Apparently I was at a Teenage Fanclub gig in Leeds 35 years ago today. My only memory is that the drummer seemed quite drunk. Or maybe that was me?

Ahh yes the game that is also an answer to the question "why is Elon Musk like that?"

When will the anti-Burton hate crime stop?

I know Nestle are evil, but I just found out that they have started to sell Golden Grahams again in the UK and I can stop having to fly to Spain to get them. I almost burst into tears in Home Bargains #forgiveme

every company in 2025

this must've been so annoying before computers

Sometimes it's just best to look at pictures of Billy Mackenzie with his whippets and be happy

Halloween. A time for everybody

If this is how Simply Red "celebrate" then I'd hate to see what they'd do to us as punishment

POP QUIZ: All of these artists have one thing in common. What is it? Joan Armatrading Deep Purple Television Alice In Chains Pixie Lott Velvet Underground Sublime Abba Supergrass

The @normanrecords.com reviews of Mark Kozelek albums were always objectively better than actually listening to the albums

🧵 It is exactly a year ago since the general election. Labour have turned out to be a massive disappointment, the Tories have almost vanished into obscurity, and Reform are still twats. Here's a little story from last year from when the Conservatives wanted me to work for them.

Objectively brilliant comedy. Love it!

@alfsplaining.bsky.social bit of Bulgarian ALFmorabilia for you from Sofia yessterday

What a difference 30 years makes

The new Pope's name is an anagram of St. Robo-Pervert. Makes you think eh?

This Renaldo & The Loaf doc is fantastic. They manage to make music that is simultaneously unlistenable and insanely catchy. And lovely blokes too. Recommended if you want to remind yourself that the world isn't all awful bastards watch.amazon.co.uk/detail?gti=a...

So @frankosonic.bsky.social has made an absolutely gorgeous cover of my song I Wish There Were Two of Me 🥹 ...and it's released today on his new covers compilation Not Myself! Check it out 👉 frankiemachine.bandcamp.com/album/not-hi... #BandcampFriday

Finally got my act together long enough to sort out my Covers album. 😱 @petegreensolo.com @mjhibbett.bsky.social #lauv @wilcohq.bsky.social #björk @weddingpresent.bsky.social #theflaminglips #orangejuice #sparklehorse #christinaaguilera @bunnymen.com frankiemachine.bandcamp.com/album/not-hi...

This is the picture from The Face that the The The Soul Mining cover was painted from!

Told elderly neighbour my son was a big fan of Minecraft. She looked horrified. Very awkward conversation followed as I claimed it was all good fun and helped develop children's creativity, until it became apparent she thought I'd said Mein Kampf.

Discussing the song "Our House" at cross-purposes led me to waste 10 minutes doing this rubbish joke

I love this channel - a seemingly never-ending stream of London gigs from 1996-2003. So much "we've finally made it - we're playing LONDON!" energy in every performance. And so many woeful "pin in a dictionary" band names. www.youtube.com/@videosecond...

I knew it!

Happy Easter Weekend

Terry Wogan. "He won over their women" 🤔

RIP Clem Burke - let's not forget that this was a man who loved being in Blondie so much that he even joined a Blondie tribute band. Legend www.youtube.com/watch?v=aE95...

The answer to everything, I'm increasingly convinced, is to read more fiction books. Spending time in different people's head is a regular soak in an empathy bath. Not even left/right, but how does the world look like from the position of a child? An old person? Different gender? A different time?

If you was on the mountain top and me, down in a coal mine i'd think of you, and then my light would shine darlin', I still could not forget you then www.youtube.com/watch?v=3C73...

Have you tried closing your mouth and doing it through your nostrils?

RIP Gene Hackman Let's pay our respects with the classic Gene Hackman trilogy Gene Hackman 1960-1980 1/3 open.spotify.com/track/7tYNKV...

Disabled access in small venues is a MASSIVE problem. Small bands ask yourselves - why are there no wheelchair users at this gig? I'm looking at you Nottingham Bodega for a start... 1/2

Tech bros: A.I. is the future. We'll be so much more efficient if we use it. A.I.:

Deleted my twitter account at last. That felt good.

This was in LAST WEEK'S Private Eye. It's like they knew...

Why did I not know that there was a 'Minder' game on ZX Spectrum?? Some great instructions 9. Terry can be hired as a Minder. Say to Terry: "Terry, be my minder" www.minder.org/mindplay/min...

Here's "AI Guy", about those people who keeping going on about AI but don't really understand what it is. All re-posts, shares, likes, mentions to strangers on buses etc v much appreciated! www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkw3...

Every time I hear Your Woman by White Town I'm reminded of how astonishing the story behind it is. Bloke makes a record in bedroom, sends it to fringe Radio 1 DJ who by chance is just about to do holiday cover in a higher profile slot... #totp

My Nectar Unwrapped is here! HASHTAG SO PROUD

@dankackroyd.bsky.social sorry, but there are some things you just don't mess with. Absolute sacrilege

1995 I signed up to a mailserv called sick-n-tired which I think may have been tangentially related to Sebadoh somehow? My British brain was blown by chatting to American indie music fans. I used to sneak the modem home from work in my bag so I could post at night

Fun fact! 2025 is a square year (45×45=2025). The last one was 1936, and the next one won't be until 2116.

That famous British saying, yes #omgosh

Anyone with less than a few million Spotify streams a year is at the bottom of a horrible pyramid scheme, sorry 🤷‍♂️ So many great quotes here but “You might have a billion streams on something, but you've no way of reaching anyone who's streamed it - does that not seem a bit weird to you?”

Someone is in for the best Christmas ever

I'm only on track 2 (the one about Rupert the reindeer) and it's already better than most xmas songs. AI overlords...just take me humancurated.bandcamp.com/album/ai-chr...

r/backpain has been radicalized