Saw him do an improvised set with a load of modular synth kit at Machina Bristronica the year before last, and it was a joyous racket. (Difficult to imagine writing that sentence about any other UK Eurovision entrant, though I'm now wondering what Scooch could have achieved with a Moog System 55.)
I've yet to meet a single supporter of grammar schools who imagines their own kids going to a secondary modern - and it's the first question I ask. What if they fail the 11-plus? "Oh, if that happened, we'd go down the fee-paying route."
It should be getting evident to even the most lump-witted Labour drone that the "Ha ha, hypnotits" strategy ain't gonna get you too far this time.
On its own terms - a brash telenovela about legal brats, rather than Our Friends in the South - I still think it was great. But my lot were suckers for it, as it came out when we'd just graduated and a few of us were trainee barristers and solicitors in London. We really did know people like these
This is a wonderful piece.
...while pushing manifesto policies that go back to the idea of the household as a financial unit, in which women would once again cede independence to the titular "head".
I can see how that might stay with you for life.
At least it didn't feature Kenny Smiles. Or did it...?
Happy St David's Day. Don't have nightmares.
I bought Go+ in a Brussels record store when I was inter-railing. And then had to carry the damned thing around without breaking it for two weeks, including through a bout of dysentery
Yeah, it makes perfect sense that a beleagured BBC, dealing with constant flak from every corner of the political spectrum, would intentionally engineer a huge shitstorm at the Baftas, YOU ABSOLUTE FUCKING NUTTERS
London Centric keep on showing us what the best sort of journalism can achieve.
We wanted to understand how rugged English-Scots-Irish culture has shaped America. So we talked to three white South African billionaires at a sex party in the Bahamas.
Don't you hate it when fighting age men flee their own country, leaving their families behind, then expect other people to give them a handout.
"Mam! There's a duck in Harlech Television"
"For Girls Who Grow Plump in the Night"
@alwynturner.bsky.social selects his 70 favourite album titles from the 1970s.
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JUST TAKE MY MONEY
Indeed. The one who was in charge when the paper started publishing lucrative Kremlin advertorial propaganda, despite objections from senior newsroom staff.
No, I did not predict that one either.
If the papers don't use the headline FRAMPTON GOES DEAD when he falls off his perch, we're no longer a nation #totp
Yet another song I'll forever associate with the IRA mainland bombing campaigns, thanks to The Rock 'n' Roll Years. #totp
Seconded. Later in life, I discovered Get It Right Next Time and Night Owl, which ooze the same mood. Rafferty's a great lyricist - underrated because he's so direct and economical. And the videos are astonishing: starkly lit studio lock-ins. You can almost smell the cigarettes and whisky.
Of all the songs that sound like a bad hangover/emerging from an all-nighter at 6.30am waiting for the first bus and looking at a grey cold unforgiving sky, it's Baker Street.
Also Gerry Rafferty knew his subject and met an awful long painful alcoholic end.
They should shrink-wrap this political party and label it "REFORMED GAMMON JOINT" www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Can you imagine having such a weak hand that you feel the best two cards you can play as selling points are 'American treatment of indigenous people' and 'American healthcare'?
I maintain that if the liberation of Belsen happened today, the BBC wouldn't dare run the story without approaching Julius Streicher for comment.
I also find myself wondering what became of Air Force Carl.
Ah, Vigo reposting the grottiest selfies of Twitter blokes with their junk out - after trailing them with "ARE YOU READY?" and "ARE YOU FUCKING READY?" They never disappointed.
This #totp is a good illustration of the point that UK & US charts may as well have been on different planets at the start of the 80s (as per @whenisbirths.bsky.social)
