#UncoolTwo50 Near Misses Part 10 Final 4, including my track 51 that I'm saving for tomorrow.. Blimey, will Trevor Horn get anything in my 50?
#UncoolTwo50 Near Misses Part 9 Human League mk.1 also miss out - very late cut from my list
#UncoolTwo50 Near misses Part 8 The Doves....what a song, just missed out
We should be asking how one man - Christopher Hehir, clearly an extremist ideologue with an axe to grind - has been empowered to create a generation of political prisoners, in the process taking an axe to any remaining pretensions Britain has to being a civilised, liberal democracy.
The Just Stop Oil activists have been sentenced to 2 years and 20 months in prison for throwing soup on the glass covering of Van Gogh's sunflowers. This ruling is a great example of the repression we're seeing in response to non-violent civil disobedience. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Phoebe Plummer, 23, receives two-year prison term while Anna Holland, 22, given 20-month sentence over incident
Not that I should make a habit of reposting stuff from the hellsite, but seeing North American "music guru" Eric Alper being brusquely corrected by Tracey Thorn after getting "Protection" and "Teardrop" muddled up is strangely satisfying.
#UncoolTwo50 Near misses Part 7 Two of these artists make the cut though...
I've been shopping.. I've been looking out for the Ananda Shankar record for a long time. 20 early Miles Davis albums for £15 sounded a good idea.
#smallvenues Some of the best nights I've had at small venues Edwyn Collins John Cale Family Cat Kitchens of Distinction The Mirror Crack'd The Fall Teenage Fanclub 14 Karat Soul Mad Professor The Legends of Motorsport Laura Cantrell
#UncoolTwo50 Near misses Part 6 Frankie says "Are you sure you've got this right?"