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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?...

#PavementThursday That Malkmus guy wrote weird stuff! "Take me down from the ridge where the summer ends Watch the city spread out just like a jet's flame I've got a secret for you, I cut your angel in two I left her bleeding and soaked it with a dry sponge..." youtu.be/juBemqOmpLg?...

At Bromley v Cheltenham tonight. 1-0 up early on 👍

#FallFriday Buying some natty threads today, then beer 🍺 "You gotta know what you look like nowadays, before you go out Or some existential crap will write about you They say don't drink alcohol You gotta know what you look like, oh!, before you go out Know, look, look" youtu.be/GZxoW-jW_uA?...

#PavementThursday Coastal erosion. Lots of houses lost, bought by dreamers. Sad, really 😐 "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/OwQQ3sSPl7M?...

Tunbridge Wells stage minus Al Murray, due in 15 mins or so. Should be fun 🙂

#FallFriday Have had pneumatic drills on the go near the office all week. So much so that I still hear it in my sleep 🤨 "Seep to sleep The drill scaffold starts Power drill dog bark renovate stone blast Screw it up to do it..." youtu.be/Qu7-U1v2J1w?...

#PavementThursday "I'm up on a hill top where I keep you in sight, my little toys I buried you because the sun will melt them..." youtu.be/UBHovUJwfSU?...

Has to be said: some older groups still kick a fuck of a lot of arse! 🙂 Lydia Lunch & Big Sexy Noise at Corsica tonight

#FallFriday Nearly, after about 238 days, at the end of the World's Longest Month 🙄 "Unbrainwash today October gives way to Christmas January Calendar What gets in the way It was a very good month last week..." youtu.be/VwAyocb3A8A?...

#PavementThursday "Manmade deltas and concrete rivers The south takes what the north delivers..." youtu.be/XEwe8PdfF_U?...

Bromley v Crewe tonight. 0-0, early doors. Lots of home pressure

#FallFriday Day off for the birthday of Mrs S!...except it's looking more than likely I'll have to go in to work 😕 "Why don't you tell me? Next time you ring Why don't you tell me Next time you ring Why don't you tell me? All leave's cancelled again..." youtu.be/5pR3e4Xg92c?...

#PavementThursday "I knew he liked to talk about himself But he wanted the whole world to know. It made me sick inside I just gotta hold back..." youtu.be/QT9JxkiLImU?...

#FallFriday Off to the quacks this a.m. Don't you get worried...🙂 "And Doctor Boring says you are very ill And your top-knot is in the region of your soul I was in a vortex, I was heading for a fall I'll tell you Life just bounces so don't you get worried at all..." youtu.be/UzBABzF9tF0?...

#PavementThursday 'Tis the season for lots of colds & coughs! "Maybe she is Maybe she's not Maybe we is We's hack cough Wheeze hack cough..." youtu.be/mA611kd-YJs?...

#FallFriday New position in new town makes for less than desirable driving experiences...🤨 Good toon, mind 👍 "Rear-view mirror - it's all behind you A present gone mad Tra tra la, follow, track that lava Past, present gone mad Passable..." youtu.be/WD_HDGWILfo?...

#PavementThursday Have been booking holidays! 🙂 "But I could trickle, I could flood A voice coach taught me to sing He couldn't teach me to love All the above. Easy-talking, border blocking Transport is arranged..." youtu.be/glYz2G76Wfc?...

#FallFriday Prior to attending the recent Fallen Women gig, I was asked which song I'd sing. It would be this. Lots of lyrics 🙂 "The working class has been shafted So what the fuck you sneering at? Your prerogative in life it seems Is living out an ad man's dream..." youtu.be/V3pFwtMuMMA?...

The Fallen Women pt the Second. Every time I tell people that these evenings are really good fun, I get a def sideways look. "Really, Shayne?! 🤔" Really. Really, really! 🙂 I am most definitely up for next year, which will be my 5th. Hope they keep at it. Thanks everyone ❤️

A very good evening at @thelexingtonlondon.bsky.social tonight, viewing The Fallen Women (yet again! 🙂) so far. Have bumped into @darren157.bsky.social and @chopstopfives.bsky.social as, let's face it, expected! 😄 Great evening, more to come

#FallFriday Getting a bit stir-crazy. Cemetery, pub, then grub beckons. These lines in isolation work well with the current mood 🙂 "Drinkers from the Slaughterhouse Weren't happy and went out Noise resounds aloud Noise resounds the lounge..." youtu.be/gnaTH2k1hnE?...

Hmmm...interesting. Mrs S just called me from the bedroom (no, not that interesting!) to 'deal with' a spider...whilst I am watching one of the many, many, 'Spiderman' films! To save the spider from a death worse than fate, I saved the spider. Turns out he or she is unusual: a fake widow! 🙂

#PavementThursday One to wake up those having a post Xmas lunch snooze. "Did you remember in December That I won't need you when I'm gone And if I go there, I won't stay there Because I'm sitting here too long I've been sitting here too long And I've been wasted..." youtu.be/lPvhKV3Yg2k?...

Cooking Wars, a battle of one idiot vs an evil empire of spuds, meat, veggie equivalents, and assorted greens, has commenced. Last year's theme was cats, this year: bats. Also, cider 👍🍺 Wish me luck 🤞

#PavementThursday Courtesy Winter. "It's late winter, let's sink the ship, Mix our blood, just the tip A crip is sleeping on the basement stairs Oh, I know he's there Oh, I know he's there We are underused We are underused, yeah..." youtu.be/4po2WiSNN0g?...

Just going through the archives. One for @jslovechild.bsky.social to peruse. Got to love the optimism that the 'Bank Holiday crowds...' would 'flock' through the turnstiles for the Cup clash with those cobbling giants, Northampton Town. Even Tommy Steele cheering the Lions on! 🙂

#FallFriday Pre-Xmas meds received. Hopeful of using less than ness. "And Pierce Brosnan how dare you prescribe Sad grief and bed wet pills? Good grief bed wet Sad grief bed wet Pills..." youtu.be/DnazLby_e4Y?...

Scala soiree no3: Heartworms Ms Orme enters the stage and begins with some silhouetted tai chi moves to heavy drum/bass/synth/guitar accompaniment. Loudest gig I've attended in a while. "Turn it up!" shouted a non-Shayne crowd wit. Good stuff, it has to be said 👍

Scala evening pt the 2nd: The Jacques. Good spoof intensive tuning of a purdy green Strat for about 10 mins before stagetime, only to drop it and play an even purdier white guitar with extra shiny buttons. Made me laugh, anyway 🙂

Evening all. Back from The Scala. 1st up: Funhaus Make a good racket but, if you're going to wear a lumberjack shirt & baggy cargo pants combo, don't keep proffering us your unsightly backside. Not a good look...😕