Ukraine blows up Russian data centres and immediately and mysteriously online talk about Germany’s Far Right AfD virtually disappears. Stop Putin you stop the Far Right.
Ian Wade
@wadeywade.bsky.social
Writer / DJ / silly sausage crisps / hullabaloo and custard / pop music is important 1984: The Year Pop Went Queer out now
hands up who else saw the tracklisting for the Troye Sivan album and saw 'FF' and initially assumed it was a racy jiver about fisting
50 The Donna Summer album discography deserves as much respect as Joni’s
In fairness, if you’re a Strictly watcher, and I have watched it for years due to dance being my life, they often tape over or obscure logos or wording on outfits, but somehow someone here chose to make a point at some juncture and it’s quite glaring.
Mike (They/Them) 🏳️⚧️🇵🇸🏴@mxmike.co.uk · 21h agoBethany wore a “Protect The Dolls” t-shirt during rehearsals. The BBC posted it on their socials then quietly deleted and reposted it without showing her from the front. On TV last night they actually blurred the message #Strictly
That 90s exhibition at the Tate looks brilliant. I bet it’s a hit with the critics… Oh.
Here's a Rod Temperton playlist. He was a famously private man but left five houses in his will. Honey, the man wrote Thriller. That alone probably bought the houses, never mind Boogie Nights, Rock With You, Yah Mo Be There, Baby Come To Me and Give Me The Night open.spotify.com/playlist/2eL...
HOT RODS
Rod Temperton bangers in order of appearance
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(I was drunkenly taking the piss out of John Miles' pompous trifle)
Ian Wade@wadeywade.bsky.social · yesterdayMUSIC IS SO IMPORTANT
Even as a six year old, when asked what singles I wanted for my 7th birthday, I went for the Jaws theme, Couldn't Get It Right and Howzat when I really wanted to say "ABBA! DANCING QUEEN!" while twirling. Then when I went to buy my first single they didn't have Dancing Queen because homophobia.
BBC2 is showing 40 hits from 1976, so here is the shameless plug for the recent episode of Back to Now podcast with @wadeywade.bsky.social Alexis Petridis blethering away about this very year. Swing by, it’s fun. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...
NOW Yearbook '76: Alexis Petridis & Ian Wade
Podcast Episode · Back to NOW! · 20 July · 1hr 8min
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Two important pop things that both have a birthday this next week
Ian Wade@wadeywade.bsky.social · 2d agoThe strange and important sound of the synthesizer
Today in Fancy That! In association with @whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social
Dear tv and radio producers. Thankyou for the invitation. But, no, I do not want to appear on your show to defend the idea that I am English, after 50 years of living and working here, because the increasingly feral right want to turn this into a "debate" and you cannot see how you're being played
If I'd sold, like, 400 million copies of an album, you would be hard pushed to find any trace of fucks given, so hats off to Alanis Morissette constantly serving Alanis Morissette being Peak Alanis Morissette.
“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books
Peter Powell going a bit Uncle Disgusting with Treez from Dollar
Laurie Anderson - O Superman (Top Of The Pops 1981, Zoo dance routine)
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WHAT A FUCKING RECORD@whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social · 3d ago45
Apparently the duration of the song, played three times, was long enough time for Nilsen to boil a human head and the flesh to detach. Not sure at what temperature though, I’m not Nigel Slater.
Keiron.@ginoshrieking.bsky.social · 3d agoeeriely was a tune that (UK serial killer) Dennis Neilsen used to enjoy to get himself in the mood to kill people. odd little tidbit for an otherwise interesting record at the time
October is SQUIRREL AWARENESS MONTH so I wanted to make you aware of these favourite squirrels, and also entertain you with some interesting findings!