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Craig Austin

@thecraigaustin

Concrete kid Soul-boy of the western world Living fast because it’s too late to die young

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Every time I see Clive Myrie reporting from a potential war zone I take comfort from the fact that he’ll likely be accompanied by the travel alarm clock he once bought from me on eBay.

06.03.2026 22:22 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Channel-flipping, and chanced upon a scene in Sex and the City that was filmed in Tortilla Flats. One of the greatest, trashiest joints in all of NYC and now, inevitably, RIP.

02.03.2026 21:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I guess even Supreme Court ideologues need to buy and sell on discogs

20.02.2026 15:22 👍 60 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 0
A draft cover for The Umbrella Man and Other Stories by Martin Fitzgerald

A draft cover for The Umbrella Man and Other Stories by Martin Fitzgerald

My new book - The Umbrella Man and Other Stories - is available to pre-order online at @waterstones.bsky.social and, if you hurry, you get 25% off*

*Offer available until midnight on the 20th. Just add FEB26 at the checkout to claim your discount

www.waterstones.com/book/the-umb...

17.02.2026 13:00 👍 33 🔁 23 💬 9 📌 17
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Watching the men’s skeleton final.

13.02.2026 20:25 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Not that he likes to mention it.

05.02.2026 21:09 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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I'm sorry, the Washington Post hopes *I* will reconsider the value of their journalists?

04.02.2026 16:59 👍 236 🔁 52 💬 6 📌 3

The ‘central London pub’ that’s currently hosting Farage’s press conference is The Loose Box on Horseferry Road. Important info for drinkers who may now wish to take their custom elsewhere.

03.02.2026 14:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’m not sure audiophiles are really audiophiles, I think they’re just rich people.

24.01.2026 10:23 👍 136 🔁 21 💬 9 📌 4
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Had two pints and a chat with an old fella in The Laurieston today. Would recommend - not least because they seem to be very much into ‘Black and White’ by The Stranglers.

22.01.2026 22:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

no greenlander ever called me a libtard

20.01.2026 20:18 👍 19762 🔁 1878 💬 216 📌 47

Struggling to get past ‘on me’.

20.01.2026 10:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The video for The Sun Always Shines On TV was filmed near us in Teddington, in the old church that’s now the Landmark Arts Centre.

17.01.2026 09:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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RIP Kenny Morris. Such sad news. A truly groundbreaking and hugely influential drummer

15.01.2026 17:57 👍 182 🔁 44 💬 9 📌 3

They’ve done a decent job in bringing the Victorian arcades back to life, but the decision to destroy John Frost Square in exchange for the (ultimately worthless) Debenhams dollar was disastrous.

12.01.2026 17:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Post a pic of the venue where you saw your first concert, and a picture of the band/artist

11.01.2026 22:23 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Scott Walker’s quietly judging me for having over-paid by 65p.

10.01.2026 14:31 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Is it possible to watch anything filmed in Scotland without dying of knitwear envy? A nation with the strongest jumper game.

09.01.2026 19:13 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Stil thinking about the Double Diamond table we were sat at last night.

04.01.2026 20:43 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Man, Audrey Totter’s line delivery here.

29.12.2025 13:01 👍 58 🔁 11 💬 10 📌 3
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Me every time I hear Hüsker Dü's cover of Eight Miles High.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBKy...

26.12.2025 13:28 👍 29 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Went with Fargo as our post blow-out Christmas dinner film; Marge Gunderson embodying the hope for the future that we all need right now.

25.12.2025 21:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Saw Rear Window at the cinema last night. A film in which, let’s not forget, an ageing James Stewart is in a relationship with Grace Kelly - but thinks he can do better.

19.12.2025 10:02 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Sparks - Toppermost In common with their fellow unappreciated hip priests, The Ramones and Jimi Hendrix, it required a very public and passionate fling with the UK in order for Sparks to eventually grab the attention of ...

The Sparks Toppermost from @thecraigaustin.bsky.social www.toppermost.co.uk/sparks/

08.12.2025 20:52 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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"The inaugural-ah / FIFA peace prize-ah!"

05.12.2025 21:33 👍 38 🔁 6 💬 3 📌 0
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Jackie magazine hunks, 1974. Don’t worry, girls - they’re married.

02.12.2025 10:02 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Oof! Important contextual info. Might print this off and surreptitiously stick it on the glass cabinet.

02.12.2025 10:02 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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@webuyrecords.bsky.social Dua Lipa album, sealed, and in a locked glass case in my local Cancer Research shop. Zoom in and you’ll note an actual Discogs price history attached to it. Textbook ‘the game’s gone’ stuff!

29.11.2025 17:40 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 5 📌 1
Malcolm McLaren, the Baron, 2007
Malcolm McLaren, the Baron, 2007 YouTube video by GriefTourist

Remembering Malcolm McLaren’s genius turn on ‘The Baron’, one of television’s finest moments. The disparaging cockney voice you can hear at 00:15 is Mike Read’s. youtu.be/ovI-aMzOK14

23.11.2025 11:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Dear Auntie
You will be surprised to hear that I am going to prison tomorrow.

13.11.2025 21:05 👍 594 🔁 121 💬 19 📌 7