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One of the highlights of the original The Muppet Show album.

One thing that would help small music venues survive would be not allowing residential developments next to them with no plans on how to mitigate noise and other issues, and then blaming the music venue for the problem.

there’s a woman across the aisle on the bus crocheting a pocket onto a cardigan *that she’s wearing*, incredible, a thing of beauty

See you all next year!

I love that they did a tour of London, some tiny venues in amongst the big ones. That must have been one of the first gigs at the NEC too, before the Arena even existed.

Lookit our George, poster boy for his adoption charity's home-from-home scheme. #lurcher #sighthound #dogsofbluesky

🐕😕 Researchers found that humans interpret dog emotions opposite to their own mood, contrary to how we read other humans. The study suggests there are still significant gaps in human-dog communication despite 14,000 years of domestication. #dogs #psychology 👉 www.sciencefocus.com/news/te...

NP: It's A Cool Cool Christmas, a compilation of indie Xmas songs from 2000 which was pressed on vinyl for the first time a couple of years ago. Mostly bought for Alan Parsons In A Winter Wonderland, but has lots of other cool bands including Eels and Saint Etienne. #nowplaying #vinyl #grandaddy

Can we get some shares going? This album is free to download or pay what you want, we wanted to give back for all the support you've give us this year. Thank You. theblackdog.bandcamp.com/album/the-bl...

Some redundant C20 buildings at the edge of the Neolithic/medieval castle Marlborough Mound in Wiltshire are to be removed next spring, offering a unique opportunity to examine the mound's structure www.marlboroughmoundtrust.org/articles/a-n...

This day I first did wear a muffe, being my wife’s last year’s muffe, and now I have bought her a new one, this serves me very well.

A quick visit to Flint Castle next to the Dee Estuary in North Wales today. George did not like coming back up the steps in pic 2 so had to be carried.

Great story from the Guardian about radical folk singer Dick Gaughan and the on-going campaign to make his records available again www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...

Now playing: She Drives Me Crazy from The Raw And The Cooked by Fine Young Cannibals. This was the first US #1 single recorded at Paisley Park. #vinyl #nowplaying #prince

Brandi Carlisle singing with Soundgarden was not on my 2025 bingo card. Sounds fantastic.

Everything you know about last week's AWS outage is wrong

Todd Rundgren at The Sub Rooms in Stroud last night (Kasim Sulton on bass and Prairie Prince on drums)

Theo is away (again) so I am on dog walking/photography duty (again). Here's a selection so far. #sighthound #lurcher #dogsofbluesky

My wife is currently 9 time zones away, though only 8 hours because of summer time. I'm finding it weirdly disconcerting to be on such different schedules, in a way that her being in Milton Keynes or even New York isn't. Kurt Vonnegut probably coined a term for this feeling in Cat's Cradle

Me and my shadow #sighthound #lurcher

Lovely afternoon here. #sighthound #lurcher #dogsofbluesky #wiltshire

A tombstone in Bridgnorth, Shropshire, photographed by Andy Darby. Note the border inscription.

I can

I've been on dog duty this week while Theo is away at a conference, and that comes with a contractual obligation to send photos. Here are a few. #sighthounds #dogsofbluesky

An irresistible tune and also a good example of a cover that far surpasses the original. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgLt...

This one is so special. This Mortal Coil performing Song to the Siren live on Loose Talk in 1983 (THREAD) youtu.be/SuwfsS5-iM8

48 years ago today Generation X in London, August 9, 1977, as documented by Ray Stevenson #punk #punks #punkrock #GenerationX #history #punkrockhistory #otd

Hope Tigger is okay.

We're off to the cinema today #fantasticfour

Tell Sharon that I won't be coming home.

Fancy Betty 38 years. Where has all the time gone.

UK Bluesky users should read this. TLDR: don't sign up to age verification on Bluesky unless you want your personal data to be even more commodified than it is at the moment.

We've just come back from a trip with George the lurcher and our "lovely", "well mannered" and "impeccably behaved" dog has better Airbnb reviews than we do. #sighthounds #dogsofbluesky

We often speak of you.

Another day, another revelation…

Oh go on then #saltpath

Roses are red Lights are illuminants

Tadej Pogačar and Jonas Vingegaard have been racing each other for the last four Tours de France, winning two apiece. ITV did the maths and the difference in their road times over those 12 weeks of riding is three seconds.

Shed Seven used to joke that their name was because there used to be eleven of them, but they shed seven. Watching them at Glastonbury, there's thirteen of them including backing singers and brass section. Could have dropped a couple of backing singers and had a fantastic 30 year callback joke.

36 years after their last Glastonbury performance (and 43 years since their first), Black Uhuru are still great.

Packed Cabaret tent for a wonderfully chaotic Taskmaster, featuring guests James Acaster, Lou Sanders, Kerry Godliman, Richard Blackwood… and Basil Brush. Basil stole the show with a show-stopping version of Purple Rain. JL

Perfect acronym.

Yanks changed its name to Power Cuts around 1988 but it was still the same goldmine of remaindered and imported bargains

If you lived in Manchester in the 1980s, Yanks was a religion and a church all rolled into one.