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Me, pushing the trolley to the Lidl checkout.

Also, I think I have a crush on the 90s jazz nerd (left tape) based on their handwriting/letter formation/choice use of upper case/attention to label details. The Ayler fan’s italic capitalisation is mildly threatening.

Just found these amongst a job lot of C90s I bought a couple of years ago. The rest was show-tunes and light opera.

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Bobby Lee @bobby-lee.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Outdone myself in cliched Bobby-isms with this one.

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Raced through Daniel Dylan Wray’s Groovy Laidback & Nasty in a 2 day lemsip haze. It managed to be both warmly familiar & a total eye opener to various bands/scenes/sounds which have passed me by. Never read a music book which celebrated both humility & working class creativity so centrally either.

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Bobby Lee @bobby-lee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Haven’t they suffered enough?

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Bobby Lee @bobby-lee.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Headteacher dissected an owl pellet on the overhead projector. Still one of the coolest and gnarliest things I’ve ever seen.

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Bobby Lee @bobby-lee.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Ooooof. Didn’t know this about Jimmy Webb.

Bobby Lee @bobby-lee.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

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Very tired of “aesthetics” and yearn for the days when real subcultures had actually substance rather than a moodboard. Never trust a scene/subculture/“aesthetic” that doesn’t have its own music either.

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Bobby Lee @bobby-lee.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Haven’t read any Kerouac for many years but I finished The Dharma Bums earlier, sat on a log in the woods, bathed in early autumn sunshine and it was glorious.

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Bobby Lee @bobby-lee.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I’m not even a chapter into Ash Sarkar’s “Minority Rule” but I’m already punching the air in agreement several times on every page. She articulates so many things I’ve been thinking about over the last decade, especially the way identity politics has been hijacked by the right to splinter any…

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Bobby Lee @bobby-lee.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Dunk on Yacht Rock music. Fine. But don’t suggest “it’s not a real genre” or use it for any mellow song released since the late 60s. It may be a retronym (as are most genres) but the originators of the term (actually identifiable, which is rare) have hosted a podcast for over a decade to…

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The Night Train® @thenighttrain.co.uk · 20/09/2026

One we both picked up on wax recently… Bobby Lee[@bobby-lee.bsky.social] - Enchanted Mesa 📡📻🔒Sheffield Live! 93.2FM tompkinssquare.bandcamp.com/track/enchan... #NightTrainNowPlaying

tompkinssquare.bandcamp.com

Enchanted Mesa, by Bobby Lee

from the album Origin Myths

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Bobby Lee @bobby-lee.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

One of neo-liberalism’s biggest victories is convincing half the world they have very individual mental health problems which they need to work on rather than the huge systematic issues being the root cause.

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jesse jarnow @bourgwick.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

in 1985, robert hunter & john cipollina & merl saunders & co. wrote & recorded a soundtrack for a movie adaptation of this (by "sunshine daydream"-affiliated phil deguere), complete with fake crowd noise & dead-style song segues. archive.org/details/rh19...

archive.org

Robert Hunter Live at Unknown Studio on 1985-06-13

The Nazgûl1985-06-13Studio Session forMovie Soundtrack source: sbd Jerry Moore's copylineage: low gen maxell xl-IIS90, no nrnak dragon > tascam hd-p2 24/96 > pc >cd wave > adobe audition 2.0 > flactra...

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Bobby Lee @bobby-lee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

No idea of the *other* Robert Kraft’s politics but imagine he’s had to take the phone off the hook…

Bobby Lee @bobby-lee.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Taking a drive up to the Puzzle Hall Inn in Sowerby Bridge later for Frank Hurricane if any Sheffield heads want to join? The show is free. “When I describe Frank Hurricane to a friend, I tell them to imagine if John Fahey had become an extremely posi juggalo.” youtu.be/5tivIvq92gk?...

youtu.be

Frank Hurricane’s Mystical & Musical Journey | My Home, NC | PBS North Carolina

YouTube video by My Home, NC on PBS NC

Bobby Lee @bobby-lee.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I’m down with all those combinations.

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Bobby Lee @bobby-lee.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Good to see a couple of northern English guitar pals (Nick Jonah Davis and Dean McPhee) getting some attention for their new releases. True lifers ploughing their own furrows. NJD - Rose Delta Rising (Cardinal Fuzz/Eiderdown) Dean McPhee - Northern Earth (Bass Ritual)

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Bobby Lee @bobby-lee.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I picked up 8-10 unsual* LPs I didn’t recognise from one charity shop at the weekend. I’m 3/4 through listening to them and everyone is a stinker. I think I just splurged on another nerd’s “out” pile. *nothing on YouTube, Wiki, RYM, limited details on Discogs.

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Bobby Lee @bobby-lee.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Never forget there’s a lot of already very rich people with a lot riding on the success of AI. Why do you think it’s being pushed so hard? It’s tanking and they’re scared.

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Luke Turner @luketurner.com · 12/09/2026

As Ben Delo's record £36m Reform donation is headline news, I can't emphasise enough that the media ought to be reporting on Delo's heinous funding of antisemitic conspiracy theorists in the High Court – anonymous contributors to the horrifying neo-Nazi account shown below. bsky.app/profile/luke...

A sample of neo-Nazi posts by the @ParallaxOptics account, displaying grotesque antisemitic caricatures and violent Jew hate.

The @ParallaxOptics account's banner image depicting Adolf Hitler.

Post by @ParallaxOptics of an article anonymously written by Nina Power and Daniel Miller: ON CULTS II "If we're proposing the the Left is a cult, the first question is what do cults want in general?"

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Andy Parmo @andyparmo.co.uk · 09/09/2026

Never underestimate the appeal to generations of academically over-achieving, gloriously pretentious, sexually ambiguous (grown up) teenage boys in stifling domestic situations.

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why don’t you all just marry penda’s fen

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Whip around to buy Rupert Lowe some R Crumb comics?

Things I was frightened of as a child: 1. The phone ringing (two ill grandmas & I always feared the worst) 2. Foxes 3. The several grown men (who should probably have been in care) who wore PE kit & dress shoes all year round. 4. Lifts 5. My mum going into town on her own (I was an anxious boy.)

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Bands that don’t sound anything like the one or two songs that everybody knows: 1. Dr Hook - Not the cuddly soft rock balladeers, actually a bunch of perma-stoned wrong’uns who wrote songs about getting VD. 2. Chairmen of The Board - One good time pop-soul hit and albums worth of deep funk burners.

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Bobby Lee @bobby-lee.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Never considered styling my given name like this…

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Excellent hauntological charity shop score, complete with 3D glasses. R.L Gregory - The Intelligent Eye (1970)

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Bobby Lee @bobby-lee.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

These claws coming through the ceiling still haunt me. Didn’t stop me repeatedly borrowing the book from the library though.

None More Records @nonemorerecords.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

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Hello friends! We are very excited to announce our 10th Birthday Party! 7th November 8pm-3.30am The Jago, Dalston. We have Agile Experiments and very special guest TBA playing live, plus two of our favourite DJs Ruf Dug and Romaal Kultan going late into the evening. link.dice.fm/RUBJOR8hg6b?...

NONEMORERECORDS
10th BIRTHDAY PARTY
LIVE
SPECIAL GUESTS TBA AGILE EXPERIMENTS
DJs
RUF DUG
ROMAAL KULTAN
NMR
WHYTE LIGHT VISUALS
PSYCHEDELIC LIGHT SHOW
7th NOVEMBER 8PM - 3:30AM
EARLY BIRDS £10
ADVANCE £15
THE JAGO
440 KINGSLAND ROAD E8 4AA
TICKETS VIA DICE
伊每好的

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killiemesoftly.bsky.social @killiemesoftly.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

There was a screening of a doc at Sheffield Doc Festival a couple of years ago that started with the whole mic attach and clapper board, a large proportion of the audience of doc producers laughed out loud.

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Scornflake Ghhhoul @scornflakegrrrl.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

They’re just pouring more fuel onto the fire. Why are the racists consistently called legitimate, whilst in a world that’s burning people who protest over climate change and genocide are not being afforded even a smidgeon of the same grace?

Some protestors showed "intimidating and thuggish behaviour" this weekend, Sarah Jones, the policing minister said.
But she added she did not seek to
"minimise" legitimate concerns people had about small boat crossings.
"This government has taken action to fix the broken system we inherited and crack down on the people smugglers," Jones said, pointing out that system-wide arrests were up 70%.

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The Night Train® @thenighttrain.co.uk · 07/09/2026

"We have the record. We repeat. We have the record"

an LP on a Technics turntable. The record is clear/bone white.

The sleeve is on the right. It's for Bobby Lee's - Origin Myths

https://tompkinssquare.bandcamp.com/album/origin-myths

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Bobby Lee @bobby-lee.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The police have been enthusiastically banning face coverings at anti-fascist protests (where people are protecting their identity from RW “auditors”) but as far as I can tell, did not do the same here for this shower or knuckledraggers.

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Bobby Lee @bobby-lee.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I’m not sure labelling every opinion we don’t like as a “mental health crisis” is particularly helpful. People with MH conditions, who also have much more “acceptable” opinions, might find that insulting. It’s also a let off for bigots/conspiracists to say “you must respect this, it’s my MH.”

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Bobby Lee @bobby-lee.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Thanks to everyone who picked these up yesterday!