Manchester-bound... 🤔 Like 'egg-bound' but full of Manchester? 🙂 See some of you #FallFriday crowd later 👋 "Go down Manchester town Can't navigate it The club scene, man You can't compare with it One third of security is cows I can't understand that..." youtu.be/wd8YEV4F2Lo?...

#PavementThursday 'My hands shook, down and out I've got the blisters of the world World new I name the book after you...' youtu.be/_8Go2050EhY?...

#FallFriday "Who are the riff makers? Who are they really? How old are the stars, really? Halfwit philanthropist, cosy charity gig If God could see this he'd stick it They stick it in the gut..." youtu.be/wvPC7-inuyY?...

#PavementThursday It's all about the weather 'I am the only one Searching for you And if I get caught Then the search is through And the stories you hear, you know they never add up I hear the natives fussing at the data chart Be quiet, the weather's on the night news' youtu.be/i2eYo433JRA?...

We came, we saw.

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Here early to see Sugar. Haven't seen @bobmouldmusic.bsky.social Bob in almost 10yrs, so it's good to be back 🙂

Just watching a repeat of Whitehouse & Mortimer and realising that I'm on exactly the same cocktail of meds that he is, with the exception of senna to 'make me go'. Probably be on that next 🙄

Day 20 #FiveAlive Let’s mix it up a little. Give me your 5 favourite Steve Hanley basslines. #TheFall

#FallFriday Driving home with the windows down, a bee flew in and landed on my crotch. Cue emergency stop! 😯 "And bees are waiting for honey And I'm putting it on the back-burner for now Cos everybody's racing and fawning and skiving And honey I'm waiting for you..." youtu.be/c-wmTOeuTJw?...

#PavementThursday "So what does it mean, a mistake or two? If it's the kind of mistakes no one can trace To the fountain where we sold it And held them hanging..." youtu.be/x74e-RWQP1w?...

#FallFriday Some people keep virtual eyes on X, MumsNet, or whatever. It bores me shitless... "Paper local, drunken scandal Publish your address as well Locals surround where you dwell Old ladies confiscate your gate railings for government campaigns..." youtu.be/WACm7qiWpzk?...

#PavementThursday 1st Thursday back from hols. The people sitting next to us on the plane home were from Perth, Australia. Hope they're enjoying the weather... 🌩🌩 🙄 youtu.be/GRmSoEM16eA?...

Observations From Hols #4, a mercifully short series as the police have requested me to, um, 'pack it in, you twat'. Ok, I get that slaying a beautiful stag is, thankfully, no longer the done thing. But...bringing it down with a bow & arrow whilst wearing the tights and skirt outfit? Come on! 🤨

Observations From Hols #3 If Kenneth Williams were to be reincarnated as a horse. I mean...look at those nostrils! Man wearing Mickey Mouse's apprentice wizard outfit: "Kenneth! Is that you as a horse?" Horse: "Ooh, neigh!" I should get a life...🙄 (Managed to delete this by mistake 😞)

Observations From Hols#2 in a series the critics are already calling for the plug to be pulled on. See...I always thought the lp was called 'Odelay' 🤔

Observations From Hols #1 in a mercifully short series: Wonder what Nicey is doing nowadays? 🤔

9yrs ago to the minute, me and Mrs S were supping up in the pub and heading to the Mayor's office in Wells to get married. Now we're in a park on Budapest, drinking beers, soaking up the sun. Life, currently, is sweet ❤️

#FallFriday Toothache and no sleep. Also, no drugs to alleviate same. No sleep, just pain "You are a piece of slop Can't say it any better You took a TV and nailed it to the bench of a jeweller Your mum's moustache needs fixing Dad's washing up for one Ketamine Sun..." youtu.be/9VKPdmkb5SQ?...

I was just trying to show Mrs S a picture of a dog, so I put 'Dog' into the search thingy...and this came up! I think it mistook "dog" for "Fallen Women gig with Stewart Lee singing" As you do. Good pic, mind 👍

Local pub in today's capital: Budapest Note shabby chic look...beer not so shabby, thankfully.

Morning from Vienna. That their Klimt geezer sure did do some stuff...

#FallFriday Having just signed up for a walking tour of Manchester in June with Funky Si, this lyric popped into my head: "I had a dream Bruised and coloured It's going to hurt me Manchester city centre Caroline, take me back I can't get the bus..." youtu.be/75HQXN1MGKI?...

#PavementThursday I've posted this before, but we'll all be paying for air, someday 🤨 "Buy now Develop the coast and raise the Sight lines, the oceans are moving out and Someday develop the coast and sell the air You know if we could we'd sell the air..." youtu.be/xSMr7TqVT28?...

@davidkbruce.bsky.social Happy Birthday, David 🙂

I get email ads, saying "Hey, Shayne! Don't miss...", followed by a list of bands that sound like they're 'Just 3 Words' directions: 'Rainbow Kitten Surprise Ninja Sex Party Not Worth Watching' Ok, the last one I made up, but you get the idea. They ought to say "Hey, Shayne! Please *do*miss" 🤨

#FallFriday Don't get enthusiasm for the weekend anymore. Age, dammit! 🙂 "When what used to excite you does not Like you've used up all your allowance of experiences Head filled with a mass of too well-known people..." youtu.be/oFO70oGChQU?...

#PavementThursday "Crowds of the people and voices And steeples and wedding rings Wild are the horses and break-up divorces And separate rooms from..." youtu.be/ATRP1KZ_z1U?...

#FallFriday "Welcome to U.S. eighties nineties I'm the big-shot original rapper But it's time for me to get off this crapper..." youtu.be/_eKubcGOdvQ?...

#PavementThursday As a man in retail, some things are important! "Just cause I'm faking Doesn't mean I'm wrong Cause I bought my price, yeah No I got it at cost And there's the things I know Wrote them down on your nib Just remember turning..." youtu.be/NNIY6fNKD5g?...

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#FallFriday A happy 40th Birthday to Terri, one of my many, many nieces: The littlest, sarkiest rebel! 🙂 "Her tormentors jet past in Nissans She says "Are those cars? Are those shoes?" She consigns them all to hell She's the littlest rebel..." youtu.be/l71xa_AI_ik?...

#PavementThursday "And I wouldn't want to shake their hands 'Cause they're in such a high protein land Because there's forty different shades of black So many fortresses and ways to attack So why you complaining, ta?" youtu.be/tLfVYYlhkfY?...

We should all hide and release a load of monkeys in suits of armour when they come back from the moon.

What a VERY special weekend we have in store for sure! 50 years of The Fall at Band on the Wall, Manchester, 5-7 June. Walks, Talks, Music, Film, Exhibition, Performance & more! All details & Weekend Passes here: tinyurl.com/y7xexv9s We canNOT wait! 👍👍❤️👍👍

#PavementThursday A Thursday beauty 🙂 "Hold on tight she wears the seek It's got more stars than the sky It's still forbidden to excuse That little look in your eye I was busted in my gut that time That time I said "I know it's true" Why didn't I ask? Why didn't I ask?" youtu.be/TTdZ0YAKhzE?...

Buy this Bowie card which documents his ch-ch-ch-ch-changes at www.etsy.com/shop/8bitnorthxstitch & while you’re at it have a squizz at my Bowie & Faithfull one too…

#PavementThursday On my morning walk, I passed a slightly beaten character on the bench he'd possibly slept on, singing some terrible song, terribly. Hence: "My hands shook Down and out I've got the blisters of the world World new I name the book after you..." youtu.be/4lixisaopNI?...

#FallFriday A thought: I'm going to the Futures and Pasts festival in Manchester in June. Anyone else? It would be nice to know and good to see some of you there 🙂 📸 The Fall gigography youtu.be/KORHSPE0M7k?...

#PavementThursday Like some, but certainly not all, things in life... "Down in Santa Rosa over the Bay Across the grapevine to LA We've got deserts, we've got trees We've got the hills of Beverly Let's burn the hills of Beverly..." youtu.be/XEwe8PdfF_U?...

An unexpected trip down memory lane just now: must be a good 40 years since I last saw someone smoking an ordinary, common or garden, pipe! But, just now, on the Broadway, this chap!

#FallFriday Kershaw! "The last Briton on the street He's in a radio fuzz He's dead and beat No longer reflects our daft fate We'll leave this city Hit a quick coach, take the town in Surrey There's no-one here but crooks and death Kerb crawlers, of the worst order..." youtu.be/1cVegCDlbkA?...

#PavementThursday Nearly forgot! 🙄 "To those above take us out Throw us down shove us out We get down so so hard But your vulgar display Caught me off guard Cold cold boy with an American heart Gonna run in and lock up the shots again..." youtu.be/P073hktunRM?...

#FallFriday A song released at a time when another US prez decided to dip his toes in the Gulf, replacing one regime with another. Expect similar death & destruction here. "This is the spring without end This is the summer of malcontent This is the winter of your mind..." youtu.be/dPEyswZ1cCI?...

#PavementThursday "So much for destiny A pin prick on my knee The frost you paint across our dead affair I sensed the toxic aura From the second we touched..." youtu.be/jtZrRnRVpnU?...

Hmmm 🤔 It was about this time of day, 48yrs ago today, that my next door neighbour arrived at our front door with my little sister in floods of tears, to tell me that my dad had suffered a fatal heart attack. Off to raise a drink or two to him...

#FallFriday "Some people think happy is way to live Some men want to cram up to women I've been down that street before It just makes meat out of the soul..." youtu.be/qldB_k-c_6c?...

#PavementThursday One of only three or four tracks I could be arsed to listen to when the album it came from was released. Still my least played Pavement lp. But, hey: youtu.be/7qsHVvKvr2I?...

A pleasant evening in the company, yet again, of @darren157.bsky.social @chopstopfives.bsky.social and @kedwondo.bsky.social , this time viewing The Nightingales. First up: Thomas Truax What to say? A largely unique experience. Think Heath Robinson meets David Lynch. Odd music and instruments!

#FallFriday Something Andrew M-W will be feeling at the mo... "Everything is broken because of grist that curtails Get the Western on, stick with family At the lodge At the lodge At the lodge..." youtu.be/7cKnJxa0kls?...