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Roger Quail

@rogerquail.bsky.social
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Music person. Sheffield / London / Ireland Blogger at mylifeinthemoshofghosts.com Podcaster at feeds.buzzsprout.com/289673.rss Memorial Device ALT since 2022.

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Roger Quail @rogerquail.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Good times with the mighty Cabaret Voltaire in Dublin last night. Delighted to see Chris Watson back in the line-up for this next run of shows. Go and see them if you can.
Cabaret Voltaire live onstage in Dublin at The Academy, 7th October, 2026. (L-R) Mal, Chris, Benge & Eric.
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Roger Quail @rogerquail.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I can't hear the name of the UK PM without thinking about the Tom Waits' song "Uncle Vernon." "Andy Burnham, Andy Burnham, Independent as a hog on ice, He's a big shot, Up In Manchester, Where everybody says he's nice."
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Roger Quail @rogerquail.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
'midfield engine' is now 'box-to-box player'.
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Roger Quail @rogerquail.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Good times with The Wailers in Dublin last night. Nice to hear "Rat Race", "Rastaman Vibration" and "Smile Jamaica" mixed in with all your Sunshine Radio favourites.
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Roger Quail @rogerquail.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Apparently it's International Cat Day. Here are Linda and Louise giving it some 80s Synth Duo.
Linda (foreground) & Louise (blurry) celebrating #internationalcatday
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Roger Quail @rogerquail.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
"🎵Looking for A Certain Ratio! 🎶" Spotted in Dublin this week.
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Roger Quail @rogerquail.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Thank you!
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Roger Quail @rogerquail.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Happy birthday to Elizabeth Beresford, born in Paris on 6th August 1926.
Wombling free at Queen's Park railway station in North London. February 2026.
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Roger Quail @rogerquail.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Last night in Dublin. The Arsenal team in their pre-match huddle discussing how they can sell more of their (it has to be said) rather fetching canary-yellow third-kit.
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Roger Quail @rogerquail.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
"It's fun to play at the YMCA..." 😀 On this day in 1979. My first gig in London. Good times at The Prince Of Wales Conference Centre under the YMCA on Tottenham Court Road.
Gig ticket for a 4 band bill at the Prince Of Wales Conference Centre in London, 4th August 1979.
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Roger Quail @rogerquail.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Ha! Very good. I'm strictly Dandelion & Burdock these days x
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Roger Quail @rogerquail.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Hi Folks, Friday plug for my latest podcast and blog episode. Back to 1980 for the recording of "Thirst", the second album by ClockDVA. Interested? Then follow the links... blog - www.mylifeinthemoshofghosts.com podcast - lnk.bio/rogerquail Have a smashing weekend, Rogx
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Roger Quail @rogerquail.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Rather lovely light installation spotted at King's Cross station, London yesterday.
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Roger Quail @rogerquail.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
A start-the-week plug for my latest blog & podcast episode. Back to the autumn of 1980 and the recording of "Thirst", the second album by Sheffield band ClockDVA. podcast - lnk.bio/rogerquail blog - www.mylifeinthemoshofghosts.com
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Roger Quail @rogerquail.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Ah Simon, thank you so much. That means a lot. Mission accomplished.
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Roger Quail @rogerquail.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I know! It was 16 weeks minimum before I retired, and that was quick.
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Roger Quail @rogerquail.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I just shared a new blog & podcast episode. I went back to my teenage diaries to talk about the recording of "Thirst" by ClockDVA, way back in 1980. Follow the links - podcast: lnk.bio/rogerquail blog: www.mylifeinthemoshofghosts.com #sheffield #clockdva #postpunk
Sheffield post-punk band ClockDVA pose for the camera somewhere near the ICA in London.
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Roger Quail @rogerquail.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Saw "The Odyssey" at The IFI in Dublin yesterday. (Epic voyage fuelled by their very good coffee and banana loaf.) I really enjoyed it, well worth a look.
IFI coffee and banana loaf in Dublin.
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Roger Quail @rogerquail.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
When in the West of Ireland, a bit of the old "near/faraway" is always welcome.
Mucking about with perspective and near/faraway on a beach in County Kerry last week.
#ireland #countykerry #kerry #photography #nearfaraway
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Roger Quail @rogerquail.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
If I were to describe a record shop located in a small, sleepy Irish town, that only opens for a couple of hours on Sunday mornings, with two dogs roaming around and free tea and coffee; it might sound like "Brigadoon" rewritten by Nick Hornby. Happily, it's very real. Vintage Vinyl in Rathangan.
The interior of Vintage Vinyl in Rathangan, County Kildare. Photo by me.
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Roger Quail @rogerquail.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Thank you!
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Roger Quail @rogerquail.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Look, it's my first (and almost certainly last) magazine front cover, and it only took 45 years to get. Of course I'm going to have it framed. Thank you Push and Electronic Sound.
Yours truly happy to display his newly framed Electronic Sound magazine with ClockDVA on the cover.
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Roger Quail @rogerquail.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
€15 to watch the National Symphony Orchestra play Mendelssohn, Massenet, Saint-Saens and R. Vaughan Williams at the National Concert Hall, Dublin. An absolute bargain.
Looking out over the stage from the choir balcony at the National Concert Hall, Dublin. Photo by me.
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Roger Quail @rogerquail.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
"Hendos envy." 🤣
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Roger Quail @rogerquail.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Really enjoyed CV in Brussels last Friday. Everything: set-list, production, sound & the onstage confidence felt like a big leap forward from Manchester last year. Very much looking forward to Dublin in October. Try and see them if you can before the show comes to the end of the road in Sheffield.
Signed merch and a backstage pass, what more could you want?Mal and Eric give it some welly on Nag Nag Nag.Mal, Wolfgang from Kraftwerk being photo-bombed by me.
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Roger Quail @rogerquail.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Thank you.
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Roger Quail @rogerquail.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Released today. Really happy to see 'Thirst' by ClockDVA back out in the world.
Your humble author at home with CD and vinyl of 'Thirst' by ClockDVA, re-released by Mute Records today.
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Roger Quail @rogerquail.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Spotted on the wall of an old, long-closed newsagent in Dun Laoghaire.
"Der Spiegel" Peeling paint spotted on the wall of a long-closed newsagent in Dun Laoghaire. Photo by me.
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Roger Quail @rogerquail.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Thank you!
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Roger Quail @rogerquail.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Good times. Thank you Arsenal. Photo (and replica trophy) courtesy of Adrian at Marcie's pub in Trim.
Me looking very happy with a replica of the Premier League Trophy, taken at Marcie's in Trim this morning.
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Roger Quail @rogerquail.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Congratulations to Daniel Dylan Wray on the publication of his book on Sheffield music from 1960 to 2020. I'm delighted to have made a small contribution to the story and happier still to receive a glowing endorsement for my blog www.mylifeinthemoshofghosts.com
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Roger Quail @rogerquail.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Delighted to get my hands on one of these pump clips for the recent brew of "Nag Nag Nag" from Bradfield Brewery. Thank you to Sheffield pal Brent Sharp who brought it over to Ireland this week.
Your author holding a pump clip for "Nag Nag Nag" porter ale. A recent collaboration between Cabaret Voltaire and Bradfield Brewery, Sheffield. Photo by me.
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Roger Quail @rogerquail.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Wild Horses were (I think) a Thin Lizzy spin-off.
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Roger Quail @rogerquail.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
12.05.1979. Arsenal beat Man Utd. 3-2 in the "Five-minute final" at Wembley. Further north, I joined ClockDVA.
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Roger Quail @rogerquail.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
08.05.1980. CV / DVA / FG / TC / ULU.
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Roger Quail @rogerquail.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Not sure which is more scary. The big plant or John Duttine's beard.
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Roger Quail @rogerquail.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Hello Sunshine. A trip down the time tunnel with Super Furry Animals in Dublin last night.
Welsh rock band Super Furry Animals playing Hello Sunshine at the Olympia Theatre in Dublin on Wednesday 6th May 2026. Photo by me.
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Roger Quail @rogerquail.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
For anyone going to the polling station today...
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Roger Quail @rogerquail.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
I really like it when the postie delivers something that you had completely forgotten that you had ordered. It's like a little Christmas.
Misty In Roots, Live At The Counter Eurovision 79. Newly out on vinyl and finally in my collection.
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Roger Quail @rogerquail.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
In search of the hair of the dog.
O'Connell's pub in Skryne, County Meath. Bank holiday Monday, 4th May 2026. Photo by me.
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Roger Quail @rogerquail.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
It was a smashing place, looking longingly at the lists on the wall: "got, got, not got, want, can't stand, etc etc..."
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Roger Quail @rogerquail.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Spotted on a recent trip to Sheffield. The old shop front for Revolution Records, high up on the now mostly derelict Castle Market Arcade walkway. Pictured outside the shop in its punk-rock heyday are Paul Weller of The Jam, shop owner Pete Martin and young fan Michael Denton.
The Revolution will not be televised. Sheffield, April 2026. Photo by me.(Weller photo posted by George Mar on It's All About Sheffield Facebook page.)
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Roger Quail @rogerquail.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
26.04.1980. DVA recorded 'White Souls In Black Suits' in an old 'Little Mesters' garret in Sheffield. I'm very happy that 'White Souls' is back out in the world again. This new re-release by Mute Records is the closest that the listener will ever get to being in the room on that day in Spring 1980.
Clock DVA late '79/early '80. (L-R) Judd (in cap), me, Adi (blurred), David and Charlie. In the room where 'White Souls' was recorded.https://clockdva.bandcamp.com/album/white-souls-in-black-suits
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Roger Quail @rogerquail.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Thank you! So kind!!
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Roger Quail @rogerquail.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
It's taken some time, but my podcast finally reached 25,000 downloads. Thank you to anyone who has taken the time to check out an episode or two. If you don't know what I'm banging on about, follow the link to check it out on Apple, Spotify or YouTube: lnk.bio/rogerquail
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Roger Quail @rogerquail.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Dublin docker.
The Dublin Docker statue, officially titled "The Linesman," is a life-size bronze sculpture by artist Dony MacManus located on City Quay in the Dublin Docklands. Photo by me, 18th March 2026.
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Roger Quail @rogerquail.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Meanwhile, in Central Spain. An imposter is spotted in the solemn Easter week procession...
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Roger Quail @rogerquail.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Hiya, ah thanks so much, really appreciate it. No, it's buried in the vaults somewhere, I've not heard it since we recorded (and rejected) it. Thanks for digging out 'Big Slam'! All the best and thanks again, Rog
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Roger Quail @rogerquail.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
New blog & podcast up. Back to January 1985 and the last night of The Box at The Leadmill in Sheffield. Blog - www.mylifeinthemoshofghosts.com podcast options - lnk.bio/rogerquail RSS - feeds.buzzsprout.com/289673.rss Box photo by Pete Care. Sheffield 1984.
The Box, Sheffield 1984. (L-R) Pete, Paul, me, Charlie and Terry. Photo by Pete Care. Never used because I'm smiling.
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Roger Quail @rogerquail.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
New blog & podcast episode up! The last gig by Sheffield band The Box at The Leadmill in January 1985. Links: blog - www.mylifeinthemoshofghosts.com podcast - lnk.bio/rogerquail (I've just switched to Lnk.Bio so please let me know of any gremlins in the links.) Enjoy!
Sheffield band The Box, photographed by Pete Care in the summer of 1984. (L-R) Paul Widger, Charlie Collins, me, Peter Hope and Terry Todd.
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