Thread here. This is really sad and upsetting:

Tish Murtha (1956-2013), social documentary photographer who documented marginalised communities under Thatcher in NE England #womensart (Image care of/property of Ella Murtha)

On the tube

I think cis people need to be prepared to challenge bigots who harass trans people for being in the 'wrong' toilets.

#NowPlaying Some Manc-Funk from A Certain Ratio

#5DebutAlbums9599 Into the playoffs for 5th spot..

#12InchTuesday #NowPlaying (Playing the B side of the Aaron Neville after @jnanagarbha.bsky.social mentioned the track at the weekend..see alt text)

We just announced a pre-order for the 2nd pressing of She Came Through the Window to Stand by the Door, the immersing collaborative album by Natalia Beylis & Eimear Reidy. Back by popular demand!! eiderdownrecords.bandcamp.com/album/she-ca...

Never forget that Jacob Rees-Mogg accused the 72 people who died because of the Grenfell fire of 'lacking common sense'

"Starmer’s Party’s political instincts, are far closer to those of the Tories & Reform than to the progressive parties that are eating it up. And that is not accidental, or the result of a lack of vision. It was the whole point" Edgerton's obituary for Starmerism www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...

Labour’s family separation policy. This government reached Trump 1 in less than three years.

Cooking with Scratch.. #NowPlaying

#IDAHOT 📸 : uncredited, via Tumblr

'every prime minister that we, the press, said would be amazing has turned out to be complete shite. therefore the country is ungovernable.' no. you're just politically illiterate and you keep shithousing the worst politicians imaginable in to number 10 via massive, sustained, propaganda operations

Newcastle United's owner holds 200 Ethiopian men on death row, many convicted of low-level drug possession without even basic due procees. After a disappointing league campaign, the team currently sits in 13th. (Via @privateeyenews.bsky.social)

Morning everyone A masterblaster dozen #WeekendSingles this morning celebrating Stevie and Bob

Get your money on Ange...

#5DebutAlbums9599 Kenickie Punka pop or Is this britpop and if it is does it means britpop can be good? (reposted for hashtag fail 😳)

#5DebutAlbums9599 Tricky Could be on top of my list... Sounding spectacular this afternoon

Wes Streeting and his Fleeting Meeting has such a Viz vibe to it as a phrase I feel compelled to put it here as it popped into my head

#5DebutAlbums9599 Mogwai Another one I bought after a rave review & haven't played for a long time

Poetry

#5DebutAlbums9599 Six by Seven Seriously good album by the Notts lads.

Looks like Keir really nailed it today. Looking forward to more change and delivery.

#5DebutAlbums9599 Chuck E Weiss A man more famous for his friends, and his namechecks on their songs, than for his own music It's possible an early 80's EP might count as his first album, but I thought I'd play this anyway Unsurprisingly Waits'ish blues - the song Rains on Me is on TW's Orphans

#5DebutAlbums9599 Nicolette I've tried again with this but I think it's time to admit defeat and let @davidef.bsky.social have it...

The vast majority of children will never go 'as far as their talent and effort can take them' while Britain still has public schools

How I discovered new music (b 1963) Always through friends, and 1970-1976 TOTP, Radio 1 1976-1982 Luxembourg, Peel, Sounds & NME, shops 1982-2000 Clubs, NME, Mix tapes, shops 2000-2006 Napster & p2p piracy 2006-2019 Grown up media Guardian etc.. 2019 - Social Media, tQ, Bandcamp, shops

Sophy Ridge: "Who is Keir Starmer, thats the question. Who is he? Whats his vision?" Having to ask this question 6 years after Starmer became Labour leader & almost 2yrs since he became PM is damning. Both for the Labour leadership & the msm whose job it is to scrutinise them.

So if W Ham hadn't fouled the keeper they would have got a pen?

#NowPlaying Inspired by @johnniejohnstone.bsky.social

#5DebutAlbums9599 Erykah Badu If a soul album's going to sneak into my 5 it could well be this one.

#5Alive Lee Perry It was becoming a Max Romeo 5, so I decided to go one per artist George Faith - To Be A Lover Leo Graham - News Flash Congos - Children Crying Max Romeo - Norman Susan Cadogan - Hurt So Good

#5DebutAlbums9599 Lauryn Hill "Lauryn, if we could just get this on one side of a C90 I think it would be a contender"

Morning everyone I've got a date for your #WeekendSingles diaries.. Friday October 9th we're planning a day out in East London. An exhibition, a bit of record shopping and maybe a drink or two... The Music is Black : A British Story at the V&A East in Stratford www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/...

Not genocide... obviously

"The Labour Party under Keir Starmer will abandon its core idealism and principles and won't even gain tactical advantage. It will be a party which gives no one a reason to vote for it, and no one will, in fact, vote for it." - David Graeber (from 2020)

#NowPlaying Susso - Keira Taking a break from the 90's with this lovely new arrival from Bandcamp. Music from Gambia meets Welsh musician Huw Bennett. susso.bandcamp.com/album/keira

Final play tonight, a new Bandcamp Friday buy from Gemma Blackshaw & The Dengie Hundred. Mastered & cut by Stefan Betke - he gets around a bit doesn't he? If it's as good as their last one I'll be very happy. tainrecords.bandcamp.com/album/days-i...

#5DebutAlbums9599 Leila Bought unheard after a glowing NME review, I haven't really played this much over the years I think I've evolved enough to enjoy this one now. Will definitely listen a couple more times this month.

#5DebutAlbums9599 Roni Size / Reprazent Too lazy to listen to the 4x12" tonight..although the CD is even longer! Some fantastic stuff on here. Might be a contender for my 5

#5DebutAlbums9599 Asian Dub Foundation Not bad but not the album I'm going to reach for if I want to listen to ADF.

#5DebutAlbums9599 Lo Fidelity All-stars This is a very long album...or seems like it today anyway. I think I used to like it more.

#5DebutAlbums9599 Babybird (the band) ..or is it I Was Born a Man by Baby Bird (the singer)? Anyway a good opportunity to play this - another one I haven't heard for ages. Too long, but some nice tunes with some pretty twisted words. I guess 'that' single must have made him a few quid anyway.

Adapted from his new book – Groovy, Laidback & Nasty: A History Of Independent Music In Sheffield – Daniel Dylan Wray tells the story of the Rainy City's premier post punk band The Anarchy of early #ClockDVA buff.ly/MrS1Fy5

Edwyn Collins takes Jude Rogers through 13 records that have defined his life for @thequietus.com

#5DebutAlbums9599 Michael Head I guess he's had a few entries for debuts already... Some good tunes but not enough to get close to my 5

#5DebutAlbums9599 Joy Zipper I dug this one out after @grahamh.bsky.social posted it the other day. Probably played it 3 or 4 times in nearly 30 years. Better than I remember, will give it a couple more plays I think.