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Andy Wilko

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Ear tuned to the roar Springsteen, post-punk and anything with a pedal steel Y Wal Goch 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Cymru, LFC, SF Giants Siaradwr newydd - diolch am eich amynedd

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Andy Wilko @tunedtotheroar.bsky.social · 1d

#5debutalbums8084
A Golden Age
1. Lloyd Cole & the Commotions - Rattlesnakes
2. Aztec Camera - High Land Hard Rain
3. Dexys Midnight Runners - Searching for the Young Soul Rebels
4. Orange Juice - You Can't Hide Your Love Forever
5. Echo & The Bunnymen - Crocodiles

Andy Wilko @tunedtotheroar.bsky.social · 22d

Great idea! Here's mine:
1. Rilo Kiley - Take Offs and Landings
2. The Coral - The Coral
3. Laura Cantrell - Not the Tremblin Kind
4. Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
5. Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker

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Andy Wilko @tunedtotheroar.bsky.social · Jul 1

My top 3:
1. Ice Hockey Hair
2. Hello Sunshine
3. Demons
Missing:
Piccolo Snare

Andy Wilko @tunedtotheroar.bsky.social · May 2

#5albums70sfinal
No surprises or new discoveries - I know every groove of these records better than the lines on my own face
1. Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
2. Siouxsie and the Banshees - The Scream
3. The Clash - London Calling
4. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
5. The Undertones

Andy Wilko @tunedtotheroar.bsky.social · May 1

Melin Melyn in Liverpool last night, what a show, go see them

Melin Melyn on stage at District, Liverpool

Andy Wilko @tunedtotheroar.bsky.social · Apr 11

Tapestry was better than Never Mind the Bollocks...just #5albums70s5

1. The Clash - London Calling
2. The Undertones
3. The Jam - All Mod Cons
4. Bruce Springsteen - Greetings from Asbury Park
5. Carole King - Tapestry

Andy Wilko @tunedtotheroar.bsky.social · Mar 24

certainly is!

Andy Wilko @tunedtotheroar.bsky.social · Mar 24

I love #5albums. Is Tapestry better than Never Mind the Bollocks? Yes...no...yes...don't know...aaargh #5albums70s5

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Andy Wilko @tunedtotheroar.bsky.social · Mar 21

Thanks Richard
#5albums70s4
1. The Scream - Siouxsie and the Banshees
2. Rolling Stones - Some Girls
3. Culture - Two Sevens Clash
4. Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
5. X-Ray Spex - Germ Free Adolescents

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Andy Wilko @tunedtotheroar.bsky.social · Mar 21

#5albums70s4 #nowplaying
The Scream - Siouxsie & the Banshees
Between the ages of 15 and 25 I thought this was the greatest album ever made. I still do, a bit.

Album cover of The Scream by Siouxsie and the Banshees

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Andy Wilko @tunedtotheroar.bsky.social · Mar 2

Went yesterday, loved it. This 1977 press clipping from a local paper is 🔥

local press article about a Clash gig with headline Punk Rock Hits Town

Andy Wilko @tunedtotheroar.bsky.social · Mar 2

Went to Mick Jones' Rock n Roll Public Library in that London. Mick's personal collection of, well, everything. Check out that original track list of London Calling #theclash.

Andy Wilko @tunedtotheroar.bsky.social · Mar 1

Dydd Gwyl Dewi Hapus!

Ffoto clasurol gan Matt Chedgzoy.

Andy Wilko @tunedtotheroar.bsky.social · Feb 28

Sticking (with great difficulty) to 1 album per artist #5albums70s3:
1. Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
2. Elvis Costello - This Year's Model
3. Nick Drake - Bryter Layter
4. Augustus Pablo - King Tubby's Meets Rockers Uptown
5. Velvet Underground - Loaded

Andy Wilko @tunedtotheroar.bsky.social · Feb 26

Deeside is Welsh folk music.

Andy Wilko @tunedtotheroar.bsky.social · Feb 26

It was the first song that made me go yes, that's about me, that's about where I'm from. I'd never been to the Hammersmith Palais or Wardour Street but I'd seen Mersey lights in the distance.

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Andy Wilko @tunedtotheroar.bsky.social · Feb 25

Mersey lights shine in the distance, same as they did for us then...

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Andy Wilko @tunedtotheroar.bsky.social · Feb 20

Movies you've watched more than six times, gifs only.

Andy Wilko @tunedtotheroar.bsky.social · Feb 17

Essential. Heartbreaking. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone

Following the lives of four young people trying to survive the Israel-Hamas war as they hope for a ceasefire - a vivid and unflinching view of life in a warzone.

www.bbc.co.uk

Andy Wilko @tunedtotheroar.bsky.social · Feb 8

ABBA & SLF - nice, me too. Barbed Wire Love could have been on Arrival.

Andy Wilko @tunedtotheroar.bsky.social · Feb 8

Top three was easy, after that it all gets a bit...70's #5albums70s2
1. Gram Parsons - GP
2. Stiff Little Fingers - Inflammable Material
3. Talking Heads - Fear of Music
4. Bob Dylan - Street Legal
5. ABBA - Arrival

Andy Wilko @tunedtotheroar.bsky.social · Feb 7

One of my highlights of 2024 was seeing the brilliant Mellt at Boia Festival in Tyddewi #dyddmiwsigcymru
youtu.be/5OiYJzsFa00?...

Mellt - Ceisio (Official Video)

YouTube video by Mellt

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Andy Wilko @tunedtotheroar.bsky.social · Jan 28

Oh yes 🙌

Rilo Kiley @rilokileyofficial.bsky.social · Jan 27

it’s happening! just like heaven festival 2025 announced and there’s more to come! sign up for our mailing list at rilokiley.lnk.to/list to get updates.

Andy Wilko @tunedtotheroar.bsky.social · Jan 24

Dysgwch Gymraeg / Learn Welsh
You knows it #cymraeg

Nicholas A. Christakis @nachristakis.bsky.social · Jan 24

Bilingualism is associated with a bigger brain. Similar to other cognitively demanding skills, it leads to dynamic subcortical structural adaptations which can be nonlinear, in line with expansion-renormalisation models of experience-dependent neuroplasticity. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Dynamic effects of bilingualism on brain structure map onto general principles of experience-based neuroplasticity - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Dynamic effects of bilingualism on brain structure map onto general principles of experience-based neuroplasticity

www.nature.com

Andy Wilko @tunedtotheroar.bsky.social · Jan 18

Nunez!