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Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary) @bowiesongs.bsky.social · 14h

Carson, on seeing Rosalia: "What is singing anyway? Why does it cut through us? Possibly a mistake for an audience to greet it simply with more noise, but there is a metaphysical pressure to do so. I felt it too, although I did not scream. Not a good screamer." www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Anne Carson · On Rosalía

We require heroism of our entertainers. We want them sacrificing themselves to a certain ultimate degree of input. No...

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Matthew McConkey @mmcconkey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Amazing! I bought the album Revolutions when it came out, but drifted away after that. Zoolook kind of felt in keeping with all the sampling in the charts when I discovered it, and felt fresh. The main thing I remember about Revolutions is Hank Marvin had a guest spot!

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Matthew McConkey @mmcconkey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

When I was about 13, I had a weird phase of buying JMJ albums, but I think Zoolook was the only one I played to death. Listened to it again recently, and can still see why I loved it so much.

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Matthew McConkey @mmcconkey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Add me to the list of people from whom Zoolook was a massive early inspiration

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Matthew McConkey @mmcconkey.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Bookmarking this for myself as I wanted to hear the song, but had forgotten the artist, the track name, any lyrics etc

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Frame Of Reference

Drug Store Romeos · Frame Of Reference · Song · 2020

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Matthew McConkey @mmcconkey.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Gone on Instagram to have a look; fairly certain it's the only post on the account where they've turned off commenting

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Matthew McConkey @mmcconkey.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Different Religion"? More like "Latest Fad Religion"!

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Matthew McConkey @mmcconkey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

So glad, as I've found it fascinating! And always great to have more of your books in the world.

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Matthew McConkey @mmcconkey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

There's an ongoing blog by @bowiesongs.bsky.social called Sixty Four Quartets, focusing on 64 different four piece acts. It's currently part way through an Encyclopaedia on Wire! And to be fair, this is the most I've learned about them outside the records: 64quartets.wordpress.com

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64 Quartets

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Matthew McConkey @mmcconkey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula.

Elsa from Valerie And Her Week Of Wonders

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Matthew McConkey @mmcconkey.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I love The Raincoats. I remember buying the reissue of the first album with Kurt Cobain's sleeve notes and listening to it all day. When my dad got home from work he asked what I thought about the news, and that's how I found out Kurt had died.

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Matthew McConkey @mmcconkey.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I will bang on about how amazing Boty was at any opportunity. I went to a retrospective of her work at Wolverhampton Art Gallery knowing nothing about her, and came out a devotee.

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Matthew McConkey @mmcconkey.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Played the first couple of albums to death on release and don't bother with them much now, but keep coming back to this.

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Matthew McConkey @mmcconkey.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I've just seen I'm part of a starter pack for Lichfield Blue sky users, so hello to anyone who did the Lichfield 10k last weekend! Anyone doing the Chasewater one next month?

A photograph of myself in Beacon Park, in running gear, having just run the 2026 Lichfield 10k. I'm showing the medal I won for finishing the race.

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

You’re Getting In My Hair, created c.1968 by Mavis Oultram, in the art therapy studio at Netherne Hospital, Surrey, where she was compelled to live. This is one of a small number of surviving works, which all feature the motif of eyes. No biographical information is currently known to us

Painting of snaking flowering brown tendrils of human hairs with blue human eyes stashed on the unfinished head of a figure with only the eyes and brows partially painted in, the rest of the face sketched out in pale pencil but almost invisible

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Matthew McConkey @mmcconkey.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

"If there's been a way to build it, there'll be a way to destroy it; things are not all that out of control"

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Matthew McConkey @mmcconkey.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

As picked by @modelactriz.com along with the Grace Jones track that proceeded it!

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Matthew McConkey @mmcconkey.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I'd had Flower King Of Flies by The Nice stuck in my head recently, and was trying to think of other stuff in a similar vein; think this will do the job nicely!

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Matthew McConkey @mmcconkey.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I should have said "don't know about the actresses, but think there's a connection with the actors" but jumped the gun way too quick when the penny dropped!

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Matthew McConkey @mmcconkey.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I think it might have something to do with the actors? 😉

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Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The first BBC repeat since NINETEEN SEVENTY-FIVE. Which is just mad.

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Matthew McConkey @mmcconkey.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Just got round to listening to it, and it's a gem

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Matthew McConkey @mmcconkey.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Saw the first track on here is by John Carroll Kirby, so saved immediately; his production work on Eddie Chacon's "Pleasure Joy And Happiness" made it one of my favourite albums of recent years.

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Matthew McConkey @mmcconkey.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Just heard Jungle played on Radio 2. Weirdly obsessed with records that get played on Radio 1, Radio 2 and 6 Music as its so rare for a record to be played by all three.

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Matthew McConkey @mmcconkey.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

That feels a very Barney Bubbles idea!

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Matthew McConkey @mmcconkey.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

In a very CMAT move, when she first saw it, she picked its nose

CMAT picking the nose of the CMAT mural in Dunboyne

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Matthew McConkey @mmcconkey.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I have a list of double bills I'd screen at my imaginary cinema, and I've just added Under The Silver Lake paired with Southland Tales to the list!

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Matthew McConkey @mmcconkey.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Thank you; I hope that link provides you with hours of enjoyment and joyous new discoveries!

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Matthew McConkey @mmcconkey.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Long story, but I'm doing a movie watching project, working my way back to 1926. This could well prove a bit of a godsend!

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Matthew McConkey @mmcconkey.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I love The New Eves, and this solo track from one of its members is great. But if someone had said this was an outtake from Horses, I wouldn't have questioned it. Not necessarily a bad thing!

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Headfirst

Nina Winder-Lind · Headfirst · Song · 2026

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Matthew McConkey @mmcconkey.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Me spotting a Green Ray still on my timeline

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Matthew McConkey @mmcconkey.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

If there is a Network comeback, I will buy stuff as soon as it comes out! Way too many things I thought I'd get round to buying first time around but never did.

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Matthew McConkey @mmcconkey.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

But who was the diarrhoea prime minister?

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Matthew McConkey @mmcconkey.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Seeing a lot about Beck, who I was obsessed with for about five years after Loser came out. I think his stuff is a bit too tasteful these days, and miss the times he could just go off on a tangent like this: youtu.be/c93Yetmsn8k?...

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Beck - Whimsical Actress

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Matthew McConkey @mmcconkey.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Did a similar thing about a year ago, a great way to spend an afternoon!

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Matthew McConkey @mmcconkey.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I'd hazard a guess at the artist, but not sure on the track - Lift Every Voice and Sing?

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Matthew McConkey @mmcconkey.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

I think Pearl by Chapterhouse and Ride's Vapour Trail are quite baggy too

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Matthew McConkey @mmcconkey.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

I thought it was this for a moment!

The cover of the Of Montreal album "Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?*

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Matthew McConkey @mmcconkey.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I used to commute daily, and be up to speed on all the podcasts. Recently, I got a treadmill, and thought I could use the excercise time to try and get through my six year backlog. This episode suggests there's some merit to that!

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