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Skippy Vinyls @skippyvinyls.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's a good day to be listening to something new and Fall-ish, so new to me is The Fall - A French Tribute. A 2019 compilation of Fall covers by French artists on Teenage Hate Records. Toujours pariels, toujours différents. #ChuteVendredi www.discogs.com/release/1447...

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Skippy Vinyls @skippyvinyls.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This week's Fall tape is the cassette single of I Want You by Inspiral Carpets featuring Mark E. Smith "You say you lost two stone in weight, so what did you look like fat?" #FallFriday youtu.be/DPTpBoYVD8Q

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Skippy Vinyls @skippyvinyls.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Saw Holy Holy at The Limelight in Belfast yesterday evening. It was the last date of possibly their final tour and they didn't hold back. Woody Woodmansey, Tony Visconti, Glen Gregory, James Stevenson and the band won over the audience's hearts with a banging show of early 70s Bowie numbers.

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Skippy Vinyls @skippyvinyls.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"Carnival of Light" Abbey Road stance album art Surprise rooftop gig Who do U2 think they are?

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Niall MacKenzie @derrymac.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The Fall - Iceland See a green goblin redhead, redhead Make a grab for the book of prayers, Do anything for a bit of attention, Get humbled in Iceland... youtu.be/Vk7qvTwhvl0?... #FallFriday

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The Fall | Iceland

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Des @desdelboy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

#fallfriday No soul in the discos  No rock in the clubs  Won't let us in the pubs  And the city jars youtu.be/25-4nixuvrg (Photographs Janette Beckman, London 1978)

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Skippy Vinyls @skippyvinyls.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This week's Fall tape is Speed Trials. A Homestead Records compilation culled from live recordings at the Speed Trials festival, White Columns Gallery, NYC, 4-8 May 1983. Features The Fall's Tempo House & Smile. The grainy B&W VCR footage on YouTube is brilliant! #FallFriday youtu.be/IGMSJFnEuB8

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Skippy Vinyls @skippyvinyls.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Saint Etienne in Dublin this evening. This being their final tour, it was quite a nostalgic show.

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John Robb official @johnrobbofficial.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Louder Than Words announces new Belfast festival for January 2027 . Our music, books and Lit fest will also now be in Belfast. louderthanwar.com/louder-than-...

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Louder Than Words Belfast

Our Louder Than Words festival comes to Belfast

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Skippy Vinyls @skippyvinyls.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This week's Fall tape is Sgt. Pepper Knew My Father. A 1988 charity compilation from the NME featuring The Fall's cover of A Day In The Life. This album was my teenage entry point to the music of The Beatles, never having paid them much attention up to that time. #FallFriday youtu.be/SaC9htnMBGE

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Skippy Vinyls @skippyvinyls.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I've only just discovered that there's a 1987 Madonna B-side titled "Jimmy Jimmy". Did nobody at Sire Records advise Madge that there was already a perfect pop song with this title on the label's catalogue? No, that would be Causing A Commotion! @mickeyundertone.bsky.social

Jimmy Jimmy, B-side of the Madonna single Causing A Commotion

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Skippy Vinyls @skippyvinyls.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This week's Fall tape is Ruby Trax, The NME's Roaring Forty. A 1992 compilation which celebrated the NME's 40th anniversary with 40 number 1s covered by contemporary artists. The Fall contributed their cover of Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich's Legend of Xanadu. #FallFriday youtu.be/gnQiv2R8wUA

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Paul McDermott @learnandsing.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

To Here Knows When - Great Irish Albums Revisited. EP61 Against Nature by The Fatima Mansions. Aindrías Ó Grúama “Grimmo” + Nick Allum, the guitarist + drummer of Cathal Coughlan's Fatima Mansions, join me for a deep dive into Against Nature, the band’s debut album: www.paulmcdermott.ie/episode-61

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Skippy Vinyls @skippyvinyls.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Date yourself with a snap of your first ever computer... My first experience with a computer was an Apple II in my Dad's office. He brought me in on a Saturday afternoon to see THE COMPUTER. Each time I typed a command Dad said "You must always hit return". Good advice which I still use to this day

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Skippy Vinyls @skippyvinyls.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This week's Fall tape is The Chiselers cassette single. Water damaged sleeve from the leaky Ford Fiesta that I drove in the 90s. New DSOTM player because... "Pink Floyd are short!" #FallFriday youtu.be/OufE8V9jKq4

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Skippy Vinyls @skippyvinyls.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Buy three cheap Madonna 7"s. Check Discogs. Discover two are Irish pressings.

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Skippy Vinyls @skippyvinyls.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

#NowPlaying Grauzone - S/T (1981) Bought this on my last morning in Berlin on a flying visit to Dussmann das KulturKaufhaus. Looked like an amazing store for books, film and music. Pity I hadn't time for a leisurely browse.

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Skippy Vinyls @skippyvinyls.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Spotted this very tidy Fiat 850 Sport Coupé on my afternoon Berlin dander. Probably as old as me, or maybe older and wearing much better.

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Skippy Vinyls @skippyvinyls.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Found a little bit of home in Berlin, @leoprints.bsky.social on The Berlin Wall.

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Skippy Vinyls @skippyvinyls.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This week's Fall tape is Early Years 77-79. The Step Forward singles on cassette reissued in 2023 by Radiation Records of Rome. I've escaped the office and I'm on my hols, but haven't forgotten #FallFriday "Right, we're gonna go back to 1940, no money, and I live in Berlin" youtu.be/AmqZ_3uUYnI

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Birmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Happy birthday to Shaun Ryder. Here are Happy Mondays conjuring up a stunning version of Performance on Tony Wilson’s The Other Side of Midnight in 1988 youtu.be/cZvdXEjtl4c

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Happy Mondays - Performance - live on The Other Side of Midnight with Tony Wilson in 1988

YouTube video by Salvage Operation

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Skippy Vinyls @skippyvinyls.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Your favorite Disney Prince (wrong answers only)

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Skippy Vinyls @skippyvinyls.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

This week's Fall tape is The Infotainment Scan. Following a three album run on a major label, The Fall get dropped and then score their only Top 10 album. Unlike the CD release there are no extra tracks on this cassette. It suppurates. Look it up! #FallFriday youtu.be/Fp0B47i2Le4

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Birmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

#FallFriday As the Premier League season starts today, here's Mark E Smith reading the football results 21 years ago youtu.be/EBUiPs1PxKo

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Mark E Smith reads the football results

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Skippy Vinyls @skippyvinyls.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Economics, German and Engineering scrapped in Northern Ireland schools Future generations deprived of aspirations of BMW/Audi ownership www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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NI education: Some GCSE and A-level subjects to be scrapped

The Northern Ireland exams board CCEA says the subjects will not be offered from the end of the decade.

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Birmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Here are some more photos of Fiats and Abarths taken at Festival Italia 🇮🇹

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Paul Hanley @hanleypa.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Just been sent this update of a Viz classic by @northcountryflyfish (the cheeky bleeder). T- shirts and mugs available soon.

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Birmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Some fabulous Fiats and amazing Abarths photographed at Festival Italia at Brands Hatch earlier this month 🇮🇹

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Skippy Vinyls @skippyvinyls.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Saturday house chores necessitating a #WeekendSingles accompaniment from the A-H box.

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Skippy Vinyls @skippyvinyls.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Dissatisfied with the patchy availability of low-resolution Stewart Lee uploads on YouTube, I had to resort to buying the complete Comedy Vehicle on DVD (not actually sold out of buckets at a motorway service station).

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Skippy Vinyls @skippyvinyls.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

This week's Fall tape is The Frenz Experiment. After Kurious Oranj, this cassette was my second Fall pick up in early '89. I really thought I had completed the set at that point, unaware of The Fall's long and illustrious back catalogue. Bazdad, space cog, analyst! #FallFriday youtu.be/CYBf42akcIA

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Skippy Vinyls @skippyvinyls.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Cloudy sky through the view finder

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Skippy Vinyls @skippyvinyls.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

You must never look directly at Professor Brian Cox, of course, always view him through a colander youtu.be/rarV1S2kmh4

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Stewart Lee Comedy Vehicle - 4.4 Death

YouTube video by Ian Kenny

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Birmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Happy 45th birthday to Love Song by Simple Minds- released on this day in 1981

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Skippy Vinyls @skippyvinyls.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

This week's Fall tape is an old TDK featuring my teenage rendering of Hex Enduction Hour's artwork. Perverted by Language is on the B-side. I'm unlikely to ever own the actual cassette releases of these albums. To be a celebrity you've gotta eat the past, nowadays #FallFriday youtu.be/oFO70oGChQU

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Skippy Vinyls @skippyvinyls.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The Blu-ray format has let itself go.

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Skippy Vinyls @skippyvinyls.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

This week's Fall tape is Extricate. Loaded with B-sides and the bonus title track, the cassette was my preferred format over the vinyl on release day. Seep to sleep The drill scaffold starts Power drill dog bark renovate stone blast Screw it up to do it #FallFriday youtu.be/Qu7-U1v2J1w

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Skippy Vinyls @skippyvinyls.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Happy Durutti Column day to all who celebrate it!

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Skippy Vinyls @skippyvinyls.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Taking in the traditional Austrian folk tales of Arnocorps tonight at The Limelight, Belfast

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