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Mark E-ish

@truthinthegroove.bsky.social

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Northern. Anti-fascist. Still laughing, just not sure why. Here for Political Snark and Post Punk fury mostly.

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Mark E-ish @truthinthegroove.bsky.social · 18h

Farage calls critics “left wing extremists.”
Trump calls Democrats “Radical left wing lunatics and the enemy within.”
Same hymn, different parish.
They need an enemy to sell themselves as saviour.
The real fear isn’t violence it’s an organised, coherent left that remembers how to speak.

Farage criticises ‘disgraceful’ rhetoric after alleged attack on Reform council leader

George Finch, 19, says he was called a ‘racist’ and ‘fascist’ during incident in Warwickshire on Friday

www.theguardian.com

Mark E-ish @truthinthegroove.bsky.social · 1d

Victoria Park, April ’78.
Rock Against Racism.
The Clash, Steel Pulse, X-Ray Spex, Tom Robinson Band, Buzzcocks.
Eighty thousand marched from Trafalgar Square to say no to the National Front.
No brands. No sponsors.

Genuine question
who from today’s scene could’ve stood on that stage?

Mark E-ish @truthinthegroove.bsky.social · 3d

Sonic Youth — “Kool Thing” (1990).
Icy bass, guitars that flirt with chaos.
Kim’s voice winding around irony like barbed wire.
Not a song, a dare.

Sonic Youth Kool Thing

YouTube video by Antitodo Old Punk

Mark E-ish @truthinthegroove.bsky.social · 3d

The Fall — Totally Wired (1980).
You don’t have to be weird to be wired.
But it bloody helps.
Smith didn’t perform, he twitched truth into rhythm. Sounds like caffeine arguing with God.

The Fall, Totally Wired.

YouTube video by ekompilation

Mark E-ish @truthinthegroove.bsky.social · 3d

Magazine — Shot By Both Sides (live ’79).
Devoto sneers like he’s grading the audience.
McGeoch turns the guitar into a nervous breakdown.
Too clever for punk, too twitchy for pop

Magazine 'Shot By Both Sides' live Belgian TV 1979

YouTube video by Gazely Gaze

Mark E-ish @truthinthegroove.bsky.social · 3d

Mudhoney — Good Enough (1991).
Jangle building to a static fuzz,
like frustration learning to sing.
Still rough, still righteous.
Bloody cracking.

Mudhoney - Good Enough (Remastered)

YouTube video by Sub Pop

Mark E-ish @truthinthegroove.bsky.social · 3d

Birdland — Hollow Heart (1989).
Birmingham’s answer to The Stooges, or so the papers said.
Touted one minute, torn down the next.
Burned bright, burned out, left a cracking single behind.
Still sounds like promise getting punched in the mouth.

Birdland - Hollow Heart

YouTube video by RevStaplehurst

Mark E-ish @truthinthegroove.bsky.social · 3d

Flag alert.
Neville’s no Orwell but he’s not daft.
Prod the cloth and they call you a traitor.
They’ll call him a wrong un, for stating the bleeding obvious
Wave it long enough, it means shut yer gob.
Not pride , just noise for gobshites.

Flag alert! Gary Neville may not be Orwell but he is a very English type of patriot | Barney Ronay

An easy target for accusations of luxury hypocrisy, Neville has at least tried to address an issue that has everything to do with aggressively flag-draped and militarised modern sport

www.theguardian.com

Mark E-ish @truthinthegroove.bsky.social · 4d

So the enemy is now anyone with a bookshelf.
Blames education, fears punctuation.
Wants Britain thick, loud and grateful.

The Left-Overs @left-overs1971.bsky.social · 4d

He needs an “enemy within” to keep his narrative moving.
Migrants done. Elites done.
Now Farage blames teachers .
Middle,class, unionised, and guilty of knowing things.
Nothing frightens a wannabe,demagogue like literacy.
He's importing Christian right, bollocks.

Nigel Farage accuses teachers of ‘poisoning our kids’ on race issues

Exclusive: Reform UK leader’s remarks at event for private US college criticised as ‘grossly irresponsible’ by NEU leader

www.theguardian.com

Mark E-ish @truthinthegroove.bsky.social · 4d

Funny, innit.
Two ex-footballers say something half decent about people and the right wing panic
Lineker talks refugees, Neville talks decency, and suddenly it’s war on “woke pundits.”
They’re terrified of anyone with a platform who can string a sentence together without blaming immigrants.

KimBo @zapperfan7.bsky.social · 4d

Just a reminder to all the ‘we put Britain first’ flag raisers who are targeting
@gneville2
- he housed NHS workers for free in his hotels during the pandemic. That’s far more patriotic than hanging a coloured rag from a lamppost.

Mark E-ish @truthinthegroove.bsky.social · 4d

Buzzcocks.
Boredom (1977).
Still sharper than most of what passes for rebellion.
Two chords, one truth,
the future got boring faster than they did.

Buzzcocks - Boredom (1977 Spiral Scratch version)

YouTube video by Soraj Music

Mark E-ish @truthinthegroove.bsky.social · 4d

Bowie .
Moonage Daydream (live, ’73).
Whole stage looks like it’s running on ego and eyeliner.
Mad, messy, brilliant.
Like Britain before the hangover.

David Bowie - Moonage Daydream (Live at Hammersmith Odeon, London 1973) [4K Upgrade]

YouTube video by David Bowie

Mark E-ish @truthinthegroove.bsky.social · 5d

They ask why Thatcher still looms.
Because we never scraped her off our shoes.
Every lot since just polished the stain and called it progress.

BUCKERS @deathofbuckley.bsky.social · 5d

Just seen a headline which asks "Thatcher was born 100 years ago and her reign feels a lifetime away. Why is her effect on the country still so huge?"

It's because she was a massive bastard. Hope that helps x

Mark E-ish @truthinthegroove.bsky.social · 5d

Desmond wants £1.3 billion for losing.
Fuckers made a fortune floggin’ misery,
now havin’ a sulk in Saudi.
Built his empire on tits and telly,
still reckon’s he’s the victim.
We’re all skint,
but the bastards want tipping.

Richard Desmond asks for ‘generosity’ in £1.3bn National Lottery claim

Payout likely to be funded by taxpayers if media mogul wins case against gambling regulator

www.theguardian.com

Mark E-ish @truthinthegroove.bsky.social · 5d

Parallel universe?
Nah, Same one, just the lights flickering
They’ll cheer a car crash if it’s waving a flag.
Badenoch talks bollocks in full HD
and they call it vision.

James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 5d

I sometimes worry I exaggerate the collective madness of our media but the people who cheered Brexit, Boris Johnson & Liz Truss's mini-budget are now applauding Kemi Badenoch's speech. 'Parallell universe' doesn't come close. I suppose her not falling over is a win of sorts for them at the moment.

Mark E-ish @truthinthegroove.bsky.social · 5d

Water bills up again.
Raw sewage in the rivers, bonuses in the boardroom.
We’re paying extra to swim in our own mistakes.

Millions of households face jump in water bills after regulator backs more price rises

Competition watchdog agrees requests from Anglian, Northumbrian, Southern, Wessex and South East to raise household bills

www.theguardian.com

Mark E-ish @truthinthegroove.bsky.social · 5d

Turdsday it is.
The nation’s true religion.
Admin, banking, and family diplomacy.
Every flag’s a warning sign.
Hanging there like the laundry of decline.

Untidy Music @untidymusic.com · 5d

Calling today Turdsday because I have admin, banking and family shite to do.

At least one these will involve having to travel through areas where raggedy flags hang like forgotten wanker capes.

Mark E-ish @truthinthegroove.bsky.social · 5d

The Police.
Synchronicity II (1983).
Middle management apocalypse set to a hi hat.
Office stress, suburban despair,
and Sting shouting like he’s late for enlightenment.
Still bangs, still bleak.

The Police - Synchronicity II (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by ThePoliceVEVO

Mark E-ish @truthinthegroove.bsky.social · 5d

Soft Cell — Say Hello, Wave Goodbye (1981).
Drama in eyeliner form.
Two blokes making heartbreak sound like a cabaret exit.
Still hurts, still perfect.

Soft Cell - Say Hello, Wave Goodbye

YouTube video by SoftCellVEVO

Mark E-ish @truthinthegroove.bsky.social · 5d

Buzzcocks “Harmony in My Head. 1979”
Sounds like a mind in discord,
singing back at itself.
Let the noise sharpen your hearing.

Buzzcocks - Harmony In My Head (1979) (Stereo)

YouTube video by Strawberries_Ban_Again

Mark E-ish @truthinthegroove.bsky.social · 5d

Cocteau Twins.
Heaven or Las Vegas.
Sounds like angels on helium arguing in a lift.
Dream-pop for people who can’t face daylight.
Still glorious, still baffling.

Cocteau Twins - Heaven Or Las Vegas (Official Video)

YouTube video by Cocteau Twins

Mark E-ish @truthinthegroove.bsky.social · 5d

Bauhaus doing Bowie, 1982.
Shot under Camden Lock , tunnels, feedback, eyeliner.
Ziggy through a hangover,
all grandeur, no gloss.
They didn’t cover him, they exhumed him.

Bauhaus - Ziggy Stardust HD

YouTube video by Beggars Banquet Records

Mark E-ish @truthinthegroove.bsky.social · 5d

Re my previous post,
yeah, that chair.
The Maxell ad.
If you know, you know.
Everyone else?
That’s what goths did before ring lights.

Maxell Tape featuring Peter Murphy

YouTube video by Neon Electric

Mark E-ish @truthinthegroove.bsky.social · 5d

Peter Murphy.
Cuts You Up.
Beautiful melodrama from a man
who made a career out of sitting in a leather chair.
Still, it bleeds better than most.

Peter Murphy - Cuts You Up (full version video)

YouTube video by Wes Wallace

Mark E-ish @truthinthegroove.bsky.social · 5d

Kate Bush, Army Dreamers.
Pretty tune about dead kids.

Kate Bush - Army Dreamers - Official Music Video

YouTube video by KateBushMusic