Ahhh, I’ve really enjoyed listening to these Ultravox albums again for the #UltravoxAnthology #MusicChallenge I might be tempted to treat myself to the ‘Collection’ box set reissue that’s coming out in December 🤔

HMHB’s ‘Vatican Broadside’ as an earworm after hearing the 6Music news bulletin about the Pope & The King 🤔😂

Ooh, Sal reckons Lauren Laverne and Clara Amfo to replace Tess & Claudia on Strictly. 🤔

55 minutes of relatively gentle cardio and weights super-sets in the Autumn sunshine.

We’d been chatting to some lads in the cafe who were in a ‘math rock’ band, and they assured that it was okay, as the soldiers were ‘…on our side..’, that’s Lebanon! 🤷🏼‍♂️

On this day in 2019, Sal having a sharwarma in Byblos. An armoured car with a huge machine gun mounted on it rolled down the street seconds later!

#HumansOfBluesky On this day in 2019, Sal in Byblos, Lebanon, with..Saddam Hussein and Yasser Arafat..performing Beyoncé’s ‘Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)’ 🤷🏼‍♂️

Day 6 #UltravoxAnthology ‘Quartet’ ‘Reap The Wild Wind’ ‘Hymn’ ‘We Came To Dance’ ‘Visions In Blue’

Tune!

Time to get up and make a pot of coffee

60 mins cardio pilates and weights, following on from trying out a Dancer’s Arms & Legs circuit last night 💥

Watching the national protests on the big screen in Batroûn, before the ‘vested interests’ decided enough was enough, and sent the thugs in to sort them out.

On this day in 2019, Sal as the Queen Of The Sea View Hotel in Batroûn, Lebanon. We were the only guests, due to the national protests!

Day 5 #UltravoxAnthology ‘Rage In Eden’ ‘The Voice’ ‘We Stand Alone’ ‘The Thin Wall’ ‘I Remember (Death In The Afternoon)’

Oh no, I forgot to put the bin out last night!

Wow!

That was a glorious electronic racket!

Sal in the @thebluecoat.bsky.social garden, looking replete after scoffing a baked potato with tuna and cheese

I’ve read that it’s considered rude in Japan to wear strong smelling perfumes, aftershaves, or deodorants. I like a nice fragrance, so I’m not sure what I’m going to do 🤔

Though I suppose ‘Wakening Woods..’ would suggest Springtime 🤔

Autumn scent..

An Autumn Haiku When leaf-fall begins the green bin fills up quickly collection next week 😫 #autumn #heiku #WhenIsBins #NextWeek #BloodyHell

#RockinTuesday Pillar of volcanic rock, in the Santorini caldera

@themetamorph.bsky.social what’s a few of your favourite synth instrumental tracks?

That bush cricket lad yesterday was very photogenic

Great sleep last night, time now to make a pot of coffee

As an aside, I think ‘Astradyne’ is up there with ‘Theme For Great Cities’ as one of the best ‘synth’ instrumental tracks 🤔 #UltravoxAnthology

Day 4 #UltravoxAnthology ‘Vienna’ ‘Astradyne’ ‘New Europeans’ ‘Mr X’ ‘Western Promise’ ‘..his modern world revolves around the synthesizer’s song..’ 🤔😊👍

Rest-day yesterday, back on it today with a 30 min cardio quads session, in front of the olive tree 💥

#BlueskyMonday In the rock-pools

#BlueskyMonday Chicago

most people don't want politics that hurt other people. we just want a long overcoat like david bowie and affordable housing

Day 3 #UltravoxAnthology ‘Systems Of Romance’ ‘Slow Motion’ ‘Quiet Men’ ‘Just For A Moment’ ‘When You Walk Through Me’ What an album!

Early morning visitor

Sunday evening walk, golden hour.

Grey and wet on the Cambrian coast this morning.

Stunningly beautiful choral music on 6 right now, segued into Benny Goodman’s ‘Sing, Sing, Sing’. Fabulous stuff @cerysmatthews.bsky.social

As an aside,’ROckWrok’ was sampled by Massive Attack, for ‘Inertia Creeps’ on their ‘Mezzanine’ album. #UltravoxAnthology

Day 2 #UltravoxAnthology ‘Ha! Ha! Ha!’ ‘Distant Smile’ ‘Rockwrok’ ‘The Man Who Dies Every Day’ ‘Hiroshima Mon Amour’ Still amazed ‘ROckwrok’ gets occasional plays on 6Music, and no one has ever noticed the ‘..fuck..’ in the lyric!

#Stunday #BlackAndWhite #silhouette

On this day last year, @themetamorph.bsky.social performing live at The Galeri in Harlech

Time to make a coffee

On this day in 2021, the frankly unbelievable Foxface Rabbitfish..

I’d bought the Foxx-era Ultravox compilation ‘Three-Into-One’ in 1980 after ‘Vienna’ became one of my favourite albums that year. At the time I wasn’t sure how the songs on it were connected to the band who made ‘Vienna’ 🤷🏼‍♂️

Day 1 #UltravoxAnthology ‘Ultravox!’ ‘Dangerous Rhythm’ ‘My Sex’ ‘The Wild, The Beautiful, & The Damned’ Basically the tracks which appeared on the ‘Three Into One’ compilation album 😆

Very glad that this album is getting a reissue- Phil and I are so proud of it

On this day in 2013; Sal, Denise and Andrea with their medals from the Race For Life in Liverpool

32 mins cardio pilates, whilst experiencing a bout of vertigo. Not ideal, but got through it 💥

The lovely hotel we stayed at in Beirut, the Beit Al Tawlet in Mar Mikhel, was irreparably damaged in the 2020 port explosion, so it’s no longer in use.