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David N Atkinson @dnatkinson.bsky.social · 18h

#NowPlaying The Black Keys – Brothers (Nonesuch, 2010)

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David N Atkinson @dnatkinson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

#NowPlaying Gang Starr – Step in the Arena (Chrysalis, 1991)

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David N Atkinson @dnatkinson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

#NowPlaying St Vincent – Strange Mercy (4AD, 2011)

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David N Atkinson @dnatkinson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

#NowPlaying Solange – A Seat at the Table (Saint/Columbia, 2016)

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David N Atkinson @dnatkinson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#NowPlaying Thelonious Monk – Brilliant Corners (Riverside, 1957)

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David N Atkinson @dnatkinson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

… and: #NowPlaying Various Artists – Ragga Jungle Anthems vol 1 (Greensleeves, 1995)

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David N Atkinson @dnatkinson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

… #NowPlaying J Majik & Kathy Brown – Love Is Not a Game (@defectedrecordsuk.bsky.social, 2001) The drop halfway through the Dillinja mix is PREPOSTEROUS

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David N Atkinson @dnatkinson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

what in the name of jenny agutter

View from a level crossing of railway tracks in which someone has planted a red flag

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David N Atkinson @dnatkinson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Gently bingeing ITV’s 1980s Sherlock Holmes adaptations. Just watched The Norwood Builder, where we first meet Inspector Lestrade as portrayed by Colin Jeavons, perhaps the only performer versatile enough to present Play School and also play Adolf Hitler

Four men looking round a door (L–R): uniformed PC, Sherlock Holmes, Inspector Lestrade, Dr Watson. All except Holmes visibly surprised at what they’re seeing in the room, offscreen

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David N Atkinson @dnatkinson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

But what about the other half of the basil

Pizza sauce recipe in a 2005 Guardian supplement, extracted from Jamie Oliver’s Italy

‘For the tomato sauce:

extra virgin olive oil
1 clove of garlic, peeled and finely sliced
a bunch of fresh basil, leaves picked
1 x 400g tin of good-quality plum tomatoes
sea salt and freshly ground black pepper

Heat a saucepan, add a splash of oil and the sliced garlic and cook gently. When the garlic has turned light golden, add half the basil, the tomatoes and a few pinches of salt and pepper.

Cook gently for about 20 minutes, mashing the tomatoes until smooth, then taste, season again and put to one side.’

[Ends]

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David N Atkinson @dnatkinson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

#NowPlaying V/A – Philly Soul: Music from the City of Brotherly Love (Unisex, 2003)

Compilation CD, featuring Jazzy Jeff, Jill Scott, King Britt, Jaguar Wright, Black Thought, Floetry, Jazzyfatnastees, Res, Lizz Fields, Bilal, Philadelphia Experiment, Ursula Rucker, Musiq, Quite Sane, Vikter Duplaix

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David N Atkinson @dnatkinson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

#NowPlaying Donald Byrd – Early Byrd: The Best of the Jazz Soul Years (Blue Note, 1993)

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David N Atkinson @dnatkinson.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Manic Monday: ‘Six o’clock already, I was just in the middle of a dream’

Still from the Bangles doing Manic Monday on Top of the Pops

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David N Atkinson @dnatkinson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

#NowPlaying Stereolab – Emperor Tomato Ketchup (Duophonic/Elektra, 1996) @stereolabgroop.bsky.social

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David N Atkinson @dnatkinson.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

#NowPlaying Tadd Dameron & His Orchestra – The Magic Touch (Riverside, 1962/Original Jazz Classics, 1992)

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David N Atkinson @dnatkinson.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

#NowPlaying Jackie Mittoo – The Keyboard King at Studio One (Soul Jazz, 2000)

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David N Atkinson @dnatkinson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

That’s the one I bought (I didn’t buy it in 1976 though … )

Seven inch singles of Nirvana – Rainbow Chaser and Pussycat – Do It

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David N Atkinson @dnatkinson.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Risky strategy when there’s another group of people who you then can’t attract

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David N Atkinson @dnatkinson.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

#NowPlaying Pierre Boulez, Ensemble InterContemporain – György Ligeti: Concertos for Piano, Cello, Violin (Deutsche Grammophon, 1994)

CD cover. Not the photo of Ligeti I’d have chosen but hey

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David N Atkinson @dnatkinson.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

#NowPlaying Muslimgauze – From the Edge remixes (Azra, 2004)

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David N Atkinson @dnatkinson.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

#NowPlaying The Marty Paich Quartet featuring Art Pepper (Tampa, 1956/VSOP reissue 1989)

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David N Atkinson @dnatkinson.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

#NowPlaying The Al Cohn–Zoot Sims Quintet – You ’n Me (Mercury, 1960/Verve reissue 2002)

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David N Atkinson @dnatkinson.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

#NowPlaying Lennie Tristano – Crosscurrents (Capitol, 1972 – recorded 1949)

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David N Atkinson @dnatkinson.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Twenty-nine years after buying it I’m still irritated by this – from the record company themselves 😡 A low point of EMI’s stewardship of the @bluenoterecords.bsky.social back catalogue. ‘Nah, it’s all right, it’s not as if anyone cares about the covers’ ‘Reid who?’

Copy of Dexter Gordon’s ‘Go’ – an album whose cover is a masterpiece of clean, modernist graphic design – with a whopping great *unremovable* yellow hype sticker slapped over the artist’s surname, like having Alain Ducasse make you a cappon magro and then squirting Daddies sauce all over it

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David N Atkinson @dnatkinson.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

#NowPlaying Lee Konitz with Warne Marsh – Lee Konitz with Warne Marsh (Atlantic, 1955)

Album cover featuring a lovely b&w photo of Lee and Warne looking relaxed and cool and having a laugh

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David N Atkinson @dnatkinson.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

#NowPlaying Chico Buarque – Construção (Philips, 1971) www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2-g...

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David N Atkinson @dnatkinson.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Be-wem-wem, be-wem-we-wember Be-wem-wem, be-wem-we-wember Be-wem-wem, be-wem-we-wember Then, then, bewember then

Dave Bartram from Showaddywaddy. Bewember them?

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David N Atkinson @dnatkinson.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I was trying to work out where this is; apparently it’s the Crown Hotel on Elswick Road, demolished in the mid-90s

Black & white shot of end-terrace corner pub, 1960s

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David N Atkinson @dnatkinson.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Something quite charming about the idea of having a computerised ticketing system that has to be set up to deal with the age of shillings, tanners and thrupenny bits

Detail of poster below. The concert costs 20 shillings and the tickets are available via the box office or ‘Computicket’

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David N Atkinson @dnatkinson.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

You’d think Oasis would’ve chosen an oasis

Cover of Be Here Now by the band Oasis. The band members, and various random objects, are arranged around an outdoor swimming pool. Partly submerged in the water are a classic red telephone box and a rolls royce

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David N Atkinson @dnatkinson.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

(Being pointed out elsewhere that umbrella already means what ‘sunbrella’ is trying to do) I’ve often thought it interesting that despite our climate British English uses ‘umbrella’ – from Latin umbra (shadow) – when eg French say ‘parapluie’ (against rain) and Germans ‘Regenschirm’ (rain screen)

Guardian headline: ‘Behold the sunbrella, fashion’s stealth accessory for a heatwave’

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David N Atkinson @dnatkinson.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

#NowPlaying Various Artists – Jack Ruby Hi-Fi (Clappers, 1980)

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David N Atkinson @dnatkinson.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

#NowPlaying The Flying Burrito Bros – The Gilded Palace of Sin (A&M, 1969)

LP cover. The band are wearing Nudie suits and standing outside a wooden shack in the Mojave desert. The pink and blue type is very swooshy and very 1969

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David N Atkinson @dnatkinson.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

It might be called ‘Idle Moments’ but nearly 20,000 songs in just over an hour seems pretty industrious to me

The Spotify result for a Google search:

‘Idle Moments - Album by Grant Green
19996 songs, 1 hr 4 min
© 1999 Blue Note Records’

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David N Atkinson @dnatkinson.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I could quite believe that M. Clemenceau had his desk made that shape as a tribute to his own moustache

Georges Clemenceau or possibly the Lorax

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David N Atkinson @dnatkinson.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

You probably didn’t start the day thinking ‘what I need to do today is see a picture of the desk of former French prime minister Georges Clemenceau’, but:

Unfeasibly OTT ornate polished wood wraparound workstation that M. Clemenceau must have not so much ‘sat at’ as ‘been enveloped by’

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David N Atkinson @dnatkinson.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

#NowPlaying this superb CD-R compilation of rhythm’n’blues stormers sent to me over 20 years ago by the late Joe Dutton, DJ of clubs such as Flipside, King Bee and Backbeat

Home-printed CD insert featuring a grid of centre labels from vinyl singles

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David N Atkinson @dnatkinson.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Big favourite of yer man Martin Freeman too, I remember

Martin Freeman on a BBC Four show where guests choose their favourite R&B and soul albums. He’s holding a vinyl copy of the album (and sporting a rather nice yellow and white striped oxford button down shirt)

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David N Atkinson @dnatkinson.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

YT algorithm served up a clip from 00s Charlie Sheen sitcom Two and a Half Men where Sheen’s character ‘Charlie Harper’ googles himself. I think we can safely say the second result is a different Charlie Harper

Shot from a TV show of a computer screen displaying a search results page. The top (fake) result is relevant to the plot of the show; the rest are presumably the genuine results of the search term at the time, the second of which refers to Charlie Harper, the lead singer of English punk band UK Subs

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