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I patrol this website, keeping my eyes peeled for passing references to post-punk pop lyrics. 🫡

That deserved more. Every time I hear this record, I still think: ooh, “trite”, lovely work Edwyn.

THE MAGICIAN

The Prml Scrm XTRMTR live era with Mani on bass and Kevin Shields in the band played some of the best gigs I've ever seen, blew my young head off. RIP Mani.

Hahaha

Yes the Millennials were too up themselves to be known as Generation Y.

Millennials thought they knew better, which is typical of them.

“Millennials: I hate these guys.”

My knees hurt. I’m ready to go.

Like a Logan’s Run Carousel, only instead of having the little colour indicator on your wrist, it’s the first day your knees hurt for no reason and you involuntarily go “Oof” when you sit down. (This would be me)

Generation Z would thank us, that’s for sure. And every other generation.

Can’t help noticing that every year we are losing more and more members of Generation X, just when we need them most. Perhaps we should be culling Millennials to even things up a bit.

Can’t help noticing that every year we are losing more and more members of Generation X, just when we need them most. Perhaps we should be culling Millennials to even things up a bit.

Haha

Hahaha yes!

The exact same look as Peter Cook directs to the choking Dudley Moore before asking "Are you enjoying that sandwich?"

Mani RIP. x

I recall an interview where he was asked what it was like playing with Shields on stage. "I'll be watching him and just before he taps a pedal with his foot, he'll look across at me as if to say, This is REALLY going to fuck you up."

Bollocks about Mani. Now that's properly shit news. Sorry if I'm the one causing you to google.

A recent note by Nicola Beauman of Persephone Books on two women writers mention in a 1939 Observer review by L. P. Hartley: Trance by Appointment by Gertrude Trevelyan (recently reissued by Boiler House Press) and Hop, Step, and Jump by Winifred Watson (recently reissued by Persephone Books to mark its 25th anniversary). "One of the novels he wrote about was Gertrude Trevelyan's France [it's Trance, m'am] by Appointment. In it 'hardly anything happens that the characters could possibly wish to happen, and such lucid intervals as there are serve only to depend the surrounding gloom.' Now, Trevelyan was recently the subject of long articles in the London Review of Books [David Trotter, "Hippopotamus charges train," June 29, 2023] and Prospect magazine [Oliver Soden, "Gertrude Trevelyan is a novelist for the 1930s—and now," July 16, 2025]. Yes, you can feel the editors thinking, we'll commission a long piece by a young man (tick), about a woman (tick), mostly out of print (tick), a modernist writer rather than (yuck) a romantic or domestic one (tick), who very few people actually read (tick again). And we'll make sure that the writer asks, 'How did the Women's Press, Virago or Persephone, between whose olive-green or dove-grey covers she should have found a natural home, manage to miss her?' We did not miss her! The fact is she would not sell. The fact is that the weird and depressed and faintly modernist is something young male critics want to write about, but it is not something most publishers want to publish."

Writing in the latest Persephone Quarterly, founder Nicola Beauman has some venomous words for Gertrude Trevelyan and the young male critics who review her books (transcription in ALT). And for the stupid publishers who bother to reissue "the weird and depressed and faintly modernist."

One day I will recount the 'lively' conversation I had with NB about one of my favourite writers who, it transpired, was not one of her favourite writers. But not today.

Thank God for Immigrants poster opposite the Tesco on Park Road in Liverpool.

Plaudits to whoever put this poster up next to the Park Road Tesco in Toxteth.

Yes, I had the same thought: is it a crisis of confidence in authors or readers?

Three more recordings to go for your plucky co-hosts, then a rest cure.

Freaks FTW.

Graffito reading AI IS A THREAT TO ALL LIFE FORMS

Did… Did A.I. write this?

This book doesn’t have an index but if I hit Striker - which I assume was about soccer rather than industrial action - I’ll let you know.

LOL. x

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Understandably. Good nose. x