Jon Tolley

(this version of) The Kingfisher Planning Application got approved last night

my thoughts: www.banquetrecords.com/mailout?mail...

hands down my album of the year

NINE year anniversary of this in the Surrey Comet. currently in The Louvre

Inside the UK's most influential record store Podcast Episode · The New Statesman | UK politics and culture · 02/12/2024 · 31m

Listen to me talk about something I know about: @banquetrecords.com
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Former Kingston councillor helps persuade Council to fix old bus lane markings on London Road “That road was so very dangerous, especially at night and in the rain,' says former councillor, Jon Tolley.

keep me out of online news challenge

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Kingmakers of the album charts How Banquet became the UK's most influential record store.

“How Banquet became the UK's most influential record store.”

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finally. this road was really bad in the dark and rain. but it’s fine now! glad I wasn’t proved right with evidence that it’s “an accident waiting to happen”.

(but it was)

it’s all coming back to me

easy to be alarmed about Kingston council temporarily closing a key town centre facility because of the roof… but I don’t think there’s any significant worry here really

here’s a Facebook update from the councillor who does the most to tell people what’s going on

plausible. but that’s not a big draw, I’ll be honest

I've registered my comments and I'd urge you to too. I was a councillor when this last came to committee, and we made the strong case that keeping the bike lane was imperative. nothing's changed

we either support safe sustainable travel or we don't

allow more time to promote other things the town offers, while people who run markets can run the market.

it’s literally market forces

New company to run Kingston's Ancient Market A new company will be taking over Kingston's Ancient Market Place as part of the council's plan to revive it.

this is welcome - with caveats about protecting public events in the space

Kingston First spends too much bandwidth on running this area which, imo, doesn’t represent good value to BID payers (I pay three lots of levy)

a bit of a Banquet / Tolley in The Times today. it’s a well written piece. you can tell we were talking, not typing.

best quote is “Tolley is tall, rangy and talkative.” had to google rangy. phew, it’s fine

anyway, deal is Banquet / Kingston gigs continue to be newsworthy

Tolley is tall, rangy and talkative.

the one thing I’m clear on on this farmers protest, is I’m not qualified enough to say what’s right and wrong on it

first listen through front to back for maybe 20 years

carry me home tonight

of course there's history here. it's not just about what Bacchus in the noughties, which certainly defines who i was (and became)...

but it's also about right now. I believe in nightclubs. and this underground dungeon is a proper staple of Kingston nights out. long may it continue. I'm in.

today, my 4 year old told me Allah was in the sky, even in Australia, and Africa and even Norbiton!

turned up to tonight's Kingston Council meeting but it's one in one out. or as @gekins.bsky.social says, it's "one out one in" which is a nonsense.

who says nightlife is dead?