@twrhq.bsky.social
Birth. Music. Death. ex-radio prod/host, lapsed writer, record collecting vinyl saddo, Crohn's, Diverticulitis, Fibromyalgia, Abba Zaba. #DimlyLitTurntableForOne
Very grateful for this rich response to my book!
02.11.2025 18:14 β π 16 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
A TV testcard with the image of a Tijuana Christmas lp. The image features a Santa in a red suit wearing a sombrero and playing the trumpet.
Please stand by for the go live post and updated rules for Vinyl Santa 2025 coming in the next few days.
The admin are currently busy behind the scenes hammering out the final details.
Photograph of an LP white/pink label with the following handwritten details: HEIDI BERRY "Below The Waves" CreLP 048 Side One 3/3/89
Photograph of the record sleeve for Martin Stephenson & the Daintees' LP Gladsome Humour & Blue, next to the record playing on a turntable
Photograph of the Four Tops NOW! sleeve next to the record playing on a turntable
Photograph of Boney M's LP sleeve for Night Flight To Venus next to the vinyl spinning on a tutntable
#NowSpinning
Mix bag of Β£1 LPs.
β’ Heidi Berry - Below The Waves (UK white label 89)
β’ Martin Stephenson & the Daintees - Gladsome Humour & Blue (UK 88)
β’ The Four Tops - Now! (UK 69 mono)
β’ Boney M - Night Flight To Venus (UK 78)
#NowPlaying
#DimlyLitTurntableForOne
#Vinyl
Photograph of the sleeve for The Mondays!'s 12" EP Fortune & Glory displayed next to its record playing on a turntable. This is excellent almost an atonal wonky vocal jangly indie pop record lost to time , rescued for Β£1.
Photograph of the ovrr-sized mock-up folded card print sleeve for The Weather Prophets' white label 12" Always The Light, which is spinning next to it on a turntable.
Photograph of The Colourfield's 12" sleeve for their Special Mix epinymius track displayed next to the record playing on a turntable.
Photograph of Momus' Remix 12" Spacewalk sleeve, next to the record playing on a turntable.
#NowSpinning
A mixed lot of Β£1 12"/EPs.
β’ The Mondays! - Fortune & Glory EP (UK 88)
β’ The Weather Prophets - Always The Light 12" W/L w/mock-up sleeve (UK 87)
β’ The Colourfield - The Colourfield Special Mix 12" (UK 84)
β’ Momus - Spacewalk 12" (UK 92)
#NowPlaying
#DimlyLitTurntableForOne
#Vinyl
#Caturday
01.11.2025 17:33 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Amen x
01.11.2025 12:45 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Pop! Pop' & Pop?
31.10.2025 23:26 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
My black cat Newt, streched along his right side on the top of a brown leather sofa; his sun-burgandy-browned tail & hind fur is in the foreground with his 2 back paws poking out from behind it exposing his black beans.
tired & shagged out after a long thought
#CatsOfBluesky
This version of The Specialsβs Ghost town by @lankumdublin.bsky.social is really quite somethingβ¦ the more things change the more things stay the sameβ¦
youtu.be/aLLnF4vxaeY?...
Photograph of the front & back of a black Cardiacs t-shirt, showing their yellow daisy design (front) & the Alphabet Business Concern logo in white (rear)
Photograph of the front & back of a black Bongwater t-shirt, showing a lurid lime & blue photo of Kramer + the text Bongwater Too Much Sleep (front) & a pink absract/shadow photo (rear)
Photograph showing the front & back of a white Captain America (band) t-shirt, with the band name on the front & a red circle with a white star cut out on the rear
Photographs showing the front and rear of a black staff Forbidden Planet t-shirt, with the FP logo on the front right breast & the FP text logo on the rear
FB threw up a 10yo memory of my then oldest battered t-shirts:
β’ Cardiacs, from an eventful '89 Bristol Bierkeller gig
β’ Bongwater Too Much Sleep, '89 US import
β’ Captain America, from '91
β’ Forbidden Planet staff tee, from '89
They remain my oldest tees & still, periodically, worn.
Listening to WMMR memorialize the legendary DJ Pierre Robert, who died today at age 70. Radio DJs like him are comforting old friends; their voices and music knowledge bring solace and make you feel less alone. www.insideradio.com/free/legenda...
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#PODCAST: Show Me Magic #NewMusicMonthly
@billcummings80.bsky.social & Jim Auton talk #LiveNation #AI #Spotifyexodus #welshmusicprize #mercuryprize #thecords
@skepwax.bsky.social
@geeseband.bsky.social
#Nightbus #stelladonnelly #thefamilybattenberg
www.mixcloud.com/godisinthepo...
FOCUS Wales has been shortlisted for Best Initiative for Emerging Talent at the UK Festival Awards! PLEASE VOTE NOW via the link in bio π₯³
29.10.2025 19:33 β π 5 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0
Unexpected boost for the festival team! FOCUS Wales is shortlisted for Best Small Festival for the European Festival Awards π If you have (another) spare second, please vote via the link in bio!
29.10.2025 19:37 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0i'd agree if those on the pitch were competent at the simple things, but this evening showed the lacking in most of their play not least fitness.
29.10.2025 01:19 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Goodnight, Ms. Scales x
28.10.2025 23:55 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
For the curious x
youtu.be/fAJaywa4x38?...
To be fair, they were dreadful. Indicative of their season so far. How much money has been spent for such a mediocre squad? Doesn't bode well going forward. Separately, the ITV commentary was decidedly biased towards Cardiff from the whistle.
28.10.2025 22:05 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 028 PA's later...
28.10.2025 21:08 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Absolutely & totally unafraid to run free when it served the moment. Top stuff x
28.10.2025 02:45 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0What a thoroughly lovely & timely film. Powerful stuff. Certainly got this old soppy sod's eyes wet. Power to you, @sarfrazmanzoor.bsky.social & all involved x
28.10.2025 02:37 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Watching Blinded By The Light for the first time. So far, so hooked.
28.10.2025 00:40 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 1No worries x
28.10.2025 00:10 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Couple of questions about MCAS, if i may? Did you get diagnosed immediately or did you go through a process of elimination first? If the latter, how long did it take for diagnosis & did you receive false positives for the likes of Fibromyalgia along the way? Cheers x
28.10.2025 00:01 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Madeley blocked me almost immediately for making my point. Nerve hit.
27.10.2025 22:17 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Said it before, i'll say it again: using Reform's racist language against them is all well & good, but it remains racist language & is not a good look when trying to prove tolerance & inclusion.
27.10.2025 21:54 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 1Shout out to the absolutely fantastic Endoscopy nurses & doc at Llandough Hospital x
#NHSWales
#UHL
Cheers x
26.10.2025 23:58 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Utterly frustratingly every time she's toured the UK i've been too ill to attend. Absolutely correct, though: she has a supernatural range x
26.10.2025 22:51 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0You're the first person i've ever seen on a SM platform (outside of FB comments/shares) posting about the glorious Anna Ash x
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