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Catherine Butler

@kittycatb.bsky.social

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Mother of girls and rescue cats 🐾 Muso Gig-goer 🎶 Leftist European Loathes inequality Loves animals/nature 🦊 🦔 Memorial Device Alternative National Treasure #MDANT @CanterburyCat:Twatter

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Birmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social · 19h

Adam and the Ants released their Kings of the Wild Frontier album 45 years ago today (according to @whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social) and it's also Adam's birthday today. To celebrate, here's a live performance of the title track filmed in Manchester in 1980

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Catherine Butler @kittycatb.bsky.social · 2d

Colours Fly Away ..

Get your dappled sunlit #Autumn #November shades here courtesy of the superior ‘Wilder’ #TheTeardropExplodes #AutumnVibes

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 2d

I won't be happy till King Charles III is called Charles, the Queen Consort is called Camilla and Buckingham Palace is called The Green Park Paddington Bear Experience.

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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 9d

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Catherine Butler @kittycatb.bsky.social · 13d

Long live the cosmic Cope!

Birmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social · 13d

Happy birthday to Julian Cope. Here are The Teardrop Explodes live at Nottingham's Theatre Royal in August 1981. Features Read It In Books, Passionate Friend, Ha Ha I’m Drowning, Like Leila Khaled Said, Poppies in the Field, Suffocate, Treason
▶️📺😢💥 youtu.be/Q8d6i3sHx_E

Teardrop Explodes live at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham, 16 August 1981 - complete concert

YouTube video by Salvage Operation

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jasper pilled @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 14d

Wake up, babe, the least subtle visual metaphor in history just dropped

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NewWaveAndPunk @punkandnewwave.bsky.social · 14d

68 years old today: Julian Cope #TeardropExplodes #CrucialThree
Pics;
Michel Linssen
Steve Rapport
Ebet Roberts
youtu.be/qJKegxhtJEk?si…

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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 18d

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NewWaveAndPunk @punkandnewwave.bsky.social · 20d

Released on this day in 1984: Red Roses For Me, the debut album by #ThePogues
youtu.be/h4Jf7qgqJxs?si…

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Stuff By Mark @stuffbymark.bsky.social · 23d

A Woody Guthrie thing…

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Catherine Butler @kittycatb.bsky.social · 23d

RIP Diane Keaton

Thank you for literally lighting up the screen and gifting us with a lifetime of unforgettable performances.
Hollywood has lost a truly unique star ⭐

Today, I will mainly be watching #AnnieHall

Catherine Butler @kittycatb.bsky.social · 23d

Saw them support the Pogues a few months ago. A great live band and attitude!

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Catherine Butler @kittycatb.bsky.social · 23d

A simply divine evening with @divinecomedyhq.bsky.social at the Barbican, spent sumptuously immersed in two hours of exquisite, emotionally intelligent songwriting, cinematic storytelling and lush orchestral arrangements.
#NeilHannon #TheDivineComedy

Catherine Butler @kittycatb.bsky.social · 23d

Always something new to discover. Always the possibility of getting lost …

Catherine Butler @kittycatb.bsky.social · 23d

Beautiful Brutalism at the Barbican.

(and memories from the
90’s when I used to work inside the Barbican Centre)
#London #UrbanLife

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NewWaveAndPunk @punkandnewwave.bsky.social · 25d

Released on this day in 1980: Kilimanjaro, the debut album by #TeardropExplodes
youtu.be/_aZwlQ7tGNU?si…

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Catherine Butler @kittycatb.bsky.social · 25d

I know - it’s such a lottery these days but am overjoyed with the result!

Catherine Butler @kittycatb.bsky.social · 25d

Oh no - it’s always such drama. Hope you manage to get lucky somehow.

Catherine Butler @kittycatb.bsky.social · 25d

#Kraftwerk tickets booked!
Can’t quite believe it!

two men in red shirts and ties are standing next to each other playing a keyboard .

ALT: two men in red shirts and ties are standing next to each other playing a keyboard .

media.tenor.com

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Memorial Device @memorialdevice.bsky.social · 29d

The MD list of Alternative National Treasures: Jane Goodall 🙏

KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · Oct 5

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Catherine Butler @kittycatb.bsky.social · Oct 5

‘A quiet genius’ … couldn’t have articulated EC any better.

Catherine Butler @kittycatb.bsky.social · Oct 5

Farewell but not goodbye.
A brief snippet of the most enormous big love for @edwyncollins.bsky.social and crew last night.

Home again …

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Birmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social · Oct 4

That was such a beautiful evening with Edwyn Collins at the Royal Festival Hall. Will share some more pics and vids tomorrow, but here's one of Paul Cook, Edwyn, Dennis Bovell and Vic Godard at the end of the show

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Catherine Butler @kittycatb.bsky.social · Oct 5

What an emotional and euphoric evening with the estimable @edwyncollins.bsky.social

The Royal Festival Hall was positively bursting with love for this inspirational man. Joyous and utterly life-affirming.

As long as there is Edwyn, there is hope …
#EdwynCollins

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Catherine Butler @kittycatb.bsky.social · Oct 5

That was exactly the same word I said to my friend the moment that EC left the stage. A very special night.