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The Loving Palms @thelovingpalms.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

@nigetassell.bsky.social the staff of Waterstones in Newcastle seemed to have placed a certain book at eye height as you walk in. I wonder if a certain reputedly frequent bearded customer has seen it?

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The Loving Palms @thelovingpalms.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I read @graemethomson.bsky.social new book ‘In Another World’ about Talk Talk and Mark Hollis. It really opened up their music to me in a new way. I plan to read it again. Highly recommended #talktalk #inanotherworld

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The Loving Palms @thelovingpalms.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

@nigetassell.bsky.social Just finished Truly Gifted Kids. Fantastic, thank you. Loved the structure. I will tell all my Sprout friends to buy it and if they invent a time machine ill travel back to Hexham and get a pint and say congratulations #prefabsprout #trulygiftedkids

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The Loving Palms @thelovingpalms.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

August 1989 sitting in a Bills Happy Hours hostel in Amsterdam with my friends and some fun Italian guys from Milan partaking in ‘tea time’ with this playing on a cassette player - a different world and yet … youtu.be/0Jnqz62d9oM?...

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YouTube video by Miles Davis - Topic

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The Loving Palms @thelovingpalms.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Such sad news about John Douglas - songwriter and guitarist with Trashcan Sinatras. His and his band mates talent isn’t recognised as widely as it could but I love their music. First saw them in their youthful 1990 spot supporting Prefab Sprout and later at bbc5 fest and finally in Runcorn.

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The Loving Palms @thelovingpalms.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Magnificent performance from England but please please stop singing Wonderwall.

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The Loving Palms @thelovingpalms.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Screw the US football crowd booing the Iran team - ‘help is coming’ was Trumps statement. Horrible

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The Loving Palms @thelovingpalms.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Final song of the (to date) last ever Prefab Sprout gig. They really go for it and it contain the line ‘lesson two you’re Neneh Cherry, but tomorrow maybe not’ www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-5q... #prefabsprout

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Prefab Sprout's last concert: Live at Fleadh Festival (2000) (Full Recording)

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The Loving Palms @thelovingpalms.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

A great Saturday spent at The Fall Futures and Past event at @bandonthewall.bsky.social Manchester- here some photos: Grant Showbiz, Una Baines’ band Poppycock, Jim Moir and the performance of Hey! Luciani

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The Loving Palms @thelovingpalms.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

For a brief period the Leeds / Steely Dan fusion was real. We had a bad called Dr Wu, a label called Bad Sneakers, a patisserie called Cathy Berberian, and a restaurant called Gaucho. One of these is a lie. #steelydan #leeds

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The Loving Palms @thelovingpalms.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Spare ticket going for Adam Buxton at Leeds Brudenell on Saturday 2nd May. Face value. Let me now if you are interested #adambuxton #leeds #brudenell

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The Loving Palms @thelovingpalms.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

My friend has a spare ticket for Tim Key in Leeds tomorrow night - selling it at face value if anyone is interested #timkey #leeds

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The Loving Palms @thelovingpalms.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Attended my first Fairport Convention gig earlier this week. Superb. Really enjoyed @jennbutterworth.bsky.social who was their guest. Here’s her great version of a Sandy song youtu.be/jjkXOw371tc?...

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All Our Days - Jenn Butterworth - Lyric Video

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Dr. Skylar Grayson @skylargrayson.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

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The Loving Palms @thelovingpalms.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Podcast idea ‘The Rest is Cheese’ hosted by Stephen Fry and Robyn Hitchcock @robynhitchcock.bsky.social @stephenfry.bsky.social

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The Loving Palms @thelovingpalms.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Northern Lights - Hrafnagja, Iceland

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The Loving Palms @thelovingpalms.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

So Super Bowl started in 1966 and is named after a toy, it lasts 3hrs and 37 minutes but the sport part lasts 60 minutes (30 minutes per half) with a 30 minute half time break? What’s the attraction?

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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 28/01/2026

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

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The Loving Palms @thelovingpalms.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

“From station to station, back to Düsseldorf City. Meet Iggy Pop and David Bowie. Trans-Europe Express” youtu.be/PHiN26vn2ec?...

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Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express (LP Version) [FLAC, CD Rip]

YouTube video by The Kraftwerk Database

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TEATLES @teatles.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

The other two, plus tea cup

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 12/01/2026

‘There is a distinction between AI safety, which is hypothetical, and AI harm, which is happening now. For one thing, much of the data on which AI models have been trained is stolen – including, as it happens, from me.’ John Lanchester on the AI bubble. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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John Lanchester · King of Cannibal Island: Will the AI bubble burst?

Nvidia shares are the purest bet you can make on the impact of AI. The leading firms are lending money to one another in...

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The Loving Palms @thelovingpalms.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Bowie - The Final Act. Cheap stock footage, recycling a small batch of still photographs, low quality rendering of original Bowie videos like someone filmed YouTube on a phone. Over reliance on Earl Slick and Mike Garson and having them comment on records they didn’t play on. (1/2)

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Rob Chapman @scribblerrob.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

My quartet of self-published books. That's four in six years, two memoirs two novels. And I have two more (possibly three) planned. I'm 71. As you can see I'm not about to go gently.... Available for podcasts and festival marquee yacking.

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Mark Lewisohn @marklewisohn.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

The word is that I’ve a 'movie' out shortly. It's true. My 2022 theatre show The Beatles / Evolver:62 was filmed, and selections from that + new material shot in Liverpool and London comprise a feature that'll be streaming from Feb 2026. More details to follow, sample here vimeo.com/1023543808?f...

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Evolver : 62 Promo

60 sec trailer for the forthcoming feature length documentary The Beatles Evolver: 62 with Mark Lewisohn Director / Camera / Editor: Chris Purcell Producer / Camera:…

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The Loving Palms @thelovingpalms.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Boxing Day is the best of the holidays - time to reset with European cities and Kraftwerk soundtrack

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The Loving Palms @thelovingpalms.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Consigned to bed with heavy duty man flu and forced to read Paul Hanley’s Have a Bleedin’ Guess and listen to Hex Enduction Hour

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The Loving Palms @thelovingpalms.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Sky sports narrative about Man United = manager must adapt formation to align with our pundits, Mainoo is now prime Roy Keane. Never ending bullshit

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The Loving Palms @thelovingpalms.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Went to the opening of the Xmas tree festival at St John’s Knaresborough last night. I’m not religious but was hugely impressed by the displays from organisations who help people in need and those who are often forgotten by this nasty world we live in #stjohns #knaresborough #xmastreefestival

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Rob Chapman @scribblerrob.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Sold a copy of Unsung Unsaid y/day. Nothing remarkable in that but it now means there hasn't been a single month in the 2 years since publication where I've failed to sell a copy. Why not buy one for Xmas for that meta-fiction fan in your life? 800+ people already have. x

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The Loving Palms @thelovingpalms.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

International break + train cancellations + that man in the White House + all the shitty brexity little Englander crap + the cold rain = argh - but look what’s this? In our hour of need they return once again to help us youtu.be/UpCwdkGby6E?... #thebeatles

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The Beatles Anthology | Official Trailer | Disney+

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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

And now, live from Orkney for #StandingStoneSunday, the Stenness 360.

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The Loving Palms @thelovingpalms.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Queuing for Bob Dylan at Leeds. Hard Rain, Shelter from The storm etc… Loved the gig. No phones made a huge difference. Staring at that small figure on stage and remembering everything he’s done said and written you do feel In the presence of greatness

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Ant ★ Mixless @mixless.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

A sonic tonic - brand new song from William Doyle, released as part of Tough Love 20th anniversary comp. This is tremendous ❤️ @william-doyle.co.uk toughloverecords.bandcamp.com/track/willia...

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William Doyle - The Sun Ain't Doing It For Me Lately, by Tough Love

from the album V/A - Tough Love 20: Don't Do Anything Important With Anybody Else

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