DJ Punctum
@djpunctum.bsky.social
"Modern medicine is not a line where you left your fossils." NHS professional and pretty good music writer. Blogs: https://nobilliards.blogspot.com, https://uncorrectedboundproof.blogspot.com/ and https://funthirty.blogspot.com/
Fuck Live Nation and fuck the nostalgia-focused arts paradigm they promote and enable. Fuck the venues that charge to play and/or take a cut of merch sales. And fuck "music fans" who think all of that is fine if it means they get to see their favorite legacy act just one more time...
It’s official: @abdulelsayed.bsky.social wins the Democratic Primary for Senate! The People Prevail Over Corporate Profits Once Again!
Seeing as it came out sixty years ago today, here's what I had to say about Revolver what seems like a lifetime ago: nobilliards.blogspot.com/2009/07/beat...
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Absorbing reading as always - the answer to that Ramones question is a surprisingly literal one.
DJ Professor Dan@djprofessordan.bsky.social · 11h agoTaking a deep dive down the rabbit hole of The Hits Of August-ish 1976! That's 50 Years Ago! Featuring "The Blitzkrieg Bop" by The Ramones, and what's with that title anyway, is it just me or does it seem a little Nazi? tnocs.com/about-this-t...
I will also be closed on 25 August. It will have been 25 years. Not personally because we'll have things to do, but I won't be posting anywhere then.
Dawny B@dawnbritten.bsky.social · 10h agoXx
Mary Hopkin, on her vocal on "Sound & Vision." "I was so embarrassed, because I thought, 'Oh it's so twee and awful'. It was a twee little part. It was meant to be an echo in the distance, but he insisted on having it right up front." www.maryhopkin.com/blogs/MH-Int...
Scottish musician John Douglas has died at 63. As the guitarist and songwriter for indie pop band Trash Can Sinatras, he had a hand in writing such gems as “Obscurity Knocks” and “Hayfever” in the early pre-Britpop 1990s. #RIPJohnDouglas m.youtube.com/watch?v=QezU...
The Trash Can Sinatras - Obscurity Knocks
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NEW | A corrective to the gushing tributes… LIDDLE TO BE CELEBRATED An honest obituary for Rod Liddle, dead at 66, dead inside for many years before that. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/liddle-to-...
Liddle to be celebrated
An honest obituary for Rod Liddle, dead at 66, dead inside for many years before that.
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a genuinely sui generis musician whose influence will probably only be understood when he’s gone. but, for my money, there’s no cocteau twins, no shoegaze, no uk post rock without him
Bruce Levenstein@brucelevenstein.bsky.social · yesterdayAnyway, happy birthday to the genius, Vini Reilly. 🎸✨
Today I wrote a long piece about that journalist with the intention of posting it on FB but finally decided against doing so because it would not be remotely helpful. All I can say is: try your best to be better than he was. And the cabal of journalistic columnists should be catapulted into the sea.
Justin Lewis@whenisbirths.bsky.social · yesterdayWhenever I see the phrase 'saying the unsayable' as praise, as if it's a major achievement. The words are perfectly sayable, it's not like they're trying to read aloud the track listing of Drukqs by Aphex Twin.
The Guardian, and particularly Stephen Bates, can feck the feck right off right now. You are all fecking fuscists, the lot of you.
Muting everybody taking screenshots from the old place. If you like it so much, go back and stay there and leave us alone or perhaps you're the real problem. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
People can say what they like about leftist bubbles but what I've seen on Bluesky over the last 24 hours in particular is humanity at its worst and most relentlessly depressing. It's as if a certain type of person is the same on any form of social media. Problem isn't with the media but its users.
I see ZP's been defending that bogus Cambridge professor. He and his party have been doing quite a lot of f*cking up in general over the past couple of months, haven't they? I'm not sure I want these people running things.
Well, we don't need to bother going there again: www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
National Gallery security staff segregated like ‘second-class citizens’, curator claims
Exclusive: Outsourced guards, largely from minority ethnic backgrounds, barred from staff hub for mainly white employees
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It isn't either, really; the primary function of journalism is to flatter and comfort the wealthy. Been like that since Alfred Harmsworth had a grumpy idea.
Justin Lewis@whenisbirths.bsky.social · 2d agoDeep down what really bugs me about hacks having this ‘oh he was lovely really’ reaction: how it utterly ignores that journalism is meant to be information for the wider public, not entertainment for other hacks.
This is what an actual *hero* of Irish music looks like:
Probably better than anything on Confessions 11 or Tension 11.
Alex@purplechrain.bsky.social · 2d agoonce they performed this together at Pride I suppose we should have all just assumed the remix was already recorded and coming out soon but it’s still a homosexual emergency to have it officially confirmed.
THOSE TWO OLD GUYS AT THE BACK who ended up getting all the royalties so they have the last laugh.
Keith T.@dataylormaniac.myatproto.social · 2d agoNow, you wanna talk about a dance craze. "Macarena" was absolutemente loca. 🗣️🎶Hey Macarena...🎶
What neutered pop music was the fantasy of "cool."
Daniel Brody@danielwbrody.bsky.social · 2d agoFast, widely available internet access took away a fatal chunk of music's subcultural context as an information disseminator about what's cool. Music was social media and a search engine in a way that it doesn't have to be anymore. Music hasn't been the same since, though maybe I'm just old.
Thanks to Jim for his great detective work and rediscovering this. A late 80s episode of The Roxy. Kid Jensen in full flow with Shirley Bassey and Yello stealing the show. Just incredible. Thank you @jimmccormick.bsky.social
Jim McCormick@jimmccormick.bsky.social · 2d agoFound the show Inwas thinking of. It was called The Roxy, summer 87 on ITV. Watch from 19:30 into Episode 11. Majestic! youtube.com/watch?v=snth...
tbf Queen hadn't put any singles out in 1972. I watched it at the time. It was horrible, my father demanding that I know all the answers and woe betide me if I didn't. My golden childhood.
Andy Dawson@andydawson.bsky.social · 2d agoThe 1972 Mastermind final is on BBC4 at 9.15pm and I'll bet it's a colossal headfuck. None of this 'and your specialist subject is the singles discography of the rock group Queen' shite.
UK album chart early midweeks: 1 Ariana Grande - petal (28,788) 2 Davido - Oriadé (6,485) 3 "The true inheritor of the Swift and Orwell mantle" - The Essential (4,543) 4 Olivia Rodrigo - you seem (4,206) 5 Olivia Dean - The Art of Loving (3,013)
One hill I'll die on is that the original Rough Trade 7 inch version of Walk Out To Winter, produced by Tony Mansfield from the brilliant New Musik, is way better than the album version. But you can never find it on any official digital or streaming platform. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNhf...
Aztec Camera - Walk Out To Winter (Original Rough Trade 7" Tony Mansfield Version)
YouTube video by zararity
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