Joan Armatrading - Steppin' Out / Love and Affection www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gk4...

The Clean (Live) "I Can't Stand it" (Velvet Underground) www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOhc...

It literally does not get any better than this. The final two songs from The Clean playing at Camp A Low Hum in 2014. Tally Ho Oddity www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9b5...

And this song, especially. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zE2p...

Sneaky Feelings' album, 'Send You' is one of my favourites. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fN_...

You know who was cool in the midst of punk? Dire Straits. Dire Straits were cool. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jlty...

Only one of the most compassionate songs ever written. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVUn...

I love this song also! www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzEz...

Hurray for the Riff Raff is perhaps my favourite artist I've discovered in the past 3-4 years. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZ-Q...

I don't speak Spanish, but really love this song and the band. www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_SJ...

A bold start to the video, but it's hard to argue with the chorus: "Bye bye Blues Bye bye Blues Hello, Mr. Wine Hello, Mr. Wine" www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtoP...

What would you sell your soul for? www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1Uu...

I mean, damn! www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Z6Q...

Joan Armatrading is great. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Brp8...

I think Steven Adams is NZ's most impressive, articulate, and inspiring sports-person. www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5Za...

@wrumsby.bsky.social Year of the 'Wolves?

Looking forward to reading the new book about The Clean and listening to some music.

NZ folk - recommendations for a great Christchurch restaurant?

Final song. A riposte to The Carpenters "Love Will Keep Us Together" Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuuO...

The wife and the son were like, "only one Clash song?". Which, sure, fair. Still, what a song. The Clash - London Calling www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfK-...

Ya public image. Public Image Ltd. - Public Image www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIAZ...

The voice of Polystyrene. X-Ray Spex - Identity www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ue5j...

Let five songs. The one though. Fuck. Joy Division - Atmosphere www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EdU...

It really should be played twice in a row. iykyk The Undertones - Teenage Kicks www.youtube.com/watch?v=PinC...

Canonically, John Peel' s favourite song. The Undertones - Teenage Kicks www.youtube.com/watch?v=PinC...

This song. One great line after another. The Jam – That's Entertainment www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-H0...

The is one of those fully-formed, classic songs, you know as soon as you hear it. The Only Ones - Another Girl, Anther Planet www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilDD...

The Buzzcocks were, of course, always going to be on the playlist. The Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've) www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Af7...

Catchiest song ever about fascists? Elvis Costello - Oliver's Army www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrjH...

X-Ray Spe are criminally underrated. Polystrene may have been the best of them all. One of the great opening lines in rock: "Some people think little girls should be seen and not heard. But I think, Oh Bondage Up Yours!" X-Ray Spex – Oh Bondage! Up Yours! www.youtube.com/watch?v=gicY...

Stiff Little Fingers - Alternative Ulster www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DF9...

There are three Joy Division songs in the playlist. Each one hits home. Joy Division - Transmission www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dBt...

The Jam fucking rocked. The Jam – Going Underground www.youtube.com/watch?v=45uS...

The soundscape of this song is immense. The Skids - Into The Valley www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1Ji...

The only song I know of theirs, but in some ways, it's always seemed to me the truest of punk songs. The Members - The Sound Of The Suburbs www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsHG...

My Elvis Costello appreciation is somewhat patchy, but, damn, dude had some great songs. Elvis Costello - Watching the Detectives www.youtube.com/watch?v=K--P...

This song is what they were calling New Wave by then, and it's not really that either. But it wouldn't have happened without the first two songs. I love this song! Wreckless Eric - Whole Wide World www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9Nq...

A one-two Sex Pistols punch. "We mean it, maaaaan" Sex Pistols - God Save The Queen www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqrA...

This has to be the first song. Maybe, I'd argue, one of the top 5 most influential songs of all time. Sex Pistols - Anarchy In The U.K. www.youtube.com/watch?v=94DN...

Of course I never was a punk. Slightly too young, definitely too middle class sensibilities, and totally too scared. But these songs are burned into my synapses. Some from my most formative musical listening period (1979-1985) and some I discovered a little later.

A cocktail called The Joy Division. A Martini riff - Gin and Vermouth, with the addition of some Triple Sec and 3 dashes of Absinthe. Appropriate, because later I shall post videos of my 20 favourite British punk songs, circa 1976-1981

@hotdogsladies.bsky.social I think you'd really like this!

This is utterly delightful! From someone who really does not like podcasts.

This is the loveliest story about Torty the tortoise! 100 years old, "with a regular routine of waking about 8am, eating and sleeping and then bed at 5pm." www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Stunning version of one of the best songs of the past 20 years. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUt4...

How does it feel? www.youtube.com/watch?v=0U1j...

Wellington folk! I am moderating a game of Werewolf on Wed evening as part of the Wellington Pride Festival and there are still places available for villagers! www.wellingtonpridefestival.com/events/werew...

For the first Webstock - 20 years ago in May! - we asked Tim Berners Lee to open it. He couldn't in person, but made a DVD of him giving an opening speech and mailed it to us. File transfer online for files that size not really being a thing way back then. How fucking cool was that!

This is rather lovely. "There’s a moment I still think about from a conference in New Zealand." www.linkedin.com/posts/gothel...

When we talk about you all creating small free events for our Pride HQ, it can be as simple as this. We're stoked the legendary @maupuia.bsky.social is going to run a game of Werewolf for us on 18 March. Sign up for your spot at the table here www.wellingtonpridefestival.com/events/werew...