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thatstevegray @thatstevegray.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Of course I have paid over the odds for this tape, and primarily so I could get a copy of Danielle Dax’s marvellous Cathouse, but just look at that track listing. Almost perfect late 80s indie fare. Brilliant!

A folded out cassette tape insert showing the tracklist of classic 80s indie bangers

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thatstevegray @thatstevegray.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

As an old school indie kid, this Westside Cowboy record is the mutts nuts. Which idiot said guitar bands were dead?

Westside Cowboy’s new record ‘It Goes On’ playing on my record player.

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thatstevegray @thatstevegray.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Cracking Westside Cowboy in store at Jumbo, suspect I was pretty much the oldest one there, much to the chagrin of my lad.

The tops of the heads of Westside Cowboy playing at Jumbo Records in Leeds

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thatstevegray @thatstevegray.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Knew I should have trimmed those trees last winter

Some trees blocking my view of the eclipse.

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thatstevegray @thatstevegray.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Haven’t played this in a dogs age. One of the great lost indie bands of the early noughties. Belter.

A photo of the cover of the CD of Just Backward of Square by Lowgold

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thatstevegray @thatstevegray.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Not a bad couple of weeks for gigs by my standards. The glorious and insane Angine de Poitrine, Pixies with my boys (they used to complain about me playing Doolittle when they were little kids), and a blistering Sugar set making me wonder why they ever split up. Not sure I’ll top that for a while.

Angine de Poitrine - two grown men in oversized polka dot masks playing the most amazing music

Indie legends Pixies playing line in York

Bob Mould fronting indie rock legends Sugar in Leeds

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thatstevegray @thatstevegray.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Rumour has it that 14000 people were on the wait list for tonight’s Angine de Poitrine gig at the Brudenell. It’s a shame for those that could go cos they absolutely smashed it.

Angine de Poitrine waving their arms about.

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thatstevegray @thatstevegray.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Have brought the wife and youngest to Haworth as both are slightly Bronte obsessed. Have left them to the museum to have a brew and read some Sci-Fi in one of the tearooms. Always found Wuthering Heights a bit lacking in laser weapons and intergalactic flight.

A large stone at the back of the Bronte museum inscribed with some text that I assume is a quote from one of their books.

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thatstevegray @thatstevegray.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

You can have your Blur and Oasis, this is the best thing to come out of Britpop by a country mile.

A record player, playing Elastica’s “Elastica” album, with the record sleeve just to the right of it.

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thatstevegray @thatstevegray.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

David Byrne, absolute legend. What a show in Manchester tonight.

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thatstevegray @thatstevegray.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

I know Amazon are famed for their snappy deliveries, but this is a new one on me.

A vinyl copy of Masters Of Reality by Black Sabbath which has been snapped in two by a clumsy Amazon delivery person.

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thatstevegray @thatstevegray.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

24 years ago, the wife talked me into chucking away my collection of tapes. “It’s all on CD now” I remember her saying. Spent a good chunk of the last few years replacing most of it on vinyl, but today I’ve opened up a new front on my musical reminiscences. Tactile audio heaven.

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thatstevegray @thatstevegray.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Pretty good update of choose life

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thatstevegray @thatstevegray.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Just having a scroll through eBay and thought I’d spotted a @warringtonruncorn.com variant that I’d somehow missed

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thatstevegray @thatstevegray.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Finally got my authentic 70’s speakers hooked up to my authentic 70’s amp so I’ve no choice really but to pump the new @warringtonruncorn.com through them! Very happy!

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thatstevegray @thatstevegray.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

There’s always one track on a @warringtonruncorn.com album that makes me go ‘chuff me, that’s a belter!’. Looks like it’s Renewal and Regeneration on the new Public Works and Utilities record. #belter