#50songs No. 9 is a biggie The moment I discovered two blokes who’d steer my music taste for a lifetime 🎸🎵🙌🏻 Oddly at 13 I knew the Pet Shop Boys but had no memory of ever having seen Barney & Johnny until this 😍 9 - Electronic - Getting Away With It (1989) youtu.be/svz0USluN50?...

#50songs Celebrating 50 times around the sun No. 8 It’s 1989 and something baggy is brewing in Manchester. In the same night we get not just the Stone Roses playing Fools Gold on TOTP but also these scallies with the lovely Kirsty MacColl 🖤 Happy Monday - Hallelujah youtu.be/Nhmn28swB48?...

Proud of the IST IST lads at #3 in UK album chart midweek 🤘🏻 If you don’t know them, check out I Am The Fear youtu.be/PJaIVRkKOCg?... 🏆#Top10 🤞🏻

#50songs Pretty Vacant - Sex Pistols (1976) Peter & The Wolf - Prokofiev Nik Kershaw - Wouldn’t It Be Good Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls Marillion - Kayleigh Beastie Boys - Fight For Your Right My first gig (my dad’s choice!) 7 - Lisa Stansfield - All Around The World youtu.be/JVuuatjHGnY?...

Gig no.2 (of 50) Midnight Gallery - Eagle Inn, Manchester (with my mum!) Check out one of their latest tracks, catch them next in Halifax youtu.be/jDt-mFXUYUA?...

1 - Pretty Vacant - Sex Pistols (1976) 2 - Peter & The Wolf - Prokofiev 3 - Nik Kershaw - Wouldn’t It Be Good 4 - Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls 5 - Marillion - Kayleigh The first 7” single I ever bought 6 - Beastie Boys - Fight For Your Right youtu.be/pYoN9OraOWM?...

#70sTop30 #MusicChallenge 23 - it’s Friday & I have the day off 🙌🏻 I am the Dancing Queen 😊💃🏻🎶 ABBA (1976) youtu.be/xFrGuyw1V8s?...

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Gig #1 Holy Youth Movement - l #GigLifeCrisis gathering (Cheltenham). Great set, will definitely try see them again.

My 1st gig of 50 today at the #GigLifeCrisis Gathering in Cheltenham. If you don’t know the FB group it’s a fun hangout with folk who do ALOT of gigs & they host a few mini-festivals every year. 📷 Bayboards youtu.be/Z1Cmw9KkFv8?...

#70sTop30 #MusicChallenge Willie Colon & Ruben Blades - Pedro Navaja (1978) 💃🏻🎶🕺🏼 youtu.be/ZJ4v1Lbx3-I?...

#50songs that make up my life story 1 - Pretty Vacant - Sex Pistols (1976) 2 - Peter & The Wolf - Prokofiev 3 - Nik Kershaw - Wouldn’t It Be Good 4 - Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls Influenced by my brother & fascinated by the LP artwork 5 - Kayleigh - Marillion (1985) youtu.be/FiM0JiE0h5I?...

#70sTop30 #MusicChallenge In no particular order 16 - Soul Makossa - Manu Dibango youtu.be/o0CeFX6E2yI?...

#70sTop30 #MusicChallenge 15 - Fela Kuti - Expensive Shit (1975) youtu.be/qBC2Qm5FE-Q?...

#50songs that make up my life story 1 - Pretty Vacant - Sex Pistols (1976) 2 - Peter & The Wolf - Prokofiev 3 - Nik Kershaw - Wouldn’t It Be Good (1984) Imagine a time when people thought this was ‘unusual’ (start of clip!) 🤣 4 - Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls (1984) youtu.be/oLTbWPYf2A4?...

#70sTop30 #MusicChallenge 11 - The Boss - James Brown youtu.be/yQfbrsWXuRg?...

#50songs that make up my life story 1 - Pretty Vacant - Sex Pistols (1976) 2 - Peter & The Wolf - Prokofiev 3 - Nik Kershaw - Wouldn’t It Be Good (1984) My first pop crush 🥰 youtu.be/cTLTG4FTNBQ?...

#70sTop30 #MusicChallenge 10 - Heart Of Glass - Blondie (1979) youtu.be/WGU_4-5RaxU?...

#70sTop30 #MusicChallenge Feels like the longest week at work 😔 I need this today 💃🏻🪩🕺🏼 8 - Chic - Good Times (1978) youtu.be/RLTDpewIpfw?...

#50Songs that make up my life story 1 - Sex Pistols - Pretty Vacant (1976) 2 - The house was full of classical music growing up (my Mum’s influence). I adored following the instruments in the story of … Peter & The Wolf - Prokofiev youtu.be/Va8Uz6MoKLg?...

#70sTop30 #MusicChallenge 6 - The Passenger - Iggy Pop youtu.be/-fWw7FE9tTo?...

#70sTop30 #MusicChallenge 5 - Supernature - Cerrone (1977) youtu.be/cJ5V3OZdIZM?...

Happy 70th Birthday to Bernard Sumner 🥳🎉 #NewOrder #JoyDivision #Electronic #BadLieutenant #Hacienda

#70sTop30 #MusicChallenge 4 - The Sugarhill Gang - Rapper’s Delight (1979) youtu.be/mcCK99wHrk0?...

#70sTop30 #MusicChallenge In no particular order 3 - T Rex - Get It On (1971) youtu.be/FyzWDl0nz00?...

#70sTop30 #MusicChallenge My pick today is also the 1st of 50 songs that have influenced my half century 😌 Pretty Vacant - Sex Pistols (1976) I was born in the hot summer of 1976 blissfully unaware of a gig that would happen 10 days later that would affect my musical taste for life. 1/3

I’m celebrating my half century this year with 50 gigs & will be going down a musical memory lane to pick out 50 songs that have somehow weaved themselves into my life story ☺️🎵🤘🏻

#MusicChallenge #70sTop30 Happy New Year ✨🎉 Not in any particular order. Starting with an easy one for any sore heads out there ☺️ 1 - Jamming - Bob Marley & The Wailers (1977) youtu.be/oqVy6eRXc7Q?...

#2025FavSingles My top track of the year - absolutely no surprise here, third year in a row! ☺️🤘🏻 🏆 IST IST - I Am The Fear Happy New Years Eve 🥳 youtu.be/PJaIVRkKOCg?...

#2025FavSingles My top 3 tracks of the year 🥳🎵🙌🏻 2️⃣ Nightbus - False Prophet youtu.be/_8lDemYKCCI?...

#2025FavSingles My top 3 songs of the year 💕🎵 3️⃣ Nation Of Language - Inept Apollo youtu.be/xjCgSSepzrA?...

#2025FavSingles 4️⃣ Sea Fever - Loose Cut youtu.be/vc8VykfWf64?...

#2025FavSingles 5️⃣ Dictator - El Niño youtu.be/Ar2gNQntHEg?...

Boxing Day swim 🤘🏻🥶🎄 #Clevedon

#2025FavSingles 6️⃣ Bdrmm - can I say the whole Microtonic album? ☺️ love all the tracks, it’s a ‘no skips’ album for me youtu.be/mueBE7d_R9U?...

#2025FavSingles 7️⃣ Saviours Are A Dangerous Thing - The Chameleons youtu.be/JGnHlAxuDLk?...

#2025FavSingles 8️⃣ Heartworms - Extraordinary Wings youtu.be/5htIIBUG0Es?...

#2025FavSingles 9️⃣ Midnight Gallery - Black & White youtu.be/jDt-mFXUYUA?...

#2025FavSingles #10 Sick Man Of Europe - Sanguine Extraordinary live performance of this track at Multitude Festival 🎵🙌🏻 youtu.be/L39M0jVR320?...

Great to see @seafeverband.bsky.social last night in Manchester 🎄🤘🏻🥳🎉

#2025FavSingles My favourite tracks of the year 🎵☺️ #12 Saint Etienne - Glad youtu.be/h5fWxY9IHkw?...

#2025FavSingles My favourite tracks of the year 🎵💕 #13 Submarine - Night Swimming @nightsswimming.bsky.social youtu.be/y9lRqrwUu30?...

A friend challenged me to come up with a ‘Top 50 songs that shaped my life’ list for my birthday next year … yeah no worries 🤘🏻 Now staring at my spreadsheet … how the hell?! 🤣🤦🏻‍♀️🎵

#2025FavSingles #NewMusic My favourite songs of the year 🎵🎉 #14 Ladytron - Kingdom Undersea youtu.be/U1r3d7wR9is?...

Not listened to #NewMusic as much as I’d have liked this year 😥 But I’ve picked out my favourites to countdown to year end #15 Chalk - Afraid youtu.be/kCk1PbNJETY?...

#NewWaveNovember #MusicChallenge (New) New Wave 30 - Ladytron- I See Red Thanks for the challenge 🎵☺️@tansleyjames.bsky.social youtu.be/72A9nFNhdOM?...

#NewWaveNovember #MusicChallenge (New) New Wave 29 - W H Lung - I Will Set Fire To The House youtu.be/5KMsx8fpR4o?...

#NewWaveNovember #MusicChallenge (new) New Wave 28 - Nation Of Language - In Division St youtu.be/dYbnuVE_Zd4?...

#NewWaveNovember #MusicChallenge (New) New Wave 27 - Working Men’s Club - Valleys youtu.be/pzkfcLzUYYg?...