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I was right near the front by then. It was awesome.

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I swear he could be in three places at once on the same night!

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Then John Sebastian came on and the sun came out the minute he walked out on stage. Ask anyone who was there. Crazy when I think back now that this was just a year after Woodstock. He still gave off the same vibe you see in the film.

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Eric Burdon and War finally kicked things off again. Burdon rain dripping down his face looked at the crowd and said you all must be crazy.... but that's ok I'm crazy too. War then proceeded to tear the roof off the place. None stop percussion heavy funk. No gaps between songs.

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It pissed down with rain while Michael Chapman was on and the music was curtailed for over an hour. A lot of people drifted away. Many sheltered under trees or sheeting till the rain eased off and the music started again.

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You do know which Jesus I'm talking about don't you?

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No mate. That's Jesus. HE really was everywhere.

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I hope everyone is enjoying this week's COTW as much as I am. Scott was of course agreeably crackers. Every time he mentions his spirit realm guru Koot Hoomi an image of Arthur Sultan forms in my head.

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Had to go back and listen to those two movements from Scott's Oboe Concerto played at the end of y/days COTW. They are sublime. Shamefully the piece doesn't appear to be currently available anywhere on a commercial release.

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Believe it or not I've still never seen Edge of Darkness. Or if i have I've long forgotten it

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Martin Amis wrote a really good review of Out when he was TV critic for The Observer. Some of his tv reviews have aged better than the novels.

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Flying Squad used to sing the theme tune on chases I've heard. Basically a documentary.

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Give me a good bit of British police procedural every time. From the Sweeney, Law and Order and Between The Lines onwards. It's one of the things we do best when we do it well.

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Also for location shots in London and Manchester they can't be beat. Only 30 yrs ago but some spots are long gone. Those Kings Cross lock ups among them.

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He's a right bastard in ep 1 isn't he? (Out is one of my all time favourite series.)

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Started watching Prime Suspect again last night, right from ep 1. This and Cracker running pretty much in tandem were the highlights of British TV in the 90s for me. I'm aware that tv history only begins with The Wire and The Sopranos but these beautifully crafted antiques will do for me.

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Just sent an e mail to Alice's piano teacher Gemma and accidentally called her Gemmo. Planning to start hanging out with Ian McCulloch any day soon.

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Poetry at an angle. The wonderful Tom Raworth down with the kids.

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Our greenhouse ones are still going strong but the severe heat did for the cucumbers in there. Insufficient water meant they had armadillo skins and were unattractively dry and unjuicy. And the last rocket I tried growing in there just fried with insufficient shade.

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What an excellent episode of COTW today. Cyril Scott's orientalism is right up there with Debussy. And how nice to hear Donald McLeod presenting without the hinderance of a guest expert who more often than not just stinks up the place.

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One plant of ours has. We've had two strawberries off it but because we took the netting off the birds had the other two

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Gail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk · 01/10/2026

October 1st and we still have an abundance of cherry tomatoes growing in the tub. And the cabbage whites and the bees love the lobelias.

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I’m very proud of this design. It was a joy working with @pacarnahan.bsky.social

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Alice went up the hill on Sunday taking photos for her GCSE project. "Oh, I completely forgot to show you" she said over dinner.

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BigL Fab 40 playing Finger Pop by Jnr Walker and every time I hear that record I just want to be in a mod club in September 1965 surrounded by great dancers.

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Todmorden has won the Yorkshire in Bloom Gold Award for the 5th year running. This town rocks a mean display. #Pride

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Collective noun for Mightys. Shocks of.

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Go and see Bridget Hayden too. She's great.

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Now I'm amusing myself (someone has to) by going round saying This Henry Cow and This Incredible String Band....this could run all through my lunch break now.

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I also apply this to music. I knew it instinctively when I was young and even more powerfully now but I've never felt the need to 'relate' to a song. 'Oh it's just what it's like when you fall in/fall out of love' etc. Nah. Songs create an other world to me, a 3 minute fiction I can walk about.

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And put This in front and it still sounds 80s but poncy precious 80s. This Corrosion. This Mortal Coil. HMHB had the right idea.

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"This may come too much from the kind of writer I am, but I don’t think a straight line between who one is and what one writes is any virtue. A tanglesome path through dense woods, or a boxy maze — these seem more interesting to me". @tobylitt.bsky.social from A Writer's Diary. This gets my vote.

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Just asking for trouble. Four words. Ogden's Nut Gone Flake.

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Recently unearthed manhole cover, made by Pavement Industries Limited of Alfreton 1876-1964 (later Associated Metal and Iron Works 1964-1984) Now dissolved. The area where the works once stood is now a partially wooded prime dogging site.

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A billion ton pulsar many light years ago.

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And yet, inside. Pristine ish. I don't keep the records in it. Does anyone?

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It is a thing of dark matter beauty isn't it?

The corroded planet that is PIL's Metal Box.

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