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Paul Abbott

@pablovich.bsky.social

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Musician/writer/podcaster/idiot. Sitting in L'pool, arrived here via Boro/Scarborough/Stoke. Big Beatles Sort Out Podcast, Hark! The 87th Precinct Podcast (Ed McBain), Good Grief (bass/vocals). "Pro Good Things, Anti Bad Things".

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Paul Abbott @pablovich.bsky.social · 12h

Sometimes you just want to look at a picture of Peter Cook challenging Dudley Moore not to laugh in Not Only... But Also

Peter Cook and Dudley Moore in a black and white photo still from the Not Only But Also series, in character as Pete and Dud, sat in front of a reptile tank containing a coiled snake

Paul Abbott @pablovich.bsky.social · 8h

C'est moi

The Big Beatles & Sixties Sort Out @bigsort.bsky.social · 10h

I suppose there comes a time in every Beatles fan’s life where they find themselves buying Press To Play and Rotogravure on record. My time is now! (P)

Paul from Big Sort holding up vinyl copies McCartney’s Press To Play and Ringo’s Rotogravure.

Paul Abbott @pablovich.bsky.social · 12h

Sometimes you just want to look at a picture of Peter Cook challenging Dudley Moore not to laugh in Not Only... But Also

Peter Cook and Dudley Moore in a black and white photo still from the Not Only But Also series, in character as Pete and Dud, sat in front of a reptile tank containing a coiled snake

Paul Abbott @pablovich.bsky.social · 14h

roll dat boi down a hill

Paul Abbott @pablovich.bsky.social · 1d

@ricardoautobahn.co.uk

Paul Abbott @pablovich.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe if it was from intake of substances other than “some pasta”

Paul Abbott @pablovich.bsky.social · 1d

I follow this up now by saying I think it was Ray Horricks, with Les Reed as Musical Director.

Paul Abbott @pablovich.bsky.social · 1d

...we then had to drive to Cheltenham to stay with my Dad. During the journey our pal Jake from Eureka California was telling us about the time he got high and watched an episode of Peep Show through binoculars whilst stood in a corridor, thinking he was a genius. AH, TOURING!

Paul Abbott @pablovich.bsky.social · 1d

...and not even the promoter turned up, so we didn't have anywhere to stay and before the show we'd eaten so much free pasta that our guitarist had to immediately leave the stage after the last song to throw up in the car park...

Paul Abbott @pablovich.bsky.social · 1d

On the last date of our (Good Grief) first tour, we ended up in Cardiff, playing to an audience of 'the other band', who were a perfectly component middle-aged blues-rock band, but not necessarily a match with the scrappy indie punk of us and Eureka California who we were touring with...

Paul Abbott @pablovich.bsky.social · 1d

Eating bowl after bowl of vegetarian chili and promoter pasta before every show.

Paul Abbott @pablovich.bsky.social · 1d

Eating bowl after bowl of vegetarian chili and promoter pasta before every show.

Paul Abbott @pablovich.bsky.social · 1d

I hope he's doing this tour full DIY band scene style - hoping he'll have a couch or floor to sleep on with the promoter (who might not even come to the show) every night.

Ricardo Autobahn @ricardoautobahn.co.uk · 2d

This is the maddest tour I've ever seen in my life. It seems like he's doing more gigs than there are days in the year.

A quite insane tour schedule

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Simon Galloway @simongmusic.bsky.social · 2d

Do you any of you lovely folk have a copy of this to hand and would be able to look up something for me? Ta!

Paul Abbott @pablovich.bsky.social · 2d

The boys are back in ALF, I mean, no, in town. Podcast town, baby.

ALFsplaining - the ALF Podcast @alfsplaining.bsky.social · 2d

We're back, baby!

New episode out now!

Linktr.ee/ALFsplaining

open.spotify.com/episode/6OkY...

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/ce0...

ALFsplaining Season 3 - everything's gone green

Paul Abbott @pablovich.bsky.social · 2d

Typed 'Argos' into the searchbar, because I wanted to check if they had something and the first suggestion back from Google was "Argos Toilet Seat".

I then typed 'Perspex' into it (I'm considering some display shelves) and it came back with "Perspex Toilet Seat".

WHAT IS GOING ON WITH POTTY GOOGLE

Paul Abbott @pablovich.bsky.social · 5d

Also there's one non-binary character and they're a robot that turns into an owl.

Paul Abbott @pablovich.bsky.social · 5d

I imagine you'll also find people who are 'cancelling Netflix' because of it are also probably not keen on the lead human family in it not being white. You don't generally have to look far to see the bigotry overlaps.

Paul Abbott @pablovich.bsky.social · 5d

Transformers: Earthspark is a kid/family animation and it's very good.

The inclusion of characters who have they/them pronouns is one of the things they've included to help them tell more relevant and interesting stories than just LASERS AND MISSILES*

*there's plenty of lasers and missiles

Paul Abbott @pablovich.bsky.social · 6d

Maybe a McCartney/MacManus outtake from Flowers In The Dirt!

Paul Abbott @pablovich.bsky.social · 6d

I hate a transport interchange full of LIES

Paul Abbott @pablovich.bsky.social · 6d

Liverpool South Parkway is a dismal promenade

Paul Abbott @pablovich.bsky.social · 6d

Liverpool South Parkway is a dismal promenade

Paul Abbott @pablovich.bsky.social · 6d

I am currently working through a big academic/public engagement eLearning project we did ages ago, updating it, and have been reminded of how long and incomprehensible so much of the script we gave the VO artist was. (We didn't write it, we're technical staff, but boy did I 'correct' a lot of stuff)

Paul Abbott @pablovich.bsky.social · 6d

oh yeah - lebkuchen season ahoy

Paul Abbott @pablovich.bsky.social · 6d

My Château de Chasselay got warm!

Michael Palin on stage sat in a wicker chair in an evening jacket and holding a glass of wine

Paul Abbott @pablovich.bsky.social · 6d

Work: Good practice is to get up from your computer frequently. Take breaks every 20 minutes or so from the screens.

Also Work: Here's a two hour long Teams meeting. Listen, Stare, Attend.