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He reminds me of the lead singer of a band I briefly worked with. Who failed as musician and then tried acting. No names, no pack drill, but you might have seen him in either guise.

- the governments of any country that threatens its own citizens or its neighbours. But we should never allow that disgust to spill out into outright hatred of the people of that country, or the religious faith they were brought up in.

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-and deserves to be condemned for actions that are bordering on genocidal, if they haven't in fact crossed that line. But not all Jewish people support that government, and only a very few are the kind of ethno-nationalists that drive that agenda. We can, and should, protest against the actions of-

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- For the avoidance of all doubt,I want to clarify before any pelters are thrown that I don't think "zionism is racism". I don't approve of the way that any criticism of the government of the current state of Israel has been labelled as antisemitism. Netanyahu's government has behaved disgracefully-

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- but never about actual, literal flooding. I want to see more Green MPs in Parliament. I think a strong presence for the Green Party is positive and more useful to our democracy than any more Reform MPs. But I doubt we're going to see a Green Party government any time soon.

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-it's vital that more radical ideas and solutions to help mitigate what might be an existential threat to humanity get a fair hearing. But this is highly unlikely to happen. It's always the "legitimate concerns" about immigration that get the headlines, about how Britain's being "flooded"-

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- This is exactly the same position Reform have found themselves in, and while Reform had been until recently treated like a government in waiting it's likely that the Greens will continue to be painted as cranks and dangerously antisemitic. At a time when the evidence for climate change is obvious-

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With reference as always to my pinned post, from my completely non-expert bass player's perspective, the Holborn & St Pancras by-election result shows that the Green Party have swung to a position that gives them enough support to come second in places they need to win to form a government.-

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If this is the Greens on a roll, then it's one of those cut price mini Swiss ones. Not even chocolate covered. Zack P honestly thought he had this in the bag.

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That's a good point. My love for that album was based on All Ends Up almost exclusively. I used to play it, to much initial bewilderment, at Blow Up, a club night that was a long way from the cockernee knees-up it has been retrospectively cast as.

The turnout, though. Woeful. This is like those by-elections where every single Reform voter went and voted, only it's the Greens in that position. But it's nice to see Reform and the Tories with single-digit percentages.

Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 11h

I regret flogging my copy of Tractor's album in 2003 when I was absolutely, properly skint. When I told my mate Pete that I was having to sell it, after years of going on about how good/interesting it was, he said "I guess that makes you an ex-Tractor fan".

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Fucking hell. This song. Like the Norman Cook & Lester thing I posted about earlier, this has fallen off everyone's radar. One of the best songs of the 90s.

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Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 11h

You'e all probably forgotten about this tune, or don't even know it. One of the better things Norman Cook ever did.

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Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 18h

I am so very glad that we don't have the death penalty any more. People who seriously suggest bringing it back are bloodthirsty ghouls.

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This is what you should get if you log into the Internet between 2 and 4, and after midnight.

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Mic's analysis of the press coverage of Kemi's speech is spot on. A press who, lest we forget, helped create the resurgent racism that shames our society, and that made her most powerful and most human-sounding rhetoric necessary.

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I had to check- 2005 I was there. Amazingly my first ever visit to the USA. Not a bad introduction to the place.

I started my journey to Austin to crew for a band at SXSW 20+ years ago in the pissing rain 15 hours earlier in London. Arrived at Houston to find the temperature pleasantly warm. The immigration officer asked me "Where did you start your journey? The North Pole?"

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29 people from Watford who lost their lives on this day in 1952, commemorated in Christ Church in Saint Albans Road. Many more people would've died were it not for that team from the US Forces, and that woman from Florida. Please read the thread below.

Christ Church, Watford's handwritten and framed memorial to those of the town who died in the Harrow and Wealdstone Railway Disaster on October 8th, 1952.

Janice Briers, Herbert Brooks, George Christopher, George Clark, John Croker, Valerie Cross, Raymond Culverhouse, Henry Derbyshire, Bartholomew Doherty, Naor Edge, William Emerey, Ann Heard, Maurice Hilton, William Howard, Audrey Keating, George Meehan, William Nash, Leslie Pine, David Pratt, Leslie Preston, Ernest Ridgeway, Alan Rodwell, John Rogers, Charles Roff, Stanley Russell, Margaret Sabin, Jean Smith, Brenda Stretch, Kathleen Taylor.

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Best wishes to lovely Hank, and hope he’s soon back to full health

Pea coats, also known as Reefer Jackets. Not because of drugs, you naughty people. Rather, they were worn by crews on refrigerator ships (reefers in maritime slang) where, presumably, low temperatures were a thing. Reefers kept things cool. As do certain recreational pharmaceuticals.

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As someone who encodes audio file metadata on a regular basis, I always make damn sure it’s right. And I would hope others doing my job share my passion for accuracy.

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For this, and more tunes you'll hopefully enjoy, please have a listen to my Soho Radio show on Saturday at 4pm!

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"All My Love Is Gone" by Daniela And Ann

- All My Love Is Gone, there's something missing from yours... youtu.be/fpFx8ElBGto?...

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YouTube video by jazzman amos

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-that's got the same title and is, indeed, the same recording. Now, it could be that Erich F has more claim to the tune than either Daniela or Ann. But if you're either of them, or their original record label, you're going to feel like something's missing from your life. And if you've never heard-

- In the case of the JTQ it probably doesn't matter. The same people wrote, recorded and produced both tracks. But imagine being Daniea Und Ann, whose incredible 1969 jazz soul opus All My Love Is Gone has vanished from streaming altogether, unless you stumble upon a song by Erich Furstl-

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What's supposed to be The Stroll is now up there as Los Cuevos Pablo, which is the track that follows it. "But what does it matter?" Well, aside from the fact that it's annoying, it matters because these days everything's automated and things like royalty payments are assigned using that metadata-

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- It's from their album 1987 The Moneyspyder, which I bought pretty much the day it came out. But when you look on, say, Spotify, it's not the tune I remember at all. That's because whoever uploaded the metadata mistitled it. They got side two of The Moneyspyder all wrong.-

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One of the things that pisses me off the most is poorly labelled metadata on audio files. "Niche grumble" I hear you all say. But not if you're looking on an audio streamer for the hauntingly poignant piano-led instrumental The Stroll by The James Taylor Quartet, that always reminds you of autumn -

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Love The Dooleys. On The Move by them is one of the greatest things, and so is this one.

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Sounds like a plan!! I’ve never stopped finding science fascinating, even though I’ll probably never study any of it academically.

I would’ve quite liked to have done biology, along with history and English. But the school wouldn’t let me. I did geography instead. “Why not music?” says everyone. I already knew I could do music. I’d not enjoyed music o level. I’d enjoyed biology though. But it was either arts or science.

-Knock Knock! -Who's there? -M.A.B it's a big horse. -M.A.B it's a big horse who? - *sings* M.A.B it's a big horse I'm a Londoner

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I would've been listening in around 1981 and they were still using this as an interval signal then, before you set the 80s Police on me.

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R. France International (France) _ Interval signal [around 1978]

There are so, so many. But it'll settle for this one because it reminds me of a childhood listening to weird stuff on a short wave radio early in the morning before school. The world lost something when radio interval signals stopped being a thing. youtu.be/F6XFt4XLi60?...

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YouTube video by Interval Signal Library

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Ha! It's like me and the first couple of Beatles albums that I had on cassette before I owned them on vinyl. You know. The cassettes that EMI changed the running order of in order to make them fit on the shortest length of tape possible. Please Please Me "starts" with Misery in my head, even now.

I should have a listen to it afresh. I've an unimpeachably good stereo system these days.

My Oh My was their first big hit in ages. I think a lot of people "new" to pop music thought they'd arrived from nowhere, like I'd done with Pink Floyd when Another Brick In The Wall got to number one.

- I didn't bother buying a copy, so I've no idea how well it sounded on vinyl through a decent hifi system.

- because of their big Christmas millstone, that Slade were a spectacular rock band when they wanted to be. Radio Wall Of Sound sounded huge that morning. "Wow! They're back!" I thought. However, when I listened to it again on a fully functioning radio a few days later, it didn't sound as good.-

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- `For the avoidance of doubt, everything assaulted my eardrums via the car radio in my old Reliant (which I was still driving and would do for another couple of years). It was properly knackered (as was the car). But Slade's offering that morning sounded particularly gnarly. I think we all forget-