Craig Austin
@thecraigaustin.bsky.social
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Concrete kid Soul-boy of the western world Living fast because it’s too late to die young
Watching the men’s skeleton final.
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Amy Nicholson
13 days ago
I'm sorry, the Washington Post hopes *I* will reconsider the value of their journalists?
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The ‘central London pub’ that’s currently hosting Farage’s press conference is The Loose Box on Horseferry Road. Important info for drinkers who may now wish to take their custom elsewhere.
14 days ago
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Blue Tapes
24 days ago
I’m not sure audiophiles are really audiophiles, I think they’re just rich people.
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Had two pints and a chat with an old fella in The Laurieston today. Would recommend - not least because they seem to be very much into ‘Black and White’ by The Stranglers.
26 days ago
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derek guy
28 days ago
no greenlander ever called me a libtard
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Birmingham 81
about 1 month ago
RIP Kenny Morris. Such sad news. A truly groundbreaking and hugely influential drummer
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Post a pic of the venue where you saw your first concert, and a picture of the band/artist
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about 1 month ago
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Scott Walker’s quietly judging me for having over-paid by 65p.
about 1 month ago
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Fatigue of Gentlemen
about 1 month ago
Is it possible to watch anything filmed in Scotland without dying of knitwear envy? A nation with the strongest jumper game.
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Stil thinking about the Double Diamond table we were sat at last night.
about 1 month ago
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Levi Stahl
about 2 months ago
Man, Audrey Totter’s line delivery here.
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CiCi
about 2 months ago
Me every time I hear Hüsker Dü's cover of Eight Miles High.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBKy...
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Went with Fargo as our post blow-out Christmas dinner film; Marge Gunderson embodying the hope for the future that we all need right now.
about 2 months ago
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Saw Rear Window at the cinema last night. A film in which, let’s not forget, an ageing James Stewart is in a relationship with Grace Kelly - but thinks he can do better.
2 months ago
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Toppermost
2 months ago
The Sparks Toppermost from
@thecraigaustin.bsky.social
www.toppermost.co.uk/sparks/
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Sparks - Toppermost
In common with their fellow unappreciated hip priests, The Ramones and Jimi Hendrix, it required a very public and passionate fling with the UK in order for Sparks to eventually grab the attention of ...
https://www.toppermost.co.uk/sparks/
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Graeme Thomson
2 months ago
"The inaugural-ah / FIFA peace prize-ah!"
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Jackie magazine hunks, 1974. Don’t worry, girls - they’re married.
3 months ago
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@webuyrecords.bsky.social
Dua Lipa album, sealed, and in a locked glass case in my local Cancer Research shop. Zoom in and you’ll note an actual Discogs price history attached to it. Textbook ‘the game’s gone’ stuff!
3 months ago
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Remembering Malcolm McLaren’s genius turn on ‘The Baron’, one of television’s finest moments. The disparaging cockney voice you can hear at 00:15 is Mike Read’s.
youtu.be/ovI-aMzOK14
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Malcolm McLaren, the Baron, 2007
YouTube video by GriefTourist
https://youtu.be/ovI-aMzOK14
3 months ago
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Postcard From The Past
3 months ago
Dear Auntie You will be surprised to hear that I am going to prison tomorrow.
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Electronic Sound
3 months ago
NEW ISSUE OUT NOW! This month’s Electronic Sound explores the strange and unsettling world of COLD WAR ELECTRONICA and we have a superb 35-track double CD to accompany the mag. Tension! Anxiety! Paranoia! Doom! Gloom! It’s all here! Get your copy at
electronicsound.squarespace.com/shop/magazine
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Bought a record from a pop star at the Groovy Fayre on Saturday. Lawrence’s cheery ‘See you in prison, boys!!’ line reminded me of that time Lionel Blair bumped into The Clash in Glasgow.
3 months ago
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Lorraine Kelly choosing Grace Jones’s ‘Warm Leatherette’ as one of her Desert Island Discs is a big moment for the transgressive pop music community.
4 months ago
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Ryan seems sound.
4 months ago
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David Speedie, recalling his relationship with ‘the alternative footballer’ Pat Nevin, when they played together at Chelsea.
4 months ago
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One of the highlights of 168 Songs,
@keithcameron2.bsky.social
’s MSP book, is the reference to JDB having attended Hüsker Dü’s 1985 show at the Stow Hill Labour Club - Newport’s own ‘Free Trade Hall’ moment.
4 months ago
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Hats off to
@victoriasegal.bsky.social
for sneaking an Earl Brutus quote into a TV review in The Sunday Times.
4 months ago
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London’s only democratically elected freakbeat councillor and I are en route to the seaside to meet Brighton’s premier Cwmbran modernist. Feel free to join us in The Cricketers for counter-cultural tales of yore and in-depth discussion about Woodfall Film Productions.
5 months ago
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Couture-loving psychobillies should head to Oxfam on Marylebone High Street for: * Two-piece Viv Westwood Suit * McQueen trousers * Near-mint vinyl copy of Stomping at the Klub Foot Vol. 2
5 months ago
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The long 70s
5 months ago
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Graeme Thomson
5 months ago
Remember when Eddie Mair told Boris Johnson, quite calmly & entirely correctly, live on BBC 1, 'You're a nasty piece of work, aren't you?' Would be nice to see more of that spirit driving political interviews 12 yrs later. No shortage of nasty pieces of work in plain sight. Call them what they are.
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Post an obscure album in your collection that you always think: ‘Surely nobody else has got this?’
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6 months ago
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Watched Jaws at the cinema last night. I’d encourage you to do the same, if only to remind yourself how TOTALLY MENSWEAR Chief Brody is. A man seemingly immune to the worst sartorial excesses of 1975.
6 months ago
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What's a reasonable level of 'rain risk' when considering wearing a suede jacket? I'm going with '10% chance of precipitation', but all too aware that anything above 'zero' has disaster potential.
6 months ago
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Take My Breath Away
6 months ago
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If you can’t be arsed to watch that Led Zep doc on Sky, here’s the undoubted highlight.
6 months ago
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Helen Barrett
6 months ago
Ronnie Spector wrote an afterword to her memoir a few months before she died in 2022. Re-read it today on her birthday, and enjoyed her valedictory payoff in this paragraph.
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Toppermost
6 months ago
Hüsker Dü Toppermost from
@thecraigaustin.bsky.social
www.toppermost.co.uk/husker-du/
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Hüsker Dü - Toppermost
Hüsker Dü never was more than a cult favorite. Nevertheless, their albums between 1981 and 1987 have proven remarkably influential; they provided the sonic blueprint for the roaring punk-pop hybrid th...
https://www.toppermost.co.uk/husker-du/
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The next time I hear some rube slagging off London I’ll remind them that in the space of a week I’m getting to see My Beautiful Laundrette, Dog Day Afternoon, and The Friends of Eddie Coyle *at the cinema*. Take that, bumpkins!
6 months ago
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7 months ago
‘But you use a Slazenger 7 Goldfinger, no?’
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There’s a wealth of great mid-60s ‘Look at Life’ docs on
@talkingpicturestv.bsky.social
. Special mentions go to ‘London Clubland’, ‘The Air Hostess’, and ‘Comprehensive Schools’.
7 months ago
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Days of our lives (April ‘65)
7 months ago
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The two things that made me want to move to London were Lloyd Johnson’s shop on the Kings Road and
@bobpetesarah.bsky.social
, so it’s sad to hear the news that The Et will soon be no more. Pop music changes lives for the better - all the rest is propaganda.
9 months ago
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Fatigue of Gentlemen
10 months ago
Sinners is an all-time horror (and film in general) great. If you're undecided on waiting for it to come to streaming, don't. Go and appreciate it on the big screen if you can, it's superb.
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Liberty’s website certainly nails its class war colours to the mast.
10 months ago
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Julius Kölzer
11 months ago
France, the country of true justice
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Postcard From The Past
11 months ago
We both really like Europe.
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Mick Ronson on E
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