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Ric Blackshaw
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Sharing fave covers are we? Great! This one’s one the best..

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September 14, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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Imagine if Bowie went full synthpunk… in 1980.
That’s Trek with Quintronic.
Formed in ’79, they dropped two electronic rock albums that should have rewritten music history.
In 2014 we compiled their complete discography on a double vinyl for the first time www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/music/...
September 4, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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This album is fantastic and I think the sleeve artwork is utterly beautiful and sensual 🖤
The Death of Rave return with a new album by OG rave deconstructionist/observant storyteller Dale Cornish, deploying dry witted narration over skewed dance music x bittersweet ballads crooned in pure Cronx - RIYL aya, HTRK, Leslie Winer, CoH, Pan Sonic

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July 31, 2025 at 4:18 PM
@mogallfm.bsky.social you good to do a stint of dj’ing for bez’s 60th at the hop on Sat 26th? I’m doing a bit..
July 8, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Sycamoustache!
June 13, 2025 at 1:20 PM
It’s not all doom and gloom! X
I told you we’d be back
June 12, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Words fail me! Goodbye Brian you beautiful human!

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Brian Wilson - Love And Mercy (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by RHINO
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June 11, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Nice to hear a bit about the background to this amazing record. It’s in a category for me you’d have to call pure defiant joy.. file with walking on sunshine - Katrina and the waves, Story of the blues - mighty wah and you get what you give - brand new radicals.

www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
‘It was an I Will Survive for the 1990s’: how McAlmont & Butler made Yes
‘David only had words for one verse. “Just sing it twice,” I said. “We can worry about that later.” But we never got around to it – and people don’t seem to notice’
www.theguardian.com
June 2, 2025 at 7:34 PM
@dimorphodons.bsky.social LP is a bloody belter! In the words of that total fuckwit currently running the US “now is a great time to buy”!
May 2, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Just a reminder that asked for his reaction after the Charlie Hebdo murders, the great “progressive” Pope Francis said “if someone insults your wife you punch them on the nose”!
April 21, 2025 at 2:58 PM
This thought has just struck me but has anyone ever drank sangria in a park? Think of the practicality’s.. taking a big jug like that filled with red wine and fruit! Don’t forget he’s rushing on his run at this point. Not convinced it ever happened..
April 15, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Never listened to owt on Spotify! Good music needs to be discovered. If it’s handed to you on a plate you won’t appreciate it in the same way.. the format in itself isn’t a problem but the algorithms and remuneration issues definitely are!
Spotify’s biggest sin? Its algorithms have pushed artists to make joyless, toothless music | John Harris
Most musicians can only make money on the platform by writing songs inoffensive enough to get on to one of its vapid playlists, says Guardian columnist John Harris
www.theguardian.com
March 9, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Very sad to hear that Mark Pawson has died. A true gent and when it came to zines and other ephemeral pop culture artefacts the font of all knowledge.
March 5, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Another great bites the dust. Always though it curious that the original Sam and Dave recording of this didn’t become more well known after Costello’s stomping cover version.

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Sam and Dave "I Can't Stand Up For Falling Down"
YouTube video by SoulStylistJukeBox
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January 11, 2025 at 10:14 AM
I’ve got a mate who constantly makes purposely controversial comments about indie bands: He’s a bit of a Gedge lord!
January 6, 2025 at 2:09 PM
@wrongtom.bsky.social thanks for following. Incidentally, your cousin Catherine was my drama teacher. Six degrees and all that..
November 15, 2024 at 9:06 PM