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Steve Spithray

@underthehills.net
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Freelance writer and music industry adjacent editor of repute | #pressonbook OUT NOW | press at Mbro Gigs, KU bio.site/underthehills

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Steve Spithray @underthehills.net · 20h
I am old enough to remember when Nadia was the people’s champion on Big Brother 😞 #GoNads
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Steve Spithray @underthehills.net · 30/09/2026
Get the autumnal squashes in lads
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Steve Spithray @underthehills.net · 27/09/2026
It’s my birthday next Saturday. Stupidly excited to spend it seeing the Turner Prize in my adopted home town followed by a selection of Japanese small plates (then problees a bottle of cheap white wine at home) 🤷‍♂️
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Steve Spithray @underthehills.net · 26/09/2026
It would be cool if they, um, you know, put some nice policies together first
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Steve Spithray @underthehills.net · 26/09/2026
And even if they throw the book at City and deduct them 50 points with a massive fine, they can still concentrate on the cup to still get into Europe and will only spend one season in the EFL. It only sends a message to smaller clubs who can’t afford to take that risk 🤷‍♂️
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Steve Spithray @underthehills.net · 25/09/2026
Also, don’t tell me they are guilty today and then the punishment next month. I want the full dopamine hit of the story and a fifty point deduction all at once
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Steve Spithray @underthehills.net · 25/09/2026
It’s this leaking of information again in order to judge people’s reactions before deciding the ultimate outcome. Well I’m saying the only thing can salvage the integrity of the premier league now is Man City being docked ONE MILLION POINTS www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Have they not entertained the fact that could be the real Batman, visiting Norwich for bat-reasons?
eveningnews24.co.uk
The Dark Knight of Norwich? Fancy-dress Batman hunts down thief
A partygoer dressed as Batman turned detective when he chased down a thief who stole a woman’s handbag in Norwich.
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Steve Spithray @underthehills.net · 24/09/2026
Burn (as I believe is the parlance of the day)
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Steve Spithray @underthehills.net · 24/09/2026
I know what you are thinking. I should have battered it 😞
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Steve Spithray @underthehills.net · 24/09/2026
Map nerd here 🙋‍♂️
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Steve Spithray @underthehills.net · 24/09/2026
Absolutely bang on the button. Every paragraph makes an essential point…
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Steve Spithray @underthehills.net · 23/09/2026
Me: I love autumn, it’s my favourite season Also me: *shivering at my desk in full North Face Everest kit and fingerless gloves*
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Steve Spithray @underthehills.net · 22/09/2026
Reposting for the shits (and to remind me to think about submitting)
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Steve Spithray @underthehills.net · 21/09/2026
This. There is some great stuff in Kenny Shopsin’s book. Legend was he made the best food in the Lower East Side because he hustled the best produce every morning at market…
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Steve Spithray @underthehills.net · 21/09/2026
Still thinking about my mixed veg karai that didn’t turn up on Saturday night :(
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Steve Spithray @underthehills.net · 21/09/2026
Wack pizza distro Tesco
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Euan Healey @euanhealey.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is bad, don't get me wrong, but this was only one week away from one of the worst mistakes of all time!
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Steve Spithray @underthehills.net · 18/09/2026
Oooops
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Steve Spithray @underthehills.net · 17/09/2026
www.maptap.gg September 17 99🔥 100🎯 98🔥 100🎯 86😁 Final score: 953
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Every new dinosaur thing is like the Tyrannosaurus Rex wore short sleeved dress shirts and worked as a paralegal
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Steve Spithray @underthehills.net · 14/09/2026
The seventy quid tickets are a Tuesday in Las Vegas only kind of thing?
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Steve Spithray @underthehills.net · 14/09/2026
And fuck that guy Sheeran too
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Steve Spithray @underthehills.net · 14/09/2026
So many gig ticket registrations I secretly pray don’t succeed
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Steve Spithray @underthehills.net · 14/09/2026
About to reread Another Bullshit Night In Suck City by Nick Flynn. A very dark memoir if memory serves correct
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Steve Spithray @underthehills.net · 14/09/2026
Yep, one of the benefits of AI to the billionaires is to flood the internet with some much fake shit as to make it - eventually - virtually unusable for the majority of us
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Steve Spithray @underthehills.net · 13/09/2026
It’s about this time on a Sunday that I like a large bowl of jam and custard
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Steve Spithray @underthehills.net · 09/09/2026
5-3 just makes both teams look shit though
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Steve Spithray @underthehills.net · 09/09/2026
This website is amazing. It has a timeline of everything that has ever happened since the big bang. See you in six months histography.io
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Histography - Timeline of History
Histography is an interactive timeline that spans across 14 billion years of history, from the Big Bang to 2015
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Steve Spithray @underthehills.net · 06/09/2026
cul-de-sac life
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Steve Spithray @underthehills.net · 06/09/2026
Finished my GCSEs and played it every day of the summer (1991)
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Josh Luke Davis 🏳️‍🌈 @joshlukedavis.com · 05/09/2026
*of course* this is the telegraph's angle to this story 🤦‍♀️
Guardian headline to the UN vote to update the world map reading "UN votes to adopt new world map that shows Africa's true size".BBC headline to the UN vote to update the world map reading "UN votes to adopt new world map to reflect Africa's true size".The Telegraph headline to the UN vote to update the world map reading "UN votes to 'reduce size of Britain and US' in new map".
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Leigh Jones @leighsus.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I wrote today's edition of @theleaduk.bsky.social looking at everything that's happened over the last fortnight in Teesside. Most of my writing over the last couple of years has been straight reporting, but this is a bit of a departure.
national.thelead.uk
The death of seven people in one night has exposed the dark underbelly of life Teessiders have known for years
Extreme child poverty and rampant deprivation, coupled with police funding for a rural area rather than the metropolitan levels of crime being faced have been brought into focus by the A66 death crash
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Steve Spithray @underthehills.net · 04/09/2026
CHIPPY TEA
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Steve Spithray @underthehills.net · 04/09/2026
For years I’ve wondered whether Farage really believes the hateful bile he spouts. Pretty sure he’s just an anarchist. Either way he’s toast now
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Steve Spithray @underthehills.net · 04/09/2026
This was too hard. Total blag today www.maptap.gg September 4 97🏅 99🔥 74🤗 80✨ 79👏 Final score: 821
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Steve Spithray @underthehills.net · 31/08/2026
Samesies but weighted more towards Teesside: Motherman Primitive Glad Town Ghost Abigail Harris (DJ) Dossers Risco Onlooker Tom Blackwell Loren Heat Ivan The Tolerable
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Steve Spithray @underthehills.net · 31/08/2026
Trying to finish Vonnegut’s Galapagos again. Not as enjoyable as first time round 😞
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Harbourmaster Productions @harbourmasterrr.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I'm doing this, but with local (North East UK-ish) acts that you might like to check out. Still 10, still acts I've seen live: 90BRO Marq Electronica Amateur Ornithologist Dinky Bossetti Leopard Print Trev Gibb Akam Class Gymnast Detroit Tourist Board Ruby Kelly
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Steve Spithray @underthehills.net · 31/08/2026
Will get on this tomorrow, like. And big up 90BRO and Amatuer Ornithologist in advance…
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
It's the only global what....?
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Denmark, particularly in Copenhagen, has installed floating platforms/islands planted with wildflowers and native vegetation in its harbors and canals. These create safe urban habitats and sanctuaries for birds, bees, pollinators, insects, and even some aquatic life. Original post
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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
What the hell is going on in Middlesbrough at the moment
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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Absolutely *fuck* the US news networks. The level of disrespect it takes to use someone’s death to ventriloquise them into a kind of trumpist acceptability that they ABSOLUTELY didn’t represent. Within a *day*.
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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Dolly Parton’s “Jolene” Slowed Down to 33 RPM Sounds Great and Takes on New, Unexpected Meanings (RIP) www.openculture.com/2026/08/doll...
openculture.com
Dolly Parton’s “Jolene” Slowed Down to 33 RPM Sounds Great and Takes on New, Unexpected Meanings (RIP)
Note: We were sad to see the news that Dolly Parton passed away. Today we are bringing back one of our favorite Dolly Parton posts. She will be missed. The Walrus is… Dolly Parton?
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Steve Spithray @underthehills.net · 25/08/2026
My Dolly Parton anecdote is just that me and my missus were at the famous Glasto set. It was red hot and so dangerously overcrowded (just behind the break barrier) that we had to leave and listen from the hill next to the ice cream van. And, it was glorious. Godspeed queen
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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton rose from poverty to stardom. She gave $500 to every student in her hometown who finished high school; she built hospitals & bald eagle preserves; her Imagination Library has gifted 300 million books to children. Roger Ebert met her and came away thinking she was a literal angel. RIP.
“In Dallas for the premier of '9 to 5', I had an uncanny experience, and on the plane home to Chicago I confessed it to Siskel: I had been granted a private half hour with Dolly Parton, and as we spoke I was filled with a strange ethereal grace. This was not spiritual, nor was it sexual. It was healing and comforting. Gene listened and said, "Roger, I felt the exact same thing during my interview with her." We looked at each other. What did this mean? Neither one of us ever felt that feeling again. From time to time we would refer to it in wonder.”
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Steve Spithray @underthehills.net · 25/08/2026
I bet you can get high af off this banana skin sarnie www.deliciousmagazine.co.uk/recipes/max-...
deliciousmagazine.co.uk
Max La Manna’s banana peel bacon BLT
Bananas are one of the most wasted foods in the world. The B in this BLT stands for banana skin! This recipe from Max La Manna is a must-try.
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Steve Spithray @underthehills.net · 25/08/2026
Rn ❤️
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Steve Spithray @underthehills.net · 25/08/2026
Oof! www.maptap.gg August 25 93👑 95🏆 100🎯 96🏅 96🏅 Final score: 964
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