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Joe the Drifter @gottobedrifting.bsky.social · 1h

The Passage - Shave Your Head youtu.be/_mA--TKH5ZI From our first Peel Session [1980]. With Lizzy Johnson on vocals [See also the Devils & Angels single]. #thepassage #johnpeel #joydivision #dorothyparker #bbcradio

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Joe the Drifter @gottobedrifting.bsky.social · 11h

Norwegian Wouldn't No17 in an occasional series of DJ mixes hearthis.at/2343256/ #rubbersoul Secret Squirrel: Allison Anne

Allison beneath the signage at Freshfield train station for the Red Squirrel Reserve.

Norwegian Wouldn't

No17 in an occasional series of DJ mixes
https://hearthis.at/2343256/

#rubbersoul

Secret Squirrel: Allison Anne

Eleanor Friedberger - In Between Stars
Margo Guryan - Sun
Box Tops - Soul Deep
Lizzy Parks - Seven Day Fool
Dick Hyman - Flute Loop
Funkadelic - You And Your Folks Me And My Folks [Joe Mckechnie Rework]
The Troggs - Lost Girl
Linda Guilala - Mucho Mejor
The 13th Floor Elevators - You’re Gonna Miss Me [Joe Mckechnie Remix]
Judee Sill - The Lamb Ran Away With the Crown

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Lee Rosevere @leerosevere.bsky.social · 13h

happy bandcamp friday! last month I made a super secret sideproject The Superalltogether .. all sounds 100% sampled from records I got from thrift stores. it's free download, so enjoy! thesuperalltogether.bandcamp.com/album/im-gon...

thesuperalltogether.bandcamp.com

I'm gonna be alright, by the superalltogether

9 track album

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Joe the Drifter @gottobedrifting.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Joe Mckechnie - DJing in The Cosmos Club/Liverpool 18/01/1990 hearthis.at/14700144/ Here's a cassette recording of part of a DJ set recorded in The Cosmos Club, Liverppol. Opening with the Sweet Exorcist bleep & booster groover Clonk through to to Madonna, keeping it Real People to the end.

Poster for The Boo Radleys & Attic Head at Liverpool's Cosmos Club February 1990. I'm on the bill as Record Player; MC MacNasty.

Joe Mckechnie - DJing in The Cosmos Club/Liverpool 18/01/1990

https://hearthis.at/14700144/

Here's a cassette recording of part of a DJ set recorded in The Cosmos Club, Liverppol.

Opening with the Sweet Exorcist bleep & booster groover Clonk through to to Madonna, keeping it Real People to the end.

When we opened the club I ordered the sound system with very little knowledge of what was needed, as a consequence the record decks I ordered were 'belt drive', impossible to mix on, you just had to blend tracks as best you could. Lesson learnt.
I used to bill myself as a 'Record Player' rather than a DJ.

From Mckechnie Cassette Mountain.

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Joe the Drifter @gottobedrifting.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Road safety emergency declared. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... "The drivers are king and pedestrians just annoy them" Soo-ooner or later You're gonna listen to Ralph Nader. youtu.be/DW4YtX0Ylp8

bbc.co.uk

Mum urges 'culture change' as road safety emergency declared

Joanne Colleran, whose son was killed outside school, asks people to pay attention to road safety.

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Joe the Drifter @gottobedrifting.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 30/09/2026

“That, to me, was an implicit threat. It feels very Palantir. Very Big Brother”: MP @labourlewis.bsky.social reveals Tom Watson has warned him over criticising Palantir By @carolecadwalla.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/clive-lewi...

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Sacred Parasite @sacredparasite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

!!!PUBLICATION DAY!!! JWGoll's The Terminal Art and @wildtwin.bsky.social's Latchkey are OUT! At www.sacredparasite.com you can, for the first time, see inside and read sample pages from both books. Then order away to your heart's content.

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 28/09/2026

Impossible to say how much I hate G4S and the NHS's private outsourcing to them for patient transport. They are now 3.5hrs late. Booked for 6:30am, I woke up at 5am to cater for this. I must arrive between 10am and 2pm, which are the admission times. I also require dialysis upon arrival.

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Joe the Drifter @gottobedrifting.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If anyone wants to arrest the government for wasting Police time, I know where they are. #liverpool

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Nick Robinson on Today just referred to “so-called social care”. It’s not remotely clear to me why it’s “so-called”.

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Joe the Drifter @gottobedrifting.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Looks like Emile got himself told off when he misspelled mum's nickname Cissy, she got his autograph at one of his gigs. #iwasraisedcountry #sundaymorningcomingdown #emileford

Photo & 'My Kind of Country Music LP that Emile Ford autographed for my mum.

Looks like Emile got himself told off when he misspelled mum's nickname Cissy, she got his autograph at one of his gigs.

#iwasraisedcountry
#sundaymorningcomingdown
#emileford

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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Will international media ever start covering Russia’s ongoing genocide? Ukrainians in Russian occupied Oleshky are eating grass and weeds to survive and the world stays silent 😭

kyivindependent.com

'Nothing left to eat' — Sybiha urges partners to act on Oleshky humanitarian crisis

Oleshky's population has fallen from around 24,000 to approximately 2,000 as of spring 2026, according to the Foreign Ministry.

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Sara Gibbs @sararoseg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

He imposed Shania Law

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Joe the Drifter @gottobedrifting.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Suck It Sideways hearthis.at/14690686/ Smokestack Lightning Why Don t You Love Me The Bird Shake Appeal (Extra Read All About It) Ben Nuclear War I've Endured Girl From The North Country That's The Story Of My Life In Between Stars Ballad of the Hulk Workin Onit It's Your Thing Do-Re-Mi

hearthis.at

Joe Mckechnie - Suck It Sideways [Mix No3 20/06/2019]

by Joe Mckechnie on hearthis.at | Other

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Joe the Drifter @gottobedrifting.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A prisoner would come in through reception, and officers would say: ‘Do you want a cell with lights or do you want a cell with windows? Do you want a cell that’s got mould or do you want a cell that has electricity?’ "As a joke.” She is still audibly enraged. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

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The truth about UK prisons and organised crime: ‘They’re your good lads. Respectful. Keep their noses clean’

In more than two decades in the Prison Service, Pia Sinha gained a reputation as a fixer. Now, as head of the Prison Reform Trust, she’s sounding the alarm about overcrowding and other problems

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Joe the Drifter @gottobedrifting.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Keith Nuttall has updated the excellent site he runs about The Passage. A couple of new things for August 2026. thepassage.co.uk/latest. An interview with Stalin on how to airbrush history, that can't be right? #thepassage

thepassage.co.uk

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Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Been very busy most of today, but before it's over, I want to acknowledge a sad anniversary: a year ago, the mighty #JDTwitch left this world. It was a real honor and privilege to organize this fundraiser for him, and we all miss him terribly -- one of the greats.

thedarkoutside.bandcamp.com

ILX and Friends Celebrate JD Twitch - ONE MORE TUNE, by The Dark Outside, TDO Cassettes & Bibliotapes

41 track album

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Joe the Drifter @gottobedrifting.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The Egyptians used a symbol for Kosmos in the form of theta, with a fiery circle representing the world, and a snake spanning the middle representing Agathos Daimon (literally: You dancing?). youtube.com/watch?v=31LI... #shimmertwin #imdancing #theta

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Shimmer Twin - Theta Bop [Dec 2024]

YouTube video by joe mckechnie

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Joe the Drifter @gottobedrifting.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Carers UK said it was concerned that, so far, just 1.5% of the total projected caseload had been processed, and at current rates the reassessment would take 27 years to complete. It is unclear whether any carers have been repaid. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

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Unpaid carers could die before seeing justice for overpayments scandal, charities warn

Campaigners say at current glacial pace some may be waiting years before receiving a refund from DWP

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Alice Bennett @aliceponderland.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Could the MPs maybe examine the decimation of UK HE; the state of the water companies; and the masked thugs attacking lifeboats volunteers before addressing poor scores in Eurovision?

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Joe the Drifter @gottobedrifting.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Twenty women had breasts removed unnecessarily, NHS trust admits www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Twenty women had breasts removed unnecessarily, NHS trust admits

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9qrn3y72dxo

The consultant overseeing Jo and Denise's care was Mr Amir Bhatti, who was CDDFT's clinical lead for breast services from 2013-24. He has now been suspended from carrying out clinical practice but is still employed by the trust on full pay.

Last year, we reported that nearly £6m had been paid by the trust over six years to breast cancer diagnostic clinics and surgery companies run privately by Bhatti.

Concern about this arrangement was raised in a 2025 review into the running of the trust, carried out by governance specialist Mary Aubrey,

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

For those of you still waiting for this administration's release of the full Epstein files and the prosecution of those involved in child sexual abuse, consider this moment something of a tell:

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Joe the Drifter @gottobedrifting.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Thanks @ccpresents.bsky.social From 1979, John & The Patterns was a short lived. John 'Jetson' Johnson & Robert Ward from The Jetsons, & John Hawkins & Tony Elson from Systems. From the foothills of Mckechnie Cassette Mountain to the Mersey Radio airwaves. #thejetsons #systems #chriscurrie

Poster for an Activity Minimal/The Jetsons gig in Southport 1979, a Mckechnie Letraset effort.

Thanks @ccpresents.bsky.social for playing John & The Patterns on your Monday night/Tuesday afternoon Chris Currie Presents show.

From 1979, John & The Patterns was a short lived.

John 'Jetson' Johnson & Robert Ward from The Jetsons, & John Hawkins & Tony Elson from Systems.

Recording rescued from the foothills of Mckechnie Cassette Mountain.
To the Mersey Radio airwaves!

#thejetsons
#systems
#chriscurrie

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Joe the Drifter @gottobedrifting.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Mckechnie/Cash - Friday 12th September 2003 hearthis.at/josephmckech... This all vinyl Johnny Cash mix was recorded the day The Man In Black died. At the time I gave the mix out on CD, here it is again. #johnnycash #columbo

Image from the episode of Columbo where the killer is played by Johnny Cash.

Cash is sat at the back of the room with a guitar, Columbo is in the foreground speaking on the phone, text reads "That's what he said, just to watch him die."

Mckechnie/Cash - Friday 12th September 2003

https://hearthis.at/josephmckechnie/johnny-cash-friday-12th-september-2003/

This all vinyl Johnny Cash mix was recorded the day The Man In Black died.
At the time I gave the mix out on CD, here it is again.

#johnnycash
#columbo

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Yorkie @daveyorkiepalmer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

My Singles Life - in Conversation with David 'Yorkie' Palmer | BME share.google/6dDfBMD01GWm...

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My Singles Life - in Conversation with David 'Yorkie' Palmer | BME

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Joe the Drifter @gottobedrifting.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Johnny Cash. & I don't mean change for the condom machine. Mckechnie/Cash - Friday 12th September 2003 hearthis.at/josephmckech... #johnnycash #joemckechnie #djmix

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Mckechnie/Cash - Friday 12th September 2003

by Joe Mckechnie on hearthis.at | Other

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Joe the Drifter @gottobedrifting.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The Balcony - Livewire/Radio City Interview by Gillo 'Ballybay' Newsham [David 'Yorkie' Palmer, Steve Powell & Marc Davies]. Marc died a few years back. One of a bunch of Welsh musicians who slept on the floors of our Southwood Road bedsits when we were starting out hearthis.at/josephmckech...

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The Balcony - Livewire/Radio City Interview by Gillo 'Ballybay' Newsham [David 'Yorkie' Palmer, Steve Powell & Marc Davies]

by Joe Mckechnie on hearthis.at | Other

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Joe the Drifter @gottobedrifting.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This mix is from a set of Vapourspace CDs Mark sent me start of the century. When I asked him recently this is the one he was happy to have uploaded. DJ Vapourspace - Morning Set/House of Guitars/Keyboard Expo [6th Nov 1999] hearthis.at/josephmckech... reynoldsretro.blogspot.com/2024/03/mask...

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Joe the Drifter @gottobedrifting.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

“I could get into many clubs, Chris could, but the majority of people from Toxteth couldn’t,” Spaine says. “We weren’t morbid about it; there was a saying back then, ‘that’s the way it is’. You could have signs saying no this, no that. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/s...

theguardian.com

Even better than the Real Thing? The overlooked Black music scene of 1970s Liverpool

Despite the city’s backdrop of deprivation and racism, vibrant nightclubs and daring artists thrived – but after No 1 success for the Real Thing, why was the scene ignored?

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Joe the Drifter @gottobedrifting.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Joe Mckechnie - Towering Dub hearthis.at/14670472/ 90s Vinyl Mix recovered from the foothills of Mckechnie Cassette Mountain, Side One of the tape. There's some ill advised scratching from me early on, but it shouldn't be too annoying.

An injury to one is an injury to all

Joe Mckechnie - Towering Dub

https://hearthis.at/14670472/

90s Vinyl Mix recovered from the foothills of Mckechnie Cassette Mountain, Side One of the tape.
There's some ill advised scratching from me early on, but it shouldn't be too annoying.

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Sacred Parasite @sacredparasite.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Latchkey is overflowing with heart and humor and The Bohemian Frame of Mind. It is a Liebesbrief to a lost and found Liverpool, and you can now pre-order @wildtwin.bsky.social's unmissable new novella here: www.sacredparasite.com/product/jeff... Cover photo: Gerard Fieret Author photo: Alex Hurst

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