Sadly I can’t make this but YOU MUST

Wow! Just discovered a high-quality recording of Kraftwerk performing Autobahn live on the Midnight Special in 1975. Watch it here 🚘📺▶️ youtu.be/UYi30uTkYHU?...

Pet Shop Boys’ “Maxi-Mix” of Madonna’s “Sorry” is included on the 20th anniversary edition of her album “Confessions On A Dance Floor” which is released today. The remix topped the @billboard.com dance chart in the USA and was later included on Pet Shop Boys’ “Disco 4” album. #PetText

Vernon Kaye telling a quiz contestant "Don't let your mates know you got that right" when answering a question about Steps right was fucking shitty. I'm of a mind to complain. What an unnecessary homophobic comment. Steps should also tell Radio 2 to fuck off next time they're asked to do an event.

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Alright sausages. I’m going to be at Foyles for their Christmas evening EVENT on the 28th and I’ll be playing some festive tunes (sort-of DJing rather than on spoons). Come!

soundcloud.com/tony-morris-... a couple of weeks ago I did something that people said needed vocals. I asked Tony nicely. at 105 bpm it more than meets the international standards to be categorised as a slow pumper and someone said it sounded quite sleazy

Alright sausages. I’m going to be at Foyles for their Christmas evening EVENT on the 28th and I’ll be playing some festive tunes (sort-of DJing rather than on spoons). Come!

Well 'ard

re: Bake Off final. I think it is time that Noel Fielding stopped wearing skinny jeans. He has the look of a Landfill Indie Max Wall.

I had no idea this existed until today. What an economical collection of just the hits. Also though, the artwork and graphics are PEAK 1975 Top of the Pops. Plus: £1.

that will and grace lady seems normal

oh btw the remix of this with the rulers that was on the original cassette single and some of the 12s (same cat no as the first version - the clots) is on the NOW 12x1985 Part 2 comp

This is amazing news. I might become a music teacher myself, as mine got me into amazing stuff.

30 tomorrow

Wrote about brain fog - a common side effect of chemo treatment that ends up feeling like scrolling social media for hours with no end in sight. Written last week - today feels more optimistic thanks to Zohran Mamdani and his brilliant speech. Thanks for reading! open.substack.com/pub/acloudab...

Amazon service error on the Kylie Christmas single is homophobia

Just put my new riso printed festive cards on my shop. 2 new designs in pink, blue and green. 3 cards in each pack along with recycled envelopes. petefowlershop.com/buy/pete-fow...

This could actually beat The Wham! Groop

remembering Lovelessgate.

Cor.

Mmh is possibly code

Someone over on the WAFR account just referred to Altern 8 as a Diet KLF and I did a lol

Tom.

I thought Alistair from Home In The Country had had a breakdown but he lives off grid apparently.

I’ve written about Robert Elms’ Blitz book for @thequietus.com thequietus.com/culture/book...

(I can’t believe ABBA released both the album AND single of Super Trouper on the same day but evidence suggests so)

There’s a brief explanation in the description of my Spotify playlist. open.spotify.com/playlist/5Yg... I should probably have written it up as an article somewhere but the moment may have passed.

These American radio responses to Paul Young's single Some People are so desperate and amazing

The singer of Blue Zoo runs mushroom foraging outings. Or at least he did when I went on one. His site is fungitobewith.

I would come for Bob Peck

“For all the accusations of elitism, the Blitz was populated by dole-class dreamers and students who’d hopped on to something that felt like a respite from the genuinely grotty times. Dressing up was part of the adventure of escape.”

Narcissistic, perhaps, but could any American viewers leave a review of my book on Amazon.Com because the top one is a shitty deranged one star hit-job www.amazon.com/1984-Year-Po...

“Calling all cars. This is Phil talking. I need someone to cover Late Nite Minicab FM tonight. Gonna be busy!”

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A new book by Robert Elms returns the reader to a bygone London of squats full of future popstars and cans of Red Stripe to recall the nightclub that birthed #SpandauBallet and #Visage and might just have invented the future Blitz: The Club That Created the Eighties buff.ly/8qW9QLM

I’ve written about Robert Elms’ Blitz book for @thequietus.com thequietus.com/culture/book...

One of the greatest pop singles of the last 20 years

I loved doing this

If You Leave Me Now. The first record I bought because they'd sold out of Dancing Queen.

I'd say Eddy Grant here joins the 'worst single/ biggest hit' category but I forgot about Gimme Hope Joanna

Melba Moore supreme Fringe-Fling Funk. Shoulderpad Soul.

Five years ago there were lockdown rumours and talk of Tier 4 Fears

Blue Zoo there, who I believe maybe White Pyjama-adjacent (copyright @simonprice.bsky.social) Acts that probably went down a storm supporting Fashion like H2O, Cava Cava, Fiction Factory. Bob Stanley's next comp should bring together all the wet third-tier futurists and be called Landfill Ballet

Buy this book.

The Beatles celebrating an unimaginable 20 years since their first hit. Time, eh? 20 years ago the Arctic Monkeys had their first Number 1

Raw Silk's Do It To The Music is beyond magnificent and actual crime that it has never been able to be licensed for recent Yearbook action. I should rip my seven inch so I can play it out.

playing Celebrity Skin at Duckie is a bit like a bomb going off