Steve Morgan
@stevemorgan68.bsky.social
Freelance journalist, reluctantly freed cat slave. Sport/music obsessive - 30 years-plus hackery, from local papers to FourFourTwo, FA, ECB, LTW, WSC, Manchester United, Wisden, Guardian, Observer. Got a record played on Radio One twice, won an award once.
This is a bad omen.
December 11, 2025 at 5:28 PM
This is a bad omen.
Patrick Juvet - I love America (1978)
YouTube video by Angiolino Deejay
www.youtube.com
December 11, 2025 at 4:04 PM
It's not necessarily a Christmas song, but there's something about this Admiral Fallow number - the tender way it examines the callousness of the world - that always makes me reach for it in December. Such a great band live. They go criminally under the radar.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8sK...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8sK...
Tree Bursts
YouTube video by Admiral Fallow - Topic
www.youtube.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:22 PM
It's not necessarily a Christmas song, but there's something about this Admiral Fallow number - the tender way it examines the callousness of the world - that always makes me reach for it in December. Such a great band live. They go criminally under the radar.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8sK...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8sK...
Another year has nearly passed and I still haven't managed to visit the Crystal Palace dinosaurs. I must rectify this in 2026, not least to see the poor old Megatherium, whose left arm once came off because the tree limb that supported it grew too wide.
December 11, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Another year has nearly passed and I still haven't managed to visit the Crystal Palace dinosaurs. I must rectify this in 2026, not least to see the poor old Megatherium, whose left arm once came off because the tree limb that supported it grew too wide.
English Garden headline The Old Blue Last in that London on Monday night, with support from Porchlight and Fool.
Tickets are free - you lucky people - available via Dice.
Bring your dancefloor shapes; this be a strange world where post-punkers and disco dancers collide. STRONG RECOMMEND.
Tickets are free - you lucky people - available via Dice.
Bring your dancefloor shapes; this be a strange world where post-punkers and disco dancers collide. STRONG RECOMMEND.
December 11, 2025 at 12:15 PM
English Garden headline The Old Blue Last in that London on Monday night, with support from Porchlight and Fool.
Tickets are free - you lucky people - available via Dice.
Bring your dancefloor shapes; this be a strange world where post-punkers and disco dancers collide. STRONG RECOMMEND.
Tickets are free - you lucky people - available via Dice.
Bring your dancefloor shapes; this be a strange world where post-punkers and disco dancers collide. STRONG RECOMMEND.
Catching up with an old friend. Dif Juz’s No Motion still absolutely knocking it out of the park 38 years later
December 10, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Catching up with an old friend. Dif Juz’s No Motion still absolutely knocking it out of the park 38 years later
Great to see a feature on The Triffids in the new copy of Mojo. Many middle-aged hearts still skip a beat whenever Estuary Bed starts up. That was a real soundtrack of my first year away from home.
youtu.be/vjcUXIMqkN4
youtu.be/vjcUXIMqkN4
Estuary Bed
YouTube video by The Triffids - Topic
youtu.be
December 10, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Great to see a feature on The Triffids in the new copy of Mojo. Many middle-aged hearts still skip a beat whenever Estuary Bed starts up. That was a real soundtrack of my first year away from home.
youtu.be/vjcUXIMqkN4
youtu.be/vjcUXIMqkN4
What was the greatest thing before sliced bread?
December 7, 2025 at 7:36 PM
What was the greatest thing before sliced bread?
Duran Duran knew this back in 1984…
‘Wild boars, never changing..’
‘Wild boars, never changing..’
December 7, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Duran Duran knew this back in 1984…
‘Wild boars, never changing..’
‘Wild boars, never changing..’
‘This is my colour coding, you won’t find that with FIFA’.
To be honest, this actually looks serious compared to the grotesqueries yesterday
To be honest, this actually looks serious compared to the grotesqueries yesterday
December 6, 2025 at 3:50 PM
‘This is my colour coding, you won’t find that with FIFA’.
To be honest, this actually looks serious compared to the grotesqueries yesterday
To be honest, this actually looks serious compared to the grotesqueries yesterday
It's amazing what can annoy you, isn't it? I've developed a real thing about 'pigs in blankets'. Suppose it's easier to market than 'animal wrapped inside bit of same animal'.
December 5, 2025 at 3:30 PM
It's amazing what can annoy you, isn't it? I've developed a real thing about 'pigs in blankets'. Suppose it's easier to market than 'animal wrapped inside bit of same animal'.
Here's the Netherlands with their Eurovision non-entry 'Participation cannot be reconciled'
December 4, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Here's the Netherlands with their Eurovision non-entry 'Participation cannot be reconciled'
‘Have you got it in organic?’
December 4, 2025 at 4:41 PM
‘Have you got it in organic?’
A must if you haven’t. One of the best gigs I’ve seen this year.
linktr.ee/ScottLavene
One week today until the Devon/Cornwall run. The week after is Reading, Ipswich and intimate London shows at Betsy Trotwood. Evening one is sold out and matinee is filling up fast. Deep cuts. Christmas merch.
Then there’s next year like.
Nice one.
One week today until the Devon/Cornwall run. The week after is Reading, Ipswich and intimate London shows at Betsy Trotwood. Evening one is sold out and matinee is filling up fast. Deep cuts. Christmas merch.
Then there’s next year like.
Nice one.
December 2, 2025 at 7:47 PM
A must if you haven’t. One of the best gigs I’ve seen this year.
Shows you how big a deal Gary Numan was in 1979.
Here's Complex, the follow-up to Cars, which is about the most uncommercial hit you can ask for. It got to number six in the UK charts - the vocal doesn't come in until nearly halfway through its 3 mins 10 seconds.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G-Y...
Here's Complex, the follow-up to Cars, which is about the most uncommercial hit you can ask for. It got to number six in the UK charts - the vocal doesn't come in until nearly halfway through its 3 mins 10 seconds.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G-Y...
Gary Numan Complex
YouTube video by Official Gary Numan
www.youtube.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Shows you how big a deal Gary Numan was in 1979.
Here's Complex, the follow-up to Cars, which is about the most uncommercial hit you can ask for. It got to number six in the UK charts - the vocal doesn't come in until nearly halfway through its 3 mins 10 seconds.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G-Y...
Here's Complex, the follow-up to Cars, which is about the most uncommercial hit you can ask for. It got to number six in the UK charts - the vocal doesn't come in until nearly halfway through its 3 mins 10 seconds.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G-Y...
Okay, boppers. It’s @cmatbaby.bsky.social time. There’s never a bad time to have a good time, but blimey, the County Meath two step is going to banish some proper shite this eventide
December 1, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Okay, boppers. It’s @cmatbaby.bsky.social time. There’s never a bad time to have a good time, but blimey, the County Meath two step is going to banish some proper shite this eventide
It’s neck and neck in the small ships race
November 29, 2025 at 12:06 AM
It’s neck and neck in the small ships race
"How I Wrote 'Elastic Man'" by The Fall
YouTube video by trentrey
youtu.be
November 28, 2025 at 2:48 PM
The internet never forgets. For years I'd thought about 'Record Graveyard', which looking at it from a distance of what, 25 years, strangely seems both dated and ahead of its time.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5a3p...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5a3p...
Woody Bop Muddy - Record Graveyard (Early Version)
YouTube video by eugenecheese
www.youtube.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:55 AM
The internet never forgets. For years I'd thought about 'Record Graveyard', which looking at it from a distance of what, 25 years, strangely seems both dated and ahead of its time.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5a3p...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5a3p...
I find the language use in these callous times fascinating. We’ve had a real number done on us by shameless twunts and corporate bullshit bingo callers.
November 27, 2025 at 3:59 PM
I find the language use in these callous times fascinating. We’ve had a real number done on us by shameless twunts and corporate bullshit bingo callers.
Pompey’s 3-0 defeat at Bramall Lane tonight continued a winless stretch there than dates back to 1955. 25 games. 17 Prime Ministers. Queen Elizabeth was three years into her reign.
Can anyone beat that for a sporting graveyard?
Can anyone beat that for a sporting graveyard?
November 26, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Pompey’s 3-0 defeat at Bramall Lane tonight continued a winless stretch there than dates back to 1955. 25 games. 17 Prime Ministers. Queen Elizabeth was three years into her reign.
Can anyone beat that for a sporting graveyard?
Can anyone beat that for a sporting graveyard?
Can’t help thinking that Bodø/Glimt must be one of the best song titles Cocteau Twins never recorded.
November 26, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Can’t help thinking that Bodø/Glimt must be one of the best song titles Cocteau Twins never recorded.
Looks like a bargain at 25p to 1979 me with all these hip new bands
November 25, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Looks like a bargain at 25p to 1979 me with all these hip new bands