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Mark E-ish

@truthinthegroove.bsky.social

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Northern. Anti-fascist. Still laughing, just not sure why. Here for Political Snark and Post Punk fury mostly.

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Alfred Soto @sotoalfred.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

I'm still a FLIP YOUR WIG lad. humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2018/09/21/r...

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Ranking Hüsker Dü albums

Read Ten Thousand Saints if spotted at your local library. A vivid reconstruction of the eighties hardcore scene, Eleanor Henderson’s 2011 novel doesn’t shirk from reporting the gay sex…

Mark E-ish @truthinthegroove.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Farage calls critics “left wing extremists.” Trump calls Democrats “Radical left wing lunatics and the enemy within.” Same hymn, different parish. They need an enemy to sell themselves as saviour. The real fear isn’t violence it’s an organised, coherent left that remembers how to speak.

theguardian.com

Farage criticises ‘disgraceful’ rhetoric after alleged attack on Reform council leader

George Finch, 19, says he was called a ‘racist’ and ‘fascist’ during incident in Warwickshire on Friday

Mark E-ish @truthinthegroove.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Victoria Park, April ’78. Rock Against Racism. The Clash, Steel Pulse, X-Ray Spex, Tom Robinson Band, Buzzcocks. Eighty thousand marched from Trafalgar Square to say no to the National Front. No brands. No sponsors. Genuine question who from today’s scene could’ve stood on that stage?

Mark E-ish @truthinthegroove.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Sonic Youth — “Kool Thing” (1990). Icy bass, guitars that flirt with chaos. Kim’s voice winding around irony like barbed wire. Not a song, a dare.

Sonic Youth Kool Thing

YouTube video by Antitodo Old Punk

Mark E-ish @truthinthegroove.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

The Fall — Totally Wired (1980). You don’t have to be weird to be wired. But it bloody helps. Smith didn’t perform, he twitched truth into rhythm. Sounds like caffeine arguing with God.

The Fall, Totally Wired.

YouTube video by ekompilation

Mark E-ish @truthinthegroove.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Magazine — Shot By Both Sides (live ’79). Devoto sneers like he’s grading the audience. McGeoch turns the guitar into a nervous breakdown. Too clever for punk, too twitchy for pop

Magazine 'Shot By Both Sides' live Belgian TV 1979

YouTube video by Gazely Gaze

Mark E-ish @truthinthegroove.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Mudhoney — Good Enough (1991). Jangle building to a static fuzz, like frustration learning to sing. Still rough, still righteous. Bloody cracking.

Mudhoney - Good Enough (Remastered)

YouTube video by Sub Pop

Mark E-ish @truthinthegroove.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Birdland — Hollow Heart (1989). Birmingham’s answer to The Stooges, or so the papers said. Touted one minute, torn down the next. Burned bright, burned out, left a cracking single behind. Still sounds like promise getting punched in the mouth.

Birdland - Hollow Heart

YouTube video by RevStaplehurst

Mark E-ish @truthinthegroove.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Flag alert. Neville’s no Orwell but he’s not daft. Prod the cloth and they call you a traitor. They’ll call him a wrong un, for stating the bleeding obvious Wave it long enough, it means shut yer gob. Not pride , just noise for gobshites.

theguardian.com

Flag alert! Gary Neville may not be Orwell but he is a very English type of patriot | Barney Ronay

An easy target for accusations of luxury hypocrisy, Neville has at least tried to address an issue that has everything to do with aggressively flag-draped and militarised modern sport

Mark E-ish @truthinthegroove.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

So the enemy is now anyone with a bookshelf. Blames education, fears punctuation. Wants Britain thick, loud and grateful.

Mark E-ish @truthinthegroove.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Funny, innit. Two ex-footballers say something half decent about people and the right wing panic Lineker talks refugees, Neville talks decency, and suddenly it’s war on “woke pundits.” They’re terrified of anyone with a platform who can string a sentence together without blaming immigrants.

Mark E-ish @truthinthegroove.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Buzzcocks. Boredom (1977). Still sharper than most of what passes for rebellion. Two chords, one truth, the future got boring faster than they did.

Buzzcocks - Boredom (1977 Spiral Scratch version)

YouTube video by Soraj Music

Mark E-ish @truthinthegroove.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Bowie . Moonage Daydream (live, ’73). Whole stage looks like it’s running on ego and eyeliner. Mad, messy, brilliant. Like Britain before the hangover.

David Bowie - Moonage Daydream (Live at Hammersmith Odeon, London 1973) [4K Upgrade]

YouTube video by David Bowie

Mark E-ish @truthinthegroove.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

They ask why Thatcher still looms. Because we never scraped her off our shoes. Every lot since just polished the stain and called it progress.

Mark E-ish @truthinthegroove.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Desmond wants £1.3 billion for losing. Fuckers made a fortune floggin’ misery, now havin’ a sulk in Saudi. Built his empire on tits and telly, still reckon’s he’s the victim. We’re all skint, but the bastards want tipping.

theguardian.com

Richard Desmond asks for ‘generosity’ in £1.3bn National Lottery claim

Payout likely to be funded by taxpayers if media mogul wins case against gambling regulator

Mark E-ish @truthinthegroove.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Parallel universe? Nah, Same one, just the lights flickering They’ll cheer a car crash if it’s waving a flag. Badenoch talks bollocks in full HD and they call it vision.

Mark E-ish @truthinthegroove.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Water bills up again. Raw sewage in the rivers, bonuses in the boardroom. We’re paying extra to swim in our own mistakes.

theguardian.com

Millions of households face jump in water bills after regulator backs more price rises

Competition watchdog agrees requests from Anglian, Northumbrian, Southern, Wessex and South East to raise household bills

Mark E-ish @truthinthegroove.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Turdsday it is. The nation’s true religion. Admin, banking, and family diplomacy. Every flag’s a warning sign. Hanging there like the laundry of decline.

Mark E-ish @truthinthegroove.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

The Police. Synchronicity II (1983). Middle management apocalypse set to a hi hat. Office stress, suburban despair, and Sting shouting like he’s late for enlightenment. Still bangs, still bleak.

The Police - Synchronicity II (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by ThePoliceVEVO

Mark E-ish @truthinthegroove.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Soft Cell — Say Hello, Wave Goodbye (1981). Drama in eyeliner form. Two blokes making heartbreak sound like a cabaret exit. Still hurts, still perfect.

Soft Cell - Say Hello, Wave Goodbye

YouTube video by SoftCellVEVO

Mark E-ish @truthinthegroove.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Buzzcocks “Harmony in My Head. 1979” Sounds like a mind in discord, singing back at itself. Let the noise sharpen your hearing.

Buzzcocks - Harmony In My Head (1979) (Stereo)

YouTube video by Strawberries_Ban_Again

Mark E-ish @truthinthegroove.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Cocteau Twins. Heaven or Las Vegas. Sounds like angels on helium arguing in a lift. Dream-pop for people who can’t face daylight. Still glorious, still baffling.

Cocteau Twins - Heaven Or Las Vegas (Official Video)

YouTube video by Cocteau Twins

Mark E-ish @truthinthegroove.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Bauhaus doing Bowie, 1982. Shot under Camden Lock , tunnels, feedback, eyeliner. Ziggy through a hangover, all grandeur, no gloss. They didn’t cover him, they exhumed him.

Bauhaus - Ziggy Stardust HD

YouTube video by Beggars Banquet Records

Mark E-ish @truthinthegroove.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Re my previous post, yeah, that chair. The Maxell ad. If you know, you know. Everyone else? That’s what goths did before ring lights.

Maxell Tape featuring Peter Murphy

YouTube video by Neon Electric

Mark E-ish @truthinthegroove.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Peter Murphy. Cuts You Up. Beautiful melodrama from a man who made a career out of sitting in a leather chair. Still, it bleeds better than most.

Peter Murphy - Cuts You Up (full version video)

YouTube video by Wes Wallace

Mark E-ish @truthinthegroove.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Kate Bush, Army Dreamers. Pretty tune about dead kids.

Kate Bush - Army Dreamers - Official Music Video

YouTube video by KateBushMusic

Mark E-ish @truthinthegroove.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Bronski Beat said more truth in falsetto than most manage sober.

Mark E-ish @truthinthegroove.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

They’re on about keeping pubs open later. Can’t see the point. The 80s and 90s crowd are ready for bed by ten, necks creaking, feet done in. The young ones don’t even drink , they just film the pint and go home. Different century, same bad ideas.

theguardian.com

Pubs to stay open until early hours in push for UK growth

Exclusive: Plans for England and Wales would help ailing hospitality sector but health experts criticise plans

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Mark E-ish @truthinthegroove.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

World’s gone daft and half burnt. Everyone’s arguing with the weather. Anyway, here’s Hüsker Dü. Louder than reason, shorter than hope.

Husker Du - Don't Want to Know If you are Lonely

YouTube video by jat13

Mark E-ish @truthinthegroove.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Starmer says Jenrick’s not serious. He’s serious about one thing, the till. They’ve done the maths racism pays. If not that, it’s just racism. Either way, the bill lands on us.

theguardian.com

Starmer says Jenrick is ‘hard to take seriously’ after Birmingham comments

PM says Jenrick is ‘still running his leadership campaign’ after he complained about ‘not seeing another white face’

Mark E-ish @truthinthegroove.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Stiff Little Fingers “Bits of Kids.” Still rattles like a bin in a gale. A song about growing up angry and staying there. Same riff, different decade. The country never did tidy its room.

Bits of Kids (2002 Remaster)

YouTube video by Stiff Little Fingers - Topic

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Mark E-ish @truthinthegroove.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Britain’s flirting with the far right again. Waving flags for people who’d sell the poles. Thinks it’s rebellion. It’s just goose ,stepping with better branding.

Mark E-ish @truthinthegroove.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Leatherface. “Baked Potato.” Sounds like someone wired guilt to a generator. Three chords, one grudge. Heartbreak in work boots. Proper music no filter, no feelings, just fumes.

Leatherface - Baked Potato

YouTube video by Spiderhead1000

Mark E-ish @truthinthegroove.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Julian Cope “Safesurfer.” Wired, weird, and glorious. Idiot son of Donkey Kong. You wouldn’t trust him with a plug, but you’d still listen.

Julian Cope - Safesurfer

YouTube video by Revolutionary Spirit

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Mark E-ish @truthinthegroove.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Jenrick visits Birmingham, forgets it’s not the 1950s. “No white faces,” he moans, like diversity nicked his wallet. Toxic nationalism in a cheap suit, shouting at reality for moving on.

theguardian.com

Robert Jenrick accused of fuelling ‘toxic nationalism’ with Birmingham claims

Shadow justice secretary stands by comments made in March amid criticism including from a Tory colleague

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Mark E-ish @truthinthegroove.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

“ Kennedy .” The Wedding Present doing their usual, guitars like scaffolding collapsing in 4/4. A love song for people who flinch at daylight. If misery had manners, it’d sound like this. youtu.be/PuNYyNqCSSg?...

The Wedding Present - Kennedy

YouTube video by WeddingPresentVEVO

Mark E-ish @truthinthegroove.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Jenrick squints at Birmingham like he’s spotted aliens in a chippy. Badenoch nods , calls it “factual.” Yeah. Facts from the dark ages.

Mark E-ish @truthinthegroove.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

"Ain’t no funk on the mothership for Zelensky. Trump & JD Vance rolling out the red carpet for Putin while throwing Ukraine out the airlock. Betrayal so deep even George Clinton couldn’t funkify it. America’s ship got hijacked—who’s really the Star Child here?" Mothership Connection (Star Child)

Parliament - Mothership Connection (Star Child)

YouTube video by koollatter

Mark E-ish @truthinthegroove.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Roberta Flack (1937–2025) I won’t be the first or last to post her songs today, but I’m playing Compared to What. If you’ve heard it, you know. If you haven’t, you really should. A voice, a message, a legacy. #RobertaFlack #ComparedToWhat

Compared to What

YouTube video by Roberta Flack - Topic

Mark E-ish @truthinthegroove.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

They told you to trust them. They told you they had your back. But when the deal went down, they left you out in the cold. Trump rolls out the red carpet for Putin while pulling the rug from under Ukraine and NATO. Ain’t no loyalty in a rigged game. #Ukraine #NATO #Putin #Betrayal #PublicEnemy

Public Enemy - Can't Truss It

YouTube video by PublicEnemyVEVO

Mark E-ish @truthinthegroove.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Measles makin’ a comeback like a bad B-side—West Texas lightin’ up with 48 cases, most unvaxxed. Science gave us the cure, but fear sold folks a lie. Now kids pay the price. Ain’t no funk in a hospital bed—when will we wake up? #MeaslesOutbreak #WestTexas #VaccinesSave #SoulOfScience

Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes - Wake Up Everybody (Official Soul Train Video)

YouTube video by Philadelphia International Records

Mark E-ish @truthinthegroove.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

They’re not even trying to hide it anymore. JD Vance just broke the firewall and met with Germany’s far-right AfD leader. The Trump admin is openly backing Europe’s most toxic parties while snubbing key allies. The mask is off. History warns us—are we listening? #SteelPulse #KuKluxKlan #Facists

YouTube video by Steel Pulse - Topic

Mark E-ish @truthinthegroove.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

JD Vance stormed into Munich like a wrecking ball, not to build bridges but to burn ‘em down. No unity, no diplomacy—just fire and fury against Europe’s leaders. Russia’s smirking, America’s alliances are trembling, and history’s whispering, "We’ve seen this before..." #War #SlippingIntoDarkness

Slippin' Into Darkness

YouTube video by War - Topic

Mark E-ish @truthinthegroove.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Superbad Newswire: Appeasement, Track on Repeat "Trump hands Putin a deal, with Ukraine locked outside the room. History’s seen this before—when the powerful carve up nations in the name of ‘peace,’ the next war is already set in motion. Munich ‘38 all over again, but will the world hit rewind.

Smiling Faces Sometimes

YouTube video by The Temptations - Topic

Mark E-ish @truthinthegroove.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Superbad Newswire: Trump’s Nuclear Bargain "Trump talking big on cutting nukes with Russia & China—but history’s seen this dance before. Funkateers, when the world teeters on the edge, do we trust the dealer or brace for the fall?" #Trump #Russia #China #Funkadelic #MaggotBrain #PowerMoves

Funkadelic - Maggot Brain [HQ]

YouTube video by NickMystic

Mark E-ish @truthinthegroove.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Superbad Newswire: Border Brawls & GOP Showdowns "Immigration raids ramp up, GOP battles itself over border funding, and Trump’s losing patience. Funkateers, when the fight ain’t just with the enemy but inside the house, who walks away standing?" #Deportation #GOP #LupeFiasco #WordsINeverSaid

Lupe Fiasco - Words I Never Said ft. Skylar Grey [Music Video]

YouTube video by Lupe Fiasco

Mark E-ish @truthinthegroove.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Superbad Newswire: Musk’s DOJ Vanishing Act "Federal probes into Musk’s empire? Gone. Tesla, SpaceX, X—free to roam. Funkateers, when the billionaires rewrite the rules, justice ain't blind—it’s just looking the other way." #Musk #DOJ #PowerPlay #Corruption #BlackStar #ThievesInTheNight

Blackstar - Thieves in the Night

YouTube video by Chitenza

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Mark E-ish @truthinthegroove.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Superbad Newswire: Gaza Gambit Gets Wild "Trump flip-flops on Gaza: First, he wants to buy it. Now, he says America’s just gonna take it. Funkateers, when the plan changes with the wind, whose future gets blown away?" #Trump #Gaza #PowerPlay #SuperbadNewswire #Politics #MosDef #Mathematics

Mos Def - Mathematics

YouTube video by FleryCz

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Mark E-ish @truthinthegroove.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Superbad Newswire: Judges Push Back, Trump Claps Back "Trump ain’t happy with judges blocking his moves—hinting they might be the next ‘problem’ to solve. Funkateers, when justice ain’t untouchable, what’s left to hold the line?" #Trump #Judges #Justice #TheRoots #Courts #LegalBattle #Democracy

The Roots - How I Got Over (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by TheRootsVEVO

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Mark E-ish @truthinthegroove.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Superbad Newswire: Musk Runs the Show "Trump sits tight while Musk holds court in the Oval, cracking jokes, basking in the limelight. Funkateers, when the billionaire babysits the president, who’s really calling the shots?" #ThePeople #Common #PowerPlay #Politics #OvalOffice #WhoRunsIt

Common - The People (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by CommonVEVO

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