It's 1969, baby #5DebutAlbums50s60s #NowPlaying🎧 The Stooges - The Stooges (1969)

Now go, cat, go #5DebutAlbums50s60s #NowPlaying🎧 Elvis Presley - Elvis Presley (1956)

Happy #BrigidsDay

Fabulous is accurate #5DebutAlbums50s60s #NowPlaying🎧 The Ronettes - Presenting The Fabulous Ronettes Featuring Veronica (1964)

Top-notch writing

No singing! And very like music from a 1970s TV Variety Show #5DebutAlbums50s60s #NowPlaying🎧 Stevie Wonder - The Jazz Soul Of Little Stevie (1962)

A perfect way to start the weekend #5DebutAlbums50s60s #NowPlaying🎧 Etta James - At Last! (1960)

Sumptuousness #5DebutAlbums50s60s #NowPlaying🎧 Nina Simone - Little Girl Blue (1959)

These four have a bright future #5DebutAlbums50s60s #NowPlaying🎧 The Beatles - Please Please Me (1963)

Heartbreak #5DebutAlbums50s60s #NowPlaying Loretta Lynn - Loretta Lynn Sings (1963)

Playing it loud #5DebutAlbums50s60s #NowPlaying MC5 - Kick Out The Jams (1969)

I'm meeting the Supremes to kick off #5DebutAlbums50s60s #NowPlaying The Supremes - Meet The Supremes (1962)

Doing the hip-shake thing now 🕺 #NowPlaying The Rolling Stones - Exile On Main St. (1972)

Music for the morning run - not ideal for setting a blistering pace, but suits the moody weather #NowPlaying Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967)

If you haven’t seen this documentary, I highly recommend it.

My picks for #5DebutAlbums9094 1 Jeff Buckley: Grace 2 Björk: Debut 3 Wu-Tang Clan: Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) 4 PJ Harvey: Dry 5 Rage Against The Machine: Rage Against The Machine (6 Nas, 7 Tori Amos, 8 The La's, 9 Portishead, 10 The Notorious B.I.G.)

Fabulous songwriting #5DebutAlbums9094 #NowPlaying Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes (1992)

#Run32Counties .... slowly but surely running in every county in Ireland No.18 Louth 🇵🇱 Carlingford Greenway, Co. Louth

Always lovely to revisit this #5DebutAlbums9094 #NowPlaying🎧 The Sundays - Reading, Writing And Arithmetic (1990)

Know your enemy 👀 #5DebutAlbums9094 #NowPlaying🎧 Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine (1992)

The incomparable Emmylou Harris live in Dublin this evening. Heavenly #gigsky

Bringing da ruckus #5DebutAlbums9094 Wu-Tang Clan - Enter The Wu-Tang 36 Chambers (1993)

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Got to be Big #5DebutAlbums9094 #NowPlaying🎧 The Notorious B.I.G. - Ready To Die (1994)

If you put it on If you put it on #5DebutAlbums9094 #NowPlaying🎧 PJ Harvey - Dry (1992)

Music for the morning run 🏃 #5DebutAlbums9094 #NowPlaying🎧 Massive Attack - Blue Lines (1991)

On the player today #5DebutAlbums9094 #NowPlaying🎧 Tindersticks - The First Tindersticks Album (1993)

The late great Dolores & Co #5DebutAlbums9094 #NowPlaying🎧 The Cranberries - Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? (1993)

IMPORTANT: Paris has more than “vision.” They have clear plans. Including a 5-Year Pedestrian Plan: - 300 million € invested by 2026 - 100 new hectares of ped space - 100 more “streets for kids” - Focus on 0 pedestrian deaths #VisionZero - Longer ped cross times Does your city follow smart plans?

Dancing at the disco, bumper to bumper Wait a minute..... #5DebutAlbums9094 #NowPlaying🎧 The Sultans Of Ping FC - Casual Sex In The Cineplex (1993)

Splendid #5DebutAlbums9094 #NowPlaying🎧 The La's - The La's (1990)

If the line isn't "I'm not willing to share the pitch on a site that is not just hosting, not just creating but also now monetising non-consensual images of women and girls" - then there is no line.

Memories flooding back of a wild gig in the Mean Fiddler, London in the Summer of '91 (I think). The singing/dancing/messing spilled onto the Tube home much to the delight of the locals... #5DebutAlbums9094 #NowPlaying🎧 The Saw Doctors - If This Is Rock And Roll, I Want My Old Job Back (1991)

Playing it loud #5DebutAlbums9094 #NowPlaying🎧 Pavement - Slanted And Enchanted (1992)

I know a girl called Elsa She's into Alka Seltzer #5DebutAlbums9094 #NowPlaying🎧 Oasis - Definitely Maybe (1994)

Today's PODcast #5DebutAlbums9094 #NowPlaying🎧 The Breeders - Pod (1990)

Monday morning sounds #5DebutAlbums9094 #NowPlaying🎧 The Pharcyde - Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde (1992)

Hard to beat this #5DebutAlbums9094 #NowPlaying🎧 Jeff Buckley - Grace (1994)

In 1887, British forces kidnapped & exiled the King of Opobo in today’s Nigeria. British Palm oil traders had persuaded the government that the tariffs he imposed restricted their profits. It was a milestone in the Scramble for Africa and indirect rule by Britain. alanlester.co.uk/blog/antisla...

I'm starting #5DebutAlbums9094 with Liz #NowPlaying🎧 Liz Phair - Exile In Guyville (1993)

Cold morning run 🏃🌨️ #NowPlaying Radiohead - Hail To The Thief (2003)

This delight to kick off New Year's Day #NowPlaying🎧 Bob Dylan - Rough And Rowdy Ways (2020)

Tunes 🎶 #NowPlaying Mitski - Be The Cowboy (2018)

On the player this morning #NowPlaying🎧 Lisa Hannigan - Sea Sew (2008)

My picks for #5Albums25 #AOTY2025 1 Rosalía: Lux 2 Pulp: More 3 Billy Woods: Golliwog 4 Big Thief: Double Infinity 5 Bon Iver: Sable, Fable (6 Geese; 7 Panda Bear; 8 CMAT; 9 Deafheaven; 10 Clipse)

Another superb record from Big Thief #AOTY2025 #5Albums25 #NowPlaying🎧 Big Thief - Double Infinity (2025)

Hike to the top of Knocknarea

Zombie horror hip-hop. Stunning #AOTY2025 #5Albums25 #NowPlaying🎧 billy woods - Golliwog (2025)

Stephens Day Special #AOTY2025 #5Albums25 #NowPlaying🎧 Jason Isbell - Foxes In The Snow (2025)

Annual traditional Xmas Eve unusual hat dinner 2025