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Neil @neilclasper.bsky.social · 6h

And Boursin?

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Neil @neilclasper.bsky.social · 9h

I think it was a bit after 8.30.

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Neil @neilclasper.bsky.social · 11h

Full! Which was a bit surprising since I’m pretty sure it wasn’t announced until last week.

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Neil @neilclasper.bsky.social · 11h

It was great! I wish I was going again tonight.

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Neil @neilclasper.bsky.social · 20h

A bit of handbell action at the Ben Lamar Gay Ensemble gig at Cafe OTO tonight. Also feat. sousaphone, trombone, cornet, electric guitar, synths, various percussion instruments. Tremendous stuff all round. Only other time I’ve seen him was from the circle in the Barbican, so a treat to be front row.

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Neil @neilclasper.bsky.social · 12h

The Cutty Sark is now a Young’s pub and pretty food-focused, but still good for a drink outside observing the river and the Isle of Dogs skyline. The food’s decent enough but it has the same menu as two other Young’s pubs within a few mins walk along the river either way.

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Neil @neilclasper.bsky.social · 12h

Wednesday

TV weather show with the words ‘111 days without sun’ over a map

Neil @neilclasper.bsky.social · 20h

Commiserations to the audience of tonight’s Katy Perry show who’ve emerged from the O2 Arena to find that there’s no westbound Jubilee line service at all. Good luck getting home!

Neil @neilclasper.bsky.social · 20h

A bit of handbell action at the Ben Lamar Gay Ensemble gig at Cafe OTO tonight. Also feat. sousaphone, trombone, cornet, electric guitar, synths, various percussion instruments. Tremendous stuff all round. Only other time I’ve seen him was from the circle in the Barbican, so a treat to be front row.

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Neil @neilclasper.bsky.social · 23h

Some effect pedals and handbells at Cafe OTO. Ready to mosh.

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Neil @neilclasper.bsky.social · 1d

Queueing for sousaphone.

A man constructing a sousaphone seen through a venue window.

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Darryl @darryl1974.bsky.social · 1d

Mick and Keef welcome you to Dartford. Don’t look too closely at Keef.

Mick Jagger and Keith Richards statues in Dartford - Keef’s crotch is rather tight

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Neil @neilclasper.bsky.social · 1d

Getting into a Beta Band aftershow (which the band didn’t go to) is about the extent of my successful ligging. Should have tried harder.

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Neil @neilclasper.bsky.social · 1d

You don’t read much about ‘ligging’ these days, do you? Maybe down to the demise of the popular music press or these financially constrained times, I dunno.

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Neil @neilclasper.bsky.social · 1d

I read the novel of this a couple of weeks ago, without knowing anything about it in advance. I found it incredibly harrowing and upsetting!

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Neil @neilclasper.bsky.social · 1d

It’s a bridge too far

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Neil @neilclasper.bsky.social · 1d

There’ll probably be a key change when you stay here. I SAID, they’ll probably change key in this hotel

The entrance of the Middle Eight Hotel in London.

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Neil @neilclasper.bsky.social · 1d

God bless the Italians. My club launched our away kit in a fish and chip shop.

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Neil @neilclasper.bsky.social · 1d

If people really do want to read ‘unhinged literary opinions’ then let me recommend posting a picture of all the books you read in September and having it inexplicably reposted by multiple American accounts with 10k+ follower numbers.

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Neil @neilclasper.bsky.social · 1d

And still if I wanted to know what my local elected representatives are up to, I’d have to log into X.

UK news
Tommy Robinson says Elon Musk is paying his legal costs as trial begins

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Neil @neilclasper.bsky.social · 2d

The salaryman lunch was harder to source then.

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Neil @neilclasper.bsky.social · 2d

And you’d also to have to get your political colleagues to leave the platforms too.

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Neil @neilclasper.bsky.social · 2d

Holborn, London - October 2025

A bus advertising Cyprus Winter on High Holborn

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Transpontine @transpontine.bsky.social · 2d

After an afternoon traipsing through Nunhead cemetery I have found the location of The Cramps 1990 photoshoot with photographer Joe Dilworth, full details here (updated post) transpont.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-... note @frazerlee.bsky.social @johnedenuk.bsky.social

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Neil @neilclasper.bsky.social · 2d

Every ‘Millennium Park’, to photograph and attempt to understand the obligatory sculpture/sundial/installation in each.

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