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Monkey @monkeypicks.bsky.social · Mar 23

Hallelujah comrades! MONKEY’S WANDERING WIRELESS SHOW new episode, The Church of Fuzz and Soul, is out now! An hour’s service of the most righteous global grooves from yesteryear and today. Rest assured, there will be no collection, this one’s on the house. 🙏🏽🐵🚶🏻‍♂️📻🎭 www.mixcloud.com/markraison12...

Flyer for the show with amateurish illustration of Monkey and two cats Betty and Bo shown as stained glass windows of a church. Show available from Mixcloud.com/MarkRaison12

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Monkey @monkeypicks.bsky.social · 3h

Aye!

Monkey @monkeypicks.bsky.social · 3h

Thank you. 😄

Monkey @monkeypicks.bsky.social · 3h

Made me go to a poxy firework display before The Jam finished their set on The Tube. Still angry.

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Monkey @monkeypicks.bsky.social · 3h

La Strada (1954). “What a funny face! Are you a woman, really? Or an artichoke?” And that’s from the nice male character…

La strada. 1954. Directed by Federico Fellini. Photo of Giulietta Masina - she of artichoke face - and Fellini’s wife (charming!)

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Monkey @monkeypicks.bsky.social · 1d

Loved it!

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Monkey @monkeypicks.bsky.social · 1d

While they’re all backslapping each other, this is immeasurably more worthy of your time. 🇵🇸

Hardback book We Are Not Numbers: The Voices of Gaza’s Youth - compiled/edited by Ahmed Alnaouq and Pam Bailey. Published by Hutchinson Heinemann(2025)

Monkey @monkeypicks.bsky.social · 1d

First time I went to Berlin was quite excited to see various CF locations! 😄

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Rock ‘n’ Roll Book Club @rnrbook-club.bsky.social · 1d

Next week - Walthamstow @keithcameron2.bsky.social on The Manics
@musicmaps.bsky.social

🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-history-...

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Monkey @monkeypicks.bsky.social · 1d

😄✊🏼

Monkey @monkeypicks.bsky.social · 1d

Agreed. If pressed I prefer the more traditional Hutch side.

Monkey @monkeypicks.bsky.social · 2d

Oh god yeah to that flaming song.

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Monkey @monkeypicks.bsky.social · 2d

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you'll never watch again, & one song you can't stand:

Meat

Scum (traumatized since 14…)

We Are The Champions

Matt Flip Flop.. @mattflipflop.bsky.social · 2d

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you'll never watch again, & one song you can't stand:

Meat

Aliens

Anything by Phil Collins

TonnHELL 👿 @tonnielles.bsky.social · 2d

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you'll never watch again, & one song you can't stand:

Liver

Fight Club

Horse With No Mame

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Monkey @monkeypicks.bsky.social · 2d

Gumbo always makes me think of the time I left my passport in a cab in New Orleans and cabbie found it and remembered where he dropped me off. Legend. Happy Gumbo Day to him!

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Monkey @monkeypicks.bsky.social · 2d

Disco del día

Bobby Hutcherson - Components (1966)

1966 Blue Note LP featuring Bobby H, James Spaulding, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter and Joe Chambers

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Monkey @monkeypicks.bsky.social · 2d

Good shout.

Monkey @monkeypicks.bsky.social · 2d

I flipping can’t make that one unfortunately.

Monkey @monkeypicks.bsky.social · 2d

Always reveals something new. Have you read 168 Songs? Very interesting.

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Monkey @monkeypicks.bsky.social · 2d

Just checked - as I’ve done every couple of months for 30+ years - and, yes, this is still mindblowingly phenomenal. Stands completely alone.

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Monkey @monkeypicks.bsky.social · 2d

Can’t beat a good zine.

Monkey @monkeypicks.bsky.social · 3d

My only concern here is the level of his pain and suffering.

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nina theda black @ninathedablack.bsky.social · 3d

stay woke
and make art

a mixed media collage i made featuring a black man, in a fur-collared coat and hat, with a cigar in his mouth and holding a steering wheel, superimposed over a background of old photos of young children from the early 1900s, graffiti, and torn paper textures.
nina theda black.

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Darren Hayman @darrenhayman.bsky.social · 4d

A Bittern painted onto a Jubilee beer mat from the 1960s.

This idea/pun was from @rolandbates.bsky.social

darrenhaymanart.com

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Monkey @monkeypicks.bsky.social · 3d

Really lovely.

Monkey @monkeypicks.bsky.social · 3d

Big fan of fanzines, Brenda Sweeney’s art (see orange/black abstract brutalism in background) and her taste for indiepop and 60s nooks and crannies - so Here’s Where You Belong, is entirely correct. You? brensweeney.bigcartel.com

Fanzine, issue 2. Comet Gain, The Pastels, St Etienne, Autocamper, The Wednesday Play, Corita Kent Art, Pastels Pop Quiz. Bargain for £5

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Monkey @monkeypicks.bsky.social · 3d

Haha, he would def say so!