Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 6hIf 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. 254
Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Have during @whydontyoutube.bsky.social research come across a David Suchet crime vehicle entitled Cruel Train, and now the Bob Blackman earworm is unstoppable. 010
Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Well, that was both awful and awe-inspiring. See you all back here next year for Thirty Glorious Years Of It's Wicked! #SwapShop 100
Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The only people to have referred to "President Regan" are Brown Sauce and Heaven 17. #makesuthink #SwapShop 041
Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Christ, just get past this interminable bit and to the moment where we can all post "IMPORTANT PARSON". #SwapShop 000
Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Sorry, is that Maggie Philbin being "a punk"? #SwapShop 100
Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Noel compiled this so he could show off his full range of accents for any casting directors watching. #SwapShop 021
Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 03/10/2026So 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 021
Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 03/10/2026A group of small tone-deaf children dressed like the Jam making 1975 pub rock. What could possibly have OH FUCK NOT THIS BIT. #SwapShop 010
Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 03/10/2026See, as the other side would put it, *this* is what they want. #SwapShop 110
Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Admirable 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 012
Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 29/09/2026A 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. 231
Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 18/09/2026This is the "Cope taking a shitload of acid and thinking he's sinking into the stage" Teardrop Explodes performance, isn't it? #totp 211
Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Oh arse, right in the middle of the medley era. #totp #thump #clap #thump #clap #thump #clap #thump #clap 020
Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I love the idea that #totp viewers would be the target audience for Beckett's Not I. 130
Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The Rob Davis Nu-Disco Era starts here. Well, no, really it started with Shake It Down. #totp 010
Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Editor's note: despite Keith's entreaties we did not "see you there". #totp 001
Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Slightly different approach to romance compared to the previous song. #totp 010
Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Haines 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 091
Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Luke 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. 250
Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 18/09/2026According to setlist.fm Who Feels Love barely survived in their sets past 2000 and not at all after 2001. #totp 001
Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Bit 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) 011
Reposted by Simon TyersMichael Ironyside @davidnaylor.bsky.social · 10/09/2026So, 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 002
Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Been 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. 191
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. 8174
Reposted by Simon TyersBen Baker @benbaker.bsky.social · 07/08/2026As 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.comThe Comedy Cash-In Book Audiobook Book, by Ben Baker12 track album 22224
Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 02/08/2026The greatest and most extraordinary poll of the year has opened. VOTE BUBBLEMEN FOR A BRIGHTER FUTURE. 031
Reposted by Simon TyersWhy Don't YouTube? @whydontyoutube.bsky.social · 28/07/2026HOW 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.comStatutory Right of Entry - Richard StilgoeYouTube video by Matt Poole 57023
Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Remember 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 020
Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Lauren 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 011
Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Just eight minutes left in which to tell Argentinians once and for all that Englishmen don't tend to jump regardless. 000
Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 03/07/2026This is the biggest disparity between subject and atmosphere I've ever seen in a light documentary. 000
Reposted by Simon TyersWhy Don't YouTube? @whydontyoutube.bsky.social · 02/07/2026To 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. 0165
Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Not 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 120
Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Steal My Sunshine, as found on any number of Summer Hits compilations, here at its January chart peak. #totp 020
Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Slightly late, but here's a recent photo of Shania Twain about which there is nothing else that is notable. #totp 221
Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Petition for Honky to reform and tour with Geese. #totp 022
Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 12/06/2026He says he wrote it for a bet. That's not an excuse. #totp 021
Reposted by Simon TyersPantoSplaining - The Panto Poster Podcast @pantosplaining.bsky.social · 03/06/2026We'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?...youtu.bePantoSplaining: Episode 8.1 - Manchester 1984 (Part 1)YouTube video by PantoSplaining - the Panto Poster Podcast 1118
Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 15/05/2026It's 2026 and broadcast assistants are still grabbing things quickly off the internet and putting them out on live radio without checking first. 110
Simon Tyers @simont.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Just over a year earlier Lolly was in the video for Pulp's This Is Hardcore (as is Tina S Club) #totp 041