Reposted by Darren BettsAndy P @arcticreviews.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Released on this date in 1988, Waiting Room by Fugazi #musicsky arcticreviews.co.uk/2020/05/15/1...arcticreviews.co.uk100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #63 Fugazi – Waiting RoomReleased : 1988 “The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off”. Minor Threat’s dissolution in 1983 led to it’s former singer Ian Mackaye searching for an outl… 191
Darren Betts @pressure72.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Start with Don’t Stand Me Down and you won’t go wrong 👍🏼 010
Darren Betts @pressure72.bsky.social · 08/04/2026If I had a pound for every time someone had said ‘enjoying the sunshine?’ 💷 020
Reposted by Darren BettsThe Night Train® @thenighttrain.co.uk · 08/04/2026they're slowly catching up to what we're doing... www.mixcloud.com/RadioNightTr... 052
Reposted by Darren BettsNo Score Draws ✍🏻⚽ @noscoredraws.com · 18/03/2026AHEAD OF TONIGHT: For true sickos, we’ve updated our Spurs mugs from this, the most curséd of seasons. Removed the manager entirely due to the lack of suitable candidates, and added in Richarlison being extremely Richarlison 💛 🤔 Shares appreciated! X #COYS 🛒 noscoredraws.com/products/spu... 78219
Reposted by Darren BettsTarotplane @tarotplane.bsky.social · 22/02/2026I would love to get some label interested in giving this album a home Been hard going but this really is a super heavy kosmische record. We are very proud of it 2315
Darren Betts @pressure72.bsky.social · 01/02/2026Watching from behind the sofa through my fingers. 000
Darren Betts @pressure72.bsky.social · 05/01/2026I can think of a couple of guys that might be up for the job 😉 110
Darren Betts @pressure72.bsky.social · 03/01/2026FFS! One of the best shows on the station by a country mile. 010
Darren Betts @pressure72.bsky.social · 24/12/2025Thanks once again to @vinylsanta.bsky.social for organising again this year. Unfortunately the stereo has been compromised somewhat this year but some excellent listening to be done in the New Year #vinylsanta 0171
Darren Betts @pressure72.bsky.social · 24/12/2025Very impressed with my #vinylsanta I know the singles but not heard any of the albums. Well done Santa 🙌🏼👏🏼 0273
Darren Betts @pressure72.bsky.social · 23/12/2025Damn right! ✊🏼 Been proper hard this year, two days to go 🙌🏼 000
Darren Betts @pressure72.bsky.social · 14/12/2025Thankful for having to do a Christmas visit today then 🙏🏼 100
Darren Betts @pressure72.bsky.social · 30/11/2025I’m still wondering what international break Solanke is gonna be back after 🤔 120
Darren Betts @pressure72.bsky.social · 18/11/2025Some records from this year to give #vinylsanta a clue 140
Darren Betts @pressure72.bsky.social · 16/11/2025It’s that time of year when I spam my timeline with pictures of records to at least give my #vinylsanta half a chance 👍🏼 040
Reposted by Darren BettsGail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk · 07/11/2025WIN a set of #Christmas cards Repost and follow me to enter I’ll pick a winner at 9pm tonight (Friday 7 Nov) gailmyerscough.co.uk 26479
Darren Betts @pressure72.bsky.social · 22/10/2025‘ If you’ve got any bills you can keep them’ is a favourite of mine 🤦🏻♂️ 110
Reposted by Darren BettsJoel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 02/06/2025Time to clarify something. When authors say “Unbound haven’t paid me” that makes it sound like Unbound had some money, which they used to buy authors’ writing. Unbound had no money. The authors did: we had raised that money. They were holding it in trust. Unbound stole our money. 181479499
Darren Betts @pressure72.bsky.social · 23/05/2025Nice piece about Spurs cup win, the last two paragraphs are pretty much how I feel. 010
Reposted by Darren BettsThe Wire Magazine @thewiremagazine.bsky.social · 23/05/2025An urgent message from The Wire magazine Running an independent music magazine is becoming increasingly difficult. We need your support www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/e...thewire.co.ukAn urgent message from The Wire magazine - The WireRunning an independent music magazine is becoming increasingly difficult. We need your support 7343244
Reposted by Darren BettsRaven Sings The Blues @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social · 19/05/2025Last Ride is a distillation of the surreal beauty of the Western sprawl. The record exists in some intangible haze; a bakelight bridge to the past that reverberates in the V-hold flicker of home videos from forgotten desert expanses. bit.ly/44Mw2ru 062
Reposted by Darren BettsTom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 30/03/2025Dear Bluesky. I wonder if you can help? I have 100 copies of this book, each of which I'm happy to send to anyone in the UK for £4 postage, plus a donation of your choice (however low). Please drop me an email with your address at hello@tom-cox.com if you'd like one. P.S. I promise it's not shit... 9145117
Darren Betts @pressure72.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Nice early mention of the ‘long suffering Alma ‘ too 👍🏼 100
Darren Betts @pressure72.bsky.social · 02/03/2025Been out to a gig this evening, people in front of us talking about playlists and streaming music the whole time a live band were playing in front of them 🤬 110
Reposted by Darren BettsThe Secret DJ. @thesecretdj.bsky.social · 27/02/2025new long-form explainer over on FB. it's all turning into something of a quagmire! www.facebook.com/secretdjbook...facebook.comThe Secret DJLook, I feel again I need to wind this back and do a more measured explainer for folks who are entangled in the terminologies that are quite deliberately being thrown in our paths and used to divide..... 2153
Darren Betts @pressure72.bsky.social · 24/02/2025Catching up on the last couple of @thenighttrain.co.uk shows. 380 is brilliant and 88 made me dig in to the archives. Have lined up LAGWAFIS and Blue Lines tribute shows and the Second Summer Of Love for this week at work 👍🏼 110
Reposted by Darren BettsIan King @twoht.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Spurs to get relegated this season? The odds are still against it but we can hardly say that it hasn't happened before. So this is about when it did happen before, 48 years ago. unexpecteddelirium.substack.com/p/as-bad-as-...unexpecteddelirium.substack.comAs Bad As Things Got: Tottenham Hotspur, 7th May 197716 years after becoming the first English club in the 20th century to win the prestigious League and FA Cup double, Spurs were relegated. 1125
Reposted by Darren BettsDean @deanrmarsh.bsky.social · 27/01/2025As promised (a day or so late) here's a link to grab my 20 Lyric posters that I did during Covid Lockdown. Once the link expires, that's it, they're gone. So grab them quick! Give credit where credit is due if you repost them, print them etc we.tl/t-xe9sqaMrHf Cheers ✊ 10318
