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More shoes & handbags than required. Metal, indie, pop, country, folk. Soundtracked by various. Posts mostly about gigs, poor lyric puns & nonsense & nature-y photos. Selfie free zone. Not DM-able.

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chumpski @chumpski.bsky.social · Nov 14

Again, newish people, helloish! Pretty much what the profile says, settled here over a year ago & stuck so there's lengthy enough posting history for you to know what to expect, don't say you weren't warned!

If you do anything, make it a habit to include alt text on images.

Now, any questions?

chumpski @chumpski.bsky.social · 16h

Always a good move!

chumpski @chumpski.bsky.social · 19h

Turns out there is plenty better in life than writing on the sole of a slipper with a biro.

chumpski @chumpski.bsky.social · 23h

Say @jonpountney1.bsky.social that’s a nice bit of work!

Jon Pountney’s photo book ‘Valleys’ - full cover view

Jon Pountney’s photo book ‘Valleys’ - centre spread view

chumpski @chumpski.bsky.social · 23h

Looking through a 25 year old work diary before binning* - that’s not at all sobering.

* house of junk rules - even I can’t keep absolutely everything forever

red cover of an A5 desk diary with the year 2000 in gold numbering

chumpski @chumpski.bsky.social · 23h

I spent it significantly upping my gig-going and intermittently sleeping off a multi-year breakdown. There was also a mid-final-year summons to a meeting where it was heads/tails whether I was going to be thrown off the course there and then #EternalHighAchiever

chumpski @chumpski.bsky.social · 1d

There's some great first person Freedy content here, for anyone who (like me) wasn't otherwise familiar with Freedy and his work.

thehustle.podbean.com/e/episode-53...

Episode 533 - Freedy Johnston | The Hustle

Steady Freedy. It doesn't rhyme, but it should because that's what singer/songwriter Freedy Johnston has been. Since the early 90s, Freedy has been releasing consistently wonderful music with his crys...

thehustle.podbean.com

chumpski @chumpski.bsky.social · 1d

Good priorities 👍

chumpski @chumpski.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks for all the breakdown of process. I love being in airports, they're an endlessly fascinating environment, stuck in the 3-way tension between efficiency of movement, performance of security theatre and repeated encouragement to buy just one more coffee/handbag than we could ever possibly need.

chumpski @chumpski.bsky.social · 3d

I like Nadine & what impression I have of her as a person. When I saw her 4 years ago, it didn't do much for me. This evening her band was great, she looked more I-know-what-I'm-doing-and-you-can-think-whatever-you-like, the elongated vocals were v strong. I'm still not humming a chorus or hook tho.

chumpski @chumpski.bsky.social · 3d

Fifth night out in six, already seen a healthy looking Big Jeff, the show stopped for ten due to a collapsing punter and a remarkably powerful Nadine Shah vocally going two thirds Geoff Tate. And now here’s the queen the world needs.

Nadine Shah and band

Self Esteem, accept no substitutes

chumpski @chumpski.bsky.social · 3d

Here’s the good news - in a world of stupid ideas, that restriction isn’t one that anyone with any sort of authority has chosen to mandate yet 😀

chumpski @chumpski.bsky.social · 3d

Film in general, it’s my big blind spot of you want to get the better of me in a useless trivia or pub quiz. Also never Friends, Lost, Sopranos or a thousand other sometime somehow popular shows.

Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 4d

Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?

I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.

chumpski @chumpski.bsky.social · 3d

Possibly the very best of Teenage Fanclub, definitely my if-I-can-only-pick-one-song favourite.

chumpski @chumpski.bsky.social · 4d

Canada’s finest.

Hawksley Workman, up close and personal

chumpski @chumpski.bsky.social · 4d

I’ve been to gigs of a big range of sizes, but a house concert in someone’s palatial shed, capacity 34, is definitely a new one on me.

stage area, not elevated, for what’s set to be a remarkably intimate show

chumpski @chumpski.bsky.social · 4d

Once again, hooray for fast forward when I get home later!

chumpski @chumpski.bsky.social · 4d

Little bit of acid reflux from the wine, little bit of sandblasted exfoliation to freshen my skin up!

a small wave breaks onto a sandy beach

sand blown across the prom

chumpski @chumpski.bsky.social · 5d

Oh sure, friday night only starts at midnight!

a glass of white wine and a pink handbag

chumpski @chumpski.bsky.social · 5d

Once again no #TotP for me due to having a better option. And possibly two, ask me in three hours!

chumpski @chumpski.bsky.social · 5d

16 years and a month ago for me. It wasn't fun but at the same time, I'm still here and I'm definitely in a better position now than I was then. The end of the world isn't always the end of the world.

chumpski @chumpski.bsky.social · 6d

Nyaaargh. CMAT shows postponed, that's a nuisance. Hope she feels better soon though, that's the important thing.

chumpski @chumpski.bsky.social · 7d

Always.

chumpski @chumpski.bsky.social · 7d

Those look great, especially the hummingbird.

chumpski @chumpski.bsky.social · 8d

Looks a lot like my coming weekend, except for the Copenhagen, but I did really enjoy my trip there for a gig a couple of years ago.

chumpski @chumpski.bsky.social · 8d

Less falling, more laughing and smiling and living and celebrating.

Edwyn Collins and band