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Jonathan Wright @jonathanleft.bsky.social · 4d

Listening to Kate Bush's Best Of The Other Sides, and find myself astonished that a song of such delicacy and beauty was a b-side, although maybe that was so because her music was already moving on. A-side = Running Up That Hill. open.spotify.com/track/7iHwqx...

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Jonathan Wright @jonathanleft.bsky.social · 16d

Belated shoutout. The latest LP by Brìghde Chaimbeul is fantastic. Last week's show at The Mount Without in Bristol was fabulous. Cheers to @ilkamedia.bsky.social for tix. brighdechaimbeul.bandcamp.com/album/sunwise

Sunwise, by Brìghde Chaimbeul

8 track album

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Jonathan Wright @jonathanleft.bsky.social · 16d

Plus the election is years away. Remember when Boris Johnson was going to be PM forever? Stuff will happen.

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Jonathan Wright @jonathanleft.bsky.social · 16d

Should you be looking for some reasons to investigate Bowie's 21st-century work, and you should, here's something I wrote earlier. thequietus.com/quietus-revi...

Boxset of the Week: David Bowie’s I Can’t Give Everything Away [2002-2016] | The Quietus

Jonathan Wright salutes the final years of Bowie, an autodidact who went out with a statement as radical as anything else he ever recorded

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Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 16d

I actually think that weirdly, today is quite a hopeful day.
We're going to start getting actual policy outlines from Reform now. The policies are going to be morally grotesque and practically ludicrous.
The mainstream media will have NO excuse not to start interrogating them.
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Jonathan Wright @jonathanleft.bsky.social · 20d

Also, risks splitting the left-leaning electorate. I mean, I want PR and a more plural politics. But all this is just playing into Reform's hands. As in, next election, a few 'idealists' vote for this shambles and Greens/Labour/Nationalists/Libs narrowly lose winnable seats. What's the point?

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Jonathan Wright @jonathanleft.bsky.social · 21d

Hate is too strong a word. Grinding frustration. He is a trying to move incrementally and, I suspect, sympathetic towards those he sees as 'natural' Labour supporters in Red Wall seats. The trouble is that his caution/unwillingness to pick a fight or be selectively radical is unequal to the moment.

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MrPaulRobinson @mrpaulrobinson.bsky.social · 21d

Some great 'arriving at a family event after having a massive row in the car' energy here

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The Quietus @thequietus.com · 26d

'Right to the end David Bowie was uniquely creative, with lessons still to impart: concern over the world we’re bequeathing our children, reassessing life from the vantage of middle age and, at the end, how to face death'

#DavidBowie’s I Can’t Give Everything Away [2002-2016]

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Quietus Boxset of the Week, David Bowie's I Can't Give Everything Away [1001-2016] album cover. A black and white image of Bowie with blue lettering in the upper right hand corner.

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Jonathan Wright @jonathanleft.bsky.social · 24d

The reluctance to pick political fights with anyone other than those to its left has long been a huge political failing of the Labour right. In the current context, a sin of omission.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 25d

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

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Jonathan Wright @jonathanleft.bsky.social · 25d

IKEA today and how I imagine freshers week will be have surprisingly much in common. Lots of teenagers soon to embark in earnest on uni life looking lost.

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Jonathan Wright @jonathanleft.bsky.social · Sep 7

The Sophs, recent Rough Trade signings, at Bristol Lanes last week. Most excellent. Big Jeff was there and Big Jeff knows. Something just a bit Henry Rollins-y about this pic. Music not really Rollins-y.

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Jonathan Wright @jonathanleft.bsky.social · Jul 22

So long Ozzy. My brother, who also passed this month, introduced me to Sabbath. Iron Man and War Pigs were scary yet I was fascinated by them. And I lived those Vertigo pressings with their odd swirly labels.

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Jonathan Wright @jonathanleft.bsky.social · Jul 21

Increasingly, every child is a boomerang child.

Jonathan Wright @jonathanleft.bsky.social · Jul 21

As someone lucky enough to have a house close to the centre of one of Britain's cities, I find myself reflecting that I have to hold onto it cos how are my kids ever going to be able to afford to leave home...?

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Jonathan Wright @jonathanleft.bsky.social · Jul 21

V much enjoyed writing a thing on The Narrow Road to The Deep North for @historyextra.bsky.social
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The Narrow Road to the Deep North: the real story behind the construction of the Burma Railway

In 1942, using forced labour, the Japanese began building a 415km train track through heavy jungle, to link the town of Ban Pong in Thailand with Thanbyuzayat in present-day Myanmar. Jonathan Wright e...

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Jonathan Wright @jonathanleft.bsky.social · Jul 21

Belatedly, thanks to The Guardian for chance to revisit one of my favourite records: www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

‘The army were on the streets – and we were bored’: Stiff Little Fingers on making Alternative Ulster

‘There wasn’t time to sit down and discuss politics and the future of the world, or your aims and aspirations. You just did stuff’

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Jonathan Wright @jonathanleft.bsky.social · Jul 21

Thanks to @reversediorama.bsky.social for taking the time to speak with me for Groovy Times. groovy-times.com/david-keenan/

David Keenan - Groovy Times

The acclaimed novelist, journalist and former record shop owner tells us how his love of outsider music has shaped his work As he recalls in his spectacular collection of music writing, Volcanic Tongu...

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Richard James Foster @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social · Jul 21

This is great! I remember visiting Volcanic Tongue with my wife once: back in 20something or other, then went to Duke’s Bar & Sparklehorse, ended up in Mother India before getting a Joe baxi back into the centre - the most West Glasgow day out ever. Magic! The compilation for David’s book is a must.

Groovy Times @groovy-times.bsky.social · Jul 19

Issue 3 of Groovy Times opens with an interview author David Keenan

He talks first gigs, record reviewing and Volcanic Tongue (record shop, book & compilation)

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David Keenan - Groovy Times

The acclaimed novelist, journalist and former record shop owner tells us how his love of outsider music has shaped his work As he recalls in his spectacular collection of music writing, Volcanic Tongu...

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Groovy Times @groovy-times.bsky.social · Jul 19

Issue 3 of Groovy Times opens with an interview author David Keenan

He talks first gigs, record reviewing and Volcanic Tongue (record shop, book & compilation)

@reversediorama.bsky.social
@whiterabbitbks.bsky.social
@disciples.bsky.social
@unsunghunger.bsky.social

groovy-times.com/david-keenan/

David Keenan - Groovy Times

The acclaimed novelist, journalist and former record shop owner tells us how his love of outsider music has shaped his work As he recalls in his spectacular collection of music writing, Volcanic Tongu...

groovy-times.com

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Jonathan Wright @jonathanleft.bsky.social · Apr 24

Is it to do with the weight at the non-playing end of the arm thing? I am not technical, but that's caused me issues in the past. Also, at the risk of stating the bleedin' obvious, has the needle got all dusty from your activity?

Jonathan Wright @jonathanleft.bsky.social · Apr 4

To Park Jiha concert at St George's in Bristol last night. Glorious. Electronica underpinning melodic lines performed in odd-looking Korean musical instruments. She really should be better known. parkjiha.com. Thanks to @ilkamedia.bsky.social for organising tix.

박지하 Park Jiha — Korean Composer and Multi instrumentalist

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Jonathan Wright @jonathanleft.bsky.social · Mar 28

Six figures a year for annoying your paper's subscribers/core readers. Nice work if you can get it. And Simon Jenkins can.

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Gaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social · Mar 17

Listening to the Tim Harford radio 4 doc about how children suffered from a lockdown imposed to protect adults, straight after a news bulletin full of 'young people with MH problems need to get back to work to save us all a fortune' is I have to say fairly jarring

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