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Hey Kids Rock'n'Roll @heykidsshop.bsky.social · Aug 18

A quick update on heykidsrocknroll.etsy.com
(TL:DR - I'm suspending US shipping for a bit, otherwise same old same old really)

Hey kids!
Quick shop update, you might be aware that there are some changes happening with shipping items to the USA. I’ll be honest, I’m not entirely sure what the result of that will be or how long it will be in place but, for the time being at least, it does look like there will be some disruption. To be on the safe side I won’t be posting out to the US for a little while, then we’ll see how things stand further down the line.
What with this and the general state of the world and the creative industries it’s…well an interesting time! I think I’ll try and do some dIfferent things with the shop and with the work I do under the Hey Kids Rock’n’Roll banner. Commissions, collaborations, different types of product, one-offs…Lots of ideas bubbling! Do get in touch if you have any ideas or would like something made.
This year is, incredibly, the 10th anniversary of Hey Kids Rock’n’Roll, it’s been really good fun and the one thing I AM certain of is that it will continue to be!
Thank you to everyone who has supported the shop and my daft ideas! Keep an eye out for more soon!
Sean
(Hey kids Rock’n’Roll)

A representative sample of products available from heykidsrocknroll.etsy.com - Big Daddy & Giant Haystacks card decorations, David Byrne dancing puppet, Kate Bush felt decorations and a cardboard model kit of the Fillmore West.

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Hey Kids Rock'n'Roll @heykidsshop.bsky.social · 2h

Meet the feebles.

Dave Bagpuss Forsey 🍺 @bagpuss.org · 4h

The photography in this article really feels like The Times are deliberately setting these people up for ridicule. (You can read it without visiting The Times here archive.ph/KZZC1)

An article from The Times: "Meet the young Tories dreaming of a bright blue future". Featuring bizarre portraits of Charles Amos, Rhys Benjamin and Daniel Campbell.

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John Grindrod @grindrod.bsky.social · 5h

There’s now ten episodes of Monstrosities Mon Amour available! That’s a lot of cheery chat about unloved and unfairly maligned places… podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m...
- The Golden Mile with Kathryn Ferry
- The Drum, Margate, with Dan Thompson
- The Blue Bridge with Catherine Croft

Monstrosities Mon Amour

Places & Travel Podcast · Monthly · In Monstrosities Mon Amour we celebrate places and things that have been unfairly monstered in popular opinion. Host John Grindrod will be your excitable guide to a...

podcasts.apple.com

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Hey Kids Rock'n'Roll @heykidsshop.bsky.social · 13h

a carved wooden figururine of Nick Lowe what I made (commissions open)

Hey Kids Rock'n'Roll @heykidsshop.bsky.social · 13h

Nick Lowe as well.

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Hey Kids Rock'n'Roll @heykidsshop.bsky.social · 14h

Got a lot of time for Elizabeth Nelson from The Paranoid Style. And I think Springsteen can still write a great lyric.

Emily, a Two-Shoes-Gooder @rebelmusicteach.bsky.social · 3d

I also need to know: I am fairly middle-of-the-road on Taylor Swift but someone I know called her the Greatest Living Lyricist. She is not.

Who is yours? Either the greatest or your favorite?

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Mike Suszek @mikesuszek.bsky.social · 8d

Once again, this perfect @zeboydgames.bsky.social post comes to mind:

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 1d

It's so incredible how low homicide rates are in Europe. The UK, with a population of 70 million people, had fewer than 600 murders in 2023.
www.connexionfrance.com/news/double-...

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Hey Kids Rock'n'Roll @heykidsshop.bsky.social · 2d

Geoff Hoon was an alt-country fan I think. Saw him at a Jayhawks gig.

Daniel @deargodwhatnow.bsky.social · 2d

What's the funniest examples of politicians and professed musical tastes - I know Gordon Brown said he was a fan of the Arctic Monkeys

Daniel @deargodwhatnow.bsky.social · 2d

Fun reminder of the time Cameron was told he wasn't allowed to enjoy The Smiths (?). Presumably because he was too left wing for Morrissey

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Beau @drbeaubeaumont.bsky.social · 2d

I’m old enough to remember when talk of renewable energy was always tempered with the caveat that “what’s the point, if China and India keep burning fossil fuels”. While certainly not the whole story, there’s some genuinely good news in here.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity

Developing countries lead the historic clean energy charge but the US and EU rely more on fossil fuels than before, a think tank study shows.

www.bbc.com

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ItIsStevenRhodes @400footghost.bsky.social · 3d

Much as I love Broadcast's albums, I think I play this recording of one of their very last shows more than some of them. It sounds so gorgeous and otherworldly. The unreleased song around 50 mins in is sublime. This video had better not ever vanish.

Broadcast - Live at the Hifi Bar, Melbourne (09/10/10)

YouTube video by Eyes Open

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Obligatory Hallow’Iain Joke Here Pls @iainhepburn.me · 3d

Two weeks to go for us to hit our targets, or it doesn't happen. It's going to be tight. And I know times are tough. But I think it's worth it.

From The Sublime… Magazine @fromthesublime.bsky.social · Aug 19

Ok. You know what. Let's call it a comeback. And it's live!

Issue Four - our fifth edition (yes, we know) The campaign starts here.

144 pages. 8mm thick. £12. Yours in time for the holidays.

Are you in?

From The Sublime - Issue Four

We're back. And it's about time. (And a bunch of other stuff...) | Check out 'From The Sublime - Issue Four' on Indiegogo.

www.indiegogo.com

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Hey Kids Rock'n'Roll @heykidsshop.bsky.social · 5d

The Toy Record shop (over at heykidsrocknroll.etsy.com ) now comes in a snazzy box!

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Hey Kids Rock'n'Roll @heykidsshop.bsky.social · 4d

The heykidsrocknroll.etsy.com 'My Little Quentin Crisp' it's a card, it's a decoration, it's the season's hottest trend!

An illustration of Quentin Crisp on a shaped card with a ribbon & bow for hanging as a decoration.

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Hey Kids Rock'n'Roll @heykidsshop.bsky.social · 4d

A great write-up (from an always interesting old-school blog - like when the internet was good) with a tremendous final paragraph. A short story in a few lines.

David Bryant @23daves.bsky.social · 4d

Blog update: Almost 40 years ago this week, "The Boy With The Thorn In His Side" reached number one in the NME Indie Charts. As a factual record of Morrissey's career-based frustrations and woes, it's a record which has no right to sound as beautiful and gripping as it does.

68. The Smiths - The Boy With The Thorn In His Side (Rough Trade)

All the singles to top the NME Indie Charts since its launch in 1981, complete with an overview of the other music in the charts each week.

indienumber1s.blogspot.com

Hey Kids Rock'n'Roll @heykidsshop.bsky.social · 4d

The heykidsrocknroll.etsy.com 'My Little Quentin Crisp' it's a card, it's a decoration, it's the season's hottest trend!

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Reaky, Hound of Dracula @reaky.bsky.social · 4d

Autumn demands Frank Sinatra + Gordon Jenkins.

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Simon Prickett @simonprickett.dev · 4d

@heykidsshop.bsky.social have you seen this? Amazing. www.instagram.com/reel/DPJZqAU...

Welcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world.

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Hey Kids Rock'n'Roll @heykidsshop.bsky.social · 4d

oh wow, that's stunning!

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Hey Kids Rock'n'Roll @heykidsshop.bsky.social · 4d

yes, I think him & JPJ knowing their way around a studio and knowing how 'pop' records worked is a big part of it.

Hey Kids Rock'n'Roll @heykidsshop.bsky.social · 4d

I'm not huge on Zep, although I do really like the odd song, but I think their records maybe just 'sound' better than their contemporaries. Production, arrangement (for all the long solos etc, they're very 'hooky') and, as Andrew pointed out, heck of a rhythm section.

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Hey Kids Rock'n'Roll @heykidsshop.bsky.social · 5d

Haha! I'm still don't trust the way I've spelled it EVERY time I do a post about it.

Hey Kids Rock'n'Roll @heykidsshop.bsky.social · 5d

Wow, this is FANTASTIC! Psych-Folk-Dub a real knockout!

Project Moonbase @projectmoonbase.com · 5d

Sister Irene O’Connor Sister - Fire of God’s Love

freedomtospend.bandcamp.com/album/fire-o...

#sincere #soulful #unconsciously #psychedelic #song #sequence #devoted #selfreflection #awakening #spirit #within

(h/t Verity Sharp - Late Junction)

#bandcampfriday

Sister Irene O’Connor Sister - Fire of God’s Love

https://freedomtospend.bandcamp.com/album/fire-of-gods-love

#sincere #soulful #unconsciously #psychedelic #song #sequence #devoted #selfreflection #awakening #spirit #within

(h/t Verity Sharp - Late Junction)

#bandcampfriday

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Sean Coleman @colemandesign.bsky.social · 5d

Can you detect what TV show this is? Just one of a new set of postcards celebrating small screen sleuths. In my Etsy shop very soon.

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8bitnorthxstitch @8bitnorthxstitch.bsky.social · 5d

Happy birthday, Chris Lowe (cards available at www.etsy.com/shop/8bitnorthxstitch )

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Hey Kids Rock'n'Roll @heykidsshop.bsky.social · 5d

Etsy keeps telling me to do videos and hey, not really sure these products lend themselves to the medium but I suppose it can't hurt? Here's the Sade card/decoration!
heykidsrocknroll.etsy.com

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