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Andy Lewis

@andylewis.bsky.social

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Music producer, bass player, DJ. Soho Radio presenter. Weller band alumnus. Helped invent Britpop.

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Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · Nov 17

“Clear off, Lewis. No-one wants to hear what you think” says a bitter looking pilot officer in another Commando comic strip

Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 10h

To have so bitterly divided two significant British pop culture fandoms is some kind of achievement.

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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 1d

This is what I came to the internet for ✨ 🐓 ✨

Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 13h

Makes all those multi format single releases from our youth look positively amateurish.

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John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · 19h

Latest from me: the era of the £100+ gig ticket spells cultural disaster www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The best gig I ever saw cost £4. Spiralling concert prices are a cultural disaster | John Harris

Tickets for big tours have vastly outstripped inflation, while smaller artists and venues struggle. The magic is in danger of being snuffed out entirely, says Guardian columnist John Harris

www.theguardian.com

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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 21h

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 21h

- Now I *know* the old saw about anecdote not being evidence, and I appreciate that everything's different now. But without getting all "when I were a lad", it's hard to see how a degree that effectively limits your education is worth anything like the money being charged to obtain it.

Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 21h

-great chunks of English, Philosophy, Theology, Geography, Media Studies and Informatics. None of the jobs I've had since graduating depended on any of these skills, but all of them were made a good deal easier by having them. And that includes making music professionally.-

Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 21h

-A whole range of degree courses exist that are so limited in their scope that it defies logic. Degree courses should be broad based, interdisciplinary things that encourage curiosity and reward creative thinking, not just ticking boxes for future employers. My degree in History also included-

Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 22h

You do not need a degree in sound engineering, music production or pop music studies to do what I do. You just need a basic level of technical competence, ears and good ideas.
You *could* get a short course in how to use DAW software or basic music theory but you don't need 3 years at university.-

Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 22h

Yes. The older PVC ones are the worst offenders. They were designed in an age when nobody knew that what they were protecting might one day be venerated cultural objects worth silly money.

Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 22h

Nobody knew they were making things for posterity. That's the only excuse I can come up with.

Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 22h

See my pinned post, but the biggest "rip off" degrees are courses in things that are vocational or practical. Getting into tens of thousands of debt to saddle yourself with a qualification that limits your employment choices to what's written on your certificate is a scam that shouldn't be allowed.

Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 22h

Like the house near Woking called Wild Wood. I'd be tempted to change the name to Wellersacunt if I lived there. They'd probably still nick it.

Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 22h

You might be lucky, but picture discs are, sadly, the most vulnerable. It depends on how they're stored and what the humidity is and a whole host of variables. Maybe hydrocarbons have good taste and like Barry Andrews.

Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 22h

Fantastic. I wish I still had my Dead Dead Good shirt. It was acquired by somebody I was going out with at the time who thought it looked better on them than it did on me.

Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 22h

I own a wonderfully (tragically) outgassed copy of the Harlan County* LP, but mercifully all the good tunes are on the side that's largely unaffected.
*keys player and soon to be chart bound crooner Peter Skellern's first outing in a British country rock band.

Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 22h

- But where the actual LP has ended up is a mystery wrapped in an enigma. It'll be in there somewhere. I expect I will find it nestling next to the LP of Spilt Milk by Jellyfish and the 7" of Lighten Up by Larry Atkins, both of which I definitely own but neither of which are anywhere to be found.

Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 23h

- At some stage I took it out of the sleeve, and just as well because keeping any record in a PVC sleeve turns out to be just about the worst thing you can do (google "outgassing" and weep). Now. I know *exactly* where the sleeve is. It looks out at me from within a clear plastic crate in my studio-

Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 23h

Thirty five years ago I was picking up my copy of this, ordered from the mad shop in Lampeter that was part newsagent, part record shop and no it wasn't WHSmiths. It was a local shop for local people. Anyway, early copies of this LP, like mine, came in a white PVC printed sleeve which I still have.-

WHAT A FUCKING RECORD @whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social · 1d

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Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 1d

Love love love this band!!

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Rob Chapman @scribblerrob.bsky.social · 1d

If you're wondering why so many of my generation ended up with the eyes and ears and minds that we did it's because we could watch stuff like this on schools programme. This is simply astounding.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gED...

Shoreditch Experimental Music School 1969

YouTube video by Elen Nas

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Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 1d

One of the best albums ever. Oddly enough, an album that didn't feature on the radar of one of my old work colleagues until I pointed it out. And he was *from* there.

Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 1d

This one's for Robert Jenrick and every other racist wanker out there.

Babylon is falling. It was foolish to build it on the sand. Handsworth shall stand. Firm like Jah rock. Fighting back.

youtu.be/7XXpQFyP7RA?...

Steel Pulse - Handsworth Revolution - Live 1979

YouTube video by NeatLittleMan

Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 1d

I was DJing in Oxford once and some bloke came over to me and said "Thom Yorke wants you to turn the music down". So much for the sense of escape there. Gutless wanker wouldn't even come over himself. But aside from that, happy birthday to him.

Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 1d

Probably couldn’t even take his mum out to the shops.