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Ben McCormick

@benmccormick.bsky.social
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Writer, beer maker and drinker, lefty, inventor of the Beer Advent Calendar, slow cyclist, even slower guitar player, deft exponent of the reverse mocker.

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Ben McCormick @benmccormick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Sitting down to enjoy my holiday...
A bag, a glass of rosé wine and Don Quixote on a table in the main square of Ax-les-Thermes, France.
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Ben McCormick @benmccormick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Closing time at the festival. A frankly brilliant four nights. Roll on next year #convenanza
Lots of people dancing at a DJ set.
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Ben McCormick @benmccormick.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Didn't expect Sean Johnson to get in on the #FallFriday action...
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Ben McCormick @benmccormick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Met someone earlier this evening who told me she works 60 hours a week and all I could think of was stone toilet back gardens. #FallFriday youtu.be/skSfmmnbw5k?...
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English Scheme
YouTube video by The Fall - Topic
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Ben McCormick @benmccormick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Heightened levels of cluelessness on display at Terminal 3 security, with several people seemingly unable to grasp the fairly simple concept of 'empty pockets'. #dickheads #getoutofmyway
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Ben McCormick @benmccormick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I'll tell you what's up, Bluesky. My out of office is on for a week. That's what's up. Big annual rave-up in a castle in Carcassonne incoming. Then a couple of days in a thermal springs spa town in the Pyrenees by way of recovery. Bring it #convenanza #hotwater #alovefromouterspa
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Ben McCormick @benmccormick.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Convenanza week, so of course I can't fucking sleep. Must procure some sleeping aids. #convenanza #insomnia #insomnanza
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Ben McCormick @benmccormick.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Night bus to Peckham. Cue saxophones.
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Ben McCormick @benmccormick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
London is full of people leaving their homes They got lack of length in their beds and in their rooms #FallFriday youtu.be/UzBABzF9tF0?...
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Life Just Bounces
YouTube video by The Fall - Topic
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Ben McCormick @benmccormick.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Piddington sounds like someone from the old South African neo Nazi Afriikaner Weerstandsbeweging party saying 'Paddington', which is kinda appropriate really.
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Ben McCormick @benmccormick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Big thanks to @europeanbarguide.bsky.social for the heads up about Bar Picchio. Have spent a delightful afternoon here wasting time before heading to the airport. A terrific old school bar I could easily spend far too long in. #milan #bars #waitingroom
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Ben McCormick @benmccormick.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Ok, so Birrificio Lambrate is fucking great, isn't it? Cheers.
A pint of lager on a bar in a pub.
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Ben McCormick @benmccormick.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I had to sing at a festival... boo hoo #FallFriday youtu.be/qy-LvUepEbA
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The Fall - "Wrong Place, Right Time"
YouTube video by kogler
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Ben McCormick @benmccormick.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
BeerSky... heading to Milan on Friday. Which Birrificio Lambrate is 'the one'? The Adelchi or the Gogli? Or both?
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Ben McCormick @benmccormick.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Pub I'm in is playing Upwards at 45 Degrees. Staying. #juliancope #pub #winningatsunday
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Ben McCormick @benmccormick.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Left a pub that had played Arthur Russell on the jukebox for a pub that's now playing fucking Coldplay. It's a move so intensely mistaken that I'm calling it a day and going home.
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Ben McCormick @benmccormick.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
And the man who brushes against me in the un-Vienna midweek is shaking (Where's all the choccies gone? Where's all the choccies gone?) #FallFriday youtu.be/pX08wNfV5IE?...
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Early Days Of Channel Führer
YouTube video by The Fall - Topic
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Ben McCormick @benmccormick.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
In a 'late payback' move, I've started buying on vinyl stuff I had bootlegged on tape back when I couldn't afford to buy music. Sadly, a lot of those artists are now dead and won't feel the benefit. But hopefully their estate does. Currently hearing a student favourite: Peter Tosh - Captured Live.
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Ben McCormick @benmccormick.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Now listening to Easterhouse - Contenders. Fucking hell. I had no idea how on point they were. In 1986, I thought the Labour Party were our saviours, our only way of fighting the Tories. Easterhouse knew they were the same thing wearing a different tie. #housetrainedsocialists
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Ben McCormick @benmccormick.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Just had a weird sensation there must be a word for. Listening to Julian Cope - Fried on my fairly good hifi set up on 180g vinyl. And it was nowhere near as good as when I first heard it, played on a shit ghettoblaster in a caravan on a campsite near Antibes. By a girl called Hazel. #timeandplace
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Ben McCormick @benmccormick.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Bit pissed. Went out after work and did not limit myself to 'just a few drinks'. Did not avoid drinking on an empty stomach. Failed to pass 'Go' or collect £200. Will regret tomorrow. But for the moment, I'm playing records loud and grinning like an idiot. Bon weekend, all. *raises glass*
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Ben McCormick @benmccormick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I see the Lord's groundsman has served up another spicy wicket. Just the 14 wickets falling today. #ENGvPAK #minefield
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Ben McCormick @benmccormick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Umber Bejam
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Ben McCormick @benmccormick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
My sick, think I've seen the tail end I'm fit and working again #FallFriday youtu.be/lsBoajapOOk
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The Fall - Fit and Working Again
YouTube video by normoginium
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Ben McCormick @benmccormick.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Am at the Highland Laddie in Leeds and I have to say I'm slightly and pleasantly taken aback by the sight of a plate of oysters being delivered to a table on a fairly unremarkable street in a reasonably unfashionable part of the city. Don't talk to me about sophistication, I've been to Leeds, etc.
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Ben McCormick @benmccormick.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Gonna be in Leeds on Thursday evening. While not exactly 'on the razz' (need to be at the cricket on Friday), I am looking for some pub recommendations. Is the Highland Laddie worth the trip out there from the centre? Whitelock's still the go-to? Where shouldn't I miss? #Leeds #beer
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Ben McCormick @benmccormick.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Ah, police helicopter circling overhead? Yeah, that'll help me sleep.
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Ben McCormick @benmccormick.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Have successfully replaced a faulty plug socket without killing myself and now I basically invented electricity. #nopop #power #sparky
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Ben McCormick @benmccormick.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Shot of the evening.
Way too many Lime Bikes
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Ben McCormick @benmccormick.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Quite looking forward to the eclipse this evening. I'm one of those dunces who went to fucking Cornwall for the 1999 one and it was bloody cloudy all morning (then brightened up during the afternoon). I felt cheated. #eclipse #clouds #cheated
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Ben McCormick @benmccormick.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Do I know any electricians? Plug in the kitchen went pop today and I think it's probably unwise for me to try and replace/fix it. #sparks
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Ben McCormick @benmccormick.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I crave your death inside my mind's eye And my beer will never be open My door will never be open #FallFriday youtu.be/umr4Tfw2f_o?...
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My Door Is Never
YouTube video by The Fall - Topic
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Ben McCormick @benmccormick.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Have discovered, quite by chance, that the gueuze glasses you can buy from In De Vezekering Tegen De Grote Dorst double up nicely as Pastis/ice/water apéro glasses. #doubleobjectif #pastis #indevezekeringtegendegrotedorst #glassware
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Ben McCormick @benmccormick.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Are any of my mutuals going to We Out Here? And if so, do you know anyone flogging a cheap ticket? I can't make it until Saturday afternoon at the earliest, but want to go for the Saturday and Sunday (so day tickets won't work). Reposts/solutions much appreciated. #weouthere #limited #onthescrounge
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Ben McCormick @benmccormick.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
What could this silver package from Scotland contain? #1of100
A silver plastic package in which there is a T-shirt.
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Ben McCormick @benmccormick.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Now listening to the best REM LP ever. Which is obviously Reckoning. No debate and I will not be taking questions on this. #REM #Reckoning #betterthanalltherest
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Ben McCormick @benmccormick.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I'll be honest, I couldn't find this for ages and thought some git had nicked it. #nowplaying
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Ben McCormick @benmccormick.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Listening to my latest nostalgia purchase, this time Julian Cope - Saint Julian. I still know all the words. Yet last night, it took me a good few minutes to remember the singer in the Pogues was Shane McGowan. On the way out, aren't i? #juliancope #thepogues #losingit
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Ben McCormick @benmccormick.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Two earworms today: Joe Dassin - Champs-Elysées and Donna Summer - On The Radio. Neither one is pissing me off in the slightest. #earworms
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Ben McCormick @benmccormick.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Right. Weekend. Going to head for some refreshing lager before dinner. Have a good one whatever you're doing. #weekend #lager
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Ben McCormick @benmccormick.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
In honour of the book I've just finished You play in the winter sun with replacement teeth The cackle has The cackle has landed #FallFriday youtu.be/JhN4omijmvw?...
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The Fall - Rememberance R
YouTube video by Alex DarkElf
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Ben McCormick @benmccormick.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Fini. #thankfuckforthat #lifeback #lelongwinded
The three volumes of Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past.
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Ben McCormick @benmccormick.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Fuck has happened to the weather? My feet are cold, ffs. #bringbacktheheatwave
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Ben McCormick @benmccormick.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Floaty LeFloatface
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Ben McCormick @benmccormick.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Ha ha!
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Ben McCormick @benmccormick.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Merde de chauve-souris
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Ben McCormick @benmccormick.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
This is worse than the semi final. An absolute embarrassment.
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Ben McCormick @benmccormick.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Four nil, and we've fucked it up...
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Ben McCormick @benmccormick.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
First time on the #raveyardshift, this one's for our cousins over the channel. youtu.be/8qwINIYBQ0s?...
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Tout Est Bleu (16B Full Vocal Mix)
YouTube video by Ame Strong - Topic
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Ben McCormick @benmccormick.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
By the fox cream boat By the gallery By the dark brown stable No one's stable #FallFriday youtu.be/-ER1K6y7j-Q?...
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I Wake Up in the City
YouTube video by The Fall - Topic
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