@simonsmith.bsky.social
Journalist. Ex-Trinity Mirror, Manchester Evening News, etc. ‘I don’t know the sort of people who know the date’ MDANT in Madrid. Pop music mainly.
- Mine
- My old work mobile
- The house I grew up in
- The Chorley Citizen offices
- Swap Shop
Fuck. Me.
13.10.2025 21:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
AI Overview helpful as ever.
13.10.2025 21:51 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0He should keep his eyes wide. The chance won’t come again.
13.10.2025 21:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Suppose there’s a slight chance he might turn up to read?
13.10.2025 21:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Forever. Even after he headlines Glastonbury with Art. Which will happen.
13.10.2025 21:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Well, not even discovering it. Really.
13.10.2025 17:39 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Credit to the writing I think. And us as parents, of course.
13.10.2025 11:59 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Oh, I can still do my repertoire of voices for the Mr Gum books. Particularly proud of Alan Taylor, the gingerbread millionaire.
13.10.2025 11:00 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0‘Little doubt’ that JC’s ‘entourage’ are to blame, but DEFINITELY not JC himself. Hmmm… ok.
13.10.2025 09:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0#TheTwen2ie5
Day 13.
Low - Days Like These (US 2021)
Tricks you into thinking it’s a return to ‘old Low’ for a minute and a half. Then, bam! The way they reacted to ‘days like these’ by leaning into static, noise and distortion is perfect art.
Back to Pop tomorrow.
youtu.be/d8QiSZRX8dA?...
My parents talk about Paul Robeson as well (listening to, not seeing). He seemed to have a massive impact on left-ish aspirational-ish Britain.
12.10.2025 21:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0#TheTwen2ie5
Day 12.
Wet Leg - Chaise Longue (UK 2021)
This would have killed on a Wednesday night at Wigan Pier. Stupid fun.
youtu.be/Zd9jeJk2UHQ?...
Any thoughts on One, which I actually love.
11.10.2025 21:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Bono. Bono. Mate. Bono…
… stop exaggerating.
To Ibiza. Woah!
11.10.2025 19:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Hmmm. Odd. The etiquette should really be ‘it’s your feed and you can filter it as you want’. The complication is that there is no irl equivalent to ‘block’.
Anyway, I’ve just reworded the problem with no idea of a solution. Apologies.
Tricky. I’d imagine that if it’s got to that stage then it might be obvious to the person why they are blocked. Rather than just tolerated or muted.
11.10.2025 17:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I know it’s not the biggest take-away of the whole Ian Watkins horror story, but honestly, being ‘rock’ is not impressive. Guitars. Tattoos. Meh.
11.10.2025 17:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0He’s morphing into Scott Walker.
11.10.2025 17:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Duo is cursed. Or sexy. No, cursed.
11.10.2025 17:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Istanbul Airport gives the impression it wants to attract these people. Totally soul-less and massively expensive. I imagine Sochi is similar.
11.10.2025 08:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0#TheTwen2ie5
Day 11.
Kenshi Yonezu - Plazma (Japan 2025)
How many notes and ideas can you fit into one song? Let’s find out…
youtu.be/fp3F6TqBsAU?...
Possibly the only biology teacher anecdote that doesn’t involve the word ‘gonads’.
10.10.2025 21:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0America - Simon & Garfunkel (10)
America - West Side Story ost (10)
20.
Over and out.
I mean, it’s no Chelsea Dagger.
10.10.2025 17:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0It’s up there.
10.10.2025 16:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Your ‘take’ means absolutely nothing.
10.10.2025 16:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I got Smiley Culture’s Police Officer and two Greensleeves compilations (and a Trouble Funk album) from a corner-shop newsagents that had a couple of trays of records, in a small town with no particularly large Caribbean presence. It was just around.
10.10.2025 16:52 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Strong ‘bear’ vibes in that pic.
10.10.2025 15:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
