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Johnny Giles
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Chris Barker’s Sgt Pepper with famous faces who’ve died this year
December 21, 2025 at 2:16 AM
…. the show invites try-out models to a casting call in the Telfar NYC branch. Thousands turn up and get thrown awkward challenges they can’t have been expecting. Very odd. Very watchable. Basically a prank. Loud wannabe teenage NYC models acting the fool while believing it’s going to work out 😂
December 17, 2025 at 5:44 AM
…the tunes. The film captures the expressions and swerves of every day shoppers keeping their distance as they walk around her. Then there’s the brilliantly out there Telfar. A fashion brand founded in 2005 that did fcuk all for ten years so they created an experimental reality TV show ‘Telfar TV’
December 17, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Starting with Super 8 and VHS moving to current digital applications. Creators include Andy Warhol and Derek Jarman to Turner Art prize winner Mark Leckey. My favourites feature a woman dancing on her own in a busy Peckham Shopping Mall with no music playing. She’s busting moves whilst imagining…
December 17, 2025 at 5:25 AM
180 Studios at 180 Strand is an expansive subterranean bunker with many interconnected rooms radiating a block buster Blake’s 7 set, perfect for large art installations seeking an outsider feel. Currently showing a retrospective on how eccentric Video Art has grown from the 70s. Trust me, it’s good
December 17, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Hurrah night club ad displaying the cancellation of Joy Division’s gig in May 1980. This show was rescheduled to September for a three piece New Order set, filmed by Merrill Aldighieri. Can’t say I’ve heard of any other band in this ad!
December 17, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Just the 45 years then, for this debut screening of A Certain Ratio live at Hurrah in NYC (1980). The recording is through a single lens which zooms and pans the viewer into a previous life. The life of a fledgling band who through their own admission were still learning their instruments.
December 17, 2025 at 12:58 AM
The instruments belonging to the late Florian Schneider of #Kraftwerk went up for auction recently. Fancy a vocoder? Here you go, yours for a reasonable $256k.
December 16, 2025 at 11:32 PM
A young Alan Carr and family, including his Dad Graham, then manager of Northampton Town
December 16, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Footy quiz question

A gaffer here proudly receiving the old 4th division manager of the year award, but who’s his famous son?
December 16, 2025 at 3:18 PM
#lufc What has always fascinated me about Salonica 73 is the referee Christos Michas’ involvement with the early stage of the tournament. In October 1972 Michas took charge of a 2nd round tie in Poland, the game between Legia Warsaw and….. you guessed it, AC Milan
December 16, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Tracie, 1983
December 14, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Barton…. the gift that keeps on giving
December 11, 2025 at 10:27 PM
#lufc Not sure I like the sound of this but will buy it just to read about Don calling up John Robertson in 1974…. “sorry I’m Scottish”

Out March 2026.
December 8, 2025 at 10:57 PM
December 7, 2025 at 2:10 AM
December 5, 2025 at 9:14 PM
December 3, 2025 at 7:31 PM
#lufc Peter Lorimer, Mick Bates and Mick Jones at Wetherby with Zemanda, the race horse they co-owned with Eddie Gray and Terry Yorath
December 2, 2025 at 10:55 AM
1980, Manhattan. When New Order supported ACR @acertainratio.bsky.social
November 30, 2025 at 11:07 PM
November 29, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Get your reproductions of The Hacienda 1986-89 Christmas cards, the acceptable face of Manchester

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November 29, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Spoke a bit too soon, only found three #lufc games, two from LWT which will most certainly be shown and one from Yorkshire TV against a London side which you’d hope would be the second game
November 28, 2025 at 10:06 PM
So which ‘ultra famous’ boxer was shouting up random guys for kinky gay sex, out of his car window?

I’m going for Mike Tyson.
November 27, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Popbitch paying their own unique tribute to Dr Pam Hogg
November 27, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Football? Toucan play at that game.

Les Dawson and Billy Bremner of #lufc on ITV’s Sez Les, 1973
November 26, 2025 at 11:12 PM