Samaritans ☎️116123 Childline ☎️1800666666 Women's Aid ☎️1800341900 Aware ☎️1800804848 Men's Aid ☎️015543811 Dublin Rape Crisis ☎️1800778 888 Bodywhys ☎️1890 200 444 Pieta House ☎️1800 247 247 AA ☎️1800 459 459 Gamblers Anonymous ☎️01 872 1133 Nollaig Shona…🎄

James Merril’s poem “Christmas Tree,” written while he was dying of AIDS. 1995.

Christmas can be a tough one. If you’re mentally struggling, there’s someone who will listen #thesamaritansUK

Feel the rhythm, check the rhyme… time to dance badly for the next hour 👉🏽 www.mixcloud.com/andrewwinder...

Sunday morning going slow? Tune in 👉🏽 www.mixcloud.com/andrewwinder...

Sunday morning going slow? Tune in 👉🏽 www.mixcloud.com/andrewwinder...

Happy heavenly birthday to the incredible Sinead O'Connor. An inspirational woman much missed. "Am I not your girl" My portrait of her with ripped up pictures of Pope John Paul II in the background is available to buy. Collage, acrylic paint, sequins, glitter, crystals PVA on stretched canvas.

Martin Parr made the seemingly ordinary extraordinary #RIPMartinParr (Photo from The Last Resort)

Some toe-tapping electropop-friendly tunes for you from yesteryear 👉🏽 www.mixcloud.com/andrewwinder...

As per fucking usual. Cops lie. Press lie. MPs lie. Families campaign in pain and anger. The truth comes out and no one, NO ONE gets punished no cops go to jail. Again and again and again it’s the same story but what is wrong with the justice system? Too many jury trials.

Some toe-tapping electropop-friendly tunes for you from yesteryear 👉🏽 www.mixcloud.com/andrewwinder...

Always shocked to get an easy online experience with Ticketmaster and @bobpetesarah.bsky.social - but Dublin 2026 for an Ets last hurrah it is. Whoop!

A friend sent us a chocolate filled advent calendar… reader, it didn’t see 30 November, let alone today.

For all the lovers… on.soundcloud.com/flNTLegQSvWD... #KylieMinogue #Kylie

For all the lovers… on.soundcloud.com/flNTLegQSvWD... #KylieMinogue #Kylie

Dance-ah feel the heat, rock your body to the native beat 🎶 Here’s some pop for you to shake your leg at www.mixcloud.com/andrewwinder...

Even though I’ve got the first edition of The North, I couldn’t resist an expanded version plus a print of the cover. Look at that photograph 😍 Anyway, I just backed The North on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/fru...

Dance-ah feel the heat, rock your body to the native beat 🎶 Here’s some pop for you to shake your leg at www.mixcloud.com/andrewwinder...

If you thought the final season of #andjustlikethat was shite (it was), #AllsFair is quite possibly the most turgid piece of TV I’ve seen - ever. Not even so bad it’s good. Everyone attached to it should be ashamed.

Not even an extra track and a tacky badge 😒

Life ain’t real funky, unless it’s got that Pop! Tune in 👉🏽 www.mixcloud.com/andrewwinder...

Plus ca change. What an absolute evil rotter. Him and his enablers.

Life ain’t real funky, unless it’s got that Pop! Tune in 👉🏽 www.mixcloud.com/andrewwinder...

This week's newsletter is about the avant-pop icon who blocked me (and many others) this week. No one's out to get you, Róisín. We just want you to stop acting like a c*nt politicsdancingxyz.substack.com/p/the-truth-...

A psychopathic mass murderer walks free. No justice for Bloody Sunday.

On has-beens using Trans bigotry to stay relevant.

#RoisinMurphy, like every TERF is exhausting (and wrong). C’mon people, don’t separate the art from the artist, she’s a gobshite and doesn’t deserve anyone’s coin.

Jade is amazing and brilliant and smart and talented and a good role model, especially if you’re a young LGBTQ+. She played Belfast tonight and I stayed for the whole set… unlike *cough* John Grant last week (who I also love but I can stomach his Ross from Friends synth noodling only so much 👀)

Happy 70th birthday to this young man.

Play loud and prance I say! New mix 👉🏽 www.mixcloud.com/andrewwinder...

*whispers* it does

Play loud and prance I say! New mix 👉🏽 www.mixcloud.com/andrewwinder...

Happy Cate Le Bon day to all who celebrate. It’s criminal that the only gif singing sensation to show up in the search is Simon. No relation fyi.

Brit card. Fucking hell, who advises these gobshites? Other gobshites, obvs.

This should surely surprise no one by now? Every Netanyahu-enabler should be ashamed.

Feeling seen (in Porto)

@wednesdayerskin.bsky.social doesn’t waste words, characters or narrative. Everything in The Benefactors has purpose. I haven’t loved a book so much in a while. You will rage, be resigned, rage some more and know why and how you got there. Go read it!

RIP Stephen Luscombe. Here’s a playlist to remembering him by, featuring not only his hits with Blancmange but also his pioneering work with Indian artists and various other collaborations open.spotify.com/playlist/0Jm...

She’s been at the pause button again. Tune in to Let’s Dance 👉🏽 www.mixcloud.com/andrewwinder...

She’s been at the pause button again. Tune in to Let’s Dance 👉🏽 www.mixcloud.com/andrewwinder...

The Labour government will have to introduce proportional representation at this rate.

Love this episode. Pete Burns appears, looking like a cross between a Ronette and a Shangri-la. A bold, beautiful, funny as fuck brute. I’ll also add, that conversations about the Scouse music scene to this point always left him out and were a bit heteronormative, so this was most welcome.

Fingers and toes crossed

My dream last night featured me, Jon Savage and Julie Birchall playing a game of Brookside Monopoly whilst discussing her coke habit. The subconscious, eh kids?! 🤷🏽‍♂️

There, fixed it.

This won’t surprise anyone who is aware of my very intermittent #CMAT fan swooning, but her new album #EuroCountry is above and beyond a beautiful heart breaker. Seek it out.

Remember kids, even if he is dead, his ideas don’t die with him. But it’s a start.

For many reasons, including this - we are fucking doomed (and we mostly deserve it)

* looks up how to mute Taylor Swift * 😒