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The Blue Nile!

Hundreds of thousands of people take to the streets of Rome in solidarity with Gaza.

Fair enough. It looks legit this time around. Cliff's drummer!

Shazam told me it's Weeny Bopper by Brian Bennett.

Thanks for this. I'll be sure to listen as my Battisti knowledge is slim. Have found your piece on The Quietus and I'm here for all your Italian music recs. Ta.

YouTube video by MrAnimaLatina E Già - Lucio Battisti

Have made a YouTube playlist of Italian 20th-century pop superstar Lucio Battisti's later work, after he'd stopped working with lyricist Mogol and including his 'dischi bianchi' ('white albums'), because of their sleeve design www.youtube.com/watch?v=17x8...

Award winning Italian Drama! Chosen as #FilmOfTheDay in @RadioTimes @RadioTimesFilm

⭐ NIGHT OF THE SHOOTING STARS (1982) tonight at 10:55pm. Italian with English #TPTVsubtitles

YouTube video by Wilco - Topic War on War

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It's a war on war.

A landscape photo taken from a farm track close to Monte Michele between Rome and Formello.

Pretty grim out there this morning.

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Yep, we failed to buy anything because the queues were too big. It's interesting that it's mainly Italians and they're pushing around trolleys piled high. It seems to do good business.

Just ate some pizza a taglio there which was acceptable but not cheap. Yep, it's interesting but not great to navigate.

You join us live from Danny Dyer’s birthday drinks.

I know him. I would have been working for Virgin or Our Price at the time Shleep came out and I would have heard it then. Subsequently I only ever listened to Rock Bottom and bits of Matching Mole etc.

YouTube video by Jane Doe Cristina Donà feat. Robert Wyatt - Goccia [videoclip ufficiale]

Thank you. I spent all day listening to this album thanks to your prompt. Then I learnt that Tears for Fears had covered Sea Song and then I watched this youtu.be/Qvp1UtVzi6Q

A photo of Reginald Pole's chapel on the Appia Antica in Rome.

Fans of Reginald Pole may be pleased to see that his little chapel on the Appia Antica has been fully restored. It doesn't look big enough to contain his beard but it is quite sweet.

Nicole / Overwhelmed by the Unexplained, by Nino Gvilia 10 track album

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#nowplaying (even though she isn't from Georgia and does not exist)

I went to Kendrick and SZA recently and, after finding myself being squashed by the mosh pit, moved to the back where I watched loads of fans reciting every lyric and going crazy. This was great. Fontaines too, watching all the Italians singing along was wonderful.

I wonder what this reshuffle will mean for our ambassador here in Rome. Who was due to go at work with Lammy at the Foreign Office.

Oh I see. My first E too. IIRC. First train back to Manc afterwards.

Sorry?

Named after the Liverpool night? (which I managed to get to once)

FWIW, the Heritage Foundation has a journalism fellowship named after the Guardabassi family. The male head of that family was one of Mussolini's emissaries in the US in the 1930s, and his wife "Countess Guardabassi" was one of the leading funders of US antisemites and neo-Nazis in the 1950s-60s.

Saw this and managed to paint the red cross before the museum guards ushered me out.

They look like arms and legs. Making him into a jaunty cartoon character.

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For those who are interested in Beyond Black:

YouTube video by Karl Rock Inside England’s Most Indian City 🇮🇳🇬🇧

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This video of Karl Rock wandering around Leicester's Golden Mile is cheering. Everyone seems to be having a lovely time.