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Robert Shaw @hungoverdrawn.com · 1d

Vinyl is warmer than digital, see, that's why they like sitting on stacks of LPs 😹

Robert Shaw @hungoverdrawn.com · 1d

I thought I'd catalogue my latest arrivals from @brighterdayvinyl.bsky.social on @discogsofficial.bsky.social, but apparently Luna has other ideas.

Luna the Bengal is sitting on a stack of LPs. On top is Cher O'Bowlies, the pick of The Undertones

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Robert Shaw @hungoverdrawn.com · 3d

#weekendsingles When I arrived at Wembley last Sunday to see the recently reheated Starlight Express (quite good, but not as good as it was in 1991) I was bummed to see boxes being wheeled out of a record fair at Boxpark. Managed to snag these four up before it was completely over. A bargain at £9!

Four glorious 7" singles from my youth: Beatnik Girl by Snug, If You Really Want to Know by Ether and Mansun's Two and Seven EPs

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Robert Shaw @hungoverdrawn.com · 4d

Now do the ones that invented the sector 😄

Austin Mini Van and Pick-Up brochure illustration

British Leyland Mini Van & Pick-Up brochure photo

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 6d

I mean, hats off NYT Connections person.

Create four groups of four!
THIRD
SISTER
LOVERS
MAGIC
BIG
STAR
SERIOUS
WONDER
NAKED
DEVIL
EVIL
MAJOR
MAGICIAN
CONTINENT
IMPORTANT
DEADLY SIN

Vinyl reissue of Big Star’s Third album aka Sister Lovers.

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NewsThump @newsthump.com · 6d

NEWS! Fury as man who threatened to invade Greenland and who uses military against own people fails to win Nobel Peace Prize newsthump.com/2025/10/10/f...

Fury as man who threatened to invade Greenland and who uses military against own people fails to win Nobel Peace Prize

Donald Trump has once again been cruelly snubbed by the Nobel Peace Prize committee, despite what he insists was an “incredible” year of personal achievements in the field of “peace, which is very …

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Robert Shaw @hungoverdrawn.com · 6d

Connections
Puzzle #852
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Robert Shaw @hungoverdrawn.com · 6d

I'm not awake enough for Connections apparently but 'Big' 'Star' 'Third' 'Sister' 'Lovers' presumably not a coincidence

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Robert Shaw @hungoverdrawn.com · 6d

a man in a suit and bow tie is sitting at a table in front of a microphone holding a pencil .

Alt: Eric Andre in a suit and bow tie is sitting at a table in front of a microphone holding a pencil, saying "Why would you say that something so controversial, yet so brave?"

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Robert Shaw @hungoverdrawn.com · 6d

People like me that are tragics for both Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy *and* vinyl may like to know that there's a copy of the rare Marvin the Paranoid Android "double B side" Reasons to be Miserable on eBay right now: www.ebay.co.uk/itm/23637624...

I paid £30 for mine at a record fair.

Pardon our interruption...

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Robert Shaw @hungoverdrawn.com · 10d

Oh, I see. Fucking is verboten, but going down on someone in a theatre is fine.

Robert Shaw @hungoverdrawn.com · 10d

That's *not* the radio version, GHR.

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Robert Shaw @hungoverdrawn.com · 13d

Someone is ready for work, even if I'm not quite there yet myself...

Luna the Bengal cat reporting for duty on her perch next to my desk at 20 past eight in the morning

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 14d

Ethnicities. And identities. Are. Made. Up.
We get to choose.

Someone can be a Leeds native, a Yorkshireman, a Brit BUT not English.

Just take me out and throw me in the sea. I’m done.

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Robert Shaw @hungoverdrawn.com · 15d

Lots of people have covered Norwegian band A-ha's song Take On Me but no-one has ever done it nearly so well as the late lamented Samurai Seven from Oxford. That rare band for whom the patronage of John Peel ultimately never amounted to much, I dunno why.

Samurai Seven - Take On Me (a-Ha cover)

YouTube video by tianimu

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Robert Shaw @hungoverdrawn.com · 15d

In and out of the shadows, at the highway of mistakes
When you get down, you get down to nowhere
You pay your respects to higher stakes

Dion "In And Out of The Shadows"

YouTube video by SoulStylistJukeBox

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Robert Shaw @hungoverdrawn.com · 16d

Call me a prescriptivist if you will, but I'm not having reune as a verb, NYT Mini.

Robert Shaw @hungoverdrawn.com · 18d

Sadly #Gills unbeaten run and its run of games where they scored a goal (club record is 20) both ended today in a 0-1 reverse against Harrogate Town. Gillingham drop two places to 3rd, their opponents climb two to 16th.

FootballRates.com @footballrates.bsky.social · 20d

Longest current goal-scoring run in the top four tiers (consecutive league games)

1️⃣Liverpool - 39
2️⃣Gillingham - 18
3️⃣Stockport - 17
4️⃣Brentford - 12
5️⃣Tranmere - 10
6️⃣Wrexham - 10

🔗Full list: footballrates.com/currentruns/...

#lfc #ynwa #gills #gfc #StockportCounty #Brentfordfc #TRFC #SWA #wxmafc

Robert Shaw @hungoverdrawn.com · 18d

Let's hear it for the #Gills! 21 games unbeaten, can they make it 22 vs Harrogate Town?

The pitch at the Priestfield and me, my daughter and nephew

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Robert Shaw @hungoverdrawn.com · 19d

I had been to Uncle Bob's Wedding Reception at least once before, when @mariemarie0.bsky.social and @emmakjackson.bsky.social DJed there (with me there's always a Kenickie connection) but it was you posting about it on 'Stay Beautiful: The Mess-Age' that piqued my interest, definitely.

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Robert Shaw @hungoverdrawn.com · 20d

Shamelessly piggy backing this hit tweet to say that the album is re-released on its 20th anniversary in November and I wrote the sleeve notes. Darkness enthusiasts are going to love it.

20 years ago I had a ringside seat as The Darkness climbed to the top of the UK music tree. Now I've written the sleeve notes to the 20th anniversary reissue of their second album One Way Ticket to Hell ...and Back

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Robert Shaw @hungoverdrawn.com · 20d

All those little words in that pic above - that's me, I did that. I'm really proud of it and I sincerely hope my fellow Darkness enthusiasts are going to love it.

One Way Ticket To Hell ...And Back (20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) by The Darkness - Resident Music

One Way Ticket to Hell...and Back is the second studio album by The Darkness, originally released in November 2005. To celebrate the 20th anniversary, the 4CD boxset includes the original album, b-sid...

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Robert Shaw @hungoverdrawn.com · 20d

And the best edition, the 4CD with demos and sundry other odds and sods, comes with lovingly crafted liner notes what I wrote! For longer than I can remember I've been the kind of person to pore over the marginalia included with albums so it's no exaggeration to say this was a dream fulfilled.

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Robert Shaw @hungoverdrawn.com · 20d

The cat's well and truly out of the bag now so I can talk about it. 24 years ago this month @simonprice.bsky.social recommended that I check out a new band, The Darkness. I loved them, and went on to work for them as webmaster and aide-de-camp. In November they re-release this, their second album.

The 4CD version of the 20th anniversary reissue of The Darkness album One Way Ticket to Hell ...and Back, with liner notes by yours truly

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Robert Shaw @hungoverdrawn.com · 20d

Seems fitting as nitrogen (and oxygen) is the reason why the sky is blue

Because - The Beatles (Love Version)

YouTube video by Cranglorian

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