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Clair Woodward @clairywoowoo.bsky.social · 1d
Withnail and I at All is Joy in Soho with a Martin Green DJ set. Tomorrow night. You should come! www.rebelreelcineclub.com/screenings/p...
WITHNAIL AND I - Tues 14 Oct 7pm - All is Joy Soho — Rebel Reel Cine Club
As part of Cine Style the iconic Withnail and I at All is Joy London. The 1960s. Two unemployed actors—acerbic, elegantly wasted (and oh so stylish …) Danny: “Has he just been busted?” Marwood: ...
www.rebelreelcineclub.com
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Peter Watts @peterwatts.bsky.social · 1d
Yeah - lot of context to unpack that a star system doesn’t really allow.
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Helen Barrett @helenbarrett.bsky.social · 1d
A gorgeous thing to own.
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C20 Society @c20society.bsky.social · 1d
🚨 A unique test panel from the Tottenham Court Road Station murals by Sir Eduardo Paolozzi (1924-2005) is coming up at auction with Lyon & Turnbull on Oct 31.

Created in 1982-86, the polychromatic glass mosaics at TCR are the ‘Sistene Chapel of art of the Underground’, yet remain unlisted.
1.5x1m butterfly / moth mosaic panel - gifted by Paolozzi to the architect who oversaw the installation of the murals, Duncan Lamb. Tottenham Court Road Station murals - Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, 1982-86 Image credit: Historic England
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Peter Watts @peterwatts.bsky.social · 1d
I’ve heard it - it’s really good.
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Peter Watts @peterwatts.bsky.social · 1d
Hmmmm www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...
Bruce Springsteen: Nebraska ’82: Expanded Edition review – fabled album falls short of expectations
Rumours of the existence of E Street versions of Springsteen’s masterpiece have swirled for decades, but the reality doesn’t live up to the hype
www.theguardian.com
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Peter Watts @peterwatts.bsky.social · 3d
Yeah I went to school with kids like that.
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Peter Watts @peterwatts.bsky.social · 3d
It’s really well done.
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Matt Houlbrook @tricksterprince.bsky.social · 3d
Happy bookshop day to @stanfordstravel.bsky.social! I’m excited to be doing some walking tours of #20s30s seven dials with them in November. Watch this space!
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Stanfords Travel @stanfordstravel.bsky.social · 3d
Happy Bookshop Day ♥️

#bookshopday
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The Strange Brew @strangebrewpod.bsky.social · 3d
New video: Rob Caiger of Nice Records talks about uncovering lost master tapes and restoring classics by Small Faces @roomforravers.bsky.social and Humble Pie. Caiger reveals how Kenny Jones' archive and much more is being brought back to life #smallfaces www.youtube.com/watch?v=p39y...
As Safe As Yesterday Is: Archiving Small Faces and Humble Pie
YouTube video by The Strange Brew Podcast
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Uncut Magazine @uncutmagazine.bsky.social · 4d
RIP John Lodge of The Moody Blues.

Earlier this year, he and his bandmates talked to Uncut about the making of "Question" – their dual-speed No 2 hit that thrilled festival crowds and then calmed them down. “It was like the waves on the beach...”

www.uncut.co.uk/features/the...
The Making Of "Question" by The Moody Blues
Their dual-speed No 2 hit thrilled festival crowds and then calmed them down. “It was like the waves on the beach...”
www.uncut.co.uk
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Jo Kendall @jothekendall.bsky.social · 4d
Just a last few tix left for our Pentangle Listening Party with Jacqui McShee tomorrow afternoon at the Half Moon in Putney. Thanks to Jennie Bellestar for some promo at her fab Give Me Love vintage shop in Camden 💜

tickets.halfmoon.co.uk/events/2025-...
Jennie Bellestar in a hat and motorcycle jacket holding up a flyer for the camera A great colourful pop art mural of George Harrison outside Jennie’s Give Me Love shop A wider angle shot of the shop Give Me Love which has rails of clothes outside and more psychedelic decoration above the shop windows Our Pentangle flyer on a table with a Solomon’s Seal button badge.
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Peter Watts @peterwatts.bsky.social · 4d
This CD will be amazing. And if that's not reason enough to buy, I'm inside chatting to Billy Childish and Holly Golightly, listening to Donovan talk about the making of "Hurdy Gurdy Man", watching the new Warren Ellis documentary and reviewing Electric Nebraska (spoiler alert: holy shit!).
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Uncut Magazine @uncutmagazine.bsky.social · 4d
The new Uncut is now on sale! Features Neil Young, a highly collectible Neil Young CD, Patti Smith, the Stones, Otis Redding, Super Furry Animals, Ryan Davis & The Roadhouse Band, John Foxx, SELF ESTEEM, Donovan, Jonathan Richman, Belair Lip Bombs, Bob Marley, Springsteen & more!
bit.ly/UncutDec25
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Apollo @apollo-magazine.com · 6d
Sir John Soane described the Bank of England building he designed as ‘the pride and boast of my life’, but in 1925 his masterpiece was demolished to make way for Herbert Baker’s bigger but more boring vision, writes @willwiles.bsky.social
The man who broke the Bank of England – and built it back up again
It is a century since most of Sir John Soane’s structure was demolished to make way for Herbert Baker’s bigger but more boring vision, writes Will Wiles
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Mike Press @mikepress.bsky.social · 6d
Our guided walk of the musical history of London's Soho this Saturday - 11 Oct - takes in Bowie, Beatles, punk, jazz, Pulp and much else. Free to attend, but donations invited for Centrepoint homeless charity.
Walk On The Wild Side
Made with Tally, the simplest way to create forms.
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Peter Watts @peterwatts.bsky.social · 6d
The Conservative Party conference has been a useful reminder that yes, astonishing as that may seem, things could actually be worse.
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Peter Watts @peterwatts.bsky.social · 7d
Flappers at a rifle range on the roof of an office block on the Strand, 1920s.
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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 9d
The Proud City - Chelsea Power House From Meek Street”, from Walter Spradbery’s 1944 series of London Transport posters celebrating the resilience of the city & its citizens during World War Two.
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 10d
The number of Cafe Royal titles has passed seven hundred; together they constitute a singular record of British and Irish vernacular photography between about 1960 and 2010.’

Ben Campbell on a collection of his father Peter’s photographs of London in the early sixties: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Ben Campbell · In the Shoebox: Peter’s Snapshots
Photographic negatives are fragile, prone to scratching, fading and decay, and many of Peter’s are well over sixty...
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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 12d
OUT NOW, my month-by-month guide to 1980s pop, from ABC to XTC, and from Madonna to Neneh. #IntoTheGroove, published by @eandtbooks.bsky.social.
Cover of INTO THE GROOVE: THE 1980s: THE ULTIMATE DECADE IN MUSIC HISTORY by Justin Lewis (me) 'An epic compendium of stories and trivia from the 80s music scene'
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Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 11d
I wrote a thing about the new Partridge - which I absolutely loved.
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Alan Partridge takes on mental health – and the results are magnificent
From its depiction of midlife ennui to its satirical take on therapy-speak, ‘How Are You? It’s Alan (Partridge)’ is the best Partridge-related project in years, writes Phil Harrison
www.independent.co.uk
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Peter Watts @peterwatts.bsky.social · 13d
RIP my favourite dodgy football streaming site.
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Peter Watts @peterwatts.bsky.social · 13d
Just popped over to twitter to fetch something and they are still arguing whether black people are allowed to be English.
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Edith S @wiilassie.bsky.social · 14d
Guys, you're never gonna guess where the pot of gold is
A rainbow ending in the City of London, near the Gherkin and the Scalpel (that building that looks like a play button to South London in the right light)
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Peter Watts @peterwatts.bsky.social · 14d
New family lore just casually mentioned by my mum - the one-legged Greek lodger her parents had in the 1960s called Augustus Octavia Julius Caesar.
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