Ah, the old Derbyshire gags, you can’t beat em 😄

'Beggars Banquet' launch, Gore Hotel, Kensington, 1968. Ended in farce as Mick shoved his dessert into Brian's face and chaos ensued. First Stones record I ever bought, from my mate Gary Smith, sadly no longer with us.

You don’t actually have to both sides this. The Jewish community in the UK is not the Israeli government. You can just condemn the murder of two British Jews killed in their place of worship and you don’t have to say a single other thing.

FACT OF THE DAY. 2 October 1925. John Logie Baird, a Scottish engineer and inventor, performed the 1st test of a working TV system in his London lab where he successfully transmitted the 1st TV picture which was a greyscale image of the head of a ventriloquist’s dummy.

Just finished this terrific two parter, and today learn that Chris Dreja, the original Yardbirds bassist (whose reunion version I saw perform and who very nearly joined the band that became Led Zeppelin), has died, aged 79, after a long illness. RIP.

Happy birthday to the other Terrible Celtic Twin* of Stoke City, Terry Conroy! *Terrible as in the dressing room pranks and mischief that TC and fellow twin John Mahoney instigated, and most definitely not for their footballing abilities 😀

I wonder if I've escaped a ghastly fate.

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Happy 70th birthday to the wonderful Phil Oakey. Here are the Human League performing Being Boiled on Granada TV in 1978 youtu.be/hENt5xGR8Ng

RIP Jane Goodall ‘You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.’

Very sad to hear of the passing of zoologist, primatologist and anthropologist Jane Goodall at the age of 91. Her work has been the subject of many hundreds of television documentaries, films, wildlife series and interviews around the world. Dame Jane Morris Goodall 1934 – 2025

#OnThisDay 1963 : BBC TV launched a new ident featuring a globe. This particular style with its variants would stay on screen until 2002. *Note : BBC TV would become BBC1 the following year.

Gerry and Sylvia Anderson's Thunderbirds started 60 years ago today! @gerryanderson.bsky.social A British show that fired my imagination as a child (but 20 years later). A childhood that stays with me thanks to the Thunderbird 2 replica in my office. 😌

The week just started, and we already need a timeline cleanse.... A #Roman pot with ears and a funny little face (it looks like Shaun the Sheep). Found in a burial in the necropolis of Giubiasco, Switzerland 2nd century AD. 📷 Schweizerisches Nationalmuseum #archaeology 🏺

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An article on The Undertones by Dave McCullough and Pics by Roge/Alternative Ulster in Sounds 30th September 1978.

Remembering Marc on his birthday

The Undertones 'Teenage Kicks' single of the week reviewed by Dave McCullough in Sounds 30th, September 1978.

Elvis The Ted

RIP Liverpool poet Brian Patten, aged 79. I still have an original copy of the Penguin Mersey Sound paperback, which I bought as a teenager. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

RIP Brian Patten, one of the Mersey Sound musketeers and much more

Today in 1905 director Michael Powell was born.

That Farage reaction in full: "mY fEeLz aRe HuRt sO i DeMaNdZ aN eLeCtiOn" 😂😂😂 Who cares, you Putin-loving public-school grifting ponce? Just because the air is coming out of your tyres, doesn't mean you get to demand that the race start four years early. F-off back to Florida.

Hey, raid the Spa!

Labour’s strategists are be being pulled by the very strings of the puppets they think they are making dance. They have imagined a socially authoritarian working class Labour voter who is long gone. The Andy Capp in their head has left containment and is making increasingly incessant demands. 23/n

Ronno joining Mott The Hoople seemed like a dream matchup on paper, didn’t it? But just like Peter Shilton joining Stoke during that very same autumn of 1974, the dream didn’t quite live up to the reality

Sean Penn looks like Wile E. Coyote after a TNT mishap

Waiting for the Farage congrats tweet. #rydercup

Shane Lowry you hero. Europe retain the Ryder Cup.

Sep 1992: Ad for Football Italia on Channel 4 «The best football is free on Channel 4.»

Just mentioned Ted Moult to someone who is pretty clued up on old TV etc and they had no idea who I was talking about. He was famous for decades right through to his untimely death in 1986 and yet seems to have culturally disappeared.

Something is stirring in Super Furry Animals, SFA world and many people are getting very excited

Factoid: A simple reminder just why the Mk1 Capri was so successful with the kind of ad that’s brilliantly simple in concept. Genius…

If you see this, post a bridge (The bridge over the River Churnet, South Hillswood, Leek)

Ardwick Empire, Manchester, painting by Arthur Delaney (1927-87). #NorthernArt

Fish ‘n’ Chip Van, Otley Road, Bradford, photo by Ian Beesley. 'The chip shop owner told me he had to fire one of his assistants because he kept parking the van the wrong way round.'

When Clive James slagged off the Osmonds in his Observer TV reviewing days, one teenybopper wrote back in response hoping that “his finger would get inphected and drop off.” I’m no detective, but my Spidey Senses are pointing in the direction of Nicola being the prime suspect

Ferry and Kendall both attended Washington Grammar School in County Durham. The photo above shows them together in the school's under-13 side in 1957/8. Ferry, who is under the left-hand arrow, played in goal.

The Morecambe and Wise Show (27th September 1974). Andre Previn returns to the show.

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💫Released on this day 1970💥 #musicsky #recordingsky #recordingstudiosky #musicmoments #musicthread #musicproduction #onthisday

The Stockton and Darlington Railway, the world's first public railway to use steam locomotives, opened on this day 1825. Its first line linked collieries near Shildon with Darlington and Stockton. (Painting of opening day by Terence Cuneo, 1949, National Railway Museum.)

T.Rex: Marc Bolan's Consumers Guide Part 2 Feature three-pages from in New Musical Express, September 27, 1980.

And to end ...Bryan's version of one of the first list songs. These Foolish Things.. Only he could have done the song without sounding daft. Although I haven't hear David Bowie's version from the Pinups sessions. Happy Birthday to the Pride Of Washington. Goodnight. buff.ly/MBYb4Wv

"Follow me boys... to the toppermost of that Belisha beacon !" The Abbey Road LP is 56 years old today. I think the triple treat of mustard, polythene and a bathroom window is called for. On the Late Show now buff.ly/MBYb4Wv

Yes, I am the leader of one of the most important bands the UK has ever produced. Indeed, I am the most stylish male Englishman of them all. And it is my eightieth birthday today. But.... I am ... .....SMOKING A FAG!!! Roxy Music, Editions Of You opening the late show. buff.ly/MBYb4Wv

A happy 80th birthday to the man they call Byron Ferrari, Baron Ferranti, Brain Fury, Biriyani Ferret, Brown Furry, Brawn Fairy, and last but not least, Bryan Ferry!

50 years ago today - September 26, 1975 - release of the single "Love Is The Drug" from Roxy Music. Also Bryan Ferry turns 80 today!