Alessi x OFMD — Done With Numbers Spiritland is - according to their website - a space for music lovers, a café, bar and radio studio in London’s Kings Cross built around an outstanding sound system and music policy. It sounds and loo...

By their 4th album, released in 1979, the Alessi Brothers had gone full on Saturday Night Fever. In contrast, 3 years earlier, their debut had been a more mellow affair, one to kick back and listen to with a cup of mint tea and/or a spliff.

#alessi #ofmd

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Hans Schleger: Edinburgh’s Poster Boy Tickets for the one-person court drama Prima Facie starring Jodie Comer at Edinburgh’s Lyceum Theatre next February went on public sale on 26th March at 10am and sold out within the hour leaving th…

I wrote a piece for @bellacaledonia.bsky.social about Jodie Comer in Prima Facie, the Edinburgh International Festival and Hans Schleger. An old episode of Minder gets a mention too. 💼🎭🖌️

#jodiecomer #primafacie #edinburghfestival #briancox #hansschleger

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The Problem With Oxfam Books — Done With Numbers Alexander Larman is the author of several historical and biographical titles, his most recent book, Power and Glory, the third and final instalment of his Windsor trilogy. He is also the book’s edito...

A response to a recent article by @alexlarman.bsky.social for
@thespectator1828.bsky.social about @oxfamgb.bsky.social Bookshops 📚

#oxfam #charity #nancymitford

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One Love: Haile Selassie and The Biarritz of The North — Done With Numbers Officially, it was the second day of spring. 24 hours earlier it had been warm enough to sit outside in the garden, idly dreaming of the long hot summer that lies ahead. The forecast had been good and...

A friend sent me an old painting of North Berwick’s outdoor pool:

“My Mum had an Uncle who was the Bank Manager in #NorthBerwick during the 1940s, she used to holiday there. She told me about #HaileSelassie living for a while in the same street. One love.”

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The Plot Spoilers of Henry James — Done With Numbers Published in 1983, My Search for Warren Harding is one of only two novels written by American author Robert Plunket. It tells the story of third-rate (and deeply flawed) academic Elliot Weiner’s quest...

Do all of Henry James’ novels end with an inferno? 🔥

#henryjames #robertplunket #penguinclassics

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Edwyn Collins announces new album ‘Nation Shall Speak Unto Nation’ — Done With Numbers Songs often remind us of specific events in our lives, hearing those songs can spark memories - both good and bad - of those events. Conversely, returning to the places where those events took place c...

The welcome return of @edwyncollins.bsky.social 🍊

#edwyncollins #orangejuice

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Beat Surrender — Done With Numbers It’s a truism that death is part of life. That doesn’t make it any easier when we’re faced with the death of a partner, family member or friend. Or even someone we’ve never met, someone who has done n...

It feels like barely a month goes by without the further chipping away of my musical soul. Godspeed, Rick Buckler.

#rickbuckler #thejam

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