Steve Morgan
@stevemorgan68.bsky.social
Freelance journalist, reluctantly freed cat slave. Sport/music obsessive - 30 years-plus hackery, from local papers to FourFourTwo, FA, ECB, LTW, WSC, Manchester United, Wisden, Guardian, Observer. Got a record played on Radio One twice, won an award once.
Might make one of those not-at-all done to death ‘POV’ videos about seeing rain for the first time
Really crap to hear about the death of John Douglas. The Trash Can Sinatras’ I’ve Seen Everything was rarely off my CD player in 1993. A sad song just got that bit sadder. youtu.be/lTc6LxEMHcc
trashcan sinatras - i've seen everything
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I still think about Syd’s unreleased album of sad piano ballads
Another age. Found this postcard from my mate Scott re New Order at The Hacienda, June 1987. I’d say simpler times, but I spent an unforgettable post-chuck-out night wandering Manchester Piccadilly and its environs after a mix-up in a pre-mobile phone era with nowhere to stay. Odd few hours.
Promo poster for The Pop Group’s 1980 album. A question that never lacks relevance
Blimey. Here’s a foot-long courgette from the garden that has basically grown itself in about a week. That’s dinner tonight, then.
Ooh, I missed Martin Gore’s 65th birthday last week. Here he is parping away on a shawm in Everything Counts from 1983, which as fab as when I bought it from Woolies on the way home from school. youtu.be/1t-gK-9EIq4
Depeche Mode - Everything Counts (Official Video)
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This news item can clearly only be understood in terms of football pitch sizes. It was 140 earlier, it’s up to 200 now. Sweepstake for the next one? Or maybe change the sport? 6,000 badminton courts? 10,000 squash courts?
‘Honestly, it’s all fine. You lot are such ninnies. it was so much worse in the drought of 1976’
Lord Summerisle will be pleased. The crops will not fail!
Terrible news about Glen Hansard. You could pick any number of great songs, but I've always had a real soft spot for this one, both for the lyrics and the performance. youtu.be/THXCu7DPfe4?...
Perfect Opening Line
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The first game of football I attended - fittingly enough the most-played fixture in the English League. Villa won this 2-0 with goals from Andy Gray and Brian Little. Eight-year-old me on the Holte End was hooked. Wish the game felt this beautiful now.
The great thing about my much-missed Nancy was that like all decent beatniks, she was willing to testify. Here she is, representing
On days like this, it’s hard to believe we’re making such a mess of the planet. Here’s Michael Faraday’s old gaff and some Thames action, viewed looking west from Hampton Court bridge.
If only everything in life was as reliable as Robyn Hitchcock, facing twilight's last gleaming with a big grin and some fabbo jangly chords. Catch him on tour in the good old UK from 19 September.
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This Burnham coverage really is baffling: the stuff of deranged and anxious minds. Politics as pop culture.
Even the sunniest day can be improved by this tune: youtu.be/mHliXVifhEM
They Might Be Giants - Doctor Worm BEST QUALITY (Official Music Video)
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We see THAT Orwell line about ‘the party’s ‘final command’ so often it almost lacks meaning now, but in his essays there are many no less bone-chilling observations the best part of 86 years later. Here’s a bit from England Your England (1940)
Found this receipt among my grandad’s war memorabilia, dated 10 June 1945. 174 marks paid for six bottles of Champagne. Bet they tasted grand, with bittersweet notes, as they toasted absent friends.
Was on a train home last night from visiting my folks. Group of four very happy Scottish people in seats behind discussing the lyrics of Joe Dolce's Shaddap Your Face - or trying to remember them.
Props to the lady at the self-service till in Asda who just belted out an extremely tuneful a cappella version of I’m Leaving On a Jet Plane as she scanned her shopping. Don’t know if or when she’ll be back again. However, small random acts of joy can make a day.
