Ian Burdon @cosmicserf.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Joining in. Happy to find two of my choices aren't there - Driving Through Mythical America and Moving Waves (so Focus 3 stands in) 020
Ian Burdon @cosmicserf.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Mrs T also understood that state pensions are benefits... 020
Ian Burdon @cosmicserf.bsky.social · 03/10/2026www.cosmicsurfer.co.uk/2026/10/03/b...cosmicsurfer.co.uk 000
Ian Burdon @cosmicserf.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Based on an idea by @mariephillips.bsky.social , I've put together a playlist for my 67th turn around the sun. One tune per year, an artist only appears once, and no prog-rock epics. A note on each choice is linked to in the first comment. open.spotify.com/playlist/2QA...open.spotify.com67 years listPlaylist · cosmicsurfer · 72 items 230
Ian Burdon @cosmicserf.bsky.social · 17/09/2026How about Jenny From the Block, a 2002 record by Jennifer Lopez? Spooner: Benny From the Jock. 100
Ian Burdon @cosmicserf.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I'd venture the same in the 70s vis-a-vis Led Zeppelin 000
Ian Burdon @cosmicserf.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Just as well it wasn't something serious, like grandmothers protesting about Palestine. There'd have been some arrests then. 010
Ian Burdon @cosmicserf.bsky.social · 04/09/2026I snuck a lyric into a novel by translating it into Latin. No one noticed, but very few bought it either. 020
Ian Burdon @cosmicserf.bsky.social · 31/08/2026John Prine Lindisfarne Yes Half Man Half Biscuit Bert Jansch 110
Ian Burdon @cosmicserf.bsky.social · 26/08/2026During Covid lockdown, @closetotheedge.bsky.social and I both spent 2020 listening to and reviewing what were then 50-year old albums released in 1970. I don't think he mentioned Dolly, but I did: www.cosmicsurfer.co.uk/1970-in-musi...cosmicsurfer.co.uk22 February : The Poor Girl That He Left Behind | Riding the Waves to EternityRiding the Waves to Eternity: Hangin’ with the Cosmic Surfer 030
Ian Burdon @cosmicserf.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Rats youtu.be/4HMw1eV2Qcsyoutu.beWildflowers (2015 Remaster)YouTube video by Dolly Parton - Topic 020
Ian Burdon @cosmicserf.bsky.social · 23/08/2026There are many very serious people who take their Star Trek very seriously who mutter about canon and lore and miss the point of Strange New Worlds completely. I don't think every episode lands, but it is mostly enjoyable. 011
Reposted by Ian BurdonGoldspink Books @goldspinkbooks.bsky.social · 30/07/2026A word from my sponsor,the first in a while open.substack.com/pub/chunteri...open.substack.comThem's the VagariesI started this wee substack with the aim of sending the occasional dispatch from the writing front, dispatches from the typeface. 001
Ian Burdon @cosmicserf.bsky.social · 20/07/2026It wouldn't surprise me were an international role to crop up. 010
Ian Burdon @cosmicserf.bsky.social · 18/07/2026I bet Tuchel is pleased to have finally found his winning line up, even if France don't look to be trying too hard. 120
Ian Burdon @cosmicserf.bsky.social · 14/07/2026I was one of the few in my peer group at school in the 70s who did not rate Led Zeppelin. I still don't. I much prefer the artists from whom they took, er, inspiration. Also, Jethro Tull. 000
Ian Burdon @cosmicserf.bsky.social · 07/07/2026not for nothing did Private Eye christen them Crapita 000
Ian Burdon @cosmicserf.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Father walked the Old Town into being twice a day. 010
Ian Burdon @cosmicserf.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Handsworth Revolutio is a fine album. Sadly, Ku Klux Klan remains relevant half a century later 030
Ian Burdon @cosmicserf.bsky.social · 29/06/2026I have a Grateful Dead t-shirt bought at a gig in September 1981. 010
Ian Burdon @cosmicserf.bsky.social · 25/06/2026winning one game by one goal is not really strong grounds for progressing anyway 010
Reposted by Ian BurdonDr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Reform UK councillors have introduced a motion to rescind King's Lynn and West Norfolk's climate emergency declaration and deprioritise decarbonisation efforts The council were going to vote on it on Thursday But the meeting has been postponed due to extreme heat 451231642
Ian Burdon @cosmicserf.bsky.social · 22/06/2026I prophecy... Labour will crown the carpetbagger then discover, very quickly, that the bag is empty. Idiots. 010
Ian Burdon @cosmicserf.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Latest news, I have a ticket for each of the Glasgow gigs 110
Ian Burdon @cosmicserf.bsky.social · 14/06/2026I like their very earliest material, it's the proggie stuff that doesn't grab me 010
Ian Burdon @cosmicserf.bsky.social · 14/06/2026On watching Anika Nilles playing with Rush www.cosmicsurfer.co.uk/2026/06/13/a...cosmicsurfer.co.ukA Course Just East of Lyra | Riding the Waves to Eternity 120
Ian Burdon @cosmicserf.bsky.social · 13/06/2026personally, I'm hoping the Lib Dems win and send the carpetbagger packing 000
Ian Burdon @cosmicserf.bsky.social · 01/06/2026Just had my first blood test after radiotherapy finished and I'm 'normal'. A huge relief and quite liberating 2110
Ian Burdon @cosmicserf.bsky.social · 24/05/2026Came back to the hotel from an excellent meal and a promenade along the lakefront to be greeted by a recording of popular classics sung by Julio Iglesias. Unfortunate. Followed by a karaoke performer whose primary influence is Vic and Bob's club singer. Even more unfortunate. 010
