As today is the tenth anniversary of the death of Prince, I've updated @thequietus.com #ThePortal archive dive with writing on his utter genius: John Higgs on Prince & William Blake, a guide to Prince's Minneapolis, classic albums revisited, Prince beyond the hits & much more
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Greys also cause huge damage to woodland. In the Epping Forest archive are records of ammo purchases to try and control numbers when they first arrived, but unfortunately it didn't work & the reds were soon gone. Squirrel is delicious, low carbon meat – as with deer, eating them is good for forests!
Poster describing the 'Downfall of the Dictators is Assured'. From Imperial War Musuem collection.
I know I've posted this before but I fucking love this poster.
Need to get a print framed and put up on the wall.
Spacemen 3 Performance album cover.
Spacemen 3 Playing With Fire album cover.
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From the visceral experience of encountering Derek Jarman's films & first going to see West Ham to the soundtracks of Simon Fisher Turner, King Tubby, Suede's nuclear skies & much more: I asked @marghjenkin.bsky.social about his sonic inspirations for @thequietus.com
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Haha! I’ll take that
First visit of the year to Ridgeway Park’s Chingford & District Model Engineering Club, quid a ride, just the raised line in operation today. The boy was given a piece of “free coal” which he is now treasuring as if it were a nugget of gold.
I started mine at 44 so you’re a decade ahead, fear not
Speaking of pilots shooting down enemy drones; this gun camera footage, taken from a Hawker Tempest flown by New Zealander Flight Lieutenant Jim McCaw, shows a German V-1 flying bomb being shot down with cannon fire in July 1944.
Film: IWM OPE 1 / www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
that looks worse than the hard salt beef and ships biscuits with weevils wandering out of them back in Nelson's day. At least then you got free rum.
...while burning a pile of cash
Record Shop Day is to music people as St Patrick's Day is to people who love pubs.
The one day of the year when you make a point of going nowhere near a record shop/pub.
This looks right up my alley, will look forward to listening!
Why have the Spitfires got smoke/steam whatever it is coming from their rudders?!
More lovely pollards!
Bonkers story about how the complaints that shut down Heaven (LGBT+ club/now-rare incredible gig venue in central London) were false & generated by AI given a sudden swerve in that they were made by a married gay couple. THIS PLACE WAS CORE TO YOUR RIGHTS FFS!
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It is a continuing source of pride that the UK remains steadfast in its support for Ukraine. I fear what a future with more Reform, and indeed Green, MPs will mean.
YES! I suspect I’d like that BOC more than the other BOC
Was that the year I asked Dizzy Rascal if he’d enjoyed his pudding after we snuck down to the main bit?
Count me intrigued! I saw the lovely words from Ken Worpole, which have me even more intrigued
I did like those two at the time, but they always felt very much in the shadow of Suede. Gene were singing about my area too.
Ah yeah they were great, saw them repeatedly blow people away live that year. And then Mogwai appeared - the Celtic nations saved us! But they were great bands, not this entirely world-shifting thing like Suede were for me.
(You might say ‘what about dance music?’ but the most homophobic kids at school were the ravers, the association was “nightclubs=kicking” & the first time I got pissed was actually a drum & bass night - Source Direct were local - and it was insanely violent, one bloke just randomly nutting people)
I was 17 in 1996, so coming of age - it was awful! The shadow of Section 28, starting to go out and instantly encountering small town violence, the boorishness of the mainstream, football becoming incredibly toxic and going off it for years… the ubiquity of Chris Evans. Only Suede that saved me!
1996 “the wildest year of Britain’s wildest decade… the coolest year in British culture”. Does he mean “suddenly a tiny fragment of one generation could afford gak” rather than UK guitar music went shit, peak lad, morons rioting after the Euros, the ubiquity of Chris Evans (the latter says it all)?
as a kid I earned £ walking a dog that loved Hersheys. When the owners visited the US they'd come back with tonnes of the stuff to feed him as treats. Given chocolate usually makes dogs very ill and can kill them, it says a lot about whatever horror that foul crap is made of.
I had no idea!
wtf!? That is bonkers
I am fully prepared to don my digital tin hat to put on for when Americans wake up and potentially see this post. His fans make T-Sw-fts look reasonable.
indeed, I am glad they've done that, but I'd argue that is on a big broadcaster but not really something that cuts through to the wider populace, or some of the people in music who still make excuses for him