Craig Hamilton
@craighamilton.bsky.social
Music, data, football, and dogs. PhD Popular Music Studies. Recovering academic now doing data/tech stuff + a few music projects.
Culture lead on the #avfc Fan Advisory Board - https://avfcfab.org
My website: www.popmusicresearch.org
Culture lead on the #avfc Fan Advisory Board - https://avfcfab.org
My website: www.popmusicresearch.org
Massive congratulations to my St Mirren pals. Brilliant!
December 14, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Massive congratulations to my St Mirren pals. Brilliant!
New from @theindiecountry.bsky.social - Electric Six’s Danger! High Voltage via Patsy Cline and Slade is my favourite one, but the 14-minute Krautrock version of Wet Leg’s Chaise Longue is also up there.
Our new LP - Tres EPs - is out now. 10 songs from The Walkmen, Hot Chip, Wet Leg, Electic Six, Blur, The Verve, and more, all given the Independent Country treatment. Available on streaming, download, CD & vinyl (links in the thread).
independentcountry.bandcamp.com/album/tres-eps
independentcountry.bandcamp.com/album/tres-eps
December 12, 2025 at 8:48 AM
New from @theindiecountry.bsky.social - Electric Six’s Danger! High Voltage via Patsy Cline and Slade is my favourite one, but the 14-minute Krautrock version of Wet Leg’s Chaise Longue is also up there.
Never mind a £Billion, if I suddenly had *£5m* (five million pounds), you would never see nor hear from me ever again.
(Please feel free to take this threat very seriously. Do it. Call my bluff)
(Please feel free to take this threat very seriously. Do it. Call my bluff)
If you make a billion dollars — or $500 million or even $100 million dollars — and you keep trying to make more, then there is something seriously wrong with you. It's a mental illness akin to hoarding or drug addiction.
December 11, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Never mind a £Billion, if I suddenly had *£5m* (five million pounds), you would never see nor hear from me ever again.
(Please feel free to take this threat very seriously. Do it. Call my bluff)
(Please feel free to take this threat very seriously. Do it. Call my bluff)
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December 11, 2025 at 5:16 PM
I joined the #avfc Fan Advisory Board in August. We've spent the first 3 months getting things in place, including a website, which launches today.
#avfc fans: take a look, spread the word, and get involved by joining the mailing list. Let's see what we can achieve together. 👇
avfcfab.org
#avfc fans: take a look, spread the word, and get involved by joining the mailing list. Let's see what we can achieve together. 👇
avfcfab.org
December 11, 2025 at 10:54 AM
I joined the #avfc Fan Advisory Board in August. We've spent the first 3 months getting things in place, including a website, which launches today.
#avfc fans: take a look, spread the word, and get involved by joining the mailing list. Let's see what we can achieve together. 👇
avfcfab.org
#avfc fans: take a look, spread the word, and get involved by joining the mailing list. Let's see what we can achieve together. 👇
avfcfab.org
Can't believe how tight this Premier League title race is.
December 7, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Can't believe how tight this Premier League title race is.
December 6, 2025 at 2:32 PM
One of the best - maybe the best - Villa performance I’ve ever seen. We another one of those today. #avfc
#Onthisday 2023 Villa 1 Man City 0. Villa don’t just beat the best team in the world, they destroy them. 1-0 didn’t do the score line justice. Leon Bailey put himself into folklore with a second half strike. #AstonVilla #AVFC #UTV m.youtube.com/watch?v=DShk...
Aston Villa STUN Man City to go THIRD! | Aston Villa 1-0 Man City | Premier League Highlights
YouTube video by Sky Sports Premier League
m.youtube.com
December 6, 2025 at 9:14 AM
One of the best - maybe the best - Villa performance I’ve ever seen. We another one of those today. #avfc
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Jesus Christ I'm a Manchester City fan of almost 50 years and I'm starting to feel sorry for Rio Ferdinand....
a man in a blue shirt with the number 9 on it sits next to another man in a blue shirt
ALT: a man in a blue shirt with the number 9 on it sits next to another man in a blue shirt
media.tenor.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Jesus Christ I'm a Manchester City fan of almost 50 years and I'm starting to feel sorry for Rio Ferdinand....
Group B is going to test my “I will watch every single game of this thing” resolve. #WorldCupDraw
December 5, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Group B is going to test my “I will watch every single game of this thing” resolve. #WorldCupDraw
Trump winning the FIFA World Cup Peace Prize is peak ‘Everyone is 12’ theory.
Well done, little buddy. You won a medal and a cup too!
#WorldCupDraw
Well done, little buddy. You won a medal and a cup too!
#WorldCupDraw
December 5, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Trump winning the FIFA World Cup Peace Prize is peak ‘Everyone is 12’ theory.
Well done, little buddy. You won a medal and a cup too!
#WorldCupDraw
Well done, little buddy. You won a medal and a cup too!
#WorldCupDraw
Crazy game. We’ve been awful but have created loads of chances. Brighton terrific but have created nothing beyond the two shot goals we gave them. Football, eh?
Emery may kill someone at half time. Probably Guessand.
#avfc
Emery may kill someone at half time. Probably Guessand.
#avfc
December 3, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Crazy game. We’ve been awful but have created loads of chances. Brighton terrific but have created nothing beyond the two shot goals we gave them. Football, eh?
Emery may kill someone at half time. Probably Guessand.
#avfc
Emery may kill someone at half time. Probably Guessand.
#avfc
This was possibly the best ever joke in all the years on Twitter.
In second place was a Terminator bot account that Tweeted at anyone with Sarah in their username, asking “Sarah Connor?”
In second place was a Terminator bot account that Tweeted at anyone with Sarah in their username, asking “Sarah Connor?”
wife got a timer for all of our christmas lights so obviously thinking of this
December 2, 2025 at 2:22 PM
This was possibly the best ever joke in all the years on Twitter.
In second place was a Terminator bot account that Tweeted at anyone with Sarah in their username, asking “Sarah Connor?”
In second place was a Terminator bot account that Tweeted at anyone with Sarah in their username, asking “Sarah Connor?”
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It’s Antonin Panenka’s birthday today.
And to mark the occasion, here’s Julian Dicks giving it some proper fucking welly from the penalty spot…
And to mark the occasion, here’s Julian Dicks giving it some proper fucking welly from the penalty spot…
December 2, 2025 at 7:32 AM
It’s Antonin Panenka’s birthday today.
And to mark the occasion, here’s Julian Dicks giving it some proper fucking welly from the penalty spot…
And to mark the occasion, here’s Julian Dicks giving it some proper fucking welly from the penalty spot…
In the mid-90s I found a vinyl copy of this record for 20p in the basement of Music & Video Exchange. Six months later I found a copy of Coming From Reality in the same shop, also for 20p.
#5debutalbums7074
Rodriguez 🇺🇸 Cold Fact (1970).
I love Searching for Sugar Man, and that was the first that I’d heard of this guy. I love both his albums, but this is the debut. It’s amazing, and it will be in my 5. Here is a live I Wonder from KEXP via @YouTube. youtu.be/Xw-BpTZAFRY?...
Rodriguez 🇺🇸 Cold Fact (1970).
I love Searching for Sugar Man, and that was the first that I’d heard of this guy. I love both his albums, but this is the debut. It’s amazing, and it will be in my 5. Here is a live I Wonder from KEXP via @YouTube. youtu.be/Xw-BpTZAFRY?...
December 1, 2025 at 9:13 PM
In the mid-90s I found a vinyl copy of this record for 20p in the basement of Music & Video Exchange. Six months later I found a copy of Coming From Reality in the same shop, also for 20p.
Not a classic, but that’s the second week running we’ve won a game that last season we would have been dropped points in. Fantastic goal from His Boubness. #avfc
November 30, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Not a classic, but that’s the second week running we’ve won a game that last season we would have been dropped points in. Fantastic goal from His Boubness. #avfc
Reposted by Craig Hamilton
Problem: you have two left wing parties in British politics.
Solution: start a new left wing party to unify the movement
Problem: you now have four left wing parties in British politics
Solution: start a new left wing party to unify the movement
Problem: you now have four left wing parties in British politics
November 29, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Problem: you have two left wing parties in British politics.
Solution: start a new left wing party to unify the movement
Problem: you now have four left wing parties in British politics
Solution: start a new left wing party to unify the movement
Problem: you now have four left wing parties in British politics
Lovely stuff.
November 28, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Lovely stuff.
Sausage, beans & chips for tea, lads. Beat that.
November 28, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Sausage, beans & chips for tea, lads. Beat that.
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There's no British Thanksgiving because we've never thanked anyone for anything and we're not gonna start now.
November 28, 2025 at 4:52 PM
There's no British Thanksgiving because we've never thanked anyone for anything and we're not gonna start now.