Happy birthday to Les Pattinson. Here's Echo & The Bunnymen's video for In Bluer Skies taken from their Porcupine VHS 📼

RIP Andy Kershaw

A familiar voice on the airways in my lifetime, who often exposed us to the unfamiliar.

Thank you for the music.
🎵🖤🎶

Remembering Pete Shelley on his birthday. Here are Buzzcocks performing Love You More at Manchester's Free Trade Hall in 1978

DEI. Go!
Watch and learn.

Will the wizard 🎸🎸🎸

Julian Cope - Fried album covers. Cope on the ground on all fours, wearing a turtle shell on his back, next to a toy truck with 'FRIED' painted on its side.

"I love Julian Cope. I’d loved The Teardrop Explodes and I loved his brief flirtation with commercial success with ‘World Shut Your Mouth’, but Fried has a very special place in my heart because it’s so fucking mental."

Mark Gatiss on #JulianCope - Fried

buff.ly/Ah7E53W

Splashdown!!!
Congratulations to Artemis.
Fabulous to see some Tunnocks tea cake parachutes...

Passed away on this day in 2025: Clem Burke, most famously of #Blondie
Pics;
Armando Gallo
Brian Cooke
Roberta Bayley
Roberta Bayley
youtu.be/QbdCpi4qTNY?...

Happy birthday to Stewart Lee, born in Wellington, Shropshire on this day in 1968.

Easter Everywhere by Julian Cope YouTube video by Michael Harris

Today’s topical earworm from the alternative JC…

I'm in the mood for Easter everywhere
Long time in the mood for Easter everywhere
Laid back in the mood for Easter everywhere
Your whole scene skips a beat but you're killing me

- Julian Cope

youtu.be/fXqd1-07hcA

Three pink knitted mice on the moon saying "there's no oil here, fuck off"

The CIMRA - Clangers Indigenous Moon Resistance Army - have put out a statement about the new launch.

‘Extremely rare’ Bob Dylan draft lyrics discovered inside Allen Ginsberg book A torn page bearing Dylan’s lyrics for the 1967 song I’m Not There is set to go under the hammer in April when it could fetch £40,000

www.theguardian.com/music/2026/m...

Released on this day in 1980: My Perfect Cousin #TheUndertones
youtu.be/Pgqa3cVOxUc?...

Jesse Wells and Joan Baez “No Kings” YouTube video by George Baldwin

No Kings No Kings

youtube.com/watch?v=pTYc...

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez criticises the US and Israel for their attack on Iran,

"I say to the right and the far-right, they cannot support those who set the world on fire and then complain about the smoke caused by that fire"

Heard it.

Bob Dylan
Masters of War

youtu.be/JEmI_FT4YHU?...

As boards of peace go, this one's got off to a poor start.

The ‘Board of Peace’ started World War 3 so fast.

INTRODUCING! Hannah Spencer The new Green MP for GORTON & DENTON Green Party Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

Introducing Hannah Spencer MP 💚

Remembering Mark Hollis, who died on this day in 2019. One of music's absolute legends.

The magnetic, magnificent JC - one of my most faves …

67 years old today: David Sylvian, most famously of #Japan
Pics;
David Corio
Fin Costello
youtu.be/7zzLU1ato2w?si…

The Room Next Door - Prince Andrew YouTube video by Michael Spicer

oh ok then