A Song A Day For A Year. 313/365. Poet & The Roots, All Wi Doin' Is Defendin', 1978. Yes, Linton... tinyurl.com/4dzzwaw6
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A Song A Day For A Year. 313/365. Poet & The Roots, All Wi Doin' Is Defendin', 1978. Yes, Linton... tinyurl.com/4dzzwaw6
09.11.2025 12:29 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Farewell, then, Liam Manning. Wrong time, wrong club, alas.
09.11.2025 12:26 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Tarbuck on The One Show rolling out all his old stories about Liverpool. Well, not *all* of them
07.11.2025 19:08 β π 30 π 4 π¬ 8 π 1A Song A Day For A Year. 312/365. Meat Loaf, Bat Out Of Hell, 1977. "You're the only thing in this whole world/That's pure and good and right/And wherever you are and wherever you go/There's always gonna be some light." Still kills me. tinyurl.com/4ycpdybs
08.11.2025 13:22 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A Song A Day For A Year. 3111/365. Pigrbros, Hedonist Hat, 1985. My hedonist hat is always at a jaunty angle. tinyurl.com/4ryuya33
07.11.2025 12:21 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A Song A Day For A Year. 310/365. Nyam Nyam, Mining Different Seams, 1985. Aren't we just? tinyurl.com/3aevasf4
06.11.2025 10:52 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Here's something on Wings: The Story Of A Band On The Run. tinyurl.com/5h36ek8e
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Here's something on Gareth Southgate's intriguing Dear England: Lessons In Leadership. tinyurl.com/44e62f5y @theipaper.com
06.11.2025 10:27 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A Song A Day For A Year. 382/365. Sparks, My Baby's Taking Me Home, 2013. The live Two Hands version. Russell's vocal performance is astonishing. How on earth did he do that? Jaw-dropping. tinyurl.com/yvjrt72v @sparksofficial.bsky.social
05.11.2025 15:26 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0A Song A Day For A Year. 308/365. Modern Romance, The Best Years Of Our Lives, 1982. Is it wrong to love this? Spoiler: no. tinyurl.com/5erbhh3u
04.11.2025 12:51 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Just finished William Boyd's elegiac The Blue Afternoon. A few implausibles, but it fair got me thinking. ****
04.11.2025 12:45 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Just finished Timmy Mallett's rather lovely and poignant (if mistitled) Utterly Brilliant! It's not what you might think, unless you think it's going to be lovely and poignant. **** @timmymallett.bsky.social
04.11.2025 12:39 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A Song A Day For A Year. 307/365. Simon May, Summer Of My Life, 1976. Everything's in the past tense and it turns into John Miles's Music for a second or two. tinyurl.com/yuh9trtb
02.11.2025 14:52 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Farewell, then, Vitor Pereira. Good job you signed that new contract, then. @wolvesfc.bsky.social
02.11.2025 14:40 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A Song A Day For A Year. 305/365. Leyton Buzzards, I'm Hanging Around, 1979.Oddly irresistible. tinyurl.com/nbdb5j4d
01.11.2025 11:05 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Just finished Enemies Within, Richard Davenport-Hines's gloriously bitchy saga of UK-USSR-USA spies. They drank so much and had so much sex it's a wonder any of them actually got around to spying. ****
01.11.2025 09:06 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A Song A Day For A Year. 304/365. Marillion, Punch & Judy, 1985. They were quite grown up, weren't they? tinyurl.com/2nup9pde
31.10.2025 18:30 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A Song A Day For A Year. 303/365. Hoorah! Boys Hoorah! Is This What You Promised Me? 1984. A massive hit, apart from the sales. tinyurl.com/yc2jxteu
30.10.2025 12:31 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Farewell, then, Noel Hunt. Never looked right, did it? @readingfcofficial.bsky.social
27.10.2025 13:42 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A Song A Day For A Year. 300/365. Depeche Mode, Soothe My Soul, 2013. This is quite threatening. And intriguing. tinyurl.com/2a7pjzc8 @depechemode.com
27.10.2025 13:41 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A Song A Day For A Year. 299/365. Bourgeois Tagg, I Don't Mind At All, 1987. This is lovely isn't it? tinyurl.com/5dut3xmn
26.10.2025 14:46 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Farewell, then, Darren Ferguson. Again, again and again.
26.10.2025 14:39 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A Song A Day For A Year. 297/365. Sparks, Pulling Rabbits Out A Hat, 1997. Time for Sparks? It's always time for Sparks. And this version is better than their original. And Plagiarism is massively under-rated. tinyurl.com/5n785yzn @sparksofficial.bsky.social
24.10.2025 16:45 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A Song A Day For A Year. 296/365. Hazell Dean, Whatever I Do (Wherever I Go), 1984. Whoosh... shorturl.at/dwrKE
23.10.2025 13:14 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A Song A Day For A Year. 294/365. Glass Tiger, Diamond Sun, 1988. Of its time, but sometimes that's OK. tinyurl.com/5n7a7k9w
21.10.2025 17:21 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A Song A Day For A Year. 293/365. Butthole Surfers, Pepper, 1996. They're all but forgotten now, but this... tinyurl.com/ynehwhuh
20.10.2025 13:50 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A Song A Day For A Year. 292/365. Balaam & The Angel, Love Me, 1985. Odd and unfair they weren't bigger. Such is life. tinyurl.com/kyhaxppm
19.10.2025 11:57 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Farewell, then, Ange Postecoglou. What were you thinking? Likewise Forest...
19.10.2025 11:54 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Heartbroken to hear Martin Townsend has died. He was a wonderful man: warm, super-smart, funny, full of the good stuff and to work with him was as much a life-affirming joy as lunching with him.
18.10.2025 16:16 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A Song A Day For A Year. 289/365. The Clash, The City Of The Dead, 1977. They were great at being a gang. tinyurl.com/ywjydfjh
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