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JamieWom
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Chelsea, Ska, Rocksteady, Blues, Reggae, punk, Indie etc Father & Husband, Cycling. Left leaning, hate fascists. Love a good book.
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Did you watch The Hack? I can't believe papers have gotten away with destroying lives for so long. That's why I've signed the petition, set up by Hugh Grant and other phone hacking victims, to demand fair, independent regulation. Join me: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...
A Free Press, Not a Free Pass – It's Time for Fair Regulation
For too long, the UK press have bullied people, harassed grieving families, and destroyed lives, all to sell papers. We’ve all seen the heartbreaking consequences. They’ve hacked phones, listened to ...
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September 26, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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bladeofthes.bsky.social
If you don't love Nigel Farage give this a Like.

If you hate him, give it a RT.
August 24, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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Awake at 6 to find we’re still needing 60 signatures by 0820 to hit our daily #parkypetition100K target - please sign! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
June 29, 2025 at 5:33 AM
jamiewom.bsky.social
Finally something at Glasto this year I'm really looking forward to.
June 28, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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Over the past few days I've had cause to think a lot about The (English) Beat song "Save It For Later," and what its primary writer Dave Wakeling said to me about it In a 2012 AV Club interview. 1/2
DW: “Save It For Later” was written before I was even in The Beat, but it was banned by David Steele for being too “rock,” too “old wave.” The record company had liked it all along, but they didn’t have any say in what songs went on the album. With the third record, though, David Steele really wanted a rest. He’d stopped writing hits on the third album—not the major ones, as it turned out. And the record company sort of had a hissy fit and said, “Well, fuck this, we’ve had this for long enough. This song’s been a potential hit for the last three years, and you haven’t written any hits this time out, David.” At the same time, we’d managed to work some financial renegotiation with the label because something had not done as well as we’d thought, and in return, “Save It For Later” went on the record. I never expected it would do so well, though I always liked the song before I was in the group. It’s actually ended up earning about a third of our catalogue’s publishing money, nowadays. Over the last 10 years or so, it counts for a full third of the catalogue. Very odd for a song that nearly never came out at all. It was only really when the record company insisted, and I got a bit of courage and said, “Well, look, if it’s not on our record I’d just rather go and record it myself and bring it out.” At that point David acquiesced. It started off as a dirty schoolboy joke. The phrase “save it for later” is meant to be “save it,” comma, “fellator.” As in, “Leave it as it is, cocksucker.” [Laughs.] But we didn’t have the term “cocksucker” in England at the time. We didn’t really learn that one ’til we came to America. So it wasn’t really a putdown, because we didn’t really use that term to put down people at the time, and I don’t think they do very much in England now, either. Anyways, that was the nature of the joke. It was a song really about not knowing what to do, because you knew people looked at you as though you were a man, but you knew you didn’t know how to operate in a man’s world. You still were responding to things the same way as you always had as a boy. And it’s a scary thing, really, being scared of all the implications of your life and not knowing what else to do other than to try and bravely march forward into the dark regardless. It’s been hard to describe. People ask, “What’s that song about?” Well, it’s about nothing. It’s about not knowing anything. [Laughs.] Or feeling like you know nothing, and grasping in the dark for your place in the world, and trying to do it with a wry humor. It’s like your legs give way, and every time you try to stand up and pretend to be a man, the boy in you would flip over in front of everybody and you’re embarrassed again, y’know? Particularly I suppose as you try and learn how to deal with girls turning into women. They could say one thing and you’d go bright red, look at the floor and start shuffling around like you just got told off by your teacher at school. So that’s what the song was about, and I’d written it on a National steel guitar I’d been given, and I was trying to find a tuning to play along to John Martyn’s songs. I very nearly got it. Turns out his tuning was DADGAD, which is a pretty famous old blues and folk tuning, I’m told. But I got it wrong, and I tuned the G string up to an A as well, so I ended up all Ds and As: DADAAD, from the thickest string to the top string. I made up my own chords to go along with that, cause it didn’t quite seem to fit the John Martyn songs. And I came up with the chords for “Save It For Later.” It just sounded so hypnotic. I would play it for hour upon hour on this metal guitar. It would just be ringing, and I’d go a thousand miles away, and all these words and lyrics and images would start to pop into my head. Sometimes I’d just play it for an hour straight, and then stop and try it out with some lyrics. After a long time, people were asking, “What is that thing you keep playing? It’s very catchy, isn’t it?” I was embarrassed they’d even heard it. It was for my ears only, as far as I was concerned at the time. And whilst I was going through it I was trying to think about those things about your transition from youth to manhood. We did try it out the first few times in The Beat’s rehearsals, but David Steele put the end to that, and “End Of The Party” too, which I’d written just immediately prior to The Beat starting. Again it was too “old-wave Dave” for him. And I don’t know how or why, but he always considered he had a veto in the group. I mean, he was quite a bit of a genius as well. [Laughs] But he’d have had trouble sharing the stage with Mozart. So both of the songs were banned at first, and he even said some horrible things about them in interviews when they came out on the record, which I think was one of the other nails to the coffin for The Beat, really. Of that lineup, anyway. “Save It For Later” never got played until the third album, and then only at the record company’s insistence, and even at that point David Steele still wouldn’t play on the main track. “Oh I’ll do mine as an overdub, I’m not doing a backing track like that.” And he didn’t. Nor did anybody else, really. I knew the drummer would do it, so me and Everett played the song over and over until Bob Sargeant said we’d got a really good take on it, and then the rest of the band reluctantly acquiesced. And now I tease them rotten about the publishing earnings that they get from a song that they loathed. AVC: It was popular enough that Pete Townshend covered it, on a 1986 live album no less. DW: That’s right! Probably one of the greatest honors in my life. I got a phone call at 11 in the morning, and somebody gave me the phone and said, “It’s Pete Townshend for you.” And I said, “Of course it is, he phones about this time every Saturday doesn’t he?” [Laughs.] I thought it was somebody making a joke. I picked up very sarcastically, “Oh, hello Pete.” And he said, “Oh, hello Dave, this is Peter Townshend here and I’m sitting with David Gilmour, and we’re trying to work out your song ‘Save It For Later,’ but we can’t work out the tuning.” They presumed it was DADGAD as well, and couldn’t make it work, and so I had to explain that I’d made a mistake and it was not DADGAD, it was DADAAD. And he laughed and said, “Oh, thank heavens for that! We’ve been breaking our fingers trying to get our hands around these chords.” [Laughs.]
June 21, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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June 6, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Photographed in colour 115 years ago, I have cleaned-up this gorgeous autochrome plate by Julien Gérardin, photographed in France in 1910. It is original colour, not colourised.
May 30, 2025 at 1:37 PM
jamiewom.bsky.social
Just watched highlights of #CFC beating NUFC away 0-3 in 2021 and have absolutely zero recollection of any of it.
Show me a clip from 1984 and I could probably tell you what I had for breakfast that day.
May 9, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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ottoenglish.bsky.social
Labour needs several million buckets of ice-cold water poured over their head and the nation's church bells ringing in unison as a very loud wake-up call. Hopefully, this is it.

People voted for hope and change and vision not Reform lite and the same old Tory shite.
May 2, 2025 at 6:59 AM
jamiewom.bsky.social
#CFC #Maresca
a group of soccer players are playing a game on a field
ALT: a group of soccer players are playing a game on a field
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April 10, 2025 at 5:37 PM
jamiewom.bsky.social
I mean she's good, but not that good surely?? #CFCW
March 27, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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carolinelucas.bsky.social
How many times do we have to say it? *Austerity doesn’t work*. More cuts to public spending is economically illiterate and morally indefensible - people didn’t vote Labour to get more Tory austerity. FFS tax extreme wealth, don’t slash public services @patmillsuk.bsky.social
March 20, 2025 at 9:03 AM
jamiewom.bsky.social
"Chelsea just can't get behind that back line no matter how hard they try"
How would we know when we haven't made the fucking slightest bit of effort!
Rubbish.
March 6, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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valkycfc.bsky.social
By beating Southampton we now cannot finish lower than 19th. Well done Chelsea!
February 25, 2025 at 9:53 PM
jamiewom.bsky.social
Don't say I didn't warn you 🥲
jamiewom.bsky.social JamieWom @jamiewom.bsky.social · Feb 14
I've missed three Brighton games in 40 odd years, and we've lost all three (not including the friendly we lost in 2012 that I went to), the only times we've ever lost to them.
No ticket again tonight sadly, made worse by living about a mile away.
Sorry in advance 😔 #CFC
February 14, 2025 at 10:25 PM
jamiewom.bsky.social
I've missed three Brighton games in 40 odd years, and we've lost all three (not including the friendly we lost in 2012 that I went to), the only times we've ever lost to them.
No ticket again tonight sadly, made worse by living about a mile away.
Sorry in advance 😔 #CFC
February 14, 2025 at 1:06 PM
jamiewom.bsky.social
No point in wanting Enzo M sacked as I dread to think who they dream up next time round. Throw money around left right and centre and yet the squad is mid table level at best, take Palmers goals out and there's a high possibility we'd be in the championship already.
#BlueCo couldn't run a bath. #CFC
February 8, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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Because of a spelling error on my letter to Santa I spent a very awkward Christmas day in 1979 with an Acton man.
December 3, 2024 at 12:36 PM