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There's a new episode of Through the Square Window arriving tomorrow (with @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social and @gkw.bsky.social) looking at TV shows from 1979. CONTAINS NAUGHTY BITS.
Those 1979 showings of the Beatles films on BBC must have been very influential. Also remember seeing Hard Days Night on the ferry to France for a family holiday when i was a kid.
IMAGINE A FRIEND is out today.
Tell all your friends, real or imaginary!
Watched it last night on patreon. Great chat and looking forward to reading the book.
Been talking about the joy of the first Beatles film 🎥 A Hard Day’s Night- subject of my new book on The Word… podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/h...
Featuring Peter Cook and Joanna Lumley having their palms read..
..and their distinctive sound.
Liverpool and Manchester United complain to X over ‘sickening’ Grok AI posts
Been listening to this: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand... a sort of Welsh Archers by way of Small Prophets.
Wonder if @johnrobbofficial.bsky.social has seen it? Bet he has a chuckle.
Never seen this very entertaining Mark E Smith interview before, in which he says he was raised Methodist and says that the hymns of Charles Wesley were an influence on The Fall group (and that modern praise music is rubbish by comparison, is right)
Second of two interviews i did a few years ago. Will Sergeant’s Echoes: A Memoir Continued » We Are Cult wearecult.rocks/will-sergean...
Just been seeing reviews of recent Bunnymen gigs. Feel sorry for Will and the rest of the band if they're fair reviews
Just started reading this borrowed from Leeds Central library. It's making me look forward even more to @stuhennigan.bsky.social 's upcoming book.
Mark E. Smith and Ian McCulloch of Echo & The Bunnymen backstage at Eric’s in Liverpool in 1978,
photograph by Michael Finkle.
It would have been Mark E Smith’s 69th birthday today.
“When I’m dead and gone
My vibrations will live on
In vibes not vinyl through the years
People will dance to my waves”
Remembering Mark E. Smith on his birthday. Here are The Fall performing Big New Prinz live on Tony Wilson's The Other Side of Midnight in 1988
Like William Shatner...(though he wasn't the pilot i don't think so it doesn't really work)
Wasn't there a debate between Peter Ansorge and playwright Sarah Kane on the radio at the time about that book? She didn't like it.
My husband @mjowen174.bsky.social is very down and it’s difficult to see.
He had a thriving writing business until AI came along but now he’s struggling to find work.
Please repost this far and wide in the hope that he can find some writing work.
www.mathew-owen.co.uk
...Swells enquires about the dolphin "What if it's feeling hungry? Willie says that a full grown adult male is perfectly capable of biting your arm off. I ask him if it's OK to shit in the dry-suit as well."
just been reading a bizarre feature where Swells interviews London Beat and for some reason they have to swim with dolphins.Someone tells Swells it's ok to pee in the swimsuit because it circulates and can keep you warm...
I've interviewed Will a couple of times and once said to him i'd mispelt Ian's surname on something. Made me laugh when he said "just leave it".
In 2008, I travelled to the birthplace of John Conteh and came back looking like I'd done 15 rounds with him. The truth was somewhat more prosaic. I'd been given the runaround by Ian McCulloch...
yeah he probably needed that at the time
In this new doc he's self (retrospectively maybe) aware. He says no one ever really said "no". That's horrible though.
Just rereading some stuff for the book and i've put in a quote from James Brown about Swells at the NME. Office politics? "It was endless. It was just fucking endless."
