Barbellion

YouTube video by BillySequins Stephen Duffy - Sugar High

So many other good ones that have already been mentioned!

Sugar High by Stephen Duffy

Sick and Tired by The Cardigans

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Last time I was there someone was banging out an excellent rendition of the 'Succession' theme tune.

Sidewalks shouldn’t stop for side streets, pass it on

1. In the wake on Mamdani’s win, we’ll see a lot more far right anti-urban sentiment. Here’s a thread on its roots and evolution.

The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵

It took me a while to get with this last time round (early 00s) but I've made my peace now. Harder to shake is the engrained belief that boxfresh, brand spanking new trainers are tragically sad and that anyone wearing them needs 'NEW SHOES' shouting at them until they've scuffed them up a bit.

Get in loser, we're going Trick or Treating down Eddie Abbew's house.

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I have always assumed there is an omerta about discussing the mechanics of making the prog. Tbh I assumed they blast through a couple of 'days' each filming day anyway.
Also never discussed - it's clear to anyone who has watched that the final people to enter brekkie are often those in contention.

A photograph of a hoarding advertising a gym. It's a picture of a man who looks a bit like a young healthy Geoff Norcott doing battle ropes

Great to see @geoffnorcott.bsky.social advertising the local leisure centre in Sheffield. Seems to have done him the power of good, although I'm worried he might find the vibe whiffs a little too much of toxic masculinity.

They also seem to have a weekly influx of articles that read like someone's A level Journalism coursework. I think they might actually be sourcing them from a local sixth form.

Thoughts and prayers for Chris Mason this morning.

Also that Lib Dems, Greens and a big chunk of Labour voters happy to do what's sensible and shut out Reform by any means necessary.

Was this good? I'm tempted to go along in Sheffield tonight

You can start to probe the absurdity of this situation by parking a van on the road outside your house, never moving it and using it as a shed. Or fact, a bike store.

No band can compete with someone dropping 'On a ragga tip' at precisely the right moment. Or get new friends.

Oh fuck, I'm older than Robby J.

They meet up every year with the lads from Vauxhall and give each other a slap on the back.

Another reason why Ticketmaster are cunts is that they won't let you leave a single seat, even when you want to buy two of the last three seats left in a row, and by the time you realise this they are all gone and you didn't get tickets for Richard Hawley at Sheffield City hall the week before Xmas.

This is a magnificent pub - The Grapes. Annoyingly cash only, but less annoying they keep Guinness at a fiver because they can't be arsed with the change.

Oilatum Emmolient.

That's the 'Homemaker' design isn't it? Nice plates anyway - I'm sure my mum has some somewhere (from junk shops in the 90s rather than Woolworths in the 50s).

Also. Bring back the frilly pub umbrella!

A man with a beard is stood in the stained glass window of The Albert Hall in Manchester. Beneath a cross with his arms stretched out reminiscent of Christ on the cross.

Edwyn Collins was so good in Manchester last night that even Jesus popped down to watch for a bit.

I wish the journalist had asked if RJs desire to see people living in mixed communities means he thinks there are places in the UK that are too White? Or is that ok? In which case how is this not about race?

Shawarma wrap and cans at home doesn't make for quite such a nice photo though.

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Jesus, I mean what the fuck is that lad putting on his salads?

Just when JJS was breaking through and this song was huge, he was set to DJ at Cardiff's Cafe Europa (in front of Castle - long gone). Little intimate gig - was set to go off. Warm up DJ was getting a good vibe going, and just at the point he was due to hand over to JJS he played ...

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YouTube video by WallakAt David Cain - October

Beautiful - if this song were a mug.

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Ok I've just about got into my Betahoven TShirt (Bought at Cardiff Coal Exchange, October 1999) and I'm getting the train to Leeds to watch The Beta Band