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LIST 237 - 24/01/2026 So here we are, then - the first List since May 2018, and a few changes to note.   Firstly, a longer running time, upped from just under the...

That Music List has returned. Edition #237 includes music from Cardiacs, Lightning in a Twilight Hour, Nev Clay, Stereolab, Duck, Telex, Red Pony Clock, David Leach, The Lemonheads, L Dopa, Martha, Labradford, Nina Nastasia, I Jordan and many, many more:

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I'm no great believer in life targets, objectives, New Year's Resolutions, etc., but one thing I did get round to doing last weekend was finally make good on a promise to myself to reactivate my music blog thatmusiclist.blogspot.com after a hiatus of seven and three quarter years. Enjoy.

And as if by magic, new Robyn output. Am enjoying Dopamine a lot.

Assess every aged drink on its individual merits. The turn of the century bottles of JW Lees Harvest Ale I have are the strongest, gloopiest of delights, if just not night before work ones. The similar vintage bottle of Warninks we found in my parents' drinks cupboard, not so much.

Winning rider was apparently wearing Dr Martens boots.

#iykyk

It might not have aged as well, but I continue to like Do You Know (What It Takes) that bit more.

31/10/1517, later on. Henning Luther, halfwit brother of Martin and prone to misinterpreting things, nailed his 95 faeces to the door of All Saints Church, thus inadvertently inventing scatological humour.

31/10/1517. Martin Luther, professor of theology at the University of Wittenberg, nailed his 95 theses to the door of All Saints Church, thus starting the Protestant Reformation.

He published via the green OA route, with no publisher embargo applied. Metadata wasn't REF or RIOXX compliant, mind.

True. Could do with the rain not wrecking any more games in the meantime!

Absolutely :-) . As if I wasn't envying this trip enough already!

(Apart from the flight chaos, that is. Wouldn't wish that on me, you or anyone).

A smiling woman gives a thumbs up. Text below praises Mexicos president for sending rescue teams to Texas despite anti-immigrant policies and racism, highlighting her strength and defining her as a powerful woman.

President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo: What a real President does. 🙌

"All this, and you can play Chuckie Egg on it an' all".

(is how it was meant to finish, space permitting)

"A Little Man and a House and the Whole World Window (Taylor's Version)"

Well, this is highly satisfactory.

All that's missing is Stuart Pyke. #iykyk

It is.

Last week, I was one of a small number of Sheffield librarians to deliver a morning of online info sharing presentations with our friends at National Technical University of Ukraine. Since which, staff there tell us their immediate vicinity's been subject to constant, heavy shelling. Heartbreaking.

Is the correct answer.

Traditional breadmaking in Uzbekistan

'Twould be if I ever saw them. However, my winner is Captain Sensible's short-lived Space Toad Experience. We'd only gone to see the great lost Oldham quartet Wonky Alice. The Captain just happened to be headlining. Aimless prog noodling done badly, lots of badmouthing Vanian in absentia. Grim.

I didn't get to Cheltenham last Friday, but the running of the memorial race for the late Jonathan Neesom evoked some memories of him, both direct and indirect. I share them here, along with praise for a couple of the evening's winners.

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Previous leaders of the Fishing Republic have included Cray Guevara and Fidel Basstro.

24 Angry Men.

A sticker from ohmygollyembroidery on Etsy that says Trans Lives Are More Important Than Harry Potter.

I know of three snooker equipment shops in Sheffield that Ronnie had a choice of visiting last night.

I understand two of them now have a poster in the window saying it wasn't them.

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Disappointed from a nominative determinism perspective that Mr Elms wasn't the tree surgeon.

Der Fan - Wikipedia

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As mentioned during my recent trawl through a few German pop faves over on Facebook. Starring both a bona fide Neue Deutsche Welle pin-up and a future Eurovision host, no less.

My apologies - I missed this reply. Goodness, that's a lot of loss to have to process in so little time. Pat was there at the start of my journey into librarianship in Oldham over 30 years ago, and was a kind and inspiring leader. I'm desperately sad to learn of her passing.

My Easter weekend trip to Kimble, a first return for six years to what's now the oldest surviving British pointing line in active use:

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A tough watch, with a lot of getting in each other's way. I'm not certain the safety factor has decreased at quite the same rate as the length of the fences, which can't be even half as long as they were in the days of my first Scottish Nationals, Astral Charmer, Androma and all.

Mississippi libraries ordered to delete academic research in response to state laws - Mississippi Today The two research collections state officials ordered for deletion included material from professional journals, conference papers, books, student dissertations, periodicals and newspaper articles.

This is the literal destruction of knowledge.

Mississippi libraries are being ordered to remove academic research on race and gender from library databases.
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