FAREWELL HOUSE OF ALL The Hanley bros have today announced that the post-Fall outfit House of All have hung up all their drum sticks. I saw them live twice, and will warmly remember the bloke in front of me playing computer chess on his phone throughout the gig at the TP Dome.
If you’re upset by this, console yourself with this #DontRIP
Johnny Giles@johnnygiles.bsky.social · 2d agoSadly, there’s no more. RIP #JimmyCricket
Vini Reilly getting his flowers, not from interflora, the Sunday Times
And its only hit me on the nose bc its made the BBC headline news. So really, I’m only in touch with current affairs. Frankie Laine had 18 weeks with the pop ballad I Believe back in 1953. Here it is youtu.be/FDMYMbj8_4A?...
I Beleive - Frankie Laine
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Johnny Giles@johnnygiles.bsky.social · 4d agoNot saying I’ve let things slip. But the current No.1 has been there for 19 (yes, nineteen) straight weeks and I’ve only just heard it. And you know what, it’s pretty good…. youtu.be/3triLkS0nq4?...
Not saying I’ve let things slip. But the current No.1 has been there for 19 (yes, nineteen) straight weeks and I’ve only just heard it. And you know what, it’s pretty good…. youtu.be/3triLkS0nq4?...
Sam Fender, Olivia Dean - Rein Me In (Official Video)
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More Durutti Column pics from RTE last night c/o John Cooper
It’s 1995 and Tony Wilson decides to produce a CD ROM, as a tech wheeze, to support the release of the new Durutti Column album 'Sex and Death’ [Facdr 2.11]. Of course it’s impossible to find so John Cooper has just uploaded 17 minutes of it here (cont) youtube.com/watch?v=71E-...
The Durutti Column 'Sex and Death - The CD-ROM' [Facdr 2.11]
YouTube video by John Cooper
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Durutti Column chit chat at @RoughTrade no Vini Reilly, but everybody else
I’m now miffed that neither Spurs or Leicester gave Harry Winks the #40
So #lufc have given the #66 shirt to youngster Oliver Pickles in a nod to the dog that found the Jules Rimet trophy at the World Cup of…
It’s beautiful to see but of course Trump is shameless even in this, his Ken Bates moment
Amee Vanderpool@girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · last wk.Donald Trump had to sit and watch as his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein was rubbed in his face live.
#lufc So looks like John Stones is off to Inter Milan. Hope they don’t see this…. - Most % mins he’s played in a season for City is 59% and that was ten years ago 🤒 - Has played just five full games across the last two seasons 🤕
James Trafford really doesn't look like a footballer. More like a Renaissance painter's apprentice or a melancholy minor Romantic poet. #lufc
So Bill Oddie wrote the Funky Gibbon, Black Pudding Bertha and the Goodies Theme tune. RIP
The Goodies Bill Oddie
ALT: The Goodies Bill Oddie
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#totp 82 The Beeb have chopped Banarama and Trio! 👎 Trio…. one of them rode a horse from Seville to Hamburg! 😀
#totp 82 Belle Stars and Madness…. both on a Stiff Records at this time, saw them play together at Liverpool Royal Court in 1981. Looks like they bonded, saxophonist Miranda Joyce started dating Bedders and singer Jennie Matthias was with Chris Foreman!
#totp 82 Madness… ever heard the bonus track on the 12”, ‘Riding on my Bike’ ?!. Here you go, sung by Lee Thompson youtu.be/d7fzWVb-my4?...
Riding On My Bike
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#totp 82 Madness video… and there’s Fun Boy Three trying to hitch a ride down the A45 to Coventry?!
Catching up on #totp 82 Belle Stars continuing ye olde tradition of ska/pop groups taking a cover into the charts
’Ian Curtis didn’t have a chance’: the Durutti Column on departed friends, Factory Records and fun with Morrissey
’Ian Curtis didn’t have a chance’: the Durutti Column on departed friends, Factory Records and fun with Morrissey
As they release their first album in 16 years, the Vini Reilly-fronted band answer your questions on sandpaper record sleeves, having Harry Styles as a fan and inventing a new style of guitar music
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So, Andy Burnham’s new Chief Whip Anneliese Midgley was once married to Bob Stanley of Saint Etienne. They had their first kiss when Michael Portillo lost his seat in the 1997 GE #unlikelycoupling
