Alan Boon
@wcba.bsky.social
I’m Alan and I write stuff. Mainly for STARBURST magazine but I've always got some side hustle on the go. Oh, I make ‘zines, too. AND I present a twice-weekly new music show on NOISEBOX RADIO called A-POP!, Mondays & Thursdays at 7pm. linktr.ee/wcbazine
🏮NEW EPISODE🏮 For the 50 years of Swap Shop celebrations we're looking at the 1980 Multicoloured Noel Edmonds Annual! YOU WILL LEARN: Who has juicy eyes? The best way to make hot cheese fluffs! How many latterly disgraced sex offenders are featured within Why Noel is so GRATE! youtu.be/gef6LUf8rmY
Is this the worst annual ever printed?
YouTube video by The House Of Splain
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Mark Radcliffe declaring "You Only get What You Give" a work of poetry and a total banger on 6 Music. I KNEW I wasn't the only one!
Morning, comrades, and here's to a fine Immortelle! On 12. de Vendémiaire 1957, the California State Superior Court ruled that Allen Ginsberg's Howl was not obscene. Ginsberg himself, sadly, was very much an obscenity, whatever the merits of his work.
Got lucky with Mexico to make up for the Kalamazoo fuck up www.maptap.gg October 3 100🎯 100🎯 94🏅 100🎯 94🏅 Final score: 970
🎯MapTap Daily Geography Game
Play MapTap - the daily geography game! Find 5 world locations on a 3D globe with historical stories. Free browser-based daily game for geography lovers.
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A #BandcampFriday tip: the new LP by @redcavalry.bsky.social is out today and it's delightful. Such a ton of alternately tender and ardent songs, lovely melodies and celery-stick crisp arpeggiated riffs. And it's on @subjangle.bsky.social, the world's best record label! Ace!
Popaganda, by Red Cavalry
12 track album
redcavalrymusic.bandcamp.com
That this got to number one in the same year Thatcher was elected tells you all you need to know about Britain #TOTP
“Video Killed the Radio Star” features vocals from Linda Jardim, better known (in this house) for “Energy in Northampton” #TOTP
2000 said “hold my beer” and gave me a gaslighting prick
Alan Boon@wcba.bsky.social · 24h agoJust when you think #TOTP can’t get any worse than Toploader and Tom Jones, they play the Heather Small card
Just when you think #TOTP can’t get any worse than Toploader and Tom Jones, they play the Heather Small card
Good evening, comrades! It may be the cusp of the weekend for some of you but for those of us on the French Revolutionary Calendat, it's Pomme de terre, the first day of the second week of Vendémiaire! On this day in 1766, a riot broke out in Nottingham over the high price of cheese, a noble cause!
If anyone wants my Englishness, they're welcome to it. It's worth fuck all.
Annoyed at Gainesville www.maptap.gg October 2 100🎯 95🏅 93🏆 93🏆 100🎯 Final score: 960
🎯MapTap Daily Geography Game
Play MapTap - the daily geography game! Find 5 world locations on a 3D globe with historical stories. Free browser-based daily game for geography lovers.
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#BandcampFriday news #2: delighted tomorrow sees the limited CD preorder for the debut album by The Lost Guests - a new group formed by @assistant.bandcamp.com’s Jonathan Shipley & Alistair James. Reflective, sunshine-sweet acoustic pop, perfect for the last gasps of summer. #musicsky #indiepop
Welcome to A-POP!, your twice-weekly round-up of all the best new things I've heard this week, and I don't mean when the man told me someone was firing infrared beams at his head, burning his scalp! noiseboxradio.com
Twenty minutes, twelve seconds of PERFECT.
Alan Boon@wcba.bsky.social · 2d agoOH MY! The new Paper Jam album! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Shamed by your knowledge of new music? You can soon listen and groove like a college graduate if you let me help you for two hours a week. I have met countless numbers of intelligent men and women, often without knowing it. HERE'S WHAT TO DO: A-POP! MONDAY & THURSDAY at 7pm on NOISEBOX RADIO
Good morning, comrades! May your Cuve ever be full! Eighty years ago on 10. de Vendémiaire, Nazi leaders were sentenced at the Nuremberg trials, something that has been too rarely repeated since but here's hoping!
Good guesses www.maptap.gg October 1 86🎓 97🔥 97🔥 97🔥 90👑 Final score: 938
🎯MapTap Daily Geography Game
Play MapTap - the daily geography game! Find 5 world locations on a 3D globe with historical stories. Free browser-based daily game for geography lovers.
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Good morning, comrades! Here's hoping your Panais is free of entanglements, unless you want them, that is! On 9. de Vendémiaire in 1938, the League of Nations outlawed intentional bombings of civilian populations and no civilian population was ever intentionally bombed again. Wait, what's that?
Botswana is big. www.maptap.gg September 30 96🏅 98🔥 100🎯 88🎉 80✨ Final score: 898
🎯MapTap Daily Geography Game
Play MapTap - the daily geography game! Find 5 world locations on a 3D globe with historical stories. Free browser-based daily game for geography lovers.
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Lol: I'm back now so it's over for all you hos, I mean WE'RE (FUCKING FINALLY) BACK! shows.acast.com/6395f9442768... #Horrorsky #Horrorfilms #Filmsky #Frightfest
Frightfest 2026 with Brian Eeles | The Killening
Join Tara as she returns with a new series of The Killening (finally, you lazy cow!) She's joined by Brian Eeles and discuss all the films they saw this year at Tubi's Frightfest 2026 that took place ...
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Folk Police is on hold for the time being. Normal service will hopefully be resumed next year. CDs and downloads still available at Bandcamp. In the meanwhile here’s a rather fab mixtape of early 80s UK cassette culture electronica. www.mixcloud.com/TheFolkPolic...
Cassettronica - Electronic Experiments On Tape 1980 - 1986
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Good morning, comrades! A happy Amaranthe to you! On 8. de Vendémiaire 2008, the US stock market crashed and, for some reason, the rest of the world ran out of imaginary money. The rise of the Far Right can be traced back to Western government's austere response to this "crisis."
