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Gideon Coe@gidcoe.bsky.social · yesterday

Love to the Trashcans and all who loved John Douglas. Lovely human. Great musician. "through t-shirt breezes walking home from work county kilburn sun weekends we'd just wash away the dirt of busy, hazy london"

@kensweeney@kensweeney.bsky.social · 2w ago

Pete Buck “And unlike every other band in the world other than The Smiths, we (R.E.M) are not going to be doing the famous album reunion tour or any of that crap. It’s just not going to happen” www.loudersound.com/bands-artist...

"I don’t need the money and I’ve had enough applause to last 10 lifetimes." R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck insists that the band will never, ever properly reform

"Everyone has their memories and they’re sacrosanct"

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Graeme Thomson@graemethomson.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I’ve had lots of lovely feedback since In Another World was published a fortnight ago. I particularly enjoyed this post, which acknowledges the degree of folly/peril I always understood was inherent to the entire enterprise, while concluding that – hopefully – there was some worth in doing it anyway

A photo of a book called In Another World: The Four Seasons of Talk Talk and an Instagram caption reviewing Mark Hollis and Talk Talk’s music and the book.
Rónán Hession@ronanhession.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Polite reminder that I'll be doing a writing masterclass on 12 September in Derry City library. An extremely rare thing for me to do but I think it will be an interesting session. Do come! irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/writ...

Writers in the Regions: Writing, a masterclass with Rónán Hession (Derry) - Irish Writers Centre

This masterclass will focus on the writing, editing and publishing of novels of creative literary fiction with Ronan Hession in Derry

irishwriterscentre.ie

@kensweeney@kensweeney.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The worst day in the history of Irish vinyl when 60,000 records went up in smoke at a warehouse near Dublin airport. Rock ‘n’ roll history reduced to a smouldering pile of charred plastic. Brian O’Kelly former boss Comet Records tells me his story. www.thesun.ie/tvandshowbiz...

Priceless collection was lost in blaze...despite no insurance, I've rebuilt life

RECORD boss Brian O’Kelly has rebuilt his life — one vinyl at a time — after a huge blaze turned decades of music history to ash. The former owner of Dublin’s legendary Comet Records watched in hor…

thesun.ie