) accurate, all of them and 2) I am in agonies that there is no "ALL OF THEM" option.
16.06.2025 20:51 — 👍 148 🔁 38 💬 19 📌 27He’s a good sport ❤️
15.06.2025 16:23 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Short straw.
15.06.2025 11:16 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0A special thank you to Scott's miracle grow?!?
15.06.2025 01:06 — 👍 142 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 1I listen after broadcast on the Sounds app so that I can skip the ‘news’. They could fulfill the news remit by only having news about music…
14.06.2025 10:38 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0NEW: The UK is 'currently' hosting and training soldiers from the Israel Defense Forces despite genocide allegations, a Labour minister has admitted
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