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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 18h

One day, life will imitate art

A copy of Graham Greene’s The Quiet Ameirican

Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 21h

I come back to this slice of existential dread again and again. The lyrics are so good. They were seeing the future in 2017 with some of these lines. A masterclass in slow-burning tension. youtu.be/8GfoUh7fKPs

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Good Shot, Good Soldier

YouTube video by Everything Everything - Topic

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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 21h

I am constantly amazed by people who bark out all their personal details on a mobile phone on a train. I guess they have never read any messages written by people constantly amazed that they are barking out all their personal details on a mobile phone on a train and never will.

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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Still think this is one of the great album covers. Ship arriving too late to save a drowning witch - Frank Zappa (1982)

Cover art for Frank Zappa's Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch. The 'ocean' line cuts the bottom of the 'boat' and completes the triangle of the witch's hat, while also giving the overall impression of a Z and an A.

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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Anyone in the Brighton vicinity at a loose end tomorrow, I could hugely recommend English Garden at Presuming Ed’s, around 9.15 of your earth hours. They are something special live.

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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Tonight, Matthew, I shall be watching Adult DVD for @louderthanwar.bsky.social Intriguing quote on the bar from HS Thompson if you can read it (if not it is in the alt text)

The Fighting Cocks bar. On the bar is a quote by Hunter S Thompson that reads:
‘I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes’

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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I might change my name to Endo Fanera and just have done with it all

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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The thing with box sets is that even though you don't want them, because you can a) neither afford or b) need them, you know they're out there and you are somehow incomplete and not a true believer (who is this imaginary hanging judge in your head?) unless you buy them. God, I hate obsessions.

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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I can declare that is has already been a good day. I've found my live recording of New Fads at Sheffield Leadmill on 25.10.92 which I had begun to think I had just dreamed ever having. Good god, they were amazing in the flesh.

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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

14 CDs of Joy Division live could tear me apart. Anyone bought it? Is it worth owning, unless you're determined to hear every last note ever committed to any audio source? I thought Heart and Soul was a pretty bang-up job back in 1997.

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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Go up, give yourself up to it. Ridiculously brilliant. www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-xp...

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Wang Chung - Dance Hall Days

YouTube video by WangChungVEVO

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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Never seen this clip before. Fascinating stuff, and intriguingly shot. Jones gives a real performance in caged boredom. youtu.be/9k3MEw608G8

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Sex Pistols - interview for Countdown (Australia), Nov 1977

YouTube video by kurvapicsa

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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"The boys dressed themselves, hid their accoutrements, and went off grieving that there were no outlaws anymore, and wondering what modern civilisation could claim to have done to compensate for their loss.

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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Just discovered you can have a good wheeze singing the Beatles’ Come Together lyrics over the Grange Hill theme tune. Admittedly, it’s been a slow night.

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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

New secondary school kids look so impossibly lost inside their massively outsized blazers

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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We do get mixed messages in pop songs. I’ve never seen a spelling of ‘night’ that has a thousand ‘i’s.

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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Great to see New Fads featured in the marvellous Rose of Nevada recently. Got me thinking about the mighty Jaggerbog, all the way back in the John Peel times. This is one reunion I'd crawl on hands and knees to see. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQaM...

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New Fast Automatic Daffodils - Jaggerbog (1991)

YouTube video by brkibrks

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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Just had a joyful 20 minutes after rediscovering ‘Collected Thoughts of Drive-By Abuser’. Here’s ‘Internet’

Internet

Alright,
you a big digital shit cloud of wrong information
and photos of people fucking each other? that'd be a trip up the library in the old days cheers

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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I'm going to Ukraine at the end of the week. Friday, I'm in Lvov.

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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The thing with Tilly Norwood and all these 'digital twins' they have now is that they will never age. Or will there be an older Tilly Norwood? Or loads of them? What happens when the young/old/certain age Tilly Norwoods meet in 'real' life?

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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Moore. Henry Moore. So impressed by all this stuff at Kew Gardens, such a great setting for it - 30 pieces dotted about the place (til January). For me Kew is still arguably London’s best day out. Everyone there seems like they are being the best version of themselves, too.

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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

She could do the Glitches of Eastwick

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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The songwriting, the performances. Perfection. More cast members down the years than your average soap opera, but the tunes are timeless.

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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A song for the small reflective hours. Man, I love this band. youtu.be/VhYs1SFrpIY

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Admiral Fallow - Tree Bursts (Live on KEXP)

YouTube video by KEXP

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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Imagine being a young person looking at all these absolute throbbers we have now. How crap

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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is a wonderful wonderful film. The BFI DVD is chock full of all sorts of glorious extras, too.

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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Bit of Friday morning joy with the Pale Fountains. Always thought this made a great bookend for the Bunnymen’s magisterial Ocean Rain period. Wonderful production by Ian Broudie. Mhttps://youtu.be/lVX7f3kGVLM

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The pale fountains these are the things

YouTube video by Jupiterjuzz

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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

One of the core British Values ™️ or at least one of the things we liked to tell ourselves we were in public, was good manners. Looking forward to those making a comeback.

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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

We’ve lost another force for good in Bonnie Greer. Always cut an impressive intelligent figure whenever I saw her on telly.

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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Found this good boy sunning himself on King’s Cross Road

Elderly black cat with grey flecks ponders to reflect in horizontal style

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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Some Henry Moore for the culture vultures. This is ‘Arch Leg’

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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

There we are, kicking off May 1990 at Kiki’s in Sheffield. Funnily enough we - The Glass Hammers - ended up supporting two of the bands featured in subsequent weeks before disappearing, albeit with two plays on Peel, about 18 months later. (Finitribe and Bradford, if anyone was interested)

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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Honestly, I have never seen as many people nicking stuff from shops as I see these days. It’s brazen. And we’re all supposed to embrace the age of AI? Why don’t we try and get the flesh and blood bit right first?

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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Some great footage from the old world. Here’s Adam Ant interviewing Marco Pirroni in 2000. Can’t recommend his book highly enough. youtu.be/G3qCuKZKKMw

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Marco Pirroni interviewed by Adam Ant

YouTube video by Slapdash Eden

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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Modern life can feel like trying to close a door while someone else is wedging their foot in it

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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Novelty balaclava pop-up shops next

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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It's nearly the weekend, might as well have 91 seconds of the truly magnificent sound of Suburban Lawns to take us nearer. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyiL...

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Suburban Lawns - "Unable" Live @ Deaf Club 1979

YouTube video by Joanna's Forehead

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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Every now and again I come back to this; the worst golf course in the world game. The commentary is a comic masterclass in understatement. Sample: "There's the green right there, it's on an elevated surface surrounded by horses, crocodiles and whatnot" www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQYa...

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We built and played the worst golf course ever and it was all your fault | Fumble Dimension Ep. 4

YouTube video by Secret Base

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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Old geezer just shot past on a Lime bike blaring out Happy House by Siouxsie and The Banshees. Didn’t have that on my drive-by bingo card

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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Great the way your brain plays tricks on you as you age. Just read ‘cured ham’ as ‘cursed ham’

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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I don’t know who these people are, but there must be so many stories buried in this wonderful montage.

Cartoon musicians parp and strum, all drawn in a violent, sketchy red

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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Westworld was made in 1973. The phrase ‘after you, Claude’ has taken on a rather sinister new meaning

A screenshot reading ‘anthropic researcher believes more than 10 per cent chance AI could kill all humans’

Yul Brynner as the malfunctioning cowboy in the 1973 film Westworld

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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Children’s literature is so brilliantly full of metaphors for the world at large. Been thinking about Not Now, Bernard and the messages about the dangers of ignorance and where it leads us

Cover art for David McKee’s classic Not Now, Bernard. Bernard has discovered the monster in the garden

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