Jim Irvin
@jimirvin.bsky.social
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Jim Irvin
@jimirvin.bsky.social
· Nov 24
It’s been done up since, but this is what the Shakespeare’s Head in Brighton looked like when we took Lana Del Rey there after writing This Is What Makes Us Girls. She got a round in too. Should have a blue plaque: “Lana Del Rey ordered three pints of lager here…”
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It’s beginning to feel a lot like time to remind you that this annual treat is available for your Yuletide musical pleasure. Available on all reputable platforms, and others too!
open.spotify.com/episode/6GLC...
open.spotify.com/episode/6GLC...
You're Not On The Christmas List. Special episode with Andy Miller, Andrew Male and our alternative bumper Xmas playlist.
open.spotify.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:39 AM
It’s beginning to feel a lot like time to remind you that this annual treat is available for your Yuletide musical pleasure. Available on all reputable platforms, and others too!
open.spotify.com/episode/6GLC...
open.spotify.com/episode/6GLC...
Local tree has developed its own external brain.
December 9, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Local tree has developed its own external brain.
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Just discovered that the guy who wrote the Oscar winning Secret Love and Grammy winning Shadow of Your Smile also wrote the theme song for the TV cartoon Spider Man: I give you, Paul Francis Webster “Listen bud, he’s got radioactive blood”
December 8, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Just discovered that the guy who wrote the Oscar winning Secret Love and Grammy winning Shadow of Your Smile also wrote the theme song for the TV cartoon Spider Man: I give you, Paul Francis Webster “Listen bud, he’s got radioactive blood”
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David Bowie And More In The New Issue Of MOJO!
Fifty years after Station To Station, we investigate the torrid investiture of The Thin White Duke. Plus! Chrissie Hynde, Squeeze, Elvis Presley, Arctic Monkeys, Dennis Wilson, the essential 2026 preview and more!
More info and to order a copy here 👇
Fifty years after Station To Station, we investigate the torrid investiture of The Thin White Duke. Plus! Chrissie Hynde, Squeeze, Elvis Presley, Arctic Monkeys, Dennis Wilson, the essential 2026 preview and more!
More info and to order a copy here 👇
David Bowie Stars In The New MOJO Magazine!
David Bowie's Station To Station at 50, a brilliant covermount CD, plus Chrissie Hynde, Dennis Wilson, Squeeze and more in latest issue of MOJO Magazine.
www.mojo4music.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:53 AM
David Bowie And More In The New Issue Of MOJO!
Fifty years after Station To Station, we investigate the torrid investiture of The Thin White Duke. Plus! Chrissie Hynde, Squeeze, Elvis Presley, Arctic Monkeys, Dennis Wilson, the essential 2026 preview and more!
More info and to order a copy here 👇
Fifty years after Station To Station, we investigate the torrid investiture of The Thin White Duke. Plus! Chrissie Hynde, Squeeze, Elvis Presley, Arctic Monkeys, Dennis Wilson, the essential 2026 preview and more!
More info and to order a copy here 👇
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New MOJO ahoy and I have a bunch of stuff in it about the story of Heartbreak Hotel, Honeybus and How To Buy the Isley Brothers. Enjoy!
December 6, 2025 at 1:21 PM
New MOJO ahoy and I have a bunch of stuff in it about the story of Heartbreak Hotel, Honeybus and How To Buy the Isley Brothers. Enjoy!
Just discovered that the guy who wrote the Oscar winning Secret Love and Grammy winning Shadow of Your Smile also wrote the theme song for the TV cartoon Spider Man: I give you, Paul Francis Webster “Listen bud, he’s got radioactive blood”
December 8, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Just discovered that the guy who wrote the Oscar winning Secret Love and Grammy winning Shadow of Your Smile also wrote the theme song for the TV cartoon Spider Man: I give you, Paul Francis Webster “Listen bud, he’s got radioactive blood”
Keep being invited to download a game called Fruit Hole. Just makes me laugh.
December 7, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Keep being invited to download a game called Fruit Hole. Just makes me laugh.
New MOJO ahoy and I have a bunch of stuff in it about the story of Heartbreak Hotel, Honeybus and How To Buy the Isley Brothers. Enjoy!
December 6, 2025 at 1:21 PM
New MOJO ahoy and I have a bunch of stuff in it about the story of Heartbreak Hotel, Honeybus and How To Buy the Isley Brothers. Enjoy!
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Sad to hear about the passing of Steve Cropper. Here’s a chat I had with him in 2021 about his skills as a songwriter.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s...
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s...
Steve Cropper:
Podcast Episode · Here's One I Made Earlier · 29/06/2021 · 49m
podcasts.apple.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Sad to hear about the passing of Steve Cropper. Here’s a chat I had with him in 2021 about his skills as a songwriter.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s...
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s...
Sad to hear about the passing of Steve Cropper. Here’s a chat I had with him in 2021 about his skills as a songwriter.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s...
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s...
Steve Cropper:
Podcast Episode · Here's One I Made Earlier · 29/06/2021 · 49m
podcasts.apple.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Sad to hear about the passing of Steve Cropper. Here’s a chat I had with him in 2021 about his skills as a songwriter.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s...
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s...
It’s beginning to feel a lot like time to remind you that this annual treat is available for your Yuletide musical pleasure. Available on all reputable platforms, and others too!
open.spotify.com/episode/6GLC...
open.spotify.com/episode/6GLC...
You're Not On The Christmas List. Special episode with Andy Miller, Andrew Male and our alternative bumper Xmas playlist.
open.spotify.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:39 AM
It’s beginning to feel a lot like time to remind you that this annual treat is available for your Yuletide musical pleasure. Available on all reputable platforms, and others too!
open.spotify.com/episode/6GLC...
open.spotify.com/episode/6GLC...
NYT Pips #94
Easy 1:36
Medium 2:29
Hard 1:39
Easy 1:36
Medium 2:29
Hard 1:39
November 20, 2025 at 8:05 PM
NYT Pips #94
Easy 1:36
Medium 2:29
Hard 1:39
Easy 1:36
Medium 2:29
Hard 1:39
Best thing on telly in ages.
November 20, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Best thing on telly in ages.
Top 5 Documentaries:
1. In this powerful love story a serial killer drag queen and a defrocked priest find redemption together in cake.
2. We dress up as peasants and live on barley for a week.
3. Cautionary tale: I used to be something but now I’m just a source of smug pity.
1. In this powerful love story a serial killer drag queen and a defrocked priest find redemption together in cake.
2. We dress up as peasants and live on barley for a week.
3. Cautionary tale: I used to be something but now I’m just a source of smug pity.
November 17, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Top 5 Documentaries:
1. In this powerful love story a serial killer drag queen and a defrocked priest find redemption together in cake.
2. We dress up as peasants and live on barley for a week.
3. Cautionary tale: I used to be something but now I’m just a source of smug pity.
1. In this powerful love story a serial killer drag queen and a defrocked priest find redemption together in cake.
2. We dress up as peasants and live on barley for a week.
3. Cautionary tale: I used to be something but now I’m just a source of smug pity.
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I won’t be taking any further questions at this time. Cheers, T.
November 17, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I won’t be taking any further questions at this time. Cheers, T.
I’m currently listening to Woody Herman’s cover of Sly Stone’s Sex Machine. How’s your day going?
November 17, 2025 at 12:33 PM
I’m currently listening to Woody Herman’s cover of Sly Stone’s Sex Machine. How’s your day going?
‘There will always be anger in the world as long as there is clingfilm.’ Big Jim Patterson
November 17, 2025 at 12:32 PM
‘There will always be anger in the world as long as there is clingfilm.’ Big Jim Patterson
An estate agent has just walked past me, doused in some cheap Lynx-like scent so strong it literally made me cough as he went by.
November 14, 2025 at 10:20 AM
An estate agent has just walked past me, doused in some cheap Lynx-like scent so strong it literally made me cough as he went by.
Apparently the only way to contact Linked In, to say you can’t sign in, is by signing in.
November 13, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Apparently the only way to contact Linked In, to say you can’t sign in, is by signing in.
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A new instalment of INVENTORY is available now via the @backlisted.bsky.social Patreon. Sign up as a Locklistener today, learn about the greatest song you’ve probably never heard of, support the podcast.
This week: Clearlake, ‘I Want to Live in a Dream’.
www.patreon.com/backlisted
This week: Clearlake, ‘I Want to Live in a Dream’.
www.patreon.com/backlisted
November 12, 2025 at 9:37 AM
A new instalment of INVENTORY is available now via the @backlisted.bsky.social Patreon. Sign up as a Locklistener today, learn about the greatest song you’ve probably never heard of, support the podcast.
This week: Clearlake, ‘I Want to Live in a Dream’.
www.patreon.com/backlisted
This week: Clearlake, ‘I Want to Live in a Dream’.
www.patreon.com/backlisted
So, it turns out that side 1 of this is REALLY good.
November 8, 2025 at 8:00 PM
So, it turns out that side 1 of this is REALLY good.
From doo-wop to hip-hop, they had hits across six decades. Tell us about your essential Isley recordings…
MOJO’s next How To Buy guide is on The Isley Brothers. Reply to let us know what your favourite albums from Ronald, Rudolph and O’Kelly are and why and we’ll print the best responses in a future issue 👇
November 6, 2025 at 3:12 PM
From doo-wop to hip-hop, they had hits across six decades. Tell us about your essential Isley recordings…
Reposted by Jim Irvin
MOJO’s next How To Buy guide is on The Isley Brothers. Reply to let us know what your favourite albums from Ronald, Rudolph and O’Kelly are and why and we’ll print the best responses in a future issue 👇
October 29, 2025 at 9:57 AM
MOJO’s next How To Buy guide is on The Isley Brothers. Reply to let us know what your favourite albums from Ronald, Rudolph and O’Kelly are and why and we’ll print the best responses in a future issue 👇
Reposted by Jim Irvin
MOJO’s next How To Buy guide is on The Isley Brothers. Reply to let me know what are your favourite albums from Ronald, Rudolph and O’Kelly and why. The best responses will be used in the feature.
November 4, 2025 at 10:36 PM
MOJO’s next How To Buy guide is on The Isley Brothers. Reply to let me know what are your favourite albums from Ronald, Rudolph and O’Kelly and why. The best responses will be used in the feature.
MOJO’s next How To Buy guide is on The Isley Brothers. Reply to let me know what are your favourite albums from Ronald, Rudolph and O’Kelly and why. The best responses will be used in the feature.
November 4, 2025 at 10:36 PM
MOJO’s next How To Buy guide is on The Isley Brothers. Reply to let me know what are your favourite albums from Ronald, Rudolph and O’Kelly and why. The best responses will be used in the feature.