christopher brooke 🇵🇸
@twrhq.bsky.social
Birth. Music. Death. ex-radio prod/host, lapsed writer, record collecting vinyl saddo, Crohn's, Diverticulitis, Gastroparesis, Fibromyalgia, Abba Zaba. #DimlyLitTurntableForOne
Lets not forget that Palestine is still undergoing a genocide. It's not gone away. The press has stopped talking about it and people are forgetting the horror of it all. That's how people become manipulated.
Just remembered I'm doing this next Thursday evening if anyone's near Helston and fancies dropping by: www.ticketsource.com/the-bookshop...
An Evening with James Alistair Henry at The Bookshop in Helston
Tickets are now available for An Evening with James Alistair Henry at The Bookshop in Helston, Helston on Thu 1 Oct 2026. Click the link for further information and to secure your tickets now!
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I have tailored parts of this draft complaint to add in my experience and viewpoint. It's a good start for a template. I'm angry at thugs and politicians making cash and political points from people's vulnerability, even in my local town in Scotland.
Naomi Smith@pimlicat.bsky.social · 6d agoReform UK's new 'Small Boats Watch' app is not only cruel, it is in clear violation of Apple and Google’s rules and must be removed immediately. You can take action now: bestforbritain.org/take-action/...
Andy Burnham rules out giving workshy fops like Reeves the time of day
Unofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot@bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social · 5d agoAndy Burnham rules out giving Wales independence referendum powers
Jackie Jackson died two days ago. His death did not get the fanfare that the big celebrities get but I assure you he was no less than any of them: a titan astride the earth. In this thread, a few of the songs he played bass on. You know these songs. You know their bass parts. youtu.be/DKVB_CtU8XQ
Pressure Drop
YouTube video by Toots & The Maytals - Topic
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Absolutely huge victory as the Green Party take on Labour and win in Brighton! Huge congratulations to Cllr Mark Strong and the entire team. Labour have tired old solutions and Burnham is more of the same. The Green Party is the change we need. Awesome win! 💚🎉
Green Elects@greenelects.world · 6d ago🚨BREAKING: Greens have gained Queen's Park in Brighton from Labour. Congratulations to Mark Strong, who is the new councillor. With a huge swing from the 2023 city election (+28). This seat was also gained by the Greens from Labour in the 2024 by-election.
Really is high time we had a Red Button or something to turn off the commentary on Wales games. Even tinnitus would be better than this inane claptrap. #TheFootball
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Just had a rewatch of Jeff Feuerzeig's documentary, Half Japanese: The Band That Would Be King. Thank you, insomnia. You do good sometimes.
Has anyone ever watched The Vinyl Vault channel on the YouTubes? #Vinyl
I've just updated the entry of my blog about the song "JE T'AIME, BABY" to include a bit about when it was almost in the film "Jumper" simonloverules.substack.com/p/21-je-taim... How did I forget this in the first place? It's the only time Sean from Fortuna POP! didn't talk sarcastically to me.
21 JE T'AIME, BABY
Why the comma? I don't know...
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i see BBC Wales News are promoting Ai as a good thing. Never been an organisation to read the room.
Still watching old Doctor Who. Up to The Mask Of Mandragora. Really good and eloquent, but quite nasty for Saturday teatime viewing. I can slightly understand Mary Whitehouse's concerns at the time; especially when Tim Pigott-Smith drops the C-bomb, which I've had to edit out this clip.
Data centres:how worried should we be?Here’s a handy comic explainer to use for local actions. Print from www.climatestorieslibrary.com/teaching @friends-earth.bsky.social @paulbernal.bsky.social @samillingworth.com @pinetencolin.bsky.social @charliejgardner.bsky.social
Today’s Substack is about another awful b-side but I include an unpaid advertisement for @4hundredblows.bsky.social’s “The Umbrella Man And Other Stories” book
Sign up for THE campaign!📋 💚 Time for Londons 1st Green MP! Zack has what it takes! Do we? linktr.ee/HSP_6thGreenMP @boldpolitics.bsky.social @zackpolanski.bsky.social
Bit late for #Caturday, but Newt wanted to share his bum tongue to help lighten your load this weekend x
Latest from me: bit of proper journalism. A specialist in the industrial scale production of fake vinyl was jailed yesterday. This is the whole story www.theguardian.com/music/2026/s...
Deep cuts: how one Londoner’s fake vinyl empire sheds light on ‘industrial scale’ fraud
Thousands of knock-off records worth a fortune are being seized in the UK by anti-counterfeit police stings
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M&i went to see Tim Key's glorious Loganberry show recently & encourage you to do so, also, if he makes it to your postcode x
Thoroughly enjoyed Ludwig & its fluffy zigzagging. Wonderful cast, too.
Brings to mind the morons who protested/vandalised a pediatrician's home during the paedo-frenzy in 2000.
@asnicoleseesit.bsky.social · 2w agoIn the lawsuit, Universal asserts that, “The current digital music economy is no longer a healthy, functioning one. It has been co-opted by those trying to pass off mass AI-generated, SEO-optimized and copyright-infringing slop as music created and performed by a real human.” Meanwhile…
My insomnia just put me through Fackham Hall. God Almighty.