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Ben

@didnotchart.bsky.social
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Blog about pop’s greatest should have beens just about limping along. More active on www.instagram.com/didnotchart/profi… Here for music and chat and fun. didnotchart.blogspot.com

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Ben @didnotchart.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The Hobknobs; “We’re named after a documentary about the biscuit. We’re very boring.” They’re not though. Slow burning, enigmatic and quietly charming. Helmets Off is a terrific album. #thehobknobs #upsettherhythm
A tall man singing, woman in the middle  with a microphone, a woman in the right playing guitar
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Ben @didnotchart.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The English Silver Jews. Honestly, last year’s Old Master was one of 2025’s highlights. This will be as good.
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Ben @didnotchart.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Got into Euston from Glasgow FIVE HOURS ago but am being held hostage by an alcoholic crisp eating fiend @wiaiwya.bsky.social Send help. I just want to go home.
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Ben @didnotchart.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
They nailed it. Next time!
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Ben @didnotchart.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
My friend has spare tickets if you need
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Ben @didnotchart.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Then have a pint because we have no other interests and I enable @wiaiwya.bsky.social
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Ben @didnotchart.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
What to do before @glasgoespop.bsky.social opens? Buy records @monorailmusic.bsky.social @slumberlandrecords.com
New real numbers album and No fun at all album by Mesh
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Ben @didnotchart.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
No one ever asks me - god knows why - what the best Sarah Records band was but it’s always The Orchids #sarahrecords #theorchids
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Ben @didnotchart.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
My @glasgoespop.bsky.social claim to fame. The taxi driver who drove me and @wiaiwya.bsky.social is Radhika’s Uncle Jas. Can anyone beat that? I doubt it.
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Ben @didnotchart.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Nice try, but you’re kidding no one. I’ll be there, and you’ll have the reception committee at Glasgow Central on my arrival. As per.
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Ben @didnotchart.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I’ve alerted the organ donor service. They’ve refused all livers as unusable.
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Ben @didnotchart.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
On train to @glasgoespop.bsky.social So far have seen Paul Kelly, Debsey Wykes, Peter Momtchiloff, Patrick Ralla and Richard from Hanging Stars, John Jervis. If this train crashes, a new version of American Pie is happening. @wiaiwya.bsky.social @debseyonbass.bsky.social
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Ben @didnotchart.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Packing for @glasgoespop.bsky.social Nah, wearing the t-shirt of the headline band is a bit too much.
The Bats 4 song t shirt modelled by a man who rightly has cropped his face out.
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Ben @didnotchart.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Because John doesn’t know about tagging #glasgoespop @glasgoespop.bsky.social
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Ben @didnotchart.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Rocky #internationalcatday
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Ben @didnotchart.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Describe to me the typical Go-Betweens fan? Lindy: "German, male, between 20 and 26, earnest." Grant: "Female, heavily into Sylvia Plath, could have played hockey with the Australian Olympic squad but gave it up. And called Mirabelle." John: "A young man who’s just been jilted for the first time."
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Ben @didnotchart.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
It’s The Neutrals on the daft stuff. Girls were dancing singing I *think* that makes them the next Franz Ferdinand @slumberlandrecords.com
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Ben @didnotchart.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Public Service Announcement: the new Spearmint album is all killer. spearmint.bandcamp.com/album/chase-me
spearmint.bandcamp.com
Chase Me, by Spearmint
16 track album
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Ben @didnotchart.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The excellent Field Commander Ali last night. Also: great shoes. Also: if you haven’t got the album, have a word fieldcommander.bandcamp.com/album/the-ne...
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Ben @didnotchart.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
And Stevie Wonder's We Can Work It Out really brings the funk youtu.be/KHnIvw7CCKk?...
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We Can Work It Out
YouTube video by Stevie Wonder - Topic
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Ben @didnotchart.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Marvin Gaye's version of Yesterday from his inexplicably overlooked (ok, all covers, but a great record) That's The Way Love Is is quite something youtu.be/1COxoxlWI1A?...
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Marvin Gaye - Yesterday (1969 The Beatles Cover)
YouTube video by Marc Jacobs
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Ben @didnotchart.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Doing our best
Two ageing indie fans trying to impress the OG Mike slumberland after several hours of drinking. Relax, ladi, they’re taken.
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Ben @didnotchart.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Relax, we’re way ahead of you
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Ben @didnotchart.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
John’s hair isn’t that bad, just got a mullet @wiaiwya.bsky.social
John Jervis with a mullet. Or Brad Pitt. You decide
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Ben @didnotchart.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
I’m in Folkestone with fellow non football fan @wiaiwya.bsky.social We’re trying a 10-hour hydration break to get into football. John’s having a very bad hair day so no faces in the photo.
Hands around pints on a beer garden table. No bad hair shown.
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Ben @didnotchart.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Today: Neil Tennant's birthday. Also today: @glenndonaldson.bsky.social release an excellent cover of Domino Dancing. Coincidence? Probably. theredspinksandpurples.bandcamp.com/track/domino...
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Domino Dancing (cover), by The Reds, Pinks & Purples
from the album And now a storm is breaking in my heart...
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Ben @didnotchart.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I've played Life of Riley by the Love Variants more than most things this year. They sound like Felt sometimes, none more so than on thelovevariants.bandcamp.com/track/red-moon
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Red Moon, by The Love Variants
from the album Life of Riley
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Ben @didnotchart.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
The Gabys finding space between JAMC and Cocteau Twins. Superb as per. If they’re not your favourite band it just means you haven’t heard them. #thegabys #manchesterpopfest
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Ben @didnotchart.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
First time I saw that in the wild was a London shop that knowingly overpriced. £25. Couldn’t afford it then; can’t afford it now. (The true price in a second hand shop would be about 200.)
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Ben @didnotchart.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
A glorious racket by Good Flying Birds. The nuances of Talulah’s Tape are lost but live this is equally thrilling #goodflyingbirds #manchesterpopfest
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Ben @didnotchart.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
A highlight of #manchesterpopfest Olivia Is A Ghost oliviaisaghost.bandcamp.com/album/bees-a...
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Ben @didnotchart.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
All timer! I’ve just lined up this to improve the day
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Ben @didnotchart.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Try and beat You Won't Say Nothing by Tamala Lewis youtu.be/L1OZuqLFi9Y?...
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Tamala Lewis - You Won't Say Nothing
YouTube video by brico
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Ben @didnotchart.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
George Clinton's mid 60s soul singles were the best. I mean youtu.be/b9Bi8H2stK4?...
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DEBONAIRES 'Loving you takes all my time' LIVE !
YouTube video by cov11
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Ben @didnotchart.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Happy birthday, Jonathan Richman. 75 today. youtu.be/XjFU98mEem4?...
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Jonathan Richman - I Was Dancing In The Lesbian Bar Live
YouTube video by champipple
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Ben @didnotchart.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Grant McLennan, who died 20 years ago today. Robert Forster: "I really like 'Love Goes On'. There's nine chords in a row, which he doesn't repeat. It's so him."#grantmclennan youtu.be/brL81gZvTFc?...
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The Go-Betweens - Love Goes On
YouTube video by fischmanno
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Ben @didnotchart.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
A reminder of how fantastic The Clean were live (just read the brilliant new book In The Dream Life You Need A Rubber Soul by Richard Langston which captures on page their intensity and energy and feverishness) youtu.be/-9b5HosKJc4?...
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Ben @didnotchart.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
How much are you into the Deathcrash? First of theirs I haven't bought (partly because I'm conscious of not playing a lot of new records I buy that much).
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Ben @didnotchart.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Stuart Murdoch’s let himself go
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Ben @didnotchart.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Nobody writes them like they used to, so they may as well play their old ones. Belle and Sebastian playing Tigermilk on the heritage rock circuit.
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Ben @didnotchart.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Stuart Murdoch and Stevie Jackson on stage with a backdrop of a slide saying “left the town with the circus boy”
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Ben @didnotchart.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
You will.
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Ben @didnotchart.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
@clarewadd.bsky.social on this most auspicious of days, your birthday, can you spot anything wrong in Bandcamp’s recent assessment of Sarah Records?
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Ben @didnotchart.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
In which case, stop what you’re doing and pick up a copy of Zuma. You won’t regret it. Teenage Fanclub may have been inspired by it on occasion
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Ben @didnotchart.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Favourite new songs by new acts this year didnotchart.blogspot.com/2025/12/new-...
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New songs by new bands in 2025
A sort of best of the year. All new acts, or at least new to me. And all the highest quality, obviously. People Mover - Explaining Cane Tr...
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Ben @didnotchart.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Funny you should ask - all the new hits didnotchart.blogspot.com/2025/12/new-...
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New songs by new bands in 2025
A sort of best of the year. All new acts, or at least new to me. And all the highest quality, obviously. People Mover - Explaining Cane Tr...
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Ben @didnotchart.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
I’m playing the long game. Diabetes 3 eventually.
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Ben @didnotchart.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
I won't be there, but have a good one.
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Ben @didnotchart.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
I saved £110 by not buying a PSB ticket. Would have loved to go, but that's just too much. PS Lend me a fiver. Or £110.
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Ben @didnotchart.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
New guitar hero: Peter Morén elevated Robert Forster. Time to go back to those old Peter Bjorn and John records. #robertforster #peterbjornandjohn
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