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Just had one of those random brainfarts that reminded me that Keith "A Handful Of Songs" Field recorded this absolute monster of a tune back in 1968 youtu.be/VyQAnc77G_c?...

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Keith Field: Stop! thief

YouTube video by luposol66

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John Earls @johnearls.bsky.social · 19h

In the latest @detailmag.bsky.social. You can buy it here: www.detailmaguk.com/product-page...

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Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Anyone saying "It's AI, look at his bass guitar" needs to bear in mind that Jack Casady really did orrible things to his basses in search of the perfect tone. Finally, in 2008 Epiphone brought out the Jack Casady Signature Model, which doesn't look home made and sounds great.

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Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'm not the world's greatest Manics fan, but what I like by them I absolutely love. This is one of the ones I do. Buying CD singles never had the romance of buying vinyl ones, not for me anyway, but with a song as great as this it didn't matter what format it was on. CDs were a bit of a pain though-

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Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Not a patch on the Zoom 2 jingle, but a really interesting insight into what might have been. Any fans of the history of British TV should investigate their book. It promises to be authoritative and interesting. A glimpse into a bygone era of British broadcasting- and social history.

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Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Pinch of salt? How about the entire contents of the Nantwich Brine Pits.

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David Hendy @davidhendy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Today would have been the 80th birthday of the Third Programme - BBC Radio 3’s remarkable predecessor. My latest for the BBC marks the occasion with a dip into the programme archives, unearthing some forgotten gems from the Third’s early years…

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The Third at 80 – a brief history of the unexpected

Weird and wonderful highlights from the early years of BBC Radio 3’s celebrated forerunner The Third Programme

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Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm not saying what it is because I don't want to cause a pile on, but if a certain podcast creator* is reading this and wants a hand with the sound mix next time they feature a female co-presenter so it doesn't sound like mansplaining/yet another manifestation of the patriarchy, my DMs are open.

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Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A record I always associate with a primary school camping trip to Cuffley Camp in Hertfordshire. This song seemingly blaring out of every transistor radio we encountered. All us kids singing "Ra, Ra, Rats put in, throw your dinner in the bin" as we queued up for meals in the rain. -

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Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Probably not for the first time in his life

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Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If Quadrophenia is a film that says more about the time it was filmed in than the time it's supposed to have been set in, then the same is true for Absolute Beginners. As a period piece about how some people in 1985 saw 1958 it's absolutely bang on. As an accurate retelling of the book, well... -

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Ben Finlay @benfinlay74.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

'Songs in the Key of Life' turns fifty today. I can't recall a time it wasn't around - it came out when I was just two years old - I can still remember the esteem it was held in by my parents & their friends, but most of all, the album's deep, rich, bassy sound on our 70s stereo. #musicsky

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Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Be My Baby and Above The Clouds by Weller were both released on the same day. But I'd only enough money for one, and it was this, purchased from Past & Present in Watford and dropped casually into a DJ set at Wendy May's Locomotion that weekend like it was a Motown hit from yesteryear. -

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The Crystal Teardrop @thecrystalteardrop.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We play Water Rats in London for our album launch on Oct 17th. The ceiling will stop Ed jumping this high but we’ll still put on a show! Support from the excellent The Forty Fours plus legendary 80s Psychedelic djs from Alice In Wonderland playing tunes before and after. wegottickets.com/f/20921/

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Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

There is only one thing anyone needs to know about the Dave Matthews Band, and it is this... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Ma...

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Dave Matthews Band bus incident - Wikipedia

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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Sad news. RIP a very funny man and songwriter. I'll be playing Mirror Star in Tony's honour.

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Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I bought this single second hand in the mid 80s because I liked the look of it, and wasn't at all disappointed when I listened to it. Kind of like a pub rock Who. Should've been massive. Anyway, the death has been announced of its songwriter and singer, Ronnie Golden. Sad. youtu.be/Lk6BJx3IyN4?...

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The Fabulous Poodles - "Mirror Star"

YouTube video by Scott Smith

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Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Yesterday's Soho Radio show is up on Mixcloud. Two hours of fine tunes for your listening pleasure www.mixcloud.com/sohoradio/an...

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Andy Lewis (26/09/2026)

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Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Did my mum and dad send this?

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Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Every time someone links to this film, I have to repost it. It's one of the most significant bits of British 20th century art. Everything about it is incredible. Groundbreaking music production by Daphne Oram. Amazing camera work by Wolfgang Suschitzky (who later filmed Get Carter).-

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Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Live now on www.sohoradiolondon.com and kicking things off with the ridiculous version of America you'll find on The Super Guitar Of Lightnin' Red

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Home - Soho Radio

Soho Radio is an online radio station broadcasting live from Soho and New York to the world, featuring two channels: Soho & NYC + Culture.

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Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If you haven't seen this, it's definitely well worth a watch. It's also worth tracking down the novel it's based on, Gideon's Vote. (As an aside, all of Gideon's Way is worth a watch, and all the Gideon books are worth a read.)

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Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I’m on www.sohoradiolondon.com from 4. I’ll be playing things like this…

Shane Martin’s One And One, on an American Columbia Records promo 7” from c1968

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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

They look absolutely delighted

Man City celebrating

LIVE Man City found guilty of majority of 115 financial rule breaches

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Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Just going to say that this is absolutely one of my favourite records and one of the best pre-Beatles pop records ever. Up there with Wonderful Land by The Shadows in the otherworldly stakes.

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Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Oh I might have just had to have had a listen to this youtu.be/bf2z1J1Spqw?...

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49 Cigars

YouTube video by Nick Nicely - Topic

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Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The only thing I would take exception to in this piece is that Brexit "wasn't racist". Tell that to my Swedish colleagues who were abused out of the pub we'd all been drinking in cheerfully the whole week, until the evening that result of the referendum was announced. -

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Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Always my least favourite of the Windermere steamers

A pleasure steamer called Teal, moored at the jetty at Ambleside on the shore of Windermere.

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Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Teal. It's teal again. God almighty. It's getting like Logic Strings but for video. Post-production teal everywhere. I fucking hate it. I have a jacket in teal I can no longer wear because it looks like I've been graded.

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Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is a very Long 70s show. Absolutely brilliant if, like me, you failed to see it when it went out in 1987 because you were too busy being 17, and are watching it now, six years on from when it was set. It feels like it was made at least ten years before it actually was, but that's TVS for you.

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Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is precisely why I really hated the concept of Police & Crime Commissioners, directly elected along party political lines. They set a very dangerous precedent, and I am glad they are being quietly binned. (The whole thread is worth a minute or two of your time)

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Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Diamond geezer gettin' serious, talking 'bout a guy who makes you delirious. The man on the bus with the vacant stare, tap him on the forehead, there's nothing there. He's I-insane, no cool cat. Is he a Yankee? No, he's a prat.-

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Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The morning the Brexit referendum result was announced on the Radio 2 news, they played this just after the bulletin. One of those moments you don't forget.

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Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I’ve long said that the move away from Twitter X to this platform was a well needed corrective in the relative importance of various accounts. I have far fewer followers on here than I used to have-which is fine. But ive got twice as many on here as Unh*rd, which feels about right. -

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Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I’m with the person who painted “Balls To Enoch Powell” on a bridge over the canal near Leicester that I first saw as a small boy in 1975. It’s a slogan I’ve lived my life by ever since. Powell was, for all his qualifications and accolades, an idiot. People who think he was “right” tend to be too.

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Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I know why people on low budgets hand hold lavalier mics-so as to be able to get more gain out of basic audio/video recording setups (useful if making content in shared spaces/bedrooms late at night etc) but here we have a government party MP doing it to show he's not part of a slick machine I guess

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Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Marlena Shaw was born on this day in 1939. I can't think of a better way to wake up than to play this really loud youtu.be/CUosSQZSw5c?...

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California Soul

YouTube video by Marlena Shaw - Topic

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Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A song I’ve always disliked by a band I’ve never really got on with. That they became successful is not in any doubt. However I’ve never met anyone who’s ever claimed Radiohead was an influence on their music, except to say “we really didn’t want to sound like Radiohead”. -

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Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Thanks to @handofglory.bsky.social , @dimorphodons.bsky.social and @maryepworth.bsky.social for sending out this magnificent 7” article. Investigate and enjoy! I love that it was recorded at Jackson’s in Rickmansworth, a place I was driven past often as a kid, wishing i could look inside.

A group of 5 young men, dressed in the heighth of 60s psychedelic fashion, standing in a public park, grass underfoot, trees behind. It’s the cover of a 7” single by a band called The Genesis

Hand Of Glory
HOG
RECORDS
Side A H0G4522
The Genesis
Window Shopping (Stokes)

The label of the seven inch single contained within the sleeve described in the other image

A caption on the rear of the sleeve, saying “recorded at Jackson Studios, Rickmansworth, 1966/7

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Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This exact postcard was sent in reply to me by the band Boys Wonder when I wrote to them back in 1987 expressing my delight with their single Now What Earthman and informing them that their last show at the Marquee was the best gig I'd ever been to. It's in a box in the shed somewhere.

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waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Bloody HELL. Colour recovered version of a 20 min mimed performance by Flaming Youth. Baby Phil Collins and friends, broadcast May 14th 1970. Technical trickery akin to wizardry carried out by Richard Russell and Peter Crocker, who would surely be burned at the stake for witchcraft in other times.

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Phil Collins: Flaming Youth (Color Decoded) Broadcast May 14, 1970

YouTube video by G Music

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Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Remember You're A Womble is, of course, one of the greatest records of the 70s. If it hadn't been a hit, people would be spending the kind of money on it they spend on Jeff Britton & The Spitfires or Bubbles or Twinkle Ripley 7"s.

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