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Charlie @fearless-fred.bsky.social · 10h

Forgot to post these over the weekend. Had a fabulous time on Friday seeing Dateline at The Waiting Room .. 🎶🎸😎 Gig №25 for the year.

Dateline at The Waiting Room, Stoke Newington

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Charlie @fearless-fred.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Oh trust me, I remember not only the 5" but also the 8" floppies. The "computer" we had in my first year in secondary school was programmed by punch card!

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Charlie @fearless-fred.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

My first computer at home was basically this setup:

Sinclair ZX81 connected to a TV and a tape deck

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Charlie @fearless-fred.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I'm not joking when I say my first computer setup was almost exactly like thios (we used the big TV in the living room)

An image of a Sinclair ZX81 connected to a TV and a tape machine

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Charlie @fearless-fred.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I remember when the entire Windows OS came on six 1.44Mb floppy disks!

An image of 6 floppy disks containing Windows 3.1

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Charlie @fearless-fred.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Yay! Gig #36 for the year sorted. And it's the fabulous Annie Hamilton too! 🎸🎶🦇😍

Screengrab showing order acknowledgement for a ticket to see Annie Hamilton in London.

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Charlie @fearless-fred.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

And finally the vinyl singles.

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Charlie @fearless-fred.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

To break it down a bit, here's the LPs & EPs...

Collage of the LPs and EPs in my collection

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Charlie @fearless-fred.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Finally catalogued all my LPs, EPs. CDs. and singles (7", 12" & CD). Fair to say there's quite a lot there...

Collage of cover art from all my music collection.

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Charlie @fearless-fred.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Okay, that's Gig Number 4 for NEXT YEAR sorted! 😎🎸🎶

Order acknowledgement for Anna Erhard at Thekla in March '27

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Charlie @fearless-fred.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Thinking of making this my new Teams call backdrop to see how many people can guess!

A collage of 1370 album and singles covers

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Charlie @fearless-fred.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Now this is the full music collection, including CDs, Singles, etc. I guess I like listening to music a lot...

A collage showing the cover art for all 1360 items in my music collection.

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Charlie @fearless-fred.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

At least you've got a percentage. All over for is that they're underway:

A laptop screen showing Windows updates underway

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Charlie @fearless-fred.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

What do you mean "you might have a vinyl collecting addiction"? 🤔🤣

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Charlie @fearless-fred.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

As a laugh, I'm a Brit, only ever visited the US for work. I did the test & it reckons I'm from Rhode Island!

A dialect map of the US based of an English person answering the questions...

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Charlie @fearless-fred.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

@mrjamesob.bsky.social From the man who can't be arsed to turn up to Parliament, do MP surgeries, visit Clacton more than once a year:

A headline from the Telegraph of Farage claiming he'll force MPs to work 7 day weeks

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Charlie @fearless-fred.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

It's a lovely city. Went there almost 20 years ago...

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Charlie @fearless-fred.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Woohoo! Gig №34 for the year sorted out. Off to see the fabulous Genevieve Miles in Oxford 😎🎸🎶

Order acknowledgement for a ticket to see Genevieve Miles in Oxford

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Charlie @fearless-fred.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

@lbc.co.uk @mrjamesob.bsky.social For your info Piddington has one of HM's Prisons *closer* to the village than the proposed Asylum seeker centre. The two circles here are the village (right) Asylum centre (left) and the prison is the square in the middle

Image showing where the proposed asylum centre is relative to the local village and HMP Bullingdon

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Charlie @fearless-fred.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Just put the thermometer outside the lab doors in the shade. 30°C. It's getting silly now...

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Charlie @fearless-fred.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Since we're past the halfway point of the year, I thought I'd recap the year in gigs so far. Started off with Westside Cowboy 1/18

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Charlie @fearless-fred.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Gig №29 for the year sorted? 😎🎸🎶

Order confirmation screen for a ticket to see Ratboys at Strange Brew in Bristol

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Charlie @fearless-fred.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

And that's gig #28 for the year sorted! Seeing Ellur (again!) at Bush Hall in November 😎🎸🎶

Order acknowledgement for a ticket to see Ellur at Bush Hall in November

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Charlie @fearless-fred.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Gig #27 for the year sorted! Off to see Dea Matrona at Thekla in November 😎🎸🎶

Order Acknowledgement for a ticket to see Dea Matrona at Thekla in Bristol in November

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Charlie @fearless-fred.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Great afternoon yesterday seeing Dea Matrona do an in-store at Rough Trade Denmark St. Shame that Orláith had lost her voice. Hoping to get a ticket to their full tour later this year!

Dea Matrona playing in-store at Rough Trade Denmark St

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Charlie @fearless-fred.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Current temp in the lab, no Aircon, and it's only 11am... 🥵

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Charlie @fearless-fred.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Gig №26 for the year lined up! 😎🎸🎶

Screenshot showing a ticket purchase for Pip Blom in London

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