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Richard Sambrook @sambrook.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026

“AI poses a threat. It will steal my writing, loot my reportage, rob my intellectual property and embezzle books which took years to write and research. But it will never know what it was like to be there. It will always be faking it.” historyneverended.substack.com/p/in-defence...

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In defence of human journalism

My industry at a time of AI.

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Graham Holliday @grahamholliday.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Email from an artist telling me they'd just added "Late Music Tea Towel" to Bandcamp. Thought, that's a great album title, only to find out she is actually selling a tea towel.

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Rocket 88 Books @rocket88books.com · 30/09/2026

In 1983 the #TheAlanParsonsProject 'Best Of' album liner notes asked anyone interested in a book about them to write to a PO Box and they'd receive news about it. So, #news just in – the book is coming in a few weeks… alanparsonsprojectbook.com

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Graham Holliday @grahamholliday.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The tags say "experimental contemporary Oslo jazz" It's all over the place in a really nice way. Spotted a passing mention in @thewiremagazine.bsky.social and went searching for it. christianwallumrod.bandcamp.com/track/newnison

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Newnison, by Christian Wallumrød Ensemble

from the album Non Sonett

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Graham Holliday @grahamholliday.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Quick stop off at the flea market in Brussels.

Tables filled with ornaments and old junk at Brussels flea market. Sunny day, people milling about, Ladbrokes betting shop in the background and some racks of secondhand clothes.

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Graham Holliday @grahamholliday.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Maan, I was rejected from a lot of jobs in the 1990s. Jobseeker: Reflections on a 1990s job application notebook filled with rejection. medium.com/@noodlepie/j...

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Jobseeker

Reflections on a 1990s job application notebook filled with rejection.

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Graham Holliday @grahamholliday.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Lovely farewell to Tim today. Lovely guy, fab band. Here's one for the road. soundcloud.com/user-9306642...

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Low Six - The Revolving Unseen

20th century hits from Rugby's finest.

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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

In 1965, an American scholar bought her first stolen god from two boys outside a Kathmandu temple. Grains of rice were still stuck to it — offerings from worshippers. She paid less than $2 and wrote in her diary: "I don't think the temple will miss it at all." 🧵 www.himalmag.com/mary-slusser...

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Mary Slusser’s secret loot of Nepal’s sacred art and heritage

A US scholar made her name as an expert on Nepal’s cultural heritage – while illicitly buying sacred artefacts and smuggling them out to the United States

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Graham Holliday @grahamholliday.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Glad to hear voices like this woman still exist in England. Very brave of her.

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Graham Holliday @grahamholliday.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Oh, come on headline writers. Piddington is where Taking Drugs To Make Music To Take Drugs To was recorded It's a gift, milk it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Piddington in Oxfordshire votes to leave UK over asylum plans

Piddington residents vote over proposals to house up to 1,256 male asylum seekers nearby.

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Graham Holliday @grahamholliday.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Plenty of booze on sale at the Brussels flea market today.

A white plastic table at Brussels Flea market filled with bottles of wine. It's raining, cobble stones, people milling about in the background.

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Graham Holliday @grahamholliday.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Another day, and more of my teenage years make for the exit. Was pleased to find a receipt from every indie kid's favourite record seller in Rugby inside my copy of the Bauhaus 1979 - 1983 LP. Simon ran Convergence records and was a lovely bloke. V. BIG influence on many a teen's ears in our town.

An order form from 1985 ish(?) for a double Bauhaus LP called 1979 - 1983. A signed receipt of a deposit payment and the record sleeve itself - all lying on a table.

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Graham Holliday @grahamholliday.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Ongoing efforts to offload my 7" singles gets continually offset by the 7" singles I accumulate at markets across Brussels. And, occasionally, weirdoes like this turn up.

Cover of the 7" single by Aneka called "Japanese Boy".

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Graham Holliday @grahamholliday.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Lazy Ways by Marine Girls. A reminder of when charity shops were charitable.

The Marine Girls Lazy Ways LP with a sticker that says "Oxfam 95p" on it. Bought in Oxfam in Rugby way back when.

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Graham Holliday @grahamholliday.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I missed out the last time @sleafordmods.bsky.social were in Brussels. Didn't think they'd be back again in '26, but I spotted a poster out on the street today. They're playing next month, booked immediately. www.theatrenational.be/en/activitie...

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Sleaford Mods

Impossible to categorise, Sleaford Mods has been blowing apart the conventions of post-punk for more than fifteen years with an explosive mix of spoken word (…)

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Graham Holliday @grahamholliday.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Just sold a fairly rare Bauhaus 7" & flexi. Haven't played them in 30+ years. There is an ever so slightly small twinge of something that's not quite regret, nor nostalgia, more, bloody hell, I'm really old. Glad they're going to someone who will enjoy them anew. It is time to pass the love on.

Back cover of the original issue of Dark Entries by Bauhaus and the God in an Alcove flexi-disc, both lying on a wooden table.

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Graham Holliday @grahamholliday.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Very sad to hear Tim (Jensen) Lloyd has passed. Way, way too young. Lovely guy, good friend, good bandmate. There were many great bands from Rugby, but his band, the Revolving Unseen, were one of the very best. Safe trip, Tim. soundcloud.com/user-9306642...

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Mexico - The Revolving Unseen

Martin A's desert blues, probably four-tracked by Kev Kearney.

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Graham Holliday @grahamholliday.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Finally picked up the Aesthesis LP by Thorn Wych in the UK. Very much a vibes purchase. I"ve listened to snippets of this on bandcamp, but I'm still waiting on a full listen. But, how can you resist that cover and those handmade instruments? I couldn't.

Cover of the Aesthesis LP by Thorn Wych features a woman sitting/kneeling on a couch bowing a homemade wooden instrument.

Inner card of the Aesthesis LP by Thorn Wych features black and white photographs of homemade wooden instruments.

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Graham Holliday @grahamholliday.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Rapid record shopping trip to Edinburgh. First stop, Backbeat. The owner sits on the street outside as he has so much stock he (and me) can't even enter the shop. Fortunately, I took a handwritten list of what I was looking for.

Sign for Backbeat Records shop sitting on an electricity junction box on a street in Edinburgh. Old stone walls, a man running down the pavement.

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Graham Holliday @grahamholliday.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Found an old notebook of every gig I went to from 1983 to 1995. For some mysterious reason it was hiding in among some journalism notebooks from my Reuters days. Got to be some legs inside this.

A blue, striped notebook with Gigs, Gigs, Gigs... written on it. There is a price tag for 40p (showing it's age). The notebook is sitting on a brown cardboard box with some tape wrapped around it on a tiled floor.

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Graham Holliday @grahamholliday.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Downloaded the Feux de Forêt app. Useful for #France #WildFires alerts. Stay safe. play.google.com/store/apps/d...

Screenshot of an app showing a map of France with active wildfires. Text reads "43 feux en cours".

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DCapTO @dcapto.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

“Who knows what other childhood curiosities are quietly growing into world-changing ideas right now in bedrooms, backyards and notebooks across the globe? The next big breakthrough might not come from a high-tech lab. It might come from a 10-year-old who just can’t stop wondering about butterflies”💖

Photo of 10 year old Japanese boy, Jo Nagai, with a black and white swallowtail butterfly on his jacket collar and another one on his index finger as he smiles at camera. Caption reads:

A Japanese boy noticed his butterflies seemed to recognise him. He spent two years designing an experiment and proved that metamorphosis does not erase memories formed during the caterpillar stage.

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Graham Holliday @grahamholliday.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Very heartening to read: "Music fanzines are enjoying a resurgence as a form of resistance to algorithm fatigue and the hyper-capitalist music industry."

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Johnnie Johnstone @johnniejohnstone.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

That Nick Drake interview from Jackie magazine, May 1970.

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Graham Holliday @grahamholliday.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

AI-creep is hard enough to navigate for this old fart at work, pity the students.

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Graham Holliday @grahamholliday.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Also, the next in an ongoing series of #ArtDetective jobs is this 1971 print I posted yesterday. Bought for €10, the real fun is the sleuthery.

Limited edition psychedelic print from 1971 showing a woman playing a Tibetan horn type instrument.

Mark at the bottom of a limited edition psychedelic print from 1971 showing a woman playing a Tibetan horn type instrument, shows the numbers 50/60 and an indecipherable signature.

On the back of a limited edition psychedelic print from 1971 showing a woman playing a Tibetan horn type instrument, is a stamp, reads: "EDITION pour le compte de PHILIPPE LECHIEN tirage a 60 exemplaires le 11 Deut 71"

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Graham Holliday @grahamholliday.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Forget to mention that, hidden among the Richard Clayderman's, marching bands, and Nana Mouskouri's, I dug up this very fine 7" single on Brussels flea market yesterday for a €1.

Cover of 7" Gloria/Baby Please Don't Go single by THEM sitting on a Wether Report LP.

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Graham Holliday @grahamholliday.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Flea market flyby this morning. Some striking art on sale.

A large painting of a woman and some flowers propped up on the cobblestones at Brussels flea market.

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Graham Holliday @grahamholliday.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Picked up an old NME in a record shop in Brussels today. Quite a prescient quote from Alan Vega.

Black text on white background. Excerpt from an interview with Alan Vega in NME, published on 13 March 1982. "
...People always thought of Suicide as
gruelling and hard, but all these groups picked up on the soft, romantic side, which went back as far as 'Cheree'.
"Yeah, it's a smash. In the year 2000 or something. They're hits - 'Cheree', 'Sweetheart'. I'm not trying to come off with a big ego, but those songs, I love them. 'Dream Baby Dream' has so much feeling, it could be a gigantic hit song. Probably will be someday, when we're dead. When they don't have to look at us.
"People are becoming aware of Suicide because of what's happening with Alan Vega, these tours, the record sales in Europe. Now, because it has a past tense, it almost looks like..."

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Sounds Clips @soundsclips.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

The Advert for Suicide's album 'Suicide' in Sounds 1st, July 1978. @syntheticdreamspod.bsky.social

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Graham Holliday @grahamholliday.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Whenever I have a day off work, it's like there's a record shop magnet in my brain.

racks of records in a record shop, labelled by band and written by hand. This is the GH IJIL lettered section, records by Hall and Oates and Jean-Michelle Jarre are visible. I was here for the Japan and Human League section.

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Graham Holliday @grahamholliday.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Often post this on #BourdainDay. Advice I continue to heed, in spite of it all. Here's to one of the good ones. #JustKeepWriting

Email from a friend telling me to "Just keep writing". He was right.

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MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Happy #BourdainDay - a day he would have probably hated. But hope he’s having a good one, whenever he is 🤍

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Graham Holliday @grahamholliday.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Also, June 25 is #BourdainDay - greetings to all who mark it ☕ - same day Blade Runner was first released plus it's George Orwell's birthday today. What a day.

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Graham Holliday @grahamholliday.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Will be very interested to see what this article turns up.

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Graham Holliday @grahamholliday.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

“Tom would buy a lot of records not because he loved the music, but he liked to hear how the guitars were recorded… He was obsessive about sound quality and how things were recorded.” www.discogs.com/digs/feature...

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Shop Records From Tom Verlaine’s Personal Collection | Discogs

Discogs and Academy Records will offer collectors a rare opportunity to own records from the personal collection of Television’s Tom Verlaine.

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