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The Cords: Kamera, Chorlton - Live Review Hotly tipped Scottish duo, The Cords, arrive in Manchester with Danish indie band Josie in tow. Iain Key reviews for LTW

Hotly tipped Scottish duo, The Cords, arrive in Manchester with Danish indie band Josie in tow.

@iainkey.bsky.social reviews for LTW

@skepwax.bsky.social @johnrobbofficial.bsky.social

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Happy birthday to PP Arnold. Here's her amazing version of To Love Somebody filmed in France in 1968

Rooster Records in Exeter have a good psych and 60s selection, and also sell reissues. They do lots of other genres too.

Weather forecast for Railway Cottage, behind Bass Warehouse, Railway, Castle St (Manchester) - nothing but rain

Loving the precision of this weather forecast location...

As a friend at work said yesterday: There are lies, damned lies, and the Stagecoach bus app!

Apologies for not adding alt text to all these photos. My cat is screaming her head off and if I don't let her outside right this instance, where I have to accompany her, I might die.

Style lessons from Robert Redford, one of the most stylish men in the last century. 🧵

Hurrah! Happy mouse freedom day!

(Glad this tale didn't have a grizzly ending!)

Ooh, the tension...

Latest update please! What's the current situation?

Great to see a really positive development in the UK’s social science data infrastructure.

"Your engineer John is connecting your service to our network. If not at your property they may be working on our network nearby. They will need access to your property to complete the installation." Photo of a network engineer working up a suburban telegraph pole earlier today.

Today we joined the 21st century and got fibre to the house installed. Thanks John.

‘Our songs last three minutes but they feel like an hour’: the return of Spinal Tap – an exclusive that goes up to 11! Over 40 years since This Is Spinal Tap was mistaken for a comedy, its hard-rocking subjects are back for a legally obligated final gig. Our writer smells the glove

“Well, there’s that Bertrand Russell quote about the Liechtenstein women,” Tufnel says. “But I can’t quote it, because it’s rude.”

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The Strange World Of… Saint Etienne | The Quietus In the April 1993 issue of Select (a key text in the run-up to Britpop) the first band interviewed in its famous ‘Yanks Go Home’ feature wasn’t its cover stars, Suede. It was Saint Etienne, a trio nam...

Ian Catt's bedroom stinking of chips /Meeting Q-Tee's mum in Kidbrooke /Memories of Bond sets/Cardiac arrests of QPR chairmen/Gaudete terror...loved doing this for @thequietus.com with the first band in the 1993 Yanks Go Home Select issue, @bobpetesarah.bsky.social thequietus.com/interviews/s...

The Strange World Of… Saint Etienne | The Quietus In the April 1993 issue of Select (a key text in the run-up to Britpop) the first band interviewed in its famous ‘Yanks Go Home’ feature wasn’t its cover stars, Suede. It was Saint Etienne, a trio nam...

“Britpop’s best foundational band. From day one – in the post-perestroika summer of Italia 90 – their approach to music, lyrics, and films has always crossed borders, been open-minded, and kept time-travelling.” Thank you Jude Rogers. thequietus.com/interviews/s...

Nigel Farage’s Five Houses.. One of Farage’s houses in Lydd-on-Sea The Tories and the Telegraph are once again obsessing with where Angela Rayner does or does not live. It might be included given the gender and age of those in…

I'm not sure whether the Telegraph & the Tories are actually interested in Angela Rayner's residences or just obsessed with her. Meanwhile Nigel Farage has five houses..
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The desperation by those on the Right to smear Angela Rayner is wearing thin🙄

And no - don’t bother replying UNTIL you’ve read the thread!

I’ve trawled through multiple versions of this “story” in the Telegraph and Daily Mail to try and piece together what’s going on!

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good morning I will be in Exeter for work next weekend but with a little bit of time to spare - is there anything I must absolutely see or absolutely eat there? thanking you kindly

Row after Exeter councillor wears official ID to hotel protest Alison Sheridan rejects claims she breached the council's code of conduct by wearing identification.

BBC embarrassing itself again. It's an open and shut case; you can't wear a council badge to a political event. Why are they given space to claim they're very special patriotic people and the rules don't apply to a tiny demonstration the vast majority of the city hated
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Small article about an upcoming BBC show: Following Detectorists and Worzel Gummidge comes MacKenzie Crook's intriguing new comedy. A Manchester man with a missing girlfriend is given a recipe for a potion that allows him to tell the future. Given Crook's fondness for folky pastoral textures, Small Prophets - which features animated sequences and a rare yet welcome acting turn from Michael Palin - sounds like it could end up being extremely charming and special. BBC, Date to be confirmed

Every few words there's a new detail that makes this sound even better. (Apart from the "date tbc" bit)

The moral and economic costs of Farage’s plan to deport up to 600,000 asylum seekers Key planks of policy include Human Rights Act repeal and potential payments to countries such as Iran and Afghanistan

Analysis - the moral and economic costs of Farage’s plan to deport up to 600,000 asylum seekers

(Currently most read on the Guardian website, beating Taylor and Travis)

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A roundabout with a George Cross painted on it. Somebody has written "FUCK OFF NAZIS" across it. Apparently photographed in Leeds

‘It was everything I feared’ From Morrissey and Bowie to Major and Blair, the Union Jack was everywhere in the 1990s, as ALWYN TURNER remembers.

"‘In left-wing circles it is always felt that there is something slightly disgraceful in being an Englishman,’ Orwell wrote in The Lion & the Unicorn, pointing out that in the 1930s: ‘If you were an intellectual you sniggered at the Union Jack.’"

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‘People just lie’: How Riverford’s Guy Singh-Watson became the most brutally honest farmer in Britain The organic veg pioneer talks to the Guardian about being unemployable, his unconventional father and his recent autism diagnosis

Guy Singh-Watson says the easiest way to raise revenue from the farming sector would be to capture the 100-fold increase in land value when planning permission is granted to build houses. The Riverford organic veg business founder backs a wealth tax and is a member of @patrioticmillionaires.org.

'AI slop': Emily Portman and musicians on the mystery of fraudsters releasing songs in their name Artists on the mystery of being targeted by fraudsters releasing "AI slop" songs in their name.

Unregulated platforms controlling 84% of recorded music revenue + AI = absurd situation for music workers www.bbc.com/news/article...

Graphic for Belle and Sebastian's 30th anniversary tour 2026, featuring the sleeves of Tigermilk and If you're feeling sinister

I am extremely excited to know that I will be seeing one of my favourite bands play my favourite album of theirs to n it's entirety on my birthday at the Royal Albert Hall next year. Nice of them to oblige.

Marking 30 years since their debut, Belle and Sebastian have announced North American & European two-night stints performing their first two albums, ‘Tigermilk’ and ‘If You’re Feeling Sinister’ in full.
Tickets on sale this Friday via belleandsebastian.com
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Belle and Sebastian announce 'Tigermilk' / 'If You're Feeling Sinister' 30th anniversary tour Belle and Sebastian will be celebrating the 30th anniversary of their first two albums, Tigermilk and If You’re Feeling Sinister, by playing them in full on tour in 2026. The tour will be tw...

Belle and Sebastian announce 'Tigermilk' / 'If You're Feeling Sinister' 30th anniversary tour www.brooklynvegan.com/belle-and-se...

Three gentlemen with guitars on a low stage below a low ceiling

Here's my photo from last night with Luke Haines, Peter Buck, and the minus 5 at Exeter Cavern Club. Great stuff, my ears have just about recovered!

Peter Buck, Luke Haines and Scott McCaughey

It's #gig night - Peter Buck (REM), Luke Haines (Auteurs)and The Minus 5 ripping up the 180 capacity #Exeter Cavern... It's hot and sweaty!
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fantastic @lukehaines.bsky.social and Peter Buck gig this evening at Exeter Cavern … superb musicians who played in a very hot small club to a sold out audience - thank you for a great night 🎸🇺🇸😎🍷