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Jamie is a complete ball of energy on stage! 😎

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Winter Gardens
31st Jan 2026
Bootleg Social, Blackpool

A great start to my run of gigs for this year, with 3 gigs from Winter Gardens. Tonight's gig was the best of the three, and just wish I could see the rest of tour. Great to catch up with @peterlatimer6.bsky.social too. #WinterGardens

Not sure at the moment, but I'll certainly try to be there too 😎🖤

It's a good job we did #5albums50s60s not so long ago, as most of my top choices were debut albums 😎😂

Absolutely. I was very lucky to pick up on them after the early singles 😎

#5DebutAlbums9094

1. Prolapse - Pointless Walks To Dismal Places
2. Curve - Doppelgänger
3. Echobelly - Everybody's Got One
4. Trashcan Sinatras - Cake
5. The Heart Throbs - Cleopatra Grip

Apologies to Secret Shine, Jale, Sundays, Garbage, Natalie Merchant, STP and AIC! So many choose from 😎

My top 50 albums of 2025

#5Albums25

1. Prolapse - I Wonder When They're Going to Destroy Your Face
2. Last Of Eden - Chairoscuro
3. [slab] - Taut
4. bdrmm - Microtonic
5. IQ - Dominion

And my traditional top 50 😎

Really hope they return to Birmingham, the two times i saw them, they were mesmerising 😎

I'll be there too 😎

Glad it's not just me who had that plan 😂 I'm sure you'll be seeing some great gigs next year 😎

#5debutalbums7074

1. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
2. Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Emerson, Lake & Palmer
3. Bruce Springsteen - Greetings From Asbury Park
4. Lynyrd Skynyrd - (Pronounced 'Lĕh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd)
5. Blue Öyster Cult - Blue Öyster Cult

I remembered for once!!! 😂

They played with Ministry recently, and I was gutted that I just couldn't make it. Really looking forward to them doing a longer UK tour. Those EPs are great. 😎

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Heartbreaking to read Gary's post. His brother died on Saturday. I met John a couple of times on Gary's tours in the 90s, and he was absolutely lovely to chat to. A very sad loss.

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Just watched my BluRay edition of Gary Numan's 1000th show at The Electric Ballroom in 2023, and in the intro I spotted these two figures on the left; my mate JJ and me eating our chips, while waiting in the queue 😂

Sadly Gary had some bad news earlier in the day, and the very personal Please Push No More, took more out of him than he expected. The crowd was behind him, but whoever came on to help him, thank you for giving him the hug we all wanted to give him. Thoughts are with Gary, Raven and his whole family

@garynumanofficial.bsky.social in Brum last night was outstanding, playing almost everything recorded around his Telekon era, celebrating 45 years of the album. The light show was a masterclass for any aspiring lighting designers. Obviously a difficult night, but the whole band gave everything 😎

I'm good, been seeing a lot of great bands recently. Winter Gardens a particular favourite at the moment. Sadly Victories At Sea cancelled their gig, but have seen Night Swimming again, Nightbus, Bleach Lab and more this month!

Another week to agonise over my choices! I thought 8084 was bad, this is worse 😂😂😂 Hope work is at least stressfree this weekend 😎

They were great in Brum on Tuesday. Great album too 😎

Ah! If Richard has already okayed it then that's just blown my ordering up! I had it in my 15-19 list 😂😂

Desperate Journalist's debut was released in Jan 2015, so will have to wait until #DebutAlbums1519 😉

Peter Hook playing his bass at HMV Empire, Coventry

Peter Hook & The Light at the HMV Empire, Coventry were on top form tonight. Shadowplay was the best I've ever seen them play it. The opening set of Get Ready was great, but the selection of JD & NO tracks for the second was perfect.

Great to catchup with @katiesdisorder.bsky.social too 😎

Incidentally one of those early gigs was at Goldsmiths College in London, and the support was a relatively unknown band called Suede, back then with Justine and Justin later of Elastica fame 😎

Yeah it was definitely a great time. The first gig i saw them at was in Coventry promoting the first single. there were only 5 of us in the audience, so we ended up having a great natter to them all. After that i started following them round the uk and helping out where i could. Great memories 😊

I was at a lot of those early gigs, including filming the band at The Marquee, with Susie's cine-camera. They were a great band, with some great songs. Definitely should have been huge. I still have the demo cassette from Susie with tracks that may have ended up on the third album!

KWS seem to be acting on BlueSky's behalf. I opted for the credit card verification, but it was constantly declined, even though everything I've bought online before and after went through fine. Face scanning unnerves me, as I don't trust them to delete it afterwards, and not misuse it.

It was small, but the height was more of a problem. Not sure anyone could have seen Linda from the back! Still need to get the photos off my camera, but it looked like I got some nice ones.

I may well sleep in the car. Hotel prices are more expensive than staying in Central London!

They had some great b sides on those early singles. Got to see them play this, Late Bar and Khanada back in 1981 😎

Looks like I'll be banned from BlueSky, or have my account emptied by a scam. Anyone else been asked to authenticate via KWS?