chumpski @chumpski.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Showing my age - listening to the new Taylor Swift songs while checking out a pension statement that just dropped through the letter box. One of these things is more likely than the other to provide ongoing interest... 000
chumpski @chumpski.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Now, I'm sure there was a reason I gave up on midweek London gigs except on very special occasions. 020
chumpski @chumpski.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Now that was a hell of a show. With a lot of hats and all of the phones. All of them. 021
chumpski @chumpski.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Old-age gig-going, a short tale. Last time I was in this venue was one of the few times I have ever fainted. Mid-show, which was very briefly inconvenient. But the first time I came to this venue was a hair under 40 (F-O-R-T-Y) years ago. I was being paid £18 for an 11 hour working day at weekends & 151
chumpski @chumpski.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Look who's coming with me on my drive shortly, it's only the fabulous @jesusjonesband.bsky.social - not so much shot in the chevy as turned up loud in the Hyundai! 010
chumpski @chumpski.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Day 3, swim 3. Busier beach, water still crystal clear blue. Not wishing I was in the office! 020
chumpski @chumpski.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Good morning universe. Haven't slept out under the stars in a very long time but that's a nice view to wake up to! 020
chumpski @chumpski.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Verdict: useful both ends. Could I have managed without? Always did before. Did it make things less troublesome? Also yes. Interesting to see individual staff positively applying discretion, no drama and no need for special requests. Does its job 👍 000
chumpski @chumpski.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Experiments in a new world. Strictly need-need-need-can't-possibly-do-without it? The wear on the passport tells a tale. Does it make a meaningful difference? Worth finding out, in case it does, useful to know. So far, got bumped to a shorter queue, on a no big deal basis. What next? One of those. 000
chumpski @chumpski.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Play New Model Army you cowards. Love Sonia though! #TotP 020
chumpski @chumpski.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Three songs in, three acts I've seen live, Mary Chain also #TotP 020
chumpski @chumpski.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Not their best, I mean it's no Home Sweet Home but also 🤘 #TotP 001
chumpski @chumpski.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Yeah, that fun thing where you were supposed to be on an early call with your boss but then you went back to sleep and didn't. www.youtube.com/watch?v=J56I...youtube.comStrawbs - Part Of The Union (1973)YouTube video by Polydor 1000 000
chumpski @chumpski.bsky.social · 07/09/2026You can tell autumn isn't far away. Yesterday's gig was fabulous and comfortable but tonight's is more like someone started up the sauna at lunchtime and left the doors open ever since. Phew! 🥵 000
chumpski @chumpski.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Sometimes we just wanna be alone but there's a magnificent alternative in sharing an afternoon with @theedarlingbuds.bsky.social - and check out the new album Same Sun, Same Sky, that's great too. Thoroughly splendid way to round off the weekend! 030
chumpski @chumpski.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Really enjoyed the, er, drone-prog? sounds of Dunkie. Enough pedals for fourteen bicycle factories and a noise that doesn't exactly remind me of anything else. And a theremin (gotta get him in) is always cool. 020
chumpski @chumpski.bsky.social · 06/09/2026🎶 Do you remember the matinee gigs? We do, we do 🎵 #AGrownUpGame Universal behaviour reminder still in place, I see. Jolly good. 010
chumpski @chumpski.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Saw him not long after this, on a tour that had been booked into venues that didn't allow for the popularity of this song. Lots of Right Here Waiting to get in but it was a cracking gig when we did #TotP 000
chumpski @chumpski.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Freshly arrived in my outstretched arms, every home should have one. 020
chumpski @chumpski.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Yep, definitely bank holiday. How can I be sure? Well I hadn't seen the back of the washing machine in an age but now I know exactly how clean it is, just as I do the oven outside and in, and now I just need to try on and discard a ton of clothing. But first an ice cream. 010
chumpski @chumpski.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Just seen my first xmas tat in the shops, so that's lovely. And weather-warning seasonal. 000
chumpski @chumpski.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Introduce yourself with 10 acts you’ve seen live: Tom Paxton Gordon Lightfoot The Everly Brothers Duane Eddy Musical Youth Anvil Rick Astley Charlotte Church David Lee Roth Helen Love * I think that's ten completely different ones to the last time this exercise came around but I haven't checked. 110
chumpski @chumpski.bsky.social · 29/08/2026You can tell it's still August in the hottest summer on record. 110
chumpski @chumpski.bsky.social · 28/08/2026I guess this is what we call friday evening cross-over, Dolly on the telly and Ned in my lap! 010
chumpski @chumpski.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Magnificent song, Cold As Ice, and so very topical for this summer #TotP 020
chumpski @chumpski.bsky.social · 27/08/2026No, I don't have a rain jacket to go home in, it's not like there was any warning of even a slim chance of rain or anything. 000
chumpski @chumpski.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Very clear memory of the front page of the paper on the day Elvis died. Clear memories of the dried, cracked earth of the long hot summer of 1976. Then it gets debatable for levels of "historic" - historic for Briggo's finger and I have a reference memory of being there but not for the exact moment. 000
chumpski @chumpski.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Yeah, lovely weekend thanks! My highlights in moderate quality picture form. 120
chumpski @chumpski.bsky.social · 23/08/2026A handful of days shy of 38 years since our paths first crossed. Been a few comings and a lot of goings since then, and this line-up is as good as any, and then some. See you in October, Hup! kids! 030
chumpski @chumpski.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Just popping to the shops, anyone need any bogus hippy junk? Crystals, tie-dye, novelty hats you'll never wear again? 010
chumpski @chumpski.bsky.social · 21/08/2026No #TotP for me but there is a mighty #SFA doing Golden Retriever in front of me instead. 030
chumpski @chumpski.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Yes, I absolutely needed a nap earlier, and now it's 3am so that's really cool. 030
chumpski @chumpski.bsky.social · 18/08/2026This one, because I've always been at least as cool as I am good at getting rid of stuff. 020
chumpski @chumpski.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Happy three years on bluesky to me. Time flies by when you're the driver of a train, no, fruit flies like a banana, no, er, happy aren't you all so very lucky I got an invite day! 140
chumpski @chumpski.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Great to have reliable old classics to brighten up the weekend before the inevitability of monday. 010
chumpski @chumpski.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Jaki Graham's pink eye shadow though 👍 #NoneMoreMid80s #TotP 000
chumpski @chumpski.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Hey... www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4fj...youtube.comTenor Saw - Ring the alarmYouTube video by Alex Popa 000