Alan Muttley
@alanmuttley1066.bsky.social
Music 🎶 Gigs⚡️Cats 😹 Books 📚 Walking 🥾
21/9/1976, The 100 Club, Oxford Street, London. Siouxsie & The Banshees Mark 1 with Sid & Marco
This was an excellent listen. More than just about saving a local pool, this looks at public spaces in communities, eg Steamies & the importance of these civic spaces, culminating in The Battle of Calder Street 💥 Brilliant social history @damedenisemina.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Archive on 4 - The People's Pool - BBC Sounds
One Glasgow swimming pool reveals the story of public baths and wash houses in Britain.
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Book 61 of 2026 was an excellent read 📚 Zips along at quite a pace, from roadie to presenter to R1 DJ to R4 foreign correspondent, and much else besides. Funny, opionated, frank, just what you'd expect from a AK memoir. Many thanks @chri5duke.bsky.social for lending. Onto book 62 now 📚
37km on the bike today in the Dales. Cloudy, but the rain largely held off, and the sun did come out for a bit. Great area for cycling 🚲
Lovely walk from Sedbergh to Garsdale today (approx 14km) 🌤
On the way to The Glasshouse to see some BBC Proms (Nadine Shah and the Royal Northern Sinfonia) 🎶
44 years ago today "Strange Little Girl" is a song by the Stranglers, released on this day in 1982. The music video featured the band and a group of punkgirls in London. #punk #punks #punkrock #stranglers #history #punkrockhistory #otd
Great birthday card to Mrs M from one of her nippy sweetie mates 🎉
Went to the Van Gogh immersive experience earlier today, v enjoyable 🎨
Two East German border guards talk to a West German policeman through a hole in the Berlin Wall in Feb. 1990 in Berlin, Germany. Sven Creutzmann/Getty Images
This is the kinda thing I'd have hated years ago, but absolutely love this 🎶 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
BBC Proms - 2026 - Prog Rock: A Fanfare for the Common Man - BBC Sounds
Live at the BBC Proms: BBC Concert Orchestra and conductor Robert Ames with Stuart Maconie
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