Glanced at this and 100% no shit believed it was Ringo Starr and Frank Zappa on the set of 200 MOTELS.

Lil' folksy guys! heykidsrocknroll.etsy.com

Thinking of setting up a straw man argument? Then you're gonna need to get down to heykidsrocknroll.etsy.com and get yourself a straw man!

back in stock!

Dipping in, one of my fave box sets, Barbara Thompson, ‘Live at the BBC’ (14 CD, 2020). Currently Disc 5, Jubiaba 1977, and Paraphernalia 1977, one of the best here, and they are all rather good 😊

As we’re putting the final touches to episode 3, we’re looking ahead to Episode 4: Cults and Gurus The disappointing truth that people who need guidance are often used and manipulated by charismatic gurus. Have YOU had a brush with a cult? Get in touch if you’d like to talk (Please re-post)

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Sunday Listening

Had a lovely, if busy, day at the fair yesterday. Now got lots of stock all ready to go go over at heykidsrocknroll.etsy.com so if any of these catch your eye they can be on their way to you in the beat of a bee's wing!

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idle thought: i wonder if the rush of ads for AI that promises to write student essays (euch) is at least partly the result of exam culture? if you make the target "get an A" instead of "discover interesting ideas" then you can't entirely blame people for wanting to take the easy route

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Watch out! You might get what you're after... ... a David Byrne puppet from heykidsrocknroll.etsy.com !

One of the best pieces by Kaleb Horton ever is no longer easily available, because of course MTV wouldn't maintain actual good music writing done for its site once. Thankfully I found it again via some digging: his 2016 memorial to Merle Haggard on his passing. Link here, screencaps to follow.

Oh man, horrible news. I didn't know Kaleb but he was one of my favourite writers and a really interesting online presence. Such a brilliant talent, really sad.

Carshalton! Eclectic fair at the CryerArts centre today! Come say howdy if you're local!

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

A sample of the wares I'll be taking to the carshalton 'eclectic fair' tomorrow - just the tip of the nice berg! I'll have some vinyl records for sale too and there's LOADS of other stalls (vinyl, clothes, crafts, vintage etc etc) and DJs and a really good bar. Drop by if you can, it'll be a hoot!

A sample of the wares I'll be taking to the carshalton 'eclectic fair' tomorrow - just the tip of the nice berg! I'll have some vinyl records for sale too and there's LOADS of other stalls (vinyl, clothes, crafts, vintage etc etc) and DJs and a really good bar. Drop by if you can, it'll be a hoot!

This is good. I revere JF but he is one of Rock's oddest fellows.

It would be nice if pro-Labour accounts who were like "yeehaw we're finally got Reform where we want them" after Farage's Tylenol gaffe would stop to note that not only did Starmer not hit him on this weak spot but he chose to instead echo Farage's message to a newspaper THAT NO LABOUR VOTER READS

I'm so tired of the country being run as a result of Morgan McSweeney pointing at a poster of Britain's Biggest Cunt and insisting that getting his vote is the sole objective.

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‘Teenage Daydream’ by Debsey Wykes is OUT NOW

Hooray! Thank you!

ohooooo @discopogo.bsky.social have lowered the paywall temporarily so you can read my ***AWARD-WINNING*** article about Sade's relationship to the dancefloor and deep cultural flows.... go go go

I don’t doubt that a number of Gen Z-ers have trouble with sex scenes, but the fact that SALTBURN and EUPHORIA are generational phenomena makes me think this perpetual discourse cycle is at least a little cherrypicked.

Just seen (on Richard Thompson's fb) that Danny Thompson has died, what a dazzling career. I'm a big fan of this LP, one of the few with his name on the front cover youtu.be/Ndp8dBInCF8?...

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Well this is fucking brilliant

I like this song a lot. Especially the bit about halfway through where Persson goes 'yup' in reply to Yorkston's line. youtu.be/zX58ma53AiA?...

Good local fair for anyone within the vicinity of Carshalton, records, clothes, crafts etc Excellent bar, DJs etc etc

The Beatles, mid-rapture

at this rate it'll be cheaper to buy a new phone and get the 3 months free.

Happy 76th to both Floella Benjamin and Bruce Springsteen.

Good local fair for anyone within the vicinity of Carshalton, records, clothes, crafts etc Excellent bar, DJs etc etc

The guy who came up with making bacon flavour crisps look like bits of bacon was a genius and an artist

Just reminded myself of this, still amazing. Nothing wasted, sharp as a pin youtu.be/_tmRw_z3Crs?...

JΛZZ HΞΛVΞN: Happy birthday to the legendary American composer and saxophonist John Coltrane September 23, 1926 – July 17, 1967 ❝I’d like to point out to people the divine in a musical language that transcends words. I want to speak to their souls.❞‬

Useful reminder from Peter Kellner on the problems we refuse to acknowledge are getting better, and the politics of hopelessness that this breeds open.substack.com/pub/kellnerp...

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The clown on Dana's left is really not putting in the effort.

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1. Thank you very much! 2. he's not wrong, once these are gone they're GONE gone!

Just seen Sonny Curtis has died, he leaves behind a whole bunch of great stuff - obviously - but what about this, a GORGEOUS record, a thing of beauty and a joy forever: youtu.be/9MkAKgvJg1o?...

She’s a smooth scrap of paper.

And this is Batman's Aff His Nut by Robert Florence, which, in my opinion, is easily the greatest Scottish poem ever written about Batman...