Anna Doble

Paperback version of Connection is a Song by Anna Doble

First music book of '26 in the bag and I just flew through this. As a recovering self confessed music snob myself 😉 there is much in here I can relate to - from an era I lived through but can't remember much of 🥴.

Highly recommended read by the super talented @annadoble.bsky.social

#BookSky

Ha! Thanks for reading. My recovery continues to fluctuate… although I have managed not to slag of Jamiroquai yet this year 😅

Honoured! Enjoy rambling around the ‘90s with me… can you go the bar and get me a Pernod? 🙃

Thank you Simon @rnrbook-club.bsky.social - I definitely want to time travel and come round to yours for Subbuteo and I Should Coco!

P.s. The Mariah Christmas song came out 1994 but was truly monstering pub jukeboxes by ‘95 - just in case the pop nerds come for me 😬

The wondrous Stereolab at Electric Brixton on Sunday. It was an electrified teenybop dream ✨⚡️✨

Thanks to everyone who braved subzero Walthamstow for a dive into the Bowie-verse with @annadoble.bsky.social and @rnrbook-club.bsky.social. Mother's Ruin serving up the good stuff with some Norfolk sloes in their Bowie themed booze!

Everybody go and find a copy of From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads by @jamesbriggs11.bsky.social - a mad and brilliant cycling adventure through the Bowie-verse…. ⚡️

We had a great chat at the legendary @rnrbook-club.bsky.social at Mother’s Ruin Gin Palace this week - thanks for having us!

Am in Cardiff this weekend with evidence that, yes, Bowie *is* everywhere…

This Thursday (20 Nov), From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads - with @jamesbriggs11.bsky.social @rnrbook-club.bsky.social

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JAMES BRIGGS - FROM IBIZA TO THE NORFOLK BROADS A Bowie Odyssey

Can't wait to chat with fab 90s indie author @annadoble.bsky.social about my Bowie escapade
@rnrbook-club.bsky.social next Thursday. Come along for a Bowie bonanza and apparently a Life on Mars? themed cocktail.

#DavidBowie #Books

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Ha - the perfect place for it! Never grow old :)

P.s. MOT 🙏

You lucky thing, I’ve dreamed about those Modern Life badges!

Hi Mick, thanks so much for reading! Polar Bear was a small record shop in the Grand Arcade - not sure when it closed but it was for a while a hidden gem…

Remembering my Grandad Frank - front right - who fought in WW1 at age just 17 as you can see in his young face here. He lived to the age of 90 and never wore his medals, never wanted to speak about what he saw (at least two of his friends killed) and truly hated all talk of war.

JAMES BRIGGS - FROM IBIZA TO THE NORFOLK BROADS A Bowie Odyssey

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20 November WALTHAMSTOW
JAMES BRIGGS - From Ibiza To the Norfolk Broads - A Bowie Odyssey
in conversation with @annadoble.bsky.social
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@laurenlaverne.bsky.social

A wonderful night - congrats @debseyonbass.bsky.social - can’t wait to get stuck in - looking good on my music book shelf 🧡

What a joy to spot International out in the wild (Southwark tube) @bobpetesarah.bsky.social @rockingbob.bsky.social 👀

Live Q&A: Saint Etienne in conversation at Rough Trade Saint Etienne graced Rough Trade for a Q&A about their final album, International - a release which marks the last chapter in the band's career after 35 years in the industry....

Extremely grateful to @leftlion.bsky.social for doing this lovely piece on my chat with @bobpetesarah.bsky.social for the release of International - whatever funny thing was said in the photos, I wish I could recall... but my money is on Wiggs

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That’s her!!

Congrats Tom, love your writing and always laugh at your social posts 👏

P.s. my sister Claire worked on the student paper with you in York, approx 100 years ago

Here is the resulting piece - from Leeds Student in June 2000. This was the Sound of Water tour 💛

What an absolute dream to host the Q&A with @bobpetesarah.bsky.social at Nottingham Rough Trade this week for their new (and last 😢) album, International…

I wheeled out some of my Leeds Student questions from June 2000 - will dig out the piece I wrote back then & share in replies 👇

@thebodyserve.bsky.social Thanks for a great post-US Open show… laughed out loud a few times & completely agree on the mixed dubs atrocity!

Oh my!!! What a hilarious/glorious piece of kit

I once scored a surprise Unchained Melody and filed it alongside my 25+ Common People.

Hello. And amazing! Let me hunt down the tiny tape…

A pure beaut, this 🧡

"Echobelly pissed all over Oasis as a live band"

A choice quote of @jamesbpcook.bsky.social's in this double interview we did for @drownedinsound.org about the *other* Britpop... 🙌

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Inside the other Britpop 30 years since Blur beat Oasis in the Battle of Britpop, two authors explore being both inside and outside the mid-90s music explosion

New: 30 years on from the britpop wars, two authors in the thick of it, one a teenage fan, the other in a band you’ve somehow never heard of

@annadoble.bsky.social and @jamesbpcook.bsky.social on The Other #Britpop www.drownedinsound.org/inside-the-o...

Inside the other Britpop 30 years since Blur beat Oasis in the Battle of Britpop, two authors explore being both inside and outside the mid-90s music explosion

Two authors speak out about Britpop! My joint interview with the brilliant @annadoble.bsky.social www.drownedinsound.org/inside-the-o...