MealyGarage
@mealygarage.bsky.social
Author (occasional). Songwriter and musician (amateur). Fan of The Beatles, XTC, Squeeze, and lots of telly.
NEW BOOK: Jockula (coming 26 May 2026)
I write mostly about music here: https://www.gayleramage.co.uk
NEW BOOK: Jockula (coming 26 May 2026)
I write mostly about music here: https://www.gayleramage.co.uk
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Something else that begins the last week of January (now with corrected dates)...
Me reading your posts
November 26, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Me reading your posts
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Its the last days of Movember. There's still time to enter my #discworld raffle. £5 per entry with prizes from Paul Kidby, @discworldemporium.bsky.social and bonus prizes from @rhi.bsky.social
Donate here & comment #Discworld to enter
Support my fundraiser: movember.com/m/glennclark...
Donate here & comment #Discworld to enter
Support my fundraiser: movember.com/m/glennclark...
November 26, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Its the last days of Movember. There's still time to enter my #discworld raffle. £5 per entry with prizes from Paul Kidby, @discworldemporium.bsky.social and bonus prizes from @rhi.bsky.social
Donate here & comment #Discworld to enter
Support my fundraiser: movember.com/m/glennclark...
Donate here & comment #Discworld to enter
Support my fundraiser: movember.com/m/glennclark...
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You can keep your Poirots and your Marples, the greatest murder mystery moment on tv is when John Nettles discovers Selina Cadell has been popped into a tumble drier
November 25, 2025 at 9:55 PM
You can keep your Poirots and your Marples, the greatest murder mystery moment on tv is when John Nettles discovers Selina Cadell has been popped into a tumble drier
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Here we go... Look out for the full video of me as my character, Cleaveskull, coming soon. Please repost this with wild abandon, and pre-order the book. Paperback pre-orders should be along before too long.
November 25, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Here we go... Look out for the full video of me as my character, Cleaveskull, coming soon. Please repost this with wild abandon, and pre-order the book. Paperback pre-orders should be along before too long.
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Right, doing the saying it out loud so it might actually happen thing.
Valley Guitar Repairs is coming soon. Guitars, basses, pedals, maybe amps if I know what I'm looking at. From a new jack to a full setup, I'll be doing it all.
DMs open, I'll set a dedicated account up soon
Please share x
🎸
Valley Guitar Repairs is coming soon. Guitars, basses, pedals, maybe amps if I know what I'm looking at. From a new jack to a full setup, I'll be doing it all.
DMs open, I'll set a dedicated account up soon
Please share x
🎸
November 25, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Right, doing the saying it out loud so it might actually happen thing.
Valley Guitar Repairs is coming soon. Guitars, basses, pedals, maybe amps if I know what I'm looking at. From a new jack to a full setup, I'll be doing it all.
DMs open, I'll set a dedicated account up soon
Please share x
🎸
Valley Guitar Repairs is coming soon. Guitars, basses, pedals, maybe amps if I know what I'm looking at. From a new jack to a full setup, I'll be doing it all.
DMs open, I'll set a dedicated account up soon
Please share x
🎸
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Anyone enjoying the current re-runs of vintage Call My Bluff on BBC Four might like to check out the show's cameo appearance ten minutes into this barking mad NF Simpson parody. I remember watching this in 1973 and being flabbergasted.
Elementary My Dear Watson (1973)
YouTube video by TV Gold
www.youtube.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Anyone enjoying the current re-runs of vintage Call My Bluff on BBC Four might like to check out the show's cameo appearance ten minutes into this barking mad NF Simpson parody. I remember watching this in 1973 and being flabbergasted.
You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?
November 25, 2025 at 6:07 PM
You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?
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We're going up the brackets tomorrow at 8pm with music from The Wedding Present, Elliott Smith, The Soft Boys, Mo-Ho-Bish-O-Pi, The Supernaturals, Gorkys, The B-52s, Sponge, MCR and lots more (plus me inbetween.) noiseboxradio.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:17 PM
We're going up the brackets tomorrow at 8pm with music from The Wedding Present, Elliott Smith, The Soft Boys, Mo-Ho-Bish-O-Pi, The Supernaturals, Gorkys, The B-52s, Sponge, MCR and lots more (plus me inbetween.) noiseboxradio.com
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Good day! We're into the final year of our #Sixties run-down of NME number 1s... so we've split it into 2 episodes.
This week ELVIS'S BACK (again) and FLEETWOOD MAC. Let us know what you think about these songs. Classics or mere ephemera? Does 1969 look forward or back?
plinkhq.com/i/1531129636...
This week ELVIS'S BACK (again) and FLEETWOOD MAC. Let us know what you think about these songs. Classics or mere ephemera? Does 1969 look forward or back?
plinkhq.com/i/1531129636...
The Big 60s Sort Out - NME Chart Ep 7 - Podcast Episode Links - Plink
Podcast Episodes smart links to listen, download, and subscribe to The Big Beatles and 60s Sort Out. Click to listen! The Big Beatles Sort Out Presents: The Big 60s Sort Out!
Yes, for season 4 we have...
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November 24, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Good day! We're into the final year of our #Sixties run-down of NME number 1s... so we've split it into 2 episodes.
This week ELVIS'S BACK (again) and FLEETWOOD MAC. Let us know what you think about these songs. Classics or mere ephemera? Does 1969 look forward or back?
plinkhq.com/i/1531129636...
This week ELVIS'S BACK (again) and FLEETWOOD MAC. Let us know what you think about these songs. Classics or mere ephemera? Does 1969 look forward or back?
plinkhq.com/i/1531129636...
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November 23, 2025 at 9:33 AM
🎶 If you want to, I'll change the situation. Right people, right time, just the wrong location. I've got a good idea, just you keep me near, I'll be so good for you. 🎶
November 23, 2025 at 12:35 PM
🎶 If you want to, I'll change the situation. Right people, right time, just the wrong location. I've got a good idea, just you keep me near, I'll be so good for you. 🎶
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happy doctor who day
"The man who makes the noise of the TARDIS" - John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme
YouTube video by knifedog
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November 23, 2025 at 11:34 AM
happy doctor who day
Les Dennis writes in.
Genuinely curious to know how unusual it is to use ones toenail clippings as a toothpick? I know you'll all say it's disgusting, but I bet if you could comment anonymously we'd find that there are loads of us.
November 23, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Les Dennis writes in.
Obsessed with this version.
youtu.be/iPRAI3YkdRk?...
youtu.be/iPRAI3YkdRk?...
Born This Way - The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
YouTube video by UkuleleOrchestra
youtu.be
November 22, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Obsessed with this version.
youtu.be/iPRAI3YkdRk?...
youtu.be/iPRAI3YkdRk?...
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You like fish? You like sex? You like Christmas? Then allow me to be the first to wish you a…
November 22, 2025 at 6:54 PM
You like fish? You like sex? You like Christmas? Then allow me to be the first to wish you a…
Just saw some shitey Duck Duck Go AI advert. Pffft.
November 22, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Just saw some shitey Duck Duck Go AI advert. Pffft.
Been enjoying some 'I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue' clips via YouTube. I do miss the Lyttleton, Cryer, Garden and Brooke-Taylor era. 🥹
November 22, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Been enjoying some 'I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue' clips via YouTube. I do miss the Lyttleton, Cryer, Garden and Brooke-Taylor era. 🥹
Having further thoughts on next year's #xtc listening parties. I think using the tracklistings from the 2001 Remastered versions would be best. They're the ones available on the streaming sites and I have those versions in various formats, too.
November 22, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Having further thoughts on next year's #xtc listening parties. I think using the tracklistings from the 2001 Remastered versions would be best. They're the ones available on the streaming sites and I have those versions in various formats, too.
Morning, folks. Currently going through the draft blog posts for next year, of which there'll be many. But thought I'd share this one from the vaults, about the non-hit singles of Squeeze.
www.gayleramage.co.uk/post/the-not...
www.gayleramage.co.uk/post/the-not...
The (Not) Hit Singles of Squeeze
... Squeeze still have an impressive list of chart successes and a clutch of songs that have long-settled in the public’s conscience if not their record collections. In these modern times, it's so eas...
www.gayleramage.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Morning, folks. Currently going through the draft blog posts for next year, of which there'll be many. But thought I'd share this one from the vaults, about the non-hit singles of Squeeze.
www.gayleramage.co.uk/post/the-not...
www.gayleramage.co.uk/post/the-not...
Still waiting for this opportunity
"Later this year, Bookshop plans to add books by self-published authors and more independent publishers" - finally
Rare good news in the book world www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/b...
November 21, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Still waiting for this opportunity
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So excited to reveal the beautiful cover (by @kiturnix.bsky.social) and Kindle pre-order link for Agents of Secrets & Lies. This trilogy is my finest and final work.
Paperback link coming shortly.
Paperback link coming shortly.
And here it is! Book One of The Summer Realm Trilogy, a dark steampunk fantasy - Agents of Secrets and Lies.
I also have a pre-order link for you!!
mybook.to/SRAgents
Discounted price for pre-orders & first 24hrs of release!
The paperback pre-order link will be here tomorrow.
💙📚👀📢📚
I also have a pre-order link for you!!
mybook.to/SRAgents
Discounted price for pre-orders & first 24hrs of release!
The paperback pre-order link will be here tomorrow.
💙📚👀📢📚
November 21, 2025 at 8:29 AM
So excited to reveal the beautiful cover (by @kiturnix.bsky.social) and Kindle pre-order link for Agents of Secrets & Lies. This trilogy is my finest and final work.
Paperback link coming shortly.
Paperback link coming shortly.
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As we're in #Beatles #Anthology season, here's a piece of artwork depicting everyone's favourite talking head from the series - dear old Neil Aspinall.
This was drawn by Paul's partner, Lorraine, and some of you may have seen this as part of the wonderful @teatles.bsky.social 'Trumps' card game.
This was drawn by Paul's partner, Lorraine, and some of you may have seen this as part of the wonderful @teatles.bsky.social 'Trumps' card game.
November 21, 2025 at 10:48 AM
As we're in #Beatles #Anthology season, here's a piece of artwork depicting everyone's favourite talking head from the series - dear old Neil Aspinall.
This was drawn by Paul's partner, Lorraine, and some of you may have seen this as part of the wonderful @teatles.bsky.social 'Trumps' card game.
This was drawn by Paul's partner, Lorraine, and some of you may have seen this as part of the wonderful @teatles.bsky.social 'Trumps' card game.
Hoping they add Edinburgh
Squeeze are hitting the road in 2026! Pre-order your copy of our new album Trixies on any physical format to get exclusive pre-sale access to tour tickets in the UK, Germany, and France: squeeze.lnk.to/Trixies/Arti...
November 21, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Hoping they add Edinburgh