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Big week for merch.

Never understood parents who think their kids will or should follow their taste in music. Its weird, like kids dont exist in a bubble: school, mates, tik tok. Guaranteed 2+yrs this kid will not:

I’ve really enjoyed all of these podcasts from Miranda Sawyer, recommended. This one will be good. Ted’s funny and insightful. Also plug that a subscription to The New Cue is recommended, a shortcut for old people like me and possibly you to keep across new releases.

This is really good:

Mate and I used to do club in Greenock early 90s. Did it again last night, in Town Hall as one of his former students does ents bookings there. Was a lot of fun.

The Smiths is a band.

Sorry to hear about Keith. Really, really sad. Good guy.

Tempting

I'm glad Sadiq is the Mayor of my city. There's a reason he keeps winning elections.

Difficult decision for Beaton that. Not the decision, the giving of it.

Just taken delivery of this reproduction poster from @monorailmusic.bsky.social . Used it as entree to explain in detail to kid the Factory records approach to providing catalogue numbers to things as well as records. Started with 'what is a catalogue number?'. Properly bored her shitless. Skills.

From the top deck of the 321 Foots Cray Tesco, Lewisham bound. “ “There’s Wally!”

Does Guardian TV reviewer Lucy Mangan actually like TV?

Dog lover public service notification: Guy that walks our dug and lots of local dugs posts the best, heartwarming dugs having fun content on instagram under k999walks Thank me later.

Signed this so that Cornwall gets a national football team that Scotland gets to batter on regular basis + Mrs can no longer be selectively English when same happens to us. Free Kernow 👍🫡

That's really unlike the Celtic Board to be tone deaf, patronizing and self-aggrandising. I, for one, am shocked.

Day Two of Reform conference, and we're getting the good stuff. At the Heartland Institute's fringe "Is Climate Realism Inevitable", we've learned that electric cars are part of a Marxist plot to control humanity, and heard calls for the abolition of the BBC.

One of my favourite YouTube videos ever... youtu.be/183OPk7-eK4?...

Want. www.marksandspencer.com/food/arctic-...

At this stage I wouldnt be shocked if our last minute signings are the DJ out of Kneecap, Adam Idah back from Swansea and Brendan, in new player manager role.

Not a huge Skids fan but loving Dunfermlime’s third kit homage to their hometown heroes!

Good this. Nice to see menion of Sonora at 13th Note on Sundays. Was great night, mostly chillout, but also some quite confrontational stuff, the Panasonic night being a real assault. And a lovely picture of young Chantal. Album looks great.

Delivery were very good at their gig at The Ivy House in Nunhead last night. Franz Ferdinand x Eddy Current Suppresion Ring. FUN. Didnt take any pictures so you'll need to imagine.

Might give Superscoreboard a miss.

I really want J. Mascis dug to be called Bug

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrim.

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Might be time to start worrying about failing.

Was there then - what a night!

Enthusiastically opens The Beatles Anthology email, hits the sentence “and new volume 4 from Giles Martin…”. Delete.

Reflections as an ex-very committed lager drinker. This is a lot to do with size. Pints are a bad form of delivery for lager. Last third is always deflated. Best way is a la The French House pub in Soho, halves retain zest. Guinness works as a pint. Lager not - especially so those minging pint cans.

Did anyone else sign up for Belle & Sebastian pre-sale codes and not get them?

Unexpectedly going to see Cabaret Voltaire in Sheffield in Sept. First time been back in yeeears. Very much hoping that like Leadmill venue sells chip butties - a much under-replicated value add. Why leave when you can have the post club experience in club?

I enjoyed speaking to John Fogerty about Creedence. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/a...

Stone Roses top of the world, A-Level results day 1989

Update: She’s been accepted to her Uni of choice, to do International Relations. Actual results are academic now, pardon the pun!

A-Level results day. Way, way, way more nervous for kid than was for my own.

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The new @mojomagazine.bsky.social is really great... includes Robert Plant, Joni Mitchell, Baxter Dury & much more, but also my review of @keithcameron2.bsky.social's application of the Revolution In The Head approach to the Manics, which is unputdownable & totally definitive

Wu-Tang Club

Maybe a climate change thing but is it just me or do the boos seem to be coming unseasonably early in recent years?

Circa 50% of the Sportsound commentary accompanying the two games underway is about Rangers. Who are not playing.

Anybody got any idea what the Redux part of Air’s ‘The Virgin Suicides Redux’ is - just another name for remastering or outright different recording?

Mogwai-fest in near neighbourhood. When first announced had planned to go with mate Steve. After he died a work thing came up meant kinda relieved couldn’t go. Weird intervention of being hospitalised in week with salmonella (not norovirus) meant could come to ball after all. Kinda glad. I know,TMI.

Furthest I’ve been N: Bergen, Norway E: Dhaka, Bangladesh S: Lusaka, Zambia W: San Francisco, USA