If you haven’t listened to the remarkable songs of Jake Thackray, you are missing out. The same is true of his wonderful prose. #TheUnsungWriter www.paulthompsonmusic.co.uk/product-page...

BBC4’s unimaginative music programming hits a new low this evening: two episodes of Top of the Pops 1976, and the first three songs in the 2nd programme were all in the previous one, minutes earlier.Truly taking the p*ss. #TOTP

Discover the comic and poetic genius of Jake Thackray in 2026. This new CD is a great place to start: youtu.be/FRlGoNu4eRA?...

#EmojiSounds #MusicChallenge Day 31 - 💃 …Elizabeth Jones and Lily O’Grady And three or four more married ladies Are frantically dancing naked for Beelzebub. Jake Thackray - The Castleford Ladies Magic Circle www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3T8...

We do presents at teatime on Christmas eve, so I've got presents! Look, a watch and a Jake Thackray CD! Also some shirts!

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe Jake Thackray: 🎵 Remember Bethlehem #6music #JakeThackray ▶️ 🪄 Automagic 🔊 show 📻 playlist on Spotify #NowPlaying▶️ Song on #Spotify:

Spread some joy with the genius of Jake Thackray: youtu.be/FRlGoNu4eRA?...

Happy Christmas. Here is my favourite version of Jake Thackray’s beautiful song, ‘Joseph’. youtu.be/GzqtyX-rZOM?...

We lost Jake 23 years ago today. Since then, it has become a tradition to raise a glass in his memory at 8pm on Christmas Eve. I’ll be doing so this year, listening to the Lost Archives CD. In the meantime, here is The Last Will and Testament of Jake Thackray: youtu.be/0OWdT-i4GFE?...

Hear me talking about Jake Thackray and playing songs from the new Lost Archives CD on Radio Warrington here: www.mixcloud.com/AndyGreen990...

@cerysmatthews.bsky.social Hi Cerys, we’ve just released this new 2-CD Jake Thackray collection. More lost treasures! youtu.be/FRlGoNu4eRA?...

@countryjim.bsky.social Are you aware of this? youtu.be/FRlGoNu4eRA?...

And it's not like I've not done my share of obsessing over detail in Jake Thackray songs. I've bored more than one person senseless with how the pronoun choices (we and she) in The Black Swan make it one of the most heartbreaking songs I've ever heard

I shall be with Nadine on Radio Warrington this evening from 8pm, playing songs and talking about the new Jake Thackray Lost Archives CD. Lots of listening options here, including DAB and online: radiowarrington.co.uk

There’s still time to make a Jake Thackray fan very happy this Christmas…or, indeed, make someone into a Jake Thackray fan. #LostArchives #JakeThackray #NewCD #songwritinggenius youtu.be/FRlGoNu4eRA?...

Aaaaand...relax. #LovelyPost

Apparently it was still being used to count sheep in Yorkshire when I was a little kid, I first heard it from this strange little song by Jake Thackray youtu.be/TiXINuf5nbI?...

The fabulous new Jake Thackray rarities CD collection is now out. #JakeThackray Here is a flavour: youtu.be/FRlGoNu4eRA?...

Here is something to whet your appetite for the wonderful new Jake Thackray CD set: youtu.be/FRlGoNu4eRA?...

The new Jake Thackray CD collection has just landed. Available only from the Jake Thackray website.

#EmojiSounds 1️⃣1️⃣ 🗽 Isabel Makes Love Upon National Monuments - Jake Thackray I’m sure The Statue Of Liberty will finally succumb... tiny.cc/sftv001 The Forth Bridge, The Cenotaph, Balmoral and Wembley. The British Museum and the House of Lords. So many ticks in her National Trust catalogue,

Jake Thackray - Bantam Cock It was a grand upstanding bantam cock, So brisk and stiff and spry, With springy step and jaunty plume And a purposeful look in his eye, In his little black blinking eye, he had.

Tracklisting for new Jake Thackray rarities album, available only from www.jakethackray.com.

@gidcoe.bsky.social All the info on the new Jake Thackray release…including The TISWAS Song…https://jakethackray.com/product/the-lost-archives-1966-1996-2cd/

@gidcoe.bsky.social NewJake Thackray 2-CD set of BBC rarities and previously unreleased songs. Available for pre-order exclusively from Jake Thackray website.

North Country 12/20 "North Country Song (Rain on the Mountainside)" www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2MS... Written by Jake Thackray #MusicSky #folkmusic 🎶

If you like the songs of Jake Thackray, check out his quirky, entertaining prose in this new anthology. #JakeThackray #UnsungWriter www.paulthompsonmusic.co.uk/product-page...

Let’s start by bringing down Farage.

No Black Friday nonsense, merely the new Jake Thackray album, available for pre-order from the Thackray website. More than 2 hours of fabulous rarities for £13 plus p+p.

Well, this looks great: a Jake Thackray broadcast rarities collection just in time for Christmas. jakethackray.com/product/the-...

Tracklisting for the new Jake Thackray CD collection. Only one of these 48 tracks has been released on CD before. Most have been unheard for decades. Pre-order from the Jake Thackray website.

One of the many treats on the new Jake Thackray Lost Archives 1966-1996 CD collection is a rare live performance of the beautiful ‘Lullaby’, with a different tune and moving spoken introduction. Here is the original studio version. youtu.be/nnpu2iivjhs?...

Calling all Jake Thackray fans! Pre-orders now being taken for The Lost Archives 1966-1996. #JakeThackray jakethackray.com/product/the-...

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. New Jake Thackray release coming soon…

youtu.be/LEA0TILcL2A?... I can't tell you how much I love this song by Jake Thackray, about how much he loves his wife, and about his pipe-based micro-resistances against his bastard landlord.

Give us another pint, one more pint Landlord of your very, very, best bitter beer We'll be here all night Jake Thackray- The Black Swan open.spotify.com/track/7bNTrJ...

This week's 4 Extra repeat of "Great Live" - Isy Suttie chooses Jake Thackray. Broadcast tomorrow, but already available to hear www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

The greatest anti-war song ever written. The Remembrance by Jake Thackray. youtu.be/o9g4GTr3sjE?...

They say that writing can be therapy. Here is my latest song, I Never Fancied Florida. A true story… #FloridaMan youtu.be/cgUdNKc5_tE?...

Georges Brassens - Le Gorille https://youtu.be/s9NQlhId3ow?si=pTXxlv7ENvJROBbm Fabrizio de Andrè - Il gorilla https://youtu.be/k4DUouE3D0Y?si=ri6nTygZ9WMnKAY1 Jake Thackray - Brother Gorilla https://youtu.be/gvoajDAOHkc?si=Llx4zQ2vBzrM9cbq Ο ΓΟΡΙΛΑΣ - Χρήστος Θηβαίος […]

The perfect Jake Thackray song to set you up for the day. #Halloween youtu.be/Z3T8lgRe6FQ?...

#Howl-A-Ween #MusicChallenge Witchy 🧙 🐈 🧹 2️⃣0️⃣ Lots of witch goings on here The Castleford Ladies Magic Circle - Jake Thackray tiny.cc/i70u001 And after the witches' picnic and the devil's grog After their savage pantings, their hysterical leap-frog

BBC Radio 2 Liza Tarbuck Now Playing Jake Thackray The Hair Of The Widow Of Bridlington

Jake Thackray fans in the Toronto area on 2nd October might enjoy this event at the Free Times Cafe: www.freetimescafe.com/entertainment

Nice to read this about Jake Thackray - The Unsung Writer in The Oldie magazine.

Jake Thackray - The Unsung Writer on the music BUSINESS…

Great to hear Thea Gilmore talking about Jake Thackray here: youtu.be/mG5TAjpY80o?...

#GoodAcoustics #MusicChallenge Day 21 (belated) Jake Thackray - 'Sister Josephine' youtu.be/6p8cIjqBFls?...

Delighted to see these customer reviews of Jake Thackray - The Unsung Writer. Available from bookshops, or my website and my publisher’s with free UK delivery, if you prefer to avoid Amazon.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CerysMatthews Jake Thackray: 🎵 Old Molly Metcalfe #6music #JakeThackray ▶️ 🪄 Automagic 🔊 show 📻 playlist on Spotify #NowPlaying▶️ Song on #Spotify: