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Fran Elphick @franz-elphick.bsky.social · 15h

Not a fan of the jazzy tracks, but Live It Up and Angels on the Balcony more than make up for it 🍻

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Fran Elphick @franz-elphick.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Under The Moon Of Love is a banger. Embrace it!

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Fran Elphick @franz-elphick.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

"First single you bought with your own money. No lying!" May 1990, Barkingside Woolworths, and it was between this and englandneworder World In Motion and only enough money for one… and Betty Boo won! (The video was definitely my first ‘awakening’ 😂 !) youtu.be/tfdaETpbGjc?...

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Betty Boo - Doin' The Do 1990 (Official Music Video) Remastered

YouTube video by 80's 90's Music Video's Remastered @Videos80s

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Fran Elphick @franz-elphick.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Cheers 🍻 (an old school friend who now lives in Brussels bought it for me - only €1!)

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Fran Elphick @franz-elphick.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

No work for 2 weeks, a coconut stout and Autoamerican by Blondie (not their best album, but THE greatest album cover ever!)…Happy Friday boozing all 🍻 #bskybeer

A stout with its can, and Blondie’s Autoamerican album in the background

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Mike Critchley @mike-critchley.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

When I wrote Happy Hours: A Great British Pub Diary I didn’t want to give the impression it was a guide book, so I left out the index of the 175 pubs featured. It was perhaps a mistake. So here are the pubs featured:

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Fran Elphick @franz-elphick.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Uh-Oh, an absolute banger comes to town.

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Fran Elphick @franz-elphick.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

My favourite seat! Great view of the stained glass dome from there. (And looks like a Samoyed!)

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Fran Elphick @franz-elphick.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Train drink! A very gentlemanly 3.4% Bass accompanied with some Talking Heads. Cheers all 🍻 #bskybeer

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Fran Elphick @franz-elphick.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

If you haven’t already done so, the Wham! in China documentary on iplayer is a must see. Incredible stuff. Absolutely fascinating.

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Fran Elphick @franz-elphick.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Great choice. Can’t hear Alive and Kicking without thinking about the launch of the Premier League in ‘92.

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Fran Elphick @franz-elphick.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Happy Sunday boozing! Enjoying a very hazy New Zealand IPA in a recently ‘acquired’ glass, accompanied by the new Now 1971 Yearbook. Cheers all 🍻 #bskybeer

A very hazy IPA beer in a dimpled pint glass alongside its can

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Fran Elphick @franz-elphick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Cheers Diddley 🍻 Hope you’re finding the heroin a good enough replacement for the beer 😂

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Fran Elphick @franz-elphick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Sarlat - deepest France! Such a great country. Cheers Kevin 🍻

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Fran Elphick @franz-elphick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Found this IPA beauty in a small Parisian supermarket. 5.6% and incredible. Enjoying it with some Leisure Process (they should have been huge) before Palace ruin my mood later. Cheers all 🍻 #bskybeer

A 750ml bottle of French IPA next to a dimpled pint glass

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Fran Elphick @franz-elphick.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

You’d be hard pushed to find a better boozing city. Enjoy! Funnily enough, doing a uni reunion tomorrow too (except we’ve chosen London and it’s 26 years for us!). Hope you raise a pint or two to absent friends 🍻

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Fran Elphick @franz-elphick.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Phwoar - look at that glass! 😍

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Checkmate, Nige.

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Fran Elphick @franz-elphick.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

😂 Didn’t know that! There’s a good player in Johnson somewhere - just didn’t work out at Palace for whatever reason. AWB would be a good signing too.

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Fran Elphick @franz-elphick.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Indulging in a bit of solo boozing… London in the sunshine is unbeatable #bskybeer

A pint of St Peter’s Old Style Porter on a table in the sunshine at the Holy Tavern in Farringdon.

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Fran Elphick @franz-elphick.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

We Don’t Talk Anymore is an absolute pop juggernaut.

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Gavin Miller @worriedaboutsatan.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

If you have a physical music collection, just go fishing through it once in a while. Have a big ol' rummage, get all your CDs, tapes, vinyl, whatever, out on the floor and just look through em. Bang a few on, read some liner notes, it's just magic, honestly.

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Fran Elphick @franz-elphick.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I know, I know…but sometimes the IPAs turn my head!

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Fran Elphick @franz-elphick.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Finally! Cooler weather means stout weather again. Cheers all #bskybeer

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Fran Elphick @franz-elphick.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Must have liked a post slagging off that frogface or something, as all I’m seeing now is his hideous face on here. I just want photos of booze and links to banging pop songs goddammit! 🍻 🎶

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Fran Elphick @franz-elphick.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Could quite happily see out my days only with stout, porter and IPA.

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Fran Elphick @franz-elphick.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Everyone should have a favourite glass!

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Fran Elphick @franz-elphick.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Agreed…but it’s getting people interested in and talking about the Top 40 again and that feels like a good thing.

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Fran Elphick @franz-elphick.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

This ain’t no party (except it is!)

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Fran Elphick @franz-elphick.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Solo pinting (especially in a new city) is one my favourite hobbies. Unbeatable.

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Fran Elphick @franz-elphick.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

En route to Hyde Park to see Duran and had been looking forward to trying the newish Thornbridge pub near Chancery Lane…only to find it closed! Quick pint of APA in The George on Fleet Street instead #bskybeer

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Fran Elphick @franz-elphick.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

He’s in his element! NME and the like would be calling it a classic if Depeche Mode or a-ha had released it.

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Fran Elphick @franz-elphick.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Could watch this all day! Marvellous.

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