The Soup Dragons Toppermost from @johnynocash.bsky.social www.toppermost.co.uk/soup-dragons...
13.02.2026 23:19 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0@johnynocash.bsky.social
Whichever name you choose. Jack of a few trades (music, writing, poetry, photography, life), master of one (education). ‘This Is Not The End’, threequel to ‘How Green Are Your Eyes’, and ‘The Broken Bottle’, out April
The Soup Dragons Toppermost from @johnynocash.bsky.social www.toppermost.co.uk/soup-dragons...
13.02.2026 23:19 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Fantastic!
13.02.2026 19:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0😬
08.02.2026 09:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0🎉 of course
Though I suspect it wasn’t written by a southerner.
I regularly use malarkey and kerfuffle, too. The north has never lost touch with proper vocabulary!
07.02.2026 17:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0C’est magnifique 🙂
07.02.2026 14:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0There’s not many voices like Björk. She probably counts as unique… #IsmuasMonthOfMusic
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Indiepop Chronicles #34
More single reviews from 40 years ago this week 8/2/86
Miaow - Belle View ("Whispy") - Mick Mercer - Melody Maker
Go Betweens - Spring Rain ("Airy") and Shop Assistants - Safety Net ("Healthy") - Lesley O'Toole - Record Mirror.
#IsmuasMonthOfMusic
A song without a clear chorus?
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Indiepop Chronicles #33
Singles reviewed in NME (David Swift) 40 years ago 8/2/86
* Wolfhounds -Cut The Cake @davidlancecallahan.bsky.social
* Shop Assistants -Safety Net
* TVPs -How I Learned..?
* Go Betweens -Spring Rain
What's your pick of these pops?
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#IsmuasMonthOfMusic
A song I wish was longer… well, I could listen to the outro on this forever.
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Very evocative 🙂
04.02.2026 18:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Hey! They’re the people cc-ed in the junk emails I get from Netscape!
04.02.2026 18:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0//Angels & Airwaves - A Little's Enough (Binmonkey 'Reimagined Cover' Demo)//
A clip from my original demo from June 2024, uploaded to my (FREE) Patreon. Join for more WIPs, words and other stuff!
www.patreon.com/posts/angels... #blink182 #angelsandairwaves #poppunk #musicsky
The Bothy Band album cover Out Of The Wind Into The Sun
NEW post: The Bothy Band - “a vital role in the folk music revival and one of the greatest groups of any kind to have emerged from Ireland”
@pangurdubh3.bsky.social picks 10 tracks from the albums of the #BothyBand
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Feb 4th for #IsmuasMonthOfMusic and it’s a song that feels brutally honest. Tennis always wore their heart on their sleeve, none more so than with this:
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No new pictures. Where are you at mentally?
03.02.2026 07:08 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1A song outside my usual taste. Tricky, as I like what I like, whatever that may be. Perhaps the test is if my kids were surprised I liked it: youtu.be/TrFL6mXZDmI?...
#IsmuasMonthOfMusic
“I once wrote a poem that came in the top 0.17% of a national competition, and still didn’t win”
New blog post
johnhartleywriter.blogspot.com
Review of the Manchester #HMHB gig up on the God Is In The TV site www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/2026/02/02/l...
02.02.2026 17:58 — 👍 15 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0Hey friends! We're so grateful for all of the support for our @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social event/workspace fundraiser so far! Contribute if you're able, share if you're not - truly everything helps! We couldn't do anything without the love & support of our community! 🧡👻📚🤗
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A song that captures a generation. Correct me if I’m wrong…
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#IsmuasMonthOfMusic
This is who runs this account.
01.02.2026 20:29 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1Bookshelves.
A new post.
#writingcommunity #booksky #reading #randomhashtag
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Creme brûlée
01.02.2026 16:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Bookshelves.
A new post.
#writingcommunity #booksky #reading #randomhashtag
johnhartleywriter.blogspot.com/2026/02/book...
A new month of #IsmuasMonthOfMusic, and the first prompt is a song that makes me feel unstoppable. I don’t think that’s a feeling I recognise. Instead, here’s a song about not stopping.
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Probs having to swim more 🤷🏽♂️
31.01.2026 17:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Steep Street, Blackburn, Lancashire, 1985, photo by Michael Kenna, Widnes-born photographer.
31.01.2026 09:22 — 👍 110 🔁 14 💬 3 📌 0I place it more to when people started saying ‘literally’ for things that weren’t literal.
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