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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

it's a mini-CD single of his entrance theme; "Tanzaku" singles are in that long packaging with a cardboard sleeve, and a Google Lens search brings up this image.

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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I love his music, but I mean *honestly*.

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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Had a horrible couple of days at work, but at least I got to swoon over a cowboy again tonight.

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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

and there's more, September was a fun month for new tunes. Sigh - Goh-ka Rhiannon Giddens - Hope Is The Thing With Feathers Space Afrika - Quiet Storm Ibibio Sound Machine - Chopping Mountain secondary shout-outs for "Eternal (Live)" by Joy Division, and the Maximum MN fundraiser compilation.

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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

some fantastic new releases in September - here are some that I especially loved. Sleep - Hempispheres Orville Peck - Mule Haruomi Hosono - Yours Sincerely Green Lung - Necropolitan

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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I should take more photos, but you can do worse than these two.

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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I shook hands with an otter yesterday.

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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Fine. Sure. Yeah. Why wouldn't they?

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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Incredible. This band can go from this, to being one of the heaviest, most punishing acts I've ever seen live, without ever feeling like they have lost focus. There is nobody like them. There couldn't possibly *ever* be anyone else like them again.

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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

You know the world's in a fucked up state when Laibach are making more or less unambiguous & unironic political statements, but at least they had the decency to do it while releasing an album of Eurovision-friendly pop bangers, & putting on an incredible show. What an absurd, brilliant, vital band

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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Slightly morbidly, the first part of the line is "I could've popped me clogs", but the follow-up "but I diiiiiiidn't" is 100% Lenny Biscuits.

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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Had a lovely time having a big autists' outing.

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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's important to have dreams, I guess.

A screenshot of a checkbox next to the phrase "I would like a wizard to analyse my table after importing the data"

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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I love Public Service Broadcasting almost as much as I hate Ally Pally.

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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

There is no purer art form than NWOBHM songs where the song title is the same as the artist name. Bonus points to Angel Witch for hitting the trifecta with the album title too. Witchfinder General by Witchfinder General rules, though. It sounds like they tried to rip off every Sabbath song at once.

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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Went to the RA Richard Dadd exhibition - The Fairy Feller's Masterstroke is such a staggering, overwhelming piece of work; so much so that I was shocked to discover how small it was, given the amount of intense detail. I neglected to buy a print, because if I saw it every day I would Go Wrong.

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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is the headline the BBC chose to best illustrate acts of attempted murder, terrorism, and attacks on an emergency service by an organised mob of fascist thugs. The media is completely captured, and yet cunts will still have the audacity to claim the BBC has a "left-wing bias".

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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

An occasional thread of rubbish Halloween marketing.

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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Very sad that Annette, one of the orangutans of Jersey Zoo has passed away. Jersey Zoo might be my favourite place on Earth, and I used to love watching the orangs. I'm sure it was Annette who, when I worked there, one of the keepers told me about - when she arrived, there were concerns that...

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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This fox sounds like the reconstructed voice of that mummy.

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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

call me a woke lefty liberal if you must, but I'm not sure my definition of "philanthropy" includes funding the continued existence of £5000 a term posh private schools.

Two of Guernsey's private schools have received an undisclosed, multi-million-pound 'gift' from a mystery benefactor.

For more than a century, Guernsey's government has financially supported Elizabeth College and The Ladies' College.

That is currently given as an annual grant - worth around £2.2 million.

Now, a philanthropist has offered what is described as a "once-in-a-generation" gift, which the colleges say will allow them to give up their States' grant.

It has not been revealed how much the gift is worth or who the philanthropist is.

However, any 'gift' is thought to be more than £40 million - enough to replace the government funding arrangement.

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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I won a Def Leppard record by doing Napalm Death vocals to TLC. Standard Thursday.

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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Heading out for some heavy metal debauchery, courtesy of Loose Willis' Hell-Bent Cabaret at the New Cross Inn tonight. www.outsavvy.com/event/37622/...

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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I am, despite all available evidence to the contrary, a serious music connoisseur.

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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

devastatingly, my second-hand copy didn't come with it. I found this online, though:

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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I can't believe anyone would be daft enough to have actually bought any of the tat Roddy Piper was pushing on the UK market in 1992.

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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Little man absolutely going to town on that conker.

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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A sign on a barbershop window that raises more questions than it answers. Well, one main question, really.

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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

getting a photograph taken with the daughter/niece of the artists your tattoo is a tribute to, taken by *her* son, at an evening celebrating the album in question, is a very peculiar experience. I have so much love for Marry and the entire Waterson-Carthy clan.

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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

August 2026 was a quieter month for new releases that caught my fancy, but here are my favourites nevertheless: John Carpenter - Cathedral Saul Williams - Leap Life Billy Strings - So Much For Goodbyes Jazz Sabbath - The 1968 Tapes (Mono Version)

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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Also Paul Weller was there, from The Style Council.

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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I like Bright Phoebus quite a lot, in case you hadn't guessed. (Saw Stewart Lee there. He looked fat and depressed and old.)

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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Reading 📖: Selected Poems by Linton Kwesi Johnson Drinking 🍺: Saint Monday Session IPA @ The Red Hand, Dalston

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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

it's this bloke, who used to be a fairly regular source of "...and finally" stories with some pretty dubious claims. And I've just noticed that this story involves his business partner with the even better name Duncan Kettles.

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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

and finally, because it's not just wrestlers that make a wrestling match: Al Saxon was a referee for Joint Promotions at the height of their pomp, and was the man in the middle for the final match ever broadcast on World of Sport in 1988. He officiated his final match last year, at the age of 92.

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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Ann Lake (pictured on the left with her sister Ruth, and on the right when photographed for the Portland Press Herald at 82) is believed to be the oldest living female wrestler at 92 or 93 years old. She believes that her and Ruth, who competed in the 1950s, may be the first female tag team.

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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Outside of active years, the longest surviving wrestler was probably Harry Elliott - a wrestler in the 1930s, and a referee and Washington-based promoter in the 1950s and '60s, he passed away in 2006, aged 101. The oldest living wrestler is likely Sammy Berg, aged 96.

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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Today's Brighton record shopping haul. Look at that fine figure of a man on there.

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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

You never see this bloke on the telly any more, do you? Historic allegations, I reckon.

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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

my favourite Robin exclamation from the '60s Batman series

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