Manchester's Modernist Society is doing a bunch of events in London this year, starting next week with Bruce Peter, design history prof at Glasgow School of Art.
Lots of Cumbernauld mega-structures and everyone's favourite pub typology.
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Greetings. Half Pint with Sly & Robbie on The Tube 40 years ago
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Ha! Coincidentally, today would have been his 84th birthday
02.03.2026 23:44 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I fancy a career as a Velvet Underground Researcher. Where do I send my CV?
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It's great isn't it? Billy chats about the song in this interview with @tedkessler.bsky.social, promoting the highly recommended To Ease My Troubled Mind
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Medway Wheelers by The Buff Medways. Picked up the CD single yesterday and it contains this lovely video starring Billy Childish's mum, who is the subject of the song
youtu.be/zOo7DepCd9w
That's great to see and hear. Thanks for sharing
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Land Surveyor at the Glad Cafe last night, what a joy to see Paul Haig and Malcolm Ross back on stage together, sounding wonderful.
@paulhaigmusic.bsky.social @scotspostpunk.bsky.social
@birmingham81.bsky.social
We at The New Cue have started a publishing imprint, TNC Books. First up is the new story collection by PJ Smith aka ROY, Boomerang Process. Extract, interview and link to order in today’s edition.
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Marc Chagall's beautiful painted windows at All Saints' Church in Tudeley, Kent, installed between 1967 and 1985. The sad story behind their creation is here www.tudeley.org/Groups/36384...
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Today’s other bargain find for 50p - an overlooked but classy slice of disco soul by Howard Kenney from 1978.
A) Save Some For The Children produced by Johnny Pate (Impressions etc)
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B) Can't Wait To Make You Mine produced by Larry Blackmon (Cameo etc)
▶️ youtu.be/fuGZgatEbLI
And at the start of the month, I found this single in a shop just round the corner from where I discovered today’s LP. Probably not a coincidence? (THREAD)
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Ha! Good point
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On Tuesday, I was lucky enough to stumble across this beauty (THREAD)
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It’s been a fab four weeks for finding cool and collectible covers of songs by The Beatles. Today’s treasure is this 1967 LP by The London Jazz Four, picked up for just 50p. Includes a great version of Things We Said Today (THREAD)
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Ha! I’d learned that lesson by the following year
28.02.2026 11:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It’s a bit stretched TBH, but I’m happy having four versions of Love Cascade and four mixes of Cashflow!
28.02.2026 10:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Love Cascade is great. Have you seen/got the Leisure Process double CD retrospective on Cherry Red? Worth checking out. I’ve added the connection to the thread
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All these singles appear in one form or another on Gary Crowley’s brilliant Lost 80s Vol 2 box set. Its accompanying booklet features my pics of Clare Grogan, Nick Heyward, Sade and Blancmange, along with these other bits and pieces from my archive
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#WeekendSingles 12 inch gems by Leisure Process, Heaven 17, Blancmange, Win, Thompson Twins, Funkapolitan, TreacherousThree, Monochrome Set, Kid Creole, Working Week, World Famous Supreme Team, Klaxon 5, Kane Gang, Human League, and Valentine Brothers. There’s a connection…
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Happy birthday to Cindy Wilson
youtu.be/swBDlOk0V6Y
Always a joy to hear this
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27 April
London
Tickets www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1982687851...
Tour starts Thursday! Shame I can’t bring the Gas ‘n’ Air band over from Mexico, but the Balloon acoustic trio is sounding equally fab, plus there’s @timkeegan.bsky.social and @dannythechamp.bsky.social to enjoy. Londons sold out but tickets for other shows via the bio or linktr.ee/balloontheband
27.02.2026 20:46 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0TBH I hadn’t played it for ages, but it is really good. I must have played it loads when it was first released as I remembered all of Mark’s ad-libs!
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Spot the Fall singles on Rough Trade’s wall #FallFriday
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Found this old photo of the space being used in its day-to-day role as a cafeteria for the halls of residence. A nondescript venue for Joy Division’s final concert (THREAD)
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The Utopia Strong are returning to The Lighthouse in Deal on 16 May. Here's my video filmed the last time they played there
youtu.be/sHHkOebKK7s
Tickets thelighthousedeal.co.uk/tc-events/th...
#FallFriday Celebrating Rough Trade’s 50th birthday with The Fall’s first record for the company
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Sad to hear that Weaver D's Delicious Fine Foods is closing today. Here’s a photo I took on our R.E.M pilgrimage to Athens, GA in 1999 #AutomaticForThePeople
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