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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Martin Degville of Sigue Sigue Sputnik having breakfast in a Newcastle B&B, 1986, photo by Homer Sykes.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I have to tell you now that no such undertaking has been received - and that consequently, this country is at war with Piddington.

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Craig Austin @thecraigaustin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Some presumed-lost agit-pop gold recently unearthed in a long overdue domestic sort-out. “I get up, go to work, eat my lunch, come home, cure cancer, that's it”

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Craig Austin @thecraigaustin.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Quick reminder that if your ‘dive bar’ has a big sign outside that says ‘DIVE BAR’, it’s not a dive bar.

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Craig Austin @thecraigaustin.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

The Shards is good. If you dig superficial schlock with a rollicking soundtrack. Which I do.

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Craig Austin @thecraigaustin.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Very much looking forward to seeing Grace Jones tonight, though anyone hoping to see her perform for her entire allotted slot of 90 mins is likely to be disappointed. The last time I saw Grace, she responded to calls for an encore by yelling ‘Go home and f__k!’ into the mic.

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Craig Austin @thecraigaustin.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

The Malibu Diner, Hoboken, NJ (RIP)

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LondonLee @londonlee.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Irish people looking at Boston like “Are we nothing to you now?”

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Craig Austin @thecraigaustin.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Enthralled by Michael Bracewell’s novella ‘The Smiths’ within only a few pages. Opening up as it does with an urban trail that formed the core of my childhood trips to London with my Dad: South Molton Street, Grays antique market, The Hog in the Pound pub.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

with a trillion dollars, elon can pay one million people one million dollars to pretend they are him playing a video game

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Craig Austin @thecraigaustin.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Just received my copy of @4hundredblows.bsky.social’s JFK odyssey. In at number 1 (with a bullet) on my TBR list. Pictured ‘back and to the left’.

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Craig Austin @thecraigaustin.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Southbank Centre, intended as ‘a tonic to the nation’, gets into *reads small-print* ‘dynamic pricing’

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Craig Austin @thecraigaustin.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Truro hotel breakfast waiter to guest: ‘I was going to make you soldiers with your boiled egg, but that’s probably illegal now - because of Keir Starmer’

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Craig Austin @thecraigaustin.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Still reeling from the impromptu display of terrible ‘performance art’ I witnessed at an East London gallery last night.

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Craig Austin @thecraigaustin.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Every time I see Clive Myrie reporting from a potential war zone I take comfort from the fact that he’ll likely be accompanied by the travel alarm clock he once bought from me on eBay.

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Craig Austin @thecraigaustin.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Channel-flipping, and chanced upon a scene in Sex and the City that was filmed in Tortilla Flats. One of the greatest, trashiest joints in all of NYC and now, inevitably, RIP.

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Damon K @dadadrummer.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

I guess even Supreme Court ideologues need to buy and sell on discogs

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Martin Fitzgerald @4hundredblows.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

My new book - The Umbrella Man and Other Stories - is available to pre-order online at @waterstones.bsky.social and, if you hurry, you get 25% off* *Offer available until midnight on the 20th. Just add FEB26 at the checkout to claim your discount www.waterstones.com/book/the-umb...

A draft cover for The Umbrella Man and Other Stories by Martin Fitzgerald

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Craig Austin @thecraigaustin.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Watching the men’s skeleton final.

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Amy Nicholson @theamynicholson.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

I'm sorry, the Washington Post hopes *I* will reconsider the value of their journalists?

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Craig Austin @thecraigaustin.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

The ‘central London pub’ that’s currently hosting Farage’s press conference is The Loose Box on Horseferry Road. Important info for drinkers who may now wish to take their custom elsewhere.

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Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

I’m not sure audiophiles are really audiophiles, I think they’re just rich people.

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Craig Austin @thecraigaustin.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Had two pints and a chat with an old fella in The Laurieston today. Would recommend - not least because they seem to be very much into ‘Black and White’ by The Stranglers.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

no greenlander ever called me a libtard

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Birmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

RIP Kenny Morris. Such sad news. A truly groundbreaking and hugely influential drummer

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Craig Austin @thecraigaustin.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Post a pic of the venue where you saw your first concert, and a picture of the band/artist

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Craig Austin @thecraigaustin.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Scott Walker’s quietly judging me for having over-paid by 65p.

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Sabrina Carpenter's Halloween 🎃 @misslucyp.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Is it possible to watch anything filmed in Scotland without dying of knitwear envy? A nation with the strongest jumper game.

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Craig Austin @thecraigaustin.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Stil thinking about the Double Diamond table we were sat at last night.

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Levi Stahl @levistahl.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Man, Audrey Totter’s line delivery here.

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Craig Austin @thecraigaustin.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Went with Fargo as our post blow-out Christmas dinner film; Marge Gunderson embodying the hope for the future that we all need right now.

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Craig Austin @thecraigaustin.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Saw Rear Window at the cinema last night. A film in which, let’s not forget, an ageing James Stewart is in a relationship with Grace Kelly - but thinks he can do better.

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Craig Austin @thecraigaustin.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Jackie magazine hunks, 1974. Don’t worry, girls - they’re married.

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Craig Austin @thecraigaustin.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

@webuyrecords.bsky.social Dua Lipa album, sealed, and in a locked glass case in my local Cancer Research shop. Zoom in and you’ll note an actual Discogs price history attached to it. Textbook ‘the game’s gone’ stuff!

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Craig Austin @thecraigaustin.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Remembering Malcolm McLaren’s genius turn on ‘The Baron’, one of television’s finest moments. The disparaging cockney voice you can hear at 00:15 is Mike Read’s. youtu.be/ovI-aMzOK14

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Malcolm McLaren, the Baron, 2007

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Dear Auntie You will be surprised to hear that I am going to prison tomorrow.

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Electronic Sound @electronicsound.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW! This month’s Electronic Sound explores the strange and unsettling world of COLD WAR ELECTRONICA and we have a superb 35-track double CD to accompany the mag. Tension! Anxiety! Paranoia! Doom! Gloom! It’s all here! Get your copy at electronicsound.squarespace.com/shop/magazine

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Craig Austin @thecraigaustin.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Bought a record from a pop star at the Groovy Fayre on Saturday. Lawrence’s cheery ‘See you in prison, boys!!’ line reminded me of that time Lionel Blair bumped into The Clash in Glasgow.

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Craig Austin @thecraigaustin.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Lorraine Kelly choosing Grace Jones’s ‘Warm Leatherette’ as one of her Desert Island Discs is a big moment for the transgressive pop music community.

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Craig Austin @thecraigaustin.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

David Speedie, recalling his relationship with ‘the alternative footballer’ Pat Nevin, when they played together at Chelsea.

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Craig Austin @thecraigaustin.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

One of the highlights of 168 Songs, @keithcameron2.bsky.social’s MSP book, is the reference to JDB having attended Hüsker Dü’s 1985 show at the Stow Hill Labour Club - Newport’s own ‘Free Trade Hall’ moment.

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Craig Austin @thecraigaustin.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Hats off to @victoriasegal.bsky.social for sneaking an Earl Brutus quote into a TV review in The Sunday Times.

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Craig Austin @thecraigaustin.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

London’s only democratically elected freakbeat councillor and I are en route to the seaside to meet Brighton’s premier Cwmbran modernist. Feel free to join us in The Cricketers for counter-cultural tales of yore and in-depth discussion about Woodfall Film Productions.

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