youtu.be/o6eWhvExErA?... I'd always felt 3rd wave Ska was treated more harshly than it deserved but I've been listening to a lot of The Beat and The Selector and if you were a reviewer who came up in the early 80's the expectation you have is going to be high it's inevitable

In news that will delight folk across the Central Belt it looks like the Coatbridge Time Capsule is back as a going concern - all it took was me telling @monorailmusic.bsky.social that it had some really picturesque brutalist decay

The rig I'm on has put up first aid guides that were made with AI. Wouldn't bother with CPR there, would be more concerned by the fact is head isn't connected to his body

The rail industry deserves some bodice rippers, what about 'See it. Say it. Sordid' & this with an InterCity 225

The ref adding 10 (T E N) minutes of extra time really makes it look like Alberto Stroessner is holding this ref's family hostage

Nirvana the band the show the musical I have informed is as stupid as I am. Let's find out!

Not content laws of planetary motion he's making under crackers with extra static, Tycho Brahe's brass nose effortlessly mogged

Ladies in gentlemen, in honour of the occasion of today's fate, please pull your shades, have your pens and dog biscuits at the ready be upstanding for the American national anthem 🎇🇺🇸 youtu.be/zUD55q_54PE?...

Whenever I take my mother in law shopping she gets the Daily Record and each time I look through it I realise my mind is not attuned to the tabloidese

annual posting 1 m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHU7...

Is this the @draculaflowbot.bsky.social origin story?

I am not what the kids would call cylinder-maxxxing

Columbia Ghana would be suicide, but everyone's gotta die somehow

Have a Cape Verdean banger from the Pop World Cup 🫡🇨🇻 youtu.be/5p4OWBK4adw?...

Something I wish more folk would get their heads around is that many business leaders intentionally make decisions that cost money and lead to poorer economic outcomes all the time, because their primary driver isn't profit, it's power and control.

I've now seen two English people saying that no one will want to stay in the pub all night for the football and that's when I realised we really do have different cultures If you opened the pub all night here people would never leave

In these times (if that's it I'm leaving) In these times (leave this planet fast) In these times (it affects my sleeping) In these times (my dreams are one to miss) (One to be avoiding in times like this) #FallFriday youtu.be/UW_UPEXruA8?...

Poly Styrene’s birthday today. Here’s one of her iconic - & they were iconic - outfits from The Music is Black: A British Story exhibition at V&A East

Your brain splits each day from information anxiety #FallFriday youtu.be/HDpujdGj9aA?... He has a justified reputation for lyrical cruelty but sometimes he switches it up and this has been speaking to me a lot this week

"The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10000 copies, but everyone who bought it joined The Fall" ― Brian Eno #FallFriday

Those 10 mins of extra time are to make up for how long it took Ronaldo to trudge off

Thomas Pynchon giving a shout out to Patrick O'Brian - game truly does recognise game

Almost not there. mlha on Bandcamp. Sleeping with Laura Meek and Andy Hodgkinson... mlha.bandcamp.com/track/sleeping

The obol should be worth a lot more than a sixth of a drachma

This is just dishonest. It’s a complete misrepresentation to say that the backlash was due to her ‘having a conscience’. It was explicitly because of her backward, hateful beliefs. I’m sure her conscience told her she couldn’t lie about the beliefs, but she seems to be ok with lying now!

Oh, hello.

I've written a tribute to the great Caroline Aherne for @bigissue.com, and here it is. www.bigissue.com/culture/tv/i...

I realise I am spending about 50% of my working hours fighting an even stupider Lie Bot

Martin Phillipps, who died two years ago, would've celebrated a birthday. Leaning their backs against the force of the music, The Chills come across as pessimists holding promissory notes on hope. wp.me/pzXeC-iWL

I’ve heard enough, let us pledge our banners to the Slayer of the South, Andy Burnham

What if Andy Burnham could raise £15bn – without a tax rise? There's one catch. He'd need to solve the UK’s biggest and least-discussed tax problem. Almost half of all small business corporation tax isn't being paid - and nobody knows why. Thread:

We really do need expect slightly more interrogation of policy goals before our commentariat get giddy

If he was a Russian agent intent on destroying the UK as major European power you do wonder what Mandelson and rest of the New Labour project would have differently? This is not critical support in any sense

Veil https://www.wikiart.org/en/kazimir-malevich/veil-1908

This is the Manchesterism we want

It's the question we are all asking

I'd want to yell this too

We’re playing live on 22nd August. The lineup is: National Park The Gabys Stephen Pastel (DJ) @thepastels.bsky.social Future Pilot AKA (DJ) You can get tickets or an album and ticket bundle at monorail: monorailmusic.com/products/out...

Sandro Tonali should be the backup driver for Alfa Romeo in 1973

[screams from the pitch before I am dragged away by linesmen] SOYLENT GREEN IS ALLY MCCOIST! SOYLENT GREEN IS ALLY MCCOIST!

There's a Peter Watkins retrospective on in London in July so if you can you should try to watch as much of it as you can. I have only seen Punishment Park, Culloden and La Commune each of which is utterly brilliant in utterly different ways

If you think Belgium sneaking this is going to cause a stink, just wait until CAF find a way to award it to Morocco

Lionel Mpasi vs Lionel Messi in the final is what we're all hoping to see

Now I want to read DR Congo’s thesis.

With Dutch avant-punk titans The Ex playing Toronto tonight, I try to explain why they mean so much to me, and trace their wild path from 1970s Crass-alikes to one of the world's most singular (and greatest live) bands. carlwilson.substack.com/p/the-ex-5-d...

New playlist BELIEVE IN ANYTHING: CANADIAN INDIE ROCK IN THE 2000s 🇨🇦Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/2xk... 🇨🇦Apple: music.apple.com/us/playlist/... 🇨🇦YouTube: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Morrissey once said "reggae is vile", but I think it's joyous. And today is International Reggae Day, so please play this extremely loudly - especially if you live next to old bitter tits himself. www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6XD...

comprehensive overview of water companies in public ownership in devolved nations you got there shame if someone were to ctrl-f scot