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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 10h
You know some of those 60's musicians who took LSD and it sort of altered them forever? That's what I expect for Ross Kemp on The Traitors. A decade from now, paranoid to high heaven about EVERYTHING. Why did that man hold the door open? It's raining!? Has milk always been that white?
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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 10h
You know some of those 60's musicians who took LSD and it sort of altered them forever? That's what I expect for Ross Kemp on The Traitors. A decade from now, paranoid to high heaven about EVERYTHING. Why did that man hold the door open? It's raining!? Has milk always been that white?
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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Besides Childline (obvs), that clip of Esther Rantzen getting arrested for obstruction is my favourite thing of hers. The way she rather sardonically responds in that slightly posh put upon way is hilarious. Especially sticking her head out the window. Pernod, ouzo, marmalade and salt all round!
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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Besides Childline (obvs), that clip of Esther Rantzen getting arrested for obstruction is my favourite thing of hers. The way she rather sardonically responds in that slightly posh put upon way is hilarious. Especially sticking her head out the window. Pernod, ouzo, marmalade and salt all round!
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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Last time I cleared an attic in France, I found 20 years worth of far-right newspapers. Today? A vintage 1988 edition of French jazz mag/art pamphlet 'Pulsions' Or as it's described by the French, a 'pop-culture and adult-education magazine.' "We've got 30p and a second hand copy of Pulsions"
Last time I cleared an attic in France, I found 20 years worth of far-right newspapers. 

Today? A vintage 1988 edition of French jazz mag/art pamphlet 'Pulsions'

Or as it's described by the French, "a pop-culture and adult-education magazine"

"We've got 30p and a second hand copy of Pulsions"
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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Last time I cleared an attic in France, I found 20 years worth of far-right newspapers. Today? A vintage 1988 edition of French jazz mag/art pamphlet 'Pulsions' Or as it's described by the French, a 'pop-culture and adult-education magazine.' "We've got 30p and a second hand copy of Pulsions"
Last time I cleared an attic in France, I found 20 years worth of far-right newspapers. 

Today? A vintage 1988 edition of French jazz mag/art pamphlet 'Pulsions'

Or as it's described by the French, "a pop-culture and adult-education magazine"

"We've got 30p and a second hand copy of Pulsions"
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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
You know what we don't talk enough about? Stars in Their Eyes does Band Aid All the stars are here. Bassey, Jagger, Cliff, Elton, Tina Turner, George Michael, Hucknall, Lennon & McCartney, Bryan Ferry, De Burgh... Fred West as Tom Jones. 📣We UsED tO bE a pRoPEr CoUnTRy
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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
My primary school headmaster was called Michael Jackson, when he'd take assembly, he'd do stories in a sort of Roger de Coursey / Nookie Bear style with a stuffed gorilla. I'm assuming a gorilla was just different enough from a monkey should the other MJ's lawyers descend upon Warrington.
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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
You know what we don't talk enough about? Stars in Their Eyes does Band Aid All the stars are here. Bassey, Jagger, Cliff, Elton, Tina Turner, George Michael, Hucknall, Lennon & McCartney, Bryan Ferry, De Burgh... Fred West as Tom Jones. 📣We UsED tO bE a pRoPEr CoUnTRy
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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Look, I don't know much about Ed Sheeran, I don't listen to his music and don't pay attention to when his music gets celebrated or pelted. But I do know he has FUCK YOU money. And, if I had fuck you money, I'd say FUCK YOU because I had the influence to say fuck you and not be a little weasel.
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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
You know what we don't talk enough about? 80's homoerotic pro wrestling vignettes PART 2 Designed to introduce new 'heartthrob' wrestlers to an area, and especially to appeal to female fans to attend the live shows, promoters would make these vignettes to sell them and well... Judge for yourself.
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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Since Peter J. Hammond has popped up today because he's not dead, here's one of the many off-kilter episodes he wrote for The Bill. Hammond always wrote my favourite episodes. They're uneasy slightly otherworldly mysteries, yet grounded in a gritty police serial. Well worth 23 minutes of your time.
youtu.be
The Bill - Season 4 Episode 44 | Guessing Game (1988)
YouTube video by The Bill
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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Honestly, you don't need AI to know what you'd look like in the 80's. Look, here's what I'd look like without wasting a few gallons of data.
It's me and an old picture of Peter Sutcliffe. Not taken together or at the same place, I must stress.
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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I'm a big fan of when a band out of fashion has a proper out of nowhere return to form/comeback hit. Anyone got more good examples? I always think of Duran Duran. Completely out of fashion, the Smash Hits crowd had buggered off and then they drop 'Ordinary World' and rightly got a deserved hit.
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Duran Duran - Ordinary World (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by DuranDuranVEVO
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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Very gutted to hear about the sudden passing of Andy Williams aka AEW wrestler 'The Butcher.' Seemed like a lovely fella, also played guitar for Every Time I Die. Great that he got to live two dreams simultaneously. Just look at him! What a perfect look for a pro wrestler. 48 is tragically young.
Very gutted to hear about the sudden passing of Andy Williams aka AEW wrestler 'The Butcher.' Seemed like a lovely fella, also played guitar for Every Time I Die. Great that he got to live two dreams simultaneously. Just look at him! What a perfect look for a pro wrestler. 48 is tragically young.
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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Very gutted to hear about the sudden passing of Andy Williams aka AEW wrestler 'The Butcher.' Seemed like a lovely fella, also played guitar for Every Time I Die. Great that he got to live two dreams simultaneously. Just look at him! What a perfect look for a pro wrestler. 48 is tragically young.
Very gutted to hear about the sudden passing of Andy Williams aka AEW wrestler 'The Butcher.' Seemed like a lovely fella, also played guitar for Every Time I Die. Great that he got to live two dreams simultaneously. Just look at him! What a perfect look for a pro wrestler. 48 is tragically young.
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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I absolutely adore the lack of subtitly in 80's professional wrestling. Par example, here is a wrestler billed from Cuba called Gustavo Mendoza. He's decided to wear this lovely jacket to just make sure the fans live in Tulsa, Oklahoma are aware that he's the bad guy in this match.
A wrestler working under a Cuban gimmick wearing a jacket with "NUCLEAR WEAPONS" on the back

I absolutely adore the lack of subtitly in 80's professional wrestling. 

Par example, here is a wrestler billed from Cuba called Gustavo Mendoza. He's decided to wear this lovely jacket to just make sure the fans live in Tulsa, Oklahoma are aware that he's the bad guy in this match.
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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Chris Langham is a very good example that you can leave a CV of really great performances that regardless get completely eroded with the use of 'but' immediately after and then listing his horrible criminal convictions. The only grievers are just weird overpaid chinstrokers writing shite columns.
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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Talking to an old pal telling me about an issue with their neighbour about a garden hedge boundary line, so I can't wait to hear this minor issue evolve into taking over their lives for the next 10 years because the British proper LOVE a land dispute where both parties refuse to concede. Love it!!
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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Tim Curry was a Warrington lad just like me. An incredibly skilled actor and delightful ham. Excellent at both. It's such a minor moment in his CV, but his delivery of 'I LOVE YOU' from Home Alone 2 never fails to make me laugh, the dripping insincerity of it is wonderful. You were fantastic Tim!
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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
@davidbix.com You'll know. I'm currently watching the whole of the Memphis studio shows from 1986 on YouTube. What other eras, years or compilations on there are worth a go from Memphis if you can point me to any channels on there?
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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
A pathetic hill I will die on is the worst genre of movie is the knowingly deliberately bad movie. Your rubbish like the Sharknado series or those sci-fi films called "Mega Python Vs Lizard Fanny" or whatever. Where they wink at you like they're Eric Idle going "look how bad the movie is eh, eh!" 🔽
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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
You know what we don't talk enough about? 80's homoerotic pro wrestling vignettes. Designed to introduce new 'heartthrob' wrestlers to an area, and especially to appeal to female fans to attend the live shows, promoters would make these vignettes to sell them and well... Judge for yourself.
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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Tony Scannell would have been 81 today. My favourite character from The Bill. DS Ted Roach is one of the all time best TV coppers.
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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Podcast recommendations 🔽 Need new stuff. No comics interview comics banter casts or anything from the Beeb or official shit. Like obscure pop culture, history, bit of true crime, slightly off-piste humour. Don't just give a name, at least a brief explanation. Help an audiophile out!!!
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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Scrolling YouTube and I'm happy to announce that AI slop thumbnails have peaked. It's never topping this!
A terrible AI generated thumbnail of the 90s ITV show The Upper Hand, because she's dead, Honor Blackman has a pair of angels wings and whichever McGann brother it is, maybe Joe, he's wearing an England kit, because his character was an ex-footballer. He never played for England but nevermind, just think how much energy this fucking shit wasted. What a world!
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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Incredibly shit news. Great in everything. Hope she enjoys whatever time she has left to the fullest.
bbc.com
Lucy Davis: The Office actress says she has 'incurable' cancer
Davis, who played receptionist Dawn in the UK sitcom, says the cancer has spread and it's "too late for chemo".
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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
39 today. Birthday af! 🎂
Me lying on a bed next to a sleeping beagle.
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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
39 today. Birthday af! 🎂
Me lying on a bed next to a sleeping beagle.
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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Aww, Kevin Keegan.
youtu.be
Kevin Keegan - Head Over Heels In Love (1979)
YouTube video by Musikladen
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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Aww, Kevin Keegan.
youtu.be
Kevin Keegan - Head Over Heels In Love (1979)
YouTube video by Musikladen
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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Honestly I think original Britpop and their sometimes very pious audience TRULY died when Daphne and Celeste absolutely mugged them off by no selling that bottling. Absolutely heroes #totp
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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Me at every World Cup "It's coming home... It's still coming home... ... It's not coming home... ... just like Dad"
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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
You know what we don't talk enough about? That BBC stars sing 'Wonderwall' clip that got taken down really quickly because it sucked and England lost. Well here you go! Worse than that 'Imagine' video. Worse than Captain Tom's daughter. They should all be facing charges at The Hague.
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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
"Fucking hell, Look at the size of his cock!" said the midwife who delivered me, "it looks like he's got three legs" Rik Mayall - Bigger than Hitler, Better than Christ.
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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
A problem with pro wrestling is a normal sentence in that world reads as completely bonkers to a non-fan. Like when you say "So Hulk Hogan had this best friend right, but he was also like a valet and a bag carrier for all his drugs. Oh and he was called BRUTUS BEEFCAKE." Mental industry.
Brutus Beefcake and Hulk Hogan 

The problem with pro wrestling is a normal sentence in that world reads as completely bonkers to a non-fan.

Like when you say "So Hulk Hogan had this best friend right, but he was also like a valet and a bag carrier for all his drugs. Oh and he was called BRUTUS BEEFCAKE." 

Mental industry.
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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Can anyone smarter than me basically answer my theory that this will just make the arts even more exclusively attainable and dominated by posh c**ts???
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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Currently compiling a sequel to this ridiculous waste of time, so if anyone knows a real obscure charity/celebrity supergroup drop us a DM.
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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Cannot wait to hear the Cape Verde diss track on Taylor Swift's next album after upstaging her wedding day #worldcup
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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Decided I'm going to binge re-watch The Comic Strip Presents. What are your favourites and maybe underappreciated episodes.
The comic strip presents title card
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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Hi everyone, hope you're ok. Look, I'm sure you are all very busy today, but STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING AND READ ONE THE GREATEST WIKIPEDIA ENTRIES YOU'LL EVER SEE!
en.wikipedia.org
La Fistinière - Wikipedia
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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
IT'S THE BIG ONE! I've always wanted to cover the 30 year war between Ken Barlow and Mike Baldwin on Coronation Street. The alpha dogs of the cobbles. So I did, to the sound of Frankie Goes to Hollywood. Enjoy your day!
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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Watched those new docs on Rik Mayall. He's my absolute hero, but I'm a realist about him and feel bad whenever stans give Ade stick for ending the partnership. I can completely understand why he did. After his accident Rik was clearly different and some people seem blinded by hero worship of him.
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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Lot of people going on about the weather being too hot and climate change etc. But let's be honest, if the weather is too much for you, it's because you're too woke. People back in the day could handle it, you can't? Sorry to offend you, but you can't argue with science, facts and being a lil bitch.
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