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Rob Morgan @durutti74.bsky.social · 43m

Yes yes yes!!!! Always wanted to buy these compilations and my Sainsbury's never stocked them!

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Rob Morgan @durutti74.bsky.social · 3h

Fabulous! I only saw the compilation once and kicked myself for not buying it.

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Rob Morgan @durutti74.bsky.social · 3h

I found a partly recorded version of that from a few years ago during my excavations last month.

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Rob Morgan @durutti74.bsky.social · 4h

I cried, honestly I cried with joy.

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David Bryant @23daves.bsky.social · 13h

Blog update: Nick Cave reached number one in the indie charts with "The Mercy Seat" in July 1988, a track which combined sinister poetry with a direct, frantic rush of panic and basic repetition. It remains one of his finest singles. indienumber1s.blogspot.com/2026/10/119-...

Black and white sleeve of seven inch single for "Mercy Seat", with Nick Cave cowering in a shadowy shot while the title and band name are in large red font at the top.

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Rob Morgan @durutti74.bsky.social · 8h

So yesterday I dug out the Sheraton, tuned it up, plugged it into my mini Marshall amp and then this happened. (I notice the selfie camera on my phone still makes everything look cloudy. How odd!)

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Rob Morgan @durutti74.bsky.social · 8h

And I wear the new splint on my left hand every night, even if I sometimes smack myself in the face in my sleep. And those who know - doctors, family, friends - check to see how the left hand is progressing. It's definitely getting better, there's movement, the wrist is stronger.

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Rob Morgan @durutti74.bsky.social · 8h

My hatred for the hand splint became legendary - I was known to throw it off in temper and pain in hospital. Much like the "moon boots" for my feet which felt like someone chainsawing my ankles. Anyway Orthotics gave me a new splint during last autumn's tour of hospitals which is much better.

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Rob Morgan @durutti74.bsky.social · 8h

And I can remember thinking that would never change. There was a time in ICU I thought I'd never sing again either but that's drugs and tracheostomies for you. But playing guitar was always on my mind. I hated having my left hand in a splint to straighten it out, it was (and still is) very painful.

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Rob Morgan @durutti74.bsky.social · 8h

When I was in hospital last year, Lauren - one of my Occupational Therapists - brought me out a keyboard to get my right hand functioning. What did I play first? "All that matters" naturally. My left hand, as followers and friends know, was locked and immovable for a long time...

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Rob Morgan @durutti74.bsky.social · 8h

So "All that matters" means a lot to me. Of course I've been married for nearly 27 years to the girlfriend I wrote it for. How sweet. She still says the Cloudies played it too fast and it was a ballad on the tape I gave her. ANYWAY ...

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Rob Morgan @durutti74.bsky.social · 8h

I even rerecorded "All that matters" a few years ago for my acoustic EP. I didn't really know what I was doing so it's not very good. Though listening now it doesn't sound as bad as I remember. honeybourne.bandcamp.com/track/all-th...

honeybourne.bandcamp.com

All that matters, by Honeybourne

from the album Sitting Room Songs

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Rob Morgan @durutti74.bsky.social · 8h

Time passes, life happens, weddings, children, you get the picture. The Cloudies go on hiatus. But "All that matters" becomes the melody I play first whenever I pick up an instrument. Guitar, keyboard, melodica, oversize piano at Techniquest - that opening melody has been played many times.

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Rob Morgan @durutti74.bsky.social · 8h

You can hear how we played it on the 1998 demo that is on Bandcamp here. Cracking band, those Cloud Minders. Hope they record again soon. thecloudminders.bandcamp.com/track/all-th...

thecloudminders.bandcamp.com

All That Matters (1998 Attic Demo), by The Cloud Minders

from the album Eclipse (1998 Attic Demos)

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Rob Morgan @durutti74.bsky.social · 8h

Of course "All that matters" wasn't going to stay on a tape for my girlfriend. It became part of @thecloudminders.bsky.social live set, one of the "Rob Sings!" segments. The band didn't rearrange it much - we sped it up, @paulkindred.bsky.social added harmonies, I did a longer guitar solo at the end

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Rob Morgan @durutti74.bsky.social · 8h

I wrote "All that matters" in January 1996 about my then girlfriend. So it's a love song. It's also got an opening guitar melody which is - to quote Syd - kinda catchy. I recorded it and gave the tape of it to my girlfriend as a Valentine's present that February. How sweet!

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Rob Morgan @durutti74.bsky.social · 8h

"All that matters" A thread Please ignore if you wish

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Rob Morgan @durutti74.bsky.social · 9h

That Ladybird book! I remember standing in my garden in Leeds comparing the constellations in the sky to the pictures in the book. And the Great Bear and Little Bear looked SO CUTE!

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Rob Morgan @durutti74.bsky.social · 14h

I'm shocked. And stunned.

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Rob Morgan @durutti74.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It's All That Matters today 8-)

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Rob Morgan @durutti74.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I loved Stylus. This is tremendous. Thanks for sharing.

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DJ Punctum @djpunctum.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This is nice, however - the Stylus Magazine archive has been rescued and reassembled: stylusmagazinearchive.com

stylusmagazinearchive.com

The Stylus Magazine Archive - Stylus Magazine

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Rob Morgan @durutti74.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

In other news, I've done my first ironing in 631 days.

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Rob Morgan @durutti74.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I wrote the software which produced inquiry forms for the ONS in the mid 90s. There was an output buffer called "BUFFOUT", and an input buffer called "BUFFIN". Buffin was of course the nickname of Dale Griffin, drummer in Mott The Hoople, also the name of one of our Burmese cats.

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Rob Morgan @durutti74.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The Newport tip has three pylons in it, I absolutely hate going there. I can hear them humming.

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Rob Morgan @durutti74.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I'm terrified of pylons, you know.

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Rob Morgan @durutti74.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Yeah I've done the same. I can concentrate on Celebrity Traitors now. 8-)

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Rob Morgan @durutti74.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Yes it was off camera but he was getting more and more worked up at Audrey's house, then walks off screen and bang he's on the floor dead. It was more about dying at Audrey's house and Bev waiting at the altar, and what happened afterwards. I watched it back then and last year's repeats too.

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Rob Morgan @durutti74.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This was on Classic Corrie last summer I said this was on Classic Corrie last summer

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Rob Morgan @durutti74.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Go on, have a free album. kyrh-5gp6 zkvs-bb7y zzgp-wxmf ztkb-c5ya 3kym-cr27 5yk9-xsxv btyk-ede8 ankk-ucr2 85zt-jhch 2rtt-k5s5 74f3-ekk9 vcdl-78zz 9j4q-vfk6 zfs7-gazk za4x-3789 honeybourne.bandcamp.com/yum

honeybourne.bandcamp.com

Honeybourne

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Rob Morgan @durutti74.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Oh god yes I'd forgotten about that!

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Rob Morgan @durutti74.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Kemi's next job could be in cyber. Or maybe not.

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Rob Morgan @durutti74.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I think someone in the Conservative Party needs to learn how to use Excel first.

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Rob Morgan @durutti74.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Oh, sorry "visual podcast". So...that's a TV show then? Gosh, if only the BBC had any experience of making TV shows... "Life on Earth - would this make a good visual podcast? Pride And Prejudice - would this make a good visual podcast? The Thick Of It - would this make ... Oh."

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Rob Morgan @durutti74.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Innocent and pure at heart me. I believe what I'm told.

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Rob Morgan @durutti74.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The BBC's position is now "Would this work better as a podcast?" I thought podcasts were supposed to be like radio shows. So the BBC is saying "Would this radio show work better as a radio show?"

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Rob Morgan @durutti74.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

First listen to the new Teenage Fanclub album and OF COURSE there's another heart stopping Raymond song on there. Loving the touches of synth and Mellotron too. Gerry who? 8-)

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Rob Morgan @durutti74.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It's almost as if the producers are whispering in the traitors' ears "Recruit someone shit at this". There's faithfuls under the radar - Kenny for a start, and Michael - who would be far less suspicious traitors.

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Rob Morgan @durutti74.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Thanks Josh for playing the new Honeybourne single!

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Paul Kindred @paulkindred.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It's time RIGHT NOW for #ItsAJangleOutThere with @JoshMeadows.bsky.social! It fact it's been on for almost an hour already, I forgot the clocks were changing down under!! Tune to #949MAINfm on 94.9fm in #Castlemaine or via t.co/HVPCLZp1Z4 or the #AudialsSoftware or #VRadio apps. 🎸😎

t.co

http://mainfm.net/listen-live/

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Rob Morgan @durutti74.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Something something sheep shagging something something

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Rob Morgan @durutti74.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Well you know where you can shove those beads...

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