Steve Morgan
@stevemorgan68.bsky.social
Freelance journalist, reluctantly freed cat slave. Sport/music obsessive - 30 years-plus hackery, from local papers to FourFourTwo, FA, ECB, LTW, WSC, Manchester United, Wisden, Guardian, Observer. Got a record played on Radio One twice, won an award once.
Here's the Netherlands with their Eurovision non-entry 'Participation cannot be reconciled'
December 4, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Here's the Netherlands with their Eurovision non-entry 'Participation cannot be reconciled'
‘Have you got it in organic?’
December 4, 2025 at 4:41 PM
‘Have you got it in organic?’
A must if you haven’t. One of the best gigs I’ve seen this year.
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One week today until the Devon/Cornwall run. The week after is Reading, Ipswich and intimate London shows at Betsy Trotwood. Evening one is sold out and matinee is filling up fast. Deep cuts. Christmas merch.
Then there’s next year like.
Nice one.
One week today until the Devon/Cornwall run. The week after is Reading, Ipswich and intimate London shows at Betsy Trotwood. Evening one is sold out and matinee is filling up fast. Deep cuts. Christmas merch.
Then there’s next year like.
Nice one.
December 2, 2025 at 7:47 PM
A must if you haven’t. One of the best gigs I’ve seen this year.
Shows you how big a deal Gary Numan was in 1979.
Here's Complex, the follow-up to Cars, which is about the most uncommercial hit you can ask for. It got to number six in the UK charts - the vocal doesn't come in until nearly halfway through its 3 mins 10 seconds.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G-Y...
Here's Complex, the follow-up to Cars, which is about the most uncommercial hit you can ask for. It got to number six in the UK charts - the vocal doesn't come in until nearly halfway through its 3 mins 10 seconds.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G-Y...
Gary Numan Complex
YouTube video by Official Gary Numan
www.youtube.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Shows you how big a deal Gary Numan was in 1979.
Here's Complex, the follow-up to Cars, which is about the most uncommercial hit you can ask for. It got to number six in the UK charts - the vocal doesn't come in until nearly halfway through its 3 mins 10 seconds.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G-Y...
Here's Complex, the follow-up to Cars, which is about the most uncommercial hit you can ask for. It got to number six in the UK charts - the vocal doesn't come in until nearly halfway through its 3 mins 10 seconds.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G-Y...
Okay, boppers. It’s @cmatbaby.bsky.social time. There’s never a bad time to have a good time, but blimey, the County Meath two step is going to banish some proper shite this eventide
December 1, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Okay, boppers. It’s @cmatbaby.bsky.social time. There’s never a bad time to have a good time, but blimey, the County Meath two step is going to banish some proper shite this eventide
It’s neck and neck in the small ships race
November 29, 2025 at 12:06 AM
It’s neck and neck in the small ships race
"How I Wrote 'Elastic Man'" by The Fall
YouTube video by trentrey
youtu.be
November 28, 2025 at 2:48 PM
The internet never forgets. For years I'd thought about 'Record Graveyard', which looking at it from a distance of what, 25 years, strangely seems both dated and ahead of its time.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5a3p...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5a3p...
Woody Bop Muddy - Record Graveyard (Early Version)
YouTube video by eugenecheese
www.youtube.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:55 AM
The internet never forgets. For years I'd thought about 'Record Graveyard', which looking at it from a distance of what, 25 years, strangely seems both dated and ahead of its time.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5a3p...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5a3p...
I find the language use in these callous times fascinating. We’ve had a real number done on us by shameless twunts and corporate bullshit bingo callers.
November 27, 2025 at 3:59 PM
I find the language use in these callous times fascinating. We’ve had a real number done on us by shameless twunts and corporate bullshit bingo callers.
Pompey’s 3-0 defeat at Bramall Lane tonight continued a winless stretch there than dates back to 1955. 25 games. 17 Prime Ministers. Queen Elizabeth was three years into her reign.
Can anyone beat that for a sporting graveyard?
Can anyone beat that for a sporting graveyard?
November 26, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Pompey’s 3-0 defeat at Bramall Lane tonight continued a winless stretch there than dates back to 1955. 25 games. 17 Prime Ministers. Queen Elizabeth was three years into her reign.
Can anyone beat that for a sporting graveyard?
Can anyone beat that for a sporting graveyard?
Can’t help thinking that Bodø/Glimt must be one of the best song titles Cocteau Twins never recorded.
November 26, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Can’t help thinking that Bodø/Glimt must be one of the best song titles Cocteau Twins never recorded.
Looks like a bargain at 25p to 1979 me with all these hip new bands
November 25, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Looks like a bargain at 25p to 1979 me with all these hip new bands
The binman of the apocalypse
November 25, 2025 at 10:30 PM
The binman of the apocalypse
Quick reminder from Smash Hits of things, or thangs we didn't need in 1981, or indeed now. Message ends.
November 25, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Quick reminder from Smash Hits of things, or thangs we didn't need in 1981, or indeed now. Message ends.
Federico Macheda is, astonishingly, still only 34 - now twice the age he was when he scored that ridiculous dramatic title-winning goal for United against Villa in 2009. He plays in Greece these days for Asteras Tripolis.
November 25, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Federico Macheda is, astonishingly, still only 34 - now twice the age he was when he scored that ridiculous dramatic title-winning goal for United against Villa in 2009. He plays in Greece these days for Asteras Tripolis.
Going to be spinning a few JC classics today, then.
This story witin the song, pop pickers, was a direct inspiration for New Order's Love Vigilantes (they covered it in 2003 for War Child)...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9Q4...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VFW...
This story witin the song, pop pickers, was a direct inspiration for New Order's Love Vigilantes (they covered it in 2003 for War Child)...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9Q4...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VFW...
Jimmy Cliff - Vietnam
YouTube video by RastaChaka
www.youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Going to be spinning a few JC classics today, then.
This story witin the song, pop pickers, was a direct inspiration for New Order's Love Vigilantes (they covered it in 2003 for War Child)...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9Q4...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VFW...
This story witin the song, pop pickers, was a direct inspiration for New Order's Love Vigilantes (they covered it in 2003 for War Child)...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9Q4...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VFW...
Sad to hear of the death of Jimmy Cliff. The Harder They Come was the classic gateway to him in my youth, visions of us spotty teen herberts assembling to stick it on via the massive, top-loading Ferguson Videostar and cheer on Ivan’s exploits
November 24, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Sad to hear of the death of Jimmy Cliff. The Harder They Come was the classic gateway to him in my youth, visions of us spotty teen herberts assembling to stick it on via the massive, top-loading Ferguson Videostar and cheer on Ivan’s exploits
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November 23, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Betty Davis - Dedicated To The Press
YouTube video by Indigoinsf5
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November 22, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Though Syd can’t be with us today, she would have wanted us to tell you about that time we made her sit here when there were about 10 comfy chairs or settees knocking about. #caturday
November 22, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Though Syd can’t be with us today, she would have wanted us to tell you about that time we made her sit here when there were about 10 comfy chairs or settees knocking about. #caturday
Isn’t it about time we got a new fruit to compete for the hospital visit fruit market dollar? Grapes have had a good run.
November 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Isn’t it about time we got a new fruit to compete for the hospital visit fruit market dollar? Grapes have had a good run.
My word. What a band. What a gig. Something very, very special about these lads.
Reg, we’re only dancing.
Reg, we’re only dancing.
November 21, 2025 at 11:36 PM
My word. What a band. What a gig. Something very, very special about these lads.
Reg, we’re only dancing.
Reg, we’re only dancing.
Quentin Blake rules.
Here’s Beatrix Potter’s ‘lost’ Kitty-In-Boots, or as she prefers to be known herself, ‘Miss Catherine St Quentin’. Pics from the excellent Lowry exhibition, Quentin Blake and Me, which runs until 4 January.
Here’s Beatrix Potter’s ‘lost’ Kitty-In-Boots, or as she prefers to be known herself, ‘Miss Catherine St Quentin’. Pics from the excellent Lowry exhibition, Quentin Blake and Me, which runs until 4 January.
November 21, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Quentin Blake rules.
Here’s Beatrix Potter’s ‘lost’ Kitty-In-Boots, or as she prefers to be known herself, ‘Miss Catherine St Quentin’. Pics from the excellent Lowry exhibition, Quentin Blake and Me, which runs until 4 January.
Here’s Beatrix Potter’s ‘lost’ Kitty-In-Boots, or as she prefers to be known herself, ‘Miss Catherine St Quentin’. Pics from the excellent Lowry exhibition, Quentin Blake and Me, which runs until 4 January.
Always some great social history stuff on display at Manchester Central Library.
Libraries forever!
Here’s some punk odds and sods… #manchester
Libraries forever!
Here’s some punk odds and sods… #manchester
November 20, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Always some great social history stuff on display at Manchester Central Library.
Libraries forever!
Here’s some punk odds and sods… #manchester
Libraries forever!
Here’s some punk odds and sods… #manchester