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Benny Profane @bennyprofane8590.bsky.social · 8h

Benny Profane - Tear The Web hearthis.at/14724698/ [Live/Venue Unknown/Mckechnie Rework 16/10/2026] #bennyprofane #liverpool #erniewoo

Photo of Benny Profane live in Ernie Woo's Monro Pub, Liverpool 1986.

Mckechnie/Jackson/Surtees

Benny Profane - Tear The Web

https://hearthis.at/14724698/

[Live/Venue Unknown/Mckechnie Rework 16/10/2026]

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Benny Profane @bennyprofane8590.bsky.social · 8h

Benny Profane - Tear The Web hearthis.at/14724698/ [Live/Venue Unknown/Mckechnie Rework 16/10/2026] #bennyprofane #liverpool #erniewoo

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Benny Profane @bennyprofane8590.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

When I was in Modern Eon there was talk of us doing a tour together, that would have worked. Saw a couple of great gigs in Liverpool, Eric's, & then supporting Beefheart in Rotters.

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Benny Profane @bennyprofane8590.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Midas Man "This film has 'give it a swerve' written all over it." - The Bootles

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Benny Profane @bennyprofane8590.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Extracurricular Munich/West Germany/1982 The Passage record a 'Live in Concert' TV Show [Alabama-Halle, footage MIA]. Door to a club, bouncers don't like my badge. Violence leads to novelty song, me at the microphone. TV en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alabama... #thepassage hearthis.at/14723089/

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The Passage - Dogstar [Demo]

by Joe Mckechnie on hearthis.at | Post Punk

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Benny Profane @bennyprofane8590.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

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The Passage - Dogstar [Demo]

by Joe Mckechnie on hearthis.at | Post Punk

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Aaron Swartz, coding prodigy and hacktivist who helped develop RSS and was a co-founder of Reddit, died by suicide after facing $1 million in fines and 35 years in prison for felony charges, just for downloading pdfs of research papers with the intention of making them accessible to the public.

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Sacred Parasite @sacredparasite.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Liverpudlians and Scousers: Fear Not! That box, packed with @wildtwin.bsky.social's new novella Latchkey, got on its way to News From Nowhere yesterday and should arrive Mon. or Tues. If you've bought one: Dankeschön! If you haven't, get in there this weekend and either buy or reserve yours today.

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Benny Profane @bennyprofane8590.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I say to them, “well, write your poetry and hand it over to one of our many unemployed actors”. Do both of you a bit of good. www.thenerve.news/p/john-coope... #johncooperclarke #greenbananas

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Jeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I wrote about my mother’s christening gown and silence for the 34th edition of Science & Magic and you can read it here: www.violetterecords.com/science-and-...

Image shows a delicate christening gown hanging on a wardrobe. The gown belonged to my mother who wore it 96 years ago and it was worn by lots of children afterwards including the

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Benny Profane @bennyprofane8590.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Extracurricular. Beats For Ringo hearthis.at/josephmckech... In Autumn 2016 'The Popular Music Show' challenged Merseyside musicians & sound artists to produce works inspired by Ringo Starr - here's what they came up with. All of the Beats. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... #ringo #thebeatles

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Joe Mckechnie - On Drums [PMS/BBC/Beats For Ringo]

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Benny Profane @bennyprofane8590.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Shoved in front of a camera in the early hours, after playing a gig the night before, not ideal. Presenter was a smarmer charmer. Did he end up on children's TV? I think he might have. David 'Lemon Drops' Newton pressed record on the VHS. youtu.be/YrQuyDJ689A #bennyprofane

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Benny Profane TV Interview on Rocking In The UK 1987

YouTube video by wolvo77

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Benny Profane @bennyprofane8590.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Played Leningrad Feb 1989. I stayed in touch with Dima, the drummer from the Leningrad group who also played. When we got home I sent him some drums stuff, drumsticks, drum skins, that type of thing. Got a nice letter/gift back. Benny Profane - Live in Leningrad February 1989 hearthis.at/1860669/

Benny Profane played Leningrad February 1989.
I stayed in touch with Dima, the drummer from the Leningrad group who also played.
When we got home I sent him some drums stuff, drumsticks, drum skins, that type of thing. Got a nice letter/gift back -

Leningradi. Sunday

Hello Joseph

I'm very glad that you haven't forget me & sent me everything I ask you about. Everything received here, & all right thank you very much, I've received all drums equipment you've sent thank you a one more time so I decided to send you some souvenirs from Soviet Union

As for my life, everything ok. We're still working at musical industry. Less concerts than repetitions (trainings). I want to know when you’re gonna visit our country again. If you'll be in Leningrad, please call me, we'll have & very good time I’m sure. my telephone no is 203-83-46 50 cell! I have a little request. We like to listen the music you are playing with your group. the music, your one - is fun, & attractive.
So, if you can, please send me some cassettes with it. we'll listen it & remember about your group.
So best wishes to you & your friends i will waiting for letters & calls.

Have a good time

Yours Dima

Benny Profane - Live in Leningrad February 1989
https://hearthis.at/1860669/

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Benny Profane @bennyprofane8590.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A rather fruity review from Edna in the Liverpool Poly Shout magazine. Read it in the ALT. Ernie Woo! #bennyprofane #liverpool #erniewoo

EXTRA! EXTRA! IT'S NOT JUST MUSIC. IT'S ART(?)

In two classic sets taken at breakneck speed, a sellout crowd saw Benny Profane confirm beyond doubt all the promise they've shown for so long

Returning to the Monro to play for their old mentor Ernie Woo (remember that epic week week in June? no nor do I) the Profanes dug deep in their bulging bucket of songs to thrash out golden oldies like "Recoil" and "Hang Fire from their much sought-after "Where is Pig EP, with, as ever, wealth of new material.

Set one: and Accident prone sets the pace as several hundred happy punters pack the room wall to wall and settle to some Kamikaze Drinking.
By "Here Comes The Floor", them music lovers is a foot-tappin' and a eartwitching (there ain't no room to dance, see) fit to bust Great! "Frying Ants" and "Hit Me With A Wild Thing" two of the newys here excellent both.

Set two: there's now maybe a thousand eager, if wobbly, bodies packed around the stage: drums become guitars and we're off again, louder and dafter than ever. Suddenly the pace slows to a crawl, and a new song, "A Cage For Two instantly memorable (I think that was the one) and surely a classic of the eighties? The audience stands transfixed then it's back to 100 miles per with "Stitch That"... and on, to "Beam Me Up" and a deafening SHOUT(sick) of "encore!" What a night! Wouldn't have missed it for the world. Now you may get the impression that I'm a fan of Benny Profane: not so I'm a Rolf Harris girl myself. But even to my skeptical mind, there can be little doubt that this is THE live band of 1987.

Catch the Profanes (if you're quick) at the Haigh on Saturday Dec. 13th and failing that, at the Cafe Berlin on New Year's Eve

Edna Reason

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Benny Profane @bennyprofane8590.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Ahh yes. 17/03/1986. The one where, after the gig, I was escorted from the Dü dressing room for following Bob around with my guitar & singing Quo at him. I didn't/don't know any Quo. #bennyprofane #huskerdü #liverpooluniversity #statusquo #mistsoftime

Flyer for a Husker Dü/Benny Profane gig at Liverpool University. Includes NME/Sounds single of the week reviews for 'Don't Want To Know If You Are Lonely'.

Ahh yes.

17/03/1986.

The one where, after the gig, I was escorted from the Dü dressing room for following Bob around with my guitar & singing Quo at him. I didn't/don't know any Quo.

#bennyprofane
#huskerdü
#liverpooluniversity
#statusquo
#mistsoftime

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Benny Profane @bennyprofane8590.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Extracurricular. The Passage, standing in front of a passage in Manchester 1981. Photo: Kevin Cummins #thepassage #kevincummins

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Benny Profane @bennyprofane8590.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Yes Sterl you're right, Lou does make the same 'have a Doug Yule' joke every Xmas, just let him have this one.

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Benny Profane @bennyprofane8590.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Benny Profane - Walk Away Macbeth hearthis.at/14705396/ Mckechnie Rework 03/10/2026 When we first began working on this we called it 'The Scottish Song' , it was sort of my guitar tribute to Fire Engines, Orange Juice, that type of thing. The ghost of the original idea was retained in the title.

Robert Carlyle pictured in a scene from the TV series Hamish Macbeth.

Benny Profane - Walk Away Macbeth

https://hearthis.at/14705396/

Mckechnie Rework 03/10/2026
When we first began working on this we called it 'The Scottish Song' , it was sort of my guitar tribute to Fire Engines, Orange Juice, that type of thing.

It became something else when the rest of the group weighed in, but the ghost of the original idea was retained in the title.

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Benny Profane @bennyprofane8590.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The bread came in medieval banquet sized portions.

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Benny Profane @bennyprofane8590.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I remember him being in The Armadillo on Mathew Street a fair bit when I was working there.

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Benny Profane @bennyprofane8590.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

@philoates.bsky.social has kindly transcribed my 1980 article [& recently added comments on faceache] about the police raid/closure of Eric's in Liverpool. Read Phil's deep dive here - liverpoolerics.blogspot.com/2026/07/eric...

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Eric's - closer

Joe Mckechnie Joe McKechnie writes Short article I wrote after the police raid/closure of Eric's Liverpool in 1980. My girlfriend & I were t...

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Benny Profane @bennyprofane8590.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Before it opened I was offered the job of DJ in Brady's. Would have done it, but they wanted me to MC as well. Probably should have give it a go.

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Benny Profane @bennyprofane8590.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

From the first Benny Profane studio recording. Still a trio, with Will Sergeant helping out. Here he is, playing his guitar backwards forwards sideways, & tooting on his harmonica. Speed It Likes Best [1985] hearthis.at/josephmckech... Photos: Robert Ward #bennyprofane #willsergeant #billywhizz

Robert Ward's photos of Benny Profane recording our first studio session, pictured, Becky Stringer, Will Sergeant, Joe Mckechnie, that's me.
Still a 3 piece of Dave, Becky & I, so I asked Will to play some guitar, which he did, effortlessly, on four songs.

Here he is, playing his guitar backwards forwards sideways, & tooting on his harmonica.

Speed It Likes Best [1985]

https://hearthis.at/josephmckechnie/benny-profanespeed-it-likes-best

Photos: Robert Ward

#bennyprofane
#willsergeant
#billywhizz

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Jeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The First 21 Bird Dreams.

21 Bird Dream collages on a staircase. The collages are made from found images, ink, charcoal, pastel, crayon and turmeric

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Benny Profane @bennyprofane8590.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's what happens when people read too many Colin Wilson books at an impressionable age. "Plato agreed with me when I wrote" - Colin Wilson [from his autobiography, Me Me Me]

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John Mulvey @johnmulvey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

By all means boycott the new Fall album because a Reform councillor is involved in the release, but let’s not pretend Mark E Smith’s politics were irreproachable: “What about Brexit? ‘I thought it was great’. A good idea? ‘Yeah, still do.‘“ louderthanwar.com/mark-e-smith...

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Mark E Smith - Our Final in depth Interview from 2017

Fergal Kinney's brilliant in-depth interview with Mark E Smith from August 2017.

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Benny Profane @bennyprofane8590.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

No checks here. youtu.be/rNLnCgLZ40s The music press was a great place to find keyboard warrior trolls in pre internet times. Jim hates plagiarism, loves Oasis.

MORRISSEY/OASIS FAN JIM SHELLEY IN THE MELODY MAKER 25/07/1987

KILL CHECKED SHIRTS

EDWYN COLLINS

DON'T SHILLY SHALLY (WEA)

HURRAH

HOW MANY RIVERS? (CBS)

BENNY PROFANE

DEVIL LAUGHING (Calc 26)
https://youtu.be/rNLnCgLZ40s

THE VASELINE

SON OF A GUN (53rd & 3rd)

JINGLE. Sad day when, 28 years on, there's no difference between the idol and the plagiarists. Edwyn is a sort of indie Shaky, a total professional, ploughing away on the same old song.

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Benny Profane @bennyprofane8590.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Benny Profane - Rob A Bank [Royal Court, Liverpool Sunday 18th December 1988] #bennyprofane #philnicholls #seftonpark hearthis.at/josephmckech...

Profanes picture sat in Liverpool's Sefton Park.
We were sat on the path leading up to the then growing wild Palm House, different story now, neat & tidy.

This photo was used on an LP sleeve, which LP you ask, as is your right.

Benny Profane - Rob A Bank
[Royal Court, Liverpool Sunday 18th December 1988]

#bennyprofane
#philnicholls
#seftonpark

https://hearthis.at/josephmckechnie/benny-profanerob-a-bankliverpoolroyal-courtthe-fall-tourdec-1988joe-mckechnie-rework32026082026

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Benny Profane @bennyprofane8590.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I read the news today, oh boy Four, five indie dancers in Blackburn, Lancashire And though their moves were rather small They had to count them all Now they know how many moves it takes to fill the Albert Hall I'd love to Four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten vimeo.com/1228063399 #bennyprofane

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Benny Profane - Jerked To Jesus [Live Blackburn 1990/Video by Jim Kutler]

Benny Profane - Jerked To Jesus Live Blackburn 1990. Filmed by Jim Kutler Dave Jackson - Vocal Joe Mckechnie - Guitar Liam Rice - Drums Becky Stringer - Bass Robin Surtees - Guitar Recently di...

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Jeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Happy publication day to Latchkey! There’s a stack of signed copies in Liverpoo’s mighty News from Nowhere. They’re already selling fast so if you want one get down there! @sacredparasite.bsky.social

Image shows front cover of Jeff Young’s book Latchkey, signed copies in News from Nowhere, Liverpool

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Sacred Parasite @sacredparasite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

!!!PUBLICATION DAY!!! JWGoll's The Terminal Art and @wildtwin.bsky.social's Latchkey are OUT! At www.sacredparasite.com you can, for the first time, see inside and read sample pages from both books. Then order away to your heart's content.

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Benny Profane @bennyprofane8590.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The times, the space, the time slip. Cafe Berlin, Bold Street, Liverpool. Late 80s. #bennyprofane #cafeberlin #liverpool

Poster for a Benny Profane gig in Cafe Berlin, Bold Street, Liverpool. Late 80s. Hell Defined

Listing poster inc a Benny Profane gig in Cafe Berlin, Bold Street, Liverpool. Late 80s. Listing includes Kit, Bodines, Happy Mondays, Inspiral Carpets & Laugh.

Poster for a Benny Profane gig in Cafe Berlin, Bold Street, Liverpool. Late 80s. Exorcise!

Poster for a Benny Profane gig in Cafe Berlin, Bold Street, Liverpool. Late 80s.

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