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Have got "Mistletoe and Wine" stuck in my head. Haven't even heard the bloody thing since god knows when. Merry fucking Cliffmas to me.

Super electric performance from the Groop tonight. Sterling stuff. Muito obrigado to Mombojo for a great support set. @stereolabgroop.bsky.social

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Just put Sky on ready for United to be faced with fucking Carragher spouting on about Salah. Fuck off. Mute on.

Absolute privilege to be at @modottiband.bsky.social's first ever Manchester gig. Thanks for making it over the pond and hope to see you again. Can't recommend this band enough. Deserving of a far bigger audience. Be great to have some XXL shirts on the merch next time mind...

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2025 is bloody rubbish. RIP Jimmy. Another good 'un gone.

Apparently Jennifer Aniston is now following me. Summat tells me it might not actually be the former Friends star herself. Just a feeling I've got.

Catching up on the highlights of day 1 of the Ashes. There's an England flag in the crowd with a fucking spitfire on it. Disgraceful lack of a poppy mind.

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Decent set that from English Teacher. Really nice Mani tribute with the first few bars of Waterfall and the bass intro of Fool's Gold. Have to say The Orielles shaded it for me though.

Bloke next to me at Albert Hall wouldn't need a charging bank for his phone if he hadn't spent 90% of The Orielles' excellent set on fucking Facebook. Great performance all round, mostly new stuff off next year's new album, but I have to say, Sidonie's drumming in particular was phenomenal.

Stunned to hear the sad news about Mani. Absolute shock. For all the ace bass lines though, can't not think of him without remembering the video of the young Mani being interviewed after the ferry contretemps with West Ham with his Head bag over his shoulder. RIP.

That gig was fucking right! Cheers @thepainsofbeing.bsky.social.

Jackie looking almost like she could be on a @thepainsofbeing.bsky.social sleeve there. And yes, I am stood in the Band on the Wall waiting to see them grace the stage in a bit since you ask.

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Just put my hands under the soap dispenser in the loos at work and waited for it to start drying my hands.

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*Goals

Surely Midtjyland's goal should be disallowed for the use of Coldplay as goal music.

*Twat

Just seen a Hull FC fan in a Make England Great Again cap. Summat tells me he's probably not just referring to the fortunes of the national rugby league side, the bad that.

Some ground this tbf.

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Had to do a double take on the back of this lad's jacket. #clints

@allodarlin.bsky.social doing Allo Darlin' things. So good to have them back. Whole set was fantastic but Tallulah was just glorious.

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This evening's entertainment, featuring @robinince.bsky.social and some bloke from Oldham.

Age yourself with a movie you saw in theatres as a kid.

Is this that rapture malarkey started early?

"Referee is German Felix Zwayer, from Germany." Quality insight as ever from Matterface.

Some stunning goals in the links in this.

@rodneyfarmer.bsky.social Ta for the repost. Takes a lot to make Dermot Desmond and co almost look competent but these charlatans at Salford are managing it.

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Of course the fucking car paint shop is flying the butcher's apron

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It's arrived @cyclingalmanack.bsky.social! Well, I say arrived, more like picked up after two hours traipsing round trying to establish which shop DPD had bloody elected to leave it at... Looks fantastic as ever though and looking forward to getting stuck in.

Bloke in Tesco with young daughter. Daughter picks up pencil case. "What's this?" "Oh, er, it's a drawing bag."

Astounding stuff from Westside Cowboy. Wonderfully ramshackle and ramshackly wonderful at times but one of the best gigs I've been to in a long time. Great support from Formal Sppeedwear and Holly Head too. It was definitely something great.

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Half-time at the Salford-Hull KR game. Playing Sabbath's War Games over the tannoy. Heard the sirens and was hoping it was going to be the sweet release of imminent apocalypse.

The “appalling scenes in Gaza” have been enabled by the arms, surveillance & diplomatic cover Keir Starmer’s Labour government have provided to a genocidal apartheid state. He still refuses to call it a genocide because he is complicit in it. Keir Starmer belongs in The Hague.

Absolute fucking weasel words. As though he has absolutely no skin in this game. Quite literally. Fuck off. #StopTheGenocide