Hesham Sabry
@heshams.bsky.social
pseud. layabout. tv lawyer. my ship’s been split to splinters and it’s sinking fast. MD ANT
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We were saddened to hear that legendary record business figure Andrew Lauder passed away earlier this week. He was great company and a compelling raconteur. His spirit lives on in hundreds of records that have changed the lives of so many and in the stories he left us in his book Happy Trails.
November 28, 2025 at 4:55 PM
We were saddened to hear that legendary record business figure Andrew Lauder passed away earlier this week. He was great company and a compelling raconteur. His spirit lives on in hundreds of records that have changed the lives of so many and in the stories he left us in his book Happy Trails.
The Clientele were wonderful in London tonight
November 26, 2025 at 10:52 PM
The Clientele were wonderful in London tonight
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I don’t mention this in the new INVENTORY but the Clientele’s version of an obscure Shack/Mick Head song called Closer is one of their most sublime, mysterious and magical recordings. You’re welcome. @backlisted.bsky.social theclientele.bandcamp.com/album/closer
Closer, by The Clientele
1 track album
theclientele.bandcamp.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:36 PM
I don’t mention this in the new INVENTORY but the Clientele’s version of an obscure Shack/Mick Head song called Closer is one of their most sublime, mysterious and magical recordings. You’re welcome. @backlisted.bsky.social theclientele.bandcamp.com/album/closer
Monumental Radiohead show tonight
November 25, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Monumental Radiohead show tonight
Vey excited for tonight!
We are playing two sets at both shows this week. In the second set we’ll concentrate on songs from the violet hour LP
Times:
Doors: 7.30pm
First set: 8:15pm - 9pm
Interval - 15 mins
Second set: 9:15pm - 10:15pm
curfew 10:30pm
Times:
Doors: 7.30pm
First set: 8:15pm - 9pm
Interval - 15 mins
Second set: 9:15pm - 10:15pm
curfew 10:30pm
November 25, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Vey excited for tonight!
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Weird the things that turn up online. A recording of Roddy Frame playing 'The Wrong Road' at the Queen's Hall, Edinburgh, a few days after Grant McLennan's death. I was there. It struck me then and now as the perfect song choice. One of the saddest songs ever, I think.
soundcloud.com/kays-camera/...
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Roddy Frame - The Wrong Road (Queens Hall, Edinburgh 12 May 2006)
Roddy Frame's live rendition of ' The Wrong Road' by The Go-Betweens from The Queens Hall in Edinburgh on 12 May 2006. Less than a week previously, the Australian band's Grant McLennan had died sudden
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November 24, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Weird the things that turn up online. A recording of Roddy Frame playing 'The Wrong Road' at the Queen's Hall, Edinburgh, a few days after Grant McLennan's death. I was there. It struck me then and now as the perfect song choice. One of the saddest songs ever, I think.
soundcloud.com/kays-camera/...
soundcloud.com/kays-camera/...
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What weekend viewing ! Watch this fabulous 2012 doc on Big Star on You Tube with not a single ad break. youtu.be/s4_lkESMhZI?...
Big Star Nothing Can Hurt Me 2012 documentary film about American rock band
YouTube video by Heather Wood
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November 22, 2025 at 11:05 AM
What weekend viewing ! Watch this fabulous 2012 doc on Big Star on You Tube with not a single ad break. youtu.be/s4_lkESMhZI?...
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It's that time of year
November 22, 2025 at 11:54 AM
It's that time of year
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Françoise Hardy
November 22, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Françoise Hardy
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Available now, new National Park songs/recordings on cassette/download. Sending out around 5th December.
nationalpark.bandcamp.com/album/solo-d...
nationalpark.bandcamp.com/album/solo-d...
November 18, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Available now, new National Park songs/recordings on cassette/download. Sending out around 5th December.
nationalpark.bandcamp.com/album/solo-d...
nationalpark.bandcamp.com/album/solo-d...
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Ellie Chowns, "People are frustrated with the problems of the country"
"It's inequality, not immigration, at the root of that"
"There are very irresponsible, dark forces, whipping up hatred"
"It's inequality, not immigration, at the root of that"
"There are very irresponsible, dark forces, whipping up hatred"
November 17, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Ellie Chowns, "People are frustrated with the problems of the country"
"It's inequality, not immigration, at the root of that"
"There are very irresponsible, dark forces, whipping up hatred"
"It's inequality, not immigration, at the root of that"
"There are very irresponsible, dark forces, whipping up hatred"
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Not sure how am going to teach on rights and citizenship and immigration and refugee policies tomorrow. UK government just dropped policy that is way outside the parameters of the global surveys we read.
What has happened here?
I literally do not know.
What has happened here?
I literally do not know.
It's hard to find words to capture quite how revolting, steeped in bigotry, irresponsible, morally unmoored, Labour has become. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Anglican bishop shaken ‘to the core’ by home secretary’s asylum seeker comments
Bishop of Edmonton says people coming to UK are being ‘scapegoated’ for years of policy failures
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Not sure how am going to teach on rights and citizenship and immigration and refugee policies tomorrow. UK government just dropped policy that is way outside the parameters of the global surveys we read.
What has happened here?
I literally do not know.
What has happened here?
I literally do not know.
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The BBC is the biggest thump of soft power the UK has and its reach and influence to the benefit of the country is extraordinary. Destroy it, hugely damage the UK. The same people who helped weaken us over Brexit are seeking to do it again.
Interesting to see so many great British patriots right now begging an American president to bankrupt one of Britain’s last remaining truly national institutions.
November 16, 2025 at 4:14 PM
The BBC is the biggest thump of soft power the UK has and its reach and influence to the benefit of the country is extraordinary. Destroy it, hugely damage the UK. The same people who helped weaken us over Brexit are seeking to do it again.
Post someome who looks great in a hat.....
November 12, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Post someome who looks great in a hat.....
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Another banger for the Michael Shannon file: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
November 11, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Another banger for the Michael Shannon file: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
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I've always felt that Johnson and Farage put self-interest over the national interest - hence their dallying with Putin and his oligarchs. But directly colluding with a foreign government to take down the BBC feels like an act of supreme treachery
November 10, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I've always felt that Johnson and Farage put self-interest over the national interest - hence their dallying with Putin and his oligarchs. But directly colluding with a foreign government to take down the BBC feels like an act of supreme treachery
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A few words in celebration of the first flourishing of British jazz and Richard Morton Jack's incredible, indispensable Labyrinth book. www.patreon.com/posts/britis...
“British jazzers seemed way more fun to be around than my parents. They looked like they had wild parties and drank Chianti in tear-shaped bottles whilst whilst having a fag on the go at all times.” ...
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November 10, 2025 at 8:04 AM
A few words in celebration of the first flourishing of British jazz and Richard Morton Jack's incredible, indispensable Labyrinth book. www.patreon.com/posts/britis...
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Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
November 10, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
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A reminder that David Kogan was *not* on the shortlist for the position of head of the football regulator service and that the candidates who *had* been shortlisted were then ignored in his favour. Kogan did not even apply for the position.
Lisa Nandy apologises for breaking rules on football regulator job
Lisa Nandy apologises for breaking rules on football regulator job
Report finds that new football regulator David Kogan had made two separate donations of £1,450 to the culture secretary.
www.bbc.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:12 AM
A reminder that David Kogan was *not* on the shortlist for the position of head of the football regulator service and that the candidates who *had* been shortlisted were then ignored in his favour. Kogan did not even apply for the position.
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'HEAD' Japanese poster, 1968.
November 8, 2025 at 1:54 PM
'HEAD' Japanese poster, 1968.
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I am biased of course, but I am here to tell you that my favourite record by The Clientele has been reissued on vinyl this week & it is a rather beautiful thing: ffm.bio/theviolethour
November 8, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I am biased of course, but I am here to tell you that my favourite record by The Clientele has been reissued on vinyl this week & it is a rather beautiful thing: ffm.bio/theviolethour
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Bobbie Gentry’s uber rare Thunder in the Afternoon. First time ever on vinyl, a new release on the Measured Mile label. www.acerecords.co.uk/thunder-in-t...
November 7, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Bobbie Gentry’s uber rare Thunder in the Afternoon. First time ever on vinyl, a new release on the Measured Mile label. www.acerecords.co.uk/thunder-in-t...