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Royston O'Boogie @roystonoboogie.bsky.social · 2d

She walks every day,
Through the streets of New Orleans,
She is innocent and sweet, From a family of means,
(Moon Over Bourbon Street, Sting, Dream Of The Blue Turtles, 1985)

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Royston O'Boogie @roystonoboogie.bsky.social · 10d

The valves don't work without the heater, silly!

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 10d

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Royston O'Boogie @roystonoboogie.bsky.social · 23d

Oh my GAAHHHDDD! youtu.be/R5Q1yVLSR3I?...

Frank Zappa, Moon Zappa - Valley Girl

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Royston O'Boogie @roystonoboogie.bsky.social · Sep 24

My musical hero has died. RIP Danny Thompson, the man who inspired me to pick up the double bass. Here he is with John Martyn who, it transpires, used to live up the next close to me in Glasgow. youtu.be/uvCU1U2rhB0?...

John Martyn - Transatlantic Sessions - Solid Air

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Royston O'Boogie @roystonoboogie.bsky.social · Sep 19

Just stopping by to wish everybody a happy International Talk Like A Pirate Day. To err is human, to "ARRRRRR!!!" is Pirate: talklikeapiratecom.wpcomstaging.com/sample-page/

How It All Started – International Talk Like A Pirate Day

Arrr! We be the pirate guys, matey. Or, in another vernacular, we are guys, John Baur and Mark Summers. And that really should be all you need to know about the origins of Talk Like a Pirate Day. We'r...

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Royston O'Boogie @roystonoboogie.bsky.social · Sep 14

Make a band singular:

One Maniac.

Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · Sep 14

Make a band singular:

And You Will Know Us By The Dead Body

Sam Kemmer @samkemmer.bsky.social · Sep 13

Make a band singular:

A Stroke

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Mr Roger Quimbly @rogerquimbly.bsky.social · Sep 14

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death my right to call you a raving xenophobic twat.

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Royston O'Boogie @roystonoboogie.bsky.social · Sep 5

Hello Reform! UK Drill is a distinctly British musical genre, and should therefore be considered part of British culture. I could ask them to discuss, critically analyse, compare and contrast, but at the end of the day they will probably just take their shirts off and throw plastic lawn chairs.

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Royston O'Boogie @roystonoboogie.bsky.social · Aug 23

I wonder if she's out on licence? (Sorry if that's not the correct term in England, I am in Scotland.) Can you criticise your conviction when you are out on licence?

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Royston O'Boogie @roystonoboogie.bsky.social · Jul 27

Tom Leherer has died. He was one of the finest songwriters known to Harvard (from where he graduated at 18). There may be better songwriters out there, but they haven't been discarvard. www.bbc.com/news/article...

American musical satirist Tom Lehrer dies at 97, US media report

Lehrer, a Harvard-trained mathematician, wrote darkly humorous songs, often with political connotations.

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Royston O'Boogie @roystonoboogie.bsky.social · Jul 26

Evening Marcus, there are a lot of people in your comments who just don't get it. I get it. We both come from a country where socialism worked for a little while. It wasn't perfect, but it kind-of worked. Moral purity doesn't work, but caring about other people does. Wish we could get back to that.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Jul 26

The first planned migration of an entire country due to climate change is happening! Tuvalu, a Pacific island nation, is at risk of being submerged under rising sea level, so it has signed an agreement with Australia to allow 280 Tuvaluans to settle in Australia as permanent residents each year.

The First Planned Migration of an Entire Country Is Underway

The Pacific island nation of Tuvalu could be submerged in 25 years due to rising sea levels, so a plan is being implemented to relocate its population to Australia.

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Phil Tinline @philtinline.bsky.social · Jul 26

Found it.

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Royston O'Boogie @roystonoboogie.bsky.social · Jul 21

Every once in a while all the EDM on 6 Music gets too much for me, so I switch over to a 'serious' radio station. Then I remember how un-serious Radio 4 has become. I'll tolerate the techno.

Royston O'Boogie @roystonoboogie.bsky.social · Jul 12

No, I'd give them a proper beer, and if they handled that I might share them into the blunt. #GenX

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Royston O'Boogie @roystonoboogie.bsky.social · Jul 12

Fair enough, not my style of bass anyway. And yes, my endpin is very high, I am 1.95m tall, and the nut is supposed to be level with my eyes.

Tall baldy with a beard (me) in cargo pants, red fleece, converse, playing a double bass outdoors on decking, blue sky and clouds in the background. The bass is jacked up quite high on its endpin because I am tall.

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Royston O'Boogie @roystonoboogie.bsky.social · Jul 12

Yeah, but it's a Music Man. If I could afford one, I'd be going "LOOK AT MY MUSIC MAN BASS!" too.

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Royston O'Boogie @roystonoboogie.bsky.social · Jul 11

We can't walk the dogs in this heat, but it doesn't stop heat-seeking weapon Rosie from climbing on my lap. Stay hydrated, Bluesky! Gin and tonic counts, by the way.

Some auld buffer with a big white beard and a baldy heid, sitting in front of a poorly maintained hedge with adjacent sunny blue sky, has a skinny white dog (possibly a podenco?) with tan eye patches on his lap. G&T present but not pictured.

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Royston O'Boogie @roystonoboogie.bsky.social · Jul 11

Coffee makes me poop. This works.

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Royston O'Boogie @roystonoboogie.bsky.social · Jul 6

Actually, yes. But don't tell anyone, OK?

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Royston O'Boogie @roystonoboogie.bsky.social · Jul 6

Lovely to hear you on 6 today in for @cerysmatthews.bsky.social. Loved hearing Bert Weedon,I learned to play in a day from him, never looked back. 👍

Royston O'Boogie @roystonoboogie.bsky.social · Jun 29

No itsn't. Absence of music is, though.

Royston O'Boogie @roystonoboogie.bsky.social · Jun 28

Yeah, but the feathers... Oooohhh...

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Royston O'Boogie @roystonoboogie.bsky.social · Jun 15

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