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It’s Thursday, time flying, & the theme for today for #DavidsMonthOfMusic is ‘Band you’ve seen live the most’ for #Day9. Tricky, there’s many swing & jazz bands for me! Always loved seeing #RayGelatoGiants live, many times during 1990s at @100clublondon.bsky.social and loved hearing “Buona Sera”. ❤️🎶

Was out and about seeing old friends yesterday so bit late for #Day8, theme ‘From the 2010s’ of #DavidsMonthOfMusic so catching up… Picked #DaftPunk and their wonderful hit “Get Lucky” sung by #PharrelWilliams from 2013, first heard by me at a wedding but loved it immediately!!

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Today’s theme for #DavidsMonthOfMusic and #Day7 is ‘with ‘good’ or ‘bad’ in the title’. My collection threw out #ArcticMonkeys and “I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor” from 2005, and then my absolute #fave song in this theme, “Bad Businessman” (1996) from the spectacular #SquirrelNutZippers!!

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Zoomed in for the next 6 days worth of themes (Day 7 to Day 12) for the music challenge #DavidsMonthOfMusic for April 2026. Alt text added to the image.

Today’s challenge for #DavidsMonthOfMusic and #Day6 is ‘used to hate but love now’… trying to think back to something I might have hated at first is much trickier!! I tried really hard to think of something but got quite stuck. Picking “This Is Not A Love Song” by #PublicImageLtd in 1984.

#Day5 of #DavidsMonthOfMusic has the theme of a song with ‘A place in the title’ - this had a number of ideas come to mind. Could have picked #KatieMelua and “Nine Million Bicycles In Beijing” but… I finally chose “London Calling” by #TheClash in 1979, which is such an anthemic song for an era.

Bit late on even #Day4, #Day5 & also today’s #Day6 of #DavidsMonthOfMusic so will catch up… #Day4 theme ‘1st track on an album’ - I choose the excellent band #AlexMendhamAndHisOrchestra with 2013 album ‘Whistling In The Dark’ starting with “Choo Choo”. A very distinctive sound for a modern band!

More catch-up on TV at last! Really enjoyed seeing the fabulous #comedian #DavidMitchell triumph in the 2nd series of “Last One Laughing UK” although there was such a lot of tough competition! Moved on to the first Irish series as well, so enjoying #AislingBea & #CatherineBohart amongst the cast!

Some more catch-up today, with myself and family, managed to make it out to the local #pitch-and-putt #golf course and take on child… it was a close match, but I hadn’t played golf for decades & child had never played before, but was rather good very quickly! #Sunny day though so a good walk round!

UK Bank Holiday long weekend over #Easter and I am confused & ‘out of joint’ already - what day am I on now? Managed to miss child’s music lesson, & a friend’s child’s 6th birthday, and am struggling to focus well. It’s been a tough 7 months but so need to feel rested and recovered fast again. Tips?

Know a song on theme of ‘an animal in the title’?? #Day3 of #DavidsMonthOfMusic brings an interesting challenge. I have come up with “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” for which my version of this traditional song (originally South African & recorded in 1939 as ‘Mbube’) is the one by #TightFit in 1982.

Onto #Day2 of #DavidsMonthOfMusic challenge with the theme of ‘From the 2020s (so far)’ and I have so far come up with the wonderful movie title track “No Time To Die” from #BillieEilish in 2020. But I also really enjoyed #AvaMax and “Kings & Queens” from 2020, and “Beggin’” from #Måneskin in 2021.

Today is the UK’s #LiveComedyDay, where seeing #comedians gig live in venues across the country is encouraged… livecomedyday.co.uk for further info. So many good performers out there. Folks are only slowly getting back into going to see comedy shows… definitely need more laughter in our lives!!

#DavidsMonthOfMusic has an interesting theme for #Day1 of April - ‘a comedy song’ - who did I go for? I love comedy in music & have many recordings from #TheGoodies, #TheGoonShow, #TomLehrer, #SpikeMilligan, #VictoriaWood, #KitAndTheWidow, #TimMinchin, #FascinatingAïda, #PeterSellers, a wide range!

I split up the challenges into rows for #DavidsMonthOfMusic for April, and added #altText to the daily themes…

For #April…. Challenges to tackle this month…

Last one for March, #DavidsMonthOfMusic #Day31, and theme is ‘a song by a band whose name is four words or more’… for this one, I’ll pick a Birmingham (UK) band called #KingPleasureAndTheBiscuitBoys and an excellent song “A Woman Is A Five Letter Word” from their live album of 1993.

This is a particularly good one!! #books #qualityVersusQuantity At least it wasn’t done with tiny text!! I find age brings those issues about when trying to read a paperback now, so onscreen is easier!!

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Finally, back on track, and onto #Day30 of #DavidsMonthOfMusic. Theme is a great one!! ‘A song by a band with a colour in their name’. My options included #SimplyRed, #BlueHarlem, #Yello, #BlackSabbath, #BlueÖysterCult, #DeepPurple… I offer the fab #BarryWhite & “Let The Music Play” from 1976.

And the end of the month of March is beckoning…. I post the last few themes for days 29, 30 and 31 of #DavidsMonthOfMusic along with alt text in the following image….

Failing at my hopes to be more timely with a post, so will need to go for days 27, 28 and 29 before the one for today for #DavidsMonthOfMusic. Perhaps I should thread those instead… So, for #Day27… in thread…

Determined to be more timely… #DavidsMonthOfMusic #Day26 theme ‘a song by a band/artist whose name contains a Z’. My first thought was #Yazoo’s famous 1982 hit “Only You”, but I also really like #TheZutons from Liverpool and their hit “Valerie” from 2006.

Eeek, missed another one.. so a day late, #Day25 of #DavidsMonthOfMusic, and theme ‘a song by a band/artist whose name contains a Y’ so I shall pick an oldie, from #Swiss band #Yello and “The Race” from 1988. Yello are still recording now, though, 45+ years since they started!

For the last three letters of the alphabet, we’re back to themes like ‘a song by a band/artist whose name contains the letter X’ , so for #Day24 of #DavidsMonthOfMusic, I think I’ll choose #PHOX and their 2014 track “Kingfisher”.

Meant to post yesterday!! #Day23 of #DavidsMonthOfMusic had theme ‘a song by a band/artist whose name starts with W’ - Pop stuff might have been #WhitneyHouston, or #Wham! But I went for #WolfgangParker and 1997 track “Four Hours Into Night Time” from album ‘Hep City Swing’

Missed it!!! Had found a lovely photo for #MosaicMonday too, so apologies for being slightly late!! Do cute #kitties and #ducks work in the #Roman era? Another photo of a mosaic taken in Rome…

Back to #Day22 of #DavidsMonthOfMusic & this time the theme is ’a song by a band/artist whose name starts with V’… easier choice than for other letters, surprisingly… I went for a Belgian band called #VayaConDios and their 1990 track “Quand Elle Rit Aux Éclats” from their album ‘Night Owls’.

The latest week has arrived #DavidsMonthOfMusic and days 22 to 28 are as attached, also with alt text for the image:

We'd always bet on you adding alt text. ❤️ Upload your image, click 'add alt text', add your image description, including any text, as we've done here, and click done.

Excellent podcast episode this week…. @murderbastard.bsky.social is turning into quite the thriller & I’ve already started wondering whether, at the end, it will be in #paperback book form, written by @watsoncomedian.bsky.social which I will be able to add to my collection of murder-mysteries!!

Having missed the #telecast event on Friday evening for #ComicRelief, was delighted this morning to find that some of the sketches were available online, which was excellent fun!! Brilliant also to include #blind comedian #ChrisMcCausland in it, as “not the getaway driver”…

Finally got around to signing up for this… also bought one of Mark’s previous books this week, he has a few!!

Now we’re up to theme ‘a song by a band/artist whose name contains a U’ for #DavidsMonthOfMusic #Day21 - could go for Squeeze again, maybe U2, UB40, Queen, Audioslave, Blue Harlem, The Cure, Eurythmics, even Whitney Houston, but I go for #Bauhaus and 1985 track “Ziggy Stardust” as one of my faves.

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Singer, songwriter, and guitarist Sister Rosetta Tharpe was born #OTD in 1915. The original #soul sister & "Godmother of Rock & Roll" influenced Little Richard, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley & Jerry Lee Lewis. 😮 Great balls of fire! #WomensHistoryMonth #musichistory

Sad to hear this news tonight, had the joy of listening to her & her colleagues for many years on #BBCRadio4 - #RIP - Dame Jenni Murray, former BBC Woman's Hour presenter, dies at 75 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#Day20 theme was ‘a song by a band/artist whose name starts with T’ for #DavidsMonthOfMusic - I own music by #ToriAmos, #TomJones, #Travis, #T’pau & wonderful #TomLehrer, but I went for a very long-time gravelly-voiced fave, #TomWaits, & his 1974 track “(Looking For) The Heart Of Saturday Night”…

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#RIP #ChuckNorris

Only had time last night to watch first episode of “Last One Laughing: series 2” but was completely blown away by #DavidMitchell’s song - knew he is an excellent, witty comedian, never knew he could #sing so well…! So #talented & I’ve said that for years!! #LastOneLaughing2

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#Day19 theme was ‘a song by a band/artist whose name starts with S’ for #DavidsMonthOfMusic- so many to choose from: #Sting, #SineadOConnor, #SimplyRed, #SimpleMinds, #SquirrelNutZippers, #StaceyKent, #SeasickSteve… I pick fave #TheSistersOfMercy track, “This Corrosion” from 1987’s album ‘Floodland’

Ooops!! Missed yesterday (and up to now also today) for #DavidsMonthOfMusic challenge days 18 and 19… #Day18 theme was ‘a song by a band/artist whose name starts with R’ - I’ve gone for the fabulous #RobertPlant and a memory “Heaven Knows” from 1988 album ‘Now and Zen’… such a long career he’s had!