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Paul Kay @roughguide1960.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Superb review. Also check out the other chapters on Ogun Records on the blog including the Introduction, there are links to downloads where available. Great writing about some extraordinary music.

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Paul Kay @roughguide1960.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

#NowPlaying Tired Lion - Breakfast for Pathetics (2020). Described at the time by NME as 'gloriously grungy anthems of personal growth,' Brisbane based frontwoman Sophie Hopes plays everything bar the drums, she even manages some whistling on an album full of hooks and memorable lyrics.

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Paul Kay @roughguide1960.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

#NowPlaying Sylvie Kreusch - Comic Trip (2024). Belgian singer/songwriter Sylvie Kreusch's second album, you can play spot the references, from Stereolab to Morricone via The B52's on an album that is engaging throughout.

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Paul Kay @roughguide1960.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Labour have just discovered some old copies of Amstrad Monthly and think some of the letters contributors might have a point.

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Paul Kay @roughguide1960.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

The writing and research into the article are superb, the contents of the article deeply depressing.

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Paul Kay @roughguide1960.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

I've never followed him but 89 of my followers do apparently.

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Paul Kay @roughguide1960.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

I still catch-up with some refuseniks and I find it quite a bizarre place these days. All the nobody people and all the somebody people (thank you Mr Bowie) shouting over each other.

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Paul Kay @roughguide1960.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Read it, read the Pelicot long reads and the interviews with her daughter and family . Powerful writing and honesty from the victims that leaves me with a sense of anger and inadequacy.

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Paul Kay @roughguide1960.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Never ceases to catch me by surprise when the giant fern in our garden suddenly 'lays down' for the winter just before Christmas. What goes down as brown fronds will emerge green come March.

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Marie Gardiner @mariegardiner.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

We all knew this story was coming from the bits and pieces that have already been out there, but however you parse it (and I believe the women, obviously), he seems like a thoroughly odious and abusive individual. I'm always wary of self-declaring feminists. www.vulture.com/article/neil...

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There Is No Safe Word

How the best-selling fantasy author Neil Gaiman hid the darkest parts of himself for decades.

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Paul Kay @roughguide1960.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Great journalism but bloody hell that is horrific.

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Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

'The Roundabout', Hampstead (1923) by Stanley Spencer (Tate)

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Rob Chapman @scribblerrob.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

For anyone who missed last night's upload and for Ivor Cutler fans in general. A treat.

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Paul Kay @roughguide1960.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

A life well lived. Some of the sounds on this album are just wonderful, the synths sound like the wind rushing through mountains at different points.

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Paul Kay @roughguide1960.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Used to love listening to those, there was one station which seemed to be 'playing' the game mouse trap with the sound of marbles rolling along a track for hours on end.

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Paul Kay @roughguide1960.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Yes, they make you want to get out there.

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Paul Kay @roughguide1960.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Final series of Bump airs tomorrow and will be available on iPlayer. It's been some journey from that toilet cubicle. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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BBC One - Bump, Series 5 - Episode guide

All episodes of Series 5

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Paul Kay @roughguide1960.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

I bought a hat box last year, people laughed but at least they are all in one place most of the time.

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Paul Kay @roughguide1960.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Beatrice Romaine Bradford - married surname Brooks - had a quite extraordinary life, it reads like something out of a Bradford Taylor Bradford novel awaiting adaptation by ITVX.

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Paul Kay @roughguide1960.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Agree completely. This is generally a far mellower place although sexbots seem to be around more than when I first arrived on these shores.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Ulla Stina Wikander, Swedish designer who uses household appliances and cooking tools as the base to her cross-stitched sculptures #womensart

Photo of an old typewriter covered in cross stitched material while remaining recognisable in shape, viewed from slightly above on a white surface

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Paul Kay @roughguide1960.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

#NowPlaying Bad Bunny - Debí Tirar Más Fotos (2025). @djpunctum.bsky.social was right, this really is a very good album.

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Paul Kay @roughguide1960.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Watched this last night, absolutely engrossing film featuring a very engaging Keith Jarrett. He's asked at one point what he got out of playing with Miles Davis, "I saw him happy," he replies. No longer on iPlayer so here's a YouTube link. youtu.be/_fB5YXgNX-w?...

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Keith Jarrett - The Art of Improvisation

YouTube video by inthelawn

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Paul Kay @roughguide1960.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Indeed, they used to smash stuff up on stage, including instruments, which freaked out the UFO crowd. The Move, like the Beach Boys, were a band where all members could sing and harmonise. Here's their last official single on TOTP. youtu.be/sBxZN7nJMEo?...

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The Move - California Man (Top Of The Pops 1972) HD

YouTube video by tony713elo

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Paul Kay @roughguide1960.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Absolutely. He badgered Motown to release 'I'm Still Waiting,' as a single because he said it would be a hit and he was right, made number one.

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Paul Kay @roughguide1960.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

This is very sad news, Dean Windass is so relatively young. The phasing out of heading in youth football is the first step, earlier testing for professionals is a must, the Football Brain Health Fund needs serious funding from the sport. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

bbc.co.uk

Dean Windass: Former Hull and Bradford striker diagnosed with dementia

Former Hull, Bradford and Middlesbrough striker Dean Windass is diagnosed with stage two dementia.

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Paul Kay @roughguide1960.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

I agree, I had one of those 'if only they knew what was around the corner moments.' There was quite a disconnect between the London centric tv world we were presented with and the south coast. We seemed, or perhaps where made to seem, to be slightly insular.

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Paul Kay @roughguide1960.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Online restaurant reviews are as random (as our daughter would say) as Amazon reviews, except they never go as far as saying 'I had the cod and chips which I ate for a friend.' How can so many people eat at the same place at the same time and be at polar opposites?

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Paul Kay @roughguide1960.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Have to say the crowd during Sparks caught me out, I was 15 then and those clothes and haircuts were a mixture of nostalgia, amazement and embarrassment.

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Paul Kay @roughguide1960.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

The absolutism of social media is a thing to behold.

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Paul Kay @roughguide1960.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Respect to Jon. When my wife and I first started going out in 1982 we thought we'd go up Portland Bill lighthouse. We got halfway up before both admitting that we suffered from vertigo. We still visit Portland once a year, but stick to the ground.

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Paul Kay @roughguide1960.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

How do you get a huge imbalance between following and followers numbers without ever having posted anything? I'm not a bear with a small brain but to borrow from Elton John, 'All this science I don't understand.'

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Paul Kay @roughguide1960.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Oh thanks Nick. Can I dedicate the award to @sallystardust1.bsky.social for her inspiration.

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Paul Kay @roughguide1960.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Music and, in some circumstances, most forms of art can do this. I've cried to music, to films, even reading a book has resulted in the odd bit of eye rubbing. The spiritual (in the truest sense of the word) connection is something I love about art. That ache as with meeting that great love.

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Paul Kay @roughguide1960.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Yes, we've got a similar deal out of season in the Loire Valley where we spent our first foreign holiday 35 years ago. I once stayed in chain hotel next to Duisburg station and apart from being able to see the roof I didn't know it was there, same in Lubeck and Leipizig - just a place to crash.

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Paul Kay @roughguide1960.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Haven't heard the Bad Bunny one yet, but agree about SAULT.

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Paul Kay @roughguide1960.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

I get this totally, that's why I love the new Ethel Cain album so much.

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Paul Kay @roughguide1960.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

I think you are very generous in that respect. Thanks for replying.

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