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Next Tuesday, 20th January, I'm doing a talk on Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne at the Adelphi, Liverpool. Tickets available from Liverpool History Society website. Or just turn up on the day.

Today's Velvet Underground myth takes a deep dive into whether Brian Epstein, Bowie and The Yardbirds has a pre-release 'acetate' of the Velvet Underground and Nico album grantmcphee.substack.com/p/bowie-bria...

Cupid in these latter times has probably laid aside his bow and arrows, and uses fire-arms,—a pistol,—perhaps a revolver. Nathaniel Hawthorne (1853)

BREAKING: The BBC have just announced that Donald Trump has been awarded 2025 Sports Personality of the Year #spoty

Liverpool friends, it would be lovely to see you at my book launch. 5th March, at the British Music Experience, in conversation with Jeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social. Non-Liverpool friends, we are planning events in London and Oxford too - watch this space. www.britishmusicexperience.com/pennykiley

The Honduran-born Charlotte resident filed a police report after the officers let him go. Racial profiling, no warrant, no due process; but what else can one expect from a regime committing extrajudicial murder on the high seas? Trump's gotta go.

What has the BBC ever given us? #supporttheBBC #fightfightfight youtu.be/lUzQ2qIgG6Y?...

A short story

Smells like bandito moustachioed martian scouse spirit. And whyever not?

A lot of people don't have much food on their table But they got a lot of forks and knives And they gotta cut somethin' Bob Dylan 1962

When you're lost in the rain in Juarez and it's Easter time too

Fact check Amish Autism Autism exists in Amish communities, just like in the general population, despite myths suggesting otherwise. The myth of low autism rates among the Amish likely stems from limited healthcare access, cultural misunderstandings, and underreporting—not actual lower incidence.

donald trump and the white nationalists that run his government want you to think that slavery was just fine www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Jamie Raskin's full speech roasting Farage and free speech imposters like him/Trump is now online here..... Watch it all. www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

Don't just get the single, buy the album moon2025.bandcamp.com/album/the-gr...

Haunted Paper exhibition continues at Dorothy, Jamaica Street Liverpool. Weekdays, 9-5. Come along and see the Wild Twin and Ghost Town notebooks and collages!

Liverpool legend, and lifelong friend - David 'Yorkie' Palmer's latest band venture - Moon. Debut album out today. x moon2025.bandcamp.com/album/the-gr...

Jeff Young, @wildtwin.bsky.social, accepting the #AckerleyPrize last night. He knows how to combine the words.

Congratulations to Jeff Young, winner of this year’s TLS Ackerley Prize for his highly original and exhilaratingly written memoir ‘Wild Twin’, published by @littletollerbooks.bsky.social‬

Good luck to writer Jeff Young whose "Wild Twin" is up for the @thetls.bsky.social Ackerley Prize tomorrow @Foyles He's our wonderful guest in #MisadventuresinMusic podcast with @ianprowse.bsky.social & Mick Ord Check it! @littletollerbooks.bsky.social urbanistamagazine.uk/jeff-young-o...

Sleeve notes for the new MOON album, The Green Lilac Park, by the inestimable and altogether wonderful Jeff Young.

Views across Canning Dock #Liverpool comparing changes from 1970's & 80's through to present day modern architecture @yoliverpool.bsky.social @daveyph.bsky.social

The Dylan Steps, Clarence Warehouse, Dublin St, Liverpool.

Happy birthday Ringo Peace and love, love and peace

Essa foto do show do Kneecap em Glastonbury

Beware the beavers

Our debut single Sing To Me is available on all digital platforms from the 4th July 2025

‘“It’s a reckoning for all museums and institutions that currently hold plundered property,” Ms. Lanier said of the settlement.’ www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/h...

Trump gave RFK Jr the Health job to stop him running as an independent (and splitting the anti vote). Trump knows RFK will screw up bigly & then he’ll throw him under the bus - showing strong leadership

Happy Dylan in Dublin Street Day, to all who celebrate. #maythefourteenthbewithyou

In 1839 Herman Melville visited Liverpool. Afterwards he wrote a semi autobiographical novel called Redburn based on his visit. He returned to Liverpool in 1856 and met up with Nathaniel Hawthorne. You can read all about it here redburnsliverpool.blogspot.com

Bill Drummond, GREY, May 2nd 2014

Sunday 4th May - join me for a walk around Sefton Park Liverpool and hear some of the stories of this magical place: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lets-go-fo...

Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed— Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme That any man be crushed by one above. Langston Hughes

Thinking of getting a dog? Here, you can have this one

I've been messing with Meta AI. I asked it if Trump's assertion that there were Chinese ships all over Greenland's waterways was a lie. After a lot of to-ing and fro-ing, this was the response.

Nathaniel Hawthorne's English Journals now have their own dedicated blog. His first month in Liverpool, August 1853, is already there and I'll be expanding it over the next few months nathanielhawthornes.blogspot.com/2023/07/nath... Here's the first entry, by way of introduction

Targets

Eric's closes following police raid 14th March 1980

So if MAGA is correct and X is under massive attack from Ukraine. Then there's only one course of action. Musk must immediately cede half of X's assets to Ukraine. And apologize for allowing themselves to be attacked.

I will be sponsoring legislation in Congress to change our national motto from “E pluribus unum” to “Wow! That escalated quickly.”

2) --The word was like a breaking heart, a sudden peal of stifled bells in a gale, the last syllables of one dying of thirst in the desert.

I’m starting to think history needs to reevaluate Nero. I think having a leader who fiddled while his nation burned would be comforting as opposed to one who was pouring kerosene on all the buildings.

Stand with Ukraine

The soundtrack to the Wild Twin years compiled by Phil Oates. Tune in! open.spotify.com/playlist/72K...

As I walk through This wicked world Searchin' for light in the darkness of insanity. I ask myself Is all hope lost? Is there only pain and hatred, and misery? And each time I feel like this inside, There's one thing I wanna know: What's so funny 'bout diversity, equity and inclusion?

I just heard that Trump has sacked the coaching staff of the Kansas City Chiefs and appointed himself quarterback #kennedycenter

He who fails to learn the lessons of Animal Farm is doomed. Fullstops. Period. #RiseUp