Mike Parker

How Pet Shop Boys Sold City Glamour to Queer Suburban Kids | The Quietus I’m sat on the floor behind my dad’s armchair, chunky headphones on, listening to a new 12” my brother has bought. Our music centre lives in a compartment on an MFI divider unit, beside my parents’ co...

"The world Pet Shop Boys evoked to me back then was less kitchen sink drama, more film noir... This was a gay underworld, unspoken and largely invisible." Thanks @grindrod.bsky.social for this wonderful essay on PSB, the suburbs & sexuality:

thequietus.com/opinion-and-...

thanks!

I remember it!

Thanks!

Smallbrook Queensway - Corstorphine & Wright

superb, thank you. You're right - the building is not part of the plans for SQ. God, these are awful: www.corstorphine-wright.com/projects/sma...

really? That's fascinating. Aren't they knocking down Smallbrook Queensway shortly? Such a shame that it's been allowed to happen, but that's Brum...

brilliant - shall do. Good shot eh? Hope all's well chez vous.

Tried contacting them a week ago, but no response yet.

wow, you are so wrong. Totally genuine request. And people have been so helpful, the case is cracked. Which is why I asked for help in the first place.

Iestyn, you star! Diolch o galon.

yes, that's it! well done.

Good spot! You're right. That helps, thanks.

I've emailed them for help, thanks.

you would think...

No matches.

yes, good thinking, thanks. Unfortunately, I don't have a sufficiently high res version to see what's showing at the Odeon.

thank you Andrew, both really helpful. Some of those 70s ones around Smallbrook Q'way look like they could be from the same shoot.

Not sure, would guess between 1971 and 1974?

thanks v much.

Yeah I found that. How to be so wrong but with such surefire confidence!

isn't it?

thanks Jonathan! It's a beaut, isn't it?

Photo from the early 1970s of a man on horseback negotiating the Birmingham inner ring road at Holloway Head

I’m searching for the original and/or rights owner of this fabulous picture of Birmingham in the early 1970s. It popped up on my Instagram feed, but I’ve been unable to track it down.

Any leads? I’m really hoping to use it in a book.

(And would much appreciate a RT please)

Mirrored glass and red framed pyramid The Point cinema in Milton Keynes

Off to visit The Point in the latest Monstrosities Mon Amour, with award winning Desi Pubs writer @davidjesudason.bsky.social. Also, his love for a 1977 gaming console, the Atari 2600. We talk new lives, shiny graphics and entertainment podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m...

Wonderful book! Would love to visit the heath some day, you made me quite fascinated by it.

hi Adam, such a good show tonight.

I think I've got that single somewhere. Didn't the Leyton Buzzards become Modern 'Aye Aye Aye Aye Moosey' Romance?

have not heard this in decades!

(but still remember the lyrics...but not what I did yesterday)

thanks Adam!

Comedian Linda Smith

It’s 20 years since Linda Smith left us.

Such a unique comic voice. So dazzling in everything - JAM, Clue, Brief History of Timewasting… effortlessly witty and regularly speaking truth to power (and taking the piss out of Boris seemingly weekly)

I was absolutely gutted and still am to be honest.

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