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Simon Tyers

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Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 6h
If you count any one of Bungle's three operators it's down to eleven now (current status of Little Neepsie, Chris and Do unknown) We Didn't Start The Fire is on four, Reasons To Be Cheerful (Part 3) two, The Intro And The Outro five, John Kettley Is A Weatherman fifteen, Endless Art zero.
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Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Have during @whydontyoutube.bsky.social research come across a David Suchet crime vehicle entitled Cruel Train, and now the Bob Blackman earworm is unstoppable.
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Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Well, that was both awful and awe-inspiring. See you all back here next year for Thirty Glorious Years Of It's Wicked! #SwapShop
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Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Harry Copter" in the credits. #SwapShop
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Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The only people to have referred to "President Regan" are Brown Sauce and Heaven 17. #makesuthink #SwapShop
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Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
ALL STAND FOR THE NATIONAL ANTHEM #SwapShop
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Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Christ, just get past this interminable bit and to the moment where we can all post "IMPORTANT PARSON". #SwapShop
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Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Sorry, is that Maggie Philbin being "a punk"? #SwapShop
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Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Cheggers ASMR. #SwapShop
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Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Noel compiled this so he could show off his full range of accents for any casting directors watching. #SwapShop
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Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
So this is Noel taking the piss out of the children that contribute to a regular feature on his own show and getting his own obsession in in the process. Why did we not see the last 25 years coming? #SwapShop
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Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A group of small tone-deaf children dressed like the Jam making 1975 pub rock. What could possibly have OH FUCK NOT THIS BIT. #SwapShop
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Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
See, as the other side would put it, *this* is what they want. #SwapShop
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Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Admirable how they're having to slow down a 37 second Rubik's Cube this far because of how quick it is when the current world record is 2.76 seconds. #SwapShop
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Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Esther copying Bernard Braden once again.
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Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A couple of years ago there was a spate of musicians playing one of the big Scottish venues on IG Stories pointing to a backstage poster that read "Beverley Knight plus Rhianna", clearly assuming it was a hilarious misprint.
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Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is the "Cope taking a shitload of acid and thinking he's sinking into the stage" Teardrop Explodes performance, isn't it? #totp
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Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Oh arse, right in the middle of the medley era. #totp #thump #clap #thump #clap #thump #clap #thump #clap
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Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I love the idea that #totp viewers would be the target audience for Beckett's Not I.
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Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The Rob Davis Nu-Disco Era starts here. Well, no, really it started with Shake It Down. #totp
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Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Editor's note: despite Keith's entreaties we did not "see you there". #totp
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Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Slightly different approach to romance compared to the previous song. #totp
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Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Haines says this was an attempt to rip off Billie Piper's Honey To The B, even if everyone else thought it was All Saints. #totp
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Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Luke Haines on #totp, as I live and breathe. You'd probably have to go back to Sebadoh for an unlikelier figure to make it onto the show.
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Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Don't crash the vocals, Jayne. #totp
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Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
According to setlist.fm Who Feels Love barely survived in their sets past 2000 and not at all after 2001. #totp
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Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Bit late to this but Craig David's guitarist there is Fraser T Smith who went on to produce and write with everyone* in the mid-10s. #totp (* Adele, Stormzy, Dave, Raye, Tom Grennan, Taio Cruz, that kind, I didn't mean that literally and you're now checking Animal Collective credits)
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Michael Ironyside @davidnaylor.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
So, I put this mad bastard's tour through Google Maps (click through the repost and scroll down a bit). 127 gigs 18,400 miles 382hrs of travel. And only about 50 days from the end until he starts it all over again in 2028
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Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Been musing on the Les Dennis and Dustin Gee sketch in which they "do" Bowie and Jagger's Dancing In The Street and the central gag is they're both essentially OAPs who can't move without zimmer frames and Sanatogen. Bowie was at the time the same age Rihanna is now.
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Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
@ricardoautobahn.co.uk I regret to inform you that Makings Of A Murderer, having regenerated, is at it again in 2027.
The Makings Of A Murderer Double Jeopardy, featuring the return of Colin Sutton, defying the petrol cost increases with all his theatrical might
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Ben Baker @benbaker.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
As an experiment I've recorded a completely updated and reworked audio version of my "Comedy Cash-In Book Book" from a few years ago. If that sounds your sort of thing, it's on Bandcamp now at a highly competitive market pricing. benbakerbooks.bandcamp.com/album/the-co...
benbakerbooks.bandcamp.com
The Comedy Cash-In Book Audiobook Book, by Ben Baker
12 track album
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Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
The greatest and most extraordinary poll of the year has opened. VOTE BUBBLEMEN FOR A BRIGHTER FUTURE.
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Why Don't YouTube? @whydontyoutube.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
HOW HAS THIS BEEN ON YOUTUBE FOR THREE MONTHS AND NOBODY THOUGHT TO TELL US, IT'S BEEN WDYT?'S HOLY GRAIL FOR YEARS www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGPA...
youtube.com
Statutory Right of Entry - Richard Stilgoe
YouTube video by Matt Poole
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Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
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Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Remember this Oasis single being talked up as a radical post-Britpop reinvention because the drums sound a bit like the Beta Band and one of the many guitar tracks is backwards. #totp
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Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Lauren sneaking in an Arab Strap reference for her then-boyfriend Malcolm Middleton, whose first solo album a couple of years later is a devastating confessional about their break-up. When it was reissued a few years ago I remember Lauren tweeting asking why she'd been sent a promo. #totp
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Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Just eight minutes left in which to tell Argentinians once and for all that Englishmen don't tend to jump regardless.
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Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
This is the biggest disparity between subject and atmosphere I've ever seen in a light documentary.
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Why Don't YouTube? @whydontyoutube.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
To mark ten years since Caroline Aherne's passing, some rare Mrs Merton from This Morning in 1992, taking agony aunt correspondence on the UK launch of the Femidom.
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Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Not even the best single from this album, but a) possibly the first airplay Gracedelica has had in 26 years and b) exactly, I'm sure, where we all expected most of the members of Levitation to end up. #totp
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Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Steal My Sunshine, as found on any number of Summer Hits compilations, here at its January chart peak. #totp
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Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
"OK, so you're microtonal..." #totp
Shania Twain smiles awkwardly in the background of Angine de Poitrine's Later With Jools performance. *makes triangle hand shape*
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Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Slightly late, but here's a recent photo of Shania Twain about which there is nothing else that is notable. #totp
"OK, so you're microtonal? That don't impress me much"
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Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Petition for Honky to reform and tour with Geese. #totp
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Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
"A bit of that sort of rock" #totp
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Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
He says he wrote it for a bet. That's not an excuse. #totp
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Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Len died on the way back to their home planet. #totp
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PantoSplaining - The Panto Poster Podcast @pantosplaining.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
We're a video podcast that looks at panto posters of yesteryear seeing what amazing stuff we can find. ALL YEAR ROUND. We do not review the pantos. Just the posters. The latest edition is so packed with stars we had to do it in two parts! PT1 youtu.be/R_InIPirEUU?... PT2 youtu.be/RG5gVWVJS0Y?...
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PantoSplaining: Episode 8.1 - Manchester 1984 (Part 1)
YouTube video by PantoSplaining - the Panto Poster Podcast
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Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
It's 2026 and broadcast assistants are still grabbing things quickly off the internet and putting them out on live radio without checking first.
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Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Just over a year earlier Lolly was in the video for Pulp's This Is Hardcore (as is Tina S Club) #totp
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