Gavin Hogg
@wholehogg.bsky.social
'ebullient enthusiast'-The Observer.
Part of @GiddyPopPod.bsky.social, @charityclassics.bsky.social & co-author of We Peaked At Paper, a history of British zines publ'd 2022.
Music nerd, vegan, Fall fan, Sheffield.
Part of @GiddyPopPod.bsky.social, @charityclassics.bsky.social & co-author of We Peaked At Paper, a history of British zines publ'd 2022.
Music nerd, vegan, Fall fan, Sheffield.
New band for Ghost Box Records
December 7, 2025 at 9:27 PM
New band for Ghost Box Records
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“I’ll never forget the look of hatred he had for me, simply for existing.... Nigel Farage has suggested it’s inconceivable that anyone could recall such events of more than four decades ago. I would simply ask: can a victim of such abuse ever forget?” Yinka Bankole
I’ll never forget the look of hatred Nigel Farage had for me at school, simply for existing
The Reform UK leader doubts people can recall their abuse from years ago. I’ve never forgotten his – it felt malicious
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December 5, 2025 at 6:36 PM
“I’ll never forget the look of hatred he had for me, simply for existing.... Nigel Farage has suggested it’s inconceivable that anyone could recall such events of more than four decades ago. I would simply ask: can a victim of such abuse ever forget?” Yinka Bankole
The sound of young Scotland. Love this single from Radhika - drifty dream pop
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#c86 #dreampop
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#c86 #dreampop
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December 5, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The sound of young Scotland. Love this single from Radhika - drifty dream pop
youtu.be/6BuAwrnu9j0?...
#c86 #dreampop
youtu.be/6BuAwrnu9j0?...
#c86 #dreampop
This live version of Kitchen Of Distinction's Mad As Snow with David McAlmont is on another level.
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Mad as Snow (featuring David McAlmont)
YouTube video by stephenheroband
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December 5, 2025 at 8:55 AM
This live version of Kitchen Of Distinction's Mad As Snow with David McAlmont is on another level.
youtu.be/a-yLCGlG1uk?...
youtu.be/a-yLCGlG1uk?...
Morning all! Beautiful crisp start to the day in Sheffield
December 5, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Morning all! Beautiful crisp start to the day in Sheffield
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Just remembered this – a lockdown version of Nobody's Twisting Your Arm, with Pete Solowka temporarily back in the fold on accordion.
Take it away, Grapper!
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Take it away, Grapper!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_M0...
The Wedding Present - Nobody's Twisting Your Arm (Locked Down & Stripped Back)
YouTube video by WeddingPresentTV
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December 4, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Just remembered this – a lockdown version of Nobody's Twisting Your Arm, with Pete Solowka temporarily back in the fold on accordion.
Take it away, Grapper!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_M0...
Take it away, Grapper!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_M0...
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Breaking: it turns out that I’ve been pronouncing “synecdoche” wrong for most of my adult life, or at least I would have done had I ever *said* it rather than merely thinking it – although to be honest I’ve rarely thought it either. Anyway, I would have got away with it but I thought I’d come clean
December 4, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Breaking: it turns out that I’ve been pronouncing “synecdoche” wrong for most of my adult life, or at least I would have done had I ever *said* it rather than merely thinking it – although to be honest I’ve rarely thought it either. Anyway, I would have got away with it but I thought I’d come clean
My wife is marking some overseas English writing exams and one story has just started with the following knockout sentence "My parents and I first went to the toilet to empty our bowels, then walked to a map'.
November 30, 2025 at 4:58 PM
My wife is marking some overseas English writing exams and one story has just started with the following knockout sentence "My parents and I first went to the toilet to empty our bowels, then walked to a map'.
Brilliant day yesterday - a Parkrun then caught up with pals I hadn't seen for a while in Todmorden. After that it was off to Hebden Bridge to see Patrick Fitzgerald (ex-Kitchens of Distinction) play a wonderful set of old and new tunes at @thetradesclub.bsky.social which absolutely blew me away.
November 30, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Brilliant day yesterday - a Parkrun then caught up with pals I hadn't seen for a while in Todmorden. After that it was off to Hebden Bridge to see Patrick Fitzgerald (ex-Kitchens of Distinction) play a wonderful set of old and new tunes at @thetradesclub.bsky.social which absolutely blew me away.
Maggie escaping the hooded claw on her morning walk. What a start to the day for the plucky spaniel.
November 27, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Maggie escaping the hooded claw on her morning walk. What a start to the day for the plucky spaniel.
Planning to open up an Oliver Twist-themed curry restaurant in Maryland: More Balti Baltimore
November 26, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Planning to open up an Oliver Twist-themed curry restaurant in Maryland: More Balti Baltimore
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November 26, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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When Scooby Doo processes your Visa application...
![R. H. Bing (October 20, 1914 – April 28, 1986)[1] was an American mathematician who worked mainly in the areas of geometric topology and continuum theory.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cyyd366g3hrxp5rynixm2mm3/bafkreid62wy3dekb2kzbisjfdlimlb35j4rlgew5iof7vi32byfszmg26a@jpeg)
![Bing's father was named Rupert Henry, but Bing's mother thought that "Rupert Henry" was too British for Texas. Thus she compromised by abbreviating it to R. H.[5] Consequently, R. H. does not stand for a first or middle name.
When Bing was applying for a visa, he was requested not to use initials. He explained that his name was really "R-only H-only Bing", and ended up receiving a visa made out to "Ronly Honly Bing".](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cyyd366g3hrxp5rynixm2mm3/bafkreigmfj53q4uy33spga2bxdkllqm3ag5sffovg5g7ddmu3vqzkb6k24@jpeg)
November 25, 2025 at 9:31 AM
When Scooby Doo processes your Visa application...
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Feel free to use this sentence as a euphemism for something; just don’t tell me what it is.
November 24, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Feel free to use this sentence as a euphemism for something; just don’t tell me what it is.
Silly old sod.
Morrissey, somehow managing to be a more ridiculous version of Stewart Lee’s ‘These days if you say you’re English’ parody
November 22, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Silly old sod.
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Betty Mackereth, Philip Larkin's feisty long term secretary, immortalised in the 1962 poems Toads Revisited, has passed away today aged 101. Betty was a great supporter of the Philip Larkin Society. We send our condolences to her family.
November 20, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Betty Mackereth, Philip Larkin's feisty long term secretary, immortalised in the 1962 poems Toads Revisited, has passed away today aged 101. Betty was a great supporter of the Philip Larkin Society. We send our condolences to her family.
We had a German teacher called Mrs Cunningham at our comprehensive school. She was a massive Paul McCartney fan and for one lesson we had to translate No More Lonely Nights. It seems like the lamest thing ever at the time. But I just pulled out the 7 ", played it and welled up because it's a TUNE.
November 21, 2025 at 3:58 PM
We had a German teacher called Mrs Cunningham at our comprehensive school. She was a massive Paul McCartney fan and for one lesson we had to translate No More Lonely Nights. It seems like the lamest thing ever at the time. But I just pulled out the 7 ", played it and welled up because it's a TUNE.
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We are just about to start our #eio40vprshow on @vpraudioclub.bsky.social
Join me for another show of community inspired songs old and now. All bound together loosely in a narrative arc*
*or just a bunch of songs punctuated by my dulcet tones
Listen live here 🎧👇
radiofreematlock.co.uk
Join me for another show of community inspired songs old and now. All bound together loosely in a narrative arc*
*or just a bunch of songs punctuated by my dulcet tones
Listen live here 🎧👇
radiofreematlock.co.uk
VPR Audio Club
radiofreematlock.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 7:00 PM
We are just about to start our #eio40vprshow on @vpraudioclub.bsky.social
Join me for another show of community inspired songs old and now. All bound together loosely in a narrative arc*
*or just a bunch of songs punctuated by my dulcet tones
Listen live here 🎧👇
radiofreematlock.co.uk
Join me for another show of community inspired songs old and now. All bound together loosely in a narrative arc*
*or just a bunch of songs punctuated by my dulcet tones
Listen live here 🎧👇
radiofreematlock.co.uk
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Fellini's magnificent Le Notti di Cabiria is showing on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social on Saturday.
a black and white photo of a woman with tears in her eyes
Alt: Giulietta Masina in Nights of Cabiria.
media.tenor.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Fellini's magnificent Le Notti di Cabiria is showing on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social on Saturday.
@derryfilm.bsky.social
Thanks for the follow - as a kindred Fall spirit you might like this episode of my podcast
giddypoppod.home.blog/2021/05/29/e...
Thanks for the follow - as a kindred Fall spirit you might like this episode of my podcast
giddypoppod.home.blog/2021/05/29/e...
Episode 17: Smash Hits – 28 May -10 June 1981 with Paul Hanley
Welcome back to The Giddy Carousel of Pop! Hang on tight for a top pop ride. In this episode writer, podcaster and former drummer with The Fall (1980-85) Paul Hanley joins us to peruse a ‘dou…
giddypoppod.home.blog
November 17, 2025 at 10:40 AM
@derryfilm.bsky.social
Thanks for the follow - as a kindred Fall spirit you might like this episode of my podcast
giddypoppod.home.blog/2021/05/29/e...
Thanks for the follow - as a kindred Fall spirit you might like this episode of my podcast
giddypoppod.home.blog/2021/05/29/e...
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Saw this over at the other place. It's a 50 years of The Fall festival in Manchester on 5th-7th June 2026. No idea whats involved yet but may be worth a look. Link: www.route-online.com/blog/post/bl...
#TheFall
#TheFall
The Fall Futures and Pasts Festival Information
Information on the The Fall Futures and Pasts Festival: A Celebration of Fifty Years of The Fall
www.route-online.com
November 16, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Saw this over at the other place. It's a 50 years of The Fall festival in Manchester on 5th-7th June 2026. No idea whats involved yet but may be worth a look. Link: www.route-online.com/blog/post/bl...
#TheFall
#TheFall
Almost half a century after dancing along to Swords of 1000 Men at the youth club, I finally got my copy signed by the eccentric and marvellous Ed Tenpole Tudor.
November 16, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Almost half a century after dancing along to Swords of 1000 Men at the youth club, I finally got my copy signed by the eccentric and marvellous Ed Tenpole Tudor.